Belvedere Chamber Music Festival

Luna Nova Ensemble

The Festival features masterworks of the 20th century as well as exciting new works by emerging faculty and student composers from around the country. Performances will be given by the Luna Nova Ensemble and guest artists. Since its founding in 2003 Luna Nova has given 120 concerts in concert halls, colleges, churches and museums around the country and premiered over 100 new works. Performances of approximately 300 complete works are available at www.lunanova.org/audio.html.

Representative Festival Works

Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time (violin, clarinet, cello, piano
David Crumb: Improvisations on an English Folk Song (clarinet, violin, cello, flute, piano)
Schnittke: Suite in the Old Style (violin, piano)
Phillip Glass: Mad Rush (piano)
Debussy: Syrinx (flute)
Lazarescou: Two Songs on Poems by Lewis Carroll (soprano, piano)
J.S.Bach: Chaconne (violin)

All concerts are free and open to the public.

Dates and Times

Wednesday, June 20, 12:10 - 1:00 p.m. – WKNO Live Lunch Broadcast
Wednesday, June 22, 7:30 p.m. – Opening concert followed by reception in the parish hall
Thursday, June 23, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, June 24, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 25, 3:30 p.m.
Saturday, June 25, 7:30 p.m.

Festival Artists

John McMurtery, flute, D.M.A., Juilliard School of Music; New York City Opera Orchestra

Gregory Maytan, violin, D.M.A., Indiana University; faculty, Grand Valley State University (MI)

Nobuko Igarashi, clarinet, M.M., Indiana University; bass clarinet, Memphis Symphony Orchestra

Adam Bowles, piano, D.M.A., Cincinnati Conservatory; instructor, University of Montevallo (AL)

Craig Hultgren, cello, M.M., Indiana University; cello, Alabama Symphony Orchestra

Robert Patterson, horn/composition, Ph.D., Univ. of Penn; horn, Memphis Symphony Orchestra

Mark Volker, guitar/composition, Ph.D., Univ. of Chicago, assistant professor of composition, Belmont University

Andrew Drannon, composer, piano, M.M., University of Memphis; doctoral student, University of Memphis; adjunct music faculty, Rhodes College

Esther Gray Lemus, soprano, B.M., Indiana University, voice/choral director, Jackson State Community College; graduate student at Austin Peay State University

David Carlisle, percussion, M.M. University of Toronto; doctoral student at the Cincinnati Conservatory; Memphis Symphony Orchestra

2012 Student Composition Contest

In conjunction with the festival The Beethoven Club of Memphis sponsors a student composition contest that is open to academic composers worldwide up to the age of 30. Winners received a performance at Festival and a recording of the work made by members of the Luna Nova Ensemble. The winners of the 2012 contest are:

• 1st Place
Kyle Vanderburg (University of Oklahoma) "Foi dans l'aléatoir” for flute and piano www.kylevanderburg.com
• 2nd Place
Joshua Fishbein (UCLA) "Trio Without Words" for violin, cello, and pianowww.fishbeinmusic.com

Founded in 2007, the Belvedere Chamber Music Festival is produced by Luna Nova Music

Belvedere Chamber Festival, 1794 Carr Avenue, Memphis, TN 38104, 901-278-2699 pgray@pgray.net
produced by Luna Nova Music (www.lunanova.org)