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| UPCOMING EVENTS
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| July 29 & 30, 2002 | East Coast premiere performances of "Metamorphosis" for piano quartet on Martha's Vineyard, MA | |||||
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This piece, which had been commissioned by Chamber Music Palisades, will receive its East Coast premiere performances on July 29 in Edgartown and July 30 in Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard, Ma. Pianist Delores Stevens will lead the ensemble (violinist, violist and cellist tba). |
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Commission by Pacific Serenades for the 2002 Concert Season |
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| The Los Angeles based chamber music series Pacific Serenades has commissioned Gernot to write a piece for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, violoncello and contrabass. The musicians will be Helen Goode-Castro -cl, Judith Farmer - bsn, Brian O'Connor - horn, Roger Wilkie - vln, David Walther - vla, David Speltz - vc and Bruce Morgenthaler - cb. Performances are scheduled for Saturday, May 11, 2002, 8:00 pm at the home of Mary Anderson in Brentwood, Sunday, May 12, 2002, 4:00 pm at The Neighborhood Church in Pasadena, CA and Tuesday, May 21, 8:00 pm at The UCLA Faculty Center, Los Angeles. | ||||||
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| March 4, 2002 | World premiere of "Moods in Blue" for bassoon and piano at a concert of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Chamber Music Society | |||||
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David Breidenthal, principal bassoonist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and pianist Gloria Cheng will perform the world premiere of "Moods in Blue", a commission by David Breidenthal, on Monday, March 4, 8:00 pm at Ahmanson Hall at the Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 North Sepulveda Blvd., West Los Angeles. The concert is part of the 2001-2002 season of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Chamber Music Society. |
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| February 22, 2002 |
U.S. Premiere of "CONTINUUM III - Fantasies for a Blue Bassoon" at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles |
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| Gernot's "CONTINUUM III - Fantasies for a Blue Bassoon", a chamber orchestra piece featuring the bassoon, will receive its U.S. Premiere on Friday, February 22, 8:00 pm by the Thornton Chamber Orchestra (conductor: Christopher Fazzi, featured bassoonist: Judith Farmer ). The location of the performance will be Alfred Newman Recital Hall at USC. For more information please call (213) 740-2584. | ||||||
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| February 10, 2002 |
Performance of “Duo for Flute and Bassoon #1” at the Church of the Lighted Window in La Canada, CA |
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| Gernot's composition "Duo for Flute and Bassoon #1" will be performed by flutist Susan Greenberg and bassoonist Judith Farmer on Sunday, February 10, 4:00 pm at the Church of the Lighted Window, 1200 Foothill Blvd., La Canada, CA. Also on the program will be compositions by J.S. Bach, Frank Bennett, Loillet and Jolivet. The additional featured musician will be harpist Gayle Levant. For further information please call (818) 790-1185. | ||||||
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| February 8, 2002 | U.S. Premiere of "Silences" at the Dunn School in Los Olivos, CA | |||||
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Gernot's composition "Silences" for flute, harp, violin, viola and violoncello will receive its U.S. premiere on Friday, February 8 at the Dunn School in Los Olivos, CA. The musicians will be Susan Greenberg - flute, Marcia Dickstein - harp, Amy Hershberger - violin, Victoria Miskolczy - viola and Matt Cooker - violoncello. Compositions by Bandon, Beethoven and Dohnanyi will also be on the program. PS: This event is sold out. |
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| October 30, 2001 | Performance of “Trilogy for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano” in Wels, Austria | |||||
| The Ensemble Metamorphose (Prisca Schlemmer - oboe, Robert Buschek - bassoon and Katrin Flick - piano) will perform "Trilogy for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano" on Tuesday, October 30 in Wels. Austria. Other featured composers will be Dutilleux, Francaix, Nancarrow, Schlee and Schmidinger. | ||||||
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| October 23, 2001 | World premiere of "Metamorphosis" for piano quartet, a commision by Chamber Music Palisades, Pacific Palisades, CA | |||||
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Gernot has received a commission from Chamber Music Palisades to write a piece for piano quartet (violin, viola, violoncello and piano). The composition - "Metamorphosis" - will be premiered on Tuesday, October 23, 8:00 pm at St. Matthews Parrish, 1031 Bienveneda Ave., Pacific Palisades, CA. The musicians will be violinist Ida Levin, violist Evan Wilson (principal, Los Angeles Philharmonic), cellist Wilhelmina Smith (Mannes Trio) and pianist Delores Stevens. For more information please call 310-454-4024 or 310-459-2070. |
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| August 10 , 2001 | Performance of “Trilogy for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano” at the IDRS Conference 2001 in Morgantown, West Virginia | |||||
| Oboist Marion Arthur Kuszcyk (associate principal, Los Angeles Philharmonic), bassoonist Judith Farmer (former principal, Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra) and noted Los Angeles studio pianist Bryan Pezzone will perform Gernot's composition "Trilogy for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano" at the 30th Annual Conference of the International Double Reed Society on Friday, August 10 at 11:15 a.m., Gladys G. Davis Hall at the Creative Arts Center, University of West Virginia, Morgantown. For more information about the event please visit the IDRS '01 Conference Homepage. | ||||||
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| February 19, 2001 | Performance of “Reflections” for violin, clarinet and piano at Carnegie Hall | |||||
| The Michigan based Verdehr Trio (Walter Verdehr - violin, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr - clarinet, Silvia Roederer - piano) will perform Gernot's composition "Reflections" on Monday, February 19, 2001, 8:00 p.m. at Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York City. This will be the New York premiere of the piece. | ||||||
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| December 1 & 3, 2000 | Performance of "CONTINUUM III - Fantasies for a Blue Bassoon" | |||||
| Gernot's "CONTINUUM III - Fantasies for a Blue Bassoon", a chamber orchestra piece featuring the bassoon, will be performed on December 1 (Bregenz/Austria) and December 3 (Feldkirch/Austria) by the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg (conductor: Christoph Eberle, featured bassoonist: Allen Smith) | ||||||
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| October 9, 2000 | World premiere of "Three Short Stories for Viola and Bassoon" at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles | |||||
| Violist Brian Dembow (of the Angeles Quartet ) and bassoonist Judith Farmer will perform the world premiere of Gernot Wolfgang's composition "Three Short Stories for Viola and Bassoon" on Monday, October 9, 8:00 p.m. at the Arnold Schoenberg Institute Recital Hall, 3443 Watt Way, University of Southern California Campus, Los Angeles. Also performed will be the Sonata for Violoncello and Bassoon, KV 292 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Four Romantic Pieces, Opus 75 by Antontin Dvorak and Quartet in C minor for Piano, Violin and Violoncello, Opus 60 by Johannes Brahms. The additional performers are Margaret Batjer, violin, Cecilia Tsan, violoncello and Robert Thies, piano. | ||||||
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Commission by the Jazz Big Band Graz / Austria |
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| Gernot has recently completed writing an original chart for this ensemble, which is headed by saxophonist/conductor Sigi Feigl and features prominent Austrian based musicians like Heinrich von Kalnein, Gerald Preinfalk, Herwig Gradischnig (saxophones), Fritz Pauer (piano), Wayne Darling (bass) and John Hollenbeck (drums). | ||||||
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| March 2000 | World premiere and additional performances of "Reflections" for violin, clarinet and piano by the Verdehr Trio | |||||
| The Michigan based Verdehr Trio (Walter Verdehr - violin, Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr - clarinet, Gary Kirkpatrick - piano) will play the world premiere of Gernot's composition "Reflections" on Sunday, March 5, 5:00 p.m. at the Phillips Collection, 1600 21st Street NW, Washington, DC. For further information please call (302) 387-2157. | ||||||
| Additional performances of the piece will be on March 21 at Ecole Nationale de Musique, Fresnes/France (near Paris), on March 23 at the Guild Hall School in London/England, on March 27 at the Karajan Center in Vienna/Austria and on March 29 in Zlin/Czech Republic. | ||||||
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| August 15-17, 1999 | Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Festival 1999 | |||||
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for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano" will be performed by Gerard Reuter
(of the Dorian Wind Quintet) - oboe, Judith Farmer - bassoon and Delores
Stevens - piano on August 16 and 17, 1999 at the Martha's Vineyard Chamber
Music Festival, Martha's Vineyard, MA.
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| August 10-14, 1999 | IDRS Conference 1999 | |||||
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composition "Duo for Flute and Bassoon #1" will be performed
by Marybeth Minnis and Joanna Cowan White at the 28th Annual Conference
of the International Double Reed Society, August 11 at 3:30 p.m., Morphy
Hall at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. For more information about
the event, see the IDRS '99 Homepage.
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| May 27, 1999 | World premiere performance | |||||
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