Program Notes

Serenade en Trio  (1971)          Eugene Bozza   (1905-1991)

French composer and conductor Eugene Bozza studied at the Paris Conservatory where he took first prize in conducting, composition, and violin.  In 1934 he was awarded the Prix de Rome for his work La Legende de Roukmani.  Bozza then served as conductor of the Paris Opera-Comique from 1939 to 1948.  He became director of the Ecole Nacionale de Musique in 1951 and kept this post until he retired in 1975.  Bozza wrote many large scale works including a symphony, concertos, ballets, and operas; but he is best known outside of France for his elegent, lyrical, and modest brass and woodwind chamber pieces that are widely heard in music schools and conservatories throughout Europe and the United States.

Fictions (2004)          Mike Mower   (b. 1958)

Mike Mower originally studied classical flute at the Royal Academy of Music in London where he was awarded the Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.  He also plays the saxophone and clarinet and has led numerous jazz ensembles.  As a freelance musician, Mower has recorded with jazz, rock, and classical artists including Gil Evans, Tina Turner, Paul Weller, James Galway, and Ryuchi Sakamoto.  As a composer and arranger he has written for numerous big bands including the BBC Big Band and Radio Orchestra, NPR Radio Big Band, and the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra.  mower mainly writes newly commissioned works and arrangements and has also written a series of successful books of educational standard music.

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"Carmen" Fantasy  (1900)          Francois Borne   (1862-1929)

Francois Borne was Professor of Flute at the Toulouse Conservatory toward the end of the nineteenth century.  In the early twentieth century he became well known as an expert of flute design and is even credited, at least in part, with the invention of flute construction devices designed to improve upon the Boehm-system flute.  Some even credit him with helping to develop the popular split-E mechanism.  This piece is one of many that Borne write to showcase the new level of virtuosity made possible by the developments of the new modern flute.

Sonata in A Minor, Wq. 132 (1747)          C.P.E. Bach   (1714-1788)

Carl Phillipp Emmanuel Bach was the second surviving son of J.S. Bach.  He could play all of his father's keyboard music by age seven and was an exceptional student in many other areas.  In 1731 he attended the University of Leipzig as a law student, but then transferred to the University of Frankfurt to study music.  He graduated in 1734 and remained in town giving lessons and performing concerts.  In 1740 he became the harpsichordist for Frederick the Great of Prussia.  Here he composed his famous "Prussian" and "Wurttemburg" Sonatas.  In 1768 he left Frederick's services to assume the cantor position in Hamburg which was just vacated by Telemann.  He remained in this post until his death.  C.P.E. Bach's style has been described as innovative and stylistically distant from his father's.  While his music is certainly rooted in many Baroque traditions, it has been labeled as proto-Romantic¹ in style and Bach has been labeled the master of "intimate expressiveness^1" .  ( ¹James Reel)

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Sound Bytes  (1991)          Katherine Hoover   (b. 1937)

Katherine Hoover was born in West Virginia and lives in New York where she composes, conducts, and plays the flute.  She attended the Eastman School of Music where she earned a Bachelor of Music in Music Theory and a Performer's Certificate in Flute in 1959.  She completed her Master's in Music Theory at the Manhattan School while she was on the faculty.  She received the National Endowment Composer's Fellowship in 1979 and the Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Composition in 1994.  Four of her compositions won the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition in 1987, 1991, 1993, and 1994.  In 1996 Hoover was named Composer-In-Residence at the Festival of Women Composers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.  Her works have been performed by many orchestras including the Fort Worth Symphony.  Her Clarinet Concerto, written for jazz clarinetist Eddie Daniels, was premiered with the Santa Fe Symphony.

Sonata (1988)          Lowell Liebermann   (b. 1961)

Lowell Liebermann has become one of the most commissioned and performed composers of the United States.  His music is best known for its technical demand and audience appeal and multiple recordings of many of his compositions are available; the Sonata for Flute and Piano has been recorded sixteen times to date.  In 2001 Liebermann was awarded the first American Composers' Invitational Award by the Van Cliburn Competition after the overwhelming majority of the finalists chose to perform his Three Impromptus.  Famous performers, including James Galway, have commissioned works by Liebermann.  He holds Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral degrees from the Juilliard School of Music.