Two musical works written by Yale undergraduates will make their world premiere at the Yale Symphony Orchestra's concert on Saturday, March 1, at 8 p.m. in Woolsey Hall. Directing the orchestra will be guest conductor Ransom Wilson.
Highlighting the program will be "Sentimezzo and Fugit" by Jeffrey Louie '97 and "Protean Slip" by Delvyn Case '97. The concert will also include Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor with Jane Chung '97 on the violin, Debussy's "Premifeaturing Takeshi Watanabe '97 on the clarinet, and Bartok's "Concerto for Orchestra." Tickets for this performance are $3 and may be purchased at the Yale Symphony Office in Rm. 304 of Hendrie Hall, 165 Elm St., or at the door on the evening of the concert, beginning at 7 p.m.
A flutist who has served on the School of Music faculty since 1981, Mr. Wilson studied with Jean-Pierre Rampal and has appeared as a soloist with chamber orchestras throughout the world. He is the music director and principal conductor of Solisti New York, which he founded in 1981. He is also music director of Opera Omaha and the San Francisco Chamber Symphony, as well as artistic director of the OK Mozart Festival in Oklahoma. He recently founded the Mozart Festival at Sea aboard the M.S. Westerdam, and he was honored by the Austrian government with its Award of Merit in Gold in recognition of his efforts on behalf of Mozart's music in America.
At Yale, Ms. Chung is a student of Peter Oundjian, professor at the School of Music. As a frequent competition winner, she has appeared as a soloist with orchestras in southern California and Michigan, and in recitals both at Yale and at Biola University in California. Active in New Haven as a soloist, chamber and orchestra musician, she currently works with members of the Tokyo String Quartet. Ms. Chung is currently completing her bachelor's degree in architecture, and plans to pursue a master's degree in music in the fall.
Mr. Watanabe, who is presently studying clarinet with Ayako Oshima, is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Beethoven and Jellenich Medals at the Horace Mann School. In 1991, he won the Bronx Arts Ensemble Young Artists Competition and played the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with an ensemble at Fordham University. Mr. Watanabe spent last year studying at the Freie Universit t in Berlin, Germany, and will be graduating from Yale this spring with degrees in music and comparative literature.