Accent10 (AccentX), the annual chamber music festival for
college and advanced high school students at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music, is charged and ready to go.
The festival begins June 11 and continues through June 16 at CCM.
Organized by artistic director/violist Dorotea Vismara
Hoffman, super-charged might be a better word for the event. As in past years, Accent10 will give students
the opportunity to perform alongside a distinguished group of artists and ensembles
and participate with them in master classes and coaching sessions. And more than ever, new music is a part of the equation
All concerts and master classes are free and open to the public.
Heading the Accent10 guest list are violinist Jorja Fleezanis and composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon.
Fleezanis, former concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra, now professor of violin at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, will teach a variety of classes, including orchestral excerpts and chamber music pedagogy. She will participate in the opening faculty recital June 11 in CCM’s Watson Hall.
Muldoon, professor of composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, heads the New Music Division. He will hold a daily composition seminar and offer private lessons to composition students, who will have the opportunity to hear their music performed at Accent10.
Both Fleezanis and Muldoon have Cincinnati connections. Fleezanis was the first concertmaster of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra. Muldoon formerly served on the composition faculty at CCM.
Ensembles in residence for Accent10 are the Carpe Diem and Rhine String Quartets. Carpe Diem is quartet-in-residence at Ohio Wesleyan University. The Rhine Quartet, comprising members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, is quartet-in-residence at Northern Kentucky University.
In addition to guest artists and ensembles, the faculty for Accent10 includes CCM faculty artists and members of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
New to AccentX this year is Mark Gibson, director of orchestral studies at CCM.
Concurrent with Accent10 is Crescendo10, a parallel program for younger musicians, who will also have classes and will participate in the Accent10 Orchestra led by Gibson.
Performance schedule and faculty roster for Accent10 is as follows:
June 11, 5:20 p.m. Watson Hall. Faculty Chamber Music
Recital. Music by Dvorak, Ginastera, Prokofiev and Mozart. Carpe Diem
String Quartet. Rhine String Quartet. Ronald Aufmann, Randolph Bowman, Jorja
Fleezanis, Janet Carpenter, Chao-Wen Ting and Lucy
Firlie Ginther.
June 12. 8 p.m. Watson Hall. Faculty New Music Concert. Music by Miguel Roig-Francoli, Joel Hoffman, Douglas Knehans, Mara Helmuth, Michael Fiday and Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon performed by Danny Clay, Benjamin Hoffman, Jennifer Jolley, Sangbong Nam, Allen Otte, Alan Rafferty, Jennifer Roig-Francoli, Paul Schuete, Mik Silis, Jerod Sommerfeldt, Mark Tollefson and Paul York.
June 14. 5:20 p.m. Watson Hall. Chamber Music Recital. New music by young composers and chamber music masterworks performed by Accent10 students and faculty.
June 15. 5:20 p.m. Watson Hall. Chamber Music Recital. Chamber music masterworks performed by Accent10 students and faculty.
June 16. 2:30 p.m. Tangeman Great Hall, Tangeman Center. Crescendo10 Finale Concert. Chamber music ensembles. Accent10 Orchestra. Haydn, Symphony No. 103 in E-flat Major (“Drum Roll”). Mark Gibson, conductor.
June 16. 2:30 p.m. Stratford Banquet Hall, Stratford Heights. Accent10 Finale Concert. Chamber music masterworks performed by Accent10 students and faculty.
Master Classes are 2:30-3:30 p.m. June 12-15 in room 3250 Mary Emery Hall and are free and open to the public.
Note: Fleezanis’ class “Solo Repertoire and New Music,” 10 a.m.-12 p.m. June 12, is also free and open to the public.
Accent10 faculty:
Randolph Bowman, principal flute, CSO
Christopher Philpotts, oboe, CSO.
Ronald Aufmann, clarinet, CSO
Michael Chertock, piano, CCM
Allen Otte, percussion, CCM
John Ewing, violin, Carpe Diem String Quartet
Catherine Lange-Jensen, violin, CSO, Rhine String Quartet
Ann Reider, violin, CSO
Charles Wetherbee, violin, Carpe Diem String Quartet
Won Bin Yim, violin, CCM
Korine Fujiwara, viola, Carpe Diem String Quartet
Dorotea Vismara Hoffman, viola, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra
Joanne Wojtowicz, viola, CSO, Rhine String Quartet
Diego Fainguersch, cello, Carpet Diem String Quartet
Alan Rafferty, cello, CSO, Rhine Quartet
Inquiries and further information at www.accent10uc@gmail.com or visit http://www.ccm.uc.edu/musicx/accent/index.aspx