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In This Issue…

Artist Profile: Huang Ruo

WFMT and BBC Radio 3 to Broadcast 2007 Season

Staff Profile: Matt Snyder, Audio Engineer

Volunteer Profile: Randy Perazzini

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Artist Profile: Huang Ruo

Huang Ruo’s work has been praised by The Wall Street Journal as adding “a new tint to the orchestra palette.” One of four composers commissioned by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival this 2008 season, his new work will receive its world premiere by the trio Real Quiet on August 6 at St. Francis Auditorium.

Only in his early thirties, Mr. Ruo has written over 130 works, ranging from pieces for solo instruments, small and large ensembles, works for standard orchestra, chamber orchestra, soloist and orchestra, to multi-media pieces, music for dance, music for voices and pop genre. Huang Ruo’s music has been performed nationally and abroad in such renowned halls as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Philadelphia’s Academy of Music, Aspen’s Harris Concerto Hall, Amsterdam’s MUZIEKGEBOUW AAN ‘T IJ and Paradiso Hall, and Hong Kong’s City Hall, among others, and by such music organizations as The Philadelphia Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, Albany Symphony, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the ASKO Ensemble, Dutch Vocal Laboratory and the Nieuw Ensemble, to name a few. His work has been spotlighted on National Public Radio (NPR), Radio-Finland, Radio-Sweden, Radio-Amsterdam, Radio-Canada and Radio-China.

Lauded as an “inventive composer” by The New York Times, in addition to his work with musicians, Mr. Ruo has collaborated with the New York City Ballet and choreographers Damian Woetzel and Christopher Wheeldon, setting his work, Divergence, (Concerto No. 3) for a gala event. Also a noted author and lecturer, Mr. Ruo’s book, “A Selection of Classic Chinese Folk Songs”, was published by the Zhong Shan University Press. Among his lecture and forum credits are New York University, Columbia University, the music conservatories of Oberlin, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and the Aspen Composers’ Forum.

Born on Hainan Island, Mr. Ruo began composition and piano studies at the age of six with his father, a well-known composer in China. He received both a traditional and western education at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where he was admitted into the composition program when he turned 12, studying with Deng Erbo. After winning the Henry Mancini Award at the 1995 International Film and Music Festival in Switzerland, he moved to the United States, where he received a Bachelors of Music from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Masters of Music from The Juilliard School. A permanent resident of the United States, Mr. Ruo is currently a composition faculty member at SUNY Purchase, and is working with Samuel Adler at The Juilliard School toward a Doctor of Musical Art degree in Composition.

In February 2007, NAXOS released Mr. Ruo’s Chamber Concerto Cycle on its acclaimed American Classics Series, and Albany Records will release Leaving Sao, a work for string orchestra, in the near future.

For more information, please visit the Festival’s website at sfcmf.org.

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Festival’s 2007 Season to be broadcast by WFMT and BBC Radio 3

Since 2005, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival’s 13-week, hour-long radio series has been produced and distributed nationally by The WFMT Radio Network. This spectacular relationship continues with an all-new series reflecting the Festival’s varied repertoire, and featuring performances by many of the Festival’s talented artists.

Chamber music lovers will hear well-loved classics and lesser-known chamber music gems, such as Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat, Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins, Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, and Wynton Marsalis’s ‘Meeelaan’.

Performers include: Pinchas Zukerman and Viviane Hagner, violin; Michael Tree, viola; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Liang Wang, oboe; Ricardo Morales, clarinet; Milan Turkovic, bassoon; Julie Landsman, horn; Leon Fleisher, Jon Kimura Parker, Marc Neikrug, and Jon Nakamatsu, piano; The Orion and Miró String Quartets

Each concert was recorded by Grammy award-winning audio engineer, Matt Snyder. Hosts for the intensely moving and engaging series include WFMT program host, Kerry Frumkin, and Festival Artistic Director, Marc Neikrug. The programs are produced by Louise Frank and Steve Robinson is WFMT’s Executive Producer.

Continuing its international presence, the Festival’s 2007 series will also be aired again on the United Kingdom’s BBC Radio 3 in its Lunchtime Concert series.

The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival is the only chamber music festival to have an established radio series presence in the United States.

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