goliard southeastern
music festival / tour 2007
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About the Southeastern Music Festival Tour
Goliard's principal chamber players and a composer-in-residence tour the southeastern United States almost every year, visiting schools, universities, and traditional concert venues. The 2007 tour (February 16-22) featured the premiere performance of a commissioned work, Your World, written by our 2007 composer-in-residence Michael C. Haigler. The program also included works by Cecile Chaminade, Handel, Bizet, Arensky, and Peter Winkler (faculty, SUNY Stony Brook). Performers include Tynan Davis (mezzo-soprano), Sarah Kim (violin), Lawrence Zoernig (cello), Gili Sharett (bassoon) and Arielle Levioff (piano).[ TOP OF PAGE ]
Tour Program
“Dopo notte” [George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), Arr. Michael C. Haigler]
–Mezzo aria from Ariodante
Gili's Music for bassoon and cello [Peter Winkler (b. 1946)]
Étude Symphonique for solo piano [Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944)]
Your World (premiere) [Michael C. Haigler (b. 1973)]
A short song cycle on poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877-1966)
1. Your World
2. Youth
3. The Heart of a Women
4. I Want to Die While You Love Me
5. Black Woman
6. Your World (reprise)
(Commissioned by the Goliard Ensemble)
– intermission –
Trio in D Minor, Op. 32 for piano, violin and cello [Anton Arensky (1861-1906)]
1. Allegro moderato
2. Scherzo: Allegro molto
3. Elegia: Adagio
4. Allegro non troppo
Seguidilla [Georges Bizet (1838-1875), Arr. M.C. Haigler]
–Mezzo aria from Carmen
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Tour Schedule
Goliard Ensemble Southeastern Tour, Feb. 15-23, 2007
Friday, Feb. 16th at 8 pm
Augusta, GeorgiaConcert series at Covenant Presbyterian Church
Covenant Presbyterian Church
3131 Walton Way
Augusta, GA 30909
tel: 706-733-0513
Sunday, Feb. 18 at 4 pm
McCormick, South Carolina"Sundays at Four" Concert Series
Lutheran Church by the Lake
Twelve Oaks Drive
McCormick, SC 29835
tel: 864-391-3127
Monday, Feb. 19 / Tuesday, Feb. 20
Newberry, South CarolinaLocal community outreach programs sponsored by the Newberry Opera House
Wednesday, Feb. 21 / Thursday, Feb. 22
Milledgeville, GeorgiaMaster classes and an 8 pm concert on Feb. 22 at the Max Noah Recital Hall
Georgia College and State University
Campus Box 66
Milledgeville, GA 31061-0490
tel: 478-453-3308
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The Goliard Ensemble
Composer Michael C. Haigler graduated magna cum laude from the Eastman School of Music and currently holds positions as Chorus Master for Bronx Opera (NYC), Music Director of Festival 56 Theater (IL), and Music Director at Christ Episcopal Church in Oyster Bay, Long Island.Haigler began composing at age seven and by age twelve had won the Georgia Music Teacher's Association's composition contest. His first formal training in composition was at the National Music Camp (Interlochen, MI) where he studied with composer David Ott. At the age of 17, his first complete orchestral work entitled Flight 1106 was performed there by the World Youth Symphony Orchestra in a composer's forum. At Eastman he studied piano and conducting, but continued composing, premiering Scherzo Humoresque for solo piano in Moscow as part of an Eastman/Moscow Conservatory study and performance tour. After college he was hired to write music for several production videos, a series of 30-second television commercials, and the film score for the movie 240 Monroe. His first large commission was a festive work for orchestra, three choruses, and organ entitled We Live in That Far Future for the centennial celebration of Irving Park Lutheran Church in Chicago.
Haigler has also written two piano concertos, several solo works for voice, and a musical called The Business of Passion, which premiered in 2005 at Festival 56 in Princeton, Illinois. His compositions and arrangements have been performed by Goliard Ensemble (2006), the Atlanta Opera, The Sarasota Opera (FL), the Yale University Bluedogs (CT), the Anna Maria Island Orchestra (FL), and at the New England Music Camp (Maine). Also an active conductor, he was a finalist in the Maazel-Vilar International Conducting Competition in 2001, and is frequently seen as a guest conductor, most recently with the Opera Company of Brooklyn, the Orchestra of the Bronx, and the Sarasota Pops Orchestra (FL). Haigler was born in Atlanta and now lives in New York City.
Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, mezzo-soprano Tynan Davis began her singing adventure as a member of the Children's Chorus of San Antonio under the direction of Marguerite McCormick. Ms. Davis is a part of the legacy of classically trained singers who studied with Dr. David Jones at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. She later studied with his daughter, Juli Wood at Texas State University, San Marcos. A versatile vocalist, Ms. Davis has performed in operas, musicals and with jazz ensembles. Her most recent credits include the First Witch in Dido and Aeneas with the Bronx Opera, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Maddalena in Rigoletto, and Prince Orlovsky in Die Fledermaus with New York City's Amato Opera.
Sarah Kim, violinist, has performed across the United States and Europe in such venues as Wigmore Hall in London, the Liszt Academy in Budapest and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York. She has also performed in numerous chamber music festivals including the Saratoga Springs Chamber Music Festival, the Taos School of Music and the Norfolk Festival, and has been a guest faculty member at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music since 2003. Ms. Kim is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts at SUNY Stony Brook University where she is a student of Pamela Frank and Philip Setzer.
Arielle Levioff, pianist, is an active soloist and collaborative artist in the New York area, nationally and abroad. In New York City she has appeared as a soloist at Bargemusic in Brooklyn, Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, and Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center. She also has appeared at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and the French Embassy in Washington D.C. Ms. Levioff has participated in major music festivals including the Tanglewood Institute, the Cleveland Orchestra's Kent/Blossom Festival, and the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France. She is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and specializes in the French piano repertoire of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Ms. Levioff is the artistic director of Goliard Concerts, and is on the faculty of the 92nd Street Y in New York City.
Gili Sharett, bassoonist, has performed extensively in the major concert halls of New York and across the world as soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician. Last season she played in the orchestra of The Light in the Piazza, winner of six 2005 Tony awards, and was an orchestra member of Lincoln Center's production of The Frogs in 2004. Ms. Sharett has played numerous solo recitals, including a debut at Carnegie Hall in 2004. She has appeared in the McGraw Hill Companies' Young Artists Showcase on WQXR and was featured on Israel's classical radio station The Voice of Music. As an orchestral musician Ms. Sharett has appeared with the Israel Philharmonic under the baton of Zubin Mehta, the American Symphony and the New York City Ballet. She received a Doctorate of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, as well as a Bachelor of Music degree with honors from the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel Aviv. 
Lawrence Zoernig, cellist, holds degrees from the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Institute of Music. Mr. Zoernig has appeared at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Kennedy Center, and in concerts in Hawaii, Brazil, and throughout Europe. He was a featured performer at the World's Fair in Seville, Spain, and has performed with members of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra. Mr. Zoernig performed the New York premiere of the Concertino for Cello and Orchestra by Lars-Erik Larsson with the Scandia Symphony in 2004, and recently performed for former U.S. President Jimmy Carter at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He has performed with such artists and groups as the Paul Taylor Dance Company, the David Parsons Dance Company, clarinetist Charles Neidich, and violinists Nina Bellina, Sidney Harth, and Mark Peskanov. Mr. Zoernig is on the faculty of the Sylvan Academy of Music in New Jersey.[ TOP OF PAGE ]