The Chamber Music recital will feature three performers in the event entitled “New Music and Art From Australia” at 8 p.m. in Auer Hall. The performers include Brigid Burke, guest clarinetist, Bernadette Harvey, guest piano player, and David Ward-Steinman, adjunct professor of music at the Jacobs School of Music and piano player.
The recital will also include percussionists Dan Bretz, James Cromer, Cy Miessler and Alana Wiesing.
The first piece in the repertoire will be “Omphalo Centric Lecture for percussion quartet” by Nigel Westlake.
Then, selections from “Australian Piano Miniatures” will be performed. These include: “Carillon for Sacha” by Mark Pollard; “As You Like It,” composed by Stephen Leek; “The Seventh Centre,” by Amelia Barden and “Iconophony,” composed by Greg Schiemer.
Works by Brigid Burke for clarinet solo and bass clarinet solo with video and electronics will follow. The three works featured will be “Shine,” “Interlude” and “Grainger’s Bridge.”
The rest of the repertoire will include pieces for the piano: “Piano Sonata No. 1” by Carl Vine and “Piano Sonata” by Ross Edwards. Ward-Steinman will finish the recital with his work of improvisation to “Prologue” by Glenn Gould.
Burke is an Australian composer, clarinet soloist, performance artist, visual artist, filmmaker and educator. She has performed and toured extensively both nationally and internationally.
Some of her performances include the Fed Jam visuals on the Big Screen Fed Square and in the International Computer Music Conference, Perth.
Harvey’s career as a pianist commenced early when she won her first medal in the Sydney Eisteddfod at the age of 2 1/2.
In 2000, Harvey was awarded a Centenary Medal by the then-Australian Prime Minister John Howard for her contributions to Australian music. She also received the Australian Music Centre’s award for the Promotion of Australian Music as well as the Best Performance of an Australian Composition in 2001 as part of Australian Virtuosi.
Ward-Steinman was a professor and former composer-in-residence at San Diego State University, where he initiated and directed the Comprehensive Musicianship Program and New Music Ensembles before joining the Jacobs School of Music staff in 2004.
From 1970-72, Ward-Steinman was the Ford Foundation composer-in-residence for the Tampa Bay area of Florida. In 1986, he was composer-in-residence at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. He was the Senior Fulbright Scholar to Australia from 1989-90. The Florida State University Alumni Association in 2009 listed him among “100 Distinguished Graduates” of FSU, according to the Jacobs School of Music press release.
Major commissions include those from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Joffrey Ballet in New York, San Diego Ballet, California Ballet, the Music Teacher National Association, the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, American Harp Society in San Diego, Camarada Chamber Music Ensemble and the San Diego Symphony.
Lanie Maresh
