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Radnofsky Quartet Residency Proposal 2003-2004
Regional Residency (1 month or 2-2 week visits)
A standing ovation by a generous and appreciative audience following
a magical March 2003 Jordan Hall debut; this new saxophone quartet
represents the development of thirty years of performance and
teaching for founder Kenneth Radnofsky.
 ---Says
Radnofsky, ‘This is without doubt, the finest saxophone quartet
with which I’ve ever performed. I don’t believe we could
have put together a better quartet, anywhere. This is truly a
matched set.’
4 Programs (5th program option)
Program #1- The Art of Fugue J.S. Bach
The last music of the greatest composer the earth has known,
written for
unspecified instruments, and realized for Saxophone Quartet.
The last 4 notes
spell Bach’s musical signature...The work will be played
in its entirety.
Program#2- Debussy and Ravel Quartets**
Two of the most perect quartets ever written, transcending
the instruments
for which they were originally scored, by the early 20th century
composers who defined Impressionism in music.
**a substitution for program two is available-Penderecki and
Ligeti new
saxophone quartets
Program #3- 20th and 21st Century Masterworks
Original works for saxophone quartet, testing musicianship
and technique to
the maximum, by Iannis Xenakis, Charles Wuorinen and Franco
Donatoni. The
group will also premiere a new work by quartet member Eric Hewitt.
Program #4- Music by Composers of the Region
Regional composers will be presented in a recital devoted entirely
to their
works.
Program #5 (Optional as budget permits)- Piano and Saxophone
Quartet
The work of Edison Denisov (Quintet) will be performed with
John McDonald, for several years Radnofsky recital partner.
All programs include a 4 day residency stay (per program) by
the Radnofsky Quartet, and will include workshops, masterclasses,
open rehearsals and discussions led by each member of the quartet
(program #s 1-4), and a fifth by composer McDonald (option 5).Sponsor
may schedule up to 5 hours per day of Radnofsky Quartet events
per residency, with one public performance per residency.
Total Budget $20,000; ($25,000w/option 5), plus expenses (travel,
living, transportation)**
**Kenneth Radnofsky and John McDonald are also available for
a 2week-4week residency (20 hours Radnofsky teaching (lessons
and masterclasses), w/McDonald available at the piano) plus 1
recital (sax and piano) at any mutually agreeable time during
the year), at $4,500 per week plus expenses.
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| Radnofsky Quartet Biography
 The
Radnofsky Quartet A standing ovation by a generous and appreciative
audience following a magical 2003 debut; this new quartet represents
the development of thirty years of performance and teaching for
founder Kenneth Radnofsky.
-Says Radnofsky, ‘This is without doubt, the finest quartet
with which I’ve ever performed. I don’t believe we could
have put together a better quartet, anywhere. This is truly a
matched set.’
Saxophonist Philipp A. Stäudlin,
a native of Friedrichshafen, Germany has appeared as a soloist
with numerous orchestras and ensembles throughout Germany and
Switzerland, including the Basel Symphony, the Niederrheinische
Synphoniker, and the Bielefeld Orchestra. He has performed
recitals as a chamber musician in Germany, Switzerland, Russia,
Austria, Sweden, France, Italy, and the USA, as well as performing
at major music festivals in Schlesswig-Holstein, and at Gidon
Kremer's Lockenhaus Festival. He was invited to be the representative
of German musical culture on a visit to South Korea and Mongolia
with Bundespresident Roman Herzog. Mr. Stäudlin has
won many awards as both a saxophone soloist and chamber musician
in contemporary, experimental, and classical music. As the
youngest competitor, Stäudlin won First Prize as well as
the Audience Prize in the Gustav Bumcke International Saxophone
Competition. As a member of the New Art Saxophone Quartet he has
received First Prize in the Chamber Music Competition of the German
Music Foundation and the Artist in Residence newcomer's award
with German Radio, in which Jessye Norman received the main award.
Graduated from Basel Musikhochschule in 1999, Stäudlin
received a Soloist Diploma with Honors, having studied with Marcus
Weiss and Iwan Roth. Philipp A. Stäudlin is currently funded
by a full scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service
(DAAD) to study with Kenneth Radnofsky on the Artist Diploma Program
at Longy School of Music. Mr. Staudlin is the soprano saxophonist
of the Radnofsky Quartet.Current CD releases with the New Art
Saxophone Quartet on the "ars musici" and " enja"
labels
Saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky has
appeared as soloist with leading orchestras and ensembles throughout
the world, including the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under the
direction of Maestro Kurt Masur, Dresden Staatskapelle, Boston
Pops, Taipei and Taiwan Symphonies, New World Symphony, BBC Concert
Orchestra, and Marlboro Festival. Mr. Radnofsky made his New York
Philharmonic debut in 1996, also under the direction of Maestro
Masur, having made his Carnegie Hall debut some years earlier
with the NY premiere of Gunther Schuller’s Concerto with
the Natl. Orchestral Assn. The world premiere of the Schuller
was also given by Radnofsky, with the Pittsburgh Symphony. David
Amram’s Concerto, ‘Ode to Lord Buckley,’ is also
dedicated to Radnofsky. He founded World-Wide Concurrent Premieres
and Commissioning Fund, Inc., premiering and commissioning John
Harbison’s San-Antonio. During the last three years, Kenneth
Radnofsky, remarkably, has commissioned and premiered solo works
by Gunther Schuller, Yang Yong, David Amram, Michael Colgrass
(2), John McDonald (4), Armand Qualliotine, Jaime Fatas, Pasquale
Tassone (2), Shih-Hui Chen, Andy Vores, Lei Liang, Jakov Jakoulov(2),
Donald Martino, and Elliott Schwartz. Kenneth Radnofsky is currently
Professor of Saxophone at Boston’s three major conservatories,
New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory and the Longy School
of Music. Please visit his website at www.KenRadnofsky.com
Upon graduation from the Interlochen Arts Academy saxophonist
Eliot Gattegno was the recipient
of the Fine Arts Award in music. Since then he has performed with
orchestras, as a soloist and with various chamber ensembles throughout
North America and Europe some of these include the Boston Conservatory
Saxophone Ensemble, Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston
Philharmonic Orchestra. Downbeat Magazine, Arts Recognition and
Talent Search, and the National Foundation for Advancement in
the Arts have acknowledged Gattegno. He has participated in major
music festivals such as Interlochen Center for Performing Arts,
Tanglewood Music Festival, and Domaine Forget where he studied
with Jean-Marie Londeix. This summer Gattegno has been invited
to attend Yellow Barn Music Festival. At seventeen Gattegno made
his National Public Radio debut performing in the New England
Conservatory of Music’s Jordan Hall on radio show “From
the Top”. An advocate of new music, in 2002 alone Gattegno
commissioned almost a dozen new works for saxophone and various
instruments from composers in Boston and New York area. He has
studied at the New England Conservatory of Music under the tutelage
of Kenneth Radnofsky.
Eric Hewitt has twice been featured
as soloist with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (2001, 2003),
with whom he gave the American Premiere and subsequent performance
of Luciano Berio’s Chemin IV for soprano saxophone and orchestra.
He has also been soloist with the New England Conservatory Wind
Ensemble, NEC Contemporary Ensemble, NEC Composer’s Series
Orchestra, Marlboro Symphony, Massachusetts Youth Wind Ensemble
and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony. He has performed in concert
with saxophonists Arno Bornkamp, Jean-Michel Goury and Kenneth
Radnofsky, as well as conducting the world premiere performances
of the large saxophone ensemble version of Charles Wuorinen’s
‘Big Epithalamium’ at the Intl.Clarinet and Saxophone
Connection at Jordan Hall, and later, with the Boston Conservatory
Saxophone Ensemble, with whom he often appears as guest conductor.
He was the winner of NEC’s Chadwick Medal as the single outstanding
graduate, where he studied with Kenneth Radnofsky, and is currently
completing a Master’s Degree, in wind ensemble conducting,
with Charles Peltz. Mr. Hewitt is co-founder of the yesaroun’
Duo, with percussionist Samuel Z. Solomon. The Duo has been featured
in recitals all over the United States and in Cuba, premiering
no less than thirteen works in two years. They are currently collaborating
with composers Michael Gandolfi, Erik Spangler and Lei Liang.
John McDonald composer/pianist
- A "fresh, inventive, urbane, and keen-witted young composer"
(Boston Globe) and "a splendid pianist" "with a
born pianist's command of colors, textures, dynamics" (Boston
Globe), John McDonald has earned international acclaim as a musician.
His compositions have been performed on four continents, and his
work is frequently featured in the U.S.A. by such ensembles as
Alea III, Arden Quartet, Boston Composers String Quartet, Hartt
Contemporary Players, Marimolin, Rivers Trio, and Duo 101. Recently,
McDonald served as Cultural Specialist in Mongolia, where he premiered
his "Music for Piano and String Orchestra" and worked
with students on his pedagogical works. In his performing capacity,
recent honors include a Duo Recitalists' Grant from the NEA, an
Artistic Ambassadorship to Asia, and an Artists' Residency at
M.I.T. with soprano Karol Bennett (1995, 1993, 1990-91), as well
as invitations to perform his works at conferences in Amsterdam,
Budapest, Havana, Montreal, and St. Petersburg. McDonald’s
recent solo piano recital of “Common Injustices” by
twenty-five living composers prompted Richard Dyer of The Boston
Globe to write “one can hardly imagine anyone else undertaking
such a program, or playing it with such modest and unobtrusive
but total musical and pianistic mastery.” Currently Associate
Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at Tufts
University, McDonald’s recent accomplishments have included
Composer Residencies with the METYSO Youth Orchestra, the Southern
Illinois University Music Department, and Duke University, commissions
from American Composers Forum and the Harvard Musical Association,
and First Prize in the Leo M.Traynor Composition Competition for
music for viol consort.
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Kenneth
Radnofsky, soprano and alto saxophones, and pre-recorded 