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  News & Events Highlights - 2006
  Archived Events by Year: 2005
   
 
Studio Performance: November 14 - Pianist Leonides Lipovetsky
 
Leonides Lipovetsky
and Mary Diana

Pianist Leonides Lipovetsky played music by Mozart in the WUSF Studio in mid-November. His performance was part of the world-wide celebration of Mozart’s 250th Anniversary. Lipovetsky is a Steinway artist who lives in the Tampa Bay Area. He taught at Florida State University in Tallahassee for 35 years.
   
 
Studio Performance: November 9 - Violist Ben Markwell
 
Ben Markwell
Florida Orchestra Principle Violist Ben Markwell will perform with the Florida Orchestra later this month playing the Brahms Viola Concerto, which is actually an orchestration of the Sonata in f minor. Listeners heard about that work as WUSF’s Russell Gant welcomed Ben Markwell to our studios for a live performance on Thursday, November 9 at 11:00 AM. He was joined by Pianist Kim Capsas to play a Divertimento by Haydn.
   
 
Studio Performance: October 26 - David Matthews
 
David Matthews
David Matthews

On October 26, Russell Gant welcomed one of Tampa Bay’s favorite musicians to WUSF. David Matthews has played for the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay, the Tampa Bay Children’s Chorus, the Norman Luboff Choir. David is the organist at Palma Ceia Presbyterian Church in Tampa. He played music by Debussy and Soler live in the WUSF Studio and talked about the Church’s upcoming piano and organ recital series.

   
 
Studio Performance: June 6 - Ronald Leonard and Robert Levin
 
Ronald Leonard, Russell Gant and Robert Levin
Ronald Leonard,
Russell Gant and
Robert Levin
Pianist Robert Levin, Associate Director of the Sarasota Music Festival, and cellist, Ronald Leonard, SMF faculty member, visited the WUSF studio to talk with Russell Gant on Tuesday, June 6 at 10:00 AM. Dr. Levin is an international soloist and chamber musician, a Mozart scholar and a professor at Harvard University. He performed solo selections by Schumann and Mendelssohn. Ronald Leonard is also a world-renowned soloist and chamber musician, perhaps best known as principal cello of the Los Angeles Philharmonic for twenty-four years. Mr. Leonard performed music by Johann Sebastian Bach. To finish their performance, they joined forces for a work by the American composer George Rochberg.
   
 
Studio Performance: May 31 - Ya-Fei Chuang and Carol Wincenc
 
Russell Gant, Ya-Fei Chuang, and Carol Wincenc
Russell Gant,
Carol Wincenc and
Ya-Fei Chuang
Sarasota Music Festival faculty members flutist Carol Wincenc and pianist Ya-Fei Chuang took time out of their busy schedule to visit the WUSF studio. Ya-Fei Chuang has concertized throughout Europe and American. She is a duo partner with violist Kim Kashkashian, and also appears in piano duo with her husband, Robert Levin. Flutist Carol Wincenc is a world-renowned solo and recording artist. She is Professor of flute at Juilliard in New York. On Wednesday, May 31, at 10:00 AM they talked with Russell Gant and played music by Faure, Ravel and Enesco.
   
 
Studio Performance: May 26 - Pianist Stewart Goodyear
 
Stewart Goodyear and Bethany Cagle
Stewart Goodyear
and Bethany Cagle
Pianist Stewart Goodyear soloed with the Florida Orchestra on their final Masterworks of the year. He stopped by the WUSF studio to perform for us before the Friday evening concert on May 26. Mr. Goodyear is a native of Toronto, with a Masters Degree from the Juilliard School. He has studied with some of the great pianists of our time, including Leon Fleisher and Claude Frank. Recently, Goodyear toured as soloist with the Toronto Symphony and conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste. Goodyear talked with Bethany Cagle and played music by Maurice Ravel and Johann Strauss Jr., as well as a work of his own composition called August
   
 
Studio Performance: Svetozar Ivanov and Carolyn Stuart
 
Carolyn Stuart and Svetozar Ivanov, USF School of Music faculty husband and wife team.
Svetozar Ivanov
and Carolyn Stuart
University of South Florida School of Music faculty husband and wife team Svetozar Ivanov, piano, and Carolyn Stuart, violin perform at the WUSF Studio before their concert at the Palladium Theatre’s Steinway series. They’ll talk about the Soviet composer Nikolai Roslavets, who was branded a ‘nonperson’ by Stalin’s government. They are championing his music which is brilliant and soulful and largely unknown.
   
 
Studio Performance: April 11 - Dr. Richard Kogan
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Dr. Kogan when he visted WUSF Studios
Pianist Dr. Richard Kogan stopped by the WUSF studio before his lecture/recital at the Tampa Theatre.  He talked with WUSF’s Russell Gant about the Mind and Life of Beethoven; and he played music from Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23, the “Appassionata” and from the Piano Sonata No.31. Dr.Kogan is a psychiatrist and concert pianist.  He studied at the JuilliardSchool in New York and in France with Nadia Boulanger. He has been a frequent chamber music partner with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. Dr. Kogan visited WUSF 89.7 on Tuesday, April 11, at 11:00 AM. (Pictured from left to right: Russell Gant, Diane Egner, Dr. Richard Kogan and Lois LaCivita Nixon)
   
 
Studio Performance: April 4 - La Musica International
 
La Musica International Chamber Music Festival celebrates 20 years of music marking in Sarasota with concerts April 5 through the 19.  On Tuesday, April 4, five musicians from La Musica stopped by the WUSF studio. They played movements from Brahms String Quintet in g Op 111.  Violinists Candida Thompson and Federico Agostini, violists Bruno Giuranna and Daniel Avsholomov and cellist Ronald Thomas talked with Bethany. (Pictured from left to right: Federico Agostini, Candida Thompson, Ronald Thomas, Bruno Giuranna and Daniel Avsholomov)
   
 

Studio Performance: Trio Voila
 

Trio Voila played for us before their February concert with GuitarSarasota . Flutist Jan Hoffman , guitarist Thomas Koch and violist Laura Jensen-Jennings talked with WUSF’s Bethany Cagle about how much they love working together. They played music by Weber, Molino and the Icelandic composer Eythor Thorlaksson. (Pictured from left to right: Jane Hoffman, Thomas Koch, Bethany Cagle, and Laura Jensen-Jennings)

 
 

Studio Performance: January 10 - Brian Moorhead

 
Brian Moorhead
Brian Moorhead
WUSF Celebrated Mozart's 250th Anniversary with musicians from the University of South Florida and the Florida Orchestra. On Tuesday, January 10 clarinetist Brian Moorhead, pianist Susan Haig, violinist Sarah Shellman and cellist Laura Smith played live in our studio. Bethany Cagle hosted a lively discussion with the musicians and all together honored Mr. Moorhead’s 30 year anniversary with the Florida Orchestra 20 year anniversary with the University of South Florida’s School of Music.
 
 

Studio Performance: February 13 - Isabelle Besancon-Sanderling and Judith Alstadter

 
Russell Gant, Judith Alstadter, Isabelle Besancon-Sanderling, Stefan Sanderling, and WUSF-FM Station Manager Tom Dollenmayer

Cellist Isabelle Besancon-Sanderling and pianist Judith Alstadter played music by Faure and the American composer Claude Bolling performed live in our studio on Monday, February 13. Isabelle talked with Russell Gant about her love of French music while Judith talked about the American composers that have been her passion. (Pictured from left to right: Russell Gant, Judith Alstadter, Isabelle Besancon-Sanderling, Stefan Sanderling and Tom Dollenmayer)