In October 2020, The SCUT School of Arts invited 8 professors from Tianjin Juilliard School to for culture exchange. They gave lectures and masterclasses for woodwind and brass major students, with a recital in the end.

Concert:  The Tianjin Juilliard Faculty Chamber Music Concert

Time:    Thursday, October 29^th , 2020 19:00pm

Location: Chamber Music Hall, School of Art, South China University of Technology

Program

Quintet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 56 No. 1                                   Franz Danzi

I. Allegretto

II. Andante con moto

III. Menuetto allegretto

IV. Allegretto

Metamorphoses after Ovid Op. 49                                     Benjamin Britten

I. Pan

II. Niobe

III. Arethusa

Tsunami for Solo Bassoon

Akio Koyama

12 Fantasies for Solo Flute, TWV 40:2-13                           Georg Philipp Telemann

I. D Minor

II. D Major

Improvisation No. 1                                                  Enrique Crespo

Concertino for Trombone and Woodwind                         Raymond Eugene Premru

I. Allegro moderato

II. Largo espressivo

III. Toccata

Biography

1.Gergely Ittzés

Gergely Ittzés is active in many fields of music making. Ittzés is a member of the UMZE Chamber Ensemble and founder of the TeTraVERSI Flute Quartet. He debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2014 and performed at major flute festivals in Beijing, Brasília, Paris, New York, Manchester, Freiburg, and more. He has performed with Magdalena Kožena, Markus Stockhausen, Heinz Holliger, Peter Frankl, Miklós Perényi, Zoltán Kocsis, Péter Eötvös, Dénes Várjon, Amadinda Percussion Group, Barnabás Kelemen, and Kristóf Baráti, and appeared as a soloist with the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Austrian-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra, Toronto Sinfonietta, Katowice Philharmonic, Bach Works New York, Huntsville Symphony, and other ensembles.

2. Scott Bell

Scott Bell has performed recitals as part of the Music in a Great Space series in Pittsburgh and in Reykjavik, Iceland, in the Hallgrímskirkja. He has also appeared with the Santa Fe Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, Atlanta Symphony, National Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and Milwaukee Symphony. He is also a member of the critically acclaimed Pittsburgh Reed Trio. Bell has been a member of the two-time Grammy Award winning Pittsburgh Symphony since 1993 and holds the Mr. and Mrs. William Rinehart endowed oboe chair. With the Pittsburgh Symphony, Bell has performed on six continents and participated in Grammy Award winning performances.

3. Xiangyu Zhou

Born in Xi’an, China, Xiangyu Zhou began studying clarinet at age 10 with Yu Wang and Zheng Chi at the Xi’an Conservatory of Music. After winning first prize in the TOYAMA Asian Young Artist Competition in 2002, Zhou obtained his bachelor and master degrees from Juilliard, where he studied with Charles Neidich. He is also an alum of Interlochen Arts Academy.

4.Akio Koyama

Akio Koyama served as principle bassoonist in the Darmstadt State Opera Orchestra, Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra, and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Since 1990, he has served as the principle bassoonist in the Saito Kinen Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa. As a soloist and chamber music musician, Koyama has performed worldwide with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, and German Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Bremen, among others. He was prize winner at the 1979 Ancona International Music Competition in Italy and the 1981 Prague Spring International Music Competition.

5.Chang Chou Han

Chang Chou Han began studying French horn at 13 and has performed professionally for 41 years. He has been principal horn at the Singapore Symphony Orchestra since 1987 and visiting principal horn with the Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen Symphonies as well as the China Philharmonic. He has also played with the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Radio Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Saarbrucken Radio Symphony, and Dortmund Philharmonic.

6.Lee Allen

Trombonist Lee Allen has performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Diego Symphony. As acting principal trombone of the Las Vegas Philharmonic, he has performed with the Santa Monica Symphony, Riverside Symphony, San Bernardino Symphony, Long Beach Opera, Burbank Philharmonic, and Los Angeles Jewish Symphony . Allen toured as a member of award-winning smooth jazz artist Brian Culbertson’s band in 2008 and also performed with Adele at the Academy Awards in 2013. Allen has worked on numerous recording projects including a project at The Bridge Recording in L.A. with Jay Friedman. He is a founding member of the critically acclaimed MOMUS trombone quartet.