Competition: Saturday, January 19, 2013
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
University of Washington School of Music
featuring:
Bonita Boyd, Upper Division adjudicator
Ann Marie Yasinitsky, Lower Division adjudicator
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Bonita Boyd
Born in Pittsburgh, Bonita Boyd grew up in Long Beach, California. Her teachers included Maurice Sharp of the Cleveland Orchestra; Roger Stevens; and Joseph Mariano, principal flute of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and legendary pedagogue at the Eastman School. Boyd succeeded him in both posts – becoming the youngest woman to hold major academic and orchestral appointments, as noted by Glamour magazine in its “Outstanding Career Women” feature.
In 1983, Boyd made her critically acclaimed Los Angeles debut, and also made her first solo tours of Europe and the Far East. Following tours of Latin America, she performed with orchestras and as recitalist throughout the world, including the National Gallery Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), National Symphony of the Dominican Republic, California Chamber Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony, Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, Denver Chamber Orchestra, Pusan Symphony (Korea), Western Australia Symphony, Queensland Symphony, Polish Radio Orchestra, Vilnius Chamber Orchestra, as well as numerous performances on National Public Radio, PBS television specials, and radio recordings in Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt, Munich, Oslo, Amsterdam, The Hague, Brussels, Poland, and Lithuania.
Boyd has premiered numerous works, including Samuel Adler’s Concerto (1977); Warren Benson’s Five Lyrics of Louise Bogan (1978) and Concertino for Flute, Strings, and Percussion; Solo Sonata by Miklos Rozsa; and Eclipse Musings, Augusta Read Thomas (1998).
Her 1980 Alice Tully/Lincoln Center concert was highly praised, especially for her astonishing technical tour de force—Paganini violin Caprices transcribed for solo flute—later captured on her popular recording. Bonnie’s recording, Flute Music of Les Six, was honored by Stereo Review in its 1983 Record of the Year awards, and cited by High Fidelity magazine in its “Critics Choice” column. She has also recorded on Spectrum, Vox, Stolat, Gasparo, Philips, Albany, Pantheon, and Fleur de Son. Her most recent recordings include Bernstein’s Halil and a new release of the Paganini Caprices. She tours regularly with guitarist Nicholas Goluses; the pair has recorded and released a CD, Chronicles of Discovery.
Boyd served as principal flute with the Rochester Philharmonic (1971-1984), Chautauqua Symphony (1971-1977), and Filarmonica de las Americas, Mexico City (1977). She was a faculty member of the Johannesen International School of the Arts (1987-1996). An Eastman faculty member since 1977, Bonita Boyd is also currently a member of the artist faculty of the Aspen Music (1996-) and the Aria International (1997-) festivals, and is co-principal flutist of the Aspen Festival Orchestra.
Ann Marie Yasinitsky
Ann Marie Yasinitsky, originally from the San Francisco bay area, is Clinical Associate Professor of Music at Washington State University where she teaches flute as well as classes in music theory, history and literature and performs with the Solstice Wind Quintet, in residence at WSU. Ms. Yasinitsky has received numerous awards and grants including a "Special Commendation" award in the Vienna Modern Masters Performers International Recording Competition and a Solo Recitalist Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She can be heard on recordings released by The Musical Heritage Society, Vienna Modern Masters, Soul Note, Revelation Records and has released a solo CD, Intuition, on the YAZZ Recordings label. Ms. Yasinitsky is Principal Flutist with the Washington Idaho Symphony and has performed as Principal flute or as a member of the Spokane Symphony, Boise Philharmonic, Gunther Schuller's New England Ragtime Ensemble and several California orchestras including the San Jose Symphony, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, San Francisco Midsummer Mozart Orchestra and the Oakland Opera Orchestra. Ms Yasinitsky has performed as soloist with orchestras in the US, Canada, and Europe, most recently performing and recording in Vienna, Austria for the VMM label in performances of two flute concertos composed by her husband Gregory Yasinitsky. Ms. Yasinitsky is a Yamaha performing artist and clinician
Casey Robards
Piano Accompaniest for the
Guest Recital featuring Bonita Boyd
January 20, 2013 at 3:00 p.m.
Casey Robards is a collaborative pianist and vocal coach known for her versatility, imagination, and sensitive musicality. Dr. Robards has given recitals with singers and instrumentalists throughout the United States, as well as France, Brazil and Costa Rica.
A lover of chamber music, Casey is a founding member of the KO Trio with flutist, Donna Shin and cellist, Ji Yon Shim and performs regularly with her husband, Anthony Patterson as a piano duo. Casey’s musical experience ranges from art song, opera, musical theatre, jazz, Broadway shows and rock/pop styles to string, wind, and brass accompanying.
A committed coach and pedagogue, Dr. Robards is currently a collaborative pianist at Oberlin Conservatory and faculty pianist/vocal coach at the Bay View Music Festival. She has been on the faculty of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University (Collaborative Piano/Voice), Central Michigan University (Piano) and numerous festivals including Young Musicians Inc. (Evanston, WY); the Weathersfield Music Festival, (Castleton, VT); the Plymouth Music Festival, (Plymouth, MA); and the StudiO Vocal Arts Institute, (Monticello, IL). She was the Resident Pianist/Coach with Indianapolis Opera and has also been pianist/coach for Indiana Opera Theatre, and Illinois Opera Theatre (Urbana, Illinois).
Casey has recorded a CD of African American spirituals with soprano, Ollie Watts Davis, (“Here’s One”), and appears on recordings with oboist, Nancy Clauter (“Meridian: The Ascending Journey”), Jacek Muzyk, horn (“Horn Constellation”), and the Eden String Quartet (“A Bountiful Blessing”). Her performances are regularly broadcast on Interlochen Public Radio.
Dr. Robards completed the B.M. (Piano Performance), M.M. (Piano Pedagogy) and D.M.A. (Vocal Coaching and Accompanying) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a Tanglewood Music Festival Fellow in 2004 and 2005 and recipient of the Henri Kohn Memorial Award. Her doctoral dissertation is on the life and music of John Carter, African-American pianist-composer (1932-1981).
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