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April 3, 2007
Carter Enyeart, Renowned Cellist, Featured in Academy Concert
Acclaimed cellist Carter Enyeart will perform at The Pennsylvania Academy of Music's final Twilight Concert of the season offering a program of Shostakovich, Debussy and Beethoven. Accompanied by pianist Aglika Angelova, Enyeart will play on Friday, May 4 at 8:00 p.m. at St. James Episcopal Church, Duke and Orange Streets in Lancaster. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for non-Academy students and can be reserved by calling 717.399.9733.The program will include Dmitry Shostakovich's Sonata, Opus 40, composed in 1934; Claude Debussy's Sonata for Cello and Piano (1915); and Beethoven's Sonata in A Major for Piano and Cello, Opus 69 (1808).
A very popular Soviet composer during his lifetime, Shostakovich composed the Sonata, Opus 40 at the end of a period of acceptance by Soviet authorities. In 1936, he suffered the first of two denunciations by the Communist government. Shostakovich was influenced by composers he admired: Bach, Beethoven and Mahler among them.French composer Claude Debussy is one of the most well-known of the “Impressionist” composers whose music defined the period between late Romanticism and 20th century modernistic music. Debussy's Sonata opens with a flamenco-like flourish and nearly half of the second movement is played pizzicato, a departure from the dominant nineteenth century tradition of legato bowing.
The Beethoven Sonata on the program features virtuoso-like passages for the pianist and is the only Beethoven cello sonata to include a scherzo movement. This sonata is from the composer's middle period which was marked by large, expansive works featuring intensity and lyricism.
Cellist Carter Enyeart has enjoyed a varied and distinguished musical career. He is currently the Rose Ann Carr Millsap/ Missouri Distinguished Professor of Cello at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music where he is also Coordinator of String Chamber Music. His concert appearances as soloist and chamber musician have been acclaimed throughout the United States and in the music capitols of Europe, South America and Asia.
“…Enyeart impressed as an Apollonian musician with a rich, satiny tone, favoring clearheaded sensitivity over flamboyance” wrote Scott Cantrell in The Kansas City Star. John Ardoin wote in the Dallas Morning news,”…a stellar cello premiere. The performance seemed to me a model of clarity and intent.” Of an earlier collaboration with pianist Joseph Banowetz, Chen Yaping in the Beijing China Daily wrote, “……a rare and special gift….The two played in perfect accord with tacit musical understanding….perfect phrasing and beautiful tone……the most enchanting music you can imagine!” Enyeart's first CD on Centaur was hailed by John von Rhein in the Chicago Tribune as “one of the year's best contemporary chamber music albums.”
Enyeart has played in the orchestral field as a member of the Pittsburgh and San Francisco Symphony Orchestras, and as principal cellist of the Dallas Opera; in chamber music as cellist of the renowned Philadelphia String Quartet, The American Piano Trio, and since 1989 as cellist and Associate Artistic Director of The Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth.
Born in Bulgaria and educated in Germany, where she studied with the eminent pianist and pedagogue Volker Banfield, pianist Aglika Angelova came to the United States in 1997 and joined the piano faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. There she co-founded the Jupiter Trio with violinist Robert Waters and cellist Julian Hersh. The group has attracted significant international attention after winning a Gold Medal and First Prize at the 4th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and releasing its first CD with trios by Hummel, Mozart and Dvorak. Anbelova is a recipient of numerous awards and has served as Artist-in-Residence at the Limassol Festival, the Banff Center for the Arts, the Moab Music Festival, and the Olympic Music Festival, among others. She has appeared in countless solo recitals, orchestra and chamber music concerts in her native Bulgaria as well as in Germany, Belgium, Cyprus, Lithuania, the United States, Canada, Japan and throughout the Pacific Rim.
NOTE TO BROADCAST MEDIA: Carter Enyeart's last name is pronounced “EN-yert.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Music is a non-profit pre-collegiate institution dedicated to the musical advancement of its students. Founded in 1990, the Academy attracts students from an immediate nine-county area as well as from around the world, who study disciplines ranging from instrumental, chamber music, orchestra, opera and vocal performance to music composition and theory, improvisation, accompanying ,jazz and recording. The Academy has a widely accomplished international faculty and is one of only 12 autonomous pre-collegiate music schools in the country accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
