Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens - Sunday Morning Classical Concerts

Sunday Morning Classical Concerts

The Sunday Morning Classical Concert Series this year features a selection of unique performances by a mix of talented student musicians from the Yale School of Music interspersed with surprise appearances from professional musicians who regularly perform at world renown venues in New York City and worldwide.

For members of the Bartlett Arboretum, entrance to the grounds and concerts is free. For non-members, a $5 per person entrance fee at the gate applies. Children under 12 are free. Concerts are scheduled to be at 10:00 a.m. outside in the gardens surrounding the original homestead of Dr. Francis A. Bartlett that currently serves as the Administration building for the arboretum. In case of inclement weather, concerts will be moved inside the new Silver Educational Center on the same grounds.

Sunday, June 24th: John L. Haupt - Classical Guitar
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John Lehmann-Haupt received his first guitar on his fifth birthday. With the help of his father, he was soon picking out songs by ear. The records he heard at home - by Segovia, Leadbelly, Josh White, Merle Travis, and others - gave him a taste for a wide range of music and seeded the variety of his future repertoire. By his early teens, he had developed into an agile fingerstylist of promise and had put out a limited edition album of folk ballads and blues.

Formal training came later, with his intensive study of harmony and analysis under Blanch Moyse at Marlboro College in Vermont and his private study with guitarist Julio Prol in New York City. It was on this foundation that John built his unusually broad repertoire, which balances classics with his fluently voiced arrangements of traditional and popular songs. Master classes under Oscar Ghiglia and Angel Romero and private instruction in Schenker analysis rounded out his musical education.

John's 1978 album Unsung Guitar showcased his popular arrangements, and his classical performances appeared on the 1986 compilations Guitar Masters Volumes I and II. On his 2002 CD Songs of the Guitar, John has interwoven classical pieces with his song arrangements for a program that recreates the experience of his concerts. John's arrangement of "Ashokan Farewell," the theme from Ken Burns's Civil War series, has been published by Mel Bay Publications.

John was a staff instructor at New York's American Institute of Guitar from 1982 until its closing in 2008, and he continues to teach privately. He has also written extensively on music and the guitar for The New York Times, Family Life, Acoustic Guitar, and several other magazines, and has provided liner notes for recordings including the 2002 Deutsche Grammophon Segovia Collection boxed set.

Sunday, July 1st: Alexandra Lambertson* - Oboe
Emerging oboist, Alexandra Lambertson Detyniecki, is active throughout the musical spectrum, from Baroque to contemporary music. Alexandra graduated with an Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music as a student of Stephen Taylor. She has earned a Master's in Music at the Juilliard School as a student of Elaine Douvas, Nathan Hughes, and Pedro Diaz and a Bachelor of Music at the Curtis Institute where she studied with Richard Woodhams. In past summers, she has travelled to Germany to participate in the Moritzburg Festival, to Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas, and has also attended music festivals at Colorado College, Aspen, and the Orford Arts Center. As a Baroque oboist, she was a participant in the Longy International Baroque Institute where she studied with Gonzalo Ruiz and in the Les Arts Florissants residency at Juilliard in the spring of 2009. She is also an avid English hornist and served as regular English hornist of the Haddonfield (NJ) Symphony for the 2006-07 season.

Sunday, July 8th: Wendy K. Lucas - Harp & Maryly Culpepper - Flute
Maryly Culpepper, flutist is currently principal flute of the Connecticut River Valley Orchestra. She received her Doctoral Degree from USC School of Music, a Masters of
Music from Yale and a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College. Her teachers have included
Julius Baker, Jim Walker and Tom Nyfenger. Flute & Harpist Picture

She is a former principal flute with the Portugal Philharmonic, and has played with the New World Symphony. Accepted to the Spoleto Festival, she won a scholarship to the Chigiana Music Academy in Italy. Ms. Culpepper was a finalist in the National General Motors Seventeen Magazine Concerto Competition and semi-finalist in the Pepsi Cola Competition. She is the principal flute of the Hat City Opera and an active freelancer. She maintains an extensive teaching schedule and performs with the Bridgeport Symphony and New Rochelle Opera.

Wendy K. Lucas, harpist, has appeared in concert throughout America, performed at the World Harp Congress in Seattle, and Paris, France, played for Queen Sirikit of Thailand, and for former First Lady Hillary Clinton. Ms. Lucas was presented in her New York Debut in Carnegie Recital Hall as a winner of the Artists International Chamber Music Competition. She also won the American Harp Society's Concert Artist Auditions and Silver Prize in the National Flute Assoc. Chamber Music Competition. Ms. Lucas is the principal harpist in The Bridgeport, Norwalk and Ridgefield Symphonies. She began the harp at seven and received her Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees at The Juilliard School. Her CD Sounds of the Seine with The Glorian Duo is on Delos, and has met with critical acclaim. She maintains an active teaching studio in New Canaan, CT.

Sunday, July 15th: Arthur Lipner
Arthur Lipner has emerged as one of the leading vibes and marimba voices in jazz today. His critically acclaimed recordings, concerts and clinics reveal a fresh energetic approach to contemporary mallets. Chuck Berg of JAZZTIMES called him "a virtuosic master of vibraphone, marimba, and steel drums..whether coaxing rich, rainforest sounds...or letting loose free-flowing arcs."

Sunday, July 22nd: Trevor Babb* - Classical Guitar
American guitarist, Trevor Babb, has performed and competed throughout the US and in 2011, won Second Prize in the Denver Classical Guitar Society Debut Competition. He has played in masterclasses for some of the world's most celebrated guitarists including
Paul O'Dette, Matteo Mela, Jakob Lindberg, Raphaella Smitts, and Scott Tennant.

Trevor Babb

He has performed both as a soloist and chamber musician with the New Music New Haven, Yale Guitar Chamber Music, Yale Recital Chorus and Orchestra, Ossia New Music, the Apeiron Ensemble, and on Rochester , NY public radio station, WXXI. In November 2010, Trevor performed on the Yale in New York concert series at Carnegie Hall.

Trevor actively composes and performs his own music and has given premier performances of pieces by William Gardiner, Justin Hoke and Eugene Astapov.

Trevor holds a BM in Performance from the Eastman School of Music and is currently studying at the Yale School of Music in pursuit of an MM. His principal teachers have been Nicholas Goluses and Benjamin Verdery. In Fall of 2012, Trevor will continue studies in Geneva , Switzerland with Dusan Bogdanovic with support from a Fulbright Award. Trevor will return to Yale in 2013 to complete Yale's MMA/DMA program.

Sunday, July 29th: Professional Flutist Joseph Trent
Flutist Joseph Trent, former associate principal of the Mexico City Philharmonic, has performed with numerous ensembles including the New York Chamber Ensemble, Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Virtuosi Woodwind Quintet, Greenwich Symphony, New Haven Symphony, North Eastern Philharmonic, Jupiter Symphony, Saint Ignatius Loyola, Tanglewood Fellowship Orchestra, Cape May Festival, Fairbanks Arts Festival in Alaska, the Eric Hawkins Dance Company, the Monadnock Music Festival, Downtown Music Productions, Madison Square Garden, several Broadway productions using a variety of ethnic bamboo flutes and the Radio City Orchestra.

He has collaborated on numerous occasions with members of St. Lukes, and Orpheus, and has performed in Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and Jordan Hall. Mr. Trent has given the American premieres of works by Isang Yun, Stephen Dodgson, Matthew Rosenblum, Pat Rasile, and Tor Brevik. Mr. Trent is currently pursing study of the 1 key baroque flute, having been accepted to the Royal College of Music, London, Historical Performance department.

Sunday, August 5th: Kaitlin Taylor* - Oboe
Oboist Kaitlin Taylor is passionate about inspiring audiences through creative performances of orchestral and chamber repertoire and igniting children’s imaginations through learning about music.

As an active orchestral musician, Kaitlin participated in the 2011 season of the National Repertory Orchestra and has performed with the New World Symphony and Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, collaborating with renowned conductors including Peter Oundjian, Oliver Knussen, Rossen Milanov, Sean Newhouse, and Carl Topilow. Previous orchestral summer engagements have been atthe Texas Music Festival, Chautauqua Institution, CCM Spoleto, and Sewanee Summer Music Festival. In 2010, Kaitlin made her Carnegie Hall debut performing Ginastera’s Variaciones Concertantes in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and has played principal parts in Mahler, Beethoven, and Brahms Symphonies with the Yale Philharmonia. Kaitlin has performed at the Music Center at Strathmore and toured in South Africa and Swaziland with the Yale Concert Band.

As a chamber musician, Kaitlin has participated in masterclasses at the Chamber Music Society at the Lincoln Center with Stephen Taylor and Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. Kaitlin performed with the Cincinnati Chamber Players at the 2010 Midwest Clinic. In addition to her experience as a performer, Kaitlin enjoys teaching and working with kids as a Teaching Artist in Yale’s Music In Schools Initiative and has taught privately for the past 6 years. Kaitlin is a candidate for the Master of Music at the Yale School of Music studying with Stephen Taylor. She holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music where she studied with Mark Ostoich and Dwight Parry. In her free time, Kaitlin loves to cook and bake and enjoys yoga, the outdoors, and hiking.

Sunday, August 12th: Alvin Wong and Friend - Cello and Violin Duo
Cellist Alvin Wong has appeared in concerts across five continents. Performances brought him to venues such as Carnegie Hall, Seoul Arts Center, and Hong Kong Cultural Center; and to music festivals such as Aspen, Orford, Fontfroide, Sion, Casals in Prades, and Great Mountains. Recent highlights include appearances in the Festival de Carvalho in Brazil, tour with Indiana University New Music Ensemble around the U.S., and chamber music concert series in Hong Kong. He has also given concert-lectures in Korea and the States.

A native of Hong Kong, Alvin started playing the piano when he was 3 but did not study the cello until he was 14. After winning some local competitions, he continued his cello studies at the Eastman School of Music while pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. He received his Masters from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he was also an Associate Instructor in Music Theory. He received the Artist Diploma from Yale, and is currently enrolled in their doctoral program. His major teachers are Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker.

Alvin is currently on faculty of Connecticut College and Neighborhood Music School, and is the principal cellist of Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra. He is passionate about bringing live classical music to a broader audience, and continues to regularly perform solo and chamber recitals in hospitals, elderly homes, and public schools, in both Hong Kong and the US. He has been a member of the New Haven Outreach Performers since 2007.

* Yale students

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