April 22, 2012
Sunday at 4:00 pm (pre-concert talk begins at 3:30)

Moran Katz, clarinet


PROGRAM
Moran Katz, clarinet
Amy J. Yang, Piano
with Linor Katz, cello

  Four Pieces, Op. 5 Alban Berg (1885-1935)
     
  Three Romances, Op. 22 Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
     
  "Wings" Joan Tower (b. 1938)
     
  Sonatina for klezmer clarinet and piano Paul Schoenfield (b. 1947)
     
 

Intermission
     
  Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

First Prize winner of the 2009 Freiburg International Clarinet Competition in Germany, clarinetist Moran Katz performs extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the China Philharmonic Orchestra, the SWR sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden and Freiburg, the Collegium Musicum Basel, the Albany Symphony, the Midland-Odessa Symphony and Chorale, the Haifa Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Sinfonietta and the Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble. Her performance credits include the United Nations Hall (Switzerland), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Belgium), France's "Les Musicales" Festival in Colmar, Les Invalides in Paris and Palais des Fetes in Strasburg, Roaring Hooves Festival in Mongolia, the Two Days and Two Nights Festival in the Ukraine, the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, New York's Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Joe's Pub, Miller Theater and Bargemusic, among others. She has collaborated with the Ariel, Carmel, Contemporary, Tesla, Benaim and Old City String Quartets, as well as with artists such as Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Vera Beths and Arnold Steinhardt.

Following her third summer as a resident artist at the Marlboro Music Festival (Vermont), Ms. Katz's 2011-2012 season includes a tour of the west coast, a tour of Israel, recitals for the Detroit Institute of Arts and for the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society, a NY debut recital at Merkin Concert Hall as part of the Tuesday Matinee Recital Series and a duo recital appearance at the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Phiharmonic. Concerti appearances include the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra and Ensemble ACJW under the baton of David Robertson at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall.

Ms. Katz's previous season included concerts at Canandaigua's Lake Music Festival, the Freer Gallery (Washington D.C.), University of Maryland in Baltimore, Lenox Athenaeum (MA), Dame Myra Hess Recital Series in Chicago, Steinway Hall, Paul Hall and Morse Hall (The Juilliard School), WNYC's Greene Space, Symphony Space, Le Poisson Rouge, American Irish Historical Society, Kosciuszko Foundation, Bedford Chamber Series, East Stroudsburg University, Drexel University, Cornell University, Baruch College, Dartmouth College and Skidmore College, as well as a nine-concert tour of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet in her native Israel.

In January 2010, following an invitation of Maestro Daniel Barenboim, she joined his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra on its concert in Doha, Qatar. Later that month, as a SYLFF fellow (and recipient of a scholarship from the Tokyo Foundation), she collaborated with musicians from the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris .

Active in the contemporary music scene, Ms. Katz has soloed with the New Juilliard Ensemble, as part of the FOCUS! 2005 and 2006 Festivals. In summer 2007, she appeared on the MoMA Summergarden Series in solo recital. She often collaborates with the internationally acclaimed new music ensemble "Continuum" and with the jazz ensemble of pianist Uri Caine. She is also a founding member of "Shuffle Concert", a newly formed audience-interactive ensemble.

In the recording arena, Ms. Katz can be heard on tracks of three CDs: she performs Richard Wilson's Timeshare with cellist Sophie Shao for Albany Records' "Brash Attacks" (all Richard Wilson CD), music by Andy Laster for the Tzadik label and music by Roberto Sierra and Ursula Mamlok for the Naxos label (both to be released in 2011).

In addition to First Prize in the 2009 Freiburg International Clarinet Competition, Ms. Katz is the winner of numerous prizes and awards, including: 2010 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, Second Prize at the 2009 Beijing International Music Competition for Clarinet; First Prize and Overall Prize at the 2009 Midland/Odessa National Young Artist Competition (Texas); Third Prize at the 2008 Eastern Connecticut Symphony Instrumental Competition; 2006 Francois Schapira Prize for Woodwinds at the prestigious Aviv Competitions (Israel); First Prize at the 2004 Lions Clarinet Competition (Israel) and Second Prize in the Lions European Musical Prize 2004 for Clarinet (Italy), among others. She was also the recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation grants with distinction in the years 1999-2008.

Ms. Katz received her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in 2006 and 2008 and an Artist Diploma in 2010 as a student of Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima at The Juilliard School, New York, where she was admitted with presidential distinction and a full scholarship.

Starting in the fall of 2010, Ms. Katz is a member of Ensemble ACJW and a fellow of The Academy, a collaboration of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the NYC Department of Education, performing chamber music at Carnegie Hall and bringing classical music to students in the NYC public schools.

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