Uli Speth, violin 

German violinist Uli Speth, concertmaster of the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra since 2005, has performed extensively with New York City Opera, American Symphony Orchestra, and the Florida Orchestra. He also serves as concertmaster for The Chappaqua Orchestra and Fenimore Chamber Orchestra and has performed under the direction of distinguished conductors James Levine, Kurt Masur, Gerard Schwarz, JoAnn Falletta, Marin Alsop, among others. 

As a chamber musician, Uli has played concerts throughout the U.S., has commissioned and premiered new pieces for string quartet, and has performed live on Vermont Public Radio and KMFA of Texas. He has recorded for Public Radio of Austria and Italy (ORF and RAI). Mr. Speth has also enjoyed the opportunity of performing to critical acclaim with members of the Hagen, Emerson, Cavaliere, and Ying Quartets and members of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. 

Since 2006, Uli has served on the faculty of Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, NC, teaching alongside great musicians from all over the US and performing with outstanding soloists such as Midori, Joshua Bell, Andre Watts, and Lynn Harrell, among others. He is on faculty at Hartwick College and The College of New Jersey and is music director of the Little Delaware Youth Ensemble.

 

Tomoko Kanamaru, piano 

Since her U.S solo debut with the Savannah Symphony in 2000, Tomoko Kanamaru has been the featured soloist for National Repertory Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, and the Symphony of Southeast Texas. Most recently, she performed Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Ambler Symphony, Chorale Fantasy with Symphony in C and Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, and de Falla’s Noches en los jardines de España with the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra in Durango, Colorado. She was a guest artist for the New York Philharmonic Ensembles Series, Red Rocks Music Festival (Arizona), and New York Chamber Music Festival, for which her performance was described as “focused” and “energetic” by Allan Kozinn in the New York Times. She has recorded CDs for Nippon Columbia, MSR Classics, Mark Records, and Urlicht AudioVisual. While maintaining an active performance schedule, Kanamaru has devoted herself to teaching piano and collaborative arts and is a sought-after lecturer, guest speaker, adjudicator, and master class instructor. Her workshop at the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy in Chicago was featured in The Washington Post and the BBC’s The World Today. Having received an Advanced Certificate from The Juilliard School and DMA from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, she currently serves as Associate Professor for The College of New Jersey.

 

Program

Sonata in E-flat Major, Op. 12, No. 3 — Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
     I. Allegro con spirito 
     II. Adagio con molta espressione 
     III. Rondo: Allegro molto                          

Sonata No. 2, Op. 63, “September 11” (2001) — Lera Auerbach (b. 1973)
             
L’Alouette (The Lark) — Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857) transc. Leopold Auer      

Solvejgs Lied — Edvard Grieg (1843-1907) transc. Émile Sauret         

Souvenir d’un lieu cher, Op. 42 — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
     Mélodie 
     Scherzo 

The Second Waltz — Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) transc. Diego Marani                        

“Somewhere” from West Side Story — Leonard Bernstein (1918-1900) transc. Raimundo Penaforte             

Porgy and Bess — George Gershwin (1898-1937) transc. Jascha Heifetz
     Summertime/A Woman is a Sometime Thing 
     It ain’t Necessarily So

The Season Preview Recital and Fundraiser will held be on Sunday, September 11, 2022 at 3pm at the Phelps Mansion Museum. Come join us as we celebrate a new season of symphonic music in Binghamton! 

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