March 31 & April 1, 2011
Thursday-7:30pm | War Memorial Auditorium
Friday-8:00pm | Dana Auditorium
Towers of London
Featuring Three Generations of Sitkovetskys!
Bella Davidovich, piano
Julia Sitkovetsky, soprano
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor and violin
Stuart Malina, guest conductor
Haydn
Symphony No.102 London Symphony
Mozart
Aria “L’Amero” from Il Re' Pastore
Julia Sitkovetsky, soprano, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Vivaldi
Motet: Nulla in Mundo
Julia Sitkovetsky, soprano, Stuart Malina, harpsichord
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, conductor
Intermission
Handel 
Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Haydn
Concerto for piano & violin F major –
Bella Davidovich, piano, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
The Distinguished Guest Artist Piano Chair in Honor of Linda M. Jones
March 31 co-sponsors April 1 sponsor
Stuart Malina is Music Director and Conductor of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Malina’s other appointments have included Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra from 1996 to 2003 and Associate Conductor of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. He has guest-conducted the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Easter Music Festival, Nashville Symphony Pops, Opera Delaware, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Kansas City Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Opera Delaware and Greensboro Opera.
Mr. Malina helped create “Movin’ Out” with director and choreographer Twyla Tharp, for which he won a Tony Award for Orchestration with Billy Joel in June 2003. He has also served as Associate Conductor of the national touring company of West Side Story and as conductor of an international tour of Porgy and Bess. In 1995, Mr. Malina made his acting debut, sharing the stage with Broadway legends Zoe Caldwell and Audra McDonald in Terrence McNally’s Tony Award–winning drama Master Class for its run at the Kennedy Center. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in February 2007, conducting The New York Pops in an all-Gershwin tribute including Rhapsody in Blue, conducting from the keyboard.
A testimonial to Bella Davidovich’s extraordinary career is the list of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors that have welcomed her over the years as soloist. Among the many prestigious concerts she has played were numerous return engagements with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra .
International recital stages have welcomed Mme. Davidovich’s solo concerts, and she has collaborated with the Borodin, Guarneri and Tokyo String Quartets. Bella is a frequent guest artist at music festivals around the globe and has been presented repeatedly in Belgium, England, Germany, Holland, Iceland, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Brazil and Japan. She has served on the juries of the Queen Elisabeth and Chopin International Piano Competitions.
In December, 1988, Bella Davidovich’s native Russia reclaimed her in the spirit of perestroika: She became the first Soviet émigré musician to receive an official invitation from Goskoncert to return for sold-out concerts.
Born into a family of musicians in Baku in the former Soviet Union, Bella Davidovich displayed rich musical talent by the age of three and began formal training at the age of six. She was 18 years old when she entered the Moscow Conservatory. As winner of the Chopin Competition in Warsaw, she earned the title “Deserving Artist of the Soviet Union” and emerged as one of the Soviet Union’s preeminent artists and one of the few women admitted to the inner circle of Russian cultural life, in part as a professor of the Moscow Conservatory. She immigrated to the United States in 1978 and her October, 1979 Carnegie Hall debut before a standing room only audience heralded a new chapter in a career of major importance.
Bella Davidovich recordings can be heard on the Philips, Orfeo, Novalis, Delos, Gutingi, and Supraphon labels. Her son is Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony.
Julia Sitkovetsky is a second year music student at The Queen's College, Oxford. She has won vocal competitions such as the English Song Prize and Young Singer of the Year at Richmond Music Festival in 2007, and the Music Scholarship at her previous school St Paul's Girls' School.
Miss Sitkovetsky's opera experience before Oxford includes understudying the part of
'Flora' in Britten's 'The Turn of the Screw' at Glyndebourne and English National Opera. Operatic roles at Oxford include: 'Damon' in 'Acis and Galatea', 'Mrs Gobineau' in New Chamber Opera's production of 'The Medium' and 'Miss Jessel' in Oxford Opera's production of 'The Turn of the Screw'. She has also taken part in many recitals at Oxford, as well as performing professional concerts at the Newport Music Festival in 2010 and with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra in March 2011.
Upcoming roles/engagements include Galatea in New Chamber Opera's production of 'Acis and Galatea' and understudying the role of Betty in New Chamber Opera's professional summer production of Salieri's 'Falstaff'. She currently studies with Susan McCulloch at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Preludes
Learn more about the evening’s music with Dr. Gregory Carroll, Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Prelude on Thursday, March 31 begins at 6:45 p.m. on the Mezzanine level of the War Memorial Auditorium. The Prelude on Friday, April 1 begins at 7:00 p.m. in the Moon Room at Dana Auditorium.
Meet the Artists
Join us after the Thursday evening concert for a brief question and answer session held at the front of the stage with our guest artists and Dima.
Radio Broadcast
WFDD will broadcast this
concert on Sunday, May1 at 8:00 p.m.
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
