Ashley Sandor Sidon, cello
Daniel Chow, piano
"Pianist Daniel Chow is one of the most unique talents of his generation, delighting audiences across the United States, Europe and China. uo Concertante play exceptionally well together...The unifying element here is not so much the attractive repertoire as the exceptional warmth and intimacy of its presentation."
"Cellist Ashley Sandor Sidon has performed under artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Christopher Wilkins. She has won several concerto competitions, including First Prize in the Colorado College Festival Competition and Silver Medal in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition."
Thursday, April, 1 2010 at 8 PM ~ Academy Hall
[Program]
Admission $15 -
STUDENTS: 18 & under free with student ticket voucher (excluding Carols by Candlelight)
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Ashley Sandor Sidon is Assistant Professor of Cello at Drake University. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Sidon was Cello Teacher/Chamber Music Coach and Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Music at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music in Shanghai, China. While teaching in Shanghai, she toured Southeast Asia to present recitals and master classes at provincial cultural centers, music schools and other concert venues. Previously Instructor of Cello and Director of Chamber Music at Earlham College in Indiana (USA), Dr. Sidon is a former associate member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra. She holds the degree, Doctorate of Musical Arts in Violoncello, from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, where her principal teacher was internationally acclaimed cellist, Yehuda Hanani.
Dr. Sidon has been an invited performer and clinician nationally (US) and internationally, including invited performances at several of the provincial conservatories of Music in China, Hong Kong and Singapore, the Taipei (Taiwan) String Festival at Taipei American School, College Music Society Southeast Convention, the Music Educator's National Conference (MENC) Southeast Convention (2003) and the MENC National Conference (2004). She has performed at college campuses such as the Crane School of Music, Miami University, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Minnesota and has continuing commitments to other campuses in the US. As a member of the Emery Trio, she has performed and taught master classes in Atlanta, Cincinnati, at the governors honors programs for Georgia and Kentucky, and at colleges across the Midwestern and Southeastern US, as well as appearing on radio broadcasts of live concerts. Dr. Sidon is a proponent of contemporary music and has premiered compositions by composers Matthew Quayle, William Dougherty, Philip Koplow, and Roger Vogel. Her CD, Concert Gems for Violoncello, has been enthusiastically received by audiences and music reviews.
Ashley Sandor Sidon has performed under artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Christopher Wilkins. She has won several concerto competitions, including First Prize in the Colorado College Festival Competition and Silver Medal in the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Concerto Competition. Dr. Sidon has performed in master classes for Bernard Greenhouse, Desmond Hoebig, Michael Strauss, Richard Aaron, Sandra Rivers, Peter Ouindjin, James Tocco, and the Tokyo String Quartet. Her research document titled "Lineage and Comparison of Versions of Igor Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne" was published by the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts (2004). During the summer, she is on the artist-faculty of the New England Music Camp (ME). Sidon performs on a 1789 Antonio Gagliano cello and 1801 John Dodd bow.
Pianist Daniel Chow is one of the most unique talents of his generation, delighting
audiences across the United States, Europe and China. He made his solo debut with the UBC Symphony Orchestra in 2001 performing Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Piano Concerto at the Chan Center in Vancouver. Daniel was also featured and broadcast on CBC’s Westcoast Performance in 2005.
An advocate of chamber music, Daniel has collaborated with EMI Classics artist Sarah Chang, Naxos artist Howard Zhang and Song artist Denis Djokic and has been featured on NPR broadcast in a chamber recital with cellist Ashley Sidon. While studying at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Daniel learned and performed virtually the entire chamber music repertoire for all orchestral instruments and piano.
Awards received include a Gold Medal from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, multiple BC Arts Council Grants, Vancouver Foundation Grants and prizes from the Canadian Music Competition and the BC Festival of the Arts.
Academic achievements include a Bachelor of Music from the University of British Columbia, a Master of Music and Artist Diploma from the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a Diploma of Technology (Advanced Accounting) from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Daniel now works for Manning Elliott LLP, a mid-size accounting firm in Vancouver as an articling CA student, servicing private companies and not for profit organizations with the intention of becoming a Chartered Accountant in June 2011. Interests and hobbies include hiking, lifting weights at the gym and extreme sports such as snowboarding on the local Vancouver slopes.
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