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| Zuill Bailey & Lara Downes |
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Featured Artist:
Lara Downes
Zuill Bailey |
Trained both in her native California and abroad (Paris Conservatoire; Vienna Hochschule), Lara has performed on the world’s most prestigious stages, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Vienna Konzerthaus and the Salle Gaveau. Artist in Residence since 2004 at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis, Lara also serves as director of UC Davis' ArtsBridge, a university/K-12 arts education partnership. She is the founder and artistic director of the Mondavi Center Young Artists Competition. The young mother of two small children, Lara is strongly committed to introducing classical music to students, presenting a full range of outreach activities ranging from advanced master classes to introductory K-12 programs in conjunction with her concert appearances. Lara is the founder and president of the 88 KEYS Foundation, fostering music education opportunities in America’s classrooms by providing pianos to K-12 public schools.
Lara’s luminous release Dream of Me (Tritone), her fourth solo recording, features distinctive, timeless music by some of the best New American Romantics: daydreams and night visions; the journeys you take and can’t remember in the morning. All of Lara’s recordings have met with tremendous critical and popular acclaim - her debut CD, Invitation to the Dance (Arkadia/Postcard, 2000) was called “a magical little recording” by National Public Radio. It is live in concert that Lara’s "unique blend of musicianship and showmanship" (NPR) can be best appreciated. Equally passionate about playing works by young, emerging composers as well as finding new ways to explore, understand and interpret the best-loved traditional repertoire, Lara presents her audiences with things that are totally new and takes them on thrilling voyages into territory they thought they already knew.
Lara currently lives in California with her family. Her all-too-limited free time is spent baking with her kids, fighting her addiction to vintage clothing, practicing Bikram Yoga, and watching 30 Rock.
ZUILL BAILEY
Cellist
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A multi-faceted musician of consummate virtuosity, Zuill Bailey has established himself as one of the most sought-after and active cellists today.
In the 2007/08 season Mr. Bailey performs with the Long Island and Buffalo Philharmonics, the Canton, Edmonton, Honolulu, Puerto Rico and Virginia Symphony orchestras, and regional orchestras in California, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Texas. Mr. Bailey also performs recitals throughout the country, with notable appearances at the National Gallery, the La Jolla Music Society in California and the complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with pianist and frequent recital partner, Simone Dinnerstein. As the Classical Recording Foundation’s 2006/07 winners, their recording of the complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas Vol. 1 was released last season to sweeping critical and commercial acclaim. Volume 2 is slated to be released later this season.
In recent years, Zuill Bailey presented concerts at the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd St. Y., and Carnegie Hall. As a concerto soloist, Mr. Bailey has performed with the Chicago, Milwaukee, Toronto, Ft. Worth, Dallas, Utah, Louisville, Phoenix, North Carolina, Santa Barbara, and San Francisco Symphony orchestras. He has played concerts abroad in Australia, China, Mexico, Israel and Jordan; at the Manchester International Cello Festival; and toured Russia with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra on their 50th Anniverary Celebration. Mr. Bailey made his Carnegie Hall debut with the U.S. premiere of Miklos Theodorakis’ Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra.
An avid chamber musician, Zuill Bailey performs regularly with the Perlman/Schmidt/Bailey trio (pianist Navah Perlman and violinist Giora Schmidt), with pianist Awadagin Pratt, and has appeared in concert with renowned musicians including Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell, the Juilliard String Quartet, and Janos Starker. Recent festival appearances include returns to the Santa Fe, Savannah and Montreal Chamber Music festivals, the Bard Music Festival, Maverick Concerts, and performances at the Ravinia, Vail Valley, Chautauqua and Wintergreen festivals.
Mr. Bailey’s television appearances include a nationally broadcast recital for NHK-TV in Japan; a performance of the Beethoven Triple Concerto broadcast live nationally from Mexico City; a televised appearance in Havana with the National Orchestra of Cuba in which he gave the Cuban premiere of Victor Herbert’s Cello Concerto No. 2; featured appearances on HBO’s hit series Oz; and an extended interview/recital on A&E’s Breakfast with the Arts. Among Mr. Bailey’s appearances on radio are his performances on Saint Paul Sunday Morning; XM Satellite Radio’s Live from Studio II; SIRIUS Satellite Radio; a recital for RTHK Radio Hong Kong; and the BBC’s In Tune program.
In addition to the complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas, Zuill Bailey’s recordings include an upcoming disc of the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations and Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1; a live recording of the Saint-Saëns Concertos Nos. 1 and 2, (DE 3378); 2003’s eponymous debut recital disk for Delos (DE 3326); the Korngold Cello Concerto with Caspar Richter and the Bruckner Orchester Linz for ASV (DCA 1146); and 2004’s Janos Starker Celebration, a musical tribute to the legendary cellist, featuring Bailey and Starker in the Cello Quintets of Boccherini and Schubert.
Zuill Bailey
A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory and The Juilliard School, Mr. Bailey’s principal teachers were Loran Stephenson, Stephen Kates and Joel Krosnick. He performs on a 1693 Matteo Goffriller cello, formerly owned by Mischa Schneider of the Budapest Quartet. In addition to his extensive touring engagements, Mr. Bailey serves as Professor of Cello at the University of Texas-El Paso, and as the Artistic Director of El Paso Pro-Musica.
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