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SCREE
Contemporary
Works for Flute & Piano
AMIROV,
DEBUSSY, MARTIN,
MOWER & ZYMAN
ELENA YARRITU flute
Gabriel
Sanchez piano
SOLO DEBUT RECORDING
$14.95 ~ MS1277
"One
hears many flute recitals these days, but it is seldom that one gets to
experience the kind of consistent polish, excitement, invention and sheer joy…
a superior player…an exquisitely fine tone…singing with a most elegant,
expressive quality…"
The New York
Concert Review
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Elena
Yarritu
has been a guest artist at the National Flute Association
Convention, and the Texas Flute Society's Annual Flute Festival in 2007 as
winner for the 2006 Myrna Brown Competition. Highlights of Ms. Yarritu's career
include a 2003 New York premier of Mike Mower's Sonata No. 3 at Carnegie Hall's
Weill Recital Hall sponsored by Artists International Presentations and a Merkin
Hall debut in 2006 with the Alma Ensemble presenting Samuel Zyman's Sonata for
flute and piano. Ms. Yarritu has also performed as a solo recitalist and chamber
musician in Europe including France, Scandinavia, The Netherlands and places as
far away as Estonia and Moldova. In 2002, Ms. Yarritu was the
featured soloist with the National Philharmonic of Moldova in a performance of
Mozart's Flute Concerto in D. Ms. Yarritu is also a regular guest lecturer and
performer at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Years of
devotion educating young musicians has culminated in an annual summer master
class for advanced high school and college level students in Saratoga,
California. Ms. Yarritu has earned degrees from San Jose State University, Yale
University and Stony Brook University. Her former mentors include Jill Felber,
Isabelle Chapuis-Starr, Ransom Wilson, Alain Marion and Bart Feller. Elena
Yarritu is currently a freelance flutist, teaching and performing in San Diego,
California.
www.elenayarritu.com
Elena
Yarritu plays a Sankyo 14K flute
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Gabriel Sanchez was a top
prize winner in the 1997 Casablanca International Piano Competition in Morocco
and is a laureate of other international competitions, including the Marguerite
Long in Paris, Gina Bachauer in Salt Lake City, and Paloma O' Shea in Santander
(Spain). He has performed throughout the United States in recital and with
orchestra, including performances at Pianofest in the Hamptons (New York), with
the Dallas Symphony under Kerry-Lynn Wilson and the Irving Symphony under Hector
Guzman. In London, he performed at the Royal Academy of Music, in Paris at the
Salle Gaveau, in Santander at the Palacio de Festivales, in Casablanca, Morocco
at the Salle de l'Office des Changes, and in the Dominican Republic with the
Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional. In Thessaloniki, Greece, he performed a solo
recital to benefit Lions Club International. He studied at the Royal Academy of
Music under a full scholarship and continued his studies at the University of
North Texas under his teacher and mentor, Vladimir Viardo. Mr. Sanchez is also a
dedicated educator, having taught piano, music history, and music theory at the
celebrated Booker T. Washington High School for the Arts in Dallas from
1996-2003. He continues to teach piano privately in Dallas and is in high demand
as an accompanist. He has collaborated with such artists as Jacques Zoon, Alexa
Still, Marco Granados, Thomas Robertello, Rolf Smedvig, Ian Clarke and most
recently has completed a recording of French music for flute and piano, "Rêver
En Couleur" with flutist Lisa
Garner Santa on MSR Classics [MS1213].
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SAMUEL ZYMAN (b. 1956)
Sonata for flute and piano
I. Allegro assai
II. Lento e molto espressivo
III. Presto
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Claire de lune (arr. Marcel Moyse)
FIKRET AMIROV (1922-1984)
Six Pieces for flute and piano
I. Song of the Aushug
II. Lullaby
III. Dance
IV. In the Azerbaijan Mountains
V. At the Spring
VI. Nocturne
FRANK MARTIN (1890-1974)
Ballade
MIKE MOWER (b.1958)
Sonata No.3
I. Moraine
II. Escarpment
III. Plateau
IV. Scree
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