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Repertoire:
Haydn:
Symphony No. 93 in D Major
Debussy: Danses sacrées
et profanes
Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 in E Minor, op. 64
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 From the
pen of Maestro Amado:
Tchaikovsky’s
masterful Fifth Symphony closes our season. A work of vast emotional
breadth, gorgeous tunes and rhythmic complexity inspired directly by
Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth stands as an
archetype of 19th C. Romanticism. Filled in turn with dramatic sweep,
poignant intimacy, and hyper-grandeur, it is a consistent favorite with
audiences and musicians alike. The first half features our own Sarah
Fuller playing Debussy’s gossamer Danses sacrée et profane for harp and
strings. The concert opens with Haydn’s Symphony No. 93, filled in
equal measure with refined Classical beauty and hilarious powdered-wig
humor. |
 Sarah
Fuller
joined the Delaware Symphony as principal harpist in 2006 and has also
been performing the duties of principal harp with the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra since 2007. In a Baltimore Sun review of the
Baltimore Symphony, classical music critic Tim Smith claimed that “…the
refined harp playing by [Ms.] Fuller stood out” and he hailed her performance as an
“impressive flash” in the orchestral texture.
Ms.
Fuller began her studies on the harp at the age of eight at the
Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, PA. She then went on to study
at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan with Joan Raeburn Holland for
her high school career. Ms. Fuller holds a master’s degree in music
from Indiana University and studied at the New England Conservatory and
the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Glenn Gould School for her bachelor’s
degree. Her teachers have included Judy Loman of the Toronto Symphony,
Anne Hobson Pilot of the Boston Symphony, Nancy Allen of the New York
Philharmonic, Alice Chalifoux of the Cleveland Orchestra, and
distinguished professor at Indiana University, Susann McDonald.
 Outside
of the orchestra, Ms. Fuller enjoys collaborating with other musicians
in a chamber music setting. She is a member of Trio Cloisonnè (along
with the Baltimore Symphony’s Marcia Kämper, flute, and Karin Brown,
viola) and has performed with them on series such as the Chamber Music
by Candlelight in Baltimore, the Baltimore Symphony’s chamber music
series in Frederick, MD and in the future, the Music in the Great Hall
series in Baltimore, Music in the Mansion at Strathmore Arts Center,
and the University of Maryland’s concert series at the Clarice Smith
Performing Arts Center in College Park, MD. She is also a member of the
Dolce Suono Ensemble, a chamber group based in Philadelphia led by
renowned flutist Mimi Stillman and including members of the
Philadelphia Orchestra. In addition, she often performs with the
notable Philadelphia contemporary ensemble, Network for New Music, and
has recently been featured on a recording of the works of Bernard Rands
with members of the group. In January, 2009, Ms. Fuller was the
featured solo artist for an evening of harp chamber music on the
Delaware Symphony’s Champagne Chamber Music Series which was broadcast
on Philadelphia’s NPR station WHYY.
Ms. Fuller has recently
been appointed the professor of Harp studies at the University of
Maryland’s School of Music in College Park and maintains private
teaching studios in both Philadelphia and Baltimore. She is a former
faculty member of the Settlement Music School in Philadelphia was also
the assistant director from 2006-2009 for the Saratoga Harp Colony,
founded by the Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal harpist, Elizabeth
Hainen. In the summers she is on the faculty of the National Orchestra
Institute in College Park, MD. |
| Other
concerts in the Classical Series |
New
World
January
2013 |
Beethoven's
World
March
2013 |
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