NEW MUSIC SOCIETY Concert to feature Pittsburgh Symphony musicians

The performance will include the premiere of 'Solo Sonata.'
YOUNGSTOWN -- A group of Pittsburgh Symphony musicians will be guest artists at the New Music Society Annual Winter Concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday in a performance of Sergei Prokofiev's "Quintet, Op. 39." It will be in Bliss Recital Hall, Wick Avenue, on the Youngstown State University campus.
Originally a ballet premiered in Gotha, Germany, in 1925, another version became the "Quintet" and was premiered in Moscow in 1927.
The Pittsburgh Symphony performers will be Laura Motchalov, violin; Randolph Kelly, principal viola; Micah Howard, bass; and Jack Howell, clarinet. Scott Bell, oboist with the Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra, will also perform.
A discussion of the "Quintet" will be presented by Jason Clark, a YSU graduate student, in Room 3026 of Bliss Hall on Wednesday at 3 p.m. Clark is analyzing the first movement for his master's thesis.
Also included
The Wednesday evening program will also include the premiere of Jason Evick's "Solo Sonata" for flute by YSU graduate student Eduardo Mandujano-Aguilar of Mexico. Evick is a graduate composition major. There will also be a premiere of sophomore Ryan Coffey's "Sonatina in Two Movements" by Allison Collins, flute, and Kevin Perry, clarinet. Coffey is from Columbus. Graduate students Jamie Lewis and Sina Song Yoon will give the premiere of N. Brian Rosen's two piano duets. Rosen is a graduate composition student.
Jason Evick will perform two works for solo guitar: "All in Twilight," first movement by Toru Takemitsu, and "Koymbaba," first and second movements by Carlo Domniconi. Lori Flowers, a senior from Hermitage, Pa., will play Igor Stravinsky's "Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo," one of the major 20th century works for clarinet solo. Graduate student Pamela Murchison will present "Sequenza for Solo Flute" by Italian composer Luciano Berio.
Dana Faculty Gwyneth and Robert Rollin will perform "Passover Songs" for violin and piano.
Two other New Music Concerts will take place this week: a Wednesday noon-hour concert in the Butler Institute of American Art; and a Friday convocation in Bliss Recital Hall at 11 a.m. All events are free and open to the public.