JAVS Fall 2011

Lawrence Power (with Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano) In Concert : Works by Ligeti, Takemitsu, Roslavets, Prokofiev harmonia Mundi 911756 (2001) Includes: Introduction, The Young Juliet [ Juliet as a Young Girl ], Dance of the Knights , [ Parting Scene and ] Death of Juliet, Mercutio yizhak Schotten (with Katherine Collier, piano) The Recorded Viola, Volume 4 Pearl 0039 (1998) Includes: Introduction, The Young Juliet [ Juliet as a Young Girl ], Dance of the Knights, Balcony Scene, Mercutio (edited and shortened by the performers) Born in Wales and currently residing in London, UK, Matthew Jones is widely acknowledged as one of the leading violists and pedagogues of his generation. Equally at home as soloist or chamber musician performing classi cal or contemporary repertoire, improvising or collaborat ing with other art forms, he has recorded ten solo and

chamber CDs and is Senior Tutor of String Chamber Music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and viola professor at Trinity College of Music, London. Matthew is also a composer, mathematics graduate, and teacher of the Alexander Technique and Kundalini Yoga, presenting regular workshops on empowering musi cians—his clients have included world-renowned con ductors and soloists; world champion athletes; and orches tras, including the New World Symphony, Melbourne Symphony, and the European Union Youth Orchestra. Notes 1 Sergei Prokofiev, “Autobiography: The years Abroad and After My Return home,” in Sergei Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences, by S. Shlifstein, tran. Rose Prokofieva (honolulu, hI: university Press of the Pacific, 2000), 86. 3 Stanislav Ponyatovsky, Liner Notes to Vadim Borisovsky , Vista Vera, VVCD-00076, 2005, com pact disc. 4 Wendy Lesser, Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets (New haven, CT: yale university Press, 2011), 236. 5 Sergei Prokofiev, “Music and Life,” Moscow News 1951, quoted in Richard Taruskin, On Russian Music (Berkeley, CA: university of California Press, 2009), 286. 2 Ibid.

Kathy Steely

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