Guest artist: Jamie Clark, cello 2/26/25

Jamie Clark, cello

Julia Yang, cello

Program

Sonata in G major for Two Cellos

Jean-Baptiste Barrière (1707–1747)

I. Andante
 

Lied ohne Worte, Op. 109

("Song without Words")

Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)
arr. Julia Yang

Jamie Clark, cello
Julia Yang, cello

Seven Tunes Heard in China

Bright Sheng (b. 1955)

I.     Seasons
III.   Little Cabbage
V.    Diu Diu Dong
VII. Tibetan Dance

SEVEN

Andrea Casarrubios (b. 1988)

Bunraku

Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929–1997)

Suite for Solo Cello

Gaspar Cassadó (1897-1966)

I.    Preludio-Fantasia
III.  Intermezzo e Danza Finale

Jamie Clark, cello

Guest Artist

Cellist Jamie Clark of Boulder, Colorado has been praised for her sensitive, imaginative and colorful sense of artistry. She has concertized throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia as a recitalist and  chamber musician. She has performed solo and chamber music recitals in venues such as Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Boston's Jordan Hall, Eastman's Kodak Hall, New York City's American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

Both an enthusiastic chamber musician and entrepreneur of collaborative outreach programs, Clark is a co-founder and artistic director of the Flatirons Chamber Music Festival, a non-profit organization based in Colorado. The festival strives to cross cultural, geographic and temporal divides between performers, composers and audience members, inspiring dynamic interaction within the entire Festival community.

Her commitment to community engagement has led to collaborations with the Music For Food initiative in Orlando, Deland, Boston, Denver and Boulder. She also has served as a core artist for Open Scene, a vibrant Orlando-based non-profit organization led by professional Latina women, championing multiculturalism and inclusion through artistic and humanistic programs. She is a founding member of the Parrish Cello Trio and Persimmon Ensemble, and regularly performs with EnsembleNewSRQ and the Sarasota Orchestra.

A passionate advocate for interdisciplinary collaboration between performer and scholar worlds, Jamie has written a series of scholarly papers including The Art of Rehearsing: A Multidimensional Study in Rehearsing String Quartets and Schoenberg Quartet No. 2: Between the Twilight of Tonality and the Dawn of Early Expressionism.

An engaged collaborative partner with contemporary composers, Jamie received a Stetson University Summer Grant to fund “Hear Her Voice” in 2021. “Hear Her Voice” features seven solo cello commissions by outstanding female composers. Each piece offers a distinct perspective of isolation experienced in the context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Jamie serves on the faculty of University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa, Western Illinois University, and Chicago Youth Symphony.She previously served for five years at Stetson University as Assistant Professor of Cello and Coordinator of Chamber Music. She received her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree and Master of Music Degree from the New England Conservatory with instructors Laurence Lesser and Paul Katz. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music with David Ying.

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