Duo Piano Recital with 
Michael Seth Orland

Program

Christum wir sollen loben schon, BWV 611 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)                                                                        

Transcription by Gyorgy Kurtag (b. 1926)

 Hommage a J.S.B. (Jatekok Vol III) Gyorgy Kurtag

…humble regard sur Olivier Messiaen (Jatekok Vol VI)                                     

Hommage a Stockhausen (Jatekok Vol III)

Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier, BWV 633 J.S.Bach – G. Kurtag

En Blanc et Noir (1915) Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)

I. Avec emportement

II. Lent. Sombre

III. Scherzando

Brief pause

Two Pianos (1957) Morton Feldman (1926 – 1987) 

Four Movements for Two Pianos (2008) Philip Glass (b. 1937)

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II.

III.

IV.

Artist Biographies

JACQUELINE CHEW holds degrees from SUNY – Binghamton and San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Her piano teachers include Leonard Shure, Walter Ponce, Paul Hersh, Claire James and Ruth Tibbey. In Europe she coached with Yvonne Loriod – Messiaen and Roger Muraro on Olivier Messiaen’s piano cycle, Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant – Jesus.

For ten years, Jacqueline performed, recorded and toured with The Women’s Philharmonic. Conducted by JoAnn Falletta, this unique orchestra, based in San Francisco from 1981 – 2004, brought to life neglected works of women composers from the past and commissioned new works from contemporary women.

Among her recordings are Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jesus (Olivier Messiaen) and Sweet Irrational Worship: The Niles-Merton Songs (poetry of Thomas Merton set to music by John Jacob Niles). 

Solo and collaborative performances have taken her throughout North America and to Italy, Brazil and Poland. She and Michael Orland will next perform on September 16th at Hertz Hall, UC Berkeley. 

Jacqueline Chew currently teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Continuing Education, University of California – Berkeley and San Francisco Community Music Center.

MICHAEL SETH ORLAND appears often in the Bay Area in performances of chamber music, and has performed with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, the Empyrean Ensemble, Earplay, and Other Minds; in bygone days, he played with New Music Theater (Zakros Productions) and in the San Francisco Symphony’s New and Unusual Music series.

Further from home, Michael has played in the Gund Series at Kenyon College in Ohio and in new-music festivals at Cal Arts (LA) and in Buffalo, N.Y. He performed duo-piano music at April in Santa Cruz and the Mendocino Music Festival, and can be heard on recordings of contemporary music released by Centaur, Albany, and others. He has performed for composers such as John Cage, Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski, Alvin Curren, and Morton Subotnick, and has played chamber works with members of some of the leading orchestras and ensembles in the country.

Michael studied piano with Margaret Kohn in Claremont, CA, and is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Music Department, where he studied harpsichord with Davitt Moroney and Laurette Goldberg, and composition with Gérard Grisey. He later continued studying composition and analysis with David Sheinfeld, and studied voice with Lillian Loran.

In addition to appearances as a freelance symphony musician, Orland has performed many times with professional and student vocalists, as well as in vocal master classes by Frederica von Stade and Sanford Sylvan. He teaches at the UC campuses in Berkeley and Davis.