COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

School of Music

Senior Music Education Recital

Samantha G. Charriez
Accompanied by:
Sophia Kim Cook

November 20, 2016

7:00 PM
Harris Theatre

Samantha Charriez is a student of

Dr. Lorrie Berkshire Brown

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 -SPECIAL THANKS-
I would first like to thank all of you for attending my recital,
supporting me, and supporting the cause I am trying to bring awareness to.
I am so grateful for having such supportive and inspiring musicians,
friends, students, teachers, and colleagues in my life.

Next, I would like to thank all of the wonderful teachers I have had
that have motivated me to be the best that I can be at everything I do. I
have had many influential teachers in my life, in and out of George Mason
University. Here are a few incredible teachers that have guided me on my
musical path: Professor Maiello, Dr. Layendecker, Professor Camphouse,
Dr. Wuttke, Dr. Owens, Annamarie Bollino, Laurel Siberts, and especially
Dr. Lorrie Berkshire Brown. Dr. Brown has been my private teacher for
the last four years and her passion for music and love for her students is
incomparable. I am so blessed to have been under her tutelage for this
long.

Lastly, I would like to thank my family. I would not be the person I

am today if it was not for them. I believe that I have the MOST incredibly
supportive family on the planet--they mean the world to me. Before my
father passed away, he and my mom attended every concert band,
marching band, orchestra, choir, and every other miscellaneous concerts
that I was a part of, big or small, near or far. My mother, to this day, has
never missed a performance of mine. I was first motivated to pursue music
by my sisters talent on the piano. She would teach me Christmas carols
and we would share our Casio keyboard on the floor as we loudly played
and sang to wake up our parents at 5 AM on Christmas day. When I
started playing the oboe in sixth grade, I would wake up my parents on
oboe while my sister accompanied on the piano. Specials thanks to my
aunt for making all of the purple ribbons by hand in Florida and mailing
them to me to have for my recital, and my cousin for always supporting
me and my musical endeavors. I would also like to thank my dog, Mitzi,
for always tolerating me practicing not only the oboe, but all of the
instruments I had to learn for my music education degree.

Again, thank you all so much for attending my recital!!!

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 Samantha Charriez, Oboe
-PROGRAM-

Oboe Quartet in F, K.370 (1781) W.A. Mozart

Allegro (1756 1791)
Adagio
Rondo: Allegro
June Huang, Violin
Marta Howard, Viola
Gerald Fowkes, Cello

Solo de Concert (1898) mile Paladilhe

(1844 1926)
Sophia Kim Cook, Piano

Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, Op. 43 (1926) Francis Poulenc
I. Lento Presto (1899 1963)
Maggie Gallo, Bassoon
Sophia Kim Cook, Piano

BRIEF SET CHANGE

*** Please DO NOT EXIT Harris Theatre until a group photo of the
audience and performers has been taken! During this time, feel free to
grab a purple ribbon pin in the box located at the entrance doors to wear
for the photo. ***

There will be a short tribute to pancreatic cancer awareness before the

photo is taken.

Surprise Finale Arranged by Samantha Charriez

June Huang, Violin
Marta Howard, Viola
Gerald Fowkes, Cello
Sophia Kim Cook, Piano
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 -PROGRAM NOTES-
Mozart, Oboe Quartet in F, K.370 (1781)
In 1777 Mozart had been impressed with the
Mannheim court orchestras oboist, whose name I
have forgotten but who plays very well, and has a
delightfully pure tone. I have made him a present of
my oboe concert [K.314] and the fellow is quite crazy
with delight (Mozarts letter to his father from
Mannheim 1777). The oboist in question, Friedrich
Ramm, was indeed delighted with it and performed the concerto five times
in a two-week span. Three years later Mozart was commissioned to write
an opera seria for the Munich 17871 Carnival Season of the court opera.
Mozart met up with Ramm again who was still playing in the court
orchestra and wrote an Oboe Quartet for him. Ramm, who had been
appointed to the court orchestra when only fourteen years old, must have
been a formidable player, for Mozarts quartet tests even todays oboists
on their technically much more sophisticated instruments.
http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/home/Chris_Darwin/WebProgNotes/pdfs/MozartOboeQu
artet.pdf

Paladilhe, Solo de Concert (1898)

Composer mile Paladilhe was a child prodigy. He
entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of nine,
where he studied piano, organ, and composition. It is
for this same conservatory that he penned Solo de
Concert in 1898 for oboe and piano, originally
written to be a piece for the annual conservatory
competition. Divided into two sections, Solo pour
Hautbois is a continuous form. The Andante Assai
Moderato, is a dramatic opening section. The piano
takes over to introduce a drastic change of character in the second section.
The second section is playful, lyrical, and sometimes dance-like. Intensity
builds towards the end when the oboe plays several chromatic passages
before the final cadence that brings this work to a close.
https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/16798/Walker_ku_0099D_13695_
DATA_1.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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Poulenc, Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, Op. 43 (1926)
Poulenc had a great fondness for chamber music
with winds. Color, pointillistic clarity, and poise
characterize several frequently featured
compositions including his most well-known,
the Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano. Dedicated to
Manuel de Falla, the first movement, patterned after
a particular Haydn allegro is a sparkling presto, a
compact caricature of contrasting sections, perfect
execution juxtaposed with tongue-in-cheek
pratfalls. The first movement appears at first to be in sonata-allegro form,
replete with a brief slow introduction consisting of recitatives for each
of the three instruments; its jaunty first theme is balanced by a more
lyrical second theme. Then, with another recitative-like passage, Poulenc
wanders into a slower, more pensive middle section instead of the
expected development. The sudden recap of the Allegro is like a splash of
cold water to jolt both composer and listener out of the wistful reverie.

http://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/trio-for-oboe-bassoon-and-piano-francis-poulenc

Special Tribute to Pancreatic Cancer Awareness

This song was recorded in 1970 by a famous American vocal and
instrumental duo. They are siblings that became some of the best-selling
music artists of all time. During their fourteen-year career, this duo
recorded eleven albums, thirty-one singles, five television specials, and a
short-lived television series. Samantha Charriez arranged this particular
song for voice, violin, viola, cello, and piano.

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 -STUDENT BIOGRAPHY-

Originally from San Juan, Puerto Rico, Samantha Charriez will be graduating
with a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education at George Mason University in the
spring of 2017. She is the principal oboist and section leader of the George
Mason University Symphony Orchestra, Mason's Wind Symphony, and
previously the Symphonic Band. Ms. Charriez has studied oboe and English horn
with Dr. Lorrie Berkshire Brown and Laurel Siberts, and has participated in
master classes with Joseph Robinson, Bert Lucarelli, Dr. Charles Huang, Kristin
Leitterman, Sherie Lake Aguirre, and Aaron Hill. She is an oboe/English horn
instructor at both George Mason's Potomac Arts Academy and the Judith Lapple
Summer Woodwind Camp, and has a small private oboe studio in Stafford, VA.
Sammy was on faculty for Stafford County Public Schools Summer Arts Camp
and works for SCPS part-time. Sammy works with high school marching bands
as a woodwind and brass technician teaching fundamentals, marching, and also
by leading sectionals. She was recently accepted into the United States Air Force
Band's Collegiate Symposium and performed in the band's oboe section. She also
performs with the American Festival Pops Orchestra under the direction of
Maestro Anthony Maiello, with whom she studied instrumental conducting.

George Mason University School of Music

This recital is offered in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

BACHELOR OF MUSIC IN INSTRUMENTAL EDUCATION.

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