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William Purvis French Hornist and Conductor
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December 1, 2005 SUNY Fredonia: Roush Hall; 8:00 PM Karl Boelter - Images from Goldsmith (Concerto) David Rudge, conductor; Admissions free (716) 673-4644	December 7, 2005 Yale Chamber Music – Schumann Adagio & Allegro and Beethoven Quintet op. 16
December 12, 2005 New York Woodwind Quintet in Rheinbeck	December 18, 19, 2005 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bach Brandenburgs
December 20, 2005 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Bach Brandenburgs, Princeton, NJ	March 7, 2006 New World Symphony Messiaen: Des Canyons aux etoiles
William Purvis; French Horn and Conductor William Purvis pursues a multifaceted career both in the U.S. and abroad as French horn soloist, chamber musician, conductor and educator. His numerous festival appearances include Norfolk, Tanglewood, Chamber Music Northwest, Mostly Mozart, Aston Magna, Salzburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Kuhmo, Båstad, Hong Kong and Kitakyushu, and the Summer Academy of the Nederlands Jeugd Orkest. A passionate advocate of new music, Mr. Purvis has recently given premieres of horn concerti by Peter Lieberson and Bayan Northcott, a trio for violin, horn and piano by Poul Ruders, and as conductor of Speculum Musicae, the U.S. premiere of Luimen by Elliott Carter. In January of 2003 he gave the U.S. premiere of the revised version of the Ligeti Horn Concerto, in April of 2003 he performed the world premiere of Richard Wernick’s Quintet for Horn and String Quartet with the Juilliard Quartet at the Library of Congress. His recording of the Lieberson Concerto and a recording of works of Schumann in collaboration with his wife, pianist Mihae Lee will be released in 2004. Mr. Purvis is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet, Orpheus, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Mozzafiato, an original instrument wind sextet and is a frequent guest with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has collaborated with the Juilliard, Tokyo, Orion, Brentano, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Fine Arts String Quartets, and has appeared as solo horn of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe with Nicholas Harnoncourt. His large number of recordings spans an unusually broad range from original instrument performance to standard solo and chamber music repertoire to contemporary solo and chamber music works, and also includes numerous recordings of contemporary music as conductor. Included in this list are Mozart Concerti and the Sinfonia Concertante KV 297b with Orpheus for Deutsche Grammophon and the Horn Trios of Brahms and Ligeti for Bridge. Formerly Professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe, he is currently a member of the horn faculties of the Yale School of Music where he is also Coordinator of Winds and Brass, The Juilliard School where is also Coordinator for the New York Woodwind Quintet Wind Chamber Music Seminar and SUNY Stony Brook.
Brahms and Ligeti Horn Trios BRIDGE 9012 Romances: Music of Robert and Clara Schumann BRIDGE 9164

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