University of Florida Performing Arts

Program:
Grand Duo Concertante for Clarinet and Piano Op. 48 – Weber
Reverie for Clarinet and Piano – DeBussy
Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano – DeBussy
Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, H. 356 – Schoenfield
Milonga del angel - Piazzolla
Four Rags for Two Johns – Novacek

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Recipient of the 2010 MIDEM Classique Outstanding Young Artist Award, clarinetist José Franch-Ballester performed Debussy’s Rhapsody with the Sinfonietta Cracovia at the awards ceremony in Cannes, which was broadcast live on France Musique, Radio Luxembourg and by the Polish Radio.

In 2008 he received the highly coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, and in 2007 he was one of a handful of participants selected for a Carnegie Hall Professional Training Workshop with Emmanuel Ax and Richard Stoltzman, and one of the year’s “most prominent emerging soloists”, as selected by the American Symphony League Magazine.

Born in Moncofa, Spain into a family of clarinetists and Zarzuela singers, Franch-Ballester began clarinet lessons at the age of nine with Venancio Rius Marti, and gave his first recital in Valencia at the age of sixteen.

Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzuco

• Ahn Trio with the Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
  

  February 9, 2012 at 7:30 pm

  

• The Official Blues Brothers Revue
  

  February 10, 2012 at 7:30 pm

  

• Dala
  

  February 11, 2012 at 2:00 pm