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PROGRAM :

J.S. Bach: Sonata in E♭ (BWV 1031)

Allegro moderato
Siciliano
Allegro

S. Prokofiev, Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 94

Moderato
Scherzo: Presto
Andante
Allegro con brio

R. Muczynski, Sonata for flute and piano, Op. 14

Allegro deciso
Scherzo. Vivace
Andante
Allegro con moto

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A champion of contemporary music, flutist Lisa Cella has performed throughout the United States and abroad. She is a founding member of NOISE, the resident ensembleof San Diego New Music. With NOISE she has performed the works of young composers all around the world including at the Acousmania Festival in Bucharest, Romania, the Pacific Rim Festival at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. NOISE also presents a three-day festival of modern music entitled soundON. Lisa performs with Jane Rigler and Carrie Rose in the flute collective inHALE, a group dedicated to developing challenging and experimental repertoire for two or three flutes.

She is a faculty member of the Soundscape Festival of Contemporary Music in Blonay, Switzerland and at Nief-Norf in Knoxville, TN. She has taught at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato, Mexico and presented workshops and recitals at the Mid-Atlantic Flute Fair in Reston, VA and at the National Flute Association Convention.

Her undergraduate work was completed at Syracuse University under the tutelage ofJohn Oberbrunner, received a Master of Music degree and a Graduate Performance Diploma from Peabody Conservatory with Robert Willoughby, and received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in contemporary flute performance under John Fonville at the University of California, San Diego. She is a Full Professor of Music at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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Laureate of numerous national and international competitions, Teodora Adzharova’s career has taken her to multiple performance venues in the United States, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Macedonia and the Czech Republic. Currently based in Baltimore, MD, she has established herself as one of the most sought-after chamber musicians in the Baltimore, MD-Washington, D.C. region, frequently collaborating with musicians from both the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Some of Dr. Adzharova’s recent performances include appearances at Catholic University,York College, Bulgarian Embassy in Washington, D.C., Novi Sad, Washington College, Towson University, University of Maryland, and Silo Hill. On many occasions, Dr. Adzharova’s recordings have been broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today.

Dr. Adzharova’s 2024–2025 season will feature the release of her debut solo album dedicated to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The CD will include the composer’s Preludes, Op. 34 and Piano Sonata, Op. 61. One of the few pianists who performs both of Shostakovich’s piano sonatas in a single program, Dr. Adzharova presented a lecture-recital of the repertoire at the World Piano Conference (Serbia, June 2023) and the DiMenna Center in New York in the Spring of 2024.

In 2019, Dr. Adzharova’s dedication to chamber music and community engagement led her to become the Co-founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Annunciation Cathedral Concert Series. Each season, the series provides inventive and accessible classical music programming to the Baltimore community andpromotes high-caliber artists from the region.

As a passionate educator, Dr. Adzharova serves as a Visiting lecturer in Piano at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and is a member of the piano faculty at the Peabody Preparatory. She is a board member of GBMTA and has served as an adjudicator for Thomas Hulbert International piano competition, NVMTA, GBMTA, HCPTA, and WIPAC competitions. Dr. Adzharova holds piano performance degrees from the Peabody Institute (DMA, 2020; Performance Diploma, 2013; MM, 2011) where she studied with Ellen Mack.

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