Music: Transformed and Transforming

Three visiting musicians from Mount Holyoke College and Smith College in Massachusetts present a recital of music for violin and piano titled “Music: Transformed and Transforming“

Linda Laderach (violin), Larry Schipull (piano) and Grant Moss (piano) will perform works by Panufnik, Beach, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Barber, and Piazzolla.

Linda Laderach combines a performing career on both Baroque and modern violin with her teaching career at Mount Holyoke College

Born in Toledo, Ohio, Laderach performed with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16. She won concerto competitions and performed the Barber Violin Concerto at Indiana University, where she was a student of Urico Rossi and Josef Gingold, and the Brahms Violin Concerto at Ohio University, where she was a student of Howard Beebe. Laderach studied chamber music with Janos Starker, William Primrose, Albert Lazan, Fritz Magg, and Leighton Conkling. She also attended and performed at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Aspen Music Festival, Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute, and the University of Michigan in a weeklong master class with Henryk Szeryng.

Laderach has played many solo as well as chamber music concerts at Mount Holyoke and in the Five College area. Since 1989, she has toured the United States, Europe, and Asia with colleague Larry Schipull; their CD of Beethoven sonatas on the Folger Library Bard label is available online. Laderach and Schipull also worked on an interactive CD-ROM program on historically informed performance.

Laderach has taught in the Toledo Public Schools, at Bowling Green State University Extension Division, the Eastern Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival and as a sabbatical replacement at Smith College and Ohio University.

Larry Schipull, organist, harpsichordist, and fortepianist, has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in North America, Europe, the Caribbean, and Asia. He has appeared as organ recitalist at Wesleyan, Yale, and Drake Universities and as pianist/lecturer at Yale University.

Before Schipull’s appointment as Mount Holyoke College organist and associate professor, he was on the faculty of the University of Hong Kong, where he was active as a recitalist and accompanist, with solo appearances in the Hong Kong Arts Festival and the City Hall Silver Jubilee celebrations.

Schipull is a frequent collaborative performer; he and Mount Holyoke colleague Linda Laderach have released a CD recording titled Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Fortepiano. Schipull, Laderach, Robert Eisenstein, Adrianne Greenbaum, and Melinda Spratlan perform together regularly as the Mount Holyoke Faculty Baroque Ensemble.

At Mount Holyoke, Schipull teaches Basic Musicianship, Music Theory, History of Western Music, and harpsichord and organ. He is the recipient of the Premier prix à l’unanimité, École nationale de musique, Rueil-Malmaison, France; was the national winner in organ, Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Artist Competition; and won first prize in the Ottumwa National Organ-Playing Competition.

Grant Russell Moss is a senior lecturer in music at Smith College where he has served since 1983 as organist to the college. A Nebraska native, Moss is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he was an organ student of George Ritchie. He holds the doctor of musical arts degree from Yale University, where his principal teachers were Charles Krigbaum and Michael Schneider. A regional winner of the Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Artist Competition and first-prize winner of the Ottumwa National Organ Playing Competition, he has appeared at the summer organ festivals at Methuen (MA) and Round Lake (NY), the Great Organ Music at Yale series, and in concerto performances with the Five College Orchestra, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst Orchestra, the Amherst College Orchestra, the Springfield Symphony and the Pioneer Valley Symphony. As accompanist, he has toured many times with the Smith Chamber Singers, and was the first visiting American organist to perform at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. In addition to his duties as teacher of organ, piano and harpsichord, he is conductor of the Smith handbell choir.

$12 general admission, $8 UH faculty/staff/students and seniors (65+). $5 for UHM music majors.