MASTERWORKS 2010-11 Concert Series
Capitol Theater 8:00 p.m.
Masterworks III - Friday, January 21, 2011

Molly Barth, piccolo
Madison Ballet

Resphigi: Ancient Airs and Dances: Suite III
Vivaldi: Piccolo Concerto
L’Eventail du Jeanne
Ravel I. Fanfare
Ferroud II. Marche
Ibert III. Valse
Roland-Manuel IV. Canarie
Delannoy V. Bourrée
Roussel VI. Sarabande
Milhaud VII. Polka
Poulenc VIII. Pastourelle
Auric IX. Rondeau

Concert Sponsor: Pleasant Rowland Foundation

MOLLY BARTH, Piccolo

Described as “ferociously talented” (The Oregonian), Grammy-Award winning flutist Molly Alicia Barth is an active solo, chamber, and orchestral musician, specializing in the music of today. As a founding member of the new music sextet eighth blackbird, Molly toured extensively throughout the world, recorded four CDs with Cedille Records, and was granted the 2000 Naumburg Chamber Music Award and first prize at the 1998 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. Currently, as co-founder of the Beta Collide New Music Project, Molly collaborates with individuals from a broad spectrum of disciplines such as music, art, sound sculpture and theoretical physics. Molly is the Assistant Professor of Flute at the University of Oregon and has taught at Willamette University and held residencies at the University of Chicago and at the University of Richmond. She plays a Burkart flute and piccolo, and a 1953 Haynes alto flute.

Awards, Recordings, Commissions and Performances

National Flute Assoc. New Music Advisory Committee Chair, November 2007-present.
Performances with Beta Collide, Fear No Music and Third Angle New Music Ensemble. Portland, Salem and Eugene OR, October 2006-present.
Solo Performance, and Master Class. Albuquerque Flute Fiesta, March 2009.
Piccolo soloist, Salem Chamber Orchestra. Salem, OR, November 2008.
Principal Flutist, Salem Chamber Orchestra, August 2006-May 2008.
Piccolo soloist, Astoria Music Festival, Astoria, OR and Portland, OR, July 2007.
Performances with MusicNow, the Fulcrum Point New Music Project, the Chicago Sinfonietta and Contempo. Chicago, IL, October 2001-August 2006.
Soloist, Chicago Sinfonietta. Chicago, IL, April 2003.

Grammy Prize Winner, “Best Chamber Music Performance” for eighth blackbird album strange imaginary animals, 2007.
Performances with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Oregon Symphony Orchestra, and Eugene Symphony Orchestra (principal/piccolo/second flute), May 2006-present.
Alpert Award in the Arts, Music Panelist, January 2004.
CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, 2002, 2000, 1998.
First Prize, Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music Competition, 2000.
First Prize, Concert Artists Guild International Competition, 1998.
First Prize, Coleman Chamber Music Competition, 1998.
Recordings with Cedille Records. strange imaginary animals- 2006, fred-2005, beginnings-2004, Thirteen Ways-2003.
Commissions of flute works including Frederic Rzewski, Robert Kyr, Kotoka Suzuki.
Performances with eighth blackbird at venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, The 92nd Street Y, Merkin Concert Hall, Herbst Theater, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood, Kennedy Center, Symphony Hall in Chicago, Der Rode Hud with Der Ijsbreker Festival in Amsterdam, Art Institute in Krakow, Poland.  1998-2006.