Cello & Piano – Scott Kluksdahl cello, Grigorios Zamparas piano – • “Sustainable Development and Climate Change” Presentation: ARTEMIS HATZI (greek) EMILIA HULL (english)
Program
PART A
L.v. Beethoven (1770-1827)
Cello Sonata No. 5 in g minor, Op. 5, No. 2
Ι. Adagio sostenuto e espressivo – Allegro molto più tosto presto
ΙΙ. Rondo. Allegro
F. Mendelssohn
Cello sonata in b flat major op. 45
I. Allegro vivace
II. Andante
III. Allegro assai
PART B
“Sustainable Development and Climate Change”
Presentation: ARTEMIS HATZI (greek) EMILIA HULL (english)
Biographical Notes
Scott Kluksdahl, Professor of Violoncello, has performed as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in major metropolitan centers throughout the United States, Europe, Israel, and Latin America, including The San Francisco Symphony, the Asheville, Marin, Omaha, Richmond (Indiana), and Tampa Bay orchestras, Bulgaria’s Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, and Colombia’s Orquesta Filarmonica de Bogota.
He gave premiere performances of Augusta Read Thomas’ Passion Prayers with the Chicago Contemporary Players and the Philadelphia Network for New Music, James Lewis’ Doubles Singles Variables, and Hanoch Jacoby’s King David’s Lyre, Oedeon Partos’ Yzkor and Mourning Music and Tzvi Avni’s Khaddish with Israel’s Hed Music Center. He performed with Florence Millet at the Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards and plays the complete Johann Sebastian Bach six-suite cycle Cello Suites bi-annually in the Philadelphia Bach Festival, at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and with Tampa Bay’s historic Springs Theatre.
Today, Kluksdahl commissions, premieres, and records works from contemporary composers, including Elliott Carter, Robert Helps, Bernard Rands, Augusta Read Thomas, David del Tredici, and Richard Wernick. Kluksdahl has recorded SoundVessels, Dream Journal, Chamber Music of Robert Schumann, Piano Trios for Solo Cello, and Changer Music of Nicolas Bacri.
Kluksdahl is USF’s Theodore and Vennette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar and serves on Vermont’s Killington Music Festival and California Summer Music faculties.
Recipient of the Tanglewood Music Center’s Leonard Bernstein Fellowship and prizes in the 1990 Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition and the Washington International Competition, Kluksdahl holds a BA in English and American literature from Harvard University and an MM from The Juilliard School.
Grigorios Zamparas has received rave reviews for his performances in recitals, chamber music concerts and orchestral concerts in Greece, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Russia, Latin America, South Korea and the United States. He frequently appears in various festivals around the world, such as the famous Newport Music Festival (Rhode Island, USA), Mainly Mozart Festival (Miami, USA), Artist Series of Sarasota (USA), Salon of the Arts (Sofia, Bulgaria), the International Portoheli Festival e.t.c. Furthermore, he has appeared as a soloist in more than twenty different piano concertos, with orchestras such as the Porto Alegre Symphony Orchestra (Brazil), the Indiana University Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Neo-Politan Chamber Orchestra, the Togliati Philharmonic (Russia), the Sofia Soloists (Bulgaria) and the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra (Czech Republic). He is an assistant professor of music and head of the piano department at the University of Tampa in the United States, as well as member of the Quartet de Minaret, a piano quartet based at the same university. In the academic year 2010-2011 he received the Outstanding Scholarship or Creative Work Award. Grigorios Zamparas started studying piano at the age of seven, while he received his piano diploma from the Lamia Conservatory in 1995 with the distinguished Greek teacher Yorgos Manessis. He holds a DMA from the University of Miami where he studied with Ivan Davis, a student of Vladimir Horowitz. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Indiana (MM), the University of Indianapolis (BM) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since 1993 he has appeared continuously at the International Portoheli Festival where he has performed more than 300 works. Recently, the American label Centaur Records released G. Zambara’s recordings of the five Piano Concertos of the Russian composer Anton Rubinstein.
ARTEMIS HATZI-HULL
A local, born in Rafina, Artemis has lived in Greece, France, Belgium, and the US. She studied European law, maritime and aviation law, and environmental law across these locations. For the past 25 years, she worked in the Commission of the European Union: 10 years as a legal advisor for research and development, and 15 years in DG Environment, where she was in charge of the European legislation pertaining to the recycling of cars, batteries, and packaging, as well as spearheading the EU study on plastics and plastic waste.
Artemis is currently the President of the Nautical Club ALKYON in Rafina and a member of the Steering Committee of the Greek Sailing Association. She speaks Greek, English, French, Spanish, and conversational German.
In her spare time, she is an amateur actress, and has performed for 15 years in classical pieces as part of the Thespis group in Brussels.
LinkedIn: Artemis Hatzi-Hull
Emilia Hatzi-Hull
Emilia is a Sustainability Strategy Manager at Accenture, where she advises clients at the intersection of retail, sustainability, and supply chain. Her work focuses on green product design, responsible retail, and building sustainable supply chains. She brings deep expertise in corporate responsibility and sustainable development, with experience spanning both the private sector and global institutions. She also works closely with the United Nations (UN) on their private sector sustainability initiatives and has authored several influential research studies.
Half Greek and half American, Emilia is currently based in New York City. She holds a BA in Biology from Dartmouth College—where her focus on marine biology was inspired by summers in Porto Heli —and dual graduate degrees: a Master’s in Environmental Management and an MBA, from Duke University.