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— Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida, Oboe
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CD729: Mist Over
the Lake. Cynthia Koledo
DeAlmeida, Oboe. Arthur
Bliss: Conversations; Pierre-Max Dubois: Ballade Medievale; Amilcare
Ponchielli: Capriccio; Leone Sinigaglia: Twelve Variations on a Theme by Franz
Schubert; NapolŽon Coste: Three Pieces; Joao Guilherme Ripper, Kinderszenen;
Patrick Stoyanovich: Seven Short Pievces; Jan Freidlin: Mist Over the Lake. UPC 00941477292-3 ORDER NOW
With Rhian Kenny, flute; AndrŽs C‡rdenes, violin; Paul
Silver, viola; David Premo, cello; Marina diPretoro, piano; James Ferla,
guitar. This CD features premiere recordings of exciting contemporary
works as well as beautiful pieces from past periods.
ÒDeAlmeidaÕs tone is wonderfully variegated, her phrasing
is supple, and her musical insights are unfailingly illuminating. Her apt
repertoire choices provide her with a fine playground on which to display her
musical assets.Ó
Fanfare, July/August 2006
ÒMs. DeAlmeida has been headmistress of the Pittsburgh
Symphony since 1991, and is hands down one of the best players in the world.
Her sound is pliable, soft, but with a lot of strength underneath – a
very American quality, and I love it. This recital gathers music both
contemporary and older, all of it very fine and listenable.Ó American Record Guide, July/August
2006
Sound samples (uses RealPlayer) Click on the link to hear up to one
minute of the movement shown.
Ripper: Kinderszenen Schumanniana Ciranda Maracatœ Dubois: Ballade
Medievale Bliss: Conversations The
Committee Meeting In The Wood In The Ballroom
Soliloquy In The Tube at Oxford Circus
Stoyanovich: Seven Short Pieces laid back fast a slow waltz with a fast swing ostinato slowly fast Coste: Three Pieces Divertissement Pastoral Consolazione Rondeau Montagnard Sinigaglia:
Twelve Variations
Ponchielli: Capriccio
Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida became principal oboe of the Pittsburgh
Symphony in September 1991. For two years prior to this she was associate
principal oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Since joining the Pittsburgh
Symphony, she has been featured as soloist in concertos by Bach, Haydn, Mozart,
Strauss, and Vaughan Williams. In 1993 the Pittsburgh Symphony commissioned a
concerto for DeAlmeida by Leonardo Balada, which she recorded with the
orchestra and Lorin Maazel for New World Records. She can also be heard in
AndrŽ PrevinÕs Sonata for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano with Nancy Goeres and AndrŽ Previn on Crystal Records CD870.
DeAlmeida received the
Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan where she studied with
Arno Mariotti, and a Master of Music degree from Temple University in
Philadelphia as a student of Richard Woodhams. She has been a faculty member of
the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California since 2002. In
Pittsburgh she teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and is the Coordinator of
the Woodwind Department. She has given master classes in the United States,
Europe, the Far East, and South America, and is a frequent guest artist at the
annual convention of the International Double Reed Society.
In November 2003, DeAlmeida
was featured on national television on the CBS ÒEarly ShowÓ in a story relating
to the oboe and its remarkable health benefits for asthma sufferers. This has
led to her affiliation with the American Respiratory Alliance.
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