November 10 2021
Davin Mar, Viola
Photo credit: Michelle Koebke, Diamond’s Edge Photography
Davin Mar is a grade 11 student at St. George’s School in Vancouver. He began playing the viola at the age of 4. Davin studied for many years with Manti Poon, and in 2019, joined the studio of Professor Marina Thibeault. He is a member of the Sequoia Quartet at the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music. In 2018, Davin won the Junior Division of the American Viola Society Solo Competition in Los Angeles. Davin also plays in the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra, where he was featured as a soloist in 2020. In the summer of 2021, Davin participated in the Morningside Music Bridge Program as well as the Kessler Academy with the Microcosmos String Quartet. Aside from viola, Davin enjoys playing the trumpet and piano, keeping aquarium fish, and fishing. Davin would like to thank the Vancouver Women’s Musical Society for this wonderful recital opportunity, as well as his teachers and family for all their support.
Chiharu Iinuma, piano
Japanese pianist Chiharu Iinuma has been increasingly in high demand as a teacher, coach and ensemble pianist. A founding member of the Ridge Trio, the Chamber Ensemble Bloomington and the Duo Gillham-Iinuma, for many years she was the studio pianist for Joseph Gingold, Janos Starker, Franco Gulli, Neli Shkolnikova, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Miriam Fried, Yuval Yaron, James Campbell and IU String Academy at Indiana University’s Jacobs School. In 1993, she was invited to participate in the inaugural Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshop at Carnegie Hall in New York. She has been heard on NHK and CBC radios over the years. In recent years, she has played in concerts and festivals in Germany, Sweden, Scotland, China, Taiwan, Japan, as well as across U.S. and Canada collaborating with Arianna String Quartet, Pendereki String Quartet, Adrian Anantawan, Dale Barltrop, Ariel Barnes, Rachel Barton-Pine, Martin Beaver, James Campbell, Marc, Timothy Chooi, Coppey, Mark Fewer, David Gillham, Tom Landschoot, Blair Lofgren, Antonio Lysy, Johannes Moser, Philippe Muller, Christoph Schickedanz, Alan Stepansky, Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, Rafael Wallfisch, Rob Weir, Thomas Wiebe, Eric Wilson, Min-Ho Yeh, among others.
From 2001 to 2004, she was the Director of Accompanying at the University of Central Arkansas where the Duo Gillham-Iinuma was “Duo in Residence”. Chiharu has served as a staff pianist and coach at institutes such as the Meadowmount School of Music, Indiana University Summer String Academy and currently at the Domaine Forget International Music and Dance Academy in Quebec, Canada, where she is also on a faculty for the Collaborative Piano Program.
She has recorded “Edvard Grieg: The Three Sonatas for Violin and Piano” with David Gillham for Centaur Records (CRC2873), and “Johannes Brahms: The Complete works for Violin and Piano” with Christoph Schickedanz also for Centaur Records (CRC3498).
Chiharu was born in Nagano and raised in Tokyo, Japan. Following her graduation from the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, she was awarded the Asahi Beer Arts Foundation Scholarship, which enabled her to study at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where she received her Performer Diploma, Artist Diploma and Master’s degree. Her teachers include Yoshimi Tamaki, Shuku Iwasaki, Shigeo Neriki and Leonard Hokanson. Currently, she is on a piano faculty at the Vancouver Academy of Music.
This recital is generously sponsored by VWMS President, Edette Gagné
Programme
Davin Mar, Viola & Chiharu Iinuma, Piano
Cello Suite No. 6 in G major, BWV 1012
J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
Cadenza per Viola Sola
K. Penderecki (1933-2020)
L’extase d’Amour
H. Leslie Adams (b. 1932)
“La Campanella,” from Concerto No. 2 in B minor, Op. 7
N. Paganini (1782-1840),
arr. W. Primrose (1904-1982)
Konzertstück for Viola and Piano
G. Enescu (1881-1955)