august 26, 2018
monroe township cultural heritage commission PRESENTS

the bravura chamber players

Ellen Fisher-Deerberg, Flute
Jordan Smith, Alto Saxophone
Ning Mu, Violin & Viola
Chiu-Ling Lin, Piano

Program
Bloch Concertino for flute, viola, and piano
Koechlin Epitaph de Jean Harlow for flute, saxophone, and piano
Dubois Trio - “Les Treteaux” for flute, saxophone, and piano
Eychenne Cantilene et Danse for piano, violin, and saxophone

Return to 2018-19 season


A good house listening to Ning Mu, Jordan Smith, and Chiu-Ling Lin on the trio by Eychenne

Chamber Music Director Dr. Lin welcoming audience

Ning Mu, Ellen Deerberg, and Chiu-Ling Lin performing the Bloch Concertino

Ellen Deerberg, Jordan Smith, and pianist Chiu-Ling Lin following the performance of the Duboi Trio

All performers - final curtain call


Ellen Fisher-Deerberg graduated from Temple University’s Boyer College of Music where she majored in music performance and studied with Murray Panitz, former principal flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mrs. Deerberg is a well-respected chamber music collaborator in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and has performed in a wide variety of instrumental ensembles in both the USA and Germany. She has been teaching flute for over 30 years and is on the faculty of Westminster Conservatory in Princeton, New Jersey. Ellen is the principal flutist of the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, a regular substitute with the Bay Atlantic Symphony, and a member of the flute quartet, The Lyra Ensemble.

Dr. Jordan P. Smith is a Princeton-based saxophonist and conductor. He completed his D.M.A. at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where he has studied with Dr. Paul Cohen. He holds an M.M. degree in Saxophone Performance from Manhattan School of Music (MSM) and a B.M. in Music Education from The College of New Jersey (TCNJ), where he studied with Kathleen Mitchell. He has concertized extensively throughout the United States and internationally in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Greece as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician, and has recently performed with the New World Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and more under such conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas and Robert Spano. Recent performance venues have included Haydn Hall in Eisenstadt, Austria, Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium, and many more. As a chamber musician in New York City, Jordan has premiered over 30 works by composers from around the world. Dr. Smith was published in the August 2015 edition of the "Saxophone Symposium" for his research on Jules Massenet and was also published in a 2011 issue of the "Saxophone Journal" foran article about Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kijé Suite. He can be heard on the CD on Ravello, Navona, Blue Griffin, and Carrier records. Dr. Smith is the director of the renowned Saxophone Program of Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey, the only program of its kind in the United States. Dr. Smith is also an Adjunct Professor at Saint Peter's University in Jersey City, NJ where he teaches music history and maintains a large private teaching studio in Hightstown, NJ.

Ning Mu, Principal violist of Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra, has received numerous awards for musical excellence in China and US. He has performed in chamber music concerts in Carnegie Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall, including appearing many concerts with renowned violinist Arnold Steinhardt of Guarneri string Quartet. Ning graduated from the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and received a master’s degree at Rutgers University under Michael Tree. He was a adjunct Professor of Franklin and Marshall College and a full time Faculty of Pennsylvania Academy of Music in Lancaster. He has given master classes and chamber music recitals at The National Center for the Performing Arts and China Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Currently he is also Principal Violist of Riverside Symphonia.

Chiu-Ling Lin is an international-renowned pianist, educator and former Artistic Ambassador who made extensive solo appearances in South America. Critics have written that she makes compositions “soar with her joyous and skilled interpretation.” Dr. Lin made her Carnegie Weill Recital Hall debut as the winner of the East and West Young Artist Auditions. She has soloed with orchestras such as the Atlanta Symphony, Chicago Civic Orchestra, Singapore Symphony, Des Moines Symphony & Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra. Her appearances in New York, Boston, Chicago, England, Canada, and throughout the Far East have featured her unique mix of music by Chinese and Western composers. Her virtuosity is showcased in the CD, “Portraits of China.” As a chamber musician, she has collaborated with world-renowned artists such as Marina Piccinini, Marcos Granados, and Ignat Solzhenitsyn. Dr. Lin is committed educator who received her bachelor’s degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and her master’s and doctoral degrees from Indiana University. She is Emeritus Professor of Piano of Drake University in Des Moines, IA where she taught for 37 years before moving to West Windsor, NJ where she maintains a private piano studio. She is past president of the New Jersey Music Teachers Association, the recipient of the 2014 Foundation Fellow, 2015 Teacher of the Year and still serves on the board. She is also the NJ-DE-PA tri-state representative of the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music. She is currently the Program Director of Bravura Summer Music at Lawrenceville School, NJ and Chamber Music director for the Bravura Philharmonic Orchestra.