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Molly Wise
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 15 ก.พ. 2012
Molly Wise made her solo debut in Penderecki’s Viola Concerto with the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra in October 2018. She is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts candidate at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, and performs extensively throughout Houston, TX with classical and contemporary groups including Musiqa, Da Camera, Kinetic Ensemble, and more. She was second prize winner in the Houston Tuesday Musical Club Competition, a finalist in the 2021 American Viola Society Collegiate Solo Competition, and a recurring guest teacher and chamber coach at Potomac Music in Lorton, VA. Her principal teachers include James Dunham, Jeffrey Irvine, Lynne Ramsey, and Ramon Scavelli.
Molly was a Da Camera of Houston Young Artist 2020-2022. She has been featured in master classes with Yizhak Schotten, Cynthia Phelps, and Victoria Chiang, and has played under the batons of Marin Alsop, Thomas Adés, and Daniel Harding, among others.
Molly was a Da Camera of Houston Young Artist 2020-2022. She has been featured in master classes with Yizhak Schotten, Cynthia Phelps, and Victoria Chiang, and has played under the batons of Marin Alsop, Thomas Adés, and Daniel Harding, among others.
Karim Al-Zand: "Cabinet of Curiosities" trns. for viola and piano | Duo Impetuoso
Molly Wise, viola | James Palmer, piano
Duo Impetuoso - learn more: www.duoimpetuoso.com/
Recorded live in performance in Duncan Recital Hall at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Video produced by Caio Alves Diniz.
I first heard Cabinet of Curiosities in January 2024 when I was backstage for a Musiqa Houston concert. As with any intriguing piece for clarinet and piano, my ears perked up to see if I might make a viola version work. With the blessing of Dr. Karim Al-Zand, Houston-based composer and professor at Rice University, I transcribed the work-originally for clarinet and piano-for James and myself to play. Al-Zand defines a cabinet of curiosities as “an elaborate cupboard used as a repository of diverse and exotic objects.” Collecting small, rare, intriguing items was a popular pastime of the wealthy in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. Al-Zand’s composition is a sort of musical cabinet of curiosities, each movement holding a magnifying glass up to a different peculiar, wonderful specimen. In the first movement, still life with lizard, Al-Zand contrasts slow-moving chords with the scurrying thirty-second notes of a lizard; I decided to add sul ponticello to this idea. The second movement, saltarello al rovescio, is a musical palindrome - after the viola’s cadenza halfway through, all of the notes and rhythms are played in reverse, verbatim. The third movement, early one morning in a convex mirror, is a slow, dream-like setting of an English folksong “Early one morning.” The fourth movement, sarabande selon règle de l’octave, is an asymmetrical sarabande in 5/8 meter that simultaneously honors and parodies the “rule of the octave,” an early Baroque method of harmonizing ascending and descending scales. Movement five, love letter, is performed by solo viola. I like to imagine different stories, emotions, and proclamations as I play each phrase, so that no two performances are the same. The piece concludes with divisions on a Bulgarian rhythm, which features increasingly-exciting variations on the 11-beat kopanitsa rhythm.
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Duo Impetuoso - learn more: www.duoimpetuoso.com/
Recorded live in performance in Duncan Recital Hall at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Video produced by Caio Alves Diniz.
I first heard Cabinet of Curiosities in January 2024 when I was backstage for a Musiqa Houston concert. As with any intriguing piece for clarinet and piano, my ears perked up to see if I might make a viola version work. With the blessing of Dr. Karim Al-Zand, Houston-based composer and professor at Rice University, I transcribed the work-originally for clarinet and piano-for James and myself to play. Al-Zand defines a cabinet of curiosities as “an elaborate cupboard used as a repository of diverse and exotic objects.” Collecting small, rare, intriguing items was a popular pastime of the wealthy in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. Al-Zand’s composition is a sort of musical cabinet of curiosities, each movement holding a magnifying glass up to a different peculiar, wonderful specimen. In the first movement, still life with lizard, Al-Zand contrasts slow-moving chords with the scurrying thirty-second notes of a lizard; I decided to add sul ponticello to this idea. The second movement, saltarello al rovescio, is a musical palindrome - after the viola’s cadenza halfway through, all of the notes and rhythms are played in reverse, verbatim. The third movement, early one morning in a convex mirror, is a slow, dream-like setting of an English folksong “Early one morning.” The fourth movement, sarabande selon règle de l’octave, is an asymmetrical sarabande in 5/8 meter that simultaneously honors and parodies the “rule of the octave,” an early Baroque method of harmonizing ascending and descending scales. Movement five, love letter, is performed by solo viola. I like to imagine different stories, emotions, and proclamations as I play each phrase, so that no two performances are the same. The piece concludes with divisions on a Bulgarian rhythm, which features increasingly-exciting variations on the 11-beat kopanitsa rhythm.
Subscribe to Molly's newsletter for updates on performances, recordings, announcements, and new arrangements: www.mollywiseviola.com/newsletter
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713 Variations | commissioned by Duo Impetuoso
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Molly Wise, viola | James Palmer, piano Duo Impetuoso - learn more: www.duoimpetuoso.com/ This was the world-premiere performance of "713 Variations," commissioned and performed by Duo Impetuoso. Composed by the Summer 2024 AFA-Texas Composition studio of Dr. Mark Buller (learn more: afatexas.org/program/summer-music-festival-composition-studio-intensive/). "713" is Houston's area code, and eac...
Hindemith Viola Sonata Op. 25 No. 4 | Duo Impetuoso
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Molly Wise, viola | James Palmer, piano Duo Impetuoso - learn more: www.duoimpetuoso.com/ Recorded live in performance in Duncan Recital Hall at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Video produced by Caio Alves Diniz. Subscribe to Molly's newsletter for updates on performances, recordings, announcements, and new arrangements: www.mollywiseviola.com/newsletter
Lili Boulanger, Nocturne arr. for viola and piano | Duo Impetuoso
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Duo Impetuoso: Molly Wise, viola | James Palmer, piano This is my original arrangement which is available for purchase on my website: www.mollywiseviola.com/viola-arrangements/p/lili-boulanger-nocturne-for-viola-and-piano Video produced by Caio Alves Diniz. Born in 1893 in Paris, France, Lili Boulanger was considered at a very young as to be a musical prodigy. Music was a central part of the Bo...
Rebecca Clarke Viola Sonata, mvt 3 | Duo Impetuoso
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Molly Wise, viola | James Palmer, piano Duo Impetuoso - learn more: www.duoimpetuoso.com/ Recorded live in concert at the Steinway Selection Center in downtown Houston, TX. Performance sponsored by the Montrose Project. Subscribe to Molly's newsletter for updates on performances, recordings, announcements, and new arrangements: www.mollywiseviola.com/newsletter
Florence Price: Seven Descriptive Pieces arr. for viola and piano | Duo Impetuoso
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Duo Impetuoso: Molly Wise, viola & James Palmer, piano This is my original arrangement which is available on my website: www.mollywiseviola.com/viola-arrangements/p/florence-price-seven-descriptive-pieces-for-viola-and-piano Florence Price composed this piece for solo piano between 1927 and 1928, when she moved from Arkansas to Chicago. She was clearly influenced by J.S. Bach, ragtime, and earl...
Tian Qin: "NO 'i think' NO 'sorry'" for viola & piano (2024) | Duo Impetuoso
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Duo Impetuoso: Molly Wise, viola & James Palmer, piano Performed on Molly's doctoral lecture-recital in Duncan Recital Hall at Rice University. Duo Impetuoso commissioned this work by Tian Qin (b. 2000) as a part of their Women's History Month 2024 programming. Years ago, a composition professor wanted to help Tian come across more confidently in class, and thus barred her from saying “I think”...
Hildegard von Bingen, "Quia ergo femina" | Molly Wise, viola
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This is my own arrangement and is available on my website: www.mollywiseviola.com/viola-arrangements/p/hildegard-von-bingen-quia-ergo-femina Join my monthly mailing list to keep up with my performances, recordings, announcements, and new arrangements: www.mollywiseviola.com/newsletter This version for viola represents my interpretation of the rhythm and phrasing from the original score, which u...
Waltz of the Flowers for Viola Ensemble | Rice University Violists 2023
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Happy Holidays from the Shepherd School of Music's viola students! This was the finale of our "Very Viola Holiday" concert in the Grand Foyer of Alice Pratt Brown Hall at Rice University on Friday, December 1, 2023. Video recorded and produced by Brandon Martin. Join my monthly mailing list to keep up with my performances, recordings, announcements, and new arrangements: www.mollywiseviola.com/...
Gabriela Lena Frank: "Soliloquio Serrano No. 2" (2020) | Molly Wise, viola
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Recorded from my third doctoral recital in Duncan Recital Hall at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Join my monthly mailing list to keep up with my performances, recordings, announcements, and new arrangements: www.mollywiseviola.com/newsletter American composer Gabriela Lena Frank wrote "Soliloquio Serrano No. 2" in 2020 for violist Margaret Audrey Snyder. The first “Serrano” piec...
Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate: "Pisachi (Reveal)" for string quartet
มุมมอง 131ปีที่แล้ว
Andrew Wan & Lauren Conroy, violins Molly Wise, viola Kelcey Howell, cello Join my monthly mailing list to keep up with my performances, recordings, announcements, and new arrangements: www.mollywiseviola.com/newsletter Recorded in Walter Hall at Toronto Summer Music, July 2023. Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate is a classical composer, citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma, and is dedicated t...
Ana Sokolović: selections from Commedia dell'arte (recorded July 2023)
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Live performance at the finale concert of Toronto Summer Music, July 2023. Lauren Conroy and Andrew Wan, violins Molly Wise, viola Kelcey Howell, cello Join my monthly mailing list to keep up with my performances, recordings, announcements, and new arrangements: www.mollywiseviola.com/newsletter Innamorati - 0:00 Colombina - 3:34 Ghost I - 6:17 Zanni - 7:13 Ana Sokolović (b. 1968) is a Montréal...
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel String Quartet in Eb Major
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Hannah Corbett & Mary Grace Johnson, violins; Molly Wise, viola; Nathan Hsu, cello Live recording from my Doctoral Chamber Recital on March 10, 2023 in Duncan Recital Hall at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Join my monthly mailing list to keep up with my performances, recordings, announcements, and new arrangements: www.mollywiseviola.com/newsletter I. 0:00 II. 4:46 III. 8:45 IV....
Gabriela Lena Frank, "Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout" for String Quartet
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Astrid Nakamura & Emily Richardson, violins; Molly Wise, viola; Dana Rath, cello Live recording from my Doctoral Chamber Recital on March 10, 2023 in Duncan Recital Hall at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Join my monthly mailing list to keep up with my performances, recordings, announcements, and new arrangements: www.mollywiseviola.com/newsletter I. 0:00 II. 1:47 III. 5:19 IV. 8...
Chen Yi, "At The Kansas City Chinese New Year Concert" for String Quartet
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Mary Grace Johnson & Hannah Corbett, violins; Molly Wise, viola; Nathan Hsu, cello Live recording from my Doctoral Chamber Recital on March 10, 2023 in Duncan Recital Hall at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University. Join my monthly mailing list to keep up with my performances, recordings, announcements, and new arrangements: www.mollywiseviola.com/newsletter I. 0:00 II. 4:37 III. 9:41 Com...
Romance Suite for Two Violas: Price, Shostakovich, and Super Mario!
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Romance Suite for Two Violas: Price, Shostakovich, and Super Mario!
Shostakovich Viola Sonata, mvt 3 | Molly Wise, viola
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Shostakovich Viola Sonata, mvt 3 | Molly Wise, viola
Nicky Sohn, "Lullaby For Those Fast Asleep" (2020/22) | Molly Wise, viola
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Nicky Sohn, "Lullaby For Those Fast Asleep" (2020/22) | Molly Wise, viola
Garth Knox, "Ghosts" | Molly Wise, viola
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Garth Knox, "Ghosts" | Molly Wise, viola
Garth Knox, "Beside the Bridge" | Molly Wise, viola
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Garth Knox, "Beside the Bridge" | Molly Wise, viola
Telemann Fantasia No. 9 | Molly Wise, viola
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Telemann Fantasia No. 9 | Molly Wise, viola
Jeffrey Mumford, "the clarity of remembered springs" for solo viola (1993) | Molly Wise, viola
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Jeffrey Mumford, "the clarity of remembered springs" for solo viola (1993) | Molly Wise, viola
Augusta Read Thomas, "Venus Enchanted" (2017) | Molly Wise, viola
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Augusta Read Thomas, "Venus Enchanted" (2017) | Molly Wise, viola
Nadia Boulanger, Trois Pièces for Viola and Piano, arr. Molly Wise | Molly Wise, viola
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Nadia Boulanger, Trois Pièces for Viola and Piano, arr. Molly Wise | Molly Wise, viola
Beethoven: 7 Variations on "Bei Mannern," WoO 46 (viola and piano) | Molly Wise, viola
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Beethoven: 7 Variations on "Bei Mannern," WoO 46 (viola and piano) | Molly Wise, viola
Hindemith Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11 No. 4 | Duo Impetuoso (Molly Wise and James Palmer)
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Hindemith Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11 No. 4 | Duo Impetuoso (Molly Wise and James Palmer)
Bach Cello Suite 6, Courante | Molly Wise, viola
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Bach Cello Suite 6, Courante | Molly Wise, viola
Florence Price, "Adoration" arr. for viola and piano | Molly Wise, viola
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Florence Price, "Adoration" arr. for viola and piano | Molly Wise, viola
What we can learn from Simone Biles | Molly's Practice Journal
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What we can learn from Simone Biles | Molly's Practice Journal
R. Schumann, "Märchenbilder" for viola and piano | Molly Wise, viola
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R. Schumann, "Märchenbilder" for viola and piano | Molly Wise, viola
So nice! Great phrasing and super clean playing.
Thank you for listening!
Wonderful! I’m definitely purchasing a copy of your arrangement. Well done and congratulations!
@@guandajon405 thank you for listening!
Nice work! This is such a lovely piece: I’m going to have to try it now. :)
@@rohwermusicstudios thank you so much for listening! It is so beautiful and fun to perform. The arrangement is available on my website if you’re interested, link in the description.
@@MollyWiseViola cool! I will certainly check it out!! :)
Congratulations!!
@@pantelismisikos9023 thank you for listening!
I am so glad to hear more people performing Price’s work. This is exciting.
@@ProfessorKWB thank you, I’m excited about it too!
Congratulations!!
Excellent work! I look forward to working on Rebecca Clarke’s Viola works. :)
@@rohwermusicstudios it’s one of my favorite pieces. Thank you for listening!
Perfect and clean interpretation with a beautiful tone
Wonderful performance!
@@michael_hall_viola thank you so much for listening!
Very nice and warm sound, congratulations.
@@mimosa30 thank you!
Fantastic!! Thank you!
@@cheriwhittedbowers6383 thank you for listening!
Lovely!
Thank you!
Beautiful work!!!
Thank you! 😊
Que bonito.😊
It’s me from noodles and co ! Awesome work. Looking forward to more of your performances ! 😊
You are so kind! Thank you for the listen 😄
Wonderful and imaginative playing!! Love the arrangement too expertly made with plenty of viola thingies to make it shine in this instrumentation!
Ahhhh
Wow!!! Love this! Thank you for sharing! Such musicality....
Thank you for watching!
What a perfect piece for this month. Thank you!!
Thank you, you’re too kind!
Thank you for doing these incredible videos! It is hard to find contemporary viola music! You are a fantastic violist. Indeed, an envied tone and also hoping for more!
Thank you! I posted a new video today of a work composed in 2024-you should check it out! :)
@@MollyWiseViola Will definitely check it out!
Amazing piece and performance! I loved it!
Great Job all!
Thank you!
You play the viola, you obviously a wise and wonderful person. I was unaware of that humidifier, I'll be looking for it myself, thank you.
Very beautiful music like they were dancing walts.❤
Thank you for watching!
Greetings from the UK....Thank you Molly for generously making the score of your arrangement available. I have downloaded it for my partner who is a late "returner" to the viola (after a 35 year hiatus) and due to play a string orchestra arrangement of this sublime piece on a coaching day next month. She has fallen in love with it and we are looking forward to being able to play it together (I'm a pianist.) Loving your other videos too, with all best wishes for your future endeavours.
How wonderful! Thank you so much for your kind note, I hope you enjoy playing the arrangement together.
When you hit a million subscriber I'll say i subscribed when she had 392 subscribers only.
When you hit a million subscriber I'll say i subscribed when she had 392 subscribers only.
Awww you’re too sweet. Thanks for listening!!
vibes
Indeed
Bravo! Beautiful.
This is so good, thank you!!!
Found you through April’s channel. This is beautiful and looking forward to having such wonderful music play while I work from home. Thank you for sharing! remember you have the #AbilityToBeAwesome! ❤ sending love and light your way.
Aww, thank you so much for listening and your kind words!
🫶 loved working on this!
This is a gorgeous arrangement, especially the double stops! I already downloaded the sheet music. How do I get permission to livestream this as part of a worship service on various platforms? Nothing will be monetized, and there is no charge for attending.
Thank you for watching and downloading the music! You should be good to livestream it 👍🏻 everyone will love it!
@@MollyWiseViola what would be the copyright reference info? Date, holder/publisher?
@@cynthiahaley5625 according to IMSLP, it is public domain in the US, Canada, and the EU. Therefore you are free to perform and livestream it whenever you like.
@@cynthiahaley5625 if you have any more concerns I would just Google “IMSLP Florence price adoration” and read all about it on their page. :)
@@MollyWiseViola Molly, I was asking about your arrangement, not Ms. Price’s original composition.
Utterly beautiful! Would it be possible to get the scores of these arrangements?
Thank you! Email me at mwcstring@gmail.com 😁
PERFECT way to end my day!!! Thank you to the both of you for such a beautiful performance🙂
Aww thank you so much!
Beautiful!!😊 Which store in Houston should I go to buy viola.
If you’re a student I would check out Lisle-for professional level look at Amati. :)
@@MollyWiseViola Thank you
Wow, this is beautiful!!
Thank you so much!
Hi! Cool to find another musician with a similar follower count :) really cute video! Hope you do great with your channel!
Haven’t heard this before. Engaging performance! Your tone is to be envied. Hoping for more !
Thank you! Plenty more on my channel :)
Haunting and evocative. Never before heard Boulanger’s music. Beautiful performance!
Thank you for listening and your thoughtful comment!
🙂
I love the viola.
Thank you, me too!
This is so interesting
Thank you for watching!
Yes notes plizz✋🤲
Very nice work! I can hear the viola so well in the recording! Really lovely tone and expression. Excellent! :)
Thank you for listening!
What a beautiful arrangement of this piece! I really like the way you put the bottom melody at bar 15 in the viola part and gave the answer to the piano. Nicely done!
Thank you so much! I agree, I feel it makes the most sense that way :)
Beautiful!!!!❤
<3 this is exactly what I've been looking for.
aww thank you so much for watching!
Thanks! I found it useful to compare with what is in my viola case. I might invest in a humidifier!