Fluid Dynamics Rachel Lee Priday & David Kaplan

• Gabriella Smith (b. 1991): Entangled on a Rotating Planet:
• 1 Smith: Entangled on a Rotating Planet 04:38
• Paul Wiancko (b. 1983): Waterworks:
• 2 Wiancko: Waterworks 04:15
• Cristina Spinei (b. 1984): Convection Loops:
• 3 Spinei: Convection Loops 05:18
• Timo Andres (b. 1985): Three Suns:
• 4 Andres: Three Suns 08:29
• Leilehua Lanzilotti (b. 1983): ko’u inoa:
• 5 Lanzilotti: ko’u inoa 05:59
• to speak in a forgotten language:
• 6 Lanzilotti: to speak in a forgotten language: I 01:15
• 7 Lanzilotti: to speak in a forgotten language: II 02:31
• 8 Lanzilotti: to speak in a forgotten language: III 01:13
• Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984): Sonata for Violin and Piano:
• 9 Cerrone: Sonata for Violin and Piano: Fast and focused, with gradually increasing intensity 04:24
• 10 Cerrone: Sonata for Violin and Piano: Still and spacious, but always moving forward 04:21
• 11 Cerrone: Sonata for Violin and Piano: Dramatic, violent, rhythmic, very precise 05:57
• Total Runtime 48:20

Info for Fluid Dynamics

Partnering with oceanographer Georgy Manucharyan and six visionary composers, violinist Rachel Lee Priday embarks on a musically rich project that blends classical music with the visual poetry of fluid dynamics experiments, including a new album, Fluid Dynamics, with pianist David Kaplan out Friday, August 23, 2024 on Orchid Classics. The album features world premiere recordings of works commissioned specifically for this project by Gabriella Smith, Paul Wiancko, Cristina Spinei, Timo Andres, Leilehua Lanzilotti and Christopher Cerrone. Liner notes have been contributed by Katy Hamilton.

The genesis of this ambitious project traces back to an unexpected encounter in 2019 when Priday, newly appointed to the University of Washington's School of Music, crossed paths with Georgy Manucharyan of the School of Oceanography, who studies what he describes as "the physics of the ocean - how currents move, and what causes their motion." Fascinated by Manucharyan's research on ocean currents and fluid dynamics, Priday recognized a unique opportunity to synergize their disciplines. ...

Rachel Lee Priday, violin
David Kaplan, piano

Rachel Lee Priday
Celebrated for her "dazzling technique" and "captivating" performances (The Strad), violinist Rachel Lee Priday has appeared as soloist with major international orchestras, among them the Chicago, Houston, National, Pacific, St. Louis and Seattle Symphony Orchestras, Boston Pops Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Germany's Staatskapelle Berlin. Her distinguished recital appearances have brought her to eminent venues, including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' Mostly Mozart Festival, Chicago's Ravinia Festival and Dame Myra Hess Memorial Series, Paris's Musée du Louvre, Germany's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and Switzerland's Verbier Festival.

Passionately committed to new music and creating enriching community and global connections, Rachel Lee Priday's wide-ranging repertoire and multidisciplinary collaborations reflect a deep fascination with literary and cultural narratives. Her work as soloist with the Asia / America New Music Institute promoted cultural exchange between Asia and the Americas, combining premiere performances with educational outreach in the US, China, and Vietnam. She has premiered and commissioned works by composers including Matthew Aucoin, Christopher Cerrone, Gabriella Smith, Timo Andres, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Cristina Spinei, Melia Watras, and Paul Wiancko. In 2022, she premiered a new Violin Concerto, "Kuyén," written for her by Miguel Farías, which depicts the Moon in Mapuche mythology, with the UC Davis Symphony at the Mondavi Center.

Recent season highlights have included a duo recital with composer/pianist Timo Andres in Seattle and for the Phillips Collection, exploring the through-lines of American twentieth and twenty-first century violin and piano works, and a third tour of South Africa, where she appeared in recital and performed the José White Lafitte Concerto with the Johannesburg and Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonics. Upcoming and recent concerto engagements include the Portland Symphony, Springfield (MO) Symphony, Pensacola Symphony, Symphony San Jose, South Carolina Philharmonic, and Bangor Symphony.

Since making her orchestral debut at the Aspen Music Festival in 1997, Rachel has performed with numerous orchestras across the United States, including the Colorado Symphony, Alabama, Knoxville, Rockford, Annapolis, and New York Youth Symphonies. In Europe and in Asia, she has appeared at the Moritzburg Festival in Germany and with orchestras in Graz, Austria, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Korea, where she performed with the KBS Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic and Russian State Symphony Orchestra on tour. She has toured South Africa extensively, and has given recitals in the United Kingdom at the Universities of Birmingham and Cambridge.

Rachel Lee Priday began her violin studies at the age of four in Chicago, after she saw the sheep puppet Lamb Chop pretend to play the violin in "Lamb Chop's Play-Along." Shortly thereafter, she moved to New York City to study with the iconic pedagogue Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard School. Her teachers and mentors include Itzhak Perlman, Catherine Cho, Won-Bin Yim, Robert Mann, and Miriam Fried. She holds a B.A. degree in English from Harvard University and an M.M. from the New England Conservatory. Since 2019, she serves on the faculty of University of Washington School of Music in Seattle as Assistant Professor of Violin.

David Kaplan
is a New York-born piano soloist and chamber musician, praised by The Boston Globe for "grace and fire" at the keyboard. He has appeared as soloist with the Britten Sinfonia and Das Sinfonie Orchester Berlin, and in the 2023-24 season makes debuts with the Symphony Orchestras of Hawaii and San Antonio. He has given recitals at the Ravinia Festival, Washington's National Gallery, and New York's Carnegie and Merkin Halls, and in addition to his work with Decoda, has collaborated with the Attacca, Ariel, and Tesla String Quartets.

Kaplan is the Assistant Professor and Inaugural Shapiro Family Chair in Piano Performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, where he has taught since 2016. A graduate of UCLA, Yale, and a Fulbright scholar in Berlin, Kaplan's teachers and mentors include Claude Frank, Walter Ponce, Miyoko Lotto, and Richard Goode. Away from the keyboard, he loves cartooning and cooking, and is mildly obsessed with classic cars.

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