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Julie Ann Giacobassi
photo by Norbert
The San Francisco Chronicle:
The San Francisco Examiner:
San Francisco Classical Voice:
Julie Ann Giacobassi, English
horn player with the San Francisco Symphony, is active in promoting,
performing and recording new music for the English horn and the oboe
d'amore. Her premiers include:
Eric Ewazen's
Quintet for English horn and Strings
Richard Felciano's Dark Landscape for
solo English horn
Deborah Kavasch's The Fox and
the Grapes
John Marvin's Concerto for
English Horn
Five Pieces for English Horn and Piano
Music from the Night for 2 oboes
and English horn
Octet
for Winds
Ratmir's Aria from Glinka's
Ruslan and Lyudmila, arr for
contralto, English horn and harp
Harold Schiffman's Chamber
Concerto for English Horn
Concerto for Oboe d'amore
John Thow's
Musica d'amore for oboe d'amore, viola
d'amore and harp
In 1994, Ms. Giacobassi along with conductor
Alasdair Neale and the San Francisco Symphony presented the world premiere
of Aaron Jay Kernis' Colored Field
for English horn and orchestra, commissioned for her by Hugh and Eugenie
Taylor. Both the San Francisco Chronicle and the Examiner rater
Colored Field in the top five
classical music highlights of 1994. Critic Joshua Kosman wrote, " The
piece was written to show off Giacobassi's particular skills, especially her
talent for shaping melodic lines with dark-hued eloquence, and it does so
splendidly. Her performance was as vibrant, as serenely shapely and as
precise as anyone could desire." Their recording of
Colored Field (for Argo) was
awarded with France's "Diapason d'Or" award.
Ms. Giacobassi joined the San Francisco Symphony as English horn player in 1981, and in 1985 made her solo debut with the Symphony performing Telemann's Concerto for Oboe d'amore. Other solo performances with the SFS have included Copland's Quiet City, Farberman's Shapings, Honneger's Concerto da Camera, and Sibelius' The Swan of Tuonela; and Peteris Vasks' Concerto for English Horn with the Grand Rapids Symphony.
Ms. Giacobassi began her oboe studies at the age of fourteen with Gail Warnaar in Muskegon, Michigan. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan where she studied with Florian Mueller. Before joining the San Francisco Symphony, Ms. Giacobassi performed as English horn player and oboist with the Shreveport Symphony, the National Ballet Orchestra, the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Wolf Trap, and the American Camerata for New Music. While in Washington, DC, Ms. Giacobassi studied with English horn player Richard White. She performs regularly in the San Francisco Bay area as part of Chamber Music Sundaes and the SFS Chamber Music Series.
