PLAY the Classics - Spring 2017 Program

I N A S S O C I AT I O N W I T H

THE MAGNIFICENCE OF CLASSICAL MUSIC COMES ALIVE SURROUNDED BY THE ELEGANCE OF THE BETHEL WOODS EVENT GALLERY. In a series of five performances in collaboration with Shandelee Music Festival, talented young professional musicians perform the works of master composers including Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Chopin, Ravel, Schumann and others.

Perfect for classical enthusiasts, each concert will be varied and interesting and will include something familiar and something new. It’s an ideal way to introduce a love and appreciation of classical music to new audiences including area youth.

Concerts begin with an engaging introduction to the repertoire being performed and are followed by a “mingle with the artist” dessert and coffee reception. You will have the opportunity to relax, see friends and make new acquaintances.

Support for PLAY: The Classics is crucial to its continued growth. The series is partially supported by gifts from The Guenther Family and Mr. & Mrs. Richard Goodman. To support this series, please visit BethelWoodsCenter.org/SupportTheArts or call 845.295.2501.

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IN COLLABORATION WITH

36 East 74th Street New York, NY 10021 646.657.0284 (September-June) Shandelee.org

P.O. Box 1264 Livingston Manor, NY 12758 845.439.3277 (July-August)

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Daniel Stroup, Co-Chair Marjorie Feuerstein, Co-Chair Harvey Susswein, Treasurer Jane Susswein, Secretary Eileen Bernstein-Ledwith Lana Ivanov Barbara Martinsons BOARD OF ADVISORS Sara Davis Buechner Maurice Gerry Charles Hamlen Linda Horak Christopher Kennedy, Head Piano Technician Barbara Konvalin Mary Lanza Charles Matz, Conductor/Music Historian HONORARY BOARD Professor Joseph Machlis, In Memoriam John Perry AndrĂŠ-Michel Schub Earl Wild, In Memoriam STAFF John Bernstein, Youth & Outreach Program Director Nathanial DePaul, Summer Staff Ignacio Feijo, Summer Staff Iris Gillingham, Summer Staff Lana Ivanov, Artistic Director Aden Johnson, Summer Staff Christopher Kennedy, Head Piano Technician Evan Madison, Summer Staff Carol Montana, Publicist Robert Porco, House Manager Richard Ruppert, Summer Staff Daniel Stroup, President Ashlen Udell, Box Office Manager Sincere and special thanks to Heidi Horak for sponsoring student tickets for Sullivan County youth.

200 Hurd Road, Bethel, NY 12720 1.866.781.2922 BethelWoodsCenter.org

BETHEL WOODS CENTER FOR THE ARTS BOARD OF TRUSTEES Alan Gerry, Founder & Chairman Darlene Fedun, CEO Kathy Frommer Jeffrey Gerson Ronald Greenberg Paul Guenther Nick LaHowchic Steve Marton D.W. Porto Stuart Salenger Ari Straus Keith Suehnholz Mike Watkins THE MUSEUM AT BETHEL WOODS BOARD OF TRUSTEES Darlene Fedun, CEO Michael Fisher Denise Frangipane Wade Lawrence Keith Suehnholz Phil Vallone We are exceedingly grateful to these dedicated individuals for significant contributions and ongoing passion for our mission.

Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is a not-for-profit cultural organization that inspires, educates, and empowers individuals through the arts and humanities.

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“AN AFTERNOON OF CHAMBER MUSIC” WITH THE

AEOLUS QUARTET

SUNDAY, APRIL 23, 2017 • 3:00 PM Nicholas Tavani, violin Rachel Shapiro, violin Gregory Luce, viola Alan Richardson, cello Franz Schubert

“Quartettsatz” in C Minor, D 703

Samuel Barber

String Quartet in B Minor, Op. 11

Robert Schumann

A Major Quartet Op. 41, No. 3

(1797-1828) (1910-1981) (1841-1904)

“High-octane performance...”

— Strad Magazine

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— Dallas Morning News Praised by the Baltimore Sun for combining “smoothly meshed technique with a sense of spontaneity and discovery,” the AEOLUS QUARTET is committed to presenting time-seasoned masterworks and new cutting-edge works to widely diverse audiences with equal freshness, dedication, and fervor. Violinists Nicholas Tavani and Rachel Shapiro, violist Gregory Luce, and cellist Alan Richardson formed the Aeolus Quartet in 2008 at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Since its inception, the all-American quartet has been awarded prizes at nearly every major competition in the United States and performed across the globe with showings “worthy of a major-league quartet” (Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News). Mark Satola of the Cleveland Plain Dealer writes, “A rich and warm tone combined with precise ensemble playing (that managed also to come across as fluid and natural), and an impressive musical intelligence guided every technical and dramatic turn.” They were the 2013-2015 Graduate Resident String Quartet at the Juilliard School, and they currently make their home in New York City.

AE OLUS QUA RT E T

“A performance worthy of a major-league quartet”

The Aeolus Quartet are Grand Prizewinners of the 2011 Plowman Chamber Music Competition and 2011 Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition. They were awarded First Prize at the 2009 Coleman International Chamber Ensemble Competition, a Silver Medal at the 2011 Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition, and a Bronze Medal at the 2010 International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in New England. The 6th Annual Austin Critics’ Table named the Aeolus Quartet their 2010-2011 “Best Ensemble.” The Aeolus Quartet has released two critically acclaimed albums of classical and contemporary works through the Longhorn/Naxos label which are available on iTunes, Amazon, and major retailers worldwide.

The Quartet has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia in venues such as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Reinberger Recital Hall at Severance Hall, Merkin Hall, The Library of Congress, Renwick Gallery, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center.

Dedicated to bringing music into the community, the Aeolus Quartet has been widely recognized for their highly innovative and engaging outreach programs. For the 2015-2016 season, the Quartet is the recipient of a CMA Residency Partnership Grant.

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A E OLUS QUARTE T

Named the 2015-2016 Guarneri Quartet Residency in recognition of Aeolus’ artistic achievement, the project will involve extensive outreach and performance at Duke Ellington School for the Arts, the Sitar Arts Center, and George Washington University. The Fischoff National Chamber Music Association awarded the Aeolus their 2013 Educator Award in acknowledgment of the positive impact their educational efforts have had in diverse communities. Additionally, they were awarded the 2012 Lad Prize which culminated in large-scale community engagement work, performing in the Stanford area, and a masterclass residency at Stanford University. The Aeolus Quartet has also served as teaching faculty at Stanford University’s Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), the Austin Chamber Music Workshop, and Da Camera of Houston’s Music Encounters Program. Working in collaboration with the University of Texas through the Rural Chamber Music Outreach Initiative, the Quartet has presented educational programs and performances in communities throughout the state of Texas.

The Aeolus Quartet has studied extensively with the Juilliard, Guarneri, St. Lawrence, and Miró Quartets. Other mentors include artists such as William Preucil, Peter Salaff, Donald Weilerstein, Itzhak Perlman, Gerhard Schulz, and Mark Steinberg. Members of the Quartet hold degrees from the Juilliard School, Peabody Conservatory, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the University of Maryland, and the University of Texas at Austin. They served as Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence at Juilliard, the University of Maryland, and the University of Texas.

The Quartet’s 2015-2016 season includes multiple performances in New York— including Merkin Hall, a Bargemusic residency, and the Morgan Library—residencies at BYU Idaho, University of Iowa, and Southern Oregon University, and extensive touring throughout the United States. In addition, the Quartet is partnering with the Detroit Chamber Music Society and NYU’s MUSED Lab to create an entirely new app-based educational music residency experience for schools. Aeolus is the recipient of the 2015-2016 CMA Residency Partnership Grant for residency work with George Washington University, the Duke Ellington School, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and their project was named the Guarneri Quartet Residency in recognition of their artistic excellence. The Quartet is named for the Greek god Aeolus, who governed the four winds. This idea of a single spirit uniting four individual forces serves as an inspiration to the members of the Aeolus Quartet as they pursue their art.

“The Aeolus Quartet combined smoothly meshed technique with a sense of spontaneity and discovery” — Baltimore Sun

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ANDREW ARCECI BAROQUE ENSEMBLE SUNDAY, MAY 7, 2017 • 3:00 PM

Teresa Wakim, soprano Asako Takeuchi, baroque violin Andrew Arceci, viola da gamba; direction Leon Schelhase, harpsichord John McKean, harpsichord Monsieur de Sainte Colombe

Prélude

François Francœur (1698-1787)

Tout est prẽt, air de Roxane, from Scanderberg

Marin Marais

Suite, Piѐces de viole (A Minor)

Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Sans frayeur dans ce bois

F. Francœur

Sonate III

M. Charpentier

Quoi! rien ne peut vous arrẽter

M. Marais

Suite, Piѐces de viole (G Major)

Michel Lambert

Vos mѐpris chaque jour

F. Francœur

Sonate VI

M. Charpentier

Ah! Qu’ils sont courts les beaux jours

(fl. 17th century)

(1656-1728) (1643-1704)

(ca. 1610-1696)

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A ND REW ARCECI BAROQUE E N SE M B LE 8

Performer, composer/arranger, and scholar, ANDREW ARCECI has been applauded for his “lovely tones and superb ensemble playing” (New York Times) and his “subtle but substantial supporting bass line” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer). He has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He has appeared with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (UK), Oxford Baroque (UK), and Collegium Musicum Den Haag (Netherlands). He has collaborated with the Boston Camerata, Handel & Haydn Society, Arcadia Players, Tempesta di Mare—Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, The Folger Consort, Washington Bach Consort, Washington National Cathedral, TENET, and Harmonious Blacksmith. He has presented at musicology conferences in Portugal, the UK, and the US; and has given workshops at the University of Oxford (UK), University of Cambridge (UK), University of Edinburgh (UK), Narnia Arts Academy (Narni; Italy), Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan), Burapha University (Thailand), the International Baroque Institute at Longy-Bard College (US), Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (US), and Illinois Wesleyan University (US). Currently, he directs the Col-legium Musicum at Wellesley College, as well as the Winchendon Music Festival.

Recording credits include soundtrack work for the BBC (UK), and the labels Novum (UK), Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (Germany), Bôłt Records/Monotype Records (Poland), and Cedille Records (US).

Praised for her “bejeweled lyric soprano” (The Boston Globe), as “a marvel of perfect intonation and pure tone” (New York Arts), and with a voice of “extraordinary suppleness and beauty” (The New York Times), soprano TERESA WAKIM was First Prize Winner of the International Soloist Competi-tion for Early Music in Brunnenthal, Austria.

Much sought-after in Europe and North America for her interpretations of concerted repertoire, she has performed under conductors Roger Norrington, Har-ry Christophers, Laurence Cummings, Martin Haselböck, Ton Koopman, and Nicholas McGegan. Solo engagements include Bach’s Mass in B Minor, St. John Passion, and Magnificat with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Bach’s Wedding Cantata and Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer with the Cleveland Orchestra, Bach’s Missa Brevis with the San Francisco Symphony, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with Boston Baroque, Bach’s Magnificat with Wiener Akademie Orchester, Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requi-em with the Omaha Symphony, Bach’s Mass in B Minor with Louisiana Philharmon-ic, Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate with New World Symphony and the Handel & Haydn Society, Han-del’s Messiah with the Charlotte, San Antonio, Alabama, and Tucson Symphonies, and Orff’s Carmina Burana with Boston Landmarks Orchestra. She also performs with Mercury Baroque Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival, Apollo’s Fire, Vancouver Early Music, Dallas Bach Society, At-lanta Baroque Orchestra, Tragicomedia, and Pacific Musicworks. She

Touring extensively as a solo, chamber, and orchestral player throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, violinist ASAKO TAKEUCHI has performed with ensembles such as the Wallfisch Band (UK), Collegium Musicum Den Haag (Netherlands), Den Haag Piano Quintet (Netherlands), The Bach Choir & Orchestra of the Netherlands, Arion Baroque Orchestra (Canada), Boston Baroque (USA), and Handel & Haydn Society (USA).

She has played at festivals, including Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht (Netherlands), Deutsches Mozartfest and Innsbruck Festival (Germany), Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona (Spain), MUPA International Arts Festival (Thailand), Abbaye aux Dames (France), and Aston Magna Music Festival (USA). Discography includes recordings with The Wallfisch Band (solo-ist), Arion Baroque Orchestra, and The Bach Choir & Orchestra of the Netherlands. She has given workshops at Burapha University (Thailand), and holds degrees from the Royal Conservatory in the Hague (Netherlands), University of Southern California, and Berklee College of Music.

A native of Cape Town, South Africa, LEON SCHELHASE found interest in Baroque music at an early age. He studied the harpsichord, and subsequently landed in the United States where he is a sought after soloist and continuo performer. A recipient of the American Bach Soloists’ prestigious Goldberg Prize, Leon has performed with ensembles including Emmanuel Music, American Bach Soloists, REBEL, New York State Baroque, and appeared with notables Elizabeth Wallfisch, Julie Andrijeski and Julianne Baird. Leon holds a BMus (Hons) from the University of Cape Town, and a Master’s Degree in Historical Performance from Boston University. He currently resides in Philadelphia where he has joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music.

By the time JOHN MCKEAN first built a harpsichord at the age of 13, he had already been captivated by early keyboard instruments and Baroque music. He has distinguished himself internationally as both a performer and scholar of historical keyboard music and performance practice. He has been critically acclaimed for his “intelligent” and “precise” playing (The Washington Post) and for his “sonorous bril-liance and thrilling, dance-like energy” (Allgäuer Zeitung). Also active as a musicologist, his playing is steeped in rich historical context and scholarly understanding; but ultimately it is his artistry and interpretive prowess that leave audiences enthralled.

AN D RE W A RC E C I BAROQUE ENSEMBLE

has portrayed and recorded multiple operas by Charpentier and Lully with the Boston Early Music Festival, including the roles of Flore, Aréthuse, and Daphne on their 2015 GRAMMY-winning recording of La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers and La Couronne de Fleurs.

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ABOUT THE COLLABORATORS

PROGRAM DIRECTOR: DANIEL STROUP is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music. He has 26 years of music education experience at the United Nations International School, where he currently is on the music faculty. As founding president and Co-Chair of the Shandelee Music Festival he has 24 years of experience overseeing the Festival’s growth, which included implementing membership, scholarship, corporate sponsor, and concert underwriting programs. Over the years, SMF has presented concerts for over 11,000 concert-goers and has held outreach programs and summer educational programs for over 3,500 students and young artists.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR: LANA IVANOV has a wealth of experience and expertise in arts management. She is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music and has worked in the music industry for over 25 years. She has worked for ICM Artists in NYC, been Executive Director for the Young Pianists Competition of New Jersey, and is currently the Artistic Director for SMF, faculty member of “Musica in Laguna” in Chioggia, Italy, and is the Education and Artistic Administrator for Narnia Arts Academy in Narni, Italy.

YOUTH OUTREACH DIRECTOR: JOHN BERNSTEIN is the liaison between Bethel Woods, Shandelee Music Festival, and Sullivan County music teachers and students.

Mr. Bernstein is a native of Grahamsville, NY. He is a music educator at Monticello High School, pianist, and graduate of the Crane School of Music. His musical background spans across many borders, as does his approach to the learning and appreciation of music. As a member of the Sullivan County Music Educator’s Association, as well as NYSSMA and other professional organizations, Mr. Bernstein works closely with music colleagues across many school districts to help spread this exciting opportunity to the area’s music students. He believes music has the possibility to reach all individuals, and all individuals have the possibility to explore, decipher, and enjoy music.

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