Camerata Pacifica 2022-2023 Season Program

The Warner Henry Family Chamber Music Series at Zipper Hall

Long recognized as two of Los Angeles’ most important arts philanthropists, Warner and Carol Henry have devoted their lives to promoting music in the city. Warner served on Camerata Pacifica’s Board of Directors and was responsible for establishing our performances at the Colburn S chool.

It is entirely fitting therefore, with everyone at Camerata Pacifica so grateful and proud, that the Henry family name will be forever associated with our ensemble’s performances in one of the world’s arts capitals.

Photo credit Steve Cohn

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Camerata Pacifica

Camerata Pacifica’s mission is to affect positively how people experience live performances of clas sical music. The organization will engage our audience intellectually and emotionally by presenting the finest performances of familiar and lesser-known masterworks in venues that emphasize intimacy and a personal connection with the music and musicians.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Randy Shulman President Mary Tonetti Dorra Vice President Susan Keats Secretary Titus Brenninkmeijer Treasurer Kimberley Valentine Immediate Past President Joan Davidson David Lessoff Stan Tabler

Amalia Taylor Judith Vida-Spence Jonathan Weedman

Adrian Spence Artistic Director Roger Wight Executive Director

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF

Adrian Spence Artistic Director Roger Wight Executive Director Daniel Irick Patron Services Manager Becca Clarke Manager of Administration Skye Navarro Manager of Production Aki Freshman Bookkeeper

LIFETIME MEMBERS OF CAMERATA PACIFICA

Jordan and Sandra Laby Donald McInnes Warren Jones John Steinmetz William A. Stewart

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September 2022 sponsored by MonteCedro

Sunday 25, 3 p.m. Ventura

The Jordan & Sandra Laby Series Tuesday 27, 7:30 p.m. San Marino Thursday 29, 8 p.m. Los Angeles The Warner Henry Family Chamber Music Series at Zipper Hall Friday 30, 7:30 p.m. Santa Barbara

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Trio for Oboe, Cello and Piano after Arranged by Lera Auerbach (b. 1973) the Sonata for Flute and Piano, Op. 94 24’00”

Nicholas Daniel, Oboe I. Moderato Ani Aznavoorian, Cello II. Scherzo: Presto Irina Zahharenkova, Piano III. Andante IV. Allegro con brio

Max Bruch (1838-1920)

Ani Aznavoorian Irina Zahharenkova

Valentin Silvestrov (b. 1937)

Ani Aznavoorian Irina Zahharenkova

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Kol Nidrei, Op. 47 11’00”

Postludium No. 3 for Cello and Piano 4’30”

Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67 27’00”

Tereza Stanislav, Violin I. Andante Ani Aznavoorian II. Allegro con brio Irina Zahharenkova III. Largo IV. Allegretto

Programs, artists, and dates are subject to change.

October 2022

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Friday 21, 7:30 p.m. Santa Barbara Sunday 23, 3 p.m. Ventura

The Jordan & Sandra Laby Series Tuesday 25, 7:30 p.m. San Marino Wednesday 26, 8 p.m. Los Angeles

The Warner Henry Family Chamber Music Series at Zipper Hall

Sonata for Solo Cello in B Minor, Op. 8 Arranged for viola by Yura Lee 30’00” Yura Lee, Viola

Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)

I. Allegro maestoso ma appassionato II. Adagio con gran espressione III. Allegro molto vivace

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber (1644-1704) Passacaglia for Solo Violin in G Minor 9’00” Yura Lee, Violin

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 65 25’00”

I. Allegro moderato Soyeon Kate Lee, Piano II. Scherzo III. Largo IV. Finale. Allegro

Jonathan Swensen, Cello

Programs, artists, and dates are subject to change.

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November 2022

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Sunday 13, 3 p.m. Ventura

Tuesday 15, 7:30 p.m. San Marino

The Jordan & Sandra Laby Series

The Warner Henry Family Chamber Music Series at Zipper Hall Friday 18, 7:30 p.m. Santa Barbara

Thursday 17, 8 p.m. Los Angeles

Emma O’Halloran (b. 1985)

Ji Hye Jung, Percussion

How Sweet the Thought of You as Infinite 7’00”

Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)

Gustave Le Gray 10’00” Soyeon Kate Lee, Piano

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 18’00” Soyeon Kate Lee

Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943) Velocities (Moto Perpetuo for Solo Marimba) 8’00”

Ji Hye Jung

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)

Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4 4’30” Soyeon Kate Lee

Christopher Cerrone (b. 1984) Double Happiness 14’00”

Ji Hye Jung

Soyeon Kate Lee

Programs, artists, and dates are subject to change.

February 2023

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Sunday 12, 3 p.m. Ventura The Jordan & Sandra Laby Series Tuesday 14, 7:30 p.m. San Marino Thursday 16, 8 p.m. Los Angeles The Warner Henry Family Chamber Music Series at Zipper Hall Friday 17, 7:30 p.m. Santa Barbara

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in F Minor, Op. 80 27’00”

Paul Huang, Violin I. Andante assai Gilles Vonsattel, Piano II. Allegro brusco III. Andante IV. Allegrissimo

Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)

Paul Huang Jason Uyeyama, Violin (Off Stage)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Prelude in Memoriam Dmitri Shostakovich 5’00”

Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in B Minor, Op. 115 38’00”

Jose Franch-Ballester, Clarinet I. Allegro Paul Huang II. Adagio Jason Uyeyama III. Andantino Scott Lee, Viola IV. Con moto Ani Aznavoorian, Cello

Programs, artists, and dates are subject to change.

Tuesday Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m. San Marino

Thursday 2, 8 p.m. Los Angeles

Friday 3, 7:30 p.m. Santa Barbara

March 2023

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The Warner Henry Family Chamber Music Series at Zipper Hall

Sunday 5, 3 p.m. Ventura The Jordan & Sandra Laby Series

Emi Ferguson and Ruckus

Emi Ferguson, Baroque Flute

Clay Zeller-Townson, Founder and Baroque Bassoon

Daniel Swenberg, Theorbo Elliot Figg, Harpsichord and Organ Coleman Itzkoff, Cello Paul Holmes Morton, Baroque Guitar Douglas Balliett, Bass

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

The Craftsman, BWV 1034

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude in G Major, BWV 884 Sonata for Flute and Continuo in E Minor, BWV 1034

I. Adagio ma non troppo II. Allegro

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude in E Minor, BWV 855 Sonata for Flute and Continuo in E Minor, BWV 1034

III. Andante IV. Allegro

The Teacher and the Student, BWV 1033

The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude in G Minor, after the Prelude in C Minor, BWV 847 Aria, from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 Sonata for Flute and Continuo in C Major, BWV 1033

I. Andante - Presto

II. Allegro Prelude for Lute in C Minor, BWV 999 Sonata for Flute and Continuo in C Major, BWV 1033

III. Adagio

IV. Minuet 1 & 2 Variation 30, Quodlibet, from the Goldberg Variations, BWV 988

The Eccentric, BWV 1035

Sonata for Flute and Continuo in E Major, BWV 1035

I. Adagio ma non tanto

II. Allegro

IV. Allegro assai

III. Siciliano

French Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major (alternate version): Prelude in E Major, after the Praeludium in E-flat Major, BWV 815a

Programs, artists, and dates are subject to change.

April 2023

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Steinway & Sons

Sunday 16, 3 p.m. Ventura

The Jordan & Sandra Laby Series Tuesday 18, 7:30 p.m. San Marino Thursday 20, 8 p.m. Los Angeles The Warner Henry Family Chamber Music Series at Zipper Hall Friday 21, 7:30 p.m. Santa Barbara

Krzysztof Zgraja (b. 1950)

Sofia Viland, Flute

Otar Taktakishvili (1924-1989)

Virtuoso Flamenco Study No. 1 5’00”

Sonata for Flute and Piano in C Major 17’00”

I. Allegro cantabile Irina Zahharenkova, Piano II. Aria. Moderato con moto III. Allegro scherzando

Sofia Viland, Flute

Julia Gomelskaya (1964-2016)

Sofia Viland

Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

The hint only… 4’00”

Partita, Op. 2 7’00”

Irina Zahharenkova I. toccatina II. fughetta III. larghetto IV. ostinato

Libby Larsen (b. 1950)

New Work (World Premiere) 20’00” Commissioned by Joan Davidson in memory Benjamin Goldscheider, Horn of her husband John Schnittker. Jonathan Swensen, Cello Irina Zahharenkova

Programs, artists, and dates are subject to change.

Friday 12, 7:30 p.m. Santa Barbara

Sunday 14, 3 p.m. Ventura

Tuesday 16, 7:30 p.m. San Marino

Thursday 18, 8 p.m. Los Angeles

May 2023

The Jordan & Sandra Laby Series

The Warner Henry Family Chamber Music Series at Zipper Hall

John Adams (b. 1947)

Shaker Loops 30’00”

I. Shaking and Trembling Tricia Park, Violin II. Hymning Slews Jason Uyeyama, Violin III. Loops and Verses Mathis Rochat, Viola IV. A Final Shaking Ani Aznavoorian, Cello Raman Ramakrishnan, Cello Timothy Eckert, Double Bass

Joseph Lin, Violin

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Cantata, “Non sa che sia dolore,” BWV 209 22’00”

Samuel Mariño, Male Soprano I. Sinfonia Matvey Demin, Flute II. Recitative: “Non sa che sia dolore” Joseph Lin, Violin III. Aria: “Parti pur, e con dolore” Tricia Park, Violin IV. Recitative: “Tuo saver al tempo e l’età contrasta” Jason Uyeyama, Violin V. Aria: “Ricetti gramezza e pavento” Agnes Gottschewski, Violin Mathis Rochat, Viola

Jonathan Moerschel, Viola Ani Aznavoorian, Cello Raman Ramakrishnan, Cello Timothy Eckert, Double Bass Paolo Bordignon, Harpsichord

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)

Salve Regina in C Minor 14’00”

I. Salve Regina (Largo)

II. Ad te clamamus

III. Eia ergo, Advocata nostra (Andante)

IV. Et Jesum, benedictum (Andante amoroso)

V. O clemens, O pia (Largo assai)

Programs, artists, and dates are subject to change.

The Nightingale Channel . . . a sound approach to wellness.

Developed in 2020 for UCLA Health, The Nightingale Channel is a unique resource, delivering high-quality, on demand performances of classical music to patient bedsides.

Historically, music has long been used to benefit patient outcomes, noted, indeed, by the eponymous Florence Nightingale. The Nightingale Channel channel lies at the nexus of music, health and wellness offering benefits to both patients and hospital staff.

In recent years an array of studies has been published enumerating the benefits on health outcomes provided by classical music. “[Music] is used in targeted treatments for asthma, autism, depression and more, including brain disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy and stroke.” – New York Times. It improves postoperative recovery, and can provide relief of post-traumatic stress symptoms in frontline healthcare workers working in the current COVID-19 pandemic.

A video channel curating classical music specifically for hospital applications.

“We’ve found compelling evidence that musical interventions can play a health care role in settings ranging from operating rooms to family clinics. But even more importantly, we were able to document the neurochemical mechanisms by which music has an effect in four domains: management of mood, stress, immunity and as an aid to social bonding.” – Prof. Daniel J. Levitin, McGill University

“Music played in the perioperative setting can reduce postoperative pain, anxiety, and analgesia needs, and improve patient satisfaction.” – The Lancet

“Listening to music enhanced the activity of genes involved in dopamine secretion and transport, synaptic function, learning and memory. One of the most upregulated genes, synuclein-alpha (SNCA) is a known risk gene for Parkinson’s disease that is located in the strongest linkage region of musical aptitude. … In contrast, listening to music down-regulated genes that are associated with neurodegeneration, referring to a neuroprotective role of music.” – The Effect of Listening to Music on Human Transcriptome. Peer J

Nightingale concert programs have been created specifically with the patient experience in mind; curated by Camerata Pacifica’s Artistic Director Adria n Spe nce, wit h short introductions that provide context and musical insights .

Chamber music is a multifaceted art; it can be beautiful, fun, sometimes curious and unusual, other times soothing and comforting, and it can be deeply moving.

Says Spence, “Whether familiar with classical music or a complete novice, hearing this music one is aware of being part of a greater whole, especially in times of heightened emotions. Creating these programs, I was aware some will be listening as they face their most profound challenges, and I hope when spirits are at their lowest, alone, in the middle of the night, perhaps The Nightingale Channel will offer the solace of meaningful musical companionship.”

T h e N i g h t i n g a l e C h an ne l w i ll o f fer

hours of programming at the swipe of a finger, with newly recorded music from live performances being added regularly.

The Nightingale Channel is, or will be, offered to patients at UCLA Health, UC Davis Health, Keck Medicine at USC, Loma Linda University Medical Center and City of Hope National Medical Center.

For further information about The Nightingale Channel contact Camerata Pacifica’s Executive Director, Roger Wight at roger@cameratapacifica.org.

Adrian Spence founded Camerata Pacifica when he was 25 years old, as The Bach Camerata. Originally a chamber orchestra, its inaugural performance was Bach’s six Brandenburg concertos on December 3rd, 1990 in Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre. In 1994 the name changed to Camerata Pacifica and the ensemble launched into a dedicated exploration of the world of chamber music. Over the course of 33 seasons, Camerata Pacifica has developed a loyal following, now presenting resident series in Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Marino and Los Angeles.

As an administrator, Spence created a business model to permit the presentation of world-class artists in intimate venues, emphasizing the essence of chamber music. Camerata Pacifica’s artists, drawn from around the world, are selected by Spence not just because they are exceptional musicians, but because their individual characters combine in an eclectic and compelling mix, that is the ensemble’s distinct personality.

The musicians’ personality is matched by that of the audience. Over three decades, the maxim “treat intelligent people intelligently” has informed an uncompromising approach to programming, enthusiastically embraced by an audience whose intellectual curiosity is evident at every performance. Heritage works are presented in context with less familiar music and newly commissioned works, in a manner welcoming, provocative and, occasionally, challenging—always illuminating the limitless reward provided by the chamber music repertoire. The production of new music is critical to Spence’s mission, with a commissioning portfolio of 16 works by composers who

include; John Harbison, Jake Heggie, Huang Ruo, Lera Auerbach, Bright Sheng, Ian Wilson, David Bruce and John Luther Adams. Currently, another four commissions are in process, from EmmaRuth Richards, Clarice Assad, Libby Larsen and Niloufar Nourbakhsh.

In 2020 Spence developed a landmark resource for hospitals entitled The Nightingale Channel. The initiative draws upon Camerata Pacifica’s extensive video library to create curated programming delivered to patient bedsides, offering interest and solace when it can be particularly meaningful. Launched in 2021, The Nightingale Channel has been adopted by UCLA Health, UC Davis Health, Keck Medicine of USC, Loma Linda University Medical Center, and City of Hope National Medical Center, and is being introduced to hospitals across the country.

Spence comes from Newtownards in County Down, Northern Ireland. He has three children, Erin, Keiran and Kaeli, and is a master-rated skydiver having logged over 2,000 skydives.

Founder & Artistic Director

ADRIAN SPENCE, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Breaking News!

Beginning in the 2023/24 season, Camerata Pacifica will launch a small series of concerts on period instruments, curated by the amazing baroque-force-of-nature, Emi Ferguson.

Details coming soon.

“I am so excited to share music not only from your favourite Baroque composers, (Bach will be there, don’t worry!), but also music from those whose stars were not given quite the same hoist through history, whose names will burn bright in your minds and ears the moment you hear their music. As with all Camerata Pacifica concerts, you’ll hear this music performed in all of its glory, by the world’s best interpreters, right in the comfort of your own back yard.

I cannot wait for the first season of Camerata Pacifica Baroque!”

Emi Ferguson Music Director

THE FRENCH DISPATCH

Baroque music from, or inspired by, France including...

Michel Pignolet de Montéclair: Ariane et Bacchus Cantata Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre: Trio Sonata and Selected Arias Guédon de Presles: Suite of Songs

François Couperin: Les Barricades mystérieuses

G.F. Telemann: Paris Quartet no.12 in e minor

FROM BACH TO BOLIVIA

New arrangements of Bach’s keyboard works for organ and from the well-tempered klavier for ensemble alongside Baroque chamber music from Bolivia by Anonymous composers.

J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C Major, BWV 846 (arr. for ensemble)

Anonymous: Sonata Chiquitana No.4, Amch 264 (tutti)

J.S. Bach: Trio Sonata for Organ No. 5 in C Major, BWV 529 (arr. for ensemble)

Anonymous: Sonata XIV in G Major

J.S. Bach: Prelude and Fugue no. 2 in C Minor, BWV 847

J.S. Bach: Trio Sonata for Organ No. 6, in C minor, BWV 526 (arr. for ensemble)

Anonymous: La Folia

Rebecca Fay

The Strad magazine describes cellist Ani Aznavoorian as having “scorchingly committed performances that wring every last drop of emotion out of the music. Her technique is well-nigh immaculate, she has a natural sense of theater, and her tone is astonishingly responsive.” Ms. Aznavoorian has appeared as soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Finnish Radio Symphony, the Boston Pops, and the Juilliard Orchestra. She received both her Bachelor and Master of Music Performance degrees from The Juilliard School in New York, where she studied with Aldo Parisot.

Ms. Aznavoorian is an avid chamber musician, and this season marks her 16th year as principal cellist of Camerata Pacifica. She also performs regularly at the Seattle Chamber Music Society and at the Jupiter Chamber Players series in NY, along with numerous other chamber music festivals around the globe. Her many accolades include being the recipient of the prestigious Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award in Tokyo, Japan for her outstanding cello playing and artistry, being named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts upon receiving a medal by President Bill Clinton, and being a prize winner of the International Paulo Cello Competition in Helsinki, Finland.

She is a proponent of new music and she has premiered cello concertos by Lera Auerbach and Ezra Laderman and continues to expand the chamber music repertoire with over two dozen commissions and world premier performances. Teaching is also important to her, and she has served on the distinguished faculty of the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, and she is often asked to give master classes when she travels to perform. The 2022-23 season includes a concert tour of Asia and a promotional tour of her most recent album entitled Gems from Armenia with her sister Marta, pianist. Ms. Aznavoorian records for Cedille Records and she proudly performs on a cello made by her father Peter Aznavoorian in Chicago.

Nicholas Daniel is one of Britain’s best known musicians. He has premiered hundreds of new works for the oboe and made many critically acclaimed recordings. He is also a successful conductor, including being Music Director of the critically acclaimed Orion Orchestra in London and of Triorca, consisting of young musicians from Germany, the UK and Serbia. He was given the Queen’s medal for Music in 2011 and appointed OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 2020.

Nicholas won the 1980 BBC Young Musician competition, after which he quickly established his career, traveling all over the world, broadcasting widely, and making his debut at the Proms. He has made many critically acclaimed recordings of both new and familiar works. As a soloist he has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, performing a huge range of repertoire and premiering works written especially for him by many

of the world’s greatest composers. He is a founding member of the Britten Sinfonia, the Haffner Wind Ensemble, Orsino, and the Britten Oboe Quartet, and a member of Camerata Pacifica in California. He lives in Cambridgeshire, U.K. with his husband and his cats Cristāl, a British Blue, and Diamond, a Maine Coon. He is Professor at the Trossingen Musikhochschule in Germany, where he guides a class of outstanding young oboists.

ANI AZNAVOORIAN, PRINCIPAL CELLO

NICHOLAS DANIEL, PRINCIPAL OBOE

The multi-award-winning Spanish clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester is considered one of the finest classical soloists and chamber music artists of his generation. He has been hailed for his “technical wizardry and tireless enthusiasm” (The New York Times), and his “subtle and consummate artistry” (Santa Barbara Independent). The recipient of a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2008, and winner of both the Young Concert Artists and Astral Artists auditions, he is a solo artist and chamber musician in great demand.

Mr. Franch-Ballester is a recentlyappointed Assistant Professor of Clarinet and Chamber Music at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He regularly performs as the Principal Clarinetist at Camerata Pacifica in Santa Barbara, California and appears with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. As a concerto soloist, he has performed with orchestras such as the BBC Concert Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional of Mexico, I Musici Montreal, and Orquesta of the Radio Television in Spain, among others. He collaborates regularly with chamber music festivals around the globe such as

Music@Menlo, Mainly Mozart, Chamber Music Northwest, Nexus Festival Tokyo, Westport Festival Ireland, Kon-Tiki Festival Norway and the Dresden Music Festival.

Born in Moncofa into a family of musicians, Mr. Franch-Ballester graduated from the Joaquin Rodrigo Music Conservatory in Valencia, continuing his studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he studied with Donald Montanaro and Ricardo Morales. As a recording artist, he has appeared on labels such as Deutsche Gramophon, Harmonie Mundi and Warner Music.

Recipient of the prestigious 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, violinist Paul Huang is considered to be one of the most distinctive artists of his generation. The Washington Post remarked that Mr. Huang “possesses a big, luscious tone, spot-on intonation and a technique that makes the most punishing string phrases feel as natural as breathing,” and further proclaimed him as “an artist with the goods for a significant career” following his recital debut at the Kennedy Center.

Mr. Huang’s recent highlights have included performing his own arrangement of the National Anthem for the NFL 2021 opening game at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina to an audience of 75,000. During the 2022-23 season, Mr. Huang will open the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan season in Taipei and make his Japan debut with the Hiroshima Symphony with Jun Markl. Other highlights will include engagements with the Buffalo and Fort Wayne Philharmonics, and Colorado, San Diego, and Pensacola Symphonies.

2022-23 season recital and chamber music performances will include Mr. Huang’s returns to both the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Camerata Pacifica, his recital debut at Alice Tully Hall with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, and appearances at the Washington Performing Arts, the Rockefeller University, the Society of Four Arts in Palm Beach, Cleveland Chamber Music Society, and Chamber Music San Francisco.

Artists

JOSE FRANCH-BALLESTER, PRINCIPAL CLARINET

PAUL HUANG, PRINCIPAL VIOLIN THE BOB CHRISTENSEN CHAIR IN VIOLIN

Percussionist Ji Hye Jung has been praised as “spectacular” by the Los Angeles Times and “extraordinary” by the Ventura County Star, with the Times further describing her as “a centered player who can give the impression of being very still yet at all places at once.”

Jung began concertizing in her native South Korea at the age of 9, going on to perform more than 100 concerts, including solo appearances with every major orchestra in Korea. Soon after coming to the United States in 2004, Jung garnered consecutive first prizes at the 2006 Linz International Marimba Competition and the 2007 Yale Gordon Concerto Competition.

With percussion repertoire still in its formative stages, Jung feels strongly about collaborating with composers to further the creation of a new voice for the art form. She has commissioned and premiered works by Kevin Puts, Emma O’Halloran, Annika Scolofsky, Bora Yoon, Molly Herron, Christopher Theofanidis, Alehandro Viñao, Lukas Ligeti, Paul

Lansky, Jason Treuting, David Bruce, Huang Ruo, and John Serry. In 2013, she made the premiere recording of Michael Torke’s marimba concerto Mojave, and in 2014 recorded Phillip Glass’ Concerto Fantasy for Two Timpanists and Orchestra for the Naxos label.

Jung frequently performs with many of today’s most important conductors and instrumentalists. For over ten years she has served as principal percussionist with Camerata Pacifica, with whom she has premiered works by Bright Sheng, Lera Auerbach and Huang Ruo. Jung has also premiered new works by Garth Neaustadter and Alejandro Viñao with the Percussion Collective.

A “wanderer between worlds” (Lucerne Festival), “immensely talented” and a “quietly powerful pianist” (New York Times), Swiss-born American Gilles Vonsattel is an artist of extraordinary versatility and originality. A recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and winner of the Naumburg and Geneva competitions as well as the 2016 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, his 2014 New York solo recital was hailed as “tightly conceived and passionately performed…a study in intensity” by The New York Times.

As a soloist Mr. Vonsattel has also appeared with the Warsaw Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic, Edmonton Symphony, l’Orchestre Symphonique du Québec, Boston Pops, Nashville Symphony, Musikkollegium Winterthur, Staatskapelle Halle, and L’orchestre de chambre de Genève. He has concertized with many important string quartets, including the Emerson, Pacifica, Orion, St. Lawrence, Ebène, Danish, Miró, Daedalus, Escher, and Borromeo Quartets.

Mr. Vonsattel is principal pianist of Camerata Pacifica, a member of the Swiss

Chamber Soloists, and plays alongside Ida Kavafian and David Jolley in Trio Valtorna. Deeply committed to the performance of contemporary works, he has premiered numerous works both in the United States and Europe and worked closely with notable composers such as Jörg Widmann, Heinz Holliger, and George Benjamin. His recording for the Honens/Naxos label of music by Debussy, Honegger, Holliger, and Ravel was named one of Time Out New York’s 2011 classical albums of the year, while a 2014 release on GENUIN/Artist Consort received a 5/5 from FonoForum and international critical praise.

Artists

JI HYE JUNG, PRINCIPAL PERCUSSION

GILLES VONSATTEL, PRINCIPAL PIANO

PAOLO BORDIGNON, HARPSICHORD

Paolo Bordignon is Organist and Choirmaster at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Park Avenue, and harpsichordist of the New York Philharmonic.

Appearances in 2022-23 include performances with Camerata Pacifica, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Mark Morris Dance Company, and as a soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has recently performed with Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the All-Star Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Chamber Players, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, the Knights, as well as a Trans-Siberian Arts Festival tour with the Sejong Soloists.

As Organist and Choirmaster at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Park Avenue, Paolo oversees one of the nation’s pre-eminent church music programs and performs on one of the world’s largest pipe organs. He has performed organ recitals at venues such as St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue (New York) and St. Eustache (Paris), and he has been a frequent recitalist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including a 10-recital residency.

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Born in Siberia, Russia in 1993, Matvey Demin started to study flute with his grandmother, continuing his education in Hannover and Munich with Prof. Andrea Lieberknecht.

Matvey is the first flutist in history who won the First Prize in the woodwinds category of the world-famous Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 2019.

He is also a prize winner of such competitions as international Aeolus competition, the ARD International Music competition (Munich), the International Flute Competition in Krakow, the Unisa International Music Competition, and many others.

At the age of 20, Matvey joined the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich as Co-Principal Solo Flute, where he worked under the baton of such prominent conductors such as Paavo Järvi, David Zinman, Bernhard Haitink, Franz Welser-Möst.

As of the 2022/23 season, he holds a Principal Flute position in the SWR Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart under the direction of Teodor Currentzis.

Described by Placido Domingo as “an artist of musicality and dedication” (Los Angeles Times), Timothy Eckert enjoys a dynamic career in Los Angeles as a double bassist and composer.

He performs as principal bass of the Camerata Pacifica and as a member of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and LA Master Chorale. Additionally he has appeared across Southern California with ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Santa Barbara and Pasadena Symphonies. An avid chamber musician, Timothy has performed at the Idyllwild Chamber Music Festival and on Santa Monica’s Jacaranda series. Ballet companies with whom he has performed include the Joffrey, Hamburg, New York City, ABT and the national ballets of Cuba and Canada. Past orchestral positions include the Long Beach Symphony and assistant principal bass of the Kalamazoo Symphony.

Timothy is active in the recording industry, having performed live or in studio with a diverse array of artists including Eric Clapton, Madonna, Bjork, Alanis Morrisette, Bon Jovi, Faith Hill, Dr. Dre, Brad Mehldau, Disturbed, and the Dave Matthews Band.

Writing in a broad range of styles, his compositions are heard worldwide in hundreds of television series on networks such as CBS, ABC, Bravo, E!, History, MTV, Discovery and National Geographic. From Nova to the Kardashians, Hunting Hitler to Jesus Conspiracies, and RuPaul’s Drag Race to Toddlers & Tiaras, Timothy has about covered it all.

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EMI FERGUSON, BAROQUE FLUTE

Emi Ferguson can be heard in concerts and festivals with groups including the Handel and Haydn Society, AMOC, the New York New Music Ensemble, and the Manhattan Chamber Players. Emi’s recordings celebrate her fascination with reinvigorating music and instruments of the past for the present.

Her debut album, Amour Cruel, an indiepop song cycle inspired by the music of the 17th century French court was released by Arezzo Music in September 2017, spending 4 weeks on the Classical, Classical Crossover, and World Music Billboard Charts.

Her 2019 album Fly the Coop: Bach Sonatas and Preludes, a collaboration with continuo band Ruckus, debuted at #1 on the iTunes classical charts and #2 on the Billboard classical charts, and was called “blindingly impressive...a fizzing, daring display of personality and imagination” by The New York Times. In addition to her solo recordings, Emi has also been featured on recordings for New Focus Records, Old Focus Records, Canteloupe

Music, National Sawdust Tracks, Brontosaurus Records, Coro, and MSR Classics. A passionate chamber musician of works new and old, Emi has been a featured performer at the Marlboro, Lucerne, Ojai, Lake Champlain, Bach Virtuosi, and June in Buffalo festivals and has premiered works by many of today’s leading composers, working most recently with composers Michael Hersch, Roscoe Mitchell, Emily Koh, Gabriela Ortiz, and Georgina Derbez. Emi has spoken and performed at several TEDX events and has been featured on media outlets including the Discovery Channel, Amazon Prime, and Vox talking about how music relates to our world today. Born in Japan and raised in London and Boston, she currently resides in New York City.

Nominated by the Barbican as an ECHO Rising Star, during the 2021/22 season Ben gave recitals at major concert halls including the Concertgebouw, Musikverein, Elbphilharmonie and Koln Philharmonie, including an especially commissioned new work by Mark Simpson.

At the opening of the season he performed Ruth Gipps Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo at the Barbican broadcast by Radio 3 and in 2022 makes his debut with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ed Gardner at the Royal Festival Hall performing the Knussen Concerto.

He returns to the Pierre Boulez Saal both as soloist and as a member of the Boulez Ensemble, and to Wigmore Hall as soloist and in collaboration with Mahan Esfahani, Nicholas Daniel and Adam Walker.

Highlights over the last year have included the release by Three Worlds Records of Legacy: A Tribute to Dennis Brain with newly commissioned pieces by Huw Watkins and Roxanna Panufnik, and a solo concerto recording with the Philharmonia Orchestra due for release in 2022.

Born in London, in 2020 Ben completed his studies with honours at the BarenboimSaid Academy in Berlin with Radek Baborák. He was a prize-winner at the 2019 YCAT International Auditions.

BEN GOLDSCHEIDER, HORN

Scott Lee has established himself as one of the most exciting and unique violists. His Performances as soloist and chamber musician garner great attention. New York Times described his playing as “flawless technical resources combines them with an assured sense of musicianship, a remarkable and auspicious talent.” Also, hailed as “the superstar of his generation” by the String Magazine.

Winner of the 1996 Concert Artists Guild Competition, he became the youngest winner in the Competition’s 50 year history. Mr. Lee has been a top prize winner in the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition, the William Primrose Viola Competition, and the Corpus Christi (TX) Young Artists Competition. Scott Lee has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, including, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, San Diego Symphony and L.A Chamber Orchestra.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Mr. Lee began his music studies on the violin at age eight. He took up the viola at age thirteen, and

came to the United States the next year to study at the Idyllwild Arts Academy in California. He has studied with Michael Tree at the Curtis Institute of Music and at The Juilliard School where he studied with Paul Neubauer.

He is now Professor of Viola at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Conservatory of Music and a faculty member at the Montreal International String Quartet Academy.

Besides performing and teaching, Scott is also an obsessed golfer. He is always looking for a game, carrying his clubs.

SCOTT LEE, VIOLA

First prize winner of the Naumburg International Piano Competition and the Concert Artist Guild International Competition, Korean-American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee has been lauded by The New York Times as a pianist with “a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style,” and by the Washington Post for her “stunning command of the keyboard.”

Highlights of recent seasons include appearances at the National Gallery, Library of Congress, Gina Bachauer Concerts, Purdue Convocations, San Francisco Performances, and the Cleveland Art Museum. She was a member of Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society Two residency program, and is a regular participant in numerous chamber music festivals including the Great Lakes, Santa Fe and Music Mountain Chamber Music Festivals. Ms. Lee has collaborated with

conductors Carlos Miguel Prieto, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jahja Ling, and Jorge Mester with the London, San Diego, Hawaii, Louisiana, Naples symphony orchestras among others.

Ms. Lee’s discography as a Naxos artist spans the works of Scarlatti, Liszt, Scriabin, and Clementi, and her eco-awareness album on E1, Re!nvented, garnered her the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year Award.

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Violinist and violist Yura Lee is a multi-faceted musician, as soloist and as a chamber musician, and one of the very few that is equally virtuosic in both violin and viola. She has performed with major orchestras including those of New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, to name a few.

She has given recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. At age 12, she became the youngest artist ever to receive the Debut Artist of the Year prize at the Performance Today awards given by National Public Radio. She is the recipient of the 2007 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the first prize winner of the 2013 ARD Competition. She received numerous other international prizes, including top prizes in the Mozart, Indianapolis, Hannover, Kreisler, Bashmet, and Paganini competitions. Her CD ‘Mozart in Paris’ with Reinhard Goebel and the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, received the prestigious Diapason d’Or Award.

As a chamber musician, she regularly takes part in the festivals of Marlboro, Salzburg, Verbier, La Jolla, Music@ Menlo, Chamber Music Northwest, Seattle, Caramoor, among many others. Her main teachers included Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Miriam Fried, Paul Biss, Thomas Riebl, Ana Chumachenko, and Nobuko Imai. Lee is a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the Boston Chamber Music Society. She is an associate professor at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles. Lee plays a fine Giovanni Grancino violin kindly loaned to her through the Beares International Violin Society by generous sponsors. For viola, she plays an instrument made in 2002 by Douglas Cox.

Sought after as a performer and teacher, Joseph Lin appears regularly at halls, festivals, and conservatories throughout the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He teaches violin and chamber music at Juilliard and was first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet from 2011 to 2018 before stepping down to devote time to his four young children.

His recent projects include a collaboration with Robert Levin playing Beethoven and Schubert on period instruments, a Musicians from Marlboro tour on violin and viola, collaborations with Juilliard students during ChamberFest, and performances of Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto. Joseph Lin led performances of Beethoven’s late string quartets for Camerata Pacifica, and at Juilliard, he and pianist Helen Huang will perform the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas. Marking the 300th year of Bach’s Violin Sonatas and Partitas,

Lin presented a complete cycle in Boston and baroque performances of the cycle in Philadelphia.

From 2007 to 2011, Lin taught at Cornell University, where he organized the inaugural Chinese Musicians Residency in 2009. The following year, he led a project with Cornell composers to study Bach’s violin Sonatas and Partitas and create new works inspired by Bach, culminating in a series of concerts premiering the new works alongside Bach’s.

YURA LEE, VIOLIN and VIOLA JOSEPH LIN, VIOLIN

SAMUEL MARIÑO, MALE SOPRANO

Samuel Mariño’s natural musicality and unique vocal talent have set the stage for a career which allows him to explore a wide range of operatic roles in the baroque and classical repertoire.

Originally training as a ballet dancer at the Venezuelan National School of Dance, Samuel began his musical studies in piano and voice at the National Conservatory of Music and his first experiences performing operatic repertoire were with the Camerata Barroca in Caracas where he worked with conductors including Gustavo Dudamel. It was these collaborations that ignited his passion for the baroque repertoire and inspired him to further his studies at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Samuel Mariño made his stage debut at the Halle Handel Festival in 2018, appearing as Alessandro in Handel’s Berenice, a performance that earned him the nomination of Best Revelation Artist in Das OpernWelt.

Concert appearances have included Bach’s B Minor Mass with the Hungarian

National Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir and gala concerts in Halle showcasing arias from Chuerubino (Le nozze di Figaro), Fiorilla (Il turco in Italia) and Maria (West Side Story) and he appeared alongside Rolando Villazón on the stage of the Palais Garnier.

Samuel Mariño was awarded the Interpretation Award at the 2017 Opéra de Marseile International Singing Competition and won the 2017 Neue Stimmen Audience prize. Following his passion for rediscovering music and innovating period performance practice, Samuel founded Ensemble Teseo in 2019, where he aims to bring forgotten Baroque works and techniques to mainstream opera and concert stages.

JONATHAN MOERSCHEL, VIOLA

Jonathan Moerschel was born in Boston, Massachusetts into a musical family. His mother, a pianist, and his father, a cellist in the Boston Symphony, fostered his early music studies both in piano and violin. At the age of sixteen, he began studying the viola with John Ziarko and chamber music with the violist from the Kolisch Quartet, Eugene Lehner. Moerschel made his Boston Symphony Hall solo debut with the Boston Pops Orchestra directed by Keith Lockhart in 1997 after taking first prize in the Boston Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition.

He is the violist of the renowned Calder Quartet, which enjoys a diverse career, playing both the traditional quartet literature as well as partnering with innovative modern composers.

Upcoming projects include the world premiere of Concerto for Viola, Cello, and Orchestra “Inferno” by Joel Freidman alongside cellist Jennifer Kloetzel, with the San Jose Chamber Orchestra.

Moerschel is a Lecturer of Viola and Chamber Music at the University of California Santa Barbara.

He is also a very active studio session player in Los Angeles and can be heard on countless television and major motion picture soundtracks. He plays on the “exAdam” Gasparo Da Salo viola made in the late 16th century. The instrument is on generous loan from the Stradivari Society in Chicago.

TRICIA PARK, VIOLIN

Tricia Park is a concert violinist, writer, and educator. Since making her concert debut at age thirteen, Tricia has performed on five continents and received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. She is the host and producer of an original podcast called, “Is it Recess Yet? Confessions of a Former Child Prodigy.”

Tricia has served on faculty at the University of Chicago, the University of Iowa and has worked for Graywolf Press. She is the co-lead of the Chicago chapter of Women Who Submit, an organization that seeks to empower women and nonbinary writers. She is a Juilliard graduate and received her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2021, Tricia was awarded a Fulbright Grant to Seoul, Korea, where she worked on a literary and musical project. Her writing has appeared in Cleaver Magazine and F Newsmagazine. She was also a finalist for contests in C&R Press and The Rumpus. Currently, Tricia is Associate Director of Cleaver Magazine Workshops where she

is also a Creative Non Fiction editor and faculty instructor, teaches for the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, and maintains a private studio of violin students and writing clients.

Tricia is the founder of the Solera Quartet, the winner of the Pro Musicis International Award and the first American chamber ensemble chosen for this distinction.

Acclaimed as “top-notch, intense, stylish, and with an abundance of flare and talent,” the Solera Quartet performed their debut recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall to celebrate their addition to Pro Musicis’ roster.

RAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN, CELLO

Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan enjoys performing chamber music, old and new, around the world. For two decades, as a founding member of the Horszowski Trio and the Daedalus Quartet, he toured extensively through North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and recorded for Bridge Records and Avie Records, including, most recently, the complete piano trios of Robert Schumann. Mr. Ramakrishnan is currently an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and is on the faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Mr. Ramakrishnan has given solo recitals in New York, Boston, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., and has performed at Caramoor, at Bargemusic, with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and at the Aspen, Bard, Charlottesville, Four Seasons, Kingston, Lincolnshire (UK), Marlboro, Mehli Mehta (India), Oklahoma Mozart, Portland, Skaneateles, and Vail Music Festivals. He has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has performed, as guest principal cellist, with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a guest member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, he has performed in New Delhi and Agra, India and in Cairo, Egypt. He has served on the faculties of the Kneisel Hall, Norfolk, and Taconic Chamber Music Festivals, as

well as in the Music Performance Program of Columbia University.

Mr. Ramakrishnan was born in Athens, Ohio and grew up in East Patchogue, New York. His father is a molecular biologist and his mother is the children’s book author and illustrator Vera Rosenberry. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in physics from Harvard University and a Master’s degree in music from The Juilliard School. His principal teachers have been Fred Sherry, Andrés Díaz, and André Emelianoff. He lives in New York City with his wife, the violist Melissa Reardon, and their son. He plays a Neapolitan cello made by Vincenzo Jorio in 1837.

Swiss-french violist Mathis Rochat is quickly gaining attention as “...one of the most upcoming and creative violists of his generation” (Klassik Radio). As a soloist, Mathis has appeared with the Geneva Chamber Orchestra, The Camerata Schweiz and the Norddeutsche Philharmonie.

Praised for “His rich and subtle viola sound” and “…a marvelous poetic imaginativ power” (concerti.de) at the Davos Festival, he takes the freedom to both uncover forgotten original works and add his personal transcriptions to the viola repertoire.

He is a passionate chamber musician and frequently perform accros Europe in different formations. He also has appeared as a featured artist at the Schleswig Holstein (DE), Tsinandali (GR), Deauville (FR) and Davos (CH) Festivals, as well as Kronberg’s CMCW and Krzyzowa Music programs. Rochat has collaborated in chamber music with Fazil Say, Pinchas Zuckermann, Augustin Dumay, Christian Tetzlaff and Lynn Harrel.

His first album “l’alto parnassien” dedicated to the impressionistic French music was “favorite of the month” for Klassik Radio (DE, 2018) and he looks forward to his second release “Rachmaninoff Stories” in June 2022 which will include 7 new viola transcriptions.

Mathis studied as part of the “young student program” with Antoine Tamestit in Cologne and earned his Bachelor’s degree from the “Mendelssohn Bartoldy Hochschule Leipzig” under the tutelage of Tatjana Masurenko. He is now an artist in residence at the “Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel” in Waterloo with Miguel Da silva.

Mathis Rochat is a former Villa Musica fellow and plays a viola by Pierre Vidoudez 1949.

Ruckus is a shapeshifting, collaborative baroque ensemble with a visceral and playful approach to early music. The ensemble debuted in Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo in a production directed by Christopher Alden featuring Anthony Roth Costanzo, Ambur Braid and Davóne Tines at National Sawdust. The band’s playing earned widespread critical acclaim: “achingly delicate one moment, incisive and punchy the next” (New York Times); “superb” (Opera News).

Ruckus’s core is a continuo group, the baroque equivalent of a jazz rhythm section: guitars, keyboards, cello, bassoon and bass. Other members include soloists of the violin, flute and oboe. The ensemble aims to fuse the early-music movement’s questing, creative spirit with the grit, groove and jangle of American roots music, creating a unique sound of “rough- edged intensity” (New Yorker). Its members are assembled from among the most creative and virtuosic performers in North American early music, and the ensemble is based in New York City.

“Ruckus brought continuo playing to not simply a new level, but a revelatory new dimension of dynamism altogether... an eruption of pure, pulsing hoedown joy... Wit, panache, and the jubilant, virtuosic verve of a bebopBaroque jam session electri fi ed and illuminated previously candle-lit edi fi ces as Ruckus and friends raised the roof, and my mind’s eye will never see those structures in quite the same light again.” (Boston Musical Intelligencer)

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An active and highly sought-after chamber musician, Tereza Stanislav has appeared in venues including the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall and at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. She has performed in concert with many of the world’s leading artists including Augustin Hadelich, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Jon Kimura Parker.

An advocate for new music, Tereza has worked with composers including Steve Reich, Gunther Schuller, Joan Tower, Toshio Hosokawa and Louis Andriessen. World premieres include Gunther Schuller’s Horn Quintet (2009) with Julie Landsman, Louis Andriessen’s The City of

Dis (2007), Gernot Wolfgang’s Rolling Hills and Jagged Ridges (2009), and James Matheson’s Violin Sonata (2007).

West Coast premieres include Steve Reich’s Daniel Variations and Gernot Wolfgang’s Jazz and Cocktails.

Tereza was the featured soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in the world premiere of the Violin Concerto by Benjamin Wallfisch, about which the Los Angeles Times wrote, “she gave a magisterial rendition” and “held the audience rapt.”

TEREZA STANISLAV, VIOLIN

Jonathan Swensen fi rst fell in love with the cello upon hearing the Elgar Concerto at the age of six, and ultimately made his concerto debut at the age of twenty performing that very piece with Portugal’s Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto Casa da Música. Since then, he has appeared as soloist with the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Mobile Symphony Orchestras, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, Venice State Symphony Orchestra, Denmark’s Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Poland’s NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and the Sun Symphony Orchestra in Vietnam.

Winner of the prestigious 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Jonathan has also captured First Prizes at the 2018 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions, 2018 Khachaturian International Cello Competition, and 2019 Windsor International String Competition. In his native Denmark, he was recipient of the Jacob Gades Scholarship in 2019, the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize in 2017, and First Prize at the 2016 Danish String Competition.

Young Concert Artists presented Jonathan’s recital debuts in New York on the Michaels Award Concert at Merkin

Concert Hall, and in Washington, DC on the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Concert at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater.

Recent recital and chamber music appearances outside of the U.S. have included a return to Armenia to take part in the Khachaturian Festival in Yerevan, the Usedomer Musikfestival in Germany, the Tivoli Festival in Copenhagen and a South Korean debut at the Seoul Arts Centre. He is also a frequent performer at festivals in Denmark, including the Schubertiaden, the Copenhagen Summer Festival and the Hindsgavl Summer Festival.

JONATHAN SWENSEN, CELLO

JASON UYEYAMA, VIOLIN

Jason Uyeyama is Associate Professor of Music and Director of String Studies at La Sierra University. He is also founder and director of the Orange County String Studio in Irvine, CA. He holds a master’s degree from The Juilliard School.

Mr. Uyeyama continues to lead an active career as recitalist, chamber musician, and orchestral musician. He has performed and toured regularly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2005, and has performed with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Festival appearances include Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo and Festicamara in Medellin, Colombia.

Students of Mr. Uyeyama have been accepted to The Juilliard School, New

England Conservatory, Cleveland Institute of Music, Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, The Colburn School of Performing Arts, University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and the Mannes School of Music.

His students have also been accepted to numerous summer festivals including Aspen, Music Academy of the West, and Tanglewood.

IRINA ZAHHARENKOVA, PIANO

Irina Zahharenkova is one of the most outstanding keyboard performers of her generation to emerge from Estonia.

She has won first prizes from major international piano competitions such as the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (Leipzig, Germany – 2006), Alessandro Casagrande International Piano Competition (Terni, Italy – 2006), International Competition George Enescu (Bucharest, Romania – 2005), and the Jaén International Piano Contest (Jaén, Spain – 2004). In 2008 she was a prizewinner in the Artur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, Israel. Irina has also been a laureate in Prague Spring competition in Czech Republic (2005) – as a harpsichordist and in Festival van Vlaanderen competition in Bruges, Belgium (2004) – as fortepianist. She was a winner of 2007 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award.

As a concerto soloist she has appeared with BBC Ulster Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Israel Philarmonic Orchestra, Sinfonietta Riga, Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra, the North Carolina Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, and Sinfonia Finlandia, among others.

Her repertoire encompasses a wide range of musical styles from baroque to contemporary. Apart from concert activities, Ms. Zahharenkova teaches piano at the famed Sibelius Academy and at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.

Charter Members are an essential part of Camerata Pacifica’s history. Listed in perpetuity, Charter Members’ contributions at critical times in the organization’s growth helped Camerata Pacifica realize its vision of becoming one of the most acclaimed chamber music ensembles in the country, with an international profile and deep roots in California.

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The Bernard Gondos Chair in Violin

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Nancy Stouffer

Michael Talvola Roselyn Teukolsky Nicholas & Sarah Thacher

Mary H. Walsh Judy Weisman Judy Willis Nancy Yamauchi-Siu William Robinson & Hiroko Yoshimoto Maria Yu

Patricia Dragotta Mary & Clay Duke

J.C. Elliott, Ph.D. Kevin Fichtner Sherrie Gulmahamad Ivan Haros Dan & Ruixi Hong John Hulka Milton Hunter

Jeffrey Kahan David Kaliner Judy Kaplow Natalya Klebanovski Danny Krouk Dr. Letty W. Lauffer Brian McMahon William Mitchell Pauline Paulin

Alejandro Rodriguez Ann Salahuddin Howard Wettstein Melissa Wong William Wood

VOLUNTEERS

We thank the following individuals for giving generously of their time as volunteers in the 2021/22 season.

Marie Battle Kathleen Boehm Evelyn Burge Donna Burger Karen Fuller Cindy Garcia

Debbie Gross & Sam Levy Janice Hamilton Maura Lundy Michelle Mackel Dick Malott

Nancy McCurley Dennis & Carolyn Naiman Kathy Neely Barbara Rosen William Schrack

Erik Siering & Ann Kramer Gloria Sierra Erika Smith Marcella E. Tuttle Nga Vuong

Thank you

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