COLUMBUS & VIVO Music Festival and Chamber Music Columbus present Ravel’s colorful Piano Trio, Gabriel Fauré’s passionate Piano Quartet, No. 1, and the world premiere of Korean composer Jaehyuck Choi’s Clarinet Quintet commissioned by Chamber Music Columbus for their 75th anniversary season in honor of their founder, James N. Cain. Sunday Sept 4, 2022 @ 2pm Southern Theatre VIVO and Chamber Music Columbus join forces to celebrate 75 years of Chamber Music Columbus anexcitingcollaboration! ALICE YOO Cello ALICE HUI Violin MATTHEW ZALKIND Cello SIWOO KIM Violin JOHN STULZ Viola
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Dear Chamber Music Lovers, We are thrilled to welcome you to the first joint presentation by VIVO and Chamber Music Columbus at the Southern Theatre. The program is a unique collaboration featuring the fourth and final concert of the Eighth Annual VIVO Music Festival The concert will feature the world premiere of Korean composer Jaehyuck Choi’s Clarinet Quintet. Choi’s work honors James N. Cain, the founder of Prestige Concerts (now named Chamber Music Columbus) while a sophomore at OSU in 1948. Cain retired from Prestige Concerts in 1962 and went on to become a nationally respected classical music impresario. Choi’s work is one of seven commissioned by Chamber Music Columbus for its 75th anniversary season. We hope you’ll find that our teamwork results in what is best about the chamber music scene in America today: venerable classics and exciting new works presented in a fresh and intuitive way. Enjoy and immerse yourself in the music played in the acoustic elegance of the Southern Theatre. Please feel free to remain after the concert for a small reception with the musicians.
OUR MISSION VIVO’s mission is to build community through world-class chamber music performances. Our vision is to serve as a catalyst for local artistic engagement by bringing innovative, community-oriented music performances directly to central Ohio’s diverse neighborhoods.
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BUILD COMMUNITY At the core of VIVO’s work is a belief in democratizing the arts. We work with community partners to present musical initiatives that transcend cultural, economic, and physical barriers. There is no one-size-fits-all format to a VIVO event, and our diverse formats reflect our diverse audiences. Join us in continuing this work, and making world-class music available to all.
VIVO Music Festival is an annual chamber music festival based in Columbus, Ohio. We present concerts and events in partnership with local institutions and businesses, including museums, breweries, assisted living centers, veteran affairs hospitals, and other community spaces.
VIVO is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, and is supported by Greater Columbus Arts Council, Ohio Arts Council, and many other organizations and businesses throughout central Ohio.
Suzanne Jennison, Festival Director A native of Dublin, Ohio, Suzanne Jennison serves as Operations Assistant for ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and Festival Director of the VIVO Music Festival. In addition to her work in music administration, Suzanne teaches oboe and performs throughout Central Ohio, appearing with the New Albany Symphony Orchestra, the Central Ohio Symphony, the Newark-Granville Symphony Orchestra, and Opera Project Columbus. For more info: VivoFestival.org
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Our dynamic Central Ohio region enjoys an optimistic, thriving and diverse cultural scene. As we enter our 75th season we are committed more than ever to our mission of enriching the cultural life of central Ohio through the love and celebration of chamber music. We continue to fulfill this mission by inspiring the community through the presentation of renowned chamber music ensembles from around the world and by engaging the community through educational programming that promotes chamber music as an art form. Our 75th season live concerts will again be presented in the world-class setting of the historic Southern Theater. Our formal season kicks off on October 8, 2022 with our big 75th Anniversary celebration concert and reception. Each of our concerts will feature wonderful classics and commissioned works by U.S. and international composers performed by amazing ensembles. Each concert will also open with a custom fanfare. JOIN US! We also seek to grow the audience for chamber music by attracting and educating the public and by directly engaging budding young musicians through our scholarships, and educational programs with exceptional visiting artists.
Confident in the belief that even the best are better together, we continue to collaborate with other local and regional arts organizations for the benefit of all and contribute to an unrivaled impact on our diverse and talented community. We are really looking forward to sharing our 75th anniversary with the community. That we have come this far is a testament to the generations of chamber music lovers who continue to support us. Please browse our website. We hope that you, like so many before, will be inspired to enjoy our concerts and support us. For more information and tickets : ChamberMusicColumbus.org
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Gabriel Campos Zamora, Clarinet Siwoo Kim, Alicia Hui, John Stulz, Matthew Zalkind, Gabriel Faure Henry Kramer, Piano Myers, violin John Stulz, viola Alice Yoo, cello
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Gabriel began his musical training at the Instituto Nacional de Musica as a student of Jose Manuel “cheche” Ugalde. He then came to the United States to study at the Interlochen Arts Academy with Nathan Williams and later received his bachelor’s degree in music from the Colburn Conservatory in Los Angeles.
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About the Artist - Alicia Hui - Violin Alicia Hui, currently Principal Second Violin of the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, began her musical studies at the age of four and made her orchestral debut at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in Baltimore, Maryland at age nine. Since then, she has soloed with numerous orchestras including the Arlington Symphony, Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony, the Firelands Symphony Orchestra, the Nationals Repertory Orchestra, the Zurich Symphony Orchestra, the Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, and the Columbus Symphony Orchestra.
Ms. Hui was accepted into the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia at age 11 where she studies with Victor Danchenko and received her Bachelor’s Degree at sixteen. She received her Master’s Degree, Artist Diploma, and Professional Studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of David Cerone, Paul Kantor, and William Preucil. In addition to her current position, Ms. Hui is also a member of the Columbus Ohio Discovery Ensemble and a regular performer and Development Director of the Vivo Music Festival
Gabriel has been a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival and frequently performed in the Kansas City Symphony “Happy Hour” chamber music concerts. He was a fellow of Ensemble ACJW, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. A laureate of several competitions, he received first prize at the 2008 Pasadena Showcase House Instrumental Competition, in addition to winning concerto competitions at the 2009 Aspen Music Festival, 2010 Music Academy of the West, and 2011 National Repertory Orchestra.
About the Artist - Gabriel Campos Zamora - Clarinet
Gabriel Campos Zamora, a native of San José, Costa Rica was appointed principal clarinet of the Minnesota Orchestra in June 2016. Prior to that, Gabriel was the associate principal clarinet of the Kansas City Symphony and had appeared as guest principal clarinet with the Cleveland Orchestra, Seattle, and Houston Symphonies in addition to serving as the Virginia Symphony’s principal clarinet.
As a teacher, Gabriel holds a private studio and has been a faculty member of the Saint Olaf College, at Carnegie Hall’s NYO2 Program and at the Sphinx Orchestra Partners Audition Workshop.
As a member of Ensemble Intercontemporain, John is on the cutting edge of new musical creation, collaborating with the world’s leading living composers and performing masterpieces of the 20th and 21st century across the globe.
In 2015, John co-founded the VIVO Music Festival in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio with violinist Siwoo Kim and Ted Ou-Yang. Together they work to bring vital, singular, and accessible chamber music performances across central Ohio.
About the Artist - John Stulz - Viola John Stulz (b. 1988) is a member of the Paris-based new music group Ensemble Intercontemporain and co-artistic director of VIVO Music Festival in Columbus, Ohio. His performances have been noted for their “taut control and poetic intensity” (Boston Globe) and “glowing tone and stunning technique” (the Los Angeles Times).
John has taught at Ecoles d’Art Américaines de Fontainebleau since 2017. He has worked with students at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, Oberlin Conservatory, Conservatoire du Grand Besançon, Northern Colorado University, and on faculty at the Lucerne Festival Academy, IRCAM’s ManiFeste festival, and the Decoda Skidmore Chamber Music Institute.
About the Artist - Matthew Zalkind - Cello Praised for his “impressive refinement, eloquent phrasing, and singing tone” by The New York Times Zalkind performs regularly as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. As a soloist, Mr. Zalkind has performed concerti with such organizations as the Utah Symphony, the Moscow Chamber Players, the Albany Symphony, the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, and many orchestras here and abroad. Mr. Zalkind performed the concerti with many celebrated conductors, including Ludovic Morlot, Thierry Fischer, Giancarlo Guerrero, and David Alan Miller. A frequent recitalist, he has given solo recitals at the Kennedy Center, Phillips Collection, Tongyeong Arts Center in Korea, Moscow Conservatory, and Beijing Concert Hall. Mr. Zalkind is a regular at numerous chamber music festivals, including Marlboro and “Musicians from Marlboro” tours. As a former member of the Harlem String Quartet, Mr. Zalkind toured to Japan, England, Ethiopia, and every region of the United States with jazz legends Chick Corea, Gary Burton, and Stanley Clarke. He garnered top prizes in the Washington International Competition, Isang Yun International Competition, Beijing International Competition, and the Juilliard School Concerto Competition. With his partner Alice Yoo, Mr. Zalkind is the Co-Artistic Director of the Denver Chamber Music Festival, a premier destination for chamber music in Colorado.
Mr. Zalkind is the cello professor at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music, and has diplomas from Juilliard and the University of Michigan. He plays on a rare Italian cello made by Florentine maker Luigi Piatellini c. 1760, and a bow by John Dodd c. 1800.
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About the Artist - Siwoo Kim - Violin Siwoo Kim is an “incisive” and “compelling” (The New York Times) violinist who plays with “stylistic sensitivity and generous tonal nuance” (Chicago Tribune). Siwoo performs as soloist and chamber musician, and he is the co-founding artistic director of VIVO Music Festival in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
Siwoo gave the world premiere performance of Samuel Adler’s violin concerto which was written for him. He recorded the work on Linn Records to commemorate the composer’s90th birthday, and the BBC Music Magazine praised his “notable fire & impassioned playing.” Siwoo made his Carnegie Hall concerto debut in Stern Auditorium with the Juilliard Orchestra. He has since performed with orchestras around the world including the Staatsorchester Brandenburgisches Frankfurt, Columbus Symphony, Gangneung Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Kwazulu-Natal Philharmonic, Orchestre Royal de Chambre, Seongnam Philharmonic, Springfield Symphony, and Tulsa Symphony in venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall and Lotte Concert Hall.
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Siwoo received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Juilliard School where he studied under Robert Mann and Donald Weilerstein with full scholarship. He went on to complete a two-year fellowship with Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect and spent his summers at the Marlboro Music Festival, collaborating with musicians such as Jeremy Denk, Denes Varjon and Mitsuko Uchida. Prior to college, Siwoo studied under Roland and Almita Vamos at the Music Institute of Chicago.
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Born in Columbus, Ohio to music educators, Jeffrey began playing the violin at the age of five. As a graduate of the Colburn Conservatory of Music, he studied with renowned pedagogue Robert Lipsett. His other teachers and mentors include Paul Kantor, Michelle Kim, Arnold Steinhart, and Mary Irwin. Committed to sharing his passion for music, Jeffrey is currently an associate professor of music at the University of Delaware.
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About the Artist - Jeffrey Myers - Violin Jeffrey Myers, first violinist of the Calidore String Quartet, makes his home in New York City. His chamber music career with the award winning Calidore String Quartet has established an international reputation for its informed, polished, and passionate performances.
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About the Artist - Alice Yoo - Cello Cellist Alice Yoo has warmly been hailed for her sensitive musicianship, expressive nuance, and passionate commitment to chamber music and teaching. Yoo is the Co-founder and Co-Artistic director of the Denver Chamber Music Festival, a new destination for world class chamber music in Colorado. Yoo regularly participates in chamber music festivals, including Marlboro/Musicians from Marlboro Tours, Ravinia, Yellow Barn, Olympic, and Yoo has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Mitsuko Uchida, Pamela Frank, Kim Kashkashian, Midori Goto, Miriam Fried, Jonathan Biss, and members of the Cleveland, Guarneri, Takács, and Juilliard Quartets.
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About the Artist - Henry Kramer - Piano Praised by The Cleveland Classical Review for his “astonishingly confident technique” and The New York Times for “thrilling [and] triumphant” performances, pianist Henry Kramer is developing a reputation as a musician of rare sensitivity who combines stylish programming with insightful and exuberant interpretations. In 2016, he garnered international recognition with a Second Prize win in the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, and most recently was awarded a 2019 Avery Fisher Career Grant by Lincoln Center. Kramer has soloed in concertos with the Bilkent Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony, and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, among others, collaborating with conductors such as Marin Alsop, Gerard Schwarz, Stéphane Denève, Jan Pascal Tortelier and Hans Graf. Through the pandemic, Henry appeared on multiple digital concert programs including a livestream on the Violin Channel, at the Rockport Music Festival, Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival, as well as a performance of Schumann’s Piano Concerto with the Columbus (Georgia) Symphony Orchestra. A sought-after collaborator, he has appeared in recitals at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Mainly Mozart Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and La Jolla Music Society’s Summerfest, and with Emmanuel Pahud, the Calidore and Pacifica quartets, Miriam Fried, and members of the Berlin Philharmonic and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. A graduate of The Juilliard School and Yale School of Music, Kramer is a professor at the University of Montreal School of Music. He is a Steinway Artist.
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11 State and federal dollars through the Ohio Arts Council support artistic resources throughout the state. Happy 75th anniversary, Chamber Music Columbus! Thank you for all you do for the arts in Ohio. Happy 75th anniversary, Chamber Music Columbus! Thank you for all you do for the arts in Ohio.
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As a child I thought the word Pantoum was a cognate for Phantom due to the devilish writing in the second movement. Later I came to learn that it refers to a Malaysian poetic structure with interwoven quatrains.
“Music has the ability to unlock parts of our internal worlds that we might not have known were there in the first place. The Frenchman Maurice Ravel was the composer who’s music was the first to have this effect on me. I still remember my first time encountering his piano scores in the library at my piano teacher’s studio. Even the sheer visual beauty of these pieces was alluring. I was completely hooked and set out to learn every piano piece by Ravel before graduating high school. It was under this circumstance that I first learned the Piano Trio. The virtuosity and color that drew me to the solo piano works were here rendered in the trio form combining his brilliant piano writing with some of the most extravagant string parts he ever composed. The work was completed unusually quickly (by Ravel’s standard) just at the outbreak of WWI in the summer of 1914. Ravel used a Basque dance as the rhythmic foundation for the first movement material. The themes here take place in bars of 8 eighth notes that appear grouped as 3 + 2 + 3. Pay close attention to the material at the beginning of the movement, as it provides the melodic foundation for the ensuing three movements.
In one of the most stunning passages of the piece, Ravel overlays the fast and slow material of this movement with the strings and piano playing in different time signatures. The Passacaille, a baroque kind of dance, elongates the thematic material into stately melodic gestures. The movement is palindromic, beginning quietly with muted cello, building up to a huge climax, and exiting pianissimo as it began. The finale begins like a sun rising out of the ashes of the third movement. Both hands in the piano play a pentatonic melody while the violin and cello buzz around like morning insects. Ravel works through the thematic material of the piece by setting it in many guises: military trumpet calls, chinoiserie, musical canons as well as a massive chorale. The chorale brings this monumental work to a brilliant conclusion, ending in the parallel Major to the work’s opening A minor.”
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Program Notes Ravel Piano Trio in A minor
About James N. Cain (1930-2011)
Cain retired as head of Prestige Concerts in 1962 and went on to become a nationally respected classical music impresario. The fact that we are celebrating our 75th season is a testament to his vision and the generations of chamber music lovers who have, and continue to support us, with their time, passion, and financial support. Cain would be proud.
More than 60 years before Kickstarter was created, Chamber Music Columbus (then Prestige Concerts) got its start, thanks to the skills of a recent West High School graduate, and 17-year old Ohio State University student, James N. Cain. Cain convinced people to create a system of “guarantors,” whereby patrons brought their checkbooks and underwrote the organization’s expenses so that each concert season could begin Atdebt-free.thattime, the 17-year-old saw the need for the “furtherance of chamber music” in Columbus. In post-war Columbus, people hungered for quality entertainment and Cain’s dream quickly became, in today’s parlance, a “smash hit.” Rave reviews and Standing Room Only (SRO) crowds were not unusual, although the Little Theatre of the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts was a bit smaller than our current home at the Southern Theatre. Notably, at a time when others hesitated, we booked some of the most talented African American musical artists like Adele Addison, soprano, Roland Hayes, tenor, and Shirley PerhapsVerrett-Carter.becauseofhis
own youth, Cain also believed in the importance of engaging young people. To quote from the cover of the first program booklet, “In addition to the regular evening concerts at the Gallery, the Walden four will play a special series of afternoon concerts for young people. This undertaking is the first of its kind in this country, wherein chamber music is made available to young people and students, with interesting, spoken program notes, and at popular prices.”
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Clarinet Quintet has been the divine genre for composers ever since the creation of Mozart and Brahms’ works. Mozart and Brahms’ quintets were written at the end of their lives. Max Reger also had to struggle and finally gave birth to his clarinet quintet in the year he died. Jörg Widmann had to cancel once and waited almost 10 years to resume on the work and Therefinish.isafeeling
that clarinet quintet came to me a bit early because I am just 27, and I do not wish to pass away in the near future! But I love clarinet’s sound and also the strings. How could I not have taken it. My brain worked so hard until finally writing down the very first note on the paper. For many years, I longed for the beauty that shines the aesthetics of immortality. Something that would not end, when listening. Something that seems like there is no gravity, therefore no time when listening. After this phase of longing for immortality in sound, I was drawn to the beauty of distortion, rough textures, something that one would call “ugly”. I see these images or paintings, I heard sounds. Nervous and furious. This was exactly the opposite of the immortality in sound. Now, in recent years, I am working and trying to persuade these two things to get married! I mean, two different things getting together is just like how it is like in real life (yes a lot of struggle...!) But, yes, I believe these two ideas - immortality in sound, beauty of ugliness - will marry with not many big problems in my work. I mean, they are almost there. It’s just that... the piece’s tempo and character indication in the beginning is written as “Furioso ma calmo”, “furious but calmly”. By composer Jaehyuck Choi (1994)
possibleTheChoicommissionforClarinetQuintetwasmadebyagrantfromTheCollegeofArtsandSciencesatTheOhioStateUniversity.WegratefullyacknowledgetheirsupportinhonoringChamberMusicColumbusfounder,andOSUalumnus,JamesN.Cain.
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studies were guided by Jörg Widmann, Matthias Pintscher, Unsuk Chin, Peter Eötvös, Samuel Adler, Jung-sun Park; and his conducting studies were guided by Peter Eötvös and Matthias Pintscher.
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Jaehyuck Choi Composer Born in Seoul on 31 October 1994; Jaehyuck Choi, is a composer, conductor, and Artistic Director of the ensemble blank. After winning the 1st prize of the Concours de Geneve in 2017, his works have been commissioned and premiered by the ensembles and orchestras such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Parker Quartet, L’Orchestre de Chambre de Geneve, Seoul Philharmonic, Gyeonggi Philharmonic, The Juilliard Orchestra, FontanaMix Ensemble, and so on.
In 2018, Choi made his international debut as a conductor on Stockhausen’s Gruppen at the Lucerne Festival with Sir Simon Rattle and Duncan Ward conducting the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra of the Lucerne Festival Academy. Since then, he has been invited to ensemble and orchestras such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, PinkNoise Ensemble, FontanaMix Ensemble, Bucheon Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic, Gyeonggi Philharmonic, and so forth.
A lover of paintings and sculptures, Choi founded the ensemble blank in 2015, which has become one of the Korea’s leading contemporary music groups. The ensemble blank continues to perform under the direction of Choi. He makes his home in Berlin and in Seoul. Choi is represented by the Credia Music and Artists as a composer-conductor exclusive in Korea.
Jaehyuck Choi holds bachelor of music and master of music degrees in composition from The Juilliard School, and is continuing his composition studies at the Barenboim-Said HisAkademie.composition
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Musicians prefer to think by association, our rehearsals are filled with adjectives and metaphors, gestures and glances rather than the precise analytical jargon of research scientists or musicologists. This makes it a rather daunting task for us when we are asked to write program notes: how can we be expected to say anything clarifying when we express ourselves by “playing” and we get by in our professional lives with a carefully designed imprecision.
By way of an example, I will never forget losing Siwoo in the Musée d’Orsay when he came to visit me in Paris one summer, only to find him some twenty-odd minutes later in front of Claude Monet’s Tempête, côtes de Belle-Île studying the brush strokes of the famous painter, looking for inspiration for how to use the bow while playing French music. Little did we know then that, quite possibly, Monet sat painting those titanic waves crashing against the rocks in the Bay of Biscay at the same moment Gabriel Fauré was hard at work writing his second piano quartet (written in 1886, the year of Monet’s séjour at Belle-île).
Looking now at images of that painting and the others painted at the same site, the precise analytical jargon of the musicologists seems so lacking. Each movement of Fauré’s quartet is a painting of that same ocean, with its own temperature, its calmness, its storminess, its changes of atmosphere, of sunlight, of nuance. « La musique souvent me prend comme une mer ! », Baudelaire says, music often takes me like a sea: better to let it than to try and understand how. By violist and VIVO Artistic Director, John Stulz “Each movement of Fauré’s quartet is a painting of that same ocean, with its own temperature, its calmness, its storminess, its changes of atmosphere, of sunlight, of nuance. “
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