Late Night Rose - January 30, 2014

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, January 30, 2014 at 9:00 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio 3,278th Concert

PATRICK CASTILLO, host RANSOM WILSON, flute JAMES AUSTIN SMITH, oboe ROMIE DE GUISE-LANGLOIS, clarinet JOSE FRANCH-BALLESTER, clarinet/bass clarinet BRAM VAN SAMBEEK, bassoon RADOVAN VLATKOVIĆ, horn

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LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, January 30, 2014 at 9:00 PATRICK CASTILLO, host RANSOM WILSON, flute JAMES AUSTIN SMITH, oboe ROMIE DE GUISE-LANGLOIS, clarinet JOSE FRANCH-BALLESTER, clarinet/bass clarinet BRAM VAN SAMBEEK, bassoon RADOVAN VLATKOVIĆ, horn

CARL NIELSEN (1865-1931)

Quintet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn, Op. 43 (1922) Allegro ben moderato Menuet Praeludium: Adagio—Tema con variazioni: Un poco andantino WILSON, SMITH, FRANCH-BALLESTER, VAN SAMBEEK, VLATKOVIĆ

ANDRÉ JOLIVET (1905-1971)

Sonatine for Oboe and Bassoon (1963) Ouverture Récitatif Ostinato SMITH, VAN SAMBEEK

LEOŠ JANÁČEK (1854-1928)

Mládí, Suite for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn (1924) Allegro Andante sostenuto Vivace Allegro animato WILSON, SMITH, DE GUISE-LANGLOIS, FRANCH-BALLESTER, VAN SAMBEEK, VLATKOVIĆ

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meet tonight’s

ARTISTS

Patrick Castillo leads a multifaceted career as a composer, performer, writer, and educator. His music has been featured at festivals and venues throughout the United States and internationally including Spoleto Festival USA, June in Buffalo, the Santa Fe New Music Festival, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Berklee College of Music, Tenri Cultural Institute, Bavarian Academy of Music in Munich, and Nuremberg Museum of Contemporary Art. He is variously active as an explicator of music to a wide range of listeners. He has provided liner and program notes for numerous recording labels and concert series: most prolifically for Music@ Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in Silicon Valley for which he also serves as artistic administrator. In this latter capacity, he has led a variety of pre-concert discussion events; designed outreach presentations for middle and high school students; and authored, narrated, and produced the widely acclaimed AudioNotes series of listener’s guides to the chamber music literature. His writing credits also include New York City Opera’s musical introduction to Emmanuel Chabrier’s L’Étoile, a live presentation for young listeners featuring full orchestra and soloists. Mr. Castillo has been a guest lecturer at Fordham University, the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass in Kentucky, ChamberFest Cleveland, and String Theory at the Hunter in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 2010 to 2013, he served as senior director of artistic planning for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Praised as “extraordinary” and “a formidable clarinetist” by The New York Times, Romie de Guise-Langlois has appeared as a soloist with the Houston

Symphony and the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, and at Music@Menlo and Banff Center for the Arts. She is a winner of the 2011 Astral Artists’ National Audition and was awarded first prize in the 2009 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg competition; she was additionally a first prize winner of Woolsey Hall Competition at Yale University, the McGill University Classical Concerto Competition, and the Canadian Music Competition. An avid chamber musician, she has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia and Boston chamber music societies, the 92nd Street Y, the Kennedy Center, and Chamber Music Northwest. She has performed as principal clarinetist for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New Haven and Stamford symphony orchestras and The Knights Chamber Orchestra. A native of Montreal, Ms. de Guise-Langlois earned degrees from McGill University and the Yale School of Music, where she studied under David Shifrin and she is an alumna of The Academy—A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute. She is currently adjunct professor of clarinet at Kean and Montclair universities and is a member of Chamber Music Society Two. Clarinetist Jose Franch-Ballester is a captivating performer of “poetic eloquence” (The New York Sun) and “technical wizardry” (The New York Times). He plays regularly at the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, the Saratoga Chamber Music Festival, the Skaneateles Festival, Camerata

Pacifica, and Music from Angel Fire.

He has also appeared at the Usedomer Musikfestival in Germany, the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Cartagena Festival Internacional de Música in Colombia, and the Young Concert Artists Festival in Tokyo, Japan. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the BBC Concert Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Orchestra, and numerous Spanish orchestras. Winner of the 2004 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, he was presented in debut recitals in New York and in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center. In 2008, he won a coveted Avery Fisher Career Award. He was awarded Cannes’ Midem Prize, which aims to introduce artists to the classical recording industry. With the Chamber Music Society, he has recorded Bartók’s Contrasts on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Born in Moncofa, Spain into a family of clarinetists and Zarzuela singers, Mr. Franch-Ballester graduated from the Joaquin Rodrigo Music Conservatory. He earned a bachelor’s degree from The Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Donald Montanaro and Pamela Frank.

He is a former member of Chamber Music Society Two. Praised for his “dazzling,” “virtuosic,” and “brilliant” performances (The New York Times), oboist James Austin Smith performs equal parts new and old music across the United States and around the world. He is a member of Chamber Music Society Two, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), the Talea Ensemble and Decoda, as well as a regular guest of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and Cygnus. His festival appearances include Music@Menlo, Marlboro, Lucerne, Chamber Music Northwest,

Schleswig-Holstein, Stellenbosch, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, OK Mozart, Schwetzingen, and Spoleto USA; he has performed with the St. Lawrence and Orion string quartets and recorded for the Nonesuch, Bridge, Mode, and Kairos labels. Mr. Smith received his Master of Music degree in 2008 from the Yale School of Music and graduated in 2005 with Bachelor of Arts (in political science) and Bachelor of Music degrees from Northwestern University. He spent a year as a Fulbright Scholar in Leipzig, Germany at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater “Felix MendelssohnBartholdy” and is an alumnus of “The Academy,” a collaboration of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, the Weill Music Institute, and the New York City Department of Education. His principal teachers are Stephen Taylor, Christian Wetzel, Humbert Lucarelli, Hansjörg Schellenberger, and Ray Still. In the fall of 2012 he joined the faculty at SUNY Purchase. The son of musician parents and eldest of four boys, Mr. Smith was born in New York and raised in Connecticut.

Bram van Sambeek was the first bassoonist ever to receive The Dutch Music Prize, the highest Dutch cultural award, and in 2011 he won a Borletti Buitoni Trust Award. From 2002 until 2011 he was principal bassoonist of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; since 2009 he has been teaching the bassoon at the Codarts Conservatory in Rotterdam.

He plays regularly as a guest principal with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.

Focussing mainly on chamber music, he is a member of the Orlando Quintet, and made his Amsterdam Concertgebouw debut in 2003. He is a regular guest at

festivals such as the Delft Chamber Music Festival, Orlando Festival, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, and the Oxford Chamber Music Festival, and has investigated concert practice in cooperation with Radio Kootwijk Live, experimenting with playing people to sleep. He performs regularly as a soloist with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Sinfonia Rotterdam, and Georgian Sinfonietta. He began his studies with Fred Gaasterland and continued with Joep Terwey and Johan Steinmann at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. After graduating, he took private lessons with Gustavo Núñez. In March 2012 Brilliant Classics released his second CD, Bassoon-Kaleidoscope, which contains a variety of chamber music, including a rock song, and in the coming seasons he will perform new bassoon concertos by Sebastian Fagerlund and Kalevi Aho and record them for the BIS label. He is a member of Chamber Music Society Two. Radovan Vlatković has performed extensively around the globe and popularized the horn as a recording artist and teacher. He recently premiered Penderecki’s Horn Concerto in Bremen with the composer as conductor. He is the winner of numerous competitions, including the Premio Ancona in 1979 and the ARD Competition in 1983; these honors led to invitations to music festivals throughout Europe—including Salzburg, Vienna, Edinburgh, and Dubrovnik—and the Americas, Australia, Israel, Korea, and Japan. As a chamber musician, he has performed at Gidon Kremer’s Lockenhaus, Svyatoslav Richter’s December Evenings in Moscow, and András Schiff’s Mondsee, as well as the Marlboro Festival, Prussia Cove, and

the Casals Festival. He has appeared as soloist with many orchestras, such as the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie Orchester, Mozarteum Orchestra, Santa Cecilia Orchestra Rome, Melbourne Orchestra, the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo, and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

The recipient of several German Record Critics’ Awards, he has recorded Mozart and Strauss concertos with the English Chamber Orchestra and Jeffrey Tate for EMI, two-horn concertos by Leopold Mozart and Johann Friedrich Fasch with Hermann Baumann and Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, and the Britten Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings with the Oriol Ensemble in Berlin. An Artist of the Chamber Music Society, Mr. Vlatković is on the faculty of the Mozarteum Salzburg, Hochschule Zürich, and holds the Canon horn chair at the Queen Sofia School in Madrid.

Flutist/conductor Ransom Wilson has performed in concert with major orchestras the world over. As a conductor, in recent seasons he has led opera performances at the New York City Opera and was an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera.

He was recently named Music Director of the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company.

This season he continues as a member of the conducting staff of the Metropolitan Opera. Founder and Artistic Director of LE TRAIN BLEU ensemble, he has been a guest conductor of the Houston, KBS, Kraków, Denver, New Jersey, Hartford, and Berkeley symphonies; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra; the Hallé Orchestra; and the chamber orchestras of St. Paul and Los Angeles. He has also appeared with the Glimmerglass Opera, Minnesota Opera,

and the Opera of La Quinzena Musical in Spain. As an educator, he regularly leads master classes at the Paris Conservatory, Juilliard School, Moscow Conservatory, Cambridge University, and others. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he was an Atlantique Foundation scholar in Paris, where he studied privately with Jean-Pierre Rampal. His recording career, which includes three Grammy

Award nominations, began in 1973 with Jean-Pierre Rampal and I Solisti Veneti.

Since then he has recorded over 30 albums as flutist and/or conductor. Mr. Wilson is Professor of Flute at the Yale University School of Music, Principal Conductor at the SUNY Purchase Conservatory of Music, and has been an Artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1991.

upcoming

EVENTS

MASTER CLASS WITH SHMUEL ASHKENASI

Monday, February 3, 2014, 11:00 AM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio This event will stream live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/WatchLive

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC

Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Focus on Beethoven’s Quartet in F minor for Strings, Op. 95, “Serioso”

ELOQUENT MASTERWORKS

Friday, February 7, 2014, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert

Pre-Concert Lecture with Michael Parloff in the Rose Studio

6:15 PM • $10; $8 for concert ticket holders