David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, February 27, 2014 at 9:00 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio 3,291st Concert
PATRICK CASTILLO, host SOYEON KATE LEE, piano SEAN LEE, violin DAVID AARON CARPENTER, viola DAVID FINCKEL, cello MIHAI MARICA, cello
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LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, February 27, 2014 at 9:00 PATRICK CASTILLO, host SOYEON KATE LEE, piano SEAN LEE, violin DAVID AARON CARPENTER, viola DAVID FINCKEL, cello MIHAI MARICA, cello
ZOLTÁN KODÁLY (1882-1967)
Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7 (1914) Allegro serioso, non troppo Adagio Maestoso e largamente, ma non troppo lento— Presto S. LEE, MARICA
GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924)
Quartet No. 1 in C minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 15 (1876-79) Allegro molto moderato Scherzo: Allegro vivo Adagio Allegro molto S.K. LEE, S. LEE, CARPENTER, FINCKEL
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meet tonight’s
ARTISTS
Recipient of the 2011 Leonard Bernstein Award, the 2010 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and First Prize Winner of the Walter E. Naumburg Viola Competition, David Aaron Carpenter is widely considered one of the most talented and charismatic musicians of his generation. Recently called “the hottest violist of the 21st century” by music critic Norman Lebrecht and “stunningly talented” by the New Yorker, he is also a former Rolex “Protégé” for which he was mentored by Pinchas Zukerman. He made his solo debut at the Kennedy Center in 2002 after winning the Presidential Scholar Award and the first-ever Gold Medal Award at the National Foundation For Advancement In The Arts. Since then he has performed with leading musicians and orchestras around the world, from the Philadelphia Orchestra to the Philharmonia, the Dresden Staatskapelle to the Lucerne Symphony. In May 2013 he played the Schnittke Viola Concerto at Carnegie Hall, under Christoph Eschenbach, as featured soloist in the National Symphony Orchestra’s tribute to Rostropovich. He is currently the Artistic Director of the New York-based Salomé Chamber Orchestra, which he co-founded with his brother Sean and sister Lauren. The orchestra inaugurated the annual Salomé Music Festival at The Hamptons in August 2012, where he played in the opening concert alongside singersongwriter Rufus Wainwright. Mr. Carpenter was featured on the cover of the Strad magazine in August 2013 and, a few months earlier, was the subject of a three-page article in the New York Times.
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. Co-artistic director of the Chamber Music Society, cellist David Finckel, named Musical America’s 2012 Musician
of the Year, leads a multifaceted career as a concert performer, recording artist, educator, administrator, and cultural entrepreneur that places him in the ranks of today’s most influential classical musicians. He has been hailed as a “world class soloist” (Denver Post) and “one of the top ten, if not top five, cellists in the world today” (Nordwest Zeitung, Germany). As a chamber musician, he appears extensively with duo partner pianist Wu Han and in a piano trio alongside Emerson Quartet violinist Philip Setzer. David Finckel served as cellist of the Grammy Awardwinning Emerson String Quartet for 34 seasons. In 1997 David Finckel and Wu Han launched ArtistLed, classical music’s first musician-directed and Internet-based recording company, whose catalogue of 16 albums has won widespread critical praise. Along with Wu Han, he is the founder and artistic director of Music@Menlo, Silicon Valley’s acclaimed chamber music festival and institute, and is artistic director for Chamber Music Today in Seoul, Korea. In 2012, David Finckel was named honoree and artistic director of The Mendelssohn Fellowship, an initiative set on expanding the presence of chamber music in Korea. Under the auspices of the Chamber Music Society, David Finckel and Wu Han established the LG Chamber Music School. The first American student of Rostropovich, David Finckel serves on the faculty at The Juilliard School and Stony Brook University. David Finckel and Wu Han inaugurated a special chamber music program at Aspen Music Festival and School in 2013. With performances described by the New York Times as “breathtakingly
beautiful,” violinist Sean Lee is quickly gaining recognition as one of today’s most talented rising artists, having received prizes in the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. His debut album featuring the Strauss Violin Sonata was released by EMI Classics and reached the Top 20 of the iTunes “Top Classical Albums” list. In recent years he has appeared as a soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony, Utah Symphony, Orchestra Del Teatro Carlo Felice, Westchester Symphony, Peninsula Symphony, and the Juilliard Orchestra, and as a recitalist, he has performed at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium, Festival di Carro Paganiniano, and Wiener Konzerthaus. In addition to his solo engagements, he has given chamber music performances at venues including the Kennedy Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, Adrienne Arsht Center, and the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park. After receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees as a student of Itzhak Perlman, Mr. Lee served as a teaching assistant to Mr. Perlman at The Juilliard School for three years and currently teaches chamber music in the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School. A member of Chamber Music Society Two, he is also a faculty member of the Perlman Music Program, where he was a student for six years, and performs on a 1799 Nicolas Lupot violin. First prize winner of the prestigious 2010 Naumburg International Piano Competition, Korean-American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee has been hailed by the New York Times as a pianist with “a huge,
richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style.” She has performed as soloist with numerous orchestras, including The Cleveland Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in the Dominican Republic, Orquesta de Valencia, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, and Naples Philharmonic. In recent seasons, she has given recitals at New York’s Zankel, Alice Tully, and Merkin halls, Washington’s Kennedy Center, at the Ravinia Festival, Madrid’s National Auditorium, and San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre. A Naxos recording artist, she records a double CD of Scriabin piano works this season and her album of Liszt opera transcriptions was released in December 2013. Ms. Lee is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and a laureate of the Cleveland and Santander international piano competitions. She is currently a candidate for the Doctorate of Musical Arts at the CUNY Graduate Center where she works with Ursula Oppens and Richard Goode. Ms. Lee is a Steinway Artist and a member of Chamber Music Society Two, and serves on the faculty at City College of New York. She is also the co-founder and co-director of Music by the Glass, a New York music series managed entirely by young professionals in the city.
Cellist Mihai Marica won the first prize in the 2005 Irving M. Klein International String Competition. He also received First Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the 2006 “Dr. Luis Sigall” International Competition in Viña del Mar, Chile and the 2006 Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi Fellowship Grant. He has performed with orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra of Chile, Xalapa Symphony in Mexico, the Hermitage State Orchestra of St. Petersburg in Russia, the Jardins Musicaux Festival Orchestra in Switzerland, the Louisville Orchestra, and the Santa Cruz Symphony in the US. He also appeared in recital performances in Austria, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Holland, South Korea, Japan, Chile, the United States, and Canada. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with such artists as Mihae Lee, Peter Frankl, Ani Kavafian, William Purvis, David Shifrin, André Watts, and Edgar Meyer, and is a member of the award winning Amphion String Quartet. He played a Weill Hall debut recital and a Zankel Hall debut performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations in early 2008. Mr. Marica studied with Gabriela Todor in his native Romania and with Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music where he was awarded the Master of Music and Artist Diploma degrees. He is a member of Chamber Music Society Two and his three-year residency is supported by The Winston Foundation.
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upcoming
EVENTS
ENCORES IN THE ROSE: TRANSCENDENCE
Saturday, March 1, 2014, 7:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Works by Beethoven and Schubert
MASTER CLASS WITH THE MIRÓ QUARTET
Monday, March 3, 2014, 11:00 AM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio This event will stream live at www.chambermusicsociety.org/watchlive
EMOTION UNBOUND
Friday, March 7, 2014, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring works by Dohnányi, Schumann, and Dvořák