March 3, 2014 - Master Class with the Miró Quartet

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

MASTER CLASS WITH THE MIRĂ“ QUARTET Monday, March 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

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MASTER CLASS WITH THE MIRÓ QUARTET Monday, March 3, 2014 at 11:00 AM MIRÓ QUARTET DANIEL CHING, violin WILLIAM FEDKENHEUER, violin JOHN LARGESS, viola JOSHUA GINDELE, cello

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)

Quartet in D minor for Strings, K. 421 (1783) LILY HOLGATE, KENNETH TROTTER, VIOLIN; KATHARINE DRYDEN, VIOLA; LIAM VEUVE, CELLO

Purchase Conservatory

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

Quartet in B-flat major for Strings, Op. 18, No. 6 (1798-1800) HANNAH CHOI, JI MIN LEE, VIOLIN; OLIVIA CHEW, VIOLA; PATRICK HOPKINS, CELLO

Manhattan School of Music

BÉLA BARTÓK (1881-1945)

Quartet No. 1 in A minor for Strings, Sz. 40, BB 52, Op. 7 (1909) MATOUS MICHAL, SIMON MICHAL, VIOLIN; MATTHEW SINNO, VIOLA; PATRICK HOPKINS, CELLO

The Juilliard School

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about the

MIRÓ QUARTET

Now in its 18th year, the Miró Quartet is consistently praised for its deeply musical interpretations, exciting performances, and thoughtful programming. Each season, the Miró Quartet performs throughout the world on the most important chamber music series and on the most prestigious concert stages, garnering accolades from critics and audiences alike. Of a recent performance, the Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote: “Throughout the concert, the Miró gave lessons in the art of the string quartet, shaping each of the night’s scores with a blend of refinement and vibrancy that drew the listener deeply inside the sonic arguments.”

Concert highlights of recent seasons include a highly anticipated and sold out return to Carnegie Hall to perform Beethoven’s complete Opus 59 Quartets (which it also recorded); collaborations with awardwinning actor Stephen Dillane as part of Lincoln Center’s White Lights Festival; and festival appearances at Chamber Music Northwest, Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, and Ottawa ChamberFest.

The 2013-14 season brings the Miró Quartet to North American performances in Cincinnati, Houston, Baltimore, and Vancouver. The quartet will also premiere a new Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Kevin Puts with the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra, and

subsequently perform the work with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Naples Philharmonic Orchestra.

Internationally, the quartet will perform at the Chamber Music Today Festival in South Korea, as well as a multi-city tour of Japan.

Additionally, the quartet will make its debut at the Hong Kong Chamber Music Festival.

The Miró Quartet members regularly collaborate with pianist Jon Kimura Parker, percussionist Colin Currie, and mezzosoprano Sasha Cooke (whom they recently collaborated with on the quartet’s Schubert Interrupted recording).

Formed in 1995, the Miró Quartet took first prizes at several national and international competitions including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. In 2005, the Miró Quartet became the first ensemble ever to be awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant. The quartet has served as the quartetin-residence at the University of Texas at Austin Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music since 2003. Deeply committed to music education, members of the Miró Quartet have given master classes at universities and conservatories throughout the world. Based in Austin, Texas, the Miró Quartet took its name from the Spanish artist, Joan Miró, whose surrealist works— with subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy— are some of the most original of the 20th century.

meet today’s

PERFORMERS

Olivia Chew is a violist currently based in New York City. Ms. Chew serves as Assistant Principal Viola in the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and has been offered a position at the 2014 Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra in Charleston, SC. In December, Ms. Chew and her quartet were winners of the Fuchs Chamber Music competition at the Manhattan School of Music. She spent the last three summers at the prestigious Aspen Music Festival as a fellowship student, where she worked with renowned musicians Joshua Bell, Edgar Meyer, Gil Shaham, Robert Spano, Ludovic Morlot and David Robertson. Ms. Chew received her bachelor of music and master of music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where she worked closely with Alan de Veritch and Stephen Wyrczynski. She is currently pursuing a degree in orchestral performance at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Karen Dreyfus.

Born in Lubbock, Texas, violinist Hannah Choi has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, under Maestro Christoph Eschenbach, and the Poland National Philharmonic Orchestra. Ms. Choi has been a substitute member of the Philadelphia Orchestra since 2005 and has appeared as concertmaster for numerous orchestras including the MSM Symphony, MSM Chamber Sinfonia, NEC Philharmonia, Haffner Symphony, Tanglewood Festival Orchestra and Pacific Music Festival Orchestra. She has performed in various chamber recitals for the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation in Kumho Art Hall and has appeared in numerous venues both in the United States and abroad, as well as at festivals such as Yellow Barn, Pacific Music Festival, Tanglewood, New York String Seminar, Encore School for

Strings, and the Aspen Summer Music Festival. She has also appeared as soloist with the New Seoul Symphony, the Haffner Symphony, and the NEC Philharmonia, most recently performing with the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra. She was awarded first prize in the Korean Music Association Competition and the concerto competition of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra. Ms. Choi received a bachelor of music from the Curtis Institute of Music, studying with Jamie Laredo, Joseph Silverstein and Yumi N. Scott. She continued with a master of music and a graduate diploma at the New England Conservatory, studying with Donald Weilerstein. She is currently studying with Glenn Dicterow and Lisa Kim in the orchestral performance program at the Manhattan School of Music.

A native of Buffalo, New York, Katharine Dryden began her studies on the viola at age seven. As a member of the Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra, she was one of the winners of the orchestra’s prestigious annual concerto competition. She also maintains an active career as a choral singer, and has held staff singer positions in the professional choirs of Christ Episcopal Church in New Haven and Trinity Episcopal Church in Southport, Connecticut. Dryden began her viola studies with David Levine.

At the collegiate level her academic studies focused on the natural sciences, and she holds a bachelor of arts in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from Yale University, where her thesis project focused on the underlying mechanism of cytokinesis. While at Yale she was also a member of the Yale Glee Club and Yale Camerata, and studied voice with soprano Sherezade Panthaki. Following her graduation from Yale, she decided to

focus on her musical interests full time and is currently pursuing a degree in viola performance at SUNY Purchase, where she studies with Danielle Farina.

A native of New York City, Lily Holgate found her passion for performing music at an early age at the Special Music School in Manhattan. As an orchestral musician, Ms. Holgate has held concertmaster positions with the Purchase Symphony Orchestra, the Moritzburg Festival Academy Orchestra in Germany, and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She has performed in renowned venues such as the Mozarteum, Rudolfinum, Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, and The Konzerthaus in Berlin. Ms. Holgate has spent summers at The Moritzburg Festival, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and the New York University String Quartet Workshop. Through these programs she has performed in master classes for the Orion String Quartet, the Ying Quartet, and the Manhattan String Quartet. As an advocate of contemporary music, Ms. Holgate and her quartet will be premiering a work by composer Jason Eckhart this spring at SUNY Purchase. During her time at Purchase College, Ms. Holgate performed for Gil Shaham, Robert Steinberg, and members of the Decoda Ensemble. She is currently completing her bachelor of fine arts in violin performance from the Purchase College Conservatory of Music where she studies with Carmit Zori.

Other important mentors include Laurie Smukler, Calvin Wiersma, and Jill Levy.

Violinist Ji Min Lee has performed in concert venues around the world including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Royal Albert Hall, and Seoul Arts Center. She recently performed with BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall under John Adams. An avid chamber

musician, Ms. Lee has performed in Weill Recital Hall and Alice Tully Hall, and her mentors include Joseph Kalichstein, Ida Kavafian, Samuel Rhodes, and Sylvia Rosenberg. In 2012, her piano quintet participated in Leon Fleisher’s master class at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Born in Seoul, Korea, she entered the Korean National University of Arts at the age of 12, studying under Nam-Yun Kim. At age 13, Ms. Lee moved to the United States where she attended the Walnut Hill School for the Arts. She studied with Sylvia Rosenberg at the Manhattan School of Music, and completed her bachelor of music degree at The Juilliard School in 2011. She recently received her master of music degree at the Juilliard School under Hyo Kang and Naoko Tanaka. As an active orchestral musician, Ms. Lee is currently pursuing a professional studies certificate program in orchestral performance at the Manhattan School of Music.

Cellist Patrick Hopkins is an active soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player.

He has performed in a variety of prestigious venues including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, and The Kennedy Center.

Hopkins appeared three times as soloist with the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra, as winner of its Concerto Competitions. As winner of the 2008 Juilliard Pre-College Concerto Competition, he performed with the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra.

Patrick was also the winner of the 2011 Music Teachers National Association Young Artist Competition. Hopkins has participated in master classes with Colin Carr, Andres Diaz, Timothy Eddy, and Zuill Bailey and has also studied chamber music with Toby Appel, Bonnie Hampton, Jerome Lowenthal, and Daniel Phillips.

He graduated from Juilliard’s Pre-College Division in May 2009 and received his

bachelor of music degree from The Juilliard School in 2013 as a scholarship student of Bonnie Hampton and Richard Aaron. Hopkins is pursuing a graduate degree at the Manhattan School of Music in the orchestral performance program as a full scholarship student of Alan Stepansky.

At the age of four, Matous Michal began studying violin with his father Ladislav Michal. Mr. Michal has performed recitals in major halls across the United States and Europe including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, National Concert Hall of Ireland, Dvorak Hall of Rudolfinum and Smetana Hall of the Municipal House in Prague. He also regularly performs as a soloist with major orchestras including appearances with Santa Fe Pro Musica, Philharmonic Orchestra of Hradec Kralove, Philharmonic Orchestra of Zlin, Philharmonic Orchestra of Pardubice, and others. Mr. Michal earned the EMCY Art for Music Prize and was the Edition Barenreiter Prize winner of the Kocian Violin Competition. He is a grand prize winner of Concertino Praga and has won several international competitions including the Dubai International Competition for Young Virtuosos, grand prize and prize for best interpretation of a 20th century piece in the Czech National Competition, first prize at Archetti in Moravia, and first prize at Prague Junior Note. From 2006 – 2009 he was awarded a full-scholarship at the renowned Meadowmount Summer School of Music in New York, where he studied with Charles Avsharian. He continued his studies at the Prague Conservatory with Professor Jaroslav Foltýn. He is currently a full-scholarship student of Glenn Dicterow at The Juilliard School of Music in New York.

From an early age 20-year-old Czech violinist Simon Michal has performed at concerts throughtout Europe and North America. As a soloist, Mr. Michal has appeared with the Santa Fe Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Bohuslav Martinu Philharmony and others. The winner of numerous international competitions, Mr. Michal won the grand prize at both Kocian International Violin Competition and the International Radio Competition Concertino Praga. Currently, Mr. Michal is in his third year of study toward a bachelor of music degree at The Juilliard School with concertmaster of the NY Philharmonic, Glenn Dicterow.

Matthew Sinno of Mansfield, Massachusetts began playing viola at the age of nine. He has been affiliated with the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Orchestras, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and New England Conservatory’s Youth Philharmonic Orchestra.

In December 2011, Sinno played concerts throughout Palestine and Israel as a member of the first ever Palestine National Orchestra.

Matthew has participated in many summer music festivals, including Music Academy of the West, Heifetz International Music Institute, Holland International Music Sessions and Colorado College Music Festival among others. In 2010, Sinno won the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (BYSO) Concerto Competition and performed Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with BYSO in Boston and on tour in London. Matthew is currently in his fourth year at The Juilliard School, where he is a principal violist for the Juilliard Orchestra.

He studies with Toby Appel.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, Liam Veuve began playing the cello at the age of six at the School for Strings in New York

City. As an orchestral musician, Mr. Veuve has performed under conductors Giancarlo Guerrero, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and Benjamin Zander, and has held the principal cello position in the Purchase Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra, and YOA Orchestra of the Americas. Mr. Veuve has participated in numerous summer music festivals, including the Manchester Music Festival, School for Strings Chamber Music Workshop and “Oberlin in Italy.”

He has performed in an array of venues including orchestral and chamber music performances at Carnegie Hall, a solo performance at Avery Fisher Hall, and concerts at Severance Hall in Cleveland.

He has performed in master classes with

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renowned artists including Timothy Eddy, Ani Kavafian, Yehuda Hanani, Vivian Weilerstein, and Peter Salaff, as well as with members of the Emerson and Julliard String Quartets. Mr. Veuve holds a bachelor of arts degree from New York University, and a master of music from the Cleveland Institute of Music where he studied with Richard Weiss and Merry Peckham. Other principal teachers include Astrid Schween and Katharine Brainard.

Mr. Veuve is currently pursuing an artist diploma at SUNY Purchase, studying with Julia Lichten. Dedicated to music education and outreach, Veuve is currently on cello faculty at Gracias Music at Mahanaim in Huntington, NY.

EVENTS

EMOTION UNBOUND

Friday, March 7, 2014, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring works by Dohnányi, Schumann, and Dvořák

MEET THE MUSIC! LEAVE IT TO LUDWIG Sunday, March 16, 2014, 2:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Concerts for kids ages 6 & up and their families

RUSSIAN TWILIGHT

Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring works by Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Arensky, and Taneyev