David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
MASTER CLASS WITH KURT MUROKI Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 11:00 AM Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio
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MASTER CLASS WITH KURT MUROKI Tuesday, April 1, 2014 at 11:00 AM
SERGEI PROKOFIEV (1891-1953)
Quintet in G minor for Oboe, Clarinet, Violin, Viola, and Bass, Op. 39 (1924) ZACHARY MANZI, CLARINET; HARRISON LINSEY, OBOE; SIRENA HUANG, VIOLIN; WILLIAM BENDER, VIOLA; ASA MAYNARD, DOUBLE BASS
The Juilliard School
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
Quintet in A major for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass, D. 667, Op. 114, “Trout” (1819) MICHAEL REFVEM, PIANO; ALEXANDROS PETRIN, VIOLIN; DANIEL LAMAS, VIOLA; SEULKI LEE, CELLO; ABRAHAM MASSO, DOUBLE BASS
Manhattan School of Music
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about
KURT MUROKI
Bassist Kurt Muroki has performed with the Jupiter Chamber Players, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New York City Ballet, 92nd Street Y, and Bargemusic. His festival appearances include Marlboro Music Festival, Festival L’Autonne at IRCAM, and Aspen Music Festival. He is also an active studio musician who has recorded with a variety of artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Peter Gabriel, Sting, and The Who, and he can be heard in many film scores and commercials. He has collaborated with the Guarneri, Juilliard, and Tokyo quartets, among others, and has performed concerto tours throughout Asia and the United States. A native of Maui,
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Hawaii, he began his musical studies on the violin and went on to study the double bass at The Juilliard School with Homer R. Mensch. Mr. Muroki is a professor at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, and on the faculty at Stony Brook University, the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. He is also on the Board of Directors of the International Society of Bassists, is a D’Addario Strings Artist, and is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society. He plays a double bass once owned by the famous double bassist Domenico Dragonetti and attributed to Nicolo Amati circa 1665.
PERFORMERS
William Bender is a violist from Nashville, Tennessee. As a member of the Juilliard Orchestra, he has played principal viola under Christoph von Dohnányi, James Levine, Hans Graf, and Jeffrey Milarsky. Mr. Bender also plays principal weekly in the Juilliard Lab Orchestra, led by Alan Gilbert. He has twice participated in Juilliard’s Chamberfest, as well as in many master classes and concerts around the country. Mr. Bender has thrice performed with the Heifetz International Music Institute, where he regularly appeared on the “Stars of Tomorrow” concert series. He attended the Aspen Music School on the Orchestral String Fellowship in 2012. At The Juilliard School, he received the Miriam Klein Scholarship, the C.V.
Starr Scholarship, and the Chairman’s Grant. Mr. Bender studies with Heidi Castleman and Robert Vernon at The Juilliard School. Praised by the Hartford Courant as “the first real virtuoso from the text-message age,” violinist Sirena Huang made her orchestra solo debut with the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra at age nine. Since then, she has performed in 13 countries across 3 continents and has been featured as soloist with more than 40 orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Weimar in Germany, Russian Symphony Orchestra, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Sinfonia,
Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestra, and many others. She performed as a guest artist at the Aspen Music Festival, Eastern Music Festival, Verbier Music Festival, Harriman-Jewell Series, Sarasota Arts Series, Albuquerque Chamber Music Festival, South Windsor Artist Series, and “The Great Music for a Great City” series in New York City, among others. Ms. Huang was invited to perform during the ceremony in which the Humanitarian Award was presented to President Sarkozy of France. In addition, she received the honor of playing for His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan at the 2007 World Peace Conference in Petra alongside distinguished guests such as Elie Wiesel and 30 other Nobel Prize Laureates. Also in 2007, under the invitation of former Czech Republic President Havel, she played in the Opening Ceremony of “Forum 2000 World Conference” in Prague. In 2006, she was invited to be a guest speaker at the TED Conference held in California. Ms. Huang was the First Prize Gold Medalist of the International Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Musicians held in Korea in 2009. More recently, she was the First Prize Winner and recipient of the Audience Award in the 2011 Cooper International Competition as well as the Hannloser Prize Winner for Violin at the Verbier Music Festival in Switzerland. Ms. Huang was named the first Artist-in-Residence of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra for 201114. Ms. Huang is currently a sophomore undergraduate at The Juilliard School and studies violin with Stephen Clapp and Sylvia Rosenberg. Chilean-American violist Daniel Lamas leads a multi-faceted career as an orchestral musician, chamber musician,
and pedagogue. Mr. Lamas has presented concerts in North and South America and Europe, including an acclaimed international debut with the Orquesta de Camara de Valdivia in Chile, where he also held the position of principal violist, presenting period-performance concerts. He has performed in a variety of prestigious venues including the Adrienne Arsht Center (Miami), the European Krzysztof Penderecki Center for Music (Poland), Teatro del Lago (Frutillar, Chile), and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Lamas has participated in festivals such as the Bergonzi String Quartet Seminar, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Penderecki Musik: Akademie Westfalen where he was principal violist. He has premiered numerous works by young and emerging composers. Mr. Lamas is also a dedicated pedagogue, having had private teaching studios in Miami, Chile, and New York. He was on faculty at the Universidad Austral de Chile, in Valdivia. He was also the viola instructor for the bicentennial and regional youth orchestras for the Centro Integral Familia Niño (CIFAN) Foundation, teaching underserved children (Valdivia, Chile). Mr. Lamas is a student at the Manhattan School of Music under the tutelage of Karen Dreyfus. A Seattle native, Harrison Linsey plays regularly with the Juilliard Orchestra and contemporary AXIOM Ensemble, additionally having served as principal oboist of the New York Youth Symphony for the 2011-12 season. Mr. Linsey has received the 2014 Oboe Fellowship to attend the Aspen Music Festival and School this summer. Mr. Linsey studies with Met Opera principal Elaine Douvas, and supplementally with Nathan Hughes, Linda Strommen, and Richard Dallessio.
He is a third year student at The Juilliard School, pursuing a bachelor of music in Oboe Performance. Korean cellist Seulki Lee first played Goltermann Concerto No. 3 with the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra in Pyungsong Concert Hall when she was 13 years old. She later performed the Dvořák Concerto with the Daejeon Art High School Philharmonic Orchestra in Daejeon Expo Concert Hall. In 2011, Ms. Lee performed in a special tribute concert in memory of Pablo Casals, playing works arranged for cello orchestra with Bonnie Hampton conducting at the Spanish Museum in New York. As a chamber musician, she has performed at the Chapelle de la Trinite, NJPAC, Greenfield Hall and Pforzheimer Hall. As an orchestral player, Ms. Lee has performed a diverse range of repertoire, including works by Danielpour, Copland, and Charles Fussell under the baton of distinguished conductors including Philippe Entremont, George Manahan, Jose De Eusebio, and David Gilbert. She played at the National Orchestra Institute in 2013. Ms. Lee was a scholarship recipient at the Fontainebleau Festival in France, where she was awarded the Prix de musique de chambre in cello. Ms. Lee has studied with Diana Legati (Paris Conservatory) and Herre Jan Stegenga and has performed in master classes with Richard Tunicliffe and the American String Quartet. Her chamber music coaches have included Nicholas Mann, Wolfram Koessel, Laurie Carney, and Laurie Smukler. Ms. Lee is pursuing a bachelor of music degree at Manhattan School of Music where she studies with Julia Lichten. Zachary T. Manzi began studying clarinet at the age of nine. A native of
Colorado, he held principal clarinet positions with the Denver Young Artists Orchestra and the Colorado Springs Youth Symphony, the latter with whom he performed at the Sydney Opera House. Since high school, he has spent summers at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, the Brevard Music Center Institute, and most recently, the Aspen Music Festival and School. As a firstyear student at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music, Mr. Manzi won the Vanderbilt University Concerto Competition, making his orchestral debut with Debussy’s Première Rhapsody in the spring of 2012. At the conclusion of his second year at Vanderbilt, he was awarded the Elliott and Ailsa Newman Prize, awarded to the most outstanding woodwind student in the school. Mr. Manzi has studied privately with Steve Cohen, Joaquin Valdepeñas, Daniel Silver, Bil Jackson, and Burt Hara at various music festivals. From the inception of his clarinet studies, Mr. Manzi has worked with Bil Jackson at Vanderbilt University and Jon Manasse at Juilliard, both of whom hold huge influential stakes in his pursuits as a performer. Mr. Manzi is currently in his third year at The Juilliard School. Raised in McAllen, Texas, Abraham Masso began studying the double bass with Boyko Nonov, former principal bassist of the Sofia Radio Symphony Orchestra. As a student at Manhattan School of Music, Mr. Masso has performed with the MSM Philharmonia under Philippe Entremont and the Baroque Aria Ensemble under the direction of harpsichordist Kenneth Cooper. Most recently, Mr. Masso performed the Dittersdorf bass
concerto in a master class with Max Zeugner, section bassist of the New York Philharmonic. He has performed in a master class with Eric Harris, principal bassist of the St. Louis Symphony and he has worked with Christoph Wimmer and Fora Baltacigil, principal bassists of the Wiener Philharmoniker and the New York Philharmonic, respectively. In addition to his experience in classical music, Mr. Masso has a strong background in jazz and has enjoyed working in the genre while studying in New York City. He has collaborated with trumpeter Marcus Printup and saxophonist Donny McCaslin at Symphony Space, trumpeter Mike Rodriguez, jazz singer Melissa Stylianou, and singer Ann Hampton Callaway in the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Mr. Masso has performed with Bobby Sanabria’s Grammy nominated MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra in prestigious venues around New York City. He is currently pursuing a bachelor of music at Manhattan School of Music as a student of Linda McKnight. Asa Maynard is co-principal bass of the Juilliard Orchestra and has served as principal bass of the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra, Yale Symphony Orchestra, and Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra. In 2011, he participated in the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Maynard has spent his summers at the Aspen Music Festival, Pacific Music Festival, Yale School of Music Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Kinhaven Music School. This year he will attend the Sarasota Music Festival. Mr. Maynard’s teachers have included Dominick Fiore, Edward Allman, and since 2007, Dr.
Eugene Levinson. From 2011-13, Mr. Maynard majored in East Asian Studies at Yale College, where he was a recipient of the Richard U. Light Fellowship. He is pursuing his bachelor of music at The Juilliard School, where he is a recipient of the Homer and Constance Mensch Scholarship in Double Bass. Greek-Russian violinist Alexandros Martinos Petrin was born and raised in Thessaloniki, Greece by a musical family. He has been a member of the Symphony in C orchestra since 2013 and has performed with the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra. In 2012, Mr. Petrin was featured soloist in a tour of Turkey with the Greek-Turkish Youth Orchestra directed by Orhun Orhon, performing the Brahms Double Concerto with his brother, Timotheos Petrin. He has made appearances in festivals throughout Europe such as the Afytos Festival and Doumpeia Music Seminars, Greece, the Burgos International Music Festival, Spain, Grächen Music Festival, Switzerland, and the Euro Arts Music Festival and Academy, Leipzig and Wuppertal, Germany. Mr. Petrin has been awarded several prizes in international competitions including the Panhellenic Violin Competition, first prize at the North Greece College Violin Competition, Diploma at the Fifth International Nutcracker Competition, Moscow, Russia, and second prize at the Nedjalka Simeonova International Violin Competition, Haskovo, Bulgaria. Mr. Petrin has performed in master classes with Zakhar Bron and Leonidas Kavakos. Mr. Petrin began his studies with Stefanos Simonidis at the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki, from which he graduated with a Gold Medal and distinction. He continued working
with Nina Patrikidou until 2010. Mr. Petrin studies with Isaac Malkin at Manhattan School of Music. Originally from Sammamish, Washington, pianist Michael Refvem debuted Western Washington University’s Piano Series at the Firehouse Arts Center as its first recitalist. Festival appearances include those in his home state as well as Prague Music Performance Institute and Festival. Mr. Revfem collaborated with violinist Stefan Jackiw in a benefit concert for Bellingham Festival of Music and has been invited to give a recital for the festival this spring. In Prague, Mr. Refvem worked with luminaries Paul Badura-Skoda, Andrei Gavrilov, and Alfred Brendel and collaborated with members of Prague Philharmonia in a performance of the Brahms Piano Quintet. He will be returning to PMPIF in the summer of 2014. Winner of the
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Western Washington University Concerto Competition, Mr. Refvem performed Rachmaninov Concerto No. 2 with the University Symphony Orchestra. He has been coached in chamber music by saxophonist Paul Cohen and Daniel Avshalomov, violist of the American String Quartet. He has performed in master classes for many esteemed artists including Gilbert Kalish, Margo Garrett, Jeremy Denk, and Frederic Rzewski. An alumnus of Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington (bachelor of music, 2011), he studied with Jeffrey Gilliam, first at the Marrowstone Music Festival and subsequently at WWU. At Manhattan School of Music, Mr. Refvem was one of the last students of Zenon Fishbein, who taught at the conservatory for 52 years. He currently attends Manhattan School of Music as a master of music student of André-Michel Schub.
EVENTS
DESTINATION AMERICA
Sunday, April 6, 2014, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring works by Bartók, Ives, Prokofiev, and Korngold
QUARTET FOR THE END OF TIME
Friday, April 11, 2014, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring works by Jalbert, Carter, Widmann, Rautavaara, and Messiaen
NEW MUSIC IN THE KAPLAN PENTHOUSE
Thursday, April 17, 2014, 7:30 PM • Kaplan Penthouse Featuring works by Viñao, Currier, Glanert, Golijov, and Lerdahl