Inside Chamber Music with Bruce Adolphe

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Major Minor Works Wednesday Evening, October 10, 2012 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer ORION WEISS, piano ARNAUD SUSSMANN, violin MIHAI MARICA, cello

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INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Major Minor Works BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer ORION WEISS, piano ARNAUD SUSSMANN, violin MIHAI MARICA, cello

BEDĹ˜ICH SMETANA

Trio in G minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 15 (1855, rev. 1857)

(1824-1884)

The Smetana Trio in G minor can be heard in concert on November 2 and 4 at Alice Tully Hall. Tickets are still available.

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about

BRUCE ADOLPHE

Composer Bruce Adolphe has written music for many renowned musicians and ensembles, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Sylvia McNair, the Brentano String Quartet, the Beaux Arts Trio, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. His opera Let Freedom Sing: The Story of Marian Anderson, with a libretto by Carolivia Herron, was premiered in 2009 by the Washington National Opera, which performed it again in March 2011. His Self Comes to Mind, written with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, premiered at the American Museum of Natural History in 2009, featuring Yo-Yo Ma. Of Art and Onions: Homage to Bronzino, which he composed for the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, was premiered in 2010 at the Met Museum and received its European premiere at the Teatro Goldoni in Florence. His Reach Out, Raise Hope, Change Society for chorus and chamber ensemble—a work about civil rights and social justice commissioned for the 90th anniversary of the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work— premiered in November 2011. A new music festival in Colorado, Off the Hook, invited Bruce Adolphe to be composer-

in-residence for its inaugural season in 2012 and has invited him to return in that position for 2013. Mr. Adolphe’s Coyote Scatters the Stars (a musical tale of order and chaos) will be featured on 12/12/12 at the opening ceremony of MoMath in New York, the only museum of mathematics in the US. In addition to composing, he holds several positions concurrently: founder and director of the Meet the Music! family concert series and resident lecturer at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; keyboard quiz-master on public radio’s weekly Piano Puzzler on Performance Today; and founder and creative director of The Learning Maestros. The author of three books on music, Mr. Adolphe has taught at Yale, The Juilliard School, and New York University, and was recently appointed composer-in-residence and adviser in music research at the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC. His book The Mind’s Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination will be published in an expanded and revised second edition

by Oxford University Press in 2013. This season, Mr. Adolphe celebrates 20 years at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

meet tonight’s

ARTISTS

Romanian-born 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 such orchestras as the Symphony Orchestra of Chile, Xalapa Symphony in Mexico, the Hermitage State Orchestra of St. Petersburg in Russia, 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, Andre Watts, and Edgar Meyer. He played a Weill Hall debut recital and a Zankel Hall debut performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations in early 2008. He is a member of the award-winning Amphion String Quartet, which this season performs a residency at Caramoor, tours California, and appears at Weill Hall. A member of Chamber Music Society Two, 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.

Winner of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, violinist Arnaud Sussmann is a multi-faceted and compelling artist who has performed as a soloist throughout the United States, Central America, Europe, and Asia, and at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully

Hall, the Smithsonian Museum, and the Louvre. He has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Monaco Chamber Orchestra, Nice Orchestra, Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, El Salvador National Symphony Orchestra, and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Highlights of the 2011-12 season included a tour of Israel, concerts with CMS in Germany and at Wigmore Hall in London, and a performance of the Mendelssohn Concerto at the Dresden Festival. He has performed with many of today’s leading artists: Itzhak Perlman, Menahem Pressler, Joseph Kalichstein, Miriam Fried, Paul Neubauer, Fred Sherry, and Gary Hoffman. Winner of several international competitions including the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String Competition, the Andrea Postacchini Competition, and the Vatelot/Rampal Competition, he has recently recorded works of Beethoven and Dvořák with CMS Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han. He studied at The Juilliard School with Boris Garlitsky and Itzhak Perlman, who chose him to be a Starling Fellow, an honor qualifying him as Mr. Perlman’s teaching assistant for two years. A former member of Chamber Music Society Two, he is currently an Artist of the Society.

Pianist Orion Weiss is one of the most sought-after soloists and collaborators in his generation of young American musicians. In recent seasons he has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber

Orchestra, and in summer concerts with the New York Philharmonic at both Lincoln Center and the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival. In 2005, he toured Israel with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted

by Itzhak Perlman. As a recitalist and chamber musician, he has appeared at such festivals as Ravinia, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, Chamber Music Northwest, the Bard Music Festival, and the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival.

In 2005, he made his New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall after winning Juilliard’s William Petschek Award. Also in 2005, he made his European recital debut at the Louvre in Paris. He was a member of Chamber Music Society Two from 2002 to 2004. His awards include the Gilmore Young Artist Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Mieczyslaw Munz Scholarship, and Juilliard’s Gina Bachauer Scholarship.

Mr. Weiss graduated from The Juilliard School where he studied with Emanuel Ax.

upcoming

EVENTS

ROSE STUDIO CONCERT Thursday, October 11, 2012, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Works by Mozart and Korngold LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday, October 11, 2012, 9:00 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Works by Mozart and Korngold, hosted by Patrick Castillo This event will also be streamed live at www.chambermusicsociety.org/watchlive TCHAIKOVSKY/DVOŘÁK/FAURÉ Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring Fauré’s Piano Quartet in G minor MASTERCLASS WITH TARA HELEN O’CONNOR, FLUTE Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 11:00 AM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio This event will also be streamed live at www.chambermusicsociety.org/watchlive

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC WITH BRUCE ADOLPHE Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Major Minor Works: Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056 This event will also be streamed live at www.chambermusicsociety.org/watchlive NEW MUSIC IN THE KAPLAN PENTHOUSE Thursday, October 18, 2012, 7:30 PM • Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse Works by Holliger, Aperghis, and Stockhausen This event will also be streamed live at www.chambermusicsociety.org/watchlive