Inside Chamber Music - October 23, 2013

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Form and Idea Wednesday Evening, October 23, 2013 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer AMPHION STRING QUARTET KATIE HYUN, violin DAVID SOUTHORN, violin WEI-YANG ANDY LIN, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello

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INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Form and Idea BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer AMPHION STRING QUARTET KATIE HYUN, violin DAVID SOUTHORN, violin WEI-YANG ANDY LIN, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello

JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)

Quartet in D major for Strings, Op. 76, No. 5, Hob. III:79 (1797)

The Haydn Quartet in D major for Strings will be performed in concert on January 21 at Alice Tully Hall.

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meet tonight’s

ARTISTS

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, the Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. In 2013, Mr. Adolphe’s Mary Cassatt: Scenes from Her Life was premiered at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, and at the University of Central Arkansas by the Cassatt String Quartet. Also this season, the Los Angeles

Chamber Orchestra plays the premiere of the orchestral version of his Do You Dream in Color? with mezzo-soprano Laurie Rubin. 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. 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, creator of public radio’s weekly Piano Puzzler on Performance Today, and founder and creative director of The Learning Maestros. In November 2013, he will speak about musical creativity at the Society for Neuroscience annual conference in San Diego. 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 advisor in music research at the Brain and Creativity Institute in Los Angeles. This fall, his book The Mind’s Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination was published by Oxford University Press.

Hailed for its “precision, assertiveness, and vigor” (The New York Times), the Amphion String Quartet is a winner of the 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. The quartet was recently chosen for two prestigious programs—the Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-In-Residence at the Caramoor Festival for the 2012-13 season and the CMS Two Program of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,

with the ensemble’s three-year membership beginning in fall 2013.

In the 2012-13 season, the quartet made its Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall on the Concert Artists Guild series, performed at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, appeared at The National Arts Club and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, toured northern California, and performed numerous engagements throughout the New York area. Internationally, they performed in South Korea at the Music Isle Festival in Jeju and at the Seoul Arts Center. In October 2012 they performed two Beethoven quartets live on WQXR as part of the Beethoven String Quartet Marathon.

Last summer the ASQ had an exciting lineup of performances and festival appearances including The Chautauqua Institute, BargeMusic, Kneisel Hall, Music Mountain, Princeton University, New York University, and Cooperstown Music Festival, as well as a world premiere performance of a newly commissioned string quartet by Yevgeniy Sharlat at the Caramoor Center.

Violinists Katie Hyun and David Southorn, violist Wei-Yang Andy Lin, and cellist Mihai Marica first joined together for a performance at Sprague Hall at the Yale School of Music in 2009. The overwhelmingly positive audience reception at this concert was the inspiration behind their mutual desire to pursue a career as the Amphion String Quartet.