Inside Chamber Music

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Major Minor Works Wednesday Evening, October 3, 2012 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer SOYEON KATE LEE, piano JESSICA LEE, violin PIERRE LAPOINTE, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello

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This lecture is made possible, in part, by The Florence Gould Foundation.

The Chamber Music Society’s education and outreach programs are made possible, in part, with support from The Helen F. Whitaker Fund, the Hearst Fund, the Colburn Foundation, The Frank and Helen Hermann Foundation, the Alice Ilchman Fund, the Consolidated Edison Company, and Tiger Baron Foundation. Public funds are provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Major Minor Works BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer SOYEON KATE LEE, piano JESSICA LEE, violin PIERRE LAPOINTE, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello

GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924)

Quartet No. 2 in G minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 45 (1885-86)

The Fauré Piano Quartet in G minor can be heard in concert on October 16 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-

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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.

ARTISTS

Violinist Jessica Lee, first-prize winner of the 2005 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, has given debut recitals at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium and Ravinia’s Rising Stars Series, and has made festival appearances at Bridgehampton and Santa Fe. In 2010, she made her European solo debut, featuring a concerto

performance with the Plzen Philharmonic and a recital at the Rudolfinum in Prague; she also made her solo orchestral debut at the Seoul Arts Center in a special New Year’s concert. Her 2006 concerto debut at Alice Tully Hall featured Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and was broadcast on

WQXR. She is a member of the Johannes String Quartet, which toured with the Guarneri Quartet in its farewell season.

She has performed with Musicians from Marlboro at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and is a member of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra, a conductor-less string ensemble. She has performed with such orchestras as the Grand Rapids Symphony, American Chamber Orchestra, Modesto Symphony, Richmond Symphony, and the New York String Orchestra. A native of Virginia, she graduated from The Curtis Institute of Music with a bachelor’s degree under the tutelage of Robert Mann and Ida Kavafian and she completed studies for a master’s degree at The Juilliard School in 2003. Currently on the faculty at Vassar College, Ms. Lee is a former member of Chamber Music Society Two. First prize winner of the 2010 Naumburg International Piano Competition, KoreanAmerican pianist Soyeon Kate Lee has been hailed by The New York Times as an artist with “a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style.” She has performed as a 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 Ravinia Festival, Madrid’s National Auditorium, and San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre.

Her debut CD of Scarlatti sonatas for Naxos was released in 2007 to critical acclaim, followed by “Re!nvented” for E1

Music (KOCH), which was featured in Gramophone magazine to rave reviews and awarded the 2009 Young Artist Award by the Classical Recording Foundation. A Naxos recording artist, she recently recorded a disc of Liszt opera transcriptions, and will record a double CD Scriabin album this season. Ms. Lee is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and a laureate of the Cleveland and Santander International Piano Competitions. Her principal teachers have been Robert McDonald, Jerome Lowenthal, Ursula Oppens, and Richard Goode. Ms. Lee is a Steinway Artist and a member of Chamber Music Society Two. In May 2012, violist Pierre Lapointe completed a thesis on Zemlinsky’s Second Quartet and obtained a Doctorate from Manhattan School of Music. Prior to this degree, he received a prize in 2004 from the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec for his work at the Gatineau Music Conservatory and was granted a gold medal by the University of Ottawa in 2000 for his undergraduate studies in composition and violin performance. While in school, he played twice as a soloist with the University of Ottawa Orchestra and once with the Gatineau Music Conservatory Orchestra.

In March 2002, he performed one of his own string quartets for the show “Jeunes Artistes” of Radio-Canada in Montréal with the Volta Quartet. He is currently the violist of the Escher String Quartet and plays occasionally with the group Sejong Soloists. A former member of Chamber Music Society Two, he has performed at numerous venues across the United States and abroad. Mr. Lapointe’s main teachers were Yaëla Hertz Berkson, Calvin Sieb, Paul Yarbrough, and Larry Dutton. Since June 2010, He plays on a viola ingeniously designed and made by Christophe Landon.

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 orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra of Chile, Xalapa Symphony in Mexico, Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea, 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 Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music where he was awarded the Master of Music and Artist Diploma degrees.

upcoming

EVENTS

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC WITH BRUCE ADOLPHE

Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Major Minor Works: Smetana’s Trio in G minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 15 This event will also be streamed live at www.chambermusicsociety.org/watchlive

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

Sunday, October 16, 2012, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring the work discussed in tonight’s lecture—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