Inside Chamber Music with Bruce Adolphe - February 11, 2015

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Inside Romantic Masterpieces Wednesday Evening, February 11, 2015 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer ORION WEISS, piano NICOLAS DAUTRICOURT, violin PAUL NEUBAUER, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello

45th Anniversary Season

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 10th Floor New York, NY 10023 212-875-5788 www.ChamberMusicSociety.org

Many donors support the artists of the Chamber Music Society Two program. This evening, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the Khalil Rizk Fund and The Winston Foundation.

The Chamber Music Society is deeply grateful to Board member Paul Gridley for his very generous gift of the Hamburg Steinway & Sons model “D” concert grand piano we are privileged to hear this evening.

The Chamber Music Society’s education and outreach programs are made possible, in part, with support from the Achelis and Bodman Foundations, Colburn Foundation, Consolidated Edison Company, Hearst Fund, The Frank and Helen Hermann Foundation, Alice Ilchman Fund, Newman’s Own Foundation, Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Fund, Tiger Baron Foundation, The Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and The Winston 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

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Inside Romantic Masterpieces BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer ORION WEISS, piano NICOLAS DAUTRICOURT, violin PAUL NEUBAUER, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)

Quartet No. 1 in G minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 25 (1862)

Brahms’ Quartet No. 1 in G minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 25 can be heard in concert on March 1st and 3rd in Alice Tully Hall.

Please turn off cell phones, pagers, and other electronic devices.

Photographing, sound recording, or videotaping this performance is prohibited.

This evening’s event is being streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/WatchLive

meet tonight’s

ARTISTS

Composer Bruce Adolphe has written music for many renowned musicians and ensembles, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Sylvia McNair, the Brentano String Quartet, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the IRIS Orchestra, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

Highlights of the 2014-15 season include: the world premiere of Musics of Memory at the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC in LA in October; the IRIS Orchestra conducted by Michael Stern gives the world premiere of I Will Not Remain Silent, a violin concerto based on the life of Joachim Prinz, with Sharon Roffman, soloist; and the release of Einstein’s Light a film by Nickolas Barris, featuring Adolphe’s score, which reflects Einstein’s love of the violin, of Mozart, and of Bach. The Einstein’s Light soundtrack features violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Marija Stroke.

Highlights of the 2013-14 season included performances by the LA Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Cassatt Quartet at the Crystal Bridges Museum and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, and the premiere of The End of Tonight (poems

by Nathalie Handal) for three female voices, three cellos, and piano at The Greene Space in New York. The 2012-13 season included a premiere commissioned for the opening ceremony of MoMath, the only museum of mathematics in America, and a premiere in Lucerne performed by the Human Rights Orchestra, as well as performances from Santa Fe to Lisbon.

Adolphe’s Self Comes to Mind, written with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, premiered at the American Museum of Natural History in 2009 with soloist Yo-Yo Ma, and was released in 2014 as a CMS Live! download featuring cellist Efe Baltacigil in concert in Alice Tully Hall.

In addition to composing, Bruce Adolphe 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/performer of public radio’s weekly Piano Puzzler on Performance Today; co-artistic director of Off the Hook Festival in Colorado; 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 at the Brain and Creativity Institute in Los Angeles. The second edition of his book The Mind’s Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination was published by Oxford University Press in 2013.

Voted ADAMI Classical Discovery of the Year at the Midem in Cannes and awarded the Sacem Georges Enesco Prize, Nicolas Dautricourt is one of the most brilliant and engaging French violinists of his generation. He appears at major international venues, including the Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Tchaikovsky Hall, Tokyo’s Bunka Kaikan, Salle Pleyel in Paris, and Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, and appears at many festivals such as Lockenhaus, Music@Menlo, Radio-France/Montpellier, Ravinia, Sintra, and Davos. In January he made his US concerto debut with the Detroit Symphony under Leonard Slatkin. He also has performed as a soloist with the Orchestre National de France, Quebec Symphony, Sinfonia

Varsovia, Mexico Philharmonic, NHK Tokyo Chamber Orchestra, the Kanazawa Orchestral Ensemble, Belgrade Radio Orchestra, Kiev Philharmonic, Nice Philharmonic, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, Orchestre National de Lorraine, Novosibirsk Chamber Orchestra, and European Camerata, under conductors Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Michael Francis, Dennis Russell Davies, Michiyoshi Inoue, Kazuki Yamada, Yuri Bashmet, Fabien Gabel, Fayçal Karoui, and Mark Foster. He appears in such jazz festivals as Jazz à Vienne, Jazz in Marciac, Sud-Tyroler Jazz Festival, Jazz San Javier, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, and the European Jazz Festival in Athens. Finalist and prize-winner in numerous international violin contests, such as the Wieniawski, Lipizer, Belgrade, and Viotti competitions, he has studied with Philip Hirschhorn, Miriam Fried, and Jean-Jacques Kantorow, and became artistic director of Les Moments Musicaux de Gerberoy in 2007. He is a member of Chamber Music Society Two and his three-year residency is the first to be supported by the Khalil Rizk Fund. He currently plays a magnificent instrument by Antonio Stradivarius (Cremona 1713).

Romanian-born cellist Mihai Marica is a First Prize winner of the “Dr. Luis Sigall” International Competition in Viña del Mar, Chile and the Irving M. Klein International Competition, and is a recipient of Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi Fellowship Grant. He has performed with orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra of Chile, Xalapa Symphony in Mexico, the Hermitage State Orchestra of St. Petersburg in Russia, the Jardins Musicaux Festival Orchestra in Switzerland, 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. A dedicated chamber musician, he has appeared at the Chamber Music Northwest, Norfolk, and Aspen music festivals among others where he has collaborated with such artists as Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, David Shifrin, André Watts, and Edgar Meyer, and he is a member of the awardwinning Amphion String Quartet. 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. He is a member of Chamber Music Society Two and his three-year residency is supported by The Winston Foundation.

Violist Paul Neubauer’s exceptional musicality and effortless playing distinguish him as one of his generation’s quintessential artists. This past April, he gave the world premiere of a new viola concerto by Aaron Jay Kernis with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra followed by performances with the Chautauqua Symphony and the Idyllwild Arts Orchestra. This consortium commission culminates this season with his Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra debut with conductor Jeffrey Kahane. Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at age 21, he has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras including the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki philharmonics; National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth symphonies; and Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle orchestras. A two-time Grammy nominee, he recorded pieces that were composed for him: Joan Tower’s Purple Rhapsody for viola and orchestra, and Wild Purple for solo viola; Viola Rhapsody, a concerto by Henri Lazarof; and Soul Garden for viola and chamber ensemble by Derek Bermel. Mr. Neubauer gave the world premiere of the revised Bartók Viola Concerto as well as concertos by Tower, Penderecki, Picker, Jacob, Lazarof, Suter, Müller-Siemens, Ott, and Friedman and is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and

Mannes College. He performs in a trio with soprano Susanna Phillips and pianist AnneMarie McDermott, with a wide range of repertoire including salon style songs, and has performed with the Chamber Music Society since 1985.

One of the most sought-after soloists in his generation of young American musicians, the pianist Orion Weiss has performed with the major American orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and New York Philharmonic. His deeply felt and exceptionally crafted performances go far beyond his technical mastery and have won him worldwide acclaim. The 2014-15 season features his third performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as well as a North American tour with the world-famous Salzburg Marionette theater in an enhanced piano recital of Debussy’s La Boîte à Joujoux. The 2013-14 season featured him with orchestras around North America, including the Milwaukee and Vancouver symphonies, and the 2012-13 season saw repeat engagements with the Baltimore Symphony and New World Symphony.

In 2012 he released a recital album of Dvorák, Prokofiev, and Bartók, and also spearheaded a recording project of the complete Gershwin works for piano and orchestra with his longtime collaborators the Buffalo Philharmonic and JoAnn Falletta. Named the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year in September 2010, Mr. Weiss made his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood as a last-minute replacement for Leon Fleisher in the summer of 2011. In 2004, he graduated from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Emanuel Ax.

upcoming

EVENTS

ROSE STUDIO CONCERT

Thursday, February 12, 2015, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio • SOLD OUT Works by Mozart and Strauss.

LATE NIGHT ROSE

Thursday, February 12, 2015, 9:00 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio • SOLD OUT Works by Mozart and Strauss, hosted by Patrick Castillo.

This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC

Wednesday, February 18, 2015, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio • SOLD OUT Focus on Brahms’ Quintet in F minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 34.

This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive

ROMANTIC PIANO QUARTETS

Sunday, March 1, 2015, 5:00 PM & Tuesday, March 3, 2015, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Bold, lush, and exquisite piano quartets comprise this unforgettable program.

Winter-Spring 2015

WATCH LIVE Enjoy a front row seat from anywhere in the world. View chamber music events streamed live to your computer or mobile device, and available for streaming on demand for the following 24 hours. Relax, browse the program, and experience the Chamber Music Society like never before.

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Late Night Rose Inside Chamber Music Inside Chamber Music Orion String Quartet Plays Haydn One Piano, Four Hands Master Class with Paul Watkins New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse Late Night Rose Master Class with Cho-Liang Lin Art of the Recital: Gilbert Kalish New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse Master Class with Jason Vieaux

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February is PLANNED GIVING MONTH at CMS The Chamber Music Society honors loyal patrons who have chosen to become guardians of this intimate art form with a unique membership in the Alice Tully Circle.

It is important that the Alice Tully Circle continues to grow.

We invite you to consider a planned gift to the Chamber Music Society. Members of the Alice Tully Circle receive invitations to special receptions and concerts throughout each season.

For more information about including the Chamber Music Society in your will and other deferred gifts, please call Sharon Griffin, Director of Development, at 212-875-5782.

With special thanks to these Alice Tully Circle members: Anonymous (3) Mrs. Marguerite S. Bedell Dr. Jerome Bruner Eliane Bukantz Anitra Christoffel-Pell Robert J. Cubitto and Ellen R. Nadler Ms. Carlotta Eisen Mr. Stuart M. Fischman Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Giron Ms. Dalia Carmel Goldstein Anthony C. Gooch Dr. Edith Schwartz Goodman Mrs. Mary Scott Guest

Warren Ilchman Frederick L. Jacobson Thomas Jambois Peter Kennard Hans and Donna Kilian Dr. and Mrs. Thomas C. King Mr. and Mrs. William Lembeck Helen Brown Levine Dr. and Mrs. Martin L. Nass Eva Popper Martin Riskin Mrs. Robert Schuur Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E. Stockwell, Jr. Sally Wardwell