David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Pushing Boundaries Wednesday Evening, February 12, 2014 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 MICHAEL BROWN, piano
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INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Pushing Boundaries BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer AMPHION STRING QUARTET KATIE HYUN, violin DAVID SOUTHORN, violin WEI-YANG ANDY LIN, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello MICHAEL BROWN, piano
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Quintet in E-flat major for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 44 (1842)
(1810-1856)
The Schumann Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44 can be heard in concert on May 1st in the Rose Studio at 6:30 PM and as a part of the Late Night Rose concert series at 9:00 PM.
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, 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 spoke 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, it performed in South Korea at the Music Isle Festival in Jeju and at the Seoul Arts Center. In October 2012 it performed two Beethoven quartets live on WQXR as part of the Beethoven String Quartet Marathon. This summer the ASQ has 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. Praised in The New York Times as a “young piano visionary” with “powerful technique and a vivid imagination,” pianist Michael Brown is a two-time winner of The Juilliard School’s Gina Bachauer Piano Competition; First Prize Winner of the 2010 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition; and 2012 winner of Juilliard’s William Petschek Piano Recital Award. Mr. Brown is an equally dedicated composer whose unique artistry is reflected in a creative approach to
programming, where he often interweaves the classics with contemporary works and his own compositions. He has appeared on four continents, in such major venues as Carnegie Hall, New York’s Avery Fisher Hall, and Wigmore Hall in London. His recent schedule has included a Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium debut with the New York Youth Symphony; recitals at Dame Myra Hess Concerts in Chicago, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., Gilmore Festival’s Rising Stars Series; and performances at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Caramoor, Moab, Mostly Mozart, Music@ Menlo, Beijing International, and Kyoto International music festivals. Mr. Brown’s debut solo CD, featuring works by Schubert, Debussy, and Brown, was released on CAG Records in fall 2012. Upcoming CD projects are an all-Schubert disc for Naxos; a recording of solo piano works by George Perle for Bridge Records; and a four-hand album with pianist Jerome Lowenthal for CAG Records. A native New Yorker, Mr. Brown earned dual bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where he studied with pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald and composers Samuel Adler and Robert Beaser.
Spring 2014
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New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse Inside Chamber Music Lecture Inside Chamber Music Lecture Late Night Rose Master Class: Mir贸 Quartet Art of the Recital: Alessio Bax Master Class: Kurt Muroki New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse Late Night Rose Master Class: Shmuel Ashkenasi Young Ensembles Concert New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse
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upcoming
EVENTS
NEW MUSIC IN THE KAPLAN PENTHOUSE
Thursday, February 13, 2014, 7:30 PM • Kaplan Penthouse Featuring works by Carter, Rihm, Kirchner, Larcher, and Davidovsky
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC
Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Focus on Elgar’s Quintet in A minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 84
MASTERPIECES FOR EIGHT
Sunday, February 23, 2014, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring works by Schubert and Mendelssohn
Pre-Concert Lectures with Michael Parloff in the Rose Studio
February 23, 3:45 PM • $10; $8 for concert ticket holders February 25, 6:15 PM • $10; $8 for concert ticket holders