Inside Chamber Music with Bruce Adolphe

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Grand Thoughts on a Small Scale Wednesday Evening, February 13, 2013 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer YEKWON SUNWOO, piano BENJAMIN BEILMAN, violin

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INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Grand Thoughts on a Small Scale BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer YEKWON SUNWOO, piano BENJAMIN BEILMAN, violin

RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)

Sonata in E-flat major for Violin and Piano, Op. 18 (1887)

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meet tonight’s

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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) was 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.

Violinist Benjamin Beilman’s “handsome technique, burnished sound, and quiet confidence showed why he has come so far so fast.” (The New York Times) He is the recipient of both a 2012 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2012 London Music Masters Award. He has performed as soloist with the Edmonton Symphony, L’Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Kansas City Symphony, and the Tonhalle Orchestra under Sir Neville Marriner. This season he appears in recital at the Mostly Mozart Festival, Wigmore Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany, and as part of the Rising Stars Series in Basel, Switzerland. A member of Chamber Music Society Two, he performs this season with the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Caramoor, and the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, as well as the Kronberg Academy in Germany.

First Prize winner in the 2010 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, he performed debut recitals in the 2011-12 Young Concert Artist Series in New York, sponsored by the Summis Auspiciis Prize, and in Washington, DC at the Kennedy Center. He was also awarded the Helen Armstrong Violin Fellowship. He was First Prize winner of the 2010 Montréal International Musical Competition and winner of the People’s Choice Award, through which he recorded Prokofiev’s complete sonatas for violin and piano in 2010. Mr. Beilman graduated from

the Curtis Institute of Music in May 2012, where he worked with Ida Kavafian and Pamela Frank.

As winner of the 2012 William Kapell International Piano Competition, Yekwon Sunwoo performed as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the direction of David Lockington.

He has performed as soloist with Orchestre National de Belgique under the baton of Marin Alsop, the Orchestre Royal de Chambre de Wallonie under the baton of Paul Goodwin, Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Christopher Wilkins, l’Orchestre Philharmonique du Maroc, Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra, and Daegu Orchestra. He made his New York City debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2009 as winner of the Florida International Piano Competition.

Other awards include First Prize in the 2012 Piano Campus International Concours, an award in the 2010 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, First Prize in the 2009 Concours International de Piano “Interlaken Classics,” and First Prize in the Daegu Broadcasting Competition. He has performed at the Summit Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Toronto Summer Music Academy and Festival, and Music from Angel Fire. In addition, he has given numerous recitals throughout France, Germany, Switzerland, and Morocco. His chamber music experience includes an invitation from the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation in 2007, touring Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panama. Born in AnYang, Korea, Mr. Sunwoo has studied with Min-ja Shin and Sun-wha Kim in Korea, and with Seymour Lipkin at the Curtis Institute of Music. He is currently pursuing his master’s degree at The Juilliard School studying with Robert McDonald.