David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Inside Classical Masterpieces Wednesday Evening, October 1, 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 MATTHEW LIPMAN, viola
45th Anniversary Season
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INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Inside Classical Masterpieces BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer AMPHION STRING QUARTET KATIE HYUN, violin DAVID SOUTHORN, violin WEI-YANG ANDY LIN, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello MATTHEW LIPMAN, viola
WOLFGANG Quintet in G minor for Two Violins, AMADEUS MOZART Two Violas, and Cello, K. 516 (1787) (1756-1791)
Mozart’s Quintet in G minor, K. 516 can be heard in concert on March 8th at 5:00 PM 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, 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. Hailed for its “gripping intensity” and “suspenseful and virtuoso playing” (San Francisco Classical Voice), the Amphion String Quartet is a winner of the 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and joined the roster of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s CMS Two Program in fall 2013. Through CMS, the ensemble made its Alice Tully Hall debut in March 2014, about which the New York Times praised “the focused, forceful young Amphion String Quartet” for its “sharply detailed performances.” The 2014-15 season begins with the ASQ’s Mostly Mozart debut with two pre-concert recitals at Avery Fisher Hall and a return to Korea for the Busan Chamber Music Festival.
The quartet has several return engagements in New York in 2014-15, including two CMS performances at Alice Tully Hall, Schneider Concerts at the New School, Brooklyn’s Bargemusic, and the Tilles Center Chamber Music Series on Long Island. Collaborative performances include a recital with clarinetist David Shifrin at Rockford’s Coronado Theatre and a special program with the renowned dance company BodyVox in Portland, OR entitled Cosmosis, (which will tour in 2015-16). In fall 2014, the ASQ’s first CD will be released by the UK-based label Nimbus, including quartets by Grieg, Janáček, and Wolf. Internationally, the Amphion Quartet has performed in South Korea at the Music Isle Festival in Jeju and at the Seoul Arts Center. Previous US festival appearances include The Chautauqua Institution, OK Mozart, Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, New Jersey’s Mostly Music Series, NYU String Quartet Workshop, Princeton Summer Concerts, Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. Summer 2014 featured the world premiere of a new quartet by Yevgeniy Sharlat at the Caramoor Music Festival (commissioned by Caramoor as the culmination of the 2012-13 Stiefel String Quartet residency). The ASQ has collaborated with such eminent artists as the Tokyo String Quartet, Ani Kavafian, David Shifrin, Carter Brey, Edgar Meyer, Michala Petri, James Dunham, and Deborah Hoffmann. Recent featured concerts include the Amphion Quartet’s Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall on the CAG series with guest David Shifrin, and also Zankel Hall; the Library of Congress and the Phillips Collection in Washington DC; Caramoor Center for the Arts; Pepperdine University; TCAN Center for the Arts (MA); New York’s Met Museum and National Arts Club; and a tour of northern California with concerts at UC San Francisco, Eureka Chamber Music Series, and Montalvo Center for the Arts. The ASQ is showcased on New York’s WQXR radio frequently, including the station’s November 2012 Beethoven String Quartet Marathon, playing two quartets live in The Greene Space, with live webcast and subsequent airing on the radio. 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 February 2009. The overwhelmingly positive audience response was the inspiration behind their mutual desire to pursue a career as the Amphion String Quartet. Additional honors include the 2012 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant in New York; First Prize at the Hugo Kauder String Quartet Competition in New Haven, CT; and First Prize in the Piano and Strings category as well as the Audience Choice Award at the 2010 Plowman Chamber Music Competition held in Columbia, MO. Violist Matthew Lipman has been hailed by the New York Times for his “rich tone and elegant phrasing” and by the Chicago Tribune for his “splendid technique and musical sensitivity.” Engagements as soloist include the Juilliard Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, Ars Viva Symphony, Montgomery Symphony, Capital City Symphony, and Southwest Symphony Orchestra, and as recitalist, the Phillips Collection in Washington DC and the ShortGrass Festival in Cimarron, New Mexico. His debut recording of the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Rachel Barton Pine, Sir Neville Marriner, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields is scheduled for release soon. Mr. Lipman is the First Prize winner of the Washington, Stulberg, and
Johansen International Competitions, the Minnesota Orchestra and Juilliard Competitions, and is a top prizewinner of the Tertis and Primrose International Viola Competitions. He will join The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as a member of CMS Two starting in fall 2015 and is a participant of the Music@Menlo, Ravinia, Marlboro, Caramoor, and Perlman Music Program festivals. His chamber music collaborators include David Finckel, Miriam Fried, Paul Katz, Ani and Ida Kavafian, and Itzhak Perlman. Born in Chicago, Mr. Lipman is a student at The Juilliard School, where he is a recipient of a Kovner Fellowship and serves as teaching assistant to professor Heidi Castleman. He has also studied with Misha Amory, Roland Vamos, and Matthew Mantell. Mr. Lipman performs on a fine viola by Matteo Goffriller, 1700, on generous loan from the REB Foundation.
upcoming
EVENTS
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC
Wednesday, October 8, 2014, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Focus on Mozart’s Quintet in D major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, K. 593
MOZART PIANO CONCERTOS
Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Elegant and graceful works accompany a pair of brilliant concertos in a joyous celebration of Mozart.
BRAHMS THE MASTER
Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall This program celebrates Brahms’ late masterworks, providing a vivid portrait of the composer in his mature glory.
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