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 20, 2013 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer GLORIA CHIEN, piano TODD PHILLIPS, violin

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INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Grand Thoughts on a Small Scale BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer GLORIA CHIEN, piano TODD PHILLIPS, violin

BENJAMIN BRITTEN (1913-1976)

Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 6 (1934-35)

The Britten Suite for Violin and Piano can be heard in concert on Friday, May 10 at Alice Tully Hall. Tickets are still available.

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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, 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 Todd Phillips, a founding member of the Orion String Quartet, has appeared as chamber musician at the Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Santa Fe, Marlboro, and Spoleto festivals and with Chamber Music at the 92nd Street Y and New York Philomusica.

He has appeared with leading orchestras in the United States, Europe, and Japan, among them the Pittsburgh Symphony, the New York String Orchestra, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with which he recorded Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante for Deutsche Grammophon. He has collaborated with Rudolf Serkin, Jaime Laredo, Richard Stoltzman, Peter Serkin, and Pinchas Zuckerman and has participated in eighteen Musicians from Marlboro tours. He has recorded for the Arabesque,

Delos, Finlandia, Koch International, RCA Red Seal, and Sony Classical labels.

Mr. Phillips is a member of the violin and chamber music faculties of Mannes College of Music and the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He has appeared as leader/conductor/soloist with the Camerata Nordica of Sweden and with the New World Symphony.

Picked by the Boston Globe as one of the Superior Pianists of the year, “…who appears to excel in everything,” pianist Gloria Chien made her orchestral debut at the age of 16 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Since then she has appeared as a soloist under the batons of Sergiu Comissiona, Keith Lockhart, Thomas Dausgaard, and Irwin Hoffman. She has presented recitals at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Jordan Hall, Harvard Musical Association, Caramoor Musical Festival, Verbier Musical Festival, Salle Cortot in Paris, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. An avid chamber musician, she has been the resident pianist with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston since 2000. She has recorded for Chandos Records, and recently released a CD with clarinetist Anthony McGill. In 2009 she launched String Theory, a chamber music series at the Hunter Museum of American Art in downtown Chattanooga, as its founder and artistic director and the following year was appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute at the Music@Menlo festival. A native of Taiwan, Ms. Chien is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, where she was a student of Russell Sherman and Wha-Kyung Byun. She is an Associate Professor at Lee University in Cleveland, TN, and is a member of Chamber Music Society Two. She is a Steinway Artist.