Inside Chamber Music with Bruce Adolphe - February 25, 2015

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Inside Romantic Masterpieces Wednesday Evening, February 25, 2015 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer MICHAEL BROWN, piano SEAN LEE, violin MATTHEW LIPMAN, viola NICHOLAS CANELLAKIS, 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

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 Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Inside Romantic Masterpieces BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer MICHAEL BROWN, piano SEAN LEE, violin MATTHEW LIPMAN, viola NICHOLAS CANELLAKIS, cello

ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856)

Quartet in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello Op. 47 (1842)

Schumann’s Quartet in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 47 can be heard in concert on March 1st and 3rd in Alice Tully Hall.

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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.

The New York Times declared Michael Brown “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers” and “a young piano visionary.” An equally committed pianist and composer, he is the First Prize Winner of the 2010 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Mr. Brown joins the roster of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Two program in fall 2015 and his recent schedule included a Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium debut; recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Louvre, and Alice Tully Hall;

and performances at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Caramoor, Moab, Mostly Mozart, and Music@Menlo festivals. Recent commissions include those by the Maryland Symphony, Look & Listen Festival, Bargemusic, and Concert Artists Guild. Recent recordings are with his duo partner, cellist Nicholas Canellakis, a four-hand album with pianist Jerome Lowenthal, a debut solo album, a George Perle CD for Bridge Records, and Schubert for Naxos. A native New Yorker, he 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. He was recently appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of Piano at Brooklyn College.

Nicholas Canellakis has become one of the most sought-after and innovative cellists of his generation, captivating audiences throughout the United States and abroad. The New York Times praised his playing as “impassioned” and “soulful,” with “the audience seduced by Mr. Canellakis’s rich, alluring tone.” In the spring of 2015, he will make his Carnegie Hall concerto debut, performing Leon Kirchner’s Music for Cello and Orchestra with the American Symphony Orchestra in Isaac Stern Auditorium. He performs regularly with the Chamber Music Society in Alice Tully Hall and on tour, and is a former member of CMS Two. A frequent performer at Bargemusic in New York City, he has also been a guest artist at many of the world’s leading music festivals, including Santa Fe, La Jolla, Music@Menlo, Ravinia, Verbier, Mecklenburg, Moab, Bridgehampton, Sarasota, and Aspen. He is the co-artistic director of the Sedona Winter MusicFest in Arizona.

Mr. Canellakis is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and New England Conservatory and is on the faculty of the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music and the Bowdoin International Music Festival. Filmmaking is a special interest of Mr. Canellakis. He has produced, directed, and starred in several short films and music videos, all of which can be found on his website.

With performances described by the New York Times as “breathtakingly beautiful,” violinist Sean Lee is quickly gaining recognition as one of today’s most talented rising artists. His debut album featuring the Strauss Violin Sonata was released by EMI Classics and reached the Top 20 of the iTunes “Top Classical Albums” list. Having received prizes in the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, he has appeared as a soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony, Utah Symphony, Orchestra Del Teatro Carlo Felice, Westchester Symphony, Peninsula Symphony, and the Juilliard Orchestra. As a recitalist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium, Festival di Carro Paganiniano, and Wiener Konzerthaus. A member of Chamber Music Society Two, he has performed with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall, as well as on tour at the LG Arts Center in Seoul, Korea, the St. Cecilia Music Center, and the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park. Mr. Lee currently teaches chamber music at the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School, and joined the violin faculty of the Perlman Music Program in 2010. He performs on a 1799 Nicolas Lupot violin, on loan from the collection of Seth Novatt.

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, Minnesota, Grand Rapids Symphony, Wisconsin Chamber, Ars Viva Symphony, Montgomery Symphony, Capital City Symphony, and Southwest Symphony Orchestras, 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 was released in January. 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 become 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

ORION STRING QUARTET PLAYS HAYDN

Thursday, February 26, 2015, 7:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio • SOLD OUT The esteemed Orion String Quartet performs four exquisite Haydn quartets in an intimate concert presented in the round.

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

ROMANTIC PIANO QUARTETS

Sunday, March 1, 2015, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Tuesday, March 3, 2015, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Bold, lush, and radiant piano quartets by Mahler, Schumann, and Brahms comprise this unforgettable program.

CONVERSATIONAL STRINGS

Sunday, March 8, 2015, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Duos by Mozart, Martinů, and Ravel are followed by Mozart’s heartfelt Viola Quintet in G minor.

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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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

All events are free to watch.

View full program details online. www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/WatchLive

If the Chamber Music Society has played a part in your past‌ play a part in its future.

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