David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Pushing Boundaries Wednesday Evening, February 26, 2014 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio
BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer KRISTIN LEE, violin ROMIE DE GUISE-LANGLOIS, clarinet YEKWON SUNWOO, piano
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INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Pushing Boundaries BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer KRISTIN LEE, violin ROMIE DE GUISE-LANGLOIS, clarinet YEKWON SUNWOO, piano
BÉLA BARTÓK (1881-1945)
Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, Sz. 111, BB 116 (1938)
Bartók’s Contrasts can be heard in concert on April 6 at 5:00 PM in Alice Tully Hall.
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. Violinist Kristin Lee enjoys a vibrant career as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has performed concertos with orchestras throughout the US and abroad, including the Saint Louis Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, New Mexico Symphony, Ural Philharmonic of Russia, Pusan Philharmonic, and Korean Broadcast Symphony. As a recitalist, she has performed at Ravinia’s Rising Stars Series, the Salon de Virtuosi at Steinway Hall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre in Paris, the Kumho Art Gallery in her native Seoul, and throughout northern Italy. A winner of Juilliard’s Concerto Competition and the Aspen Music Festival’s Violin Competition, she was a top prize winner of the 2012 Naumburg Competition, Astral Artists Auditions in 2010, and Italy’s Premio di Trieste Competition in 2011. Recent highlights include performances at the Strathmore Series in Maryland, and solo appearances with the Temple University Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she has made appearances at the Ravinia Festival, Music@Menlo, Sarasota, Festival Mozaic, Festicamara de Medellin, and the Perlman Music Program. Ms. Lee earned a master’s degree from The Juilliard School in 2010 under Itzhak Perlman and Donald Weilerstein and served as an
assistant teacher in Mr. Perlman’s studio. She is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society, a former member of CMS Two, and on the faculty at the Aaron Copland School of Music in Queens College. Praised as “extraordinary” and “a formidable clarinetist” by The New York Times, Romie de Guise-Langlois has appeared as a soloist with the Houston Symphony and the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, and at Music@Menlo and Banff Center for the Arts. She is a winner of the 2011 Astral Artists’ National Audition and was awarded first prize in the 2009 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg competition; she was additionally a first prize winner of Woolsey Hall Competition at Yale University, the McGill University Classical Concerto Competition, and the Canadian Music Competition. An avid chamber musician, she has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia and Boston chamber music societies, the 92nd Street Y, the Kennedy Center, and Chamber Music Northwest. She has performed as principal clarinetist for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New Haven and Stamford symphony orchestras and The Knights Chamber Orchestra. A native of Montreal, Ms. de Guise-Langlois earned degrees from McGill University and the Yale School of Music, where she studied under David Shifrin and she is an alumna of The Academy—A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute. She is currently adjunct professor of clarinet at Kean and Montclair universities and is a member of Chamber Music Society Two.
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.
2014-2015 Season
ide Cham r us c
WITH BRUCE ADOLPHE
During the 2014-15 season, Inside Chamber Music explores eight of the greatest pieces of the chamber music repertoire. Bruce Adolphe leads an exploration of these treasured works with live performances by CMS Artists. ALL EVENTS TAKE PLACE IN THE DANIEL AND JOANNA S. ROSE STUDIO, WEDNESDAYS AT 6:30PM
INSIDE CLASSICAL MASTERPIECES 10/1/14 • MOZART Quintet in G minor for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, K. 516 (1787)
10/22/14 • BEETHOVEN Trio in B-flat major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 97, “Archduke” (1810-11)
10/8/14 • MOZART Quintet in D major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, K. 593 (1790)
10/29/14 • SCHUBERT Quintet in A major for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass, D. 667, Op. 114, “Trout” (1819)
INSIDE ROMANTIC MASTERPIECES 2/4/15 • BRAHMS Trio in A minor for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 114 (1891)
2/18/15 • BRAHMS Quintet in F minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 34 (1862)
2/11/15 • BRAHMS Quartet No. 1 in G minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 25 (1862)
2/25/15 • SCHUMANN Quartet in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 47 (1842)
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upcoming
EVENTS
ENCORES IN THE ROSE: TRANSCENDENCE
Saturday, March 1, 2014, 7:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Works by Beethoven and Schubert
MASTER CLASS WITH THE MIRÓ QUARTET
Monday, March 3, 2014, 11:00 AM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio This event will stream live at www.chambermusicsociety.org/watchlive
EMOTION UNBOUND
Friday, March 7, 2014, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring works by Dohnányi, Schumann, and Dvořák