Inside Chamber Music - February 5, 2014

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Pushing Boundaries Wednesday Evening, February 5, 2014 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer DANISH STRING QUARTET FREDERIK ØLAND, violin RUNE TONSGAARD SØRENSEN, violin ASBJØRN NØRGAARD, viola FREDRIK SJÖLIN, cello

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INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Pushing Boundaries BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer DANISH STRING QUARTET FREDERIK ØLAND, violin RUNE TONSGAARD SØRENSEN, violin ASBJØRN NØRGAARD, viola FREDRIK SJÖLIN, cello

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Quartet for Strings in F minor, Op. 95, “Serioso” (1810-11)

(1770-1827)

The Beethoven “Serioso” Quartet can be heard in concert on February 9 at 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, 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.

Embodying the quintessential elements of a chamber music ensemble, the Danish String Quartet has established a reputation for possessing an integrated sound, impeccable intonation, and judicious balance. Since making its debut in 2002 at the Copenhagen Festival, the group of musical friends has demonstrated a passion for Scandinavian composers, who they frequently incorporate into adventurous contemporary programs, while also proving skilled and profound performers of the classical masters. Last season, the New York Times selected their concert as a highlight of the year: “One of the most powerful renditions of Beethoven’s Opus 132 String Quartet that I’ve heard live or on a recording.”

Since winning the Danish Radio P2 Chamber Music Competition in 2004, the quartet has been in great demand throughout Denmark and in October 2013 it presented the seventh annual DSQ-Musikfest, a threeday festival held in Copenhagen that brings together musical friends the quartet has met on its travels. Outside of its homeland the quartet will perform in the UK, Spain, Germany, Northern Ireland, Australia, Norway, Poland, and the US during the 2013-14 season. In 2009 the Danish String Quartet won First Prize in the 11th London International String Quartet Competition, as

well as four additional prizes from the same jury. This competition is now called the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition and the Danish String Quartet has performed at the famed hall on several occasions. It will return to Wigmore Hall in April 2014 to perform a program of Beethoven and Haydn. The quartet is a member of Chamber Music Society Two and a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist.

In 2006, the Danish String Quartet was Danish Radio’s Artist-in-Residence, giving them the opportunity to record all of Carl Nielsen’s string quartets in the Danish Radio Concert Hall, subsequently released to critical acclaim on the Dacapo label in 2007 and 2008. In 2012 the Danish String Quartet released an equally-acclaimed recording of Haydn and Brahms quartets on the German AVI-music label. It recently

recorded works by Brahms and Fuchs with award-winning clarinetist Sebastian Manz at the Bayerische Rundfunk in Munich to be released by AVI-music in early 2014.

The quartet’s love of Scandinavian music has been captured in a recording of folk music that it will release on its own label in Spring 2014.

Violinists Frederik Øland and Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen and violist Asbjørn Nørgaard met as children at a music summer camp where they played both soccer and music together, eventually making the transition into a serious string quartet in their teens and studying at Copenhagen’s Royal Academy of Music. In 2008 the three Danes were joined by Norwegian cellist Fredrik Sjölin. The Danish String Quartet was primarily taught and mentored

by Professor Tim Frederiksen.

Spring 2014

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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Encores in the Rose: Beethoven Reflected Inside Chamber Music Lecture New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse Inside Chamber Music Lecture Inside Chamber Music Lecture Late Night Rose Master Class: Mir贸 Quartet Art of the Recital: Alessio Bax Master Class: Kurt Muroki New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse Late Night Rose Master Class: Shmuel Ashkenasi Young Ensembles Concert New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse

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upcoming

EVENTS

ELOQUENT MASTERWORKS

Friday, February 7, 2014, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, and Schubert

Pre-Concert Lecture with Michael Parloff in the Rose Studio

6:15 PM • $10; $8 for concert ticket holders

BEETHOVEN REFLECTED

Sunday, February 9, 2014, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn

Pre-Concert Lecture with Michael Parloff in the Rose Studio

3:45 PM • $10; $8 for concert ticket holders

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC

Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Focus on Schumann’s Quintet in E-flat major for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 44