Inside Chamber Music with Bruce Adolphe

INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Grand Thoughts on a Small Scale Wednesday Evening, February 6, 2013 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer ORION WEISS, piano SEAN LEE, violin

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INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Grand Thoughts on a Small Scale BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer ORION WEISS, piano SEAN LEE, violin

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Sonata in E minor for Violin and Piano, K. 304 (1778)

(1756-1791)

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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.

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, having received prizes in the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions. His debut album featuring the Strauss Violin Sonata was released by EMI Classics exclusively for iTunes in February 2012 and reached the Top 20 of the iTunes “Top Classical Albums” list. Highlights of the 2012-13 season include concerto performances with the Jerusalem Symphony and Utah Symphony and a recital in the Wiener Konzerthaus. In recent years he has appeared as a soloist with the Orchestra Del Teatro Carlo Felice, Westchester Symphony, Peninsula Symphony, Torrance Symphony, Redlands Symphony, and the Juilliard Orchestra, and as a recitalist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium. In addition to his solo engagements, he has given chamber music performances at venues including the Kennedy Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, Americas Society, and Le Poisson Rouge. After receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees as a student of Itzhak Perlman, Mr. Lee became a teaching assistant to Mr. Perlman at The

Juilliard School, and also teaches as a faculty member of the Perlman Music Program, where he was a student for 6 years. He is a member of Chamber Music Society Two. Pianist Orion Weiss is one of the most sought-after soloists and collaborators in his generation of young American musicians.

This season he performs with numerous orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Alabama Symphony Orchestra, Phoenix Symphony, Albany Symphony, and Mexico City Philharmonic. He also makes his recital debut at the Kennedy Center. In recent seasons he has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, National Arts Centre Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and in summer concerts with the New York Philharmonic at both Lincoln Center and the Bravo! Vail Valley Festival. In 2005, he toured Israel with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Itzhak Perlman. As a recitalist and chamber musician, he has appeared at such festivals as Ravinia, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, La Jolla Music Society SummerFest, Chamber Music Northwest, the Bard Music Festival, and the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival. In 2005, he made his New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall after winning Juilliard’s William Petschek Award. Also in 2005, he made his European recital debut at the Louvre in Paris. He was a member of Chamber Music Society Two from 2002 to 2004. His awards include the Gilmore Young Artist Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Mieczyslaw Munz Scholarship, and Juilliard’s Gina Bachauer Scholarship.

Mr. Weiss graduated from The Juilliard School where he studied with Emanuel Ax.