David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Inside Classical Masterpieces Wednesday Evening, October 29, 2014 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio
BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer YEKWON SUNWOO, piano SEAN LEE, violin MARK HOLLOWAY, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello DAVID GROSSMAN, double bass
45th Anniversary Season
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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 Classical Masterpieces BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer YEKWON SUNWOO, piano SEAN LEE, violin MARK HOLLOWAY, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello DAVID GROSSMAN, double bass
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797-1828)
Quintet in A major for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Bass, D. 667, Op. 114, “Trout” (1819)
Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet in A major, D. 667, Op. 114 can be heard in concert on November 16th at 5:00 PM at 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, 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. Double bassist and composer David J. Grossman enjoys a multi-faceted career in the realms of classical and jazz music. Born and educated in New York City, he is a member of the New York Philharmonic and the double bass faculty of Manhattan School of Music. As a soloist and clinician, he has given recitals and master classes at music schools across the country, including The Boston Conservatory, Yale School of Music, Hartt School of Music, Penn State University, and New York Summer Music Festival, as well as faculty recitals at the Manhattan School of Music. He has released two albums—one classical and one jazz—entitled The Bass of Both Worlds. As a chamber musician, he performs regularly in the
New York Philharmonic Ensembles Concerts at Merkin Hall and has appeared at the 92nd Street Y as well as with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. As a jazz bassist he has performed with Wynton Marsalis, Lew Tabackin, and Mark O’Connor. His compositions include Mood Swings for trombone and double bass, written for New York Philharmonic Principal Trombone Joseph Alessi, which was performed during the 2010–11 season of New York Philharmonic Ensembles Concerts; Fantasy on “Shall We Gather at the River?” (available on Thomas Stacy’s recording, Plaintive Melody); and two early compositions: Swing Quartet and String Quintet No. 1, which were premiered by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Violist Mark Holloway is a chamber musician sought after in the United States and abroad. He has appeared at prestigious festivals such as Marlboro, Music@Menlo, Ravinia, Caramoor, Banff, Cartagena, Taos, Music from Angel Fire, Mainly Mozart, Music at Plush, and the Boston Chamber Music Society. Performances have taken him to far-flung places such as Chile and Greenland, and he plays regularly at chamber music festivals in France and Switzerland, and at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England. Around New York City, he frequently appears as a guest with the New York Philharmonic and Orpheus. Mr. Holloway has been principal violist at Tanglewood and of the New York String Orchestra, and has played as guest principal of the American Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Camerata Bern, and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has performed at Bargemusic, the 92nd Street Y, the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, and on radio and television throughout North and South America, and Europe, most recently a Live From Lincoln Center broadcast. Hailed as an “outstanding violist” by American Record Guide, and praised by Zürich’s Neue Zürcher Zeitung for his “warmth and intimacy,” he has recorded for the Marlboro Recording Society, CMS Live, Music@Menlo LIVE, Naxos, and Albany labels. A former member of Chamber Music Society Two, Mr. Holloway was a student of Michael Tree at The Curtis Institute of Music and received his bachelor’s degree from Boston University. 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, where he was a student for 6 years. He performs on a 1799 Nicolas Lupot violin.
Romanian-born cellist Mihai Marica is a First Prize winner of the “Dr. Luis Sigall” International Competition in Viña del Mar, Chile and the Irving M. Klein International Competition, and is a recipient of Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi Fellowship Grant. He has performed with orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra of Chile, Xalapa Symphony in Mexico, the Hermitage State Orchestra of St. Petersburg in Russia, the Jardins Musicaux Festival Orchestra in Switzerland, the Louisville Orchestra, and the Santa Cruz Symphony in the US. He also appeared in recital performances in Austria, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Holland, South Korea, Japan, Chile, the United States, and Canada. A dedicated chamber musician, he has appeared at the Chamber Music Northwest, Norfolk, and Aspen music festivals among others where he has collaborated with such artists as Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, David Shifrin, André Watts, and Edgar Meyer, and he is a member of the award-winning Amphion String Quartet. Mr. Marica studied with Gabriela Todor in his native Romania and with Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music where he was awarded the Master of Music and Artist Diploma degrees. He is a member of Chamber Music Society Two and his three-year residency is supported by The Winston Foundation. As winner of the 2013 Sendai International Music Competition and 2012 William Kapell International Piano Competition, Yekwon Sunwoo performed as soloist with numerous orchestras such as Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under the direction of David Lockington, 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 City Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Sunwoo made his New York City debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in 2009 as winner of the Florida International Piano Competition and performed as soloist with the Juilliard Orchestra under the baton of Itzhak Perlman at Avery Fisher Hall in 2012 after winning the Juilliard Concerto Competition. Other awards include First Prize and Audience Prize in the 2012 Piano Campus International Concours, a Laureate in the 2010 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, and First Prize in the 2009 Concours International de Piano “Interlaken Classics.” Mr. Sunwoo was invited to perform at various chamber music festivals such as the Summit Music Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Toronto Summer Music Academy and Festival, Music from Angel Fire, and Chamber Music Northwest. In addition, he has given numerous recitals throughout France, Germany, Switzerland, and Morocco. Mr. Sunwoo’s chamber music experience includes an invitation from the Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation in 2004, touring Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panama. He has collaborated with Ida Kavafian and Peter Wiley in 2010 with Curtis On Tour and with Roberto Díaz on the Bay Chamber Concerts summer series in 2008. He has also performed with Gary Hoffman, Anne-Marie McDermott, and Michael Tree. Mr. Sunwoo has studied with Min-ja Shin and Sun-wha Kim in Korea, with Seymour Lipkin at the Curtis Institute of Music, and with Robert McDonald at The Juilliard School. He is currently studying with Richard Goode at the Mannes School of Music.
upcoming
EVENTS
THE ART OF THE RECITAL
Thursday, October 30, 7:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Featuring Nicolas Dautricourt, violin; Jean-Frédéric Neuburger, piano This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive
THE PACIFICA QUARTET
Friday, November 7, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall The Pacifica Quartet returns to Alice Tully Hall for a program of passion and depth, with works by Haydn, Ran, Puccini, and Mendelssohn. Pre-concert conversation with Shulamit Ran at 6:30 PM in the Rose Studio, free for ticket holders
MEET THE MUSIC! THE MAGICAL WORLD OF MAURICE RAVEL Sunday, November 9, 2:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall A concert for kids ages 6 & up and their families. Featuring music of Ravel.
Fall 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.
10/30/14 7:30 PM Art of the Recital: Nicolas Dautricourt & Jean-FrĂŠdĂŠric Neuburger 11/13/14 11:00 AM Master Class with Lawrence Power 11/13/14 9:00 PM Late Night Rose 11/19/14 11:00 AM Master Class with Peter Kolkay 12/11/14 7:30 PM New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse
All events are free to watch. View full program details online. www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/WatchLive