David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Inside Classical Masterpieces Wednesday Evening, October 8, 2014 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio
BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer AMPHION STRING QUARTET KATIE HYUN, violin DAVID SOUTHORN, violin WEI-YANG ANDY LIN, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello PIERRE LAPOINTE, viola
45th Anniversary Season
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INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Inside Classical Masterpieces BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer AMPHION STRING QUARTET KATIE HYUN, violin DAVID SOUTHORN, violin WEI-YANG ANDY LIN, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello PIERRE LAPOINTE, viola
WOLFGANG Quintet in D major for Two Violins, AMADEUS MOZART Two Violas, and Cello, K. 593 (1790) (1756-1791)
Mozart’s Quintet in D major, K. 593 can be heard in concert on February 6th at 7:30 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. Hailed for its “gripping intensity” and “suspenseful and virtuoso playing” (San Francisco Classical Voice), the Amphion String Quartet is a winner of the 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and joined the roster of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s CMS Two Program in fall 2013. Through CMS, the ensemble made its Alice Tully Hall debut in March 2014, about which the New York Times praised “the focused, forceful young Amphion String Quartet” for its “sharply detailed performances.” The 2014-15 season begins with the ASQ’s Mostly Mozart debut with two pre-concert recitals at Avery Fisher Hall and a return to Korea for the Busan Chamber Music Festival. The quartet has several return engagements in New York in 2014-15, including two CMS performances at Alice Tully Hall, Schneider Concerts at the New School, Brooklyn’s Bargemusic, and the Tilles Center Chamber Music Series on Long Island. Collaborative performances include a recital with clarinetist David Shifrin at Rockford’s Coronado Theatre
and a special program with the renowned dance company BodyVox in Portland, OR entitled Cosmosis, (which will tour in 2015-16). In fall 2014, the ASQ’s first CD will be released by the UK-based label Nimbus, including quartets by Grieg, Janáček, and Wolf. Internationally, the Amphion Quartet has performed in South Korea at the Music Isle Festival in Jeju and at the Seoul Arts Center. Previous US festival appearances include The Chautauqua Institution, OK Mozart, Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, New Jersey’s Mostly Music Series, NYU String Quartet Workshop, Princeton Summer Concerts, Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. Summer 2014 featured the world premiere of a new quartet by Yevgeniy Sharlat at the Caramoor Music Festival (commissioned by Caramoor as the culmination of the 2012-13 Stiefel String Quartet residency). The ASQ has collaborated with such eminent artists as the Tokyo String Quartet, Ani Kavafian, David Shifrin, Carter Brey, Edgar Meyer, Michala Petri, James Dunham, and Deborah Hoffmann. Recent featured concerts include the Amphion Quartet’s Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall on the CAG series with guest David Shifrin, and also Zankel Hall; the Library of Congress and the Phillips Collection in Washington DC; Caramoor Center for the Arts; Pepperdine University; TCAN Center for the Arts (MA); New York’s Met Museum and National Arts Club; and a tour of northern California with concerts at UC San Francisco, Eureka Chamber Music Series, and Montalvo Center for the Arts. The ASQ is showcased on New York’s WQXR radio frequently, including the station’s November 2012 Beethoven String Quartet Marathon, playing two quartets live in The Greene Space, with live webcast and subsequent airing on the radio. Violinists Katie Hyun and David Southorn, violist Wei-Yang Andy Lin, and cellist Mihai Marica first joined together for a performance at Sprague Hall at the Yale School of Music in February 2009. The overwhelmingly positive audience response was the inspiration behind their mutual desire to pursue a career as the Amphion String Quartet. Additional honors include the 2012 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant in New York; First Prize at the Hugo Kauder String Quartet Competition in New Haven, CT; and First Prize in the Piano and Strings category as well as the Audience Choice Award at the 2010 Plowman Chamber Music Competition held in Columbia, MO. Violist Pierre Lapointe has performed at numerous venues across the United States and abroad. He plays occasionally with the group Sejong Soloists and is currently the violist of the Escher String Quartet. A former member of Chamber Music Society Two and a recent BBC New Generation Artist, the quartet has recorded the complete Zemlinsky quartets and will record the complete Mendelssohn quartets for release by BIS. In May 2012, Mr. Lapointe completed a thesis on Zemlinsky’s Second Quartet and obtained a doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music. Prior to this degree, he received a prize in 2004 from Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec for his work at the Gatineau Music Conservatory and was granted a gold medal by the University of Ottawa in 2000 for his undergraduate studies in composition and violin performance. While in school, he played twice as a soloist with the University of Ottawa Orchestra and once with the Gatineau Music Conservatory Orchestra. In March 2002, he performed one of his own string quartets for the show Jeunes Artistes of Radio-Canada in Montréal with the Volta Quartet. Mr. Lapointe’s main teachers were Yaëla Hertz Berkson, Calvin Sieb, Paul Yarbrough, and Lawrence Dutton. An Artist of the Chamber Music Society, he plays a viola ingeniously designed and made by Christophe Landon.
Fall 2014
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10/22/14 6:30 PM Inside Chamber Music Lecture 10/23/14 9:00 PM Late Night Rose 10/29/14 6:30 PM Inside Chamber Music Lecture 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
upcoming
EVENTS
MOZART PIANO CONCERTOS
Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Elegant and graceful works accompany a pair of brilliant concertos in a joyous celebration of Mozart.
BRAHMS THE MASTER
Tuesday, October 21, 2014, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall This program celebrates Brahms’ late masterworks, providing a vivid portrait of the composer in his mature glory.
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC
Wednesday, October 22, 2014, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Focus on Beethoven’s “Archduke” Trio in B-flat major, Op. 97.