David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Form and Idea Wednesday Evening, October 9, 2013 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
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INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Form and Idea BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer YEKWON SUNWOO, piano SEAN LEE, violin MARK HOLLOWAY, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Quartet No. 2 in A major for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 26 (1861)
(1833-1897)
The Brahms Quartet in A major for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello will be performed on October 20th and 22nd 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 performance 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 will speak 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. Violist Mark Holloway is a chamber musician sought-after in the United States and abroad. He has appeared at prestigious festivals such as Marlboro, Ravinia, Caramoor, Banff, Cartagena, Taos, Music from Angel Fire, Mainly Mozart, and the Boston Chamber Music Society. Performances have taken him to farflung places such as Chile and Greenland, and he plays regularly at chamber music festivals in France, Switzerland, and at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England. A member of the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, he also 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, 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 the United States 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, Naxos, and Albany labels. A former member of Chamber
Music Society Two and a current Artist of the Society, 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, 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 and reached the Top 20 of the iTunes “Top Classical Albums” list. In recent years 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, and as a recitalist, he has performed at Carnegie’s Weill Hall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium, Festival di Carro Paganiniano, and Wiener Konzerthaus. 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, Adrienne Arsht Center, and the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park. After receiving his bachelor’s and master’s degrees as a student of Itzhak Perlman, Mr. Lee served as a teaching assistant to Mr. Perlman at The Juilliard School for three years and currently teaches chamber music in the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School. A member of Chamber Music Society Two, he is also a faculty member of the Perlman Music Program, where he was a student for 6 years, and performs on a 1799 Nicolas Lupot violin.
Cellist Mihai Marica won the first prize in the 2005 Irving M. Klein International String Competition. He also received First Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the 2006 “Dr. Luis Sigall” International Competition in Viña del Mar, Chile and the 2006 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. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with such artists as Mihae Lee, Peter Frankl, Ani Kavafian, William Purvis, David Shifrin, André Watts, and Edgar Meyer, and is a member of the award winning Amphion String Quartet. He played a Weill Hall debut recital and a Zankel Hall debut performing Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations in early 2008. A member of Chamber Music Society Two, 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. 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.
upcoming
EVENTS
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC WITH BRUCE ADOLPHE
Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Form and Idea: Beethoven’s Trio in D major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost” This event will also be streamed live at www.chambermusicsociety.org/watchlive
OPENING NIGHT: STRINGS CELEBRATION Thursday, October 17, 2013, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Works by Bartók, Mendelssohn, and Tchaikovsky Tickets start at $37
GREAT PIANO QUARTETS
Sunday, October 20, 2013, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Works by Mozart, Turina, and Brahms