Late Night Rose

LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, March 14, 2013 at 9:00 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio 3,196th Concert

PATRICK CASTILLO, host ALESSIO BAX, piano ALEXANDER SITKOVETSKY, violin ARETA ZHULLA, violin YURA LEE, violin/viola PAUL NEUBAUER, viola LAURENCE LESSER, cello

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LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, March 14, 2013 at 9:00 PATRICK CASTILLO, host ALESSIO BAX, piano ALEXANDER SITKOVETSKY, violin ARETA ZHULLA, violin YURA LEE, violin/viola PAUL NEUBAUER, viola LAURENCE LESSER, cello

GEORGE ENESCU (1881-1955)

Sonata No. 3 in A minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 25, “Dans le caractère populaire roumain” (1926) Moderato malinconico Andante sostenuto e misterioso Allegro con brio, ma non troppo mosso LEE, BAX

ANTONIN DVOŘÁK (1841-1904)

Quintet in E-flat major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 97 (1893) Allegro non tanto Allegro vivo Larghetto Finale: Allegro giusto SITKOVETSKY, ZHULLA, NEUBAUER, LEE, LESSER

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meet tonight’s

ARTISTS

Pianist Alessio Bax, First Prize winner at the Leeds and Hamamatsu international piano competitions, is a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient. He has appeared as soloist with over 90 orchestras worldwide, including the London and Royal Philharmonic orchestras, Houston Symphony, NHK Symphony in Japan, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Sir Simon Rattle. Recent and upcoming highlights include performances with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in Moscow and St. Petersburg under Yuri Temirkanov, Dallas Symphony under Jaap van Zweden, concerts at the 92nd Street Y, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Atlanta’s Spivey Hall. Among his festival appearances are London’s International Piano Series (Queen Elizabeth Hall), Switzerland’s Verbier, England’s Aldeburgh and Bath festivals, USA’s Music@Menlo, and the Ruhr Klavierfestival, BeethovenFest, and Schloss Elmau in Germany. Mr. Bax’s acclaimed discography includes Alessio Bax Plays Brahms (fall 2012, Signum Records), Rachmaninov: Preludes and Melodies (American Record Guide “Critics’ Choice”), Bach Transcribed, and Baroque Reflections (Gramophone “Editor’s Choice”). At age 14, he graduated with top honors from the conservatory of his hometown, Bari, Italy, and after further studies in Europe moved to the US in 1994.

A Steinway artist, he resides in New York City with his wife, pianist Lucille Chung.

Mr. Bax is a former member of Chamber Music Society Two and a current Artist of the Society.

Patrick Castillo leads a multifaceted career as a composer, performer, writer, and educator. His music has been featured at

festivals and venues throughout the United States and internationally including Spoleto Festival USA, June in Buffalo, the Santa Fe New Music Festival, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Berklee College of Music, Tenri Cultural Institute, Bavarian Academy of Music in Munich, and Nuremberg Museum of Contemporary Art. He is variously active as an explicator of music to a wide range of listeners. He has provided program notes for numerous concert series: most prolifically for Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in Silicon Valley for which he also serves as artistic administrator. In this latter capacity, he has led a variety of pre-concert discussion events; designed outreach presentations for middle and high school students; and authored, narrated, and produced the widely acclaimed AudioNotes series of listener’s guides to the chamber music literature. His writing credits also include New York City Opera’s musical introduction to Emmanuel Chabrier’s L’Étoile, a live presentation for young listeners featuring full orchestra and soloists. Mr. Castillo has been a guest lecturer at Fordham University, the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass in Kentucky, ChamberFest Cleveland, and String Theory at the Hunter in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 2010, he was appointed director of artistic planning by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.

Violinist/violist Yura Lee, recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2007, is enjoying a career that spans almost two decades and takes her all over the world. As a soloist, she has performed with numerous major orchestras including those of New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Saint Louis. She has given recitals in London’s

Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. At age 12, she became the youngest artist ever to receive the Debut Artist of the Year prize at the Performance Today awards given by National Public Radio. She received numerous international prizes, including the first prize and the audience prize at the 2006 Leopold Mozart Competition, the first prize at the 2010 UNISA International Competition, and top prizes in the Indianapolis, Hannover, Kreisler, Yuri Bashmet, and Paganini competitions. Her CD with Reinhard Goebel and the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, titled Mozart in Paris, received the prestigious Diapason d’Or Award. As a chamber musician, she regularly takes part in the festivals of Marlboro, Salzburg, Verbier, Caramoor, Ravinia, Kronberg, and Aspen. She was awarded two artist diplomas, by Indiana University in Bloomington and the New England Conservatory in Boston, and her main teachers included Miriam Fried, Paul Biss, Thomas Riebl, Ana Chumachenko, and Nobuko Imai. Ms. Lee is a member of Chamber Music Society Two, as both violinist and violist.

Cellist Laurence Lesser is a laureate of the 1966 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow and a participant in the historic HeifetzPiatigorsky concerts and recordings. He has been a soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic, the New Japan Philharmonic, and orchestras worldwide. As a chamber musician he has participated in the Casals, Marlboro, Ravinia, Menlo, Spoleto, and Santa Fe festivals, and over many years has been a guest of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. During the Bach anniversary year of 2000, he performed the

cycle of the complete cello suites several times. More recently, he performed the complete suites in one evening at Jordan Hall to great critical acclaim. He was the first to record the Schoenberg Cello Concerto, and in 1966 was the first to perform it with orchestra since its 1936 introduction by Emanuel Feuermann. His recordings of Beethoven’s complete works for cello and piano with HaeSun Paik were released by Bridge Records and his other recordings have appeared on the RCA, Columbia, Melodiya, and CRI labels. He has taught at the New England Conservatory since 1974 and served as president from 1983 to 1996. He attended Harvard College where he studied mathematics and graduated with honors, and also was a Fulbright scholar.

He plays a 1622 cello made by the brothers Amati in Cremona, Italy.

Violist Paul Neubauer’s exceptional musicality and effortless playing distinguish him as one of his generation’s quintessential artists. Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at age 21, he is the chamber music director of the OK Mozart Festival in Oklahoma and the “Chamber Music Extravaganza” in Curaçao. Upcoming projects include the world premiere of a new viola concerto by Aaron Jay Kernis with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra as well as performances with the Emerson Quartet at Carnegie Hall. A twotime Grammy nominee, he recorded works

by Schumann with pianist Anne-Marie McDermott as well as numerous pieces that were composed for him: Joan Tower’s Purple Rhapsody for viola and orchestra and Wild Purple for solo viola; Viola Rhapsody, a concerto by Henri Lazarof; and Soul Garden for viola and chamber ensemble

by Derek Bermel. His recording of the Walton Viola Concerto was re-released on Decca. He has appeared with over 100

orchestras including the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki philharmonics; National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth symphonies; and Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle orchestras. He gave the world premiere of the revised Bartók Viola Concerto as well as concertos by Tower, Penderecki, Picker, Jacob, Lazarof, Suter, Müller-Siemens, Ott, and Friedman and is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Mannes College. Mr. Neubauer has been an Artist of the Chamber Music Society since 1989.

Violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky has performed with the Netherlands Philharmonic, London’s Philharmonia, Royal Philharmonic, Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. He has just finished a nationwide tour of the UK with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra and further plans this season include debuts with the London Mozart Players in the UK and the Greensboro Symphony in the US. He will also be returning to various orchestras and festivals in the UK, Europe, and Japan. He has shared the stage with Julia Fischer, Janine Jansen, Misha Maisky, Polina Leschenko, and Julian Rachlin. He has recorded for Angel/EMI, Decca, and Orfeo including a recording of the Bach Double Concerto with Julia Fischer. Together with Wu Qian and cellist Leonard Elschenbroich, he performs in the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio, regularly appearing in England at Wigmore Hall and all around the country and across Europe in halls such as Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Frankfurt Alte Oper. Born in Moscow into a family with an established musical tradition, he made his concerto debut at the age of eight and the same year came to study at the Menuhin School. Lord Menuhin was his inspiration throughout his

school years and they performed together on several occasions including the Bach Double Concerto, Bartók Duos at St James’ Palace, and he performed the Mendelssohn Concerto under Menuhin’s baton. Mr. Sitkovetsky is a member of Chamber Music Society Two. Named the 2011 “Young Artist of the Year” by the National Critics Association of Music and Drama in Greece, Greek violinist Areta Zhulla is quickly establishing herself as a dynamic and passionate artist.

She has performed at many renowned venues such as Carnegie Hall, Auditorium du Louvre, Alice Tully Hall, Kennedy Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and National Arts Centre of Canada. She made her Megaron Hall debut in Athens in 2010, performing under the baton of legendary French conductor Michel Plasson and the Athens State Symphony Orchestra. Other recent engagements include solo performances with the Camerata Orchestra of Greece, Westchester Philharmonic, Kenosha Symphony, and the State Symphony of Thessalonica. She has performed with legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Rose Theater at Lincoln Center. She has appeared in such music festivals as Music@Menlo, The Perlman Music Program Chamber Music Workshop, Kneisel Hall, and Pinchas Zukerman’s Young Artists Program in Canada, and has studied for seven summers at the Perlman Music Program Summer School. A member of Chamber Music Society Two, she holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Itzhak Perlman and Catherine Cho, and was a recipient of the Vergotis Scholarship. Ms. Zhulla performs on a copy of Stradivarius’s “Viotti,” made by her father, Greek luthier Lefter Zhulla.

upcoming

EVENTS

SHOSTAKOVICH: THE COMPLETE QUARTETS performed by the Jersualem Quartet

SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE I Sunday, March 17, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall • SOLD OUT Quartet Nos. 1, 5, 6, and 12 Pre-concert lecture with Michael Parloff at 4:00 PM in the Rose Studio

SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE II Tuesday, March 19, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall • SOLD OUT Quartet Nos. 4, 8, 10, and 11 Pre-concert lecture with Michael Parloff at 6:30 PM in the Rose Studio

SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE III Friday, March 22, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Quartet Nos. 3, 7, 13, and 14 Pre-concert lecture with Michael Parloff at 6:30 PM in the Rose Studio

SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE IV Sunday, March 24, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Quartet Nos. 2, 9, and 15 Pre-concert lecture with Michael Parloff at 4:00 PM in the Rose Studio