David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, November 13, 2014 at 9:00 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio 3,363rd Concert
PATRICK CASTILLO, host GILLES VONSATTEL, piano DANISH STRING QUARTET FREDERIK ØLAND, violin RUNE TONSGAARD SØRENSEN, violin ASBJØRN NØRGAARD, viola FREDRIK SJÖLIN, cello
45th Anniversary Season
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 10th Floor New York, NY 10023 212-875-5788 www.ChamberMusicSociety.org
This concert is made possible, in part, by the Grand Marnier Foundation. Many donors support the artists of the Chamber Music Society Two program. This evening, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of William B. Ginsberg. The Chamber Music Society is deeply grateful to Board member Paul Gridley for his very generous gift of the Hamburg Steinway & Sons model "D" concert grand piano we are privileged to hear this evening.
LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, November 13, 2014 at 9:00 PATRICK CASTILLO, host GILLES VONSATTEL, piano DANISH STRING QUARTET FREDERIK ØLAND, violin RUNE TONSGAARD SØRENSEN, violin ASBJØRN NØRGAARD, viola FREDRIK SJÖLIN, cello
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Quartet in G minor for Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 10 (1893) Animé et très décidé Assez vif et bien rythmé Andantino doucement expressif Très modéré—Très mouvementé et avec passion TONSGAARD SØRENSEN, ØLAND, NØRGAARD, SJÖLIN
LOUIS VIERNE (1870-1937)
Quintet for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 42 (1917-18) Poco lento—Moderato Larghetto sostenuto Maestoso—Agitato VONSATTEL, TONSGAARD SØRENSEN, ØLAND, NØRGAARD, SJÖLIN
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meet tonight’s
ARTISTS
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 liner and program notes for numerous recording labels and concert series: most prolifically for Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in Silicon Valley for which he served as artistic administrator for more than ten years. 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. Mr. Castillo has been a guest lecturer at Fordham University, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass in Kentucky, ChamberFest Cleveland, and String Theory at the Hunter in Chattanooga, Tennessee, among others. From 2010 to 2013, he served as senior director of artistic planning for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.
The Danish String Quartet has established a reputation for possessing an integrated sound, impeccable intonation, and judicious balance. Since making its debut in 2002 at the Copenhagen Festival, the group has demonstrated a passion for Scandinavian composers, whom it frequently incorporates into adventurous contemporary programs, while also proving skilled and profound performers of the classical masters. This scope of talent secured the ensemble a three-year appointment in the coveted Chamber Music Society Two program that began in the 2013-14 season. The quartet was also named as a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist for 2013-15. The Danish String Quartet's 2014-15 season brings first-time tours to Israel and South America. Other international tours feature the quartet in London, Brussels, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Glasgow, and Weimar as well as the Lofoten Festival in Norway. With increasing popularity, the ensemble is considered one of the most sought after quartets in the United States. On November 12 the quartet launched its recording of Danish folk songs entitled Wood Works, released by the Dacapo label and distributed by Naxos, at SubCulture in New York. The quartet presented the US premiere of Danish composer Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen's Quartet No. 7 "The Extinguishable" in October at the University of Chicago Presents series and will subsequently perform this work in St. Paul, Santa Barbara, Pasadena, New Haven, Gainesville, Jacksonville, and Laramie. The ensemble’s robust schedule is rounded out with appearances at Washington Performing Arts, Vancouver Recital Society, La Jolla Music Society, and Da Camera of Houston.
In late November the Danish String Quartet present the eighth annual DSQFestival, a four-day event held in Copenhagen that brings together musical friends the quartet has met on its travels. In 2009 the group won First Prize in the 11th London International String Quartet Competition. This competition is now called the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition and the quartet returned to Wigmore Hall in April 2014 to perform a program of Beethoven and Haydn. In 2006, the Danish String Quartet was Danish Radio’s Artist-in-Residence, providing the opportunity to record all of Carl Nielsen's string quartets in the Danish Radio Concert Hall, subsequently released to critical acclaim on the Dacapo label in 2007 and 2008. In 2012 the quartet released an equally-acclaimed recording of Haydn and Brahms quartets on the German AVI-music label. The ensemble recorded works by Brahms and Robert Fuchs with award-winning clarinettist Sebastian Manz at the Bayerische Rundfunk in Munich, released by AVI-music in 2014, and recently signed with ECM Records for future recording projects. Violinists Frederik Øland and Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen and violist Asbjørn Nørgaard met as children at a music summer camp, eventually making the transition into a serious string quartet in their teens and studying at Copenhagen’s Royal Academy of Music. In 2008 the three Danes were joined by Norwegian cellist Fredrik Sjölin. The Danish String Quartet was primarily taught and mentored by Professor Tim Frederiksen.
A "wanderer between worlds" (Lucerne Festival), Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel is an artist of extraordinary versatility and originality. Comfortable with and seeking out an enormous range of repertoire, he displays a musical curiosity and sense of adventure that has gained him many admirers. Recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and winner of the Naumburg and Geneva competitions, he recently made his Boston Symphony, Tanglewood, and San Francisco Symphony debuts, while performing recitals and chamber music at the Tonhalle Zürich, Ravinia, Tokyo's Musashino Hall, Wigmore Hall, Bravo! Vail, Music@Menlo, the Gilmore festival, the Lucerne festival, and the Munich Gasteig. His most recent 2014 New York solo recital was hailed as "tightly conceived and passionately performed...a study in intensity" by the New York Times. Deeply committed to the performance of contemporary music, he has premiered numerous works both in the United States and Europe and worked closely with notable composers such as Jörg Widmann, Heinz Holliger, and George Benjamin. His 2011 recording for the Honens/Naxos label of music by Debussy, Honegger, Holliger, and Ravel was named one of Time Out New York's classical albums of the year. A former member of Chamber Music Society Two, he received his bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from Columbia University and his master’s degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal. Mr. Vonsattel is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Fall 2014 — Winter 2015
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upcoming
EVENTS
DVOŘÁK, CHAUSSON, AND SCHUBERT
Sunday, November 16, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Schubert's timeless masterpiece, the "Trout" Quintet, is paired with great Romantic works by Dvořák and Chausson.
MIXED WINDS
Tuesday, November 18, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Treasures of the wind repertoire are celebrated in a program including works by Barber, Taffanel, Brett Dean, Poulenc, and Mozart.
MASTER CLASS WITH PETER KOLKAY, BASSOON
Wednesday, November 19, 11:00 AM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio The art of interpretation and details of technique are explained by master artists. This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive