Late Night Rose - November 8, 2012

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, November 8, 2012 at 9:00 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio 3,161st Concert

PATRICK CASTILLO, host SOYEON KATE LEE, piano ARNAUD SUSSMANN, violin ARETA ZHULLA, violin MARK HOLLOWAY, viola FRED SHERRY, cello ROMIE DE GUISE-LANGLOIS, clarinet

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LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, November 8, 2012 at 9:00 PATRICK CASTILLO, host SOYEON KATE LEE, piano ARNAUD SUSSMANN, violin ARETA ZHULLA, violin MARK HOLLOWAY, viola FRED SHERRY, cello ROMIE DE GUISE-LANGLOIS, clarinet

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)

Quartet in G minor for Strings, Op. 74, No. 3, Hob. III:74, “The Rider” (1793) Allegro Largo assai Menuetto: Allegretto Finale: Allegro con brio SUSSMANN, ZHULLA, HOLLOWAY, SHERRY

AARON COPLAND (1900-1990)

Sextet for Clarinet, String Quartet, and Piano (1937) Allegro vivace Lento Finale DE GUISE-LANGLOIS, SUSSMANN, ZHULLA, HOLLOWAY, SHERRY, LEE

BÉLA BARTÓK (1881-1945)

Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet, and Piano, Sz. 111, BB 116 (1938) Verbunkos (Recruiting Dance) Pihenö (Relaxation) Sebes (Fast Dance) ZHULLA, DE GUISE-LANGLOIS, LEE

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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 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.

Praised as “extraordinary” and “a formidable clarinetist” by The New York Times, Romie de Guise-Langlois has appeared as soloist with the Houston

Symphony and the Burlington Chamber Orchestra, and at Music@Menlo and Banff Center for the Arts. She is a winner of the 2011 Astral Artists’ National Audition and was awarded first prize in the 2009 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg Competition; she was additionally a first prize winner of Woolsey Hall Competition at Yale University, the McGill University Classical Concerto Competition, and the Canadian Music Competition. An avid chamber musician, she has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, 92nd Street Y, the Kennedy Center, and Chamber Music Northwest, among many others. She has performed as principal clarinetist for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New Haven Symphony, and Stamford Symphony Orchestra and she is a member of The Knights Chamber Orchestra. A native of Montreal, Ms. de Guise-Langlois earned degrees from McGill University and the Yale School of Music, where she studied under David Shifrin. She is currently adjunct professor of clarinet at Kean and Montclair universities and is a member of Chamber Music Society Two. 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 far-flung 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 in 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.

First prize winner of the 2010 Naumburg International Piano Competition, Korean-American pianist Soyeon Kate Lee has been hailed by The New York Times as an artist with “a huge, richly varied sound, a lively imagination and a firm sense of style.” She has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras, including The Cleveland Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, as well as the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional in the Dominican Republic, Orquesta de Valencia, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Juilliard Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, and Naples Philharmonic.

In recent seasons, she has given recitals

at New York’s Zankel, Alice Tully, and Merkin halls, Washington’s Kennedy Center, the Ravinia Festival, Madrid’s National Auditorium, and San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre. Her debut CD of Scarlatti sonatas for Naxos was released in 2007 to critical acclaim, followed by “Re!nvented” for E1 Music (Koch), which was featured in Gramophone magazine to rave reviews and awarded the 2009 Young Artist Award by the Classical Recording Foundation. A Naxos recording artist, she recently recorded a disc of Liszt opera transcriptions, and will record a double CD Scriabin album this season. Ms. Lee is a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and a laureate of the Cleveland and Santander International Piano Competitions. Her principal teachers have been Robert McDonald, Jerome Lowenthal, Ursula Oppens, and Richard Goode. Ms. Lee is a Steinway Artist and a member of Chamber Music Society Two. Cellist Fred Sherry has introduced audiences on five continents and all 50 United States to the music of our time through his close association with such composers as Babbitt, Berio, Carter, Davidovsky, Foss, Knussen, Lieberson, Mackey, Takemitsu, Wuorinen, and Zorn.

In 2011 he premiered two concertos written for him: David Rakowski’s Talking Points, commissioned by The Orchestra of the League of Composers, and John Zorn’s A Rebours, commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center. He has been a member of the Group for Contemporary Music, Berio’s Juilliard Ensemble, the Galimir String Quartet, and a close collaborator with jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea. He was a founding member of Speculum Musicae and Tashi. He is on

the faculty of the Mannes College of Music, the Manhattan School of Music, and The Juilliard School. In his extensive recording career, he has been soloist and “sideman” on hundreds of commercial and esoteric recordings; his longstanding collaboration with Robert Craft has produced recordings of major works by Schoenberg, Stravinsky, and Webern, and his eponymous string quartet received a 2010 Grammy nomination. Boosey & Hawkes recently released his book 25 Bach Duets from the Cantatas and it will be followed by a treatise on contemporary string techniques. Mr. Sherry has been an Artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1984 and was its artistic director from 1989 to 1992.

Winner of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, violinist Arnaud Sussmann is a multi-faceted and compelling artist who has performed as a soloist throughout the United States, Central America, Europe, and Asia, and at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Smithsonian Museum, and the Louvre. He has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Monaco Chamber Orchestra, Nice Orchestra, Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, El Salvador National Symphony Orchestra, and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. Highlights of the 2011-12 season included a tour of Israel, concerts with CMS in Germany and at Wigmore Hall in London, and a performance of the Mendelssohn Concerto at the Dresden Festival. He has performed with many of today’s leading artists: Itzhak Perlman, Menahem Pressler, Joseph Kalichstein, Miriam Fried, Paul Neubauer, Fred Sherry, and Gary Hoffman. Winner of several international competitions including the Hudson Valley Philharmonic String

Competition, the Andrea Postacchini Competition, and the Vatelot/Rampal Competition, he has recorded works of Beethoven and Dvořák with CMS Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han. He studied at The Juilliard School with Boris Garlitsky and Itzhak Perlman, who chose him to be a Starling Fellow, an honor qualifying him as Mr. Perlman’s teaching assistant for two years. A former member of Chamber Music Society Two, he is currently an Artist of the Society.

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

upcoming

performs on a copy of Stradivarius’s “Viotti,” made by her father, Greek luthier Lefter Zhulla.

EVENTS

MEET THE MUSIC! LEAPING LEOPOLD! Sunday, November 11, 2012, 2:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Concerts for families with kids ages 6 and up MOZART CONNECTIONS Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring works by Adolphe, Mackey, and Mozart NIGHT MUSIC Sunday, November 18, 2012, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Featuring works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Crumb, Bloch, and Beethoven MASTER CLASS WITH JEREMY DENK, PIANO Tuesday, November 27, 2012, 11:00 AM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio This event will also be streamed live at www.chambermusicsociety.org/watchlive