Master Class with Jason Vieaux - May 13, 2015

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

MASTER CLASS WITH

JASON VIEAUX, GUITAR Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 11:00 AM Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio

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

The Chamber Music Society’s education and outreach programs are made possible, in part, with support from the Colburn Foundation, Consolidated Edison Company, Hearst Fund, The Frank and Helen Hermann Foundation, Alice Ilchman Fund, Newman’s Own Foundation, The Khalil Rizk Fund, Tiger Baron Foundation, The Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and The Winston Foundation. Public funds are provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.

MASTER CLASS WITH JASON VIEAUX, GUITAR Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 11:00 AM

ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992)

Histoire du Tango for Violin and Guitar (1986) HAHNSOL KIM, VIOLIN; BOKYUNG BYUN, GUITAR THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL

HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS (1887-1959)

New York Skyline Melody, A. 407 arr. for Two Guitars and Trumpet (1939) TRIO ALMATHI (THIAGO FRATUCE PIMENTEL, ACOUSTIC GUITAR; MATT LEECE, ELECTRIC GUITAR; ALEXANDRIA SMITH, TRUMPET) MANNES COLLEGE THE NEW SCHOOL FOR MUSIC

RADAMÉS GNATTALI (1906-1988)

Sonata for Cello and Guitar (1969) ALEXANDRA JONES, CELLO; NORA SPIELMAN, GUITAR STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT PURCHASE

Jason Vieaux will perform in the Spanish Dances program this Friday, May 15th at 7:30 PM in Alice Tully Hall.

Today’s master class is being streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/WatchLive Photographing, sound recording, or videotaping this event is prohibited.

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about

JASON VIEAUX

Guitarist Jason Vieaux has earned a reputation for putting his expressive gifts and virtuosity at the service of a remarkably wide range of music, and his schedule of recital, concerto, chamber music, teaching, and recording commitments is distinguished with return engagements throughout the U.S. and abroad. Recent and future highlights include returns to the Caramoor Festival, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and New York’s 92nd Street Y. He collaborates in recitals this season with the Escher Quartet, acclaimed harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, and accordion/bandoneón virtuoso Julien Labro. Mr. Vieaux has performed as concerto soloist with over 50 orchestras, including Cleveland, Houston, Toronto, San Diego, Ft. Worth, Santa Fe, Charlotte, Buffalo, Grand Rapids, KitchenerWaterloo, Richmond, Edmonton, IRIS Chamber, and Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. His 2014 solo album, PLAY, was released on Azica Records and won the 2015 Grammy award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo Album. In 2012, the Jason Vieaux School of Classical Guitar was launched with ArtistWorks Inc., an interface that provides one-on-one online study with Vieaux for guitar students around the world. In 2011, he co-founded the guitar department at The Curtis Institute of Music, and he has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music since 2001. His primary teachers were Jeremy Sparks and John Holmquist. He has received a Naumburg Foundation top prize, a Cleveland Institute of Music Alumni Achievement Award, and a Salon di Virtuosi Career Grant.

meet today’s

PERFORMERS

At the age of sixteen, guitarist Bokyung Byun entered The Juilliard School where she was admitted to the highly selective accelerated bachelor and master of music degree program. Ms. Byun performed her first solo recital at the age of ten in Seoul, Korea. Her recent performances were featured on NPR’s popular classical music programs, From the Top and WQXR’s McGraw-Hill Companies Young Artists Showcase. She has won numerous prizes in competitions in Asia, Europe, and the United States, including the Vienna International Youth Competition and Guitar Foundation of America International Youth Competition in 2007, and Guitar Foundation of America New York Regional Symposium in 2012 and 2014.

Before coming to New York, she studied with William Kanengiser in Los Angeles and Chen Zhi in Beijing. Ms. Byun is the recipient of the Juilliard Scholarship, Mack Harrell Scholarship, Marie Brown Scholarship, and D’Addario Foundation Grant at The Juilliard School. She currently studies with Sharon Isbin at The Juilliard School.

Alexandra Jones is a freelance cellist in the New York area. She began learning the cello through the community program in her hometown of Brainerd, Minnesota.

Ms. Jones plays with ensemble mise-en, the Metro Chamber Orchestra, Washington Heights Camerata, Ensemble Du Monde, the Chelsea Symphony, Dig North Music,

and in a handful of smaller, independent collaborations. Ms. Jones maintains an active private studio in NYC and teaches at Rubato Music School. Her teachers include Joshua Koestenbaum (St. Paul Chamber Orchestra), Marion Feldman, her professor at New York University, Maxine Neuman, and Julia Lichten, with whom she currently studies as a master of music student at SUNY Purchase. “…In other words, it was really good,” claimed the Boston Herald after Hahnsol Kim’s performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto in Boston last March. Born in New York in 1992, he began his studies at the age of five. The 22 year old violinist made a successful debut in Alice Tully Hall with the Juilliard Orchestra in May 2014 as a result of winning the Juilliard Concerto Competition. In 2011, Mr. Kim joined the Sejong Soloists during their concert tour in Korea, performing in a series of seven concerts. In December of 2013, Mr. Kim won the DreamArts Showcase, a young artist competition. As a result, he performed in the concert series produced by Community Performing Arts in Florida. Mr. Kim won first prize at Osaka International Music Competition in 2007, sixth prize at the International Violin Competition Sion Valais in 2009, and the third prize at Dong-A Music Competition in 2010. He graduated from the Yewon School in Korea in 2008 and the Seoul Arts High School in 2011, where he studied with Hyunmi Kim. Mr. Kim is currently a student at The Juilliard School with Hyo Kang, pursuing a bachelor of music degree.

Born in 1991 in Philadelphia, Matt Leece is a guitarist and composer based in Brooklyn. He has appeared as a soloist with the Bloomsburg University Chamber Orchestra and has performed in master classes with Julian Gray, Nicholas Goluses, The Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo, Peter Kodzas, The Alonso-Drummond Duo, and Garry Hagberg, among others. An advocate for the arts, Mr. Leece is an editor for the Dale Lans Magazine, a community of artists whose mission is to “demonstrate the world of ideas, sensations and associations in each of us.” His main guitar teachers include Frederic Hand, Dr. Matthew Slotkin, Pete Smyser, and Chris Shepherd. He also studies improvisation with Anthony Coleman, and ensemble performance with Michael Newman and Terry Champlin. He is an alumni of the Paul Green School, which he attended for three years. He is currently pursuing a master of music degree in classical guitar performance at Mannes College The New School for Music and holds a bachelor of music degree from Bloomsburg University where he studied classical guitar and audio engineering.

Thiago Fratuce Pimentel is a classical guitarist from São Paulo, Brazil. Mr. Pimentel has appeared as a soloist at the XVI and XVIII Souza Lima Guitar Seminars and at the Project Guitar at the Museum of Art of São Paulo (Projeto Violao No MASP), and has performed in master classes with the Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo and Vladislav Blaha. He has also played with Maestro Eduardo Escalante, soprano Adriana Bernardes, and in 2010, joined the contemporary dance group Cia Da Estrela. He has also played in bands under the guidance of the rock bassist and teacher Luiz Domingues. Passionate about music education, he

conceived and coordinated the I and II Guitar Concert Series of Brasílio Machado Public School in 2004 and 2005. Before moving to New York in 2014, he kept a guitar trio with Márcio Alexandre Alves and Donaldo Enrique Diaz. In Brazil he studied with Italo Peron, Everton Gloeden, and Henrique Pinto, with whom he formed a duo from 2007 to 2010. He is pursuing a master of music degree at Mannes College the New School for Music under the direction of Frederic Hand and Michael Newman, and holds a bachelor of music degree in history from University of São Paulo.

Alexandria Smith is a trumpeter, improviser, and electronic musician/composer.

She has performed with Anthony Coleman, Lucas Collins, Kenya Kawaguchi, Junichi Usui, and has played in workshops presented by numerous artists including Sylvie Courvoisier, Greg Cohen, Dave Douglass, William Winant, Ikue Mori, and Michaël Attias. She has also performed in master classes by Phil Smith, Tom Hooten, Craig Morris, Michael Sachs, Chris Gekker, Tom Stevens, and Mark Gould.

An avid performer of new music, she has premiered works at Spectrum, Roulette, Douglass Street Music Collective, the Mannes College, Shenandoah University, and with the Metro Chamber Orchestra, Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME), and the MACE ensemble. Throughout her performance career she has attended the Chosen Vale Center for Advanced Musical Studies twice, the Institute and Festival for Contemporary Performance, was selected for the Castleton Festival by Lorin Maazel, and worked under conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Alan Pierson, Gerard Schwartz, Lowell Liebermann, and David Hayes. Ms. Smith was also the winner of the Shenandoah University Concerto Competition, was a semi-finalist at National Trumpet Competition, and won third place in the Roanoke Symphony Concerto Competition. Ms. Smith takes inspiration from the music of New York City’s downtown scene, Alvin Lucier, DJ Rashad, Andre 3000, Mahler, Don Cherry, and Ligeti and visual artists such as Ryan Trecartin and Robert Heinecken.

She is currently earning a bachelor of music degree at Mannes the New School for Music, studying with Thomas Smith.

Nora Spielman first picked up the guitar at the age of 12, eager to learn her favorite rock songs. Throughout high school she studied rock guitar with Ralph Azzara and classical guitar with Brett Parnell (Threefifty). She has performed as a soloist and electric guitarist in several bands at venues in Brooklyn and NYC. Ms. Spielman loves teaching and has several years of experience working with children of all ages. Ms. Spielman has participated in master classes featuring world renowned performers such as Fabio Zanon, Raphaella Smits, James Day and Benjamin Verdery. She currently studies with Professor Joao Luiz (Brasil Guitar Duo) at SUNY Purchase, where she is a candidate for a bachelor of fine arts in Classical Guitar Performance.

upcoming

EVENTS

SPANISH DANCES

Friday, May 15, 2015, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall An eclectic cast of instrumentalists, including guitar virtuoso Jason Vieaux, trace the irresistible Spanish influence from its homeland all the way to America.

MOZART, LIEBERMANN, & TCHAIKOVSKY

Sunday, May 17, 2015, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall The Emerson String Quartet and CMS Artists close out the season with a stunning program, including a New York premiere by Lowell Liebermann.

Pre-concert conversation with Lowell Liebermann in the Rose Studio.

May 17, 4:00 PM • May 19, 6:30 PM — free for ticket holders

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