David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
MASTER CLASS WITH
PETER KOLKAY, BASSOON Wednesday, November 19, 2014 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 PETER KOLKAY, BASSOON Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 11:00 AM
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756-1791)
Quintet in E-flat major for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, and Piano, K. 452 (1784) ALESSANDRO CIRAFICI, OBOE; VIKTOR TOTH, CLARINET; ANDRAS FERENCZ, HORN; ANNA OPATKA, BASSOON; ANNA OBBÁGY, PIANO BARD COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
ELLIOTT CARTER (1908-2012)
Eight Etudes and a Fantasy for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon (1949) TYLER MENZEL, FLUTE; MITCHELL KUHN, OBOE; SHUYUE ZHAO, CLARINET; DAVID ADAM NAGY, BASSOON THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL
RICHARD STRAUSS (1864-1949)
Till Eulenspiegel einmal anders! for Violin, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon, and Bass (arr. Hasenöhrl) (1894-95, arr. 1954) ALLISON MASE, VIOLIN; ZACHARY HANN, CLARINET; JACOB WELLMAN, BASSOON; JAMES PATTERSON, HORN; ALEXANDER BICKARD, BASS THE JUILLIARD SCHOOL
Peter Kolkay appeared on the Mixed Winds program last evening, and will perform on the CMS Beethoven & Ligeti program on Sunday, May 3rd at Alice Tully Hall.
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about
PETER KOLKAY
Called “superb” by the Washington Post and “stunningly virtuosic” by the New York Times, Peter Kolkay is the only bassoonist to receive an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2004) and win First Prize at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition (2002). He has presented solo recitals at Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, the Chicago Cultural Center, and the Teatro Nacional in Panama City. He actively engages with composers in the creation of new works. He recently gave the world premiere of Joan Tower’s bassoon concerto, Red Maple, with the South Carolina Philharmonic, and will premiere a new work for solo bassoon by Gordon Beeferman later this season. He has also premiered solo and chamber works by Judah Adashi, Elliott Carter, Katherine Hoover, Harold Meltzer, Russell Platt, John Fitz Rogers, and Charles Wuorinen. His debut solo disc, BassoonMusic (CAG Records), spotlights works by 21st century American composers. A native of Naperville, Illinois, Mr. Kolkay holds degrees from Lawrence University, the Eastman School of Music, and Yale University, and studied with Frank Morelli, John Hunt, Jean Barr, and Monte Perkins. He is Associate Professor of Bassoon at Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and a member of the IRIS Orchestra in Germantown, Tennessee. He is a former member of Chamber Music Society Two.
meet today’s
PERFORMERS
Double bassist Alexander Bickard is a dynamic solo, orchestral, and chamber musician, at home in a wide range of classical and contemporary settings. He has held multiple principal positions, including with the Juilliard Orchestra, and has given both chamber and solo recitals throughout the east coast. In the summer of 2014, Mr. Bickard was invited to the Atlantic Music Festival as an artist-in-residence, premiering several new works for orchestra and chamber ensembles. He was also a member of the 2013 Castleton Festival Orchestra under the direction of Lorin Maazel. Since 2012, Mr. Bickard has been a member of Jeunes Virtuoses de New York, an international touring string camerata. In the fall of 2014, Mr. Bickard won the Juilliard double bass concerto competition, and was featured as a soloist with the Juilliard Chamber Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. In March of 2012, he won the Pearl and Julius Young Rising Stars Music Competition hosted by the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey and performed a solo with the ensemble. Mr. Bickard has played in classes for Fora Baltacigil and Albert Laszlo, and his chamber music coaches have included Alan Kay, Bärli Nugent, Eugene Levinson, and Arik Braude. Hailing from Long Island, Mr. Bickard began studying double bass at age thirteen and soon after was accepted into The Juilliard School Precollege Division. He graduated from the Precollege Division with distinction, and is currently pursuing an undergraduate degree at Juilliard, where he studies with Eugene Levinson.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, oboist Alessandro Cirafici has regularly appeared in performances with the Bard College Conservatory Orchestra including the orchestra’s 2014 Europe Tour through Poland, Hungary, Russia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Germany, at Avery Fisher Hall, and the Woodbourne Correctional Facility in Woodbourne, New York through their Prison Initiative Program. Mr. Cirafici has performed in numerous Chamber Ensembles, most recently performing the Maslanka Third Wind Quintet at the Hartt School of Music under the guidance of Peter Serkin, Laura Flax, and David Wakefield. Mr. Cirafici makes frequent appearances with the Conservatory Baroque Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Alexander Bonus, performing works by a wide range of composers from Giovanni Paolo Cima to Pergolesi and major known works such as Bach’s St. John Passion, Magnificat, and Handel’s Esther Oratorio. He has received prior instruction from Richard Dallessio and Nicholas Stovall. Mr. Cirafici is currently a junior at the Bard College Conservatory of Music studying oboe under the direction of Elaine Douvas and Alexandra Knoll. Along with his studies in the conservatory, Mr. Cirafici is pursuing a second degree in German studies. Andras Ferencz was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. He began playing the horn at age nine, studying with Tibor Maruzsa of the Hungarian National Philharmonic. While playing for the Zuglo Philharmonic, a semi-professional orchestra, he began his all-around education in the vocational program of the Saint Stephen Musical High School in Budapest. Mr. Ferencz took lessons with Adam Friedrich, former horn soloist and faculty member of the Liszt Academy, and studied chamber music with Liszt-award winning clarinetist and Liszt Academy faculty member Lajos Rozman. Mr. Ferencz attended the Aspen Music Festival and School in the summer of 2013 where he studied with Andrew Bain and David Wakefield. Mr. Ferencz was accepted by Bard College’s dual-degree program with a full academic scholarship where he is majoring in French horn and literature. Mr. Ferencz is currently finishing his senior thesis in literature under the tutelage of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Frank. At Bard College he has studied French horn with Julie Landsman, Julia Pilant, Barbara Jöstlein and Jeffrey Lang, and toured China with the Bard College Orchestra in 2012, and Europe in 2014. He is expected to receive his bachelor of arts in literature in December 2014 and his bachelor of music in French horn in May 2015. Clarinetist Zachary Hann recently performed under the baton of Alan Gilbert with AXIOM, Juilliard’s leading new music ensemble, as part of the New York Philharmonic Biennial. He has performed with the Summer Stars Festival Orchestra, MidAtlantic Opera, the Juilliard Orchestra, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Philharmonic, the Manhattan School of Music Precollege Saxophone Quartet, and the Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra. Mr. Hann has also performed with various chamber groups in the pit with the Juilliard Opera Orchestra and for such musicals as Beauty and the Beast, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Mr. Hann first played saxophone in his elementary school band, and began studying privately as a sophomore in high school. He was introduced to the clarinet that same year, and commuted to New York for weekly lessons. As a senior in high school, he was accepted into the Manhattan School of Music Precollege on saxophone and clarinet,
where he studied with Renee Rosen and Paul Cohen and graduated with high honors. After playing the clarinet for only two years, Mr. Hann was accepted to The Juilliard School, where he continues his studies with Jon Manasse. He continues to take classical saxophone lessons at the Manhattan School of Music as well. Originally from Jacksonville, Florida, oboist Mitchell Kuhn made solo appearances with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra in 2011 and 2013. This past summer, Mr. Kuhn participated in the National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute, and in past years has attended the BUTI Young Artists’ Orchestra and NYO-USA. Mr. Kuhn studies with Nathan Hughes at The Juilliard School. Allison Mase has served as concertmaster to both the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony and Orchestra, and has participated in the World Youth Alliance Chamber Orchestra, the Juilliard Orchestra, and both of Juilliard’s new music ensembles: New Juilliard Ensemble, and AXIOM. A passionate orchestral musician, she has collaborated with internationally renowned conductors Alan Gilbert, Christopher Seaman, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Stern, Larry Rachleff, Vladimir Jurowski, David Robertson, and Peter Oundjian. Ms. Mase has performed in Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Hammerstein Ballroom, at the Long Island Mozart Festival, the Inaugural Bach Music Festival presented by Chamber Players International, the Manhattan International Film Festival, and the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. Ms. Mase spends much of her free time teaching young musicians and advocating for the arts in public education. A long-time attendee of the Aspen Music Festival, she is a three-time grand prize winner of the National League of Performing Arts Competition, and was recently selected to be a guest performer at the 2012 “Adventures of the Mind” Festival at New York University. Ms. Mase attended the Orford Academy Summer of 2014, where she studied with Frederico Agostini and Jonathan Crow. She is currently an undergraduate violinist at The Juilliard School. Flutist Tyler Menzel is an active solo, orchestral, and chamber musician. While a student, Mr. Menzel has held two one-year orchestral positions, performing frequently with the Grand Rapids, Lansing, and West Michigan symphonies in his home state of Michigan. In the 2014-2015 season, Mr. Menzel will appear as guest principal flutist with the Billings Symphony in Montana. Summer activities include two years with the Aspen Music Festival and one season as principal flutist of the Ohio Light Opera Orchestra. In addition to chamber music performances with his quartet, Mr. Menzel has performed with Juilliard’s AXIOM Ensemble as well as the New Juilliard Ensemble, both of which premiere many new works by living composers. A winner of Aspen’s Woodwind Concerto Competition, Mr. Menzel performed Carl Reinecke’s Flute Concerto with the American Academy of Conducting Orchestra in 2013. In 2013, Mr. Menzel was awarded Eastman’s Messinger Grant to bring chamber music to areas around New York State that would not otherwise have access to live classical music. Mr. Menzel holds a bachelor of music degree from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied with Bonita Boyd. He was awarded Eastman’s Prestigious Performer’s Certificate, the school’s highest graduation honor. He is currently pursuing a master of music degree at The Juilliard School as a student of Robert Langevin.
Bassoonist David Adam Nagy is an inspired and innovative performer who has been praised for his daring and creative concert programming, nuanced technique, and lush tone. He has performed solo and chamber recitals around the world including a solo appearance with the American Symphony Orchestra with Leon Botstein. Actively involved with new music, Mr. Nagy performs with Contemporaneous, AXIOM, New Juilliard Ensemble, and the Juilliard Electronic Ensemble. He constantly commissions new repertoire for the bassoon and had given world premieres of close to 50 pieces to date. He has appeared at the Castleton Festival, Bard Music Festival, Dynamic Music Festival, White Nights Festival, and the Colón Music Festival. Born and raised in Debrecen, Hungary Mr. Nagy relocated to the United States at age 18. Mr. Nagy is the winner of numerous competitions and a recipient of the Kodály Prize for his excellence in music and academics. He received his bachelor of music degree from the Bard Conservatory of Music in 2013, where he studied with Patricia Rogers, Marc Goldberg, and cellist Luis Garcia-Renart. As a Bitó Scholar, Mr. Nagy also earned a bachelor of arts degree in Japanese Literature from Bard College with a translation of Haruki Murakami’s After Dark from the Japanese original to Hungarian. He is currently a graduate student at The Juilliard School, in Patricia Rogers’ studio. Anna Obbágy was born in Nyíregyhaza, Hungary, in 1994, and began playing the piano at age six. Ms. Obbágy has performed throughout the country as a soloist, as well as in chamber music ensembles. She has won first and second prizes in many national and international piano competitions in Europe. Ms. Obbágy began her studies at the Conservatory of Nyíregyhaza with Gizella Krokovay, and later with Tünde Csoba. Though she primarily studied in her hometown, she also took lessons with faculty members of the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest and worked for many years with such pianists as Attila Némethy, László Baranyay, Sándor Falvai, and Gábor Eckhardt. While in Hungary, Ms. Obbágy attended the Conservatory of Nyíregyhaza and Ilona Zrinyi High School simultaneously, where she specialized in mathematics and history. In 2012, she was accepted to the Bard College Conservatory of Music, where she is pursuing a five-year program toward a bachelor of music and a bachelor of psychology. Ms. Obbágy is expected to graduate in May 2017. She studies primarily with Peter Serkin, and has also received instruction in lessons and master classes from Jeffrey Kahane, Richard Goode, and Matti Raekallio. Anna Opatka is a bassoonist from Foxborough, Massachusetts. She has enjoyed performing in a variety of chamber groups, ranging from duos to octets, as well as in the Bard Conservatory Orchestra. She joined the orchestra on its two tours to China and Eastern Europe. Ms. Opatka has been studying bassoon for eleven years in addition to early music education starting at the age of eight on piano. She has studied with Elah Grandel, Marc Goldberg, and Patricia Rogers. She is currently a fifth year student at the Bard Conservatory and is pursuing a second major in psychology. James Patterson was born in the Principality of Monaco on March 10, 1994 and moved to Seattle, Washington when he was five years old. Mr. Patterson is an active chamber musician, having performed works such as the Brahms Horn Trio with pianist John Covelli and his father, violinist Ron Patterson. Mr. Patterson is also a soloist, having performed
the Strauss Horn Concerto No. 2 with the Rainier Symphony, and other solo works with various orchestras. He was principal horn of the Rainier Symphony, the Academy Chamber Orchestra, and substitutes with the Bremerton Symphony. Mr. Patterson has attended the Marrowstone Music Festival for four years, studied at Boston University’s Tanglewood French Horn Workshop, the Kendall Betts Horn Camp, and The Kent/Blossom music festival. He won first place in the 2011 Washington State Solo and Ensemble Horn Competition. He was a member of the Northwest Boy Choir for five years and started studying horn in 2006 with Mark Robbins. Mr. Patterson graduated from Roosevelt High School in 2012 where he was principal horn and was a member of the Seattle Youth Symphony for four years, serving as its principal horn. He is currently in his third year attending The Juilliard School as a student of Eric Ralske. Mr. Patterson’s other loves are skiing and soccer, and he has played for 10 years on select soccer teams. Hungarian clarinetist Viktor Toth currently performs in a contemporary music series called Music Alive! directed by Joan Tower and Blair McMillen. Prior to coming to the United States, he participated in several music festivals including Young Musicians’ International Summer Academy in Debrecen, Hungary in 2009 and 2010. There he studied at Franz Liszt Music Academy (Budapest, Hungary) with clarinet professors Zsolt Szatmári and Béla Kovács and served as principal clarinetist of the Zoltán Kodály World Youth Orchestra conducted by pianist and conductor Tamás Vásáry. As a member of the Bard Conservatory Orchestra, Mr. Toth has appeared at Alice Tully Hall in New York and has worked with conductors such as Leon Botstein, Marcelo Lehninger, and José-Luis Novo. As a full László Z. Bitó Scholarship holder at the Bard College Conservatory of Music, Mr. Toth has worked with professors and coaches such as Marc Goldberg, Tara Helen O’Connor, Joan Tower, Edward Carroll, Alan Kay, Bart Feller, Nadine Asin, and Patricia Rogers. He has been a student at the Bard College Conservatory of Music since 2012 and is pursuing his bachelor of music degree in clarinet performance studies under the direction of clarinetists including Laura Flax, David Krakauer, and Anthony McGill. He is also studying Italian language as his second major at Bard College. Bassoonist Jacob Wellman has performed in venues including the Rudolfinum’s Dvořák Hall, Carabinieri Hall at the Mozart Residence, and Schonbrunn Palace in Vienna. He has participated in festivals such as Banff, Marrowstone, Hidden Valley Music Seminars, and The Festival Internacional de Inverno Campos do Jordão in Brazil. Mr. Wellman has collaborated and performed alongside artists such as Klaus Thunemann, James Levine, Alan Gilbert, Matthias Pintscher, Fabio Luisi, Nicholas McGegan, Jeffrey Kahane, Marin Alsop, James Gaffigan, and the New York Woodwind Quintet. Each spring, he travels with a team of students to New Orleans as a part of Juilliard’s ARTreach Program, where he helps convey the importance of artistic pursuits within communities, and builds houses in neighborhoods affected by Hurricane Katrina. Mr. Wellman is currently pursuing his undergraduate degree at The Juilliard School, where he studies with Frank Morelli. Clarinetist Shuyue Zhao has participated in many ensembles at Juilliard, performing with the Juilliard Orchestra, New Juilliard Ensemble, and New York Woodwind Quintet Seminar. In 2010, as an E-flat clarinetist, Ms. Zhao participated in the premiere of the wind
ensemble piece Wind Rose by Elliott Carter. Ms. Zhao was invited to participate in the Biennial project of the New York Philharmonic with Alan Gilbert last summer. Ms. Zhao spent her summer at Domaine Forget Music Festival in Canada on a full scholarship in 2012. In the summer of 2011, she was accepted to Sarasota Music Festival. In high school, as the first prize winner of the China National Clarinet Competition, she appeared as a soloist performing the Weber Concertino with the Shen Zhen Symphony Orchestra and the Xi’an Conservatory of Music Symphony Orchestra. Born to a musical family, she started playing piano at the age of three with her father, and began studying the clarinet at the age of twelve. Ms. Zhao is finishing her master of music at The Juilliard School, studying with Charles Neidich and Ayako Oshima on a full scholarship.
Fall 2014 — Winter 2015
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12/11/14 7:30 PM New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse 1/15/15 9:00 PM Late Night Rose 1/22/15 7:30 PM Art of the Recital: Gary Hoffman and David Selig 1/29/15 7:30 PM New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse 2/4/15 6:30 PM Inside Chamber Music Lecture 2/10/15 11:00 AM Master Class with Gilbert Kalish 2/11/15 6:30 PM Inside Chamber Music Lecture 2/12/15 9:00 PM Late Night Rose 2/18/15 6:30 PM Inside Chamber Music Lecture 2/25/15 6:30 PM Inside Chamber Music Lecture 2/26/15 7:30 PM Orion String Quartet plays Haydn
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upcoming
EVENTS
SHOSTAKOVICH REFLECTED
Sunday, November 23, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall The hauntingly powerful music of Shostakovich is echoed by colorful and evocative works from Finland and France.
BAROQUE COLLECTION: THE FOUR SEASONS
Friday, December 5, 7:30 PM & Sunday, December 7, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Vivaldi’s best-known work, The Four Seasons, is heard in its brilliant entirety, with Baroque treasures by Geminiani, Albinoni, and Telemann rounding out the collection.
BAROQUE REMIX
Tuesday, December 9, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall The beloved cello takes center stage in this unique program featuring transcriptions and arrangements.