New Music - May 7, 2015

David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors

NEW MUSIC IN THE KAPLAN PENTHOUSE Thursday Evening, May 7, 2015 at 7:30 Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse 3,445th Concert

YURA LEE, violin/viola JAN VOGLER, cello AMPHION STRING QUARTET KATIE HYUN, violin DAVID SOUTHORN, violin WEI-YANG ANDY LIN, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello IAN DAVID ROSENBAUM, percussion

45th Anniversary Season

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David Philip Hefti's Monumentum was commissioned by the Moritzburg Festival, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and the K채the Kollwitz House Moritzburg.

Many donors support the artists of the Chamber Music Society Two program. This evening, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of The Winston Foundation.

This concert is made possible, in part, by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation.

NEW MUSIC IN THE KAPLAN PENTHOUSE Thursday Evening, May 7, 2015 at 7:30

YURA LEE, violin/viola JAN VOGLER, cello AMPHION STRING QUARTET KATIE HYUN, violin DAVID SOUTHORN, violin WEI-YANG ANDY LIN, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello IAN DAVID ROSENBAUM, percussion

PAUL LANSKY Hop for Violin and Marimba (1993) (b. 1944) LEE, ROSENBAUM

AUGUSTA READ Invocations for String Quartet (2000) THOMAS HYUN, SOUTHORN, LIN, MARICA (b. 1964)

DAVID PHILIP HEFTI Monumentum—Music for String Sextet (b. 1975) (CMS Co-Commission, U.S. Premiere) (2014) HYUN, SOUTHORN, LIN, LEE, VOGLER, MARICA

—INTERMISSION— WITOLD Sacher Variation for Cello (1975) LUTOSŁAWSKI VOGLER (1913-1994)

YEVGENIY SHARLAT Quartet No. 2 for Strings, "Moth" (2013) (b. 1977) HYUN, SOUTHORN, LIN, MARICA

ANDY AKIHO LIgNEouS 1 for Marimba, Two Violins, (b. 1979) Viola, and Cello (2010) ROSENBAUM, SOUTHORN, HYUN, LIN, MARICA

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PROGRAM

Hop for Violin and Marimba Paul LANSKY Born June 18, 1944 in New York City.

Composed in 1993.

Premiered on November 25, 1993 in Huddersfield, England by the Marimolin Ensemble.

Tonight is the first CMS performance of this piece.

Duration: 11 minutes Born in New York City in 1944, Paul Lansky’s early musical studies were at the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan. He subsequently attended Queens College, where he studied composition with George Perle and Hugo Weisgall, and Princeton University, where he worked with Milton Babbitt and Earl Kim. Originally intending to pursue a career as a French horn player he played with the Dorian Wind Quintet in 1966-67 before going on to Princeton University for graduate studies. He joined the faculty at Princeton in 1969 and taught there until his retirement in 2014. Recent projects include Talking Guitars, the latest of a number of works Lansky dedicated to guitarist David Starobin, and a wind quintet commissioned by the Chamber Music Society and the Library of Congress to be premiered this fall. Until the early 2000s, the bulk of Lansky’s work was in computer music and he

has long been recognized as one of the pioneers in the field. In 2002 he was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from SEAMUS (the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States) and in 2000 he was the subject of a documentary made for European Television’s ARTE network, My Cinema for the Ears, directed

by Uli Aumueller. His music is well represented on recording and played and broadcast widely. Numerous dance companies have used his music including the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, the Eliot Feld Ballet, and the New York City Ballet. He has received awards and commissions from the National Endowment for the Arts, Lila Wallace/Reader’s Digest, ASCAP, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Guggenheim, Koussevitsky, and Fromm Foundations.

Lansky wrote, “Hop was written for Marimolin, [a duo comprising marimba player] Nancy Zeltsman and [violinist] Sharan Leventhal, in 1993. The title comes from the sense of motion and dance that the piece invokes, as well as the percussive aspects of the work.

It is meant to be playful and a bit (but not too) exotic.” Lansky revisited the ideas in Hop five years later for Three Moves for Marimba (also written for Zeltsman) and again in 2008 as one of six Idle Fancies for Marimba and Percussion. 

Invocations for String Quartet Augusta Read THOMAS Born April 24, 1964 in Glen Cove, New York.

Composed in 2000.

Premiered on March 19, 2000 in Santa Fe by the Miami String Quartet.

Tonight is the first CMS performance of this piece.

Duration: 9 minutes Augusta Read Thomas’ deeply personal music is guided by her particular sense of musical form, rhythm, timbre, and harmony. But her music is also affected by history—in Thomas’ words, “Old music deserves new music and new music needs old music.” For Thomas, this means cherishing her place within the musical tradition and giving credit to those who have forged the musical paths she follows and from which she innovates.

Thomas was the Mead Composerin-Residence with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from May 1997 through June 2006, a residency that encompassed nine world premieres, culminating in the premiere of Astral Canticle—one of two finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Music. The vocal ensemble Chanticleer included two of her works on its album, Colors of Love, which won a Grammy for Best Recording by a Small Ensemble.

Her recent and upcoming premieres include Eos: Goddess of the Dawn, composed in honor of Pierre Boulez and commissioned and premiered by

the Utah Symphony, and Selene-Moon Chariot Rituals for percussion quartet to be premiered at Tanglewood in July.

She will serve as co-curator for the Ear Taxi Festival, a four-day festival in fall 2016 that will feature works by 62 Chicago composers. She is currently on the faculty at the University of Chicago and this season she was a Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, traveling to nine colleges to participate in short residencies.

Thomas wrote Invocations in 2000 and two years later she made it the second movement of her string quartet Sun Threads, a four-movement work where each movement had been previously composed as a stand-alone piece. She wrote of the combined string quartet and her quartet writing in general, “… I believe my music must be passionate, involving risk and adventure, such that a given musical moment might seem like a surprise right when you hear it but, only a millisecond later, seems inevitable. I think of my music as nuanced lyricism under pressure. I strive to attain quality of thought when it comes to inventing musical ideas, and writing for the string quartet is quite terrifying in this regard since the genre has a massive and wonderful repertoire. It is very hard to find quality new and personal sounds when composing for the string quartet.

“My primary artistic concern is to communicate in an honest and passionate voice, which can speak

to people from all walks of life. I believe being faithful to my deepest inner promptings and creative urges offers me the best opportunity to communicate with any willing listener, irrespective of prior musical knowledge, professional training, or background…

“My favorite moment in any piece of music is the moment of maximum risk

and striving. Whether the venture is tiny or large, loud or soft, fragile or strong, passionate, erratic, ordinary or eccentric! Maybe another way to say this is the moment of exquisite humanity and raw soul. All art that I cherish has an element of love and recklessness and desperation. I like music that is alive and jumps off the page and out of the instrument as if  something big is at stake.”

Monumentum—Music for String Sextet David Philip HEFTI Born April 13, 1975 in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Composed in 2014; co-commissioned by The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Premiered on August 19, 2014 in Moritzburg, Germany by violinists Timothy Chooi and Mira Wang, violists Roberto Diaz and Hartmut Rohde, and cellists Jan Vogler and Harriet Krijgh.

Tonight is the U.S. premiere of this piece.

Duration: 19 minutes David Philip Hefti's compositions have achieved broad recognition at home in Switzerland and abroad. He is the winner of the prestigious composition competitions Gustav Mahler in Vienna, Pablo Casals in Prades, George Enescu in Bucharest, and was awarded the Composers’ Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in 2013.

As both a composer and conductor, he has appeared on five continents

at festivals such as Ultraschall in Berlin, Wien Modern, Steirischer Herbst in Graz, Menuhin in Gstaad, EuroArt in Prague, Musica de Hoy in Madrid, Beijing Modern, Suntory in Tokyo, and as composer- and artist-inresidence at the Moritzburg Festival, at the Schlossmediale Werdenberg and with the Heidelberg Philharmonic. His works have been performed by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Sinfonietta, and the Leipzig String Quartet. His versatile activities are also documented on several CD's. The recording of his song cycle Rosenblätter was listed on Best of 2008 by Swiss National Radio DRS2 and was awarded a 'Selection Musicora-Harmonia Mundi' in 2007.

CD Virtuoso (featuring Hefti as a conductor) was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards

in 2011 and CD String Quartets was nominated for the German Record Critics' Award in 2013. He studied composition, conducting, clarinet, and chamber music with Wolfgang Rihm, Cristóbal Halffter, Wolfgang Meyer, Rudolf Kelterborn, and Elmar Schmid in Zurich and Karlsruhe.

Hefti wrote, “Monumentum, Music for String Sextet, was written in 2014 to a commission from the Moritzburg Festival, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center New York, and the Käthe Kollwitz House in Moritzburg.

It is dedicated to the cellist Jan Vogler.

The world premiere took place on 19 August 2014 at the Moritzburg Festival, performed by Timothy Chooi and Mira Wang (violins), Roberto Diaz and Hartmut Rohde (violas), Jan Vogler and Harriet Krijgh (cellos).

“The String Sextet Monumentum commemorates the outbreak of the First World War, the death of Peter Kollwitz—who died as a volunteer, aged just 18, in the early weeks of the war—and the manner in which his mother, the artist Käthe Kollwitz, mourned the loss of her son. The artist worked through her pain by creating her most famous sculpture, The Mourning Parents. It stands today at the German soldiers’ cemetery at Vladslo in western Flanders, where her son Peter also lies buried. During the 18 years that she worked on the Parents, Käthe Kollwitz attended several concerts at the Volksbühne in Berlin, where from January to February 1927 she heard Arthur

Schnabel’s cycle of all the Beethoven piano sonatas. Schnabel performed the Sonata Op. 111 in C minor on February 26, 1927, and this work touched her in particular, as we can read in her diary: ‘The strange flickering notes turned into flames—a moment of rapture, taking one into a different sphere, and the heavens opened almost as in the Ninth (Symphony). Then one found one’s way back—but it was a return after having been assured that there is a heaven. These notes are serene—confident—and good. Thank you, Schnabel!’ This encounter with Beethoven’s last sonata inspired the artist to take up work again on her sculpture after a long interruption and to consider different possibilities for arranging the two figures. For this reason, the first minutes of Monumentum are derived from this sonata by Beethoven—though without it being quoted in an audible manner—and they leave their mark on the form of the Sextet. The number 18 and the date of Peter Kollwitz’s death (23 October 1914) also have a direct impact on the work’s dramaturgy.

This music is mostly calm in nature, but is time and again interrupted unexpectedly, being disturbed by unruly sounds and vehement eruptions until time itself seems to dissolve in an aleatoric passage. The work ends with an extended lament on ‘seed corn should not be ground,’ a line from Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years. Käthe Kollwitz often quoted this phrase to argue for peace, and also took it as the title for a lithograph that she made in 1942.” 

Sacher Variation for Cello Witold LUTOSŁAWSKI Born January 25, 1913 in Warsaw.

Died there on February 9, 1994.

Composed in 1975.

Premiered on May 2, 1976 in Zurich by cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.

Tonight is the first CMS performance of this piece.

Duration: 5 minutes Witold Lutosławski was the most highly-regarded Polish composer of the 20th century. His early life was difficult—his father got caught up in the Russian Revolution and was executed when Witold was six.

Financial difficulties plagued the family for the rest of his childhood and, after scraping by during World War II by performing in cafes, he fled Warsaw in 1944 before the Warsaw Uprising, leaving behind most of his compositions to be destroyed. In 1949 his First Symphony was banned and a year after its premiere, Lutosławski wrote mainly educational and folkinspired works for the next several years. His fortunes began to change in the mid-50's and a performance of his Musique funèbre, written in memory of Bartók, at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 1958 brought him to international attention. In the 60’s and 70’s his career continued to take off with increasing international conducting engagements and, in 1966, a contract with London’s Chester Music, which led to more international

exposure for his compositions and better compensation—about which he said, “my works began ‘to work’ for me.” In 1980, he joined the antiSoviet movement Solidarity and for most of the decade he boycotted the Polish media and refused to conduct in Poland. He resumed public life in Poland after elections in 1989 and he was awarded the Order of the White Eagle, one of Poland’s highest honors, shortly before his death in 1994.

Lutosławski other awards include the UNESCO Prize, the French order of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, Grawemeyer Award, and Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal.

Paul Sacher was a Swiss conductor and patron of the arts. He studied with Felix Weingartner and founded the Basle Chamber Orchestra at the age of 20. He later married into a wealthy family, which enabled him to obtain a majority of the voting shares of the biotechnology company Roche and eventually become one of the richest people in the world. Throughout his life, he continued to be active as a conductor and commissioner of many new works. For his 70th birthday in 1976, Mstislav Rostropovich asked 12 composers to write pieces based on the letters of Sacher’s name (S(es)=E-flat, A, C, H=B-natural, E, R(re)=D). The composers included Benjamin Britten, Pierre Boulez, Hans Werner Henze, and Lutosławski, whose Sacher Variation consists of two themes, one the notes of Sacher’s name and the other the six remaining notes of the chromatic scale. 

Quartet No. 2 for Strings, "Moth" Yevgeniy SHARLAT Born October 2, 1977 in Moscow.

Composed in 2013.

Premiered on July 19, 2013 at the Caramoor Festival in Katonah, New York by the Amphion String Quartet.

Tonight is the first CMS performance of this piece.

Duration: 22 minutes Yevgeniy Sharlat has composed music for orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo, theater, ballet, and film. His recent project, Crisis Variations, was commissioned by Lar Lubovitch Dance Company and premiered

by Le Train Bleu with original choreography from the company.

His other commissions include a forthcoming work for the NOW Ensemble, a quartet for winds and strings titled Divertissement for the Seattle Chamber Players, and a piano quartet from Astral Artistic Services.

His piano sonata, commissioned by the Gilmore Keyboard Festival for Christopher Falzone, was recorded on the Sisyphe label. His music has been performed by such ensembles as Kremerata Baltica, the Seattle Symphony, Hartford Symphony, and Chamber Orchestra Kremlin. He was the recipient of the 2006 Charles Ives Fellowship from American Academy of Arts and Letters; other honors include a Fromm Music Foundation Commission to write for

the LA Piano Duo, Yale University’s Rena Greenwald Award, fellowships from MacDowell and Yaddo, and ASCAP’s Morton Gould, Boosey & Hawkes, and Leiber & Stoller awards. Born in Moscow, Mr. Sharlat majored in violin, piano, and music theory at the Academy of Moscow Conservatory. After immigrating to the United States in 1994, he studied composition at Juilliard Pre-College, received his bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, and his master’s and doctoral degrees from Yale University. His teachers included Aaron Jay Kernis, Martin Bresnick, Joseph Schwantner, Ned Rorem, and Richard Danielpour. Mr. Sharlat is associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches composition and music theory.

String Quartet No. 2, “Moth” was commissioned by the Caramoor Festival for the Amphion Quartet.

Describing the inspiration for the quartet, Sharlat wrote, “In a short fragment entitled ‘Farfallettina,’ Rainer Maria Rilke ponders the violent death of a moth, ‘like a miniature lady who is having a heart attack on the way to the theater.’

The idea of beings that are tiny, fragile, easily broken, yet inconceivably beautiful—like moths—captivated me as I was working on this new string quartet. In it, I attempt to answer in the affirmative Rilke’s question, ‘Is there a theater for such fragile spectators?’” 

LIgNEouS 1 for Marimba, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello Andy AKIHO Born in 1979 in Columbia, South Carolina.

Composed in 2010.

Tonight is the first CMS performance of this piece.

Duration: 12 minutes Andy Akiho is an eclectic composer —whose interests run from steel pan to traditional classical music—and a performer of contemporary classical music. He has been commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra, which will premiere his concerto for steel pan and orchestra at the Kennedy Center later this month. He has also recently had a work performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and received commissioned premieres from the New York Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, and Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble ACJW. Akiho has been recognized with awards including the 2014-15 Luciano Berio Rome Prize, a 2014 Fromm Foundation Commission from Harvard University, the 2014 American Composers Orchestra Underwood Emerging Composers Commission, and a 2014 Chamber Music America Grant to write a work for the Friction Quartet and pianist Jenny Q. Chai.

Additionally, his compositions have been featured on PBS’ News Hour with Jim Lehrer and by organizations such as Bang on a Can, American Composers Forum, and The Society for New Music.

Akiho was born in 1979 in Columbia, South Carolina, and is based in New York City. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina (BM, percussion performance), the Manhattan School of Music (MM, contemporary performance), and the Yale School of Music (MM, composition). Akiho is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in composition at Princeton University. He has attended the Aspen Music Festival, Heidelberg Music Festival, HKUST Intimacy of Creativity Festival, Bang on a Can Festival, Silicon Valley Music Festival, Yellow Barn Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest Festival, and Avaloch Farm Music Institute, where he is the composer-in-residence.

Akiho's debut CD No One To Know One, on Innova Recordings, features compositions that pose intricate rhythms and exotic timbres around his primary instrument, the steel pan.

Akiho wrote, ligneous: “adjective: made, consisting of, or resembling wood; woody (from the Oxford Dictionary) LIgNEouS was inspired by my amazingly talented friends of the Yale Percussion Group. It was commissioned by John and Astrid Baumgardner for the 2010 Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

Ingredients: String Quartet, 5 Octave Marimba, Extremely Large Rubber Band, Mole Skin Tipped Birch Mallets, Perseverance. Disclaimer: NO MARIMBAS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS COMPOSITION.” 

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ARTISTS

Hailed for its “gripping intensity” and “suspenseful and virtuoso playing” (San Francisco Classical Voice), the Amphion String Quartet is a winner of the 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and joined the roster of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s CMS Two Program in fall 2013.

Through CMS, the ensemble made its Alice Tully Hall debut in March 2014, about which the New York Times praised “the focused, forceful young Amphion String Quartet” for its “sharply detailed performances.”

The 2014-15 season began with the ASQ’s Mostly Mozart debut with two pre-concert recitals at Avery Fisher Hall and a return to Korea for the Busan Chamber Music Festival. The quartet has several return engagements in New York in 2014-15, including two CMS performances at Alice Tully Hall, Schneider Concerts at the New School, Brooklyn’s Bargemusic, and the Tilles Center Chamber Music Series on Long Island. Collaborative performances include a recital with clarinetist David Shifrin at Rockford’s Coronado Theatre and a special program with the renowned dance company BodyVox in Portland, OR entitled Cosmosis (which will tour in 2015-16). In fall 2014, the ASQ’s first CD was released by the UK-based label Nimbus, including quartets by Grieg, Janáček, and Wolf.

Internationally, the Amphion Quartet has performed in South Korea at the Music Isle Festival in Jeju and at the Seoul Arts Center. Previous US festival appearances include The Chautauqua Institution, OK Mozart, Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, New Jersey’s Mostly Music Series, NYU String Quartet Workshop, Princeton Summer Concerts, Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. Summer 2013 featured the world premiere of a new quartet by Yevgeniy Sharlat at the Caramoor Music Festival (commissioned by Caramoor as the culmination of the 2012-13 Stiefel String Quartet Residency). The ASQ has collaborated with such eminent artists as the Tokyo String Quartet, Ani Kavafian, David Shifrin, Carter Brey, Edgar Meyer, Michala Petri, James Dunham, and Deborah Hoffmann.

Recent concerts include the Amphion Quartet’s Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall on the CAG series with guest David Shifrin, and also Zankel Hall; the Library of Congress and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC; Caramoor Center for the Arts; Pepperdine University; TCAN Center for the Arts (MA); New York’s Met Museum and National Arts Club; and a tour of northern California with concerts at UC San Francisco, Eureka Chamber Music Series, and Montalvo Center for the Arts. The ASQ is showcased on New York’s WQXR radio frequently, including the station’s November 2012 Beethoven String Quartet Marathon, playing two quartets in The Greene Space, with live webcast and subsequent airing on the radio.

Violinists Katie Hyun and David Southorn, violist Wei-Yang Andy Lin, and cellist Mihai Marica first joined together for a performance at Sprague Hall

at the Yale School of Music in February 2009. The overwhelmingly positive audience response was the inspiration behind their mutual desire to pursue a career as the Amphion String Quartet. Additional honors include the 2012 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant in New York; First Prize at the Hugo Kauder String Quartet Competition in New Haven, CT; and First Prize in the Piano and Strings category as well as the Audience Choice Award at the 2010 Plowman Chamber Music Competition held in Columbia, MO. Violinist/violist Yura Lee is a multi-faceted musician, as soloist and as a chamber musician, and one of the very few that is equally virtuosic in both violin and viola.

She has performed with major orchestras including those of New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. 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 is a recipient of the 2007 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the first prize winner of the 2013 ARD Competition. She has received numerous other international prizes, including top prizes in the Mozart, Indianapolis, Hannover, Kreisler, Bashmet, and Paganini competitions. Her CD Mozart in Paris with Reinhard Goebel and the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie received the prestigious Diapason d’Or Award. As a chamber musician, she regularly takes part in the festivals of Marlboro, Salzburg, Verbier, and Caramoor. Her main teachers included Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Miriam Fried, Paul Biss, Thomas Riebl, Ana Chumachenko, and Nobuko Imai. Ms. Lee is professor of violin at the Hochschule für Musik in Dresden, Germany. She divides her time between New York City and Berlin.

Ms. Lee is a former member of Chamber Music Society Two, as both violinist and violist.

Praised for his “excellent” and “precisely attuned” performances by the New York Times, percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum has developed a musical breadth far beyond his years. He made his Kennedy Center debut in 2009 and later that year garnered a special prize created for him at the Salzburg International Marimba Competition. He joined the Chamber Music Society Two program in 2012 as only the second percussionist in the program’s history. He has appeared at the Norfolk, Yellow Barn, Chamber Music Northwest, Bridgehampton, and Music@Menlo festivals. Highlights of the 2014-15 season include a solo tour of the southeastern United States, new collaborations with the Parker Quartet and Jeffrey Zeigler, and performances with HOWL—a new interdisciplinary performance ensemble founded by Amy Beth Kirsten and Mark DeChiazza.

Continuing his passionate advocacy for contemporary music, this season Mr. Rosenbaum will premiere new works by Rex Isenberg, Thomas Kotcheff, Robert Sirota, and Alex Weiser. He is a member of Sandbox Percussion, Le Train Bleu, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Novus NY, Time Travelers, and HOWL. He has recorded for the Bridge, Innova, Naxos, and Starkland labels and is on

the faculty of the Dwight School in Manhattan. Mr. Rosenbaum performs with Vic Firth sticks and mallets.

Recognized for his “rapturously heartfelt” playing (Washington Post), Jan Vogler’s distinguished career has featured him with many internationally renowned orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, Montreal, and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, and the Vienna Symphony. He has premiered concertos by Tigran Mansurian, John Harbison, Udo Zimmermann, and Jörg Widmann. In October 2015, he will perform the world premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s Double Concerto, written for him and violinist Mira Wang, with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. A prolific and multiaward-winning recording artist, he currently records exclusively for SONY Classical. In November 2014 he toured with La Folia Baroque Orchestra and introduced his new CD, featuring Venetian Baroque concertos, played on gut strings. His recording My Tunes 2, a companion to his acclaimed 2007 release My Tunes, continues his exploration of his favorite cello pieces and features works

by Paganini, Kreisler, Rimsky-Korsakov, Fauré, and Wagner. He has won the 2006 European Cultural Award, and received an Echo Award for the third time, as Instrumentalist of the Year (cello) 2014, for his recording of the complete Bach Cello Suites. He first studied with his father and subsequently with Josef Schwab, Heinrich Schiff, and Siegfried Palm. Mr. Vogler is the General Director of the Dresden Musikfestspiele and founder and Artistic Director of the Moritzburg Festival. He plays a Stradivari cello 'Castelbarco/Fau' from 1707.

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