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Situated on Treaty 7 territory in Canada’s first national park, Banff Centre is Canada’s largest postgraduate arts school. Every year Banff Centre attracts nearly 4,000 artists and leaders from Alberta, Canada, and around the world to its campus in the beautiful Canadian Rockies. More than 75,000 artists have trained, created, or performed at Banff Centre since its inception in 1933. With respect and gratitude, we acknowledge our home on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain. We acknowledge the Treaty 7 territory of the Stoney Nakoda – comprised of the Bearspaw, Chiniki, and Wesley First Nations – as well as the Tsuut'ina First Nation and the Blackfoot Confederacy comprised of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, Shuswap Nations, Ktunaxa Nations, and Metis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. We acknowledge all Nations who live, work, and play here, help us steward this land, and honour and celebrate this place.
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3 TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE CONTENTSOF Welcome Messages 4 History and Laureates 13 Process and Jury Voting Procedures 14 Competing Quartets 17 Schedule at a Glance 38 Detailed Schedule 40 Resident Audience and Passport Holder Exclusive Events 64 Awards, Special Prizes, and Winner’s Tour 67 Competition Director 70 Preliminary Jury 72 Competition Jury 75 Special Guests 82 Guest Performers 88 Youth Quartet Program 94 The End of Sheet Music...the iPad Rules 96 Career Development Partnerships 100 Music Unites Us All 104 Repairing the World: The Reclamation of Lost Musical Works 106 Media Partners and Supporters 111 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Mission Statement, and BISQC Team 114 Banff Centre Map 116
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
As Her Majesty the Queen’s representative in Alberta, it is my great pleasure to welcome everyone to the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Our world has seen significant changes since this wonderful triennial event was last held. The pandemic limited our ability to gather together for live performances, leaving us all with a deepened appreciation for the joy and sense of connection that artists bring to our lives. At the same time, limits on travel left us eager for the day when we could explore the world again and welcome in our fellow explorers. This event is a long-awaited opportunity to celebrate the transformative power of music, and to revel in the global spirit of community that thrives here at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Her Honour, the Honourable Salma Lakhani AOE, B.Sc., LLD (hon) Lieutenant Governor of Alberta OF
To the talented musicians taking part, I offer my heartfelt thanks for sharing your great artistry with us, along with my best wishes for a successful competition. To visitors to our province and residents alike, I know that you will make the most of this opportunity to enjoy inspiring music together in a truly magical setting.
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On behalf of the Senate, I’d like to wish the best of luck to all the competitors, judges, and organizers.
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As Senator for the Alberta Rockies, it’s a pleasure to welcome you to Banff to experience our one-of-a-kind natural beauty and hear world-class musicians display their talents.
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In addition to enjoying beautiful music from the comfort of the Banff Centre’s new Jenny Belzberg Theatre, I hope you take the chance to explore the community and see what Banff and Banff National Park have to offer, from our rich history and culture, to our stunning views and trails.
The Hon. Karen Sorensen Senator — Alberta (the Alberta Rockies)
This year’s competitors have spent countless hours honing their craft to make it to this moment. This iconic event is an important opportunity for these dedicated artists to showcase their talents and advance to the next stages of their careers.
To the attendees, I wish you a wonderful stay, and I hope you come to visit us again soon!
Yours truly,
I wish the best of luck to this year’s competitors. Their preparation and training for this event has undoubtedly been monumental.
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Lastly, I extend my warmest welcome to those who are visiting Banff for this year’s competition.
I hope you enjoy your stay, and I invite you to return in the future.
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I would also like to thank the staff and judges who have made this year’s competition possible through their tireless devotion and hard work.
For decades, the Banff Centre’s enduring commitment to the arts has allowed our community the privilege of hosting the Banff International String Quartet Competition. This unique event continues to bring together some of the world’s best string performers year after year. After years of pandemic hardships and event restrictions, I am especially excited to see BISQC returning to Banff this year. Moreover, I am pleased to know that this year’s competition will take place in the Jenny Belzberg Theatre, which was recently revitalized thanks to the generosity and commitment of the Belzberg family.
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Yours truly, Corrie DiManno Mayor, Town of Banff
Banff is a special place. We’re a town within a national park, with the privilege of being surrounded by an untouched landscape. Though we only have around 9,000 permanent residents, we welcome approximately four million visitors per year to our town. And it’s not just mountain climbers and hikers that flock to the mountains, but people like yourselves, seeking inspiration and motivation from the surroundings. I hope you get to explore the area while you’re here and see what draws people from around the world to our small town. There’s something for everyone in Banff, and we’re thrilled to be able to share it with you.
Welcome to Banff! On behalf of Council and the residents of the Town of Banff, it is with great pleasure that we welcome all participants of the Banff International String Quartet Competition to our beautiful town. Whether you are competing, judging, or just enjoying the music experience, we are delighted that you have chosen to join us here in Banff.
Thank you for choosing our community as the location for your competition, and I hope you have a wonderful visit.
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I am thrilled to welcome you to the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition, a program of Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. During this event, our beautiful campus on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain in Treaty 7 territory will be flooded with the music of emerging quartets. Ripples of the melodies will circle around the world to tens of thousands of people tuning in from their homes, while the transformative power of competition washes over the emerging quartets vying for the career-changing opportunity to be the next BISQC Laureates. CREATIVITY
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For over 30 years, Banff International String Quartet Competition has celebrated the art of chamber music while providing support for emerging string quartets. Intended as a one-time special event, the first competition was held in 1983 to mark the 50th anniversary of Banff Centre. The outstanding success of the first competition inspired organizers to make this a triennial event.
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Thank you for joining us, for believing in the power of music, and lifting up the potential of these young artists to shape our future world.
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This is the first BISQC to be held in the newly revitalized Jenny Belzberg Theatre, which officially opened in May of this year. We are certain that you will be impressed with the acoustics, the aesthetics, and the new, comfortable seating.
BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND
I am excited to welcome you to experience the music, beauty, and tradition of the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition. For over 30 years, the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity has celebrated the art of chamber music through this triennial competition; this year’s event comes at a time when the world is craving inspiration and creativity.
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I take pride in the legacy and international renown of Banff Centre. I invite you to immerse yourself in the thrill and heartbreak of a live chamber music competition. A member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions, this competition is widely recognized as one of the top events of its kind. As emerging musicians and their instruments gather on our campus on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain in Treaty 7 territory, we will all get to experience the transformative power of music. We hope music will fill your hearts and careers will launch as these young artists compete for the opportunity of a lifetime. As we listen to these young musicians perform and compete, I hope you feel a sense of awe at what can be accomplished and a realization that you are listening to the future.
AdamSincerely,Waterous Board Chair, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity
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COMPETITIONDIRECTOR that have come together for this renowned feast of music making, community and celebration. Never in our history has this event been more needed and welcome.
BISQC is only possible because of the generosity of many supporters.
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Dear ThankFriends,youfor joining us for the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition. For four decades Banff Centre has been shining a bright light on the world of chamber music, identifying the leading quartets of our time and working to support the launch of new careers.
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Following the challenges faced since our last competition in 2019, BISQC's role in supporting this generation of brave artists wanting to share music with the world has become critical. We worked to continue supporting our laureates through the gruelling lockdowns and we were with them as the world's stages reopened.
Our inspiring campus, on the side of Sacred Buffalo Guardian Mountain in Treaty 7 territory, will serve as home to extraordinary performers, composers, managers, broadcasters, and dedicated music lovers
To our lead supporter the Azrieli Foundation and the many individuals that generously support our work, my most sincere and profound thanks. You are helping make dreams come true for so many wonderful artists. To our legendary and dedicated audience, your passionate interest in the young artists joining us is the most important prize we offer. Thank you for providing our musicians such love and support.
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The 14th BISQC event will celebrate the talent of nine of the world’s best emerging quartets! Each of the quartets have already been screened by the preliminary jury to make it to the top nine. Now the top nine each perform four programs over 12 concerts for a distinguished jury, a keen and educated audience, and for each other. The competition culminates in the “Finals” on Sunday, where the top three quartets each perform one complete work of Beethoven.
LAUREATESBISQC The list of previous BISQC winners reads a “who’s who” of the world’s most beloved and outstanding quartets: 2019 Marmen Quartet Viano String Quartet co-winners 2016 Rolston String Quartet 2013 Dover Quartet 2010 Cecilia String Quartet 2007 Tinalley String Quartet 2004 Jupiter String Quartet 2001 Daedalus Quartet 1998 Miró Quartet 1995 Amernet String Quartet 1992 St. Lawrence String Quartet 1989 Quatuor Manfred 1986 Franciscan Quartet 1983 Colorado Quartet
The 14th version of BISQC will also have two special events: an alumni concert featuring James Ehnes, MarcAndré Hamelin, the Viano and Marmen string quartets, and on the Friday, a special concert featuring Davóne Tines and PUBLIQuartet. The 14th version of BISQC is going to be a very special one –audiences returning to live performances, musicians having a live audience and of course the ability to connect with all those who love chamber music.
Originally intended as a one-time special event to mark the 50th anniversary of the Banff Centre, the incredible success of the first competition inspired organizers to make BISQC a triennial event that is now recognized worldwide.
Since 1983 the Banff International String Quartet Competition (BISQC) has celebrated the art of chamber music while providing unparalleled career support for emerging string quartets.
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While in Banff, each of the nine competing quartets perform programs they have created through a combination of selections from a specific, yet extensive, repertoire list and music of their own choosing that highlights their strengths as a quartet. These works are performed during four distinct rounds: The 21st Century Haydn Round (Monday and Tuesday), Romantic Round (Wednesday and Thursday), Canadian Commission Round (Friday), and Recital Ad-Lib Round (Saturday).
The competition is open to string quartets whose members are under the age of 35 on September 5th, 2022. The quartets are asked to submit a highquality unedited recording containing two contrasting movements of selected Haydn, Mozart, or Beethoven quartets; the first movement of a quartet from the Romantic or Nationalist repertoire or the 19th century or Debussy, Ravel or Elgar Quartet; and a complete 20th century work. Almost an hour’s worth of music, the repertoire shows the quartet’s range and ability. Once the invited quartets had confirmed their participation, the names of the quartets were announced to audiences and the world during a livestreamed event on April 29th. Travel, accommodations, and meals are paid for by BISQC to ensure that each quartet can attend the competition.
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Applications from quartets were received from around the world then reviewed and scored by three preliminary jurors: Aaron Boyd, Andrew Wan and Andrew Yee.
Following an extensive review of the initial scores, Barry Shiffman, Director of BISQC, and Dr. Moses Renert, BISQC Mathematician, led the preliminary jurors through a comprehensive review of the process of selecting the competing quartets.
The seven member competition jury then chooses three quartets to advance to the fifth and final round on Sunday, September 4th (Beethoven Round). The competition jury voting is completed under the guidance of the BISQC Official Mathematician, Dr. Moses Renert, who is recognized for his expertise in designing similar jury voting procedures for other competitions as well as BISQC. The BISQC scoring system, based on the “Optimal Jury Scoring System” (copyright 459777) by Dr. Ernst Enns and Dr. Moses Renert, ensures absolute fairness to all competing quartets.
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JURY PROCEDURESVOTING
The Competition Jury has these tasks:
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4. To rank the three prize winners after the completion of the Final Round. The criteria for choosing the winning quartets are:
2. To choose the winner of the Canadian Commission Prize, in honour of the R.S. Williams & Sons Company for the best performance of the Canadiancommissionedcomposition.
1. To choose the winner of the R.S. Williams & Sons Haydn Prize for the best performance of a Haydn quartet.
3. To choose three quartets for the Final Round after four rounds of competition.
1. The winning quartet should be ready to take full advantage of an international performing career, commensurate with the career development program of the competition.
2. The winning quartet should have an abundance of technical skill and a unique artistic voice and presence. Immediately after the Final Round is completed, the Jurors convene for a voting session.
The Official Mathematician constructs a weighted ranking using the following percentages: Performance of the Haydn quartet: 16% Performance of the 21st Century quartet: 10% Performance of the Romantic quartet: 15% Performance of the Canadian Commission: 10% Performance of the Recital Ad-Lib round: 16% Performance of the Beethoven Finals round: 20% Overall impression of all competition rounds: 13% Full voting procedures and Official Rules and Regulations can be found on banffcentre.ca/bisqc 16
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The quartet has been featured at Alice Tully Hall, The Kennedy Center’s Reach Festival with pianist Joseph Kalichstein, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s masterclass series with the Danish String Quartet, and on WQXR’s Midday Masterpieces. Abeo was also featured in Norway’s Vertavo Festival, performing seven Haydn string quartets, and was in residence at the Glenstone Museum. Abeo participated in the 2019 Montreal International String Quartet Academy, studying with members of Quatuor Ébène, and the Alban Berg, Takács and Artemis String Quartets. At Juilliard, Abeo studied in the Honors Chamber Music Program with the Juilliard String Quartet.
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ABEO QUARTET USA Rebecca Benjamin, violin Njioma Chinyere Grevious, violin James Chanha Kang, viola Brian Gadbow, cello abeoquartet.com
The Abeo Quartet, formed at Juilliard in 2018, was the Silver Medal winner of the 2022 Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competition and a finalist in the 2021 Young Concert Artists International Competition, as well as the Silver Medal winner of the 2019 Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition. Abeo, which welcomed new members violinist Rebecca Benjamin and cellist Brian Gadbow in the spring of 2021, is honored to be the inaugural Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the University of Delaware under the mentorship of the Calidore String Quartet.
In 2021, the Abeo Quartet attended the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, coached by the Brentano, Emerson and Miró quartets. Abeo made their New York Schneider Series debut in April 2022 and will be International Program Artists for the 2022 Music@Menlo Festival. The quartet chose the name Abeo / ah - bey - oh / — an expression of joy in a Nigerian dialect — to reflect their love for playing chamber music and sharing it with others.
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NETHERLANDS/NORWAY Inga Våga Gaustad, violin Tim Brackman, violin Elisa Karen Tavenier, viola Pieter de Koe, cello animatokwartet.nl Animato Kwartet’s attendance at BISQC is generously supported through the Maria Francisca Josepha Brouwer Fund for Dutch Artists at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Being “artist in residence” as part of the post-grad program of the Dutch String Quartet Academy, the Animato works with inspiring musicians such as Marc Danel, Pierre Colombet and Eberhard Feltz. They also attended several sessions organized by the European Chamber Music Academy, where they received intensive coaching from Hatto Beyerle and Johannes Meissl.
In September 2021, the quartet received a third prize, and the special Jury Prize, at the International Chamber Music Competition in Trondheim. In 2017 the quartet received the prestigious string quartet grant from the Kersjes Foundation, one of the largest private culture funds in the Netherlands supporting young talent.
The Animato Quartet is considered to be one of the most promising young string quartets in the Netherlands with its members being praised for their passionate, spontaneous playing and their powerful on-stage presence.
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Within the Netherlands the quartet has performed in the Kleine Zaal of Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Tivoli-Vredenburg in Utrecht and Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam during the 2020 String Quartet Biennale. They played at festivals such as the Utrecht International Chamber Music Festival and outside the Netherlands, in Portugal, Germany, Norway, France and Brazil.
The Animato are laureates of the Dutch Classical Talent Award 2021-2022. The jury about this string quartet: “Four top players with a vibrant energy, they will grab you from the first note! ...This quartet is the great promise of Dutch string quartets.”
Founded in 2013, their programs contain a combination of classical quartet repertoire and contemporary compositions.
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USA Angela Bae, violin Justin DeFilippis, violin Benjamin Zannoni, viola Russell Houston, cello balourdetquartet.com
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The Balourdet Quartet, based in Boston, Massachusetts, is currently in residence at the New England Conservatory’s Professional String Quartet Program. The quartet received the Grand Prize at the 2021 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition as well as the top prize awarded in the 2021 Premio Paolo Borciani in Reggio Emilia, Italy. The group also received the Gold Medal in the 2020 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, the Gold Medal and Audience Award at the 2021 Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition, and the Second Prize in the 2019 Carl Nielsen International Chamber Music Competition.
During the 2022-2023 season, the quartet is thrilled to premiere a new work they commissioned by Karim Al-Zand, made possible through Chamber Music America’s Classical Commissioning Grant.
The Balourdet has shared the stage with renowned artists including Cho-Liang Lin, as well as members of the Dover Quartet. It has performed at festivals and series including Bravo!Vail, Santa Fe ProMusica, Nevada Chamber Music Festival, the Schneider Concert Series, La Jolla Music Society Summerfest, Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, and Aspen Music Festival. The Balourdet Quartet works primarily with Paul Katz at the New England Conservatory, as well as Miriam Fried and members of the Cleveland and Borromeo Quartets. The quartet was formed in 2018 at Rice University in Houston, Texas. The Balourdet Quartet gets its name from Antoine Balourdet, chef extraordinaire at the Hotel St. Bernard and beloved member of the Taos School of Music community.
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Joined together from Israel, Korea-Canada, Saint Lucia, and the USA, the Dior Quartet is the Quartet-in-Residence at the Glenn Gould School, Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada. Formed in Fall 2018 at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University under the Pacifica Quartet, they are Silver prize winners of the 2021 Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition, quarter-finalists of the Bartok World Competition, and Bronze Medalists of the 2019 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. They studied with members of the Alban Berg, St. Lawrence, Danish, Artemis, Ébène, and Belcea Quartets.
The Dior Quartet participated in various programs, including the Britten Pears Young Artists Program, Banff String Quartet: Evolution in collaboration with Tippet Rise Art Center, McGill International String Quartet Academy in Montreal, and the SLSQ Seminar. The Dior Quartet collaborated with Orion Weiss and Victor Yampolsky during their residency at Wintergreen Music Festival, and with Rolston String Quartet, Axel Strauss, and Stéphane Lemelin at the 2021 Prince Edward County Chamber Music Festival. The quartet made their debut with the Schneider Concert Series in January 2021. The repertoire and projects they pursue intersect with their multicultural backgrounds and moral values, as they seek to explore the immigrant experience through art. The quartet takes their name from the French word “D’or” which means gold. It's a rare, elegant, and malleable element, precious to those who own it and often gifted to loved ones. Most importantly, gold holds the memory of the earth and absorbs the stories of the people who give it shape and form.
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ISIDOREQUARTETSTRING USA Phoenix Avalon, violin Adrian Steele, violin Devin Moore, viola Joshua McClendon, cello Facebook /Isidore String Quartet
The four began studies as an ensemble in 2019 as part of the chamber music program at the Juilliard School. After a year off (amidst the global pandemic), the four members reconvened as a quartet at the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in the summer of 2021 under the tutelage of Joel Krosnick. The performance at Kneisel Hall was the impetus for the ensemble to continue moving forward as a quartet. Since the Fall of 2019, the ISQ has coached with Joseph Lin, Astrid Schween, Laurie Smukler, Roger Tapping, and Joel Krosnick. The quartet has participated in the Honors Chamber Music program at Juilliard, given recitals at Alice Tully Hall, Morse Hall, and Paul Recital Hall, and has collaborated with members of the Juilliard Historical Performance department. The Isidore String Quartet is beyond thrilled to be participating in the 2022 Ravinia Steans Music Institute.
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The Isidore String Quartet is an NYC-based ensemble with a focus to revisit, revise, and reinvigorate. An emerging string quartet, the ISQ is known for a uniquely personal sound and a vitality in interpretation. The quartet is heavily influenced by the Juilliard String Quartet and the idea of ‘treating the old as if it were new, and the new as if it were old.’
The members of the quartet are violinists Adrian Steele and Phoenix Avalon, violist Devin Moore, and cellist Joshua McClendon.
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Karski Quartet was formed in Belgium in 2018 and performs in a wide range of venues throughout Europe. The quartet’s founding members are violinists Kaja Nowak and Natalia Kotarba, violinist and violist Diede Verpoest and cellist Julia Kotarba. Soon after their inception they were awarded the Grand Prix as well as the Special Prize for the alumni of the Royal Conservatory in Brussels at the 4th International Music Competition Triomphe de l'Art in Brussels. Their mentors have been David Waterman, Philippe Graffin and Amy Norrington.
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From January 2019 through March 2020 the Karskis were the resident ensemble in the String Quartet Studio programme at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, working with Donald Grant (Elias Quartet) and other members of the RNCM chamber music faculty. Presently the quartet is in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel in Waterloo, studying with members of the Artemis Quartet and Miguel da Silva. The group has also been selected to join the Dimore del Quartetto network and is one of three quartets invited to participate in the 2022 Amsterdam String Quartet Biennale Residency. Karski Quartet takes its name from Jan Karski, the legendary World War II resistance-movement figure. Commited as he was to showing others the dramatic truth about the war, the Karski Quartet members strongly believe that every era needs heroes like him. Amid the serious difficulties which the whole human population is facing now, they find Karski's profound compassion and uncompromising attitude an example to be emulated in art as well as in life.
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Opus13 is one of Scandinavia's most promising, up-and-coming young string quartets. Formed in 2014 at the Barratt Due Institute of Music, the quartet consists of Sonoko Miriam Welde, Edvard Erdal, Michael Andreas Grolid and Daniel Thorell. In addition to concert appearances in France, Sweden and Denmark, they have performed at numerous festivals, including Bergen International Festival, Rosendal Festival and Risør Kammermusikkfest, where they are regulars as part of the newly revived Risør Festival Strings.
Opus13 has collaborated with international top musicians such as Olli Mustonen, Alisa Weilerstein, Tabea Zimmermann, Jonathan Biss, Marianna Shirinyan and Konstantin Heidrich. They have regular lessons with Berit Cardas and Bjørg Lewis of the renowned Vertavo Quartet, and have benefitted from masterclasses with many of the world's leading chamber musicians, including members of the Belcea Quartet, Quatuor Ébène, Artemis Quartett, Oslo String Quartet and Quatuor Mosaïques. In their early years Opus13 received invaluable support and performing experience from the Oslo Quartet Series' Talent Program and the Crescendo Mentor Program. In January 2022 they made their official debut at the Oslo Quartet Series with an exciting program featuring works by Haydn, Brahms and Adès.
The Opus13's are the founders and artistic directors of "Vinterspill på Lillehammer", a new chamber music festival in the iconic winter town of Lillehammer.
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Simon Iachemet plays on a Giacinto Santagiuliana cello generously loaned by the Fondation Boubo-Music.
Formed in 2016, the Paris-based Quatuor Agate studied at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Eberhard Feltz and in Paris under the guidance of Mathieu Herzog. They now finish their studies with the Quatuor Ébène at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich. In 2021, they were prize-winners at the prestigious YCAT International Auditions. This season, they make their debut at Wigmore Hall in London and give recitals across Europe at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, TheToThede-ProvenceWeikersheim,TauberPhilharmonieVerbierFestival,Salon-Festival,RadioFranceFestival,Mecklenburg-VorpommernFestival,LammermuirFestival(Scotland),BrucknerhausLinz(Austria)amongothers.Quartetiscurrentlyartist-in-residenceattheFondationSingerPolignac,residentatProQuartetinParisandAssociateArtistattheFestivalLaBrècheinSavoie(France).shareuniqueandwonderfulrepertoire,theQuatuorAgatecreatedtheCorsiClassicFestivalin2016.BasedaroundAjaccioinCorsica,itsmissionistopromotechambermusicinareasoftheislandwhereclassicalmusicisrarelyavailable.From2021,theQuatuorAgateissupportedbytheGünther-CasparStiftung.quartetcollaboratesonaregularbasiswithmanybrilliantmusiciansandensemblessuchasFrankBraley,RomainGuyot,MarcDanel,EnricoPace,GabrielLeMagadure,PierreFouchenneret,theQuatuorÉbène,theModiglianiQuartetandtheJerusalemQuartet.
QUATUOR AGATE FRANCE Adrien Jurkovic, violin Thomas Descamps, violin Raphael Pagnon, viola Simon Iachemet, cello quatuoragate.com Adrien Jurkovic plays on a violin attributed to Giuseppe Giovanni Guarneri generously loaned by Dr Peter Hauber. Thomas Descamps plays on a Matteo Goffriller violin generously loaned by the Fondation Boubo-Music. Raphaël Pagnon plays on a Ferdinando Alberti viola generously loaned by the Fondation Boubo-Music.
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The Terra String Quartet is represented by Le Dimore del Quartetto in Italy, and is the first quartet to have been chosen to pursue the Four Seasons Chamber Music String Quartet Fellowship at East Carolina University.
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TSQ has performed at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Alice Tully Hall as part of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’s “Wednesdays at One” series, performing the Schubert Cello Quintet with Natasha Brofsky, and as part of the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival’s Winter Workshop in North Carolina, where they performed with Robert McDonald. They have also performed with the Cremona Quartet and have studied under the guidance of Ara Gregorian, Mark Steinberg, Hye-Jin Kim, Daniel Avshalamov, Misha Amory, Natasha Brofsky, Catherine Cho, and Joseph Lin.
ICELAND/AUSTRALIAUSA/VENEZUELA/ Harriet Langley, violin Amelia Dietrich, violin Ramón Carrero Martínez, viola Geirþrúður Guðmundsdóttir,Annacello terrastringquartet.com
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TSQ has been selected as a finalist for the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition, taking place in April 2022, with upcoming performances including recitals in New York City, North Carolina, Maryland, New Hampshire and Chicago.
The Terra String Quartet, formerly known as the Arte String Quartet, is a vibrant young ensemble based in New York City composed of graduates of the Juilliard School’s prestigious Honors Program and of the Manhattan School of Music. Hailing from five continents, these four musicians share a vision that chamber music embodies both intellectual and emotional vitality.
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39 SCHEDULE SeptemberSunday 4 Finals The three finalists perform a quartet by Beethoven. Concert 13 2 p.m. CeremonyAwards Following deliberation.jury 7:30 p.m. Day 6Day 5Day 4 Day 7 SeptemberThursday 1 Romantic Round Quartets perform a complete quartet from the Romantic or repertoire.Nationalist Concert 8 10 a.m. Alumni ConcertGala Featuring James Ehnes, MarmenStringCo2019Hamelin,Marc-AndréandFirstPlaceLaureatesVianoQuartetandQuartet. 8 p.m. Alumni supportedConcertGalagenerouslybyChristopherR.Head. SeptemberFriday 2 RoundCommissionCanadian All DisappearanceWijeratne,piececommissionedperformquartetsnewlybyDinukThe of Lisa Gherardini for string quartet. Concert 9 10 a.m. PresentationConcertSpecial BeautyReflectionsPUBLIQuartetFeaturingonandDavóneTinesRecitalNo.1:MASS 8 p.m. SeptemberSaturday 3 Recital Ad-Lib Round Quartets perform up to 35 Quartet'saprogrammedminuteswithrepertoireofthechoosing. Concert 10 10:30 a.m. Concert 11 2 p.m. Concert 12 7:30 p.m. Announcement of the three finalists following deliberation.jury For tickets to BISQC 2022 events, contact Banff Centre Box Office at 1.800.413.8368 or visit bisqc.ca
Abeo Quartet USA String Quartet in D minor, Op. 76 No. 2 (1797) Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) AndanteAllegro o più tosto allegretto Menuetto. Allegro ma non-troppo Vivace assai String Quartet No. 2, Awakening (2012) Billy(b.Childs1957) INTERMISSIONSongWake-upIntro/AboutCallTheWhiteRoomofHealing Opus13 NORWAY/SWEDEN String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20 No. 2 (1772) Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) MadárdalStringFugaMinuetto.AdagioModeratoAllegrettoa4Soggetti.AllegroQuartetNo2,(2013) Andrea(b.Tarrodi1981) Allegro/PrestoAdagioAllegro 21st ConcertHaydnCenturyRound1 2 NOTES:p.m. Day 1 MONDAY, AUGUST 29 40
Dior Quartet ISRAEL/USA/KOREA-CANADA/ST. LUCIA String Quartet in C Major, Op. 74 No. 1 (1793) Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) Allegro StringMenuetto.Andantino(moderato)(grazioso)AllegroFinale.VivaceQuartetNo.3(2014) Kevin Lau (b. 1982) WindsGlidingof INTERMISSIONChange Balourdet Quartet USA String Quartet in D Major, Op. 76 No. 5 (1797) Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) Largo.AllegrettoCantabile e mesto Menuetto. Allegro Finale. IntonationsPresto(2016) Derek(b.Bermel1967) Hymn/HomilyHarmonicaHustle Day 1 21st ConcertHaydnCenturyRound2 7:30 NOTES:p.m. MONDAY, AUGUST 29 41
Karski Quartet BELGIUM/POLAND String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76 No. 1 (1797) Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) Allegro con spirito Adagio Menuetto.sostenutoPresto - Trio Allegro ma non troppo Ritus: Four Portraits (2019) Prach Boondiskulchok(b.1985) INTERMISSION Terra String Quartet USA/VENEZUELA/ICELAND/AUSTRALIA String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77 No. 1 (1799) Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) Allegro Moderato AdagioMenuetto. Presto – Trio Finale. Presto String Quartet No 4, Insects and Machines (2019) Vivian Fung (b. 1975) 21st ConcertHaydnCenturyRound3 10:30 NOTES:a.m. TUESDAY, AUGUST 30 42 Day 2
Isidore String Quartet USA String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20 No. 2 (1772) Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) Menuetto.AdagioModerato Allegretto - Trio Fuga a 4 Soggetti. Allegro String Quartet No. 2, Awakening (2012) Billy(b.Childs1957) SongWake-upIntro/AboutCallTheWhiteRoomofHealing TUESDAY, AUGUST 30 43 Day 2 21st ConcertHaydnCenturyRound4 2 NOTES:p.m.
Quatuor Agate FRANCE String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20 No. 2 (1772) Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) AthanorFugaMinuetto.AdagioModeratoAllegrettoa4Soggetti.AllegroStringQuartet(2021) Corentin Apparailly(b.1995) INTERMISSION Animato Kwartet THE NETHERLANDS/NORWAY String Quartet in B minor, Op. 33 No. 1 (1781) Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809) Allegro Scherzo.moderatoAllegrodi molto StringFinale.AndantePrestoQuartet No. 5 (2004-2005) Pascal Dusapin (b. 1955) 21st ConcertHaydnCenturyRound5 7:30 NOTES:p.m. TUESDAY, AUGUST 30 44 Day 2
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Karski Quartet BELGIUM/POLAND String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 (1827) Felix Mendelssohn(1809–1847) Adagio – Allegro vivace Adagio non Intermezzo:lentoAllegretto con moto – Allegro di molto Presto – Adagio non lento Balourdet Quartet USA String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 (1873) Johannes(1833Brahms–1897) Allegro non troppo Andante moderato Quasi Minuetto, moderato Finale. Allegro non assai INTERMISSION Terra String Quartet USA/VENEZUELA/ICELAND/AUSTRALIA String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (1893) Claude(1862Debussy–1918) Animé et très décidé Assez vif et bien rythmé Andantino, doucement expressif Très modéré Romantic Round Concert 6 2 NOTES:p.m. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31 46 Day 3
Opus13 NORWAY/SWEDEN String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51 (1873) Johannes(1833Brahms–1897) Romanze:Allegro Poco adagio Allegretto molto moderato e comodo Allegro Abeo Quartet USA String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13 (1827) Felix Mendelssohn(1809–1847) Adagio – Allegro vivace Adagio non Intermezzo:lentoAllegretto con moto – Allegro di molto Presto – Adagio non lento INTERMISSION Animato Kwartet THE NETHERLANDS/NORWAY String Quartet No. 1 in A minor, Op. 41 (1842) Robert(1810Schumann–1856) Introduzione. Andante espressivo Scherzo. Presto-Intermezzo AdagioPresto WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31 47 Day 3 Romantic Round Concert 7 7:30 NOTES:p.m.
Quatuor Agate FRANCE String Quartet in F Major (1903) Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937) Allegro moderato Assez vif, très rythmé Très lent Vif et agité Dior Quartet ISRAEL/USA/KOREA-CANADA/ST. LUCIA String Quartet No. 13 in G Major, Op. 106 (1895) Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904) Allegro moderato Adagio ma non troppo Molto Finale.vivaceAndante sostenuto-Allegro con fuoco INTERMISSION Isidore String Quartet USA String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 (1873) Johannes(1833Brahms–1897) Allegro non troppo Andante moderato Quasi Minuetto, moderato Finale. Allegro non assai Romantic Round Concert 8 10 NOTES:a.m. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 48 Day 4
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 49 Day 4 Alumni Non-competitionGala Event 8 p.m. Alumni Gala Concert generously supported by Christopher R. Head NOTES: ALUMNI GALA Viano String Quartet CANADA/USA Lucy Wang, violin Hao Zhou, violin Aiden Kane, viola Tate Zawadiuk, cello Bryony Gibson-Cornish, viola UK Sinéad O’Halloran, cello UK String Sextet No.1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18 (1860) Johannes(1833Brahms–1897) Allegro ma non troppo Marmen Quartet UK Johannes Marmen, violin Laia Valentin Braun, violin Bryony Gibson-Cornish, viola Sinéad O’Halloran, cello Tate Zawadiuk, cello CANADA String Quintet in C Major D. 956 (1828) Franz(1797Schubert–1828) AdagioScherzo. Presto – Trio. Andante sostenuto INTERMISSION James Ehnes, violin CANADA Marc-André Hamelin, piano CANADA Viano String Quartet CANADA/USA Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet, Op. 21 (1888-1891) Ernest(1855-1899)Chausson Décidé –GraveSicilienne:AniméPasviteTrèsanimé
CommissionCanadian Round Concert 9 10 a.m. All nine worldperformquartetsthepremiere. NOTES: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 50 Day 5 WORLD PREMIERE Dinuk Wijeratne THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LISA GHERARDINI for string quartet This work is commissioned by Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in part with funds from Dr. Gail Andrew and R.S. Williams & Sons for the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Animato Kwartet The Netherlands/Norway Quatuor Agate France Isidore String Quartet USA Opus13 Norway/Sweden Balourdet Quartet USA INTERMISSION Abeo Quartet USA Karski Quartet Belgium/Poland Dior Quartet Israel/USA/Korea-Canada/St. Lucia Terra String Quartet USA/Venezuela/Iceland/Australia PROGRAM NOTES
This virtuoso musical escapade for string quartet is inspired by the audacious, real-life theft of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa from the Louvre Museum in 1911. The most famous painting in the world began its life very unassumingly. In 1503, it was created by Leonardo for the
In the last few seconds of the piece, the heist theme makes a brief appearance. Could Lisa be taken from us again? And might she actually prefer to disappear altogether?
Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo, who commissioned the portrait of his wife, Lisa Gherardini. The occasion marked the birth of their second son –especially significant given the tragically high levels of maternal and infant mortality in those days. The extraordinary true story of the theft of the Mona Lisa reads like the plot of some sensational Hollywood movie. An inconspicuous Italian handyman named Vincenzo Peruggia hid overnight in one of the Louvre closets and chose exactly the right moment to emerge and lift the painting off the wall. As a former museum employee, he was familiar with the rhythm of the guards. The whole thing was, as they say, an inside job. The music of this piece is fueled by the knowledge that it was, in fact, a high profile theft (and a subsequent two-year disappearance) that skyrocketed the Mona Lisa from a relatively unknown artwork into legend. Unfolding in three sections, the piece is built upon two main themes representing ‘Lisa’ and ‘the heist’, respectively.
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In the first section, as we imagine a young lady with an enigmatic smile posing for her portrait, Lisa’s theme is introduced on the cello as the violins evoke gentle brushstrokes. The second section is announced by a restless and slightly ‘wonky’ cello pizzicato groove – the heist is underway. As the perpetrators reach their mark, Lisa’s theme makes a rushed and unsettled reappearance as her portrait is whisked away. The music reaches a chaotic climax immediately after the violins imitate police sirens, and then collapses. The third section jump-cuts to present-day Paris. Lisa is back in her rightful place at the museum, elevated in stature, status, and celebrity. We tend to forget that Lisa was a real person. As I worked on this music, I thought less about the masterly technique and artistry of the portrait than I did about Lisa herself. I imagined her as a character who moved through time – from humble obscurity, through a sudden and mysterious disappearance, to the kind of over-hyped fame that attracts 30,000 visitors daily. I can’t help but wonder whether Lisa would have wanted all this attention, not to mention from all the selfie-takers.
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SPECIAL PRESENTATIONEVENT PUBLIQuartet USA Curtis Stewart, violin Jannina Norpoth, violin Nick Revel, viola Hamilton Berry, cello MIND THE GAP: “Reflections on Beauty” Chronicling the life of Madam C.J. Walker and the strong communities she fostered in America at the turn of the 20th century. INTERMISSION Davóne Tines, bass-baritone USA Rachel Kerr, piano CANADA Recital No. 1: MASS I. CarolineKYRIEShaw: 1. Kyrie Johann Sebastian Bach: “Wie jammern mich,” from Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170 II. AGNUS DEI Caroline Shaw: 2. Agnus Dei Tyshawn Sorey: Songs for Death: I. after Were You There Margaret Bonds: To A Brown Girl Dead III. CarolineCREDOShaw: 3. Credo J. S. Bach: “Mache dich, mein Herze, rein,” from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 IV. CarolineGLORIAShaw: 4. Gloria Moses Hogan: Give Me Jesus V. CarolineSANCTUSShaw: 5. Sanctus Julius WhatPreludeEastman:toTheHolyPresenceofJoanD’ArcVI.BENEDICTUSTarikO’Regan:LanguageToSpeak Day 5 Special Non-competitionPresentationEvent Event 8 NOTES:p.m. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 53
From her origins as an uneducated washer-woman in St. Louis, to her final residence in Villa Lewaro in Irvington on Hudson, Madam Walker’s legacy as a massively successful hair-care business owner, philanthropist, social activist, and educator has had deep roots and lasting influence in African-American communities throughout the country.
In honor of the 2019 centennial anniversary of her death, PUBLIQuartet worked directly in collaboration with Madam Walker’s great-great-granddaughter, A’Lelia Bundles, to create a unique and unforgettable performance experience with plans for more to come.
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Davóne Tines Recital No. 1: MASS I approached the recital situation with a sort of a phobia, or an allergic reaction to doing what I've seen many singers do: Program something based off of a model that they aren't fully engaged in, and filling in the template with music that checks boxes rather than articulating their own feelings and experiences in an explicit way. I think this idea of explicit context is critical; in order to perform well, the personal impetus for choices in repertoire and interpretation need to be in the front of your mind, for every single note. As a child, singing was all religious or liturgical and all in a choral setting with close family and friends. Everyone in my family participated in choir. The urge to sing works
MIND THE GAP: “Reflections on Beauty” is an original work of art developed by PUBLIQuartet in 2019 with funding from New Music USA. This dynamic and thoughtprovoking piece encompasses varying genres, styles, and eras of music and literature reimagined and recomposed through group improvisation and composition that chronicle the life of the first female African-American self-made millionaire in America, Madam C.J. Walker.
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In setting familiar spirituals, Tyshawn Sorey's task was to break the songs out of the aesthetic within which we commonly engage them, so that the text and the ideas behind the text could become more apparent. I had this realization that many spirituals are essentially code for suicide notes. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," for example, is someone begging God to kill them, to "carry me home." The poet Langston Hughes, in his time, directly connected to the possibility of these spirituals being suicidal, and I really want to show audiences another side of these songs. I think a lot of times spirituals are misunderstood and opaquely heard as happy songs. But these are songs created by people in extraordinary and horrifying circumstances; they're amazing, metaphorical expressions of real faith, and inexorable humanity created in response to humanity's most inhumane atrocities: the denial of the humanity of the perceived other. It is my goal to show that Bach wrote about God with the same depth, complexity, and fervor as slaves. The order of the mass I'm using here, and which Caroline Shaw has followed in her miniature mass, accords with my own understanding of a spiritual journey. I'm basically queering the mass. Queering in the broad sense of bending it to my own understanding. It’s a very personal journey about crying out for release from pain (Kyrie); making and holding space for the cause of the pain to be engaged (Agnus Dei); allowing the power of your conviction to destroy that cause (Credo); exalting in the release (Gloris); and transferring the energy of the destruction into the fuel for rebirth (Sanctus). The text of the last piece in the Sanctus section is "Where there is darkness, we’ll bring light." That's the entire recital right there: Present the darkness and show the change into light. (Adapted from an interview with journalist Fergus McIntosh.)
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Daylike Beethoven’s Ode To Joy followed by Lauryn Hill’s interpretation of Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee is a reflection of my actual lived and multivalent experience with liturgical music. It’s composed of so many things: early music, folk song, Bach, contemporary gospel, spirituals, new music, and beyond. When you put these seemingly different things together and acknowledge the connections between them, you have to acknowledge that there's something shared among these composers; and thus there's something that is shared among all people. This recital is an opportunity for me to marry all of those flavors together and have the conversation of cohesive juxtaposition in front of people.
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Abeo Quartet USA String Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K 465 (1782-1785) W.A. (1756Mozart–1791) StringAdagio-AllegroAndantecantabileQuartetNo.3 in F minor, Op. 73 (1946) Dmitri Shostakovich(1906-1975) AllegrettoModerato con moto Allegro non troppo Animato Kwartet THE NETHERLANDS/NORWAY Funf Satze fur Streichquartett, Op. 5 (1913) Anton(1883Webern–1945) Heftig bewegt Sehr langsam Sehr lebhaft String Quartet No. 1, Sz. 40 (1909) Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945) AllegrettoLento (Poco a poco accelerando al'allegretto) – Introduzione Allegro INTERMISSIONvivace SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 56 Day 6 Recital Ad-Lib ConcertRound 10 10:30 NOTES:a.m.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 57 Day 6 Recital Ad-Lib ConcertRound 10 10:30 NOTES:a.m. Balourdet Quartet USA Italian Serenade (1887) Hugo Wolf (1860 – 1903) String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91 (1928) Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945) AllegroPrestissimo, con sordino Non troppo lento Allegretto pizzicato Allegro molto
Recital Ad-Lib ConcertRound 11 2 NOTES:p.m. Day SATURDAY,6 SEPTEMBER 3 58 Quatuor Agate FRANCE Langsamer Satz (1905) Anton(1883Webern–1945) String Quartet No. 1, ‘Métamorphoses nocturnes’ (1954) György Ligeti (1923 – 2006) Allegro grazioso – Vivace, capriccioso A tempo – Adagio, mesto – Presto Molto sostenuto. Andante tranquillo – Piu mosso Tempo di Valse, moderato, con eleganza, un poco capricciosoLento Gesange der Frühe (1842) Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) arr. Raphael Pagnon (b. 1992) Im ruhigen Tempo Dior Quartet ISRAEL/USA/KOREA-CANADA/ST. LUCIA Credo for String Quartet (2007) Kevin Puts (b. 1972) The Violin Guru of Katonah WidowsInfrastructure&Lovers (2007) Aviya Kopelman(b.1978) Black Widow Yessori (Sound from the Past) (2006) Soo Yeon Lyuh (b. 1980) String Quartet No 1 (1993) Eleanor(b.Alberga1949) Frantically Driven Yet Playful INTERMISSION
Recital Ad-Lib ConcertRound 11 2 NOTES:p.m. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 59 Day 6Karski Quartet BELGIUM/POLAND String Quartet No. 4 (1951) Grażyna(1909Bacewicz–1969) Andante. Allegro moderato String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (1983) Claude(1862Debussy–1918) Animé et très décidé Assez vif et bien rythmé Andantino, doucement expressif Très modéré Come Together (1969) John Lennon (1940 – 1980) Paul McCartney (b. 1942) arr. Quatuor Ébène (founded 1999) transc. Bruno Silva (b. 1987)
Isidore String Quartet USA The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080 (1740-1746) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) Contrapunctus 1 String Quartet No. 1, Sz. 40 (1909) Béla Bartók (1881 – 1945) AllegrettoLento (Poco a poco accelerando al'allegretto) – Introduzione Allegro vivace Terra String Quartet USA/VENEZUELA/ICELAND/AUSTRALIA Chacony in G minor for String Quartet (1678) Henry Purcell (1659-1695) arr. Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 36 (1945) Benjamin Britten (1913 – 1976) Allegro calmo, senza rigore VivaceChacony: INTERMISSIONsostenuto Day 6 Recital Ad-Lib ConcertRound 12 7:30 NOTES:p.m. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 60
Day 6 Recital Ad-Lib ConcertRound 12 7:30 NOTES:p.m. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 61 Opus13 NORWAY/SWEDEN Arcadiana, Op. 12 (1994) Thomas Adès (b. 1971) Venezia notturna Das klinget so herrlich, das klinget so schön Auf dem Wasser zu singen Et…(tango StringL’Embarquementmortale)OAlbionLetheQuartetNo.1 in G minor, Op. 27 (1877-78) Edvard(1843-1907)Grieg Un poco andante - Allegro molto ed agitato
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FINALS During the Final Round, three quartets take the stage to perform one complete work of Beethoven. Awards ceremony will be held at 7:30pm following jury deliberation. Day 7 ConcertRoundFinal 13 2 NOTES:p.m. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 63
RESIDENT AUDIENCE AND PASSPORT HOLDER EXCLUSIVE EVENTS Day 1Welcome Day 3Day 2 AugustMonday29 James Ehnes Chamber Music in my Life –A ShiffmanhostedwithconversationJamesEhnes,byBarry Lecture 11 Kinneara.m. Centre, Husky Great Hall AugustSunday 28 ReceptionWelcome 7 Kinnearp.m. Centre, Husky Great Hall AugustTuesday30 Denis Brott In the Bank: origins of Canada Council’s Music Instrument Bank and its future Lecture 9 Kinneara.m. Centre, Husky Great Hall AugustWednesday31 Free time to enjoy your surroundings, for ideasexcursionplease see BISQC website or the InformationAudienceDesk in the theatre lobby. Note that lunch in Vistas is NOT included packagesintoday so we encourage you to go exploring! Morning until 2 p.m. concert MasterclassOpen Students from the Youth Quartet Program Steinberg.ResidenceBISQCcoachingreceivefromMentorinMark Masterclass 4:30 RecitalRolstonp.m.Hall LECTURES AND SPECIAL EVENTS 64 Mentor Residencein Program supported in honour of the R.S. Williams & Sons supportedgenerouslyCompanyLectureseriesbyErnieandSandraGreen.
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One quartet will be awarded a customdesigned, three-year artistic and career development program which includes:
• An opportunity for a two-week Chamber Music Residency at the prestigious Britten Pears Arts in England.
• A creative residency at Banff Centre including coaching and mentorship opportunities.
The R.S. Williams & Sons Haydn Prize $4,000 CDN for the best performance of a Haydn quartet from Round 1. Canadian Commission Prize, in honour of the R.S. Williams & Sons Company In honour of the R.S. Williams & Sons Company: $4,000 CDN for the best performance in Round 3 of the newly commissioned quartet by Dinuk Wijeratne.
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Career Development Awards
AWARDS AND SPECIAL PRIZES
First Prize Laureates
• A residency with the Esterházy Foundation, including concerts at Haydn Hall in Eisenstadt and the Lucerne Festival;
• A creative residency at Banff Centre including coaching and mentorship opportunities.
Second Prize Laureates
• Winner’s Concert Tours in careerbuilding markets in Europe and North America, arranged by Banff Centre;
• $8,000 CDN cash prize;
• Coaching, career guidance, and mentorship;
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• $25,000 CDN cash prize;
• Southern Methodist University Peak Fellowship Ensemble-inResidence Prize which includes a two-year paid visiting residency at the Meadows School involving performances, coaching, and mentorship. This residency is valued at over $200,000 CDN;
Third Prize Laureates
• $12,000 CDN cash prize;
• A two-week residency at Banff Centre including a recording produced by Banff Centre;
Victoria Summer Music Festival, Victoria BC Music in the Morning, Vancouver BC Chamber Music Kelowna, Kelowna BC The Coast Recital Society, Sechelt BC White Rock Concerts, Surrey BC ArtSpring, Salt Spring Island BC Candlelight Concerts, Maple Ridge, BC Calgary Pro Musica, Calgary AB Banff Centre International String Quartet Festival, Banff AB St. Albert Chamber Music Society, St. Albert AB High River Gift of Music, AB Lyell Gustin Recital Series, Saskatoon, SK Cecilian Chamber Series, Regina SK Virtuosi Concerts, Winnipeg MB Toronto Summer Music Festival, Toronto ON The Jeffery Concerts, London, ON Leith Summer Festival, Leith ON Aurora Cultural Centre, ON Ottawa Chamberfest, Ottawa ON Women's Musical Club of Toronto, Toronto ON Cecilia Concerts, Halifax, NS Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, Lunenburg NS Montreal Chamber Music Festival, Montreal QC Under the Spire Music Festival, Indian River, PEI Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Rockport MA Friends of Chamber Music, Troy, NY Valley Concerts Society, Abbotsford, BC Edmonton Chamber Music Society, AB For a list of concerts for the 2022 BISQC First Prize Laureates, visit banffcentre. ca/bisqc/winners-tour. To partner with BISQC, contact BISQC Manager Lisa Ramsey at bisqc@banffcentre.ca.
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Strijkkwartet Biënnale, Amsterdam, NL Kammermusik Basel, Basel, CH Konzerthaus Berlin, Berlin, DE University of Bonn, Bonn, DE Konzertverein Bozen, Bozen, IT Die Glocke, Bremen, DE Bruchsaler Schlosskonzerte, Bruchsal, DE Flagey, Brussels, BE Herbstgold Festival, Eisenstadt, AT Conservatoire de Musique, Esch, LU Festival Meckenburg-Vorpommern, DE Stadt Fulda, Fulda, DE Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, DE Wigmore Hall, London, UK
Esterházy Foundation, Eisenstadt, AT Lucerne Festival, Lucerne, CH Philharmonie, Paris, FR Mozarteum, Salzburg, AT In North America, BISQC has concert agreements in principle with:
The Banff International String Quartet Competition is proud of the many partnerships developed with concert presenters across Europe and North America, who have supported its mission by providing opportunities for the winners of BISQC to perform for audiences world-wide. As part of their First Prize, the winning quartet will embark on concert tours in partnership with Konzertdirection Hampl (Europe) and Andrew Kwan Artists Management (Canada) including: Europe in March/April 2023, November 2023, January/ February 2024, June/July 2024 Austria as part of the Esterházy Foundation Prize • North America in July/August 2023, October 2023, April 2024 BISQ Festival Sept 2023 In Europe, BISQC has concert agreements in principle with:
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Shiffman received his formal studies at the Royal Conservatory in Toronto, University of Toronto, Utrecht Conservatory, Hartt School of Music, Juilliard School, and Yale University. Summer studies included Banff Centre, Tanglewood, and Aspen. He is also the recipient of the Longy School’s Nadia Boulanger Prize for Excellence in the Art of Teaching, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Calgary.
During his 17 years with the SLSQ he appeared in over 2,000 concerts in venues around the globe, and recorded several critically acclaimed discs under an exclusive contract with EMI Classics.
While with SLSQ, Shiffman served as artistin-residence at Stanford University from 1998 to 2006 and as visiting artist at the University of Toronto from 1995 to 2006. Shiffman has also served in numerous roles at Banff Centre, including Director of Music Programs (2006-2010), Artistic Director of Summer Classical Music Programs (2010-2016), and Director of the Banff International String Quartet Competition since 2006. During his tenure at Banff Centre he introduced new programming in classical music performance, composition, popular music, and jazz and oversaw the dramatic growth of the Banff International String Quartet Competition, including the successful launch of the Banff Centre International String Quartet Festival in 2017.
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Barry Shiffman Barry Shiffman enjoys a diverse career as a musician, educator, and administrator. He was co-founder of the St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) and currently serves as both the Associate Dean and Director of Chamber Music at Glenn Gould School, and Director of the Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
In 2018, Shiffman was appointed Artistic Director of Rockport Music in Massachusetts, overseeing all classical programming for the organization including a five-week summer chamber music festival at the venerable Shalin Liu Performance Center. From 2009-2017, he was Executive Artistic Director of Music in the Morning Concert Society in Vancouver. A sought-after juror, he has served on the violin jury of the Tchaikovsky and Montreal Violin Competitions, and the String Quartet Competitions of London Wigmore Hall, Lyon, and Geneva.
Recently featured on Live From Lincoln Center’s “ODYSSEY: The Chamber Music Society in Greece”, Boyd has been broadcast in concert by PBS, NPR, WQXR and WQED, and was profiled by Arizona Public Television. Formerly on the violin faculties of Columbia University and the University of Arizona, Boyd now serves as Director of Chamber Music and Chair of Strings at the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University and makes his home in Plano, Texas, with his wife Yuko, daughter Ayu and son Yuki.
Photo by Sophie Zhai, courtesy of Escher Quartet.
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Aaron Boyd
Boyd plays on violins crafted by Matteo Goffriller in Venice, 1700, and Samuel Zygmuntowicz, Brooklyn, 2018.
Violinist Aaron Boyd has established an international career as soloist, chamber musician, orchestral leader, recording artist, lecturer and pedagogue. Since his New York recital debut in 1998, Boyd has appeared at prestigious venues throughout the United States, Europe, Russia and Asia and has participated in the Marlboro, Tippet Rise, La Jolla, Rockport, Aspen and Hong Kong and Music@ Menlo festivals. Boyd has been a regular season artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2012. A member of the Escher String Quartet for five seasons, Boyd was a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Martin E. Segal prize from Lincoln Center. A passionate advocate for new music, Boyd has been involved in numerous commissions and premieres in concert and on record, and has worked directly with such legendary composers as Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter and Charles Wuorinen.
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Andrew Wan performs on a 1744 Michel’Angelo Bergonzi violin, and gratefully acknowledges its loan from the David Sela Collection. He also enjoys the use of an 1860 Dominique Peccatte bow from Canimex.
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Mr. Wan received three degrees from the Juilliard School.
Concertmaster of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra (MSO) since 2008, Andrew Wan is also Associate Professor of Violin at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University and member of the Juno and Opus awardwinning New Orford String Quartet. As a soloist, he has appeared worldwide under conductors such as Vengerov, Oundjian, Petrenko, DePreist, Payare. His live recording of the three Saint-Saëns violin concerti with Kent Nagano and the MSO was released by Analekta in the fall of 2015 to wide critical acclaim. His next album release with Nagano and the MSO of concerti by Ginastera, Bernstein and Moussa won the 2021 Juno Award for Best Classical Album for Large Ensemble.
Mr. Wan has performed chamber music worldwide with artists such as the Juilliard Quartet, Trifonov, Repin, Ax, Shaham, Widmann, Ehnes and Pressler. He serves as guest concertmaster for the Pittsburgh, Houston, Indianapolis, Toronto, National Arts Centre and Vancouver symphonies, and has appeared as artist and faculty at the St. Prex, Seattle, Aspen, La Jolla, Toronto Summer, Morningside Music Bridge, Olympic, and Orford Music Festivals. He recently completed recording all of the Beethoven Piano and Violin Sonatas with Charles Richard-Hamelin, winning Opus, Felix prizes as well as receiving two Juno nominations.
The works commissioned and on the concerts will feature a wide range of composers all for solo cello. They play on an 1884 Eugenio Degani cello on loan from the Five Partners Foundation.
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GRAMMY Award winning cellist Andrew Yee has been praised by Michael Kennedy of the London Telegraph as “spellbindingly virtuosic”. Trained at the Juilliard School, they are a founding member of the internationally acclaimed Attacca Quartet who have released several albums to critical acclaim including Andrew’s arrangement of Haydn’s “Seven Last Words” which Thewholenote.com praised as “ . . .easily the most satisfying string version of the work that I’ve heard.” They were the quartet-in-residence at the Met Museum in 2014, and have won the Osaka and Coleman international string quartet competitions. Their newest recording of the string quartets of Caroline Shaw won a GRAMMY for best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble performance. As a soloist last season Andrew performed John Taverner’s The Protecting Veil and Strauss Don Quixote. In 2019 they won the first prize at Oklahoma University’s National Arts Incubation Lab for their pitch of a wearable garment that translates sound into vibrations for the hard of hearing. They like to make stop-motion videos of food, draw apples, cook like an Italian Grandma and have developed coffee and cocktail programs for award-winning restaurants (Lilia, Risbobk, Atla) in New York City. Their solo project “Halfie” draws on their experience as a bi-racial and non-binary person in having access to multiple communities at once, while not feeling at home in any of them.
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Estelle Choi Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, cellist Estelle Choi has garnered top prizes as a soloist and as a chamber musician. She has gained international recognition as a founding member of the Calidore String Quartet, an ensemble that celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2020. Praised by the New York Times for its “deep reserves of virtuosity and irrepressible dramatic instinct” the Calidore won the Grand-Prize of the 2016 M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition. Choi is an Avery Fisher Career Grant winner, recipient of the Lincoln Center Emerging Artist award, BBC 3 New Generation Artist and Borletti-Buitoni Trust recipient, a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and alumni of the Bowers Program. Choi’s artistry has been broadly praised by critics like Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times who wrote that “her tone is rich, deep and powerful, giving the impression that music and the room are a single living being.” Choi studied with John Kadz in Calgary, Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music and Ronald Leonard at the Colburn Conservatory. She instructed cello performance and chamber music at the University of Houston. Choi teaches and performs at the University of Delaware. She holds a Masters degree from the Yale School of Music, and a Bachelor and Artist Diploma from the Colburn Conservatory of Music.
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the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, London Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Munich Philharmonic. His extensive discography of more than 50 releases has won many awards including 2 GRAMMY awards, a Gramophone award, and 11 Junos. Recent releases include the complete Beethoven Sonatas with pianist Andrew Armstrong, the 6 Solo Sonatas by Ysaÿe, and concerti by Kernis, Howard, Strauss, and Beethoven.
James Ehnes has established himself as one of the most sought-after violinists on the international stage. Gifted with a rare combination of stunning virtuosity, serene lyricism and an unfaltering musicality, Ehnes is a favorite guest at the world’s most celebrated concert halls.
Ehnes began violin studies at the age of five and became a protégé of the noted Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin. He continued his studies with Sally Thomas at The Juilliard School, winning the Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Leadership in Music upon his graduation in 1997. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of both the Order of Manitoba and the Order of Canada.
Ehnes plays the “Marsick” Stradivarius of 1715. Photo by Ben Ealovega.
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A dedicated chamber musician, JuanMiguel was a member of the legendary Fine Arts Quartet (2013-2018) and original member of the Harlem Quartet (2006-2012), as well as a founder of the "Boreal Trio” (2012-2018) and "Trio Virado" (2012-2021), both specialized in the creation of new repertoire. His musicianship has led to a wide array of collaborations with artists such as Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Harrell, Kim Kashkashian and Gerard Caussé as well as Chick Corea, Gary Burton and Stanley Clark.
Violist Juan-Miguel Hernandez is an artist defined by the critics as "…tender, lyrical, loaded with personality" (Atlanta Journal Constitution). In September 2009, JuanMiguel won the first Prize at the 16th International Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria, adding to other top prizes won at the National Canadian Music Competition, and the 9th National Sphinx Competition in 2006. As a featured guest soloist, JuanMiguel has appeared with the Atlanta, Seattle, Colorado Symphonies, and the Rochester Philharmonic. In 2010, he was recognized with the Medal of Honor from the National Assembly of Quebec for his significant International accomplishments.
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Juan-Miguel Hernandez
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Born in Montreal (Canada), Juan-Miguel graduated from the Colburn School and New England Conservatory. He joined the faculty of the Royal Academy of Music in London as Professor of Viola in the Fall of 2016 where he is now visiting Professor since his move back to his native Montreal in 2019 where he is now guest professor at Université de Montréal. He was appointed Associate Artistic Director of the Festival Del Lago International Music Academy (Ajijic, Mexico) in the summer of 2021.
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Barnabás Kelemen
Violinist Barnabás Kelemen has conquered the most famous concert halls in the world with his virtuoso technique and dynamic, passionate playing style. Due to his exceptional sense of style and his comprehensive technical proficiency, Barnabás navigates with confidence through the entire catalogue of music written for violin. His repertoire is thus extremely diverse and he performs Early Baroque, Classical, and Romantic works with just as much authenticity as twentiethcentury pieces. He is additionally a devoted advocate of contemporary music, with world or Hungarian premieres of works by Kurtág, Ligeti, Schnittke and Reich to his name. On top of all this, he is a sensitive and experienced chamber musician who has played with artists of the calibre of Dezső Ránki, Steven Isserlis, Miklós Perényi, Alina Ibragimova, and Andreas Ottensamer. In 2001, his album of Liszt’s complete works for violin and piano with Gergely Bogányi was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque by the International Liszt Society. Kelemen has achieved outstanding results in prestigious contests, including first prizes at both the 1999 International Mozart Violin Competition in Salzburg and the 2002 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, and third prize at Brussels’ 2001 Queen Elisabeth Violin Competition. His artistry has been recognized with the highest professional and state honours: he has been awarded Liszt and Kossuth Prizes and Prima and Gramophone Awards, and is the holder of the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary. Photo by László Emmer.
Teaching has always been an important part of her musical life; in 2001 she co founded and now directs MusicWorks, presenting chamber music courses for young musicians. She has given masterclasses and workshops at conservatories in London, Lyon, Barcelona, Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore as well as at Juilliard School, Yale and Indiana Universities. Photo by Giorgia Bertazzi.
Catherine Manson Catherine Manson enjoys a versatile performing career as a soloist and chamber musician.
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As first violinist of the classical London Haydn Quartet she has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, London’s Wigmore Hall and the Sydney Opera House. The quartet’s series of recordings of the Haydn quartets on the Hyperion label has met with high critical acclaim internationally. She was appointed as leader of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra in 2006. Together with the orchestra's director, Ton Koopman she has recorded the six obbligato sonatas by Bach, Haydn's concerto for violin and organ and the complete chamber music by Buxtehude. They have given many concerts together throughout Europe.
She is frequently invited as guest leader of ensembles such as The Orchestra of the 18th Century, Collegium Vocale, the Smithsonian Chamber Players in USA and Arcangelo in the UK. She has also appeared as soloist and director with Tafelmusik in Canada and with the Orquesta Barrocca de Sevilla.
Károly Schranz Grammy award-winning violinist and educator Károly Schranz has performed at some of the most prestigious venues in the world while mentoring the next generation of classical music luminaries. Schranz co-founded the Takács Quartet in 1975 at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. During his 43 year tenure with the Takács Quartet, Schranz earned numerous awards and was the first string quartet to be inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame in 2012. Schranz previously served as co-founder and instructor of the University of Colorado Graduate String Quartet Program from 20062018, where he earned the Excellence in Research, Scholarly, and Creative Work Award. Notable collaborations include All the World for Love, a fourteen-city tour with poet laureate Robert Pinsky combining music and the spoken word, and Everyman, a collaboration with Pulitzer Prize winning author Philip Roth and Oscar-award winning actors Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep combining readings from Roth’s novel of the same name and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden”. His recordings are featured in the Library of Congress. In addition to his work with the Takács Quartet, Schranz has served as co-concertmaster of the Hungarian National Opera and co-concertmaster of the Budapest Philharmonic. He has served on the juries of the London International String Quartet Competition and the International String Quartet Competition of Geneva, Switzerland. Schranz earned Artist and Teaching diplomas from the Franz Liszt Academy where he studied with Mihály Szücs, György Kurtág, and András Mihály. Photo by Keith Sander.
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While an exclusive artist for EMI-Korea, his album entirely devoted to Kodály, was "the editor’s choice of the month" for Gramophone Magazine in the UK (December 2003) and nominated for best solo album at the Edison Awards in the Netherlands. His other recordings for EMI, are works by Rachmaninoff and Chopin, the complete J.S. Bach’s suites for solo cello, and the complete Beethoven Sonatas and Variations for cello and piano. Since 2009 he has also recorded for Universal Music/ Decca. His recent recordings include Dvorák Cello Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Trio Dumky an album combining jazz and Latin music. His upcoming recordings include Elgar and Schumann Cello Concerti with London Symphony Orchestra. A regular performer of contemporary music, Sung-Won Yang premiered Peter Eötvös’ concerto grosso with the Seoul Philharmonic, with the composer conducting. Born in Korea, Sung-Won Yang graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and was assistant to Janos Starker at Indiana University in the United States. He is the recipient of the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government and is currently a professor of cello at the School of Music Yonsei University in Seoul, visiting professor at the Royal Academy of Music and Artistic Director of the Festival Beethoven à Beaune, in France.
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Cellist Sung-Won Yang has performed throughout the world as a soloist and chamber musician in prestigious venues as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York and the Musikverein in Vienna.
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Cellist Denis Brott is recognized as one of Canada’s finest musicians. Gifted with passion, dedication and enthusiasm, his performances have taken him to four continents as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. He is the Founder and Artistic Director of the renowned Montreal Chamber Music Festival. A highly respected pedagogue, he is Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal (1989), where he is also Conductor of the Orchestre à cordes. Brott was a cellist in the Orford String Quartet (1980-1988) during which time it recorded 25 CDs including the complete string quartets of Beethoven, which won the Grand Prix du Disque du Canada Award and two Juno Awards for Best Chamber Ensemble Classical Recording. Denis has served on the juries of numerous international competitions, including the Munich Cello and Quartet Competitions, the Banff and Evian International String Quartet Competitions. Denis Brott plays a magnificent 1706 David Tecchler cello on loan for his lifetime use by the Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank, the creation of which he played a founding role.
Lecture series generously supported by Ernie and Sandra Green. Photo by Christine Bourgier.
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As a violinist and violist Sebastian was a founding member of the Providence String Quartet at Community MusicWorks, has had the opportunity to collaborate with the Borromeo, Kronos, Muir, Miro, Orion, and Turtle Island String Quartets, and Emanuel Ax, Jonathan Biss, Kim Kashkashian, Frank Rosenwein, and Johnny Gandelsman.
Sebastian is a visiting lecturer at Yale School of Music, a 2010 MacArthur Fellow, and an enthusiastic advisory board member of the US Department of Arts and Culture. Sebastian is married to violinist Minna Choi, and is a father of two awesome daughters. Lecture series generously supported by Ernie and Sandra Green. Photo by Erin X Smithers.
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Sebastian Ruth Lecturer
Sebastian Ruth is a musician, educator, and organizer whose work explores new roles for music making in contemporary society. Sebastian is the Founder and Artistic Director of Community MusicWorks, an organization that connects performing musicians and young people in a diverse array of education programs, chamber music concerts, youth social justice and leadership programs, and community development efforts.
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Dinuk was featured as a main character in "What Would Beethoven Do?" –the documentary about innovation in Classical music – featuring Eric Whitacre, Bobby McFerrin and Ben Zander. Forthcoming projects include collaborations with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, and with Grammy-winners Elliot Madore and Avi Avital. Dinuk's music and collaborative work embrace the great diversity of his international background and influences. Composer in Residence Program during BISQC 2022 made possible with support by Dr. Gail Andrew. Lecture series generously supported by Ernie and Sandra Green. Photo by Michelle Doucette.
Dinuk Wijerante Composer in Residence
Sri Lankan-born Canadian Dinuk Wijeratne is a JUNO and multi-awardwinning composer, conductor and pianist who has been described by the New York Times as 'exuberantly creative' and by the Toronto Star as ‘an artist who reflects a positive vision of our cultural future’. His boundary-crossing work sees him equally at home in collaborations with symphony orchestras and string quartets, tabla players and DJs, and takes him to international venues as poles apart as the Berlin Philharmonie and the North Sea Jazz Festival.
Steinberg has been on quartet competition juries at the Banff International Quartet Competition, the London Quartet Competition, and twice at the Mozart International Quartet Competition in Salzburg, as well as the Naumburg Violin and Chamber Music Competitions. He has taught often at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the Aspen Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Steans Institute at Ravinia, and the Taos School of Music and has given master classes at Rice University, the Eastman School of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Britten Pears Institute in Aldeburgh, England, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the Guildhall School, the Amsterdam Conservatory, and numerous other schools.
Mark Steinberg Mentor in Residence
Steinberg has appeared often in trio and duo concerts with pianist Mitsuko Uchida, with whom he presented the complete Mozart sonata cycle in London's Wigmore Hall in 2001. Mr. Steinberg has been soloist with the London Philharmonia, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Auckland Philharmonia, and other orchestras. He holds degrees from Indiana University and The Juilliard School and has studied with Louise Behrend, Josef Gingold, and Robert Mann. He is currently on the violin faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, and The Graduate Center at CUNY.
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Mark Steinberg is first violinist and founding member of the Brentano Quartet. With the quartet he has performed for thirty years on five continents. The quartet is ensemble in residence at Yale University, has recorded extensively, and has won awards such as the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, the inaugural Cleveland Quartet award and the Royal Philharmonic Society award for best debut in the UK.
Mentor in Residence Program supported in honour of the R.S. Williams & Sons Company.
Theresa has worked in all areas of music production, including audio post-production for film and video and broadcast audio. An equally respected educator, for nearly 21 years, she served as director of Audio at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, where she was instrumental in growing the audio education program to international status while facilitating training, recording, conference and research residencies. As audio producer, Theresa has produced and engineered hundreds of professional JUNO winning and nominated recording projects for a broad range of international artists. She continues to work as a music producer for various symphonies, operas, and chamber ensembles, and serves as director, faculty, and consultant with various international music festivals and academia. Theresa is known for shaping the careers of many individuals for major positions in the music technology and audio industries. She holds a Master of Music degree in sound recording from McGill University and Bachelor degrees in both music and education.
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Theresa Leonard is an internationally recognized music producer and audio educator. Over her more than 30+ year career, she has served in the roles of director, executive producer, music producer and recording engineer.
Theresa Leonard Audio Producer
Theresa is a past-president and fellow of the Audio Engineering Society.
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Dr. Moshe Renert is a well-known mathematics educator and a recognized authority on Mathematics Curriculum and Pedagogy. He is the co-founder of Renert School, a cutting-edge K-12 private school in Calgary, widely acknowledged as Canada’s preeminent mathematics school. In his spare time, Moshe is an avid music lover and an accordion player. Together with Dr. Ernst Enns, he has developed the innovative Optimal Jury Scoring System for fair judging of music competitions. The system is used by various competitions, including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Honens International Piano Competition. Photo courtesy Moses Renert.
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Piano Competition – are published by Edition Peters. Born in Montreal, he is the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the German Record Critics’ Association and has received seven Juno Awards and eleven GRAMMY nominations. In 2018
Mr. Hamelin was awarded the Jean Gim bel Lane Prize in Piano Performance by Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music and in December 2020 was awarded the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Keyboard Artistry from the Ontario Arts Foundation. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Chevalier de l’Ordre du Québec, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. Mr. Hamelin makes his home in the Boston area with his wife, Cathy Fuller, a producer and host at Classical WCRB. Photo by Sim Cannety-Clarke.
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
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Marc-André Hamelin is known worldwide for his unrivaled blend of consummate musicianship and brilliant technique. He regularly concertizes around the globe with the leading orchestras and conduc tors of our time and performs recitals at the leading concert venues and festivals Anworldwide.exclusive recording artist for Hype rion Records, his discography includes more than 70 albums. In 2020, Hyperion released two acclaimed albums by Mr. Hamelin, a solo disc of Liszt and Thalberg opera transcriptions, and piano sonatas of composer/pianist Samuil Feinberg. His next disc to be released will be CPE Bach Sonatas & Rondos, in January 2022. Mr. Hamelin has composed music throughout his career, with nearly 30 compositions to his name. The majority of his works – including the Études and Toccata on L’Homme armé, commis sioned by the Van Cliburn International
Lucy Wang & Hao Zhou, violin; Aiden Kane, viola; Tate Zawadiuk, cello
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The name “Viano” describes the four individual instruments in a string quartet interacting as one. Each of the four instruments begins with the letter “v”, and like a piano, all four string instruments together play both harmony and melody, creating a unified instrument called the “Viano”.
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With “flashing virtuosity and ferocious abandon” (Seen and Heard International), the Viano Quartet captured international attention as the First Prize Winner of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Since then, they have performed across the globe, making recital debuts in cities such as Beijing, Berlin, Brussels, New York City, Toronto, and Zurich. Formed in 2015, they are managed by Opus 3 Artists and are currently the Graduate Quartet-inResidence at the Curtis Institute of Music. Firmly dedicated to continue sharing music with their audience through the Covid pandemic, the Viano Quartet presented over a hundred virtual and live socially distanced events for organizations around the world, including the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, Deutschlandfunk Radio, Women’s Musical Club of Toronto, and NYC’s Schneider Series. During the upcoming season, the quartet will make recital debuts at the Lucerne Festival, the National Gallery of Art, and Wigmore Hall, among others, and will be in residence at Music in the Morning in Vancouver and Southern Methodist University. Through teaching and community engagement performances, the quartet is committed to inspiring a love of chamber music for the next generation of musicians.
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Formed in 2013 at the Royal College of Music in London, the Marmen Quartet is fast building a reputation for the vitality and vigor of their performances. In 2019 they won the Grand Prize of the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition as well as the First Prize of the Banff International String Quartet Competition, with the Haydn and Canadian commission prizes in addition.
Upcoming season highlights for the Marmens include debuts at the Berlin Philharmonie and the Pierre Boulez Saal as well as extensive European tours including performances in Heidelberg, Belfast, Luberon, Stockholm and Graz. Festival engagements will take the Quartet to the Lucerne Festival, Gulbekian Biennale, Wonderfeel Helsinki and Estivales de Musique en Médoc. In the US the Quartet undertakes the first visit of its two-year residency at Southern Methodist University in Dallas; a relationship that will see the Quartet work closely with the students as well as giving performances and developing new projects. The Quartet performed works by Haydn and Simpson at their BBC Proms debut in 2021, live on BBC Radio 3. Photo by Marco Borggreve.
Johannes Marmen & Laia Valentin Braun, violin; Bryony Gibson-Cornish, viola; Sinéad O’Halloran, cello
Recent engagements have taken the Quartet to the Amsterdam and Barcelona String Quartet Biennales as well as the Hitzacker and Lockenhaus festivals.
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PUBLIQuartet is committed to creating an inclusive performance space, supporting living composers of varying genres, and expanding the classical canon. Founded in 2010, PUBLIQuartet is based in New York City. Photo by Lelaine Foster.
PUBLIQuartet Curtis Stewart & Jannina Norpoth, violin; Nick Revel, viola; Hamilton Berry, cello
PUBLIQuartet’s ingenuity extends to their educational initiatives, which focus on allowing participants to embrace their inner creator. Original workshops include improvisation and composition workshops; a collection of original works for small ensemble commissioned by Carnegie Hall that invites performers and audiences to explore individuality and belonging through improvisation; and PUBLIQ Access, an initiative created to support emerging composers.
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PUBLIQuartet has held artist residencies at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, and National Sawdust in Brooklyn, and has performed at Lincoln Center, Detroit Jazz Festival, Newport Jazz Festival, and The Barns at Wolftrap. Their 2016 appearance on The Colbert Report, “Requiem for a Debate” - in which they improvised a live soundtrack to the third presidential debate - not only received over a million views, but saw the Washington Post declaring them "the winner...indubitably."
PUBLIQuartet is a GRAMMY-nominated improvising string quartet whose contemporary repertoire blurs genres and highlights American multiculturalism. The quartet is recognized as one of the most interesting and innovative ensembles in the field, having received the 2019 Visionary Artists Award from Chamber Music America, the 2015 award for Adventurous Programming from ASCAP/CMA, and the Sylvia Ann Hewlett Adventurous Artist Prize at the 2013 CAG Victor Elmaleh Competition.
Davóne Tines, bass-baritone Davóne Tines is a pathbreaking artist whose work not only encompasses a diverse repertoire, from early music to new commissions by leading composers, but also explores the social issues of today. A performer at the intersection of many histories, cultures, and aesthetics, he is engaged in work that blends opera, art song, contemporary classical music, spirituals, gospel, and songs of protest, as a means to tell a deeply personal story of perseverance that connects to all of humanity. Tines is Artist-in-Residence at Detroit Opera— an appointment that culminates in his performance in the title role of Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X this spring—and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale’s Creative Partner. His ongoing projects include Recital No. 1: MASS and Concerto No. 1: SERMON, a program he conceived for voice and orchestra that weaves texts by writers including James Baldwin and Langston Hughes with arias by John Adams, Anthony Davis, and Igee Dieudonné and Tines. He premieres Concerto No. 2: ANTHEM—created by Tines with music by Michael Schacter, Caroline Shaw, Tyshawn Sorey, and Carlos Simon, and text by Mahogany L. Browne—this summer at the Hollywood Bowl. Tines is a member of AMOC (Music Director of the 2022 Ojai Festival) and co-creator of The Black Clown, a music theater experience commissioned and premiered by The American Repertory Theater. Tines is Musical America’s 2022 Vocalist of the Year and a recipient of the 2020 Sphinx Medal of Excellence. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Harvard University, where he also serves as guest lecturer. Photo by Kjohn Lasoul.
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Rachael Kerr, piano
Rachael has also performed in recital in association with the Los Angeles Opera, Seattle Opera, and Finger Lakes Opera.
Rachael Kerr is an alumna of the Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio and has coached/played for many COC productions, most recently serving as head coach for Bluebeard’s Castle and rehearsal pianist for Gianni Schicchi. She has also been part of two workshops developing world premieres by Ana Sokolovic and Ian Cusson at the COC. She was recently the Dora Awardnominated music director for Against the Grain Theatre’s Figaro’s Wedding.
Rachael has also been a rehearsal pianist for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra in numerous projects, including world premieres by Brett Dean, Vincent Ho, and Gary Kulesha, and assisting as rehearsal pianist for the JUNO-nominated recording of Massenet’s Thaïs.
Rachael is currently a faculty member at The Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music as a vocal coach and was the music director for Soundstreams’ Garden of Vanished Pleasures. This past season, she has appeared in several performances with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Chamber Soloists and was the keyboard section coach for the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Rachael holds a doctorate in piano performance and collaborative arts from Northwestern University, where she was concurrently a faculty instructor in music theory.
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Arnica Quartet
Banff Centre is thrilled to support the next generation of chamber musicians through this wonderful initiative.
Melie Inageda, violin Iri Takano, violin Anika Jensen, viola Laec Lorentzen, cello Cedar Quartet Mio Nakajo, violin Norah Mix, violin Johnny Huang, viola Julian Lee De Vita, cello Freude Quartet
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2022 Youth Quartet Program generously supported by the Eagles Nest BISQC Young Artists Endowment and Sue Larson
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Nicholas Kostopoulos,Vasilakopoulosviolin Adriel Sloss, violin Tiffany Mok, viola Samantha Yang, cello Cedar Quartet, comprising students from Vancouver Academy of Music (VAM), gratefully acknowledges the financial support of VAM's Emerging Artist Grant for participation in the 2022 BISQC. Nicholas Vasilakopoulos-Kostopoulos plays a violin by Nicolas Lupot in Orléans, 1792 and a violin bow by Eugène Sartory in Paris, ca. 1920, graciously provided to him by the company CANIMEX INC. from Drummondville (Québec).
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Launched in 2010, the Young Musicians Program was originally created through a partnership between the Rolston and the Székely families as an initiative to inspire and celebrate the next generation of great chamber musicians. This program creates a special, welcoming, and affirming experience for young quartets as part of the Banff International String Quartet Competition. This year, we welcome Freude Quartet from The Phil and Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, the Cedar Quartet from the Vancouver Academy of Music, and the Arnica Quartet from here in Banff, Alberta. These promising young musicians will attend BISQC lectures and concerts, receive coaching from some of the leading musicians of our time, and will be heard in select performances in the community through our outreach program.
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Violinist Lucy Wang of VSQ hasn’t played off of sheet music in years. “There are so many benefits to the iPad like seeing the whole score so you can see everyone’s parts at once. It also makes for easy editing with a digital pencil to highlight sections or reorganize scores right on the tablet.”
VSQ violinist Hao Zhou explains that “when we won BISQC in 2019 we were for the most part still playing off of sheet music, but immediately following the win we went on tour throughout Europe that required us to learn many parts and new compositions. We were travelling with so much sheet music that our bags were overly heavy, so the ease of less luggage was one of the things that motivated us to make the shift to the iPad.”
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By Casey Peirce
The growth of technology has affected us all and influenced us in new ways, especially over the past two years. New media has changed the landscape of printed books, magazines, newspapers, advertising, and yes, even sheet music.
More and more, musicians are turning to tablets or iPads to house their scores for ease and convenience.
The Viano String Quartet (VSQ), 2019 BISQC co-winners, has embraced the trend of moving toward the use of the iPad versus traditional sheet music in their practice and performances.
The music app or apps a musician chooses plays a big role in the switch to the digital realm. VSQ cellist Tate Zawadiuk shares some of the quartet’s favourite apps which include “forScore and the Henle library for downloading and storing music, and Tunable which also comes with an integrated metronome.”
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“Now through the use of Bluetooth controlled foot pedals such as PageFlip and AirTurn, we can ‘turn the page’ without lifting a hand from our instrument, creating a more seamless flow,” says Tate.
Another major change in using the iPad is around page turning, a practiced art by all musicians.
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The VSQ, who were based out of Philadelphia, weathered the pandemic by renting houses in Utah and Texas for six months, with the goal of learning as many quartets as they could while in isolation together. They all agree that this was made easier by being able to download the scores and parts they were learning and airdropping files instantly to each other’s iPads.
The quartet will be returning to Banff Centre during BISQC and are excited to share their most recent pieces in the Alumni Gala performance, and yes, they will have their iPads in tow.
That’s not to say that the use of the iPad is free of all challenges, as everyone knows technology comes with learning curves and hiccups. While the shift to using a tablet for downloading scores is underway for many musicians, there are still plenty that prefer traditional sheet music. Violist Aiden Kane of VSQ reminds us that “sheet music doesn’t lose battery power or freeze up on you from time to time!” Tate counters her remarks with a smile saying, “iPads won’t blow away in windy conditions and you can play in the dark with an iPad.” He adds that “the slimmer music stands also take up very little space on stage which creates better visual access for the audience to see the musician and their movement.”
“We were so pleased with our time together during a difficult period for the music performing industry, I think that we achieved two years of progress in those six months,” says Hao about their time isolating together. The ability for the VSQ to condense their learning during this isolation is a great metaphor for the use of technology in a professional musician’s career. Tablets and iPads provides a sleek way to organize musicians growing repertoire which is necessary when you make your living on the road.
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101 ARTICLES PARTNERSHIPSDEVELOPMENTCAREER SMU EXPERIENCE By Aaron Boyd Chair of Strings Director of Chamber Music Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University In 2015, Mrs. Martha Raley Peak established the Peak ofPeak,Rochelle,Banff,Iwasmet!potentialwrotewasyoungpreeminentlongStringFellowshiptheinmind,itsandresponsibilityMeadowsdirectorandfacilitiesteachingensemblesandMeadowsforesight,actSouthernMeadowsEnsemble-In-ResidenceFellowshipattheSchooloftheArtsatMethodistUniversity.AnofextraordinarygenerosityandthisgiftwouldallowtheSchooltoidentify,attractsupportbrilliantyoungchamberwithmentorshipandopportunitiesaswellasforrehearsal,performance,recording.WhenIbecametheofchambermusicattheSchoolin2017,Iassumedforthisnascentventureimmediatelysoughttomaximizereachandpotential.WiththisinIreachedouttoBarryShiffmanthesummerof2018andsuggestedpossibilityofpartneringthePeakwiththeBanffInternationalQuartetCompetition.Withitsandestablishedrecordasthedestinationforthefinestensemblesintheworld,ittheobviouschoice.However,ItoBarrywithnosenseofhisinterest;wehadneverevenHisnearlyinstantaneousreplyencouragingandoneyearlater,foundmyselfinstunninglybeautifulaccompaniedbyMrs.MarthathedaughterofMarthaandDr.SamuelHolland,deantheMeadowsSchooloftheArts.
Despite these delays, the residencies of both quartets have been unforgettable. The Viano and Marmen quartets have led collaborations with students and guest artists, coached numerous ensembles, held masterclasses and open readings of Bach Chorales, and given concerts of extraordinary beauty, all augmented by the innate grace, intelligence and enthusiasm of the individual members.
There is an air of excitement when the ensembles are on campus. Hardly older than many of our current students, both quartets offer powerful examples of what is possible when talent and dedication align. During their first visit, the Marmen quartet held an open rehearsal, discussion and performance of Beethoven’s Op. 131 quartet.
Seated behind the jury for the entire, intense week of performances, I followed the competition with keen interest and excitement. When, after the final round, there was an unusually long delay in announcing the results, I was pulled aside by Barry, who told me, still in shock himself, that the for the first time in the history of the competition, there would be TWO winners – the California-based Viano Quartet, and the Marmen Quartet, from the U.K. I shared Barry’s shock and surprise –this outcome would double the logistical complications that come with resident ensembles. I recognized, however, that it would also double the benefit for our school and students. The winning quartets were extraordinary, but also, notably different in their temperament and style; the ebullience, energy and sheen of one complimenting the insight, probity and unorthodoxy of the other. None of us on that happy occasion could have guessed that only 6 months later a pandemic would spread across the globe, lowering the curtain on the performing arts for an unknowable and unthinkable length of time.
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Thanks to enlightened souls like those who founded BISQC and the Peak Fellowship, the future is bright, and we are ready for it!
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Though SMU bravely resumed in-person instruction in the Fall of 2020, the Viano Quartet would be unable to arrive on campus until the Spring of 2021 and the Marmens, completely frustrated by travel and visa restrictions, wouldn’t arrive until March of ’22!
In a small studio packed with curious students (and free pizza!), the Marmens variously played, spoke and thrilled with their enthusiasm and unique approach to this magisterial work. It was a riveting event, uniquely possible when an ensemble is given free rein to teach creatively and encouraged to follow their instincts. Inspired by the excitement of the BISQC in 2019, Mrs. Martha Rochelle decided to endow the Peak Fellowship established by her mother. With this gift, not only has the future of the fellowship been secured, but a necessary link that will support generations of musicians who give their energies over to this most precious corner of the musical landscape.
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MUSIC UNITES US ALL By Casey Peirce Esterhazy Castle in Maclab during BISQC 2013. Photo by Rita Taylor.
Humanity’s shared love of music creates a bond across culture, status, age and race. Around the globe we are united through sound and voice, it belongs to all of us. While not everyone can be a full-time professional musician, we as amateurs can experience, contribute and relate in our own unique way to the collective world of music.
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The origin of the word ‘amateur’ translates from Latin to the word ‘amare’, which means to love, or to do things for the love of it. Cardiologist Dr. Jonathan Choy has a true passion for his practice of the violin, which he describes as “doing something I love to do rather than doing what I have to do.” For Jonathan, making music
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Raised as a piano player, Jonathan’s commitment to music was revitalized when his young son expressed interest in the violin after watching an episode of Sesame Street. The Choy’s have since embraced music as a family for the past 20 years, with father and son playing the violin and mother and daughter on the piano. They still gather every year on Christmas Eve for a traditional family concert at their Edmonton home, known affectionately as ‘playing for presents’.
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“To see music expressed through the love and passion of an amateur is to be reminded of the essence of why we commit ourselves to this art form,” says Barry. “Unfortunately the quest for excellence can obscure the raw enthusiasm that is a necessary ingredient to artistic success. I have met so many wonderful musicians who choose chamber music as a pursuit of happiness, and am reminded that as ‘professionals’ we must never lose sight of this goal.” This summer will be Sue’s eighth attendance at BISQC. After twenty years of making the road trip to Banff from Washington with her late husband, this summer Sue will be attending with her daughter Cindy, a talented professional and member of the Exeter Symphony in England. Jonathan is also anticipating the competition and community. “Playing music creates an enhanced appreciation for the delivery of live performances, the complexity of the instruments and their mastery by the musicians. I can’t wait to return to Banff Centre and to meet up with colleagues and friends to participate in our shared passion of chamber music. We are definitely planning to get together to play in between the competition rounds!”
Sue Larson is also a life-long lover of music after taking up the cello in the fifth grade, pursuing the instrument all the way through college as a member of the Los Altas String Quartet at Stanford University. Their international success led Sue to many musical opportunities around the world as well as an ongoing 25 year role as a board member with the Stanford Friends of Music. Sue now plays in a piano quartet that brings the joy of music to senior living establishments in California. “Music enriches my life more and more every year. I am so honoured to be able to bring our quartet to these communities where there is such a shared appreciation for music”. She can’t wait to experience BISQC this summer once again and the “magic of the beautiful setting and the total immersion in chamber music uninterrupted by the intrusions of the outside world.”
String quartet repertoire by Jewish composers from every part of the diaspora has featured prominently — Dmitri Klebanov (Kharkiv), Walter Kaufmann (Karlovy Vary), Jerzy Fitelberg (Warsaw), Alberto Hemsi (Izmir) and Robert Müller-Hartmann (Hamburg) to name a few. They all figure in musical reference books, and you will find brief biographies online, but very little of their music has been performed or recorded. All of these gifted and versatile composers were trained in Europe’s finest musical academies. All left their homelands and in the case of Dmitri Klebanov, narrowly escaped banishment to a Gulag, or worse. A number of reasons account for their exclusion. There were the challenges of moving to a new country, of learning a new language and adapting to a very different culture; the pressures of having to find work — sometimes in fields unrelated to music; the loss of family-members in the Holocaust, as well as the health and mental stress that accompanied forced emigration. All of these elements conspired against re establishing careers. And as traditionalists
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The ARC Ensemble (Artists of The Royal Conservatory) was established 20 years ago and has devoted much of its work to assessing, performing and recording the chamber music of 20th century composers who were forced into exile, and suppressed under fascist and communist regimes.
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In the quest to determine a composer’s intentions, the process is laden with responsibility. But it is also liberating and marks both a rebirth, and the start of a new performance tradition — something similar to working on a commission, but without a living composer to advise.
In preparing these unknown works for performance, an ensemble is presented with a blank slate. There are rarely recordings one can reference, or musicians with knowledge of the work who one can consult. An ARC reading session is often the first time in 70 or 80 years that the score has been placed on a music stand. As a result, every decision, regarding tempo, dynamic, phrasing, articulation, mood, and sometimes even the notes themselves, becomes a potential topic of discussion.
There is a moral imperative in reclaiming works that have been lost due to brute intolerance — the Judaic idea of tikkun olam or “repairing the world.” But restoration also begins to provide us with a more accurate sense of the 20th century’s music, and one of its great rewards is seeing other ensembles adopting the music we have recovered. You can contact the ARC Ensemble at arcensemble@rcmusic.ca inDmitriJerzyWalterclockwise:PhotosKaufmann,Fitelberg,Klebanovchildhood.
109 ARTICLES and musical conservatives, many exiles found themselves out-of-step with the post war avant-garde. But in several instances, geographical displacement produced a radical shift in musical language: for example, Walter Kaufmann’s works seamlessly blend Western and Indian musical traditions, the result of intense research during his 12 years in Bombay (now Mumbai), and those of Jerzy Fitelberg, who arrived in New York, after periods in Warsaw, Berlin and Paris, reveal a fascinating mixture of Stravinsky, Impressionism and traditional Polish music. These were not second-rate musicians. Simply put, they were forced to leave Europe because the Third Reich saw them as musical pretenders whose race, by definition, excluded them from any consideration.
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Susan P. Kololian – Calgary, AB Sandy Martin – Toronto, ON Michael S.H. McMillan MBA, CMA, CPA – Toronto, ON Janice Price, ICD.D., President & CEO (ex officio) – Banff, AB Jill J. Price – Vancouver, BC Naomi Schmold – Edmonton, AB Adam R. Waterous (ex officio) – Banff, AB We want to thank everyone at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity who has supported the 14th Banff International String Quartet Competition – from feeding our audience and quartets, to booking tickets, creating awareness, fundraising, and ensuring the highest quality experience for all who attend and participate. We couldn’t do it without you!
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