As our neighbors and guests come on the campus this year, it looks almost like it did in 2019. We have, however, some wonderful additions for this summer and fall.
Many of you have already encountered Xylem (2019), designed by architect Francis Kéré. Xylem is made of logs sourced from regional trees that had been killed by mountain pine beetles. Like the togunas in Francis’s native village of Gando, Xylem is for gathering and talking. In March, Kéré was named the 2022 Laureate of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize, and we are so immensely proud to be able to share his thoughtfulness and creativity with our community.
There’s also Will’s Shed, our dining pavilion, built to provide our guests with a barn in which eat after the morning concerts, to sup before an evening concert, and to rest and rehydrate after hiking or bicycling the art center’s 13.5 miles of trails. And now to experience open-air performances as well, while looking out over the Beartooth range.
If you wander down to Patrick Dougherty’s Daydreams (2015/2022), you’ll find that the exterior has been reimagined with a new and extraordinary tangle of sticks that whirl around the schoolhouse. To help him with this project, our team collected thousands of local willow branches, which Patrick then used during a three-week long residency in July. We always delight in seeing children run in and out of Daydreams, hiding and seeking among the branches, and the childlike curiosity and sense of wonder it seems to inspire in visitors of all ages. What a gift to have the opportunity to watch its skeins reach out to us and to the sun in different ways.
Installed throughout the ranch is a new series of works called Folds (2022) by Ensamble Studio’s Débora Mesa and Antón García-Abril, creators of the phenomenal large-scale sculptural structures that anchor our rolling landscape (including the Beartooth Portal (2015), the Inverted Portal (2016), and the Domo (2016). Folds are spirits, ectoplasms, relaxing on the ground, taking in the sculptures. They mimic armchairs, chaise lounges, benches, and are made from draped canvas and moldable cement carpets, which feel fuzzy and comfortable. You can sit or lie on them and become sculptures yourselves for other visitors to marvel at.
We are thrilled to welcome a work by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to the fields across from Daydreams. Iron Tree (2013) comprises 97 found tree elements that were molded, cast in iron, and interlocked using a classic Chinese method of joining. It expresses the artist’s interest in fragments
and the importance of the individual, without which the whole would not exist.
Also new to Tippet Rise is Mark di Suvero’s Whale’s Cry (1981-1983), the artist’s third monumental work to be installed at the ranch. The work plays with gravity and deftly balances materials to allow graceful movement. It is a whale caught in the moment of breaching into another dimension, which is fitting considering it will be placed within a landscape that during the Cretaceous Era was a vast inland sea.
The campus has a few other additions. We’ve rebuilt the Tiara Acoustic Shell, adding panels to provide shade for the audience and the musicians.
We are very proud of the five weeks of concerts this fall, which have been organized by our artistic advisor, Pedja Muzijevic, and our special projects advisor, Jeanne Reid White.
To create more opportunities to hear music, we will host a few pop-up concerts throughout the 2022 season, at both Tiara and Xylem. Watch for announcements on our website.
We are delighted that Nick and Wendi are thriving at Wild Flower Kitchen in Absarokee. We welcome our new partners in the culinary arts, Gena Gale Burghoff, Chris Lockhart, and Danny Mowat, at Will’s Shed during the concert season. They will continue to serve fans in Red Lodge at PREROGATIvE Kitchen as well. Hikers, bikers, and van tour participants who visited earlier this summer were also able to purchase provisions prepared by Asano Otsu of Samurai Sue’s Everyday Foods, whose home made breads and grab-and-go items are sold at various locations in Red Lodge.
Between recording sessions, opera and theater productions streamed from England, community concerts, and artist residencies, we are now utilizing our facilities year-round. We also offer highdefinition recordings and films of concerts, from 2016 to the present, on our website and on our YouTube page.
Our new project is called The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation. We’ve put a link to it on the top menu of the Tippet Rise website. The Brinkerhoffpoetry.org website features videos of poems being read by poets, actors, and ordinary people in London, New York, and Montana, as well as a growing archive of recent and classic poems. We hope to feature visits by poets and theater ensembles at Tippet Rise starting in 2023.
And we welcome you, our friends, neighbors, and new friends, who keep our meadows alive each year with your curiosity and enthusiasm, and are our community, without whom we wouldn’t have Tippet Rise.
—Peter and Cathy
This music season at Tippet Rise features five weekends of classical and contemporary chamber concerts featuring new and returning artists, rising stars, established soloists, and ensembles. We hope you enjoy our summer season as much as we have enjoyed creating it.
Friday, August 26, 5:30 PM
Jennifer Frautschi, violin Arlen Hlusko, cello
Zoltán Fejérvári, piano
Saturday, August 27, 11:00 AM
Jennifer Frautschi, violin Katie Hyun, violin Jordan Bak, viola Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola Gabriel Cabezas, cello Arlen Hlusko, cello
Sunday, August 28, 11:00 AM
Zoltán Fejérvári, piano
Season
Friday, September 2, 5:30 PM Saturday, September 3, 11:00 AM Sunday, September 4, 11:00 AM
Pedja Muzijevic, piano
Brandon Patrick George, piccolo Alex Sopp, piccolo Sandbox Percussion
Jonny Allen Victor Caccese
Ian Rosenbaum
Terry Sweeney
Friday, September 9, 5:30 PM Saturday, September 10, 11:00 AM
Richard Goode, piano
Sterling Elliott, cello
Wynona Wang, piano
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Sunday, September 11, 11:00 AM
Geneva Lewis, violin
Audrey Vardanega, piano
Friday, September 16, 5:30 PM
Olivier Music Barn
Calidore String Quartet
Jeffrey Myers, violin Ryan Meehan, violin Jeremy Berry, viola Estelle Choi, cello
Saturday, September 17, 11:00 AM
Gryphon Trio
Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin Roman Borys, cello Jamie Parker, piano
Sunday, September 18, 11:00 AM
Calidore String Quartet
Jeffrey Myers, violin Ryan Meehan, violin Jeremy Berry, viola Estelle Choi, cello Gryphon Trio
Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin Roman Borys, cello Jamie Parker, piano
Friday, September 23, 5:30 PM
Aizuri Quartet
Emma Frucht and Miho Saegusa, violin Ayane Kozasa, viola Karen Ouzounian, cello
Saturday, September 24, 11:00 AM Sunday, September 25, 11:00 AM
Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
Johnny Gandelsman, violin and guitar
Olivier Music Barn
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Arlen Hlusko, cello
Zoltán Fejérvári, piano
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART: Violin Sonata No. 22 in A Major, K. 305
Allegro di molto
Tema con variazioni: Andante grazioso (Variations I-V) – Allegro (Variation VI)
REENA ESMAIL: Sandhiprakash for Solo Cello (2022 Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere)
ROBERT SCHUMANN: Piano Trio No. 2 in F Major, Op. 80
Sehr lebhaft
Mit innigem Ausdruck – Lebhaft
In mässiger Bewegung Nicht zu rasch
Will’s Shed
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Katie Hyun, violin
Jordan Bak, viola
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Arlen Hlusko, cello
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4
PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY: String Sextet in D Minor (“Souvenir de Florence”), Op. 70
Allegro con spirito
Adagio cantabile e con moto
Allegretto corto moderato
Allegro con brio e vivace
Music Barn
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825
Praeludium
Allemande Courante Sarabande
Minuet I Minuet II Gigue
FRANZ SCHUBERT: Valses nobles,
MAURICE RAVEL: Valses nobles et
BÉLA BARTÓK: Dance Suite, Sz. 77, BB 86b
Moderato
Allegro molto
Allegro vivace
Molto tranquillo Comodo
Finale: Allegro
Olivier Music Barn
Pedja Muzijevic, piano
JOSEPH HAYDN: Piano Sonata in G Minor, Hob. XVI:44
Moderato
Allegretto
VALENTYN SILVESTROV: Nine Waltzes, Op. 308 (2021) – Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere
Allegro
Allegretto Moderato Andantino Allegretto Andante
Waltz of the Moment
Waltz of the Moment (January 2021) Moderato
GREGORY SPEARS: Seven Days (2020) - World Premiere Performance
“Thursday Morning, Friday Afternoon, and Saturday Evening”
SILVESTROV: Four Pieces, Op. 305 (2021) – Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere
Waltz
Pastoral Serenade
Waltz of the Moment
HAYDN: Sonata in E-flat Major, Hob. XVI:52
Allegro – Moderato
Adagio
Finale: Presto
Cathy’s Meadow
Brandon Patrick George, piccolo
Alex Sopp, piccolo
Sandbox Percussion
Jonny Allen
Victor Caccese
Ian Rosenbaum
Terry Sweeney
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS: songbirdsongs
Wood Thrush
Morningfieldsong
Meadowdance
August Voices
Mourning Dove
Apple Blossom Round
Not-quitespringdawn
Joyful Noise
Evensong
Olivier Music Barn
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH: Sonata in A-flat Major, Wq. 49/2
Un poco allegro
Adagio
Allegro
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106, “Hammerklavier”
Allegro
Scherzo: Assai vivace
Adagio sostenuto
Introduzione: Largo... Allegro – Fuga: Allegro risoluto
Richard Goode, piano
No. 6 in G Major: Andante – Allegretto No. 7 in C Major: Allegro, ma non troppo No. 8 in C Major: Moderato cantabile No. 9 in A Minor: Vivace moderato No. 10 in A Major: Allegramente No. 11 in B-flat Major: Andante, ma non troppo
Vivace ma non troppo – Adagio espressivo Prestissimo Gesangvoll
BEETHOVEN: Diabelli Variations, Op. 120
Olivier Music Barn
Sterling Elliott, cello
Wynona Wang, piano
BRIAN RAPHAEL NABORS: Sonata for Cello and Piano Pesante – Dolce Reflective Leggiero
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Havanaise for Cello and Piano, Op. 83
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 40 Allegro non troppo Allegro Largo Allegro
Olivier Music Barn
Geneva Lewis, violin
Audrey Vardanega, piano
WILLIAM GRANT STILL: Suite for Violin and Piano
African Dancer
Mother and Child
Gamin
GARETH FARR: Wakatipu for Solo Violin
VALENTYN SILVESTROV: Two Pieces for Violin and Piano (2020) - Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere
Pastoral
Barcarola
ROBERT SCHUMANN: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 121
Ziemlich langsam – Lebhaft
Sehr lebhaft
Leise, einfach
Bewegt
Olivier Music Barn
Calidore String Quartet
Jeffrey Myers, violin
Ryan Meehan, violin
Jeremy Berry, viola
Estelle Choi, cello
WYNTON MARSALIS: Three movements from At the Octoroon Balls
“Creole Contradanzas”
“Many Gone”
“Hellbound Highball”
JOHANNES BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67
Vivace
Andante
Agitato – Allegretto non troppo – Trio – Coda
Poco allegretto con variazioni
Olivier Music Barn
Gryphon Trio
Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin
Roman Borys, cello
Jamie Parker, piano
JOSEPH HAYDN: Piano Trio in A Major, Hob. XV:18
Allegro moderato
Andante
Allegro
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97, “Archduke”
Allegro moderato
Scherzo: Allegro
Andante cantabile ma però con moto – Poco piu adagio
Allegro moderato – Presto
Calidore String Quartet
Jeffrey Myers, violin
Ryan Meehan, violin
Jeremy Berry, viola
Estelle Choi, cello
Gryphon Trio
Annalee Patipatanakoon, violin
Roman Borys, cello
Jamie Parker, piano
KELLY-MARIE MURPHY: Give Me Phoenix Wings to Fly for Piano Trio Fire
Bleak Devastation
Rebuilding
FRANZ SCHUBERT: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956
Allegro ma non troppo
Adagio
Scherzo: Presto – Trio: Andante sostenuto
Allegretto
Olivier Music Barn
Aizuri Quartet
Emma Frucht and Miho Saegusa, violin
Ayane Kozasa, viola
Karen Ouzounian, cello
Song Emerging
ROBERT SCHUMANN: String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 41, No. 1
Introduzione: Andante espressivo – Allegro
Scherzo: Presto
Adagio
Presto
AIZURI SONGBOOK
JOANNA NEWSOM: “Bridges and Balloons” (arr. Christina Courtin)
FRANZ SCHUBERT: “Der Lindenbaum” (The Linden Tree) from Winterreise, D. 911 (arr. Michi Wiancko)
CLARA SCHUMANN: Ich Stand in Dunkeln Träumen (I Stood Darkly Dreaming; arr. Ouzounian)
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: Romance (“Voici que le printemps” Behold How Spring...; arr. Miho Saegusa)
CÉCILE CHAMINADE: Ronde d’amour (“Ah! Si l’amour prenait les racines” Ah, If Love Could Take Root; arr. Lembit Beecher)
AMERICAN TRADITIONAL: “Working on a Building” (arr. George Meyer)
ANNA ROBERTS-GEVALT: “After Lester”
ELIZABETH COTTEN: “Freight Train” (arr. Karen Ouzounian)
ELEANOR ALBERGA: “Remember”
BEN RUSSELL: “Weather Vane”
Olivier Music Barn
Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Barcarolle, Op. 60
CHOPIN: Polonaise-fantaisie in A-flat Major, Op. 61
WŁADYSŁAW SZPILMAN: The Life of the Machines, Suite
Begin slowly Machine at rest Toccatina
SERGEI PROKOFIEV: Sonata No. 8 in B-flat Major, Op. 84 Andante dolce – Allegro moderato Andante sognando Vivace
Olivier Music Barn
Johnny Gandelsman, violin and guitar
This Is America
ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN: A través del manto luminoso (Through the luminous mantle) for Violin and Electronics
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 (transcribed for violin) Prelude Allemande Courante Sarabande Minuet I / II Gigue
TOMEKA REID: Rhapsody for Violin
KINAN AZMEH: Sahra be Wyckoff (A party at Wyckoff for all) for Violin
JUSTIN MESSINA: Music For Solitude for Violin
BOJAN LOUIS: Dólii for Guitar (2021) - Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere
RHIANNON GIDDENS: New to the Session for Violin
Yulianna Avdeeva, piano
Jordan Bak, viola Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Calidore String Quartet Sterling Elliott, cello Reena Esmail, composer Zoltán Fejérvári, piano Jennifer Frautschi, violin Johnny Gandelsman, violin, guitar Brandon Patrick George, piccolo Richard Goode, piano Gryphon Trio
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Arlen Hlusko, cello Katie Hyun, violin Geneva Lewis, violin Bojan Louis, composer Pedja Muzijevic, piano Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola Sandbox Percussion
Valentyn Silvestrov, composer Alex Sopp, piccolo Audrey Vardanega, piano
Wynona Wang, piano
Formed in 2012 and combining four distinctive musical personalities into a powerful collective, the Aizuri Quartet draws its name from aizuri-e, a style of predominantly blue Japanese woodblock printing that is noted for its vibrancy and incredible detail. The Aizuri Quartet has established a unique position within today’s musical landscape, infusing all of its music-making with infectious energy, joy and warmth, cultivating curiosity in listeners, and inviting audiences into the concert experience through The Aizuri Quartet’s innovative programming, and the depth and fire of its performances.
Praised by The Washington Post for “astounding” and “captivating” performances that draw from its notable “meld of intellect, technique and emotions,” the Aizuri Quartet was named the recipient of the 2022 Cleveland Quartet Award by Chamber Music America, and was awarded the Grand Prize at the 2018 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition along with top prizes at the 2017 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan and the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition in London. The Quartet’s debut album, Blueprinting, featuring new works written for the Aizuri Quartet by five American composers, was released by New Amsterdam Records to critical acclaim (“In a word, stunning” —I Care If You Listen), nominated for a 2019 Grammy Award, and named one of NPR Music’s Best Classical Albums of 2018. Throughout 2022 the Aizuri Quartet is a fellow of the Artist Propulsion Lab at WQXR, New York City’s classical music station.
Yulianna Avdeeva has gained worldwide recogni tion since the 2010 Chopin Competition, when she won first prize with a “detailed way of playing” that “matched Chopin’s own” (The Telegraph). A pianist of fiery temperament and virtuosity, she plays with power, conviction, and authority.
Avdeeva’s summer 2021 schedule included several European festivals: La Roque d’Antheron, Fryderyk Chopin Institute’s 16th International Festival Chopin and his Europe in Warsaw, Bachwoche Ansbach, Ravel Festival Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and Settimani Musicali in Ascona. Featured repertoire included music by Bach, Ravel, Rachmaninoff, Szpilman, and Weinberg.
Her 2021–22 plans begin with a concert tour in Germany and Austria; a recital debut at the Konzerthaus Vienna, a return to Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin, and a recital tour in Europe with Julia Fischer; a tour of Spain with Robert Trevino and the Basque National Orchestra playing Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, “Age of Anxiety”; and performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the Naples Philharmonic.
During the first lockdown in March 2020, Avdeeva started presenting weekly live streams on Facebook and YouTube in which she played and discussed the entirety of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Books I and II. She went live 60 times, and her livestreams have been viewed more than 500,000 times worldwide.
The award-winning Jamaican-American violist
Jordan Bak is building an exciting international career as a trailblazing artist, praised for his radiant stage presence and robust alto sound. The 2021 Young Classical Artists Trust Robey Artist and a top laureate of the 2020 Sphinx Competition, Bak is also a grand prize winner and audience prize recipient of the 2019 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and the 2019 John White Special Prize from the Tertis International Viola Competition. In addition, Bak is a featured artist for WQXR’s Artist Propulsion Lab.
Highlights of the 2021–2022 season include recital debuts at Wigmore Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, and Baltimore’s Shriver Hall; chamber music tours with Musicians from Marlboro and Concert Artists Guild On Tour; and new music commissions from such composers as Tyson Davis, Shawn Okpebholo, and James Ra. A proud new music advocate, Bak gave the world premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Du gick, flög for viola and mezzo-soprano and the viola premiere of Jessica Meyer’s Excessive Use of Force. Bak has performed at numerous chamber music festivals, including the legendary Marlboro Music Festival. He has collaborated and performed with top-level ensembles, including Verona Quartet and Merz Trio, and with artists such as Jonathan Biss, Lara Downes, and Ani Kavafian.
Cellist Gabriel Cabezas has appeared with America’s finest symphony orchestras, including those of Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, and Los Angeles, and has premiered dozens of new works by some of the most brilliant composers of his time. He is a member of the chamber sextet yMusic, “six contemporary classical polymaths who playfully overstep the boundaries of musical genres” (The New Yorker). Their virtuosic execution and unique configuration (string trio, flute, clarinet, and trumpet) has attracted the attention of high profile collaborators— from Paul Simon to Bill T. Jones to Ben Folds—and inspired original works by some of today’s foremost composers, including Nico Muhly, Missy Mazzoli, and Andrew Norman. He is also a co-founder of Duende, a new music and contemporary dance collective that focuses on the interaction between musicians and dancers in the realization of new scores.
He recently released Lost Coast, an album of cello music with composer Gabriella Smith, named one of NPR Music’s “26 Favorite Albums Of 2021 (So Far)” and a “Classical Album to Hear Right Now” by The New York Times. In 2016, Cabezas received the Sphinx Medal of Excellence, a career grant awarded to extraordinary classical Black and Latino musicians, who, early in their professional career, demonstrate artistic excellence, outstanding work ethic, a spirit of determination, and ongoing commitment to leader ship. Gabriel studied at the Curtis Institute of Music under Carter Brey.
Recipient of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2017 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, the Calidore String Quartet first made international headlines after winning the 2016 M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition. The Quartet was the first North American ensemble to win the BorlettiBuitoni Trust Fellowship. It was also a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and is currently in residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The Calidore Quartet was founded at the Colburn School in Los Angeles in 2010. Within two years, the members won grand prizes in virtually all the major national chamber music competitions, including the Fischoff, Coleman, and Chesapeake competitions.
Highlights of the 2021–22 season include return visits to Wigmore Hall in London and Alice Tully Hall in New York, and debuts at the Library of Congress, Harvard University, and internationally in The Hague and Antwerp. Recent seasons’ performances have taken the Calidore throughout North America, Europe, and Asia, including visits to Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Kennedy Center, Berlin Konzerthaus, and Seoul’s Kumho Arts Hall, as well as at significant festivals such as the BBC Proms, Verbier, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Music@Menlo, Rheingau, East Neuk, and Festspiele MeckleburgVorpommern.
The Calidore String Quartet’s latest album on Signum Records, BABEL, features works by Schumann, Shostakovich, and Caroline Shaw.
terling Elliott is a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the winner of the senior division of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition.
His orchestral engagements include the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Detroit Symphony, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony, and Buffalo Philharmonic.
Elliott has a long history with the Sphinx Organiza tion. He received second place in the 2013 National Sphinx Competition, junior division, then won the 2014 junior division. In 2016 he received the Isaac Stern Award by the Sphinx Organization and toured with the Sphinx Virtuosi in 2018 before winning in 2019.
A two-time alumnus of NPR’s From the Top, he received a scholarship from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and performed several concerts in Switzerland at the 2019 World Economic Forum. He is a Young Strings of America ambassador for SHAR Strings.
Elliott is currently a Kovner Fellow at The Juilliard School, where he is pursuing his master of music degree studying with Joel Krosnick. He completed his undergraduate degree in cello performance at Juilliard in May 2021. Sterling Elliott is represented by colbertartists.com
Reena Esmail’s work has been commissioned by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Kronos Quartet, Imani Winds, Richmond Symphony, Town Music Seattle, Albany Symphony, and Chicago Sinfonietta among many others. Upcoming seasons include new works for Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Amherst College Choir and Orchestra, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and Conspirare.
Esmail is the Los Angeles Master Chorale’s 2020–23 Swan Family artist in residence and Seattle Symphony’s 2020–21 composer in residence. Previously, she was named a 2019 United States Artists Fellow in Music, and the 2019 grand prize winner of the S&R Evermay Washington Award.
Esmail holds degrees in composition from The Juilliard School and the Yale School of Music Her primary teachers include Susan Botti, Aaron Jay Kernis, Christopher Theofanidis, Martin Bresnick, Christopher Rouse, and Samuel Adler. She received a Fulbright–Nehru grant to study Hindustani music in India. Her Hindustani music teachers include Srimati Lakshmi Shankar and Gaurav Mazundar; she currently studies and collaborates with Saili Oak. As an artistic director for the nonprofit organization Shastra, Esmail works between the worlds of Indian and Western classical music, bringing communities together through the creation of equitable musical spaces.
Zoltán Fejérvári has emerged as one of the most intriguing pianists among the newest generation of Hungarian musicians. Winner of the 2017 Concours Musical International de Montréal and recipient of the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award in 2016, Fejérvári has appeared in recitals throughout the Americas and Europe, at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Place des Arts in Canada, Gasteig in Munich, Lingotto in Turin, Palau de la Música de València , Biblioteca Nacional de la República Argentina, and Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. He has performed as a soloist with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Hungarian National Orchestra, Verbier Chamber Orchestra, and Concerto Budapest, and he has collaborated with such conductors as Iván Fischer, Gábor Tákács-Nagy, Ken-Ichiro Kobayashi, and Zoltán Kocsis.
Fejérvári’s solo recording debut, Janáček , released in January 2019, was praised by Gramophone as “the most sensitive and deeply probative recording” of that composer’s work. His latest record ing, Schumann, was released by the Atma Classique label in May 2020. According to Gramophone: “Fejérvári is a deeply communicative artist who com bines an imperturbable yet magisterial command of his instrument with impeccable musicality. Those who have yet to hear him are in for a rare treat.”
Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Jennifer Frautschi has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Cincinnati Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she has performed with the Boston Chamber Music Society and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and appeared at Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla SummerFest, Music@Menlo, Tippet Rise Art Center, and Toronto Summer Music, as well as the Bridgehampton, Charlottesville, Lake Champlain, Moab, Ojai, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Spoleto music festivals.
She has recorded several discs for Naxos: the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, conducted by Robert Craft; and two Grammy-nominated recordings with the Fred Sherry Quartet, of Schoenberg’s Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra, and the Schoenberg Third String Quartet. Her most recent recordings, with pianist John Blacklow, are on Albany: the first features Robert Schumann’s three sonatas; the second explores recent additions to the violin and piano repertoire by five American composers.
Born in Pasadena, California, Frautschi attended the Colburn School, Harvard, the New England Conservatory, and The Juilliard School. She performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the “ex-Cadiz,” on generous loan from a private American foundation with support from Rare Violins In Consortium. She teaches in the graduate program at Stony Brook University.
The musical voice of Grammy award–winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman reflects the artistic collaborations that he has been a part of since moving to the United States in 1995. Richard Brody of The New Yorker called Gandelsman “revelatory” in concert, placing him in the company of “radically transformative” performers like Maurizio Pollini, Peter Serkin, and Christian Zacharias.
As a founding member of Brooklyn Rider and a former member of the Silkroad Ensemble, Gandelsman has worked with Bela Fleck, Martin Hayes, Kayhan Kalhor, Yo-Yo Ma, Mark Morris, Anne Sofie von Otter, Alim Qasimov and Fargana Qasimova, Joshua Redman, Abigail Washburn, and Damian Woetzel. He has performed with Bono, David Byrne, Renée Fleming, Rhiannon Giddens, I’m With Her, Christian McBride, and Suzanne Vega. A passionate advocate for new music, Gandelsman has premiered dozens of new works.
His recording of the complete Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin reached number one on the Billboard Classical Chart and was included on the New York Magazine and The New York Times Best of the Year lists.
Gandelsman was born in Moscow into a family of musicians. His father, Yuri, is a world-renowned violist; his mother, Janna, is a pianist; and his sister Natasha is a violinist as well. He lives in Brooklyn with his partner, Amber Star Merkens, and their two kids, Julius Ivry and Raiya Leone.
Brandon Patrick George is a leading soloist and Grammy-nominated chamber musician whose reper toire extends from the Baroque era to today. He is the flutist of Imani Winds and has appeared as a soloist with the Atlanta, Baltimore, and Albany symphonies; the American Composers Orchestra; and Orchestra of St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, among others. He has been praised as “elegant” by The New York Times, as a “virtuoso” by The Washington Post, and as a “knockout musician with a gorgeous sound” by The Philadelphia Inquirer. His debut album was released by Haenssler Classics in September 2020.
George has performed at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Elbphilharmonie, the Kennedy Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dresden Music Festival, and the Prague Spring Festival, among other venues. Before his solo career, George performed with many of the world’s leading ensembles, includ ing the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE).
George trained at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the Conservatoire de Paris, and the Manhattan School of Music. He serves on the faculty of the Curtis Institute and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity.
Acknowledged worldwide as a leading interpreter of Classical and Romantic music, Richard Goode has been hailed for music making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and expressiveness. He has been heard in performances with major orchestras, recitals in the world’s music capitals, and masterclasses in person or online. Through his extensive and acclaimed Nonesuch recordings, he has won a large and devoted following.
An exclusive Nonesuch recording artist, Goode has made more than two dozen recordings over the years, ranging from solo and chamber works to Lieder and concertos. His 10-CD set of the complete Beethoven sonatas cycle, the first-ever by an American-born pianist, was nominated for a Grammy and has been ranked among the most distinguished recordings of this repertoire. Other recording highlights include the Mozart piano con certos with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Grammy Award winning Brahms Sonatas with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman.
Goode served as co-artistic director of the re nowned Marlboro Music School and Festival in Vermont from 1999 through 2013. In fall 2021 he joined the Peabody Conservatory as Distinguished Artist Faculty.
He is married to the violinist Marcia Weinfeld, and, when the Goodes are not on tour, they and their collection of some 5,000 volumes live in New York City.
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For 25 years the Gryphon Trio has impressed international audiences and critics with its highly refined, dynamic performances, firmly establishing itself as one of the world’s preeminent piano trios. With a repertoire that ranges from the traditional to the contemporary and from European classicism to modern-day multimedia, the Gryphons are commit ted to redefining chamber music for the 21st century.
The ensemble in residence at Music Toronto for 10 years, the Gryphon Trio tours extensively throughout North America and Europe. Among its recent performances are those for the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, Northwestern University, the Eastman School of Music, Tippet Rise Art Center, and Williams College. Strongly dedicated to pushing the boundaries of chamber music, the Trio has commis sioned and premiered more than 70 new works from established and emerging composers around the world and has collaborated on special projects with clarinetist James Campbell, actor Colin Fox, choreographer David Earle, and a host of jazz and world musicians.
Deeply committed to the education of future generations of audiences and performers, the Gryphon members regularly conduct masterclasses and workshops at universities and conservatories across North America. They are artists in residence at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Music. Among their educational initiatives are the Young Composers Program at Toronto’s Claude Watson Arts High School and its flagship educational project, Listen Up!
Praised by The New York Times as “a performer of near-superhuman technical prowess,” Marc-André Hamelin is known worldwide for his unrivaled blend of consummate musicianship and brilliant technique in the established repertoire, as well as for his intrepid exploration of the rarities of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, both in concert and on disc.
Hamelin is an exclusive recording artist for Hyperion Records. His discography contains more than 70 albums and covers a broad range of solo, orchestral, and chamber repertoire. In January 2022 his two-disc set of C.P.E. Bach sonatas and rondos garnered both critical acclaim and popular success.
Hamelin has written nearly 30 original compositions. Most of these works—including the Études and Toccata on L’Homme armé, commissioned by the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition— are published by Edition Peters. Another recent work, Suite à l’ancienne (Suite in the Old style), was premiered in February 2021 by pianist Rachel Naomi Kudo with funding from her Gilmore Young Artist Award.
Hamelin lives in the Boston area with his wife, Cathy Fuller, a producer and host at Classical WCRB. Born in Montreal, he received a lifetime achievement award from the German Record Critics’ Association, as well as seven Juno Awards and 11 Grammy nominations, the 2018 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, and the Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award for Keyboard Artistry.
Hailed for her “sublime cello prowess” by Take Effect, her “absorbing originality” by Gramophone, and her “mesmerizing beauty” by NY Music Daily, internationally acclaimed Canadian cellist Arlen Hlusko is a dynamic, versatile young artist who has performed extensively as a soloist and a chamber musician across North America, Asia, and Europe.
Recently appointed cellist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Hlusko is a laureate of numerous competitions. She won a Grammy Award for her collaboration with The Crossing, and is a recent alumna of both the Curtis Institute of Music and Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect fellowship. She has been featured on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) as one of the “30 Under 30” and is a proud Larsen Artist. She has recently debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, and she regularly performs at major chamber music festivals such as Music from Angel Fire, Spoleto USA, and Tippet Rise.
Committed to using her music to connect with and serve her community, Hlusko founded her own interactive chamber music concert series, Philadelphia Performances for Autism, and is involved with several communities in Philadelphia and New York, including Carnegie Hall’s Musical Connections at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. For more information, see arlenhlusko.com
Awinner of Astral Artists’ 2016 National Auditions, Katie Hyun was described as “a virtuoso by any measure” by The Berkshire Review. Her debut recital with Astral Artists in Philadelphia showcased virtuosic works on both Baroque and modern violins. She has appeared at festivals such as Chamber Music Northwest, Bravo! Vail, Tippet Rise Arts Center, Mostly Mozart, OBX Chamber Music Series, Crescent City Chamber Music Festival, and New York in Chuncheon Festival in South Korea.
Hyun currently serves as the concertmaster of NOVUS Trinity Wall Street. She has recently appeared as a soloist with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, NOVUS Trinity Wall Street, and the Busan Sinfonietta and Incheon Philharmonic in South Korea, among others. On the Baroque violin, she frequently appears with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and Seraphic Fire.
Hyun is also the founder and director of Quodlibet Ensemble, a collective of string players and creators dedicated to creating musical experiences that engage, entertain, and invite people to invest in their communities. Quodlibet has performed at the Shepherd Music Series, Yale British Arts Center, Drew University, Rockefeller University, and the Baryshnikov Arts Center. In October 2020 Quodlibet partnered with VOTESart to produce a video performance aimed at raising awareness of voters’ rights. The video premiered at the Five Boroughs Music Festival.
he New Zealand-born violinist Geneva Lewis has forged a reputation as a musician of consummate artistry whose performances speak from and to the heart. Hailed by Musical America as “clearly one to watch,” Lewis is the recipient of a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Other recent honors include winning Kronberg Academy’s Prince of Hesse Prize and being named a finalist at the 2018 Naumburg International Violin Competition, a Performance Today Young Artist in Residence, and Musical America’s New Artist of the Month.
After her solo debut at age 11 with the Pasadena Symphony, Lewis has gone on to perform with orchestras around the world. Recent and forthcoming appearances include dates with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, , Sarasota Orchestra, Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, Augusta Symphony, and Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with a number of notable conductors, including Nicholas McGegan, Edwin Outwater, and Michael Feinstein, Sameer Patel, Peter Rubardt, and Dirk Meyer. Recent and upcoming recital highlights include performances at Wigmore Hall,Tippet Rise Art Center, Emory Uni versity, Purdue Convocations, and the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
Pianist Pedja Muzijevic has performed with the Atlanta Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Residentie Orkest in The Hague, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Shinsei Nihon Orchestra in Tokyo. He has played solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall, 92Y and The Frick Collection in New York, Terrace Theater at Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, Casals Hall and Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo.
Muzijevic’s interdisciplinary projects include touring with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the White Oak Dance Project throughout the United States, South America, Europe and Asia and with Simon Keenlyside in Trisha Brown’s staged version of Schubert’s Winterreise at Lincoln Center in New York, Barbican in London, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opera National de Paris, as well as Holland, Lucerne and Melbourne festivals.
Highlights of 2021/22 season are performances of Framing Time, staging of Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories with lighting design by Burke Brown and choreography by Cesc Gelabert in Barcelona and Madrid, concerts for Castleton Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Chamber Music Chicago, as well as Beethoven Fourth Piano Concerto with Battle Creek Symphony and Anne Harrigan for the Gilmore Piano Festival. Muzijevic is the artistic administrator at Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York and artistic advisor at Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana.
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Praised by The Strad magazine as having “lyricism that stood out... a silky tone and beautiful, supple lines,” Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt has established herself as one of the most sought-after violists of her generation. In addition to solo appearances with the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Jacksonville Symphony, and the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra, she has performed in recitals and chamber music concerts throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.
Pajaro-van de Stadt is the founding violist of the Dover Quartet, the first prize winner and recipient of every special award at the Banff International String Quartet Competition 2013, and the winner of the gold medal and grand prize in the 2010 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. Other awards include first prize in the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and top prizes in the Sphinx Competition and the Tokyo International Viola Competition.
After studying violin with Sergiu Schwartz and Melissa Pierson-Barrett for several years, she began studying viola with Michael Klotz at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in 2005. She graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she stud ied with Roberto Diaz, Michael Tree, Misha Amory, and Joseph de Pasquale. She received her master’s degree at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, as a student of James Dunham.
Described as “exhilarating” by The New York Times, and “utterly mesmerizing” by The Guardian, Sandbox Percussion has established itself as a lead ing proponent of contemporary percussion chamber music. Brought together by the simple joy of playing together, Sandbox Percussion captivates audiences with performances that are both visually and aurally stunning. Through compelling collaborations with composers and performers, Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, and Terry Sweeney seek to engage a wider audience for classical music.
Sandbox Percussion’s 2021 album Seven Pillars was nominated for two Grammy Awards. This evening-length work by Andy Akiho, with stage direction and lighting design by Michael Joseph McQuilken, is Sandbox’s largest commission to date.
In addition to the world premiere of Seven Pillars at Emerald City Music in Seattle, the 2021–22 season includes many highlights: concertos with the Albany Symphony and University of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory Orchestra; tour dates in Northern Ireland, Lithuania, and many cities across the United States; performances at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention; and premieres of new works by David Crowell, Molly Joyce, Loren Loiacono, Jessica Meyer, Tawnie Olson, and Tyshawn Sorey.
In 2021 Sandbox Percussion was appointed ensemble in residence and percussion faculty at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.
Born in Kyiv, in 1937, Valentyn Silvestrov came to music relatively late, at age 15. Initially self-taught, he took music classes at night while studying to become a civil engineer. From 1958 to 1964, he studied composition and counterpoint at Kyiv Conservatory and then taught music for several years.
As a freelance composer, Silvestrov was based in Kyiv from 1970 until March 2022. He is considered one of the leading representatives of the “Kyiv avant-garde,” which came to public attention around 1960 and was aggressively suppressed by Soviet authorities. In the 1960s and 1970s, his music was scarcely played in his native city; premieres, if given at all, took place only in Russia, primarily in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), or in the West. After Russia’s aggressive invasion of Ukraine, the composer, at the request of his family and with the help of friends, fled with his daughter and granddaughter to Berlin, where he currently lives.
During the political unrest in Ukraine, Silvestrov has fought for his country by musical means, responding through numerous choral works, including Majdan Hymns and Prayers for the Ukraine. Although the world premiere of his Symphony No. 9 was postponed for two years on account of the global pandemic, the five-movement work was debuted on July 19, 2022, in Yerevan, Armenia.
Alex Sopp, a musician and artist living in Brooklyn, is the flutist of yMusic, The Knights, and NOW Ensemble. The New York Times has praised her playing as “exquisite” and “beautifully nuanced.” Comfortable in many genres, Sopp has commis sioned, premiered, toured, and recorded with some of the most exciting composers and songwriters of our time, including Paul Simon, Nico Muhly, Nicholas Britell, Taylor Swift, Sufjan Stevens, Ben Folds, Philip Glass, Andrew Norman, Bruce Hornsby, Son Lux, Gabriel Kahane, St. Vincent, Anohni, José González, The Dirty Projectors, and The National. She has appeared with with the New York Philharmonic, The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Mariinksy Orchestra, and the Louisiana Philharmonic.
In addition to being a flutist, she is a singer and a visual artist. Most recently, she was a member of Paul Simon’s band for his “Farewell Tour,” providing flute, whistles, and vocal harmonies to the iconic songwriter’s body of work. Her voice can also be heard on several albums. In addition to creating several handmade stop-motion animation films to use in music videos, Sopp has made paintings that grace the album covers of several artists with whom she has collaborated. She grew up in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, and completed both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at The Juilliard School.
Praised by San Francisco Classical Voice as a “[musically] eloquent” player “with the kind of freedom, authority, and strength... that one expects from the world’s finest pianists,” Audrey Vardanega has performed as a solo and collaborative pianist across Europe, China, South America, and the United States. She earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from Columbia University in May 2017 and her master’s degree in music in May 2019 from Mannes School of Music at The New School, under the tutelage of Richard Goode.
She is the founder and artistic director of Musaics of the Bay, a nonprofit chamber music series ded icated to connecting musicians, composers, and visual artists for collaborations, residency programs, mentorship, and the creation of new work in the Bay Area and beyond. Along with pianist and composer Christos Vayenas, she is the co-founder and COO of Arium TV, a free online streaming platform for classical music storytelling. She is also the director of operations for The Autumn Salon, an invitation-only New York City- and Boston-based salon series devoted to bringing together world-class musicians with audiences in intimate settings. Vardanega is passionate about providing emerging artists with opportunities to determine their own careers by creating new artistic communities.
Wynona Yinuo Wang won first prize in the 2018 Concert Artists Guild International Competition as well as the 2017 Wideman International Piano Competition. She is a 2019 recipient of the Charlotte White Career Grant awarded by New York’s Salon de Virtuosi.
Recent North American performances include dates with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, the California North State Symphony Orchestra, and the Meadows Symphony Orchestra. She has appeared at major venues such as Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, and Merkin Concert Hall. She has been featured on WQXR radio in New York. Her most recent festival appearance was at the 2021 Music@Menlo Festival, where she performed in a dozen concerts with artists such as David Finckel, Paul Neubauer, and Kristin Lee.
She garnered top honors at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival Artist Recognition Scholarship Awards Competition in New York City, the Hamamatsu International Piano Academy Competition in Japan, and the Chautauqua Music Festival’s piano competition in New York state. Highlights of the 2021–22 season include appearances at the Kravis Center and the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series.
Born in China, Wang is currently studying with Robert McDonald at The Juilliard School.
Bojan Louis (Diné) is the author of the poetry collection Currents (BkMk Press, 2017), which received a 2018 American Book Award, and the nonfiction chapbook Troubleshooting Silence in Arizona (The Guillotine Series, 2012). He is an assistant professor in the creative writing and American Indian Studies programs at the University of Arizona. Sinking Bell: Stories is forthcoming from Graywolf Press on September 20, 2022.
hank you for joining us this season. We hope you take with you that magical late summer feeling, when the sunsets and air begin to tell you that fall is near, and perhaps the sound of something ringing in your ears that will make you think of us through the snows of winter and the thaws of spring, and bring you back to us another summer: hopeful, energized, and encouraged.
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