Chamber Music for Strings

chamber music for strings with wendy sharp & guests faculty artist series

january 16 2010

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Robert Blocker, Dean

january 16, 2010 · 8 pm Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

chamber music for strings with wendy sharp & guests zoltán kodály 1882-1967

Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 12 (1919-1920) Allegramente—Sostenuto ma non troppo Lento ma non troppo Vivo Wendy Sharp, violin Andrea Schultz, violin Marka Gustavsson, viola

christopher theofanidis b. 1967

Summer Verses (2009) I. very, very happy II. Curious III. lyric, wistful IV. Robert V. noble, resolute Wendy Sharp, violin Scott Kluksdahl, cello intermission

arnold schoenberg 1874-1951

Verklärte Nacht for two violins, two violas and two cellos, Op. 4 (1899) Wendy Sharp, violin Andrea Schultz, violin Marka Gustavsson, viola Carol Rodland, viola Scott Kluksdahl, cello Mimi Hwang, cello

As a courtesy to the performers and audience members, turn off cell phones and pagers. Please do not leave the theater during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is not permitted.

verklärte nacht richard dehmel

transfigured night trans. mary whittall

Zwei Menschen gehn durch kahlen, kalten

Hain; der Mond läuft mit, sie schaun hinein.

Der Mond läuft über hohe Eichen; kein Wölkchen trübt das Himmelslicht, in das die schwarzen Zacken reichen.

Die Stimme eines Weibes spricht:

Two people are walking through a bare, cold wood; the moon keeps pace with them and draws

their gaze.

The moon moves along above tall oak trees, there is no wisp of cloud to obscure the radiance to which the black, jagged tips reach up.

A woman’s voice speaks:

Ich trag ein Kind, und nit von Dir, ich geh in Sünde neben Dir. Ich hab mich schwer an mir vergangen.

Ich glaubte nicht mehr an ein Glück und hatte doch ein schwer Verlangen nach Lebensinhalt, nach Mutterglück und Pflicht; da hab ich mich erfrecht, da ließ ich schaudernd mein Geschlecht von einem fremden Mann umfangen, und hab mich noch dafür gesegnet.

Nun hat das Leben sich gerächt: nun bin ich Dir, o Dir, begegnet.

“I am carrying a child, and not by you.

I am walking here with you in a state of sin.

I have offended grievously against myself.

I despaired of happiness, and yet I still felt a grievous longing for life’s fullness, for a mother’s joys and duties; and so I sinned, and so I yielded, shuddering, my sex to the embrace of a stranger, and even thought myself blessed.

Now life has taken its revenge, and I have met you, met you.”

Sie geht mit ungelenkem Schritt.

Sie schaut empor; der Mond läuft mit.

Ihr dunkler Blick ertrinkt in Licht.

Die Stimme eines Mannes spricht:

She walks on, stumbling.

She looks up; the moon keeps pace.

Her dark gaze drowns in light.

A man’s voice speaks:

Das Kind, das Du empfangen hast, sei Deiner Seele keine Last, o sieh, wie klar das Weltall schimmert!

Es ist ein Glanz um alles her; Du treibst mit mir auf kaltem Meer, doch eine eigne Wärme flimmert von Dir in mich, von mir in Dich.

Die wird das fremde Kind verklären, Du wirst es mir, von mir gebären; Du hast den Glanz in mich gebracht, Du hast mich selbst zum Kind gemacht.

“Do not let the child you have conceived be a burden on your soul.

Look, how brightly the universe shines!

Splendour falls on everything around, you are voyaging with me on a cold sea, but there is the glow of an inner warmth from you in me, from me in you.

That warmth will transfigure the stranger’s child, and you bear it me, begot by me.

You have transfused me with splendour, you have made a child of me.”

Er faßt sie um die starken Hüften.

Ihr Atem küßt sich in den Lüften.

Zwei Menschen gehn durch hohe, helle

Nacht.

He puts an arm about her strong hips.

Their breath embraces in the air.

Two people walk on through the high, bright

night.

wendy sharp violin

Award-winning violinist Wendy Sharp performs frequently as a recitalist and a chamber musician. In demand as a teacher and chamber music coach, she is on the faculties of the Yale School of Music and California Summer Music, and maintains a private studio. Ms. Sharp was the first violinist and a founding member of the highly acclaimed Franciscan String Quartet. As a member of the quartet she toured the USA, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and was honored with many awards including first prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Press and City of Evian prizes at the Evian International String Quartet Competition.

A native of the San Francisco Bay area, she attended Yale University, graduating summa cum laude with Distinction in Music, and received her master of music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Ms. Sharp has served on the faculties of the Mannes College of Music, Dartmouth College, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Choate Rosemary Hall, and has participated in the Aspen, Tanglewood, Chamber Music West, Norfolk, Britten-Pears, and Music Academy of the West festivals. Ms. Sharp is currently the director of chamber music at the Yale School of Music, where she has also served on the violin faculty since 1997. Ms. Sharp lives with her husband and their two children in North Haven, Connecticut.

andrea schultz violin

Violinist Andrea Schultz currently performs and tours with a wide array of groups, including Sequitur, Either/Or, the New York Chamber Ensemble, Trio of the Americas, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Ms. Schultz was a member of the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble for four years, touring the United States, Britain, Japan, and Australia. She has also appeared as a guest with the Cassatt String Quartet, Apple Hill Chamber Players, Da Capo Chamber Players, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Mostly Mozart, and the Limon Dance Company, and has recorded contemporary chamber music for the Albany, New World, and Phoenix labels.

marka gustavsson viola

As violist of the award-winning Colorado Quartet, Marka Gustavsson has been invited for several seasons to the Bard Music Festival, performed numerous Haydn quartets for the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center, presented all the Schubert quartets at Newport, and has toured the Bartók and Beethoven cycles nationally and internationally. In 2008, the Colorado Quartet released Beethoven’s late quartets on the Parnassus label, commemorating their 25th anniversary season, and received glowing reviews in both Fanfare and the American Record Guide. Ms. Gustavsson has appeared as guest artist of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society’s “Meet the Music” series, and has Ms. Schultz has spent summers performing at been featured on Robert Sherman’s WQXR’s the Tanglewood, Caramoor, Wintergreen, and Young Artists’ Showcase as well as the ABC Cape May Festivals, and teaching at the Kinhaven Sports documentary “Passion to Play.”

Music School and the Chamber Music Center of the East. A graduate of Yale University, the Internationally she has performed as soloist at Cleveland Institute of Music, and SUNY Stony the Banff Centre with the Calgary Philharmonic, Brook, Ms. Schultz studied violin with Sydney in Amsterdam for the Queen of the Netherlands, Harth, Paul Kantor, Donald Weilerstein, and and as chamber musician in the Festival Presence Joyce Robbins. She currently resides in New de Ligeti in Paris at Radio France, at Pundquit York City with her husband, cellist Michael in the Philippines, and at Oji Hall in Tokyo.

Finckel, and their four-year-old daughter Talia. She holds degrees from Indiana University, Mannes College, and CUNY, where her teachers have included Mimi Zweig, Josef Gingold, Felix Galimir, and Daniel Phillips.

She currently serves on the faculties of Bard College and Soundfest.

carol rodland viola

mimi hwang cello

Violist Carol Rodland made her solo debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of seventeen. She subsequently won first prizes at the Washington International Competition, the Artists’ International Auditions, and the Juilliard Concerto Competition, as well as the Universal Editions Prize at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. Ms. Rodland currently enjoys a multifaceted international career as a concert and recording artist and pedagogue. Recent engagements have included recitals, chamber music concerts, and master classes in Germany, Brazil, and throughout the United States. She is a member of Vermont’s Craftsbury Chamber Players, performs frequently as a guest with the Henschel Quartet and the Portland Chamber Music Festival, and is an artist-faculty member of the Bowdoin International Music Festival.

The daughter of Chinese immigrants, cellist Mimi Hwang was born and raised in Los Angeles. She is currently an assistant professor of chamber music at the Eastman School of Music. She is also co-artistic director of Yellow Barn Music School and Festival’s Young Artists Program, a three-week summer chamber music program for talented high school students held in Putney, VT. Ms. Hwang was the cellist and a founding member of the Franciscan String Quartet, First Prize winner of the Banff International String Quartet Competition. The quartet performed in concert halls throughout North America, Europe and Asia, held the position of Wardwell Fellow at the Yale School of Music and was Quartet-in-Residence at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, where Ms. Hwang was on the faculty of the Department of Music. As a soloist, Ms. Hwang has performed with the Beijing Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. She received her master’s degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the bachelor’s degree with distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music. She was a founding member of the Cello Divas, a Rochester-based cello quartet.

Her recently released solo album on the Crystal Records label has received excellent reviews in the press; Fanfare magazine praises her for her “tone [which] is larger than life, sweetly in tune, and infinitely variegated” and for her “delicious” playing. Ms. Rodland holds degrees from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Karen Tuttle, and from the Musikhochschule Freiburg, where as a Fulbright Scholar she studied with Kim Kashkashian. She has held professorships at New England Conservatory, where she was Ms. Hwang lives in Rochester, NY with her recognized in 2005 with the Krasner Award for two daughters. Her cello was made by Matteo Excellence in Teaching, at the Musikhochschule Gofriller in 1711.

“Hanns Eisler” Berlin, at Arizona State University, and as guest faculty at the Juilliard School. In 2008, Ms. Rodland was appointed to a tenured professorship at the Eastman School of Music.

scott kluksdahl cello

upcoming faculty artist recitals

A native of California, cellist Scott Kluskdahl made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony, and has been heard since as orchestral soloist, recitalist and chamber musician in major metropolitan centers throughout the United States, Europe, Israel, and Latin America.

All events take place at 8 pm in Morse Recital Hall and are free and open to the public.

The recipient of the Tanglewood Music Center’s Leonard Bernstein Fellowship and prizes in the 1990 Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition and the Washington International Competition, Scott Kluksdahl holds a bachelor of arts degree in English and American literature from Harvard University and a master of music degree from the Juilliard School. His principal teachers were Margaret Rowell, Joel Krosnick, William Pleeth, and Leonard Rose.

A dedicated teacher, Scott Kluksdahl is the Theodore and Vennette Askounes-Ashford Distinguished Scholar at the University of South Florida and has served on the faculties of Vermont’s Killington Music Festival and California Summer Music. He has been an invited soloist and guest faculty member at Indiana University and, as a founding member of the Lions Gate Trio, was in residence at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford. Mr. Kluksdahl’s commitment to teaching prompted renowned cellist Zara Nelsova to remark, “It is rare to find a cellist who is equally at home as a concert artist as well as a great pedagogue. In my opinion Scott Kluksdahl has one of the great talents of his generation.”

January 25 benjamin verdery, guitar Music by Bach, Bresnick, Verdery, Marshall, Laderman, Albéniz, Prince, and Hendrix.

February 1 ole akahoshi, cello & elizabeth parisot, piano Music by Bach, Barber, Brahms, and Schnittke.

February 2 yale brass trio Music by Guillaume de Machaut, J.S. Bach, Robert Schumann, Malcolm Arnold, Astor Piazzola, Robert Nagel, and Alec Wilder.

February 6 tribute to georges enescu Ilya Poletaev, piano, and James Taylor, tenor, with Jennifer Curtis, violin, and Mihai Marica, cello. Music for voice, piano, and chamber ensembles.

March 2 ettore causa, viola March 26 kyung hak yu, violin, & elizabeth parisot, piano

upcoming events

http://music.yale.edu box office 203 432-4158 concerts & media Vincent Oneppo Dana Astmann Monica Ong Reed Danielle Heller Elizabeth Martignetti operations Tara Deming Christopher Melillo piano curators Brian Daley William Harold recording studio Eugene Kimball Jason Robins

January 20 idil biret, piano 8 pm, Morse Recital Hall Tickets $11-20 / Students $6 The Horowitz Piano Series presents the sensational Turkish pianist in works by Chopin, Ligeti, and Liszt and transcriptions of music by Bach and Wagner.

January 21 idil biret masterclass 10:30 am, Morse Recital Hall, Free A master class with the distinguished Turkish pianist Idil Biret, following her performance the previous evening.

January 21 ryan vigil, composition 8 pm, Morse Recital Hall, Free A Doctor of Musical Arts Recital featuring music for alto flute and percussion, and for violin and piano.

January 22 yale philharmonia 8 pm, Woolsey Hall, Free With guest conductor Peter Oundjian.

Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol; Walton: Violin Concerto, with soloist Katherine Hyun; Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 5.

Robert Blocker, Dean