Camerata Musica

Brasil Guitar Duo

2014-09-27T00:00:00-07:00

September 27, 2014 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

The Brasil Guitar Duo, winner of the 2006 Concert Artists Guild International Competion comes to the Tri Cities

Program
Pieces de Clavecin*	Jean Philip Rameau (1683-1764)
Allemande
L'Egyptienne
Les Cyclops

Ghosting**	David Leisner (1953)

*Sonata de Los Viajeros* (U.S. premiere)	Leo Brouwer (1939)
Intermission
*Triptico*	Leo Brouwer
Allegro
Andantino
Toccata

Selected Pieces*	Egberto Gismonti (1947)
A Fala da Paixao
Forro
Don Quixote
Karate
Agua & Vinho
Strawa no Sertao

*arranged by Joao Luiz

**dedicated to the Brasil Guitar Duo

This program is supported, in part, by a grant from the Washington State Arts Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Brasil Guitar Duo appears by arrangement with Sciolino Artist Management.

Artiest Bio

The Brasil Guitar Duo, winner of the 2006 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, and hailed by Classical Guitar magazine for its "maturity of musicianship and technical virtuosity," is equally at home on a classical or a world-music series. Its innovative programming features a seamless blend of traditional and Brazilian works, resulting in a global touring schedule and a growing catalogue of critically acclaimed recordings.

Duo members Joăo Luiz and Douglas Lora met in Săo Paulo as teenage guitar students and have been performing together for more than fifteen years. The Duo's primary studies were with Henrique Pinto along with Fabio Zanon, Paulo Martelli, Sergio Abreu, and Alice Artz. Douglas Lora earned his Master's degree at the University of Miami, and Joăo Luiz at New York’s Mannes College the New School for Music. Luiz is head of the guitar department at the State University of New York-Purchase, and also teaches guitar at New Jersey City University.

An eager advocate for both traditional and new concerti for two guitars and orchestra, the Duo premiered a Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra by Brazilian composer Paulo Bellinati in 2012 with the Săo Paulo Symphony Orchestra under Giancarlo Guerrero. Recent engagements include concerts with the Dallas and Houston symphony orchestras, Ohio's Dayton Philharmonic and Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas.

Brasil Guitar Duo strives to expand the repertoire for two guitars, with Lora contributing works of his own and Luiz arranging both classical and Brazilian music. The Duo performs a broad repertoire of classical guitar duos (Bach, Sor, Scarlatti, Debussy, etc.) combined with the traditional music of its native land (choro, samba, maxixe, and baiăo).

The Duo's first CD, in 2007, was Bom Partido, a CAG Records release featuring all Brazilian repertoire. Two critically acclaimed Naxos CDs, released in 2008 and 2009, contain the complete works for two guitars by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Its latest CD, on the Avie label, is a collaboration with flutist Marina Piccinini that features all of J.S. Bach's sonatas for flute and harpsichord, as arranged by the Duo for flute and two guitars.

Onyx Chamber Players

2014-10-25T00:00:00-07:00

October 25, 2014 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

Onyx Chamber Players Return to Camerata Musica

Onyx Chamber Players Web Site

Program

Piano Quartet in c minor, op. 60 Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Allegro non troppo
Scherzo: Allegro
Andante
Allegro comodo

Intermission

Piano Trio in A-flat, Hob. XV:14 Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809) Allegro moderato
Adagio
Rondo: Vivace

Piano Quartet in d minor [ca. 1823] Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) Allegro molto
Andante
Andante
Finale: Allegro molto

Byron Schenkman & Friends

2014-11-22T00:00:00-08:00

November 22, 2014 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

Byron Schenkman returns to Camerata Musica with friends

Byron Schenkman & Friends Web Site

Program
Trio in B-flat Major for violin, cello, and piano K. 502	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1792)
Allegro
Larghetto
Allegretto

Trio in G Minor for flute, cello, and piano, op. 63	Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
Allegro moderato
Scherzo: Allegro vivace
Schäfers Klage: Andante espressivo
Finale: Allegro
Intermission
Fantasy in D Minor for piano, K. 397/385g	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet in B-flat Major for violin, viola, cello, and piano	Carl Maria von Weber
Allegro
Adagio ma non troppo
Minuetto and Trio
Finale: Presto

Artist Bio

Byron Schenkman & Friends

Byron Schenkman has recorded more than thirty CDs of 17th- and 18th-century repertoire, including recordings on historical instruments from the National Music Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He received the Erwin Bodky Award from the Cambridge Society for Early Music "for outstanding achievement in the field of early music." Schenkman made his New York recital debut on modern piano in 2009 and his playing was described in The New York Times as "sparkling," "elegant," and "insightful." He is a member of the new period instrument ensemble Gut Reaction and has been a featured guest with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston, the Daedalus Quartet, the Northwest Sinfonietta, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Northwest, and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. He also appears frequently in recital with violinist Ingrid Matthews, with whom he co-founded the Seattle Baroque Orchestra in 1994. Schenkman is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and received his master's degree with honors in performance from the Indiana University School of Music. He currently teaches at Seattle University and Cornish College of the Arts. In 2012 he also served as guest lecturer in harpsichord and fortepiano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Flutist Paul Taub is Professor of Music at Cornish College of the Arts and a founding member of the Seattle Chamber Players. He has performed and recorded American and world premieres by internationally known composers including Robert Aitken, John Cage, George Crumb, Janice Giteck, Sofia Gubaidulina, Wayne Horvitz, Ned Rorem, Toru Takemitsu, Reza Vali, and Peteris Vasks, among others. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, the Olympia Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Northwest, the Everett Symphony, the Young Composers Collective, and the Esoterics. Taub has been featured on National Public Radio’s Performance Today, at the Goodwill Arts Festival, in a solo recital at the Leningrad Musical Spring International Festival and at New York’s Symphony Space. He has also performed four times in Russia with the Seattle Chamber Players and twice at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in Poland, as well as in China, Costa Rica, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands and Ukraine. Taub’s program of international solo flute music has been presented at numerous festivals and universities throughout the U.S., Canada, and France. H first CD, Oo-Ee (Periplum), features ten solo commissioned works. In 2011, he released Edge – Flute Music from the Periphery of Europe (Present Sounds) featuring works by Kancheli, Vasks, Sergei Slonimsky, Artur Avanesov and Elmir Mirzoev.

Violinist Liza Zurlinden, a native of San Francisco, enjoys a career rich with chamber music, orchestral playing and teaching. She is a recent transplant to Seattle, and is thrilled to be making this beautiful city her home! Ms. Zurlinden has performed with the New Century Chamber Orchestra in San Francisco since 2003, and the self-conducted chamber orchestra A Far Cry in Boston since 2007. She has collaborated with members of the Cleveland, Juilliard and Mendelssohn Quartets and was a member of the Mosaic Quartet in New York from 2008-2010. Ms. Zurlinden maintains a private teaching studio and has also coached chamber music in Rice University’s pre-college music program, at the University of Memphis, at the New York Summer Music Festival, and through the New York Youth Symphony and Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra chamber music programs. She was assistant professor of violin and a member of the Ceruti String Quartet at the University of Memphis for the year 2002-2003. She has recorded for Naxos, Paladino Music, Azica, NSS and Blue Note Records. Ms. Zurlinden holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan, a Master of Music degree from Rice University and an Artist Diploma from SUNY Purchase.

Violist Jason Fisher, native of Seattle, is a founding member of the critically acclaimed, co-directed chamber orchestra A Far Cry. He is also a member of the newly founded bi-coastal baroque ensemble, Gut Reaction. Jason has been described as bringing “an intelligent, impassioned delivery and innate understanding of the conversational nature of chamber music” (The Springfield Republican), and his playing was portrayed as “delightfully rich” (The Times Argus). Fisher has performed with members of the Florestan and Peabody Trios, and the Brentano, Cleveland, Emerson, Mendelssohn, and St. Lawrence String Quartets. In an appearance with the Peabody Trio, he was hailed as a “fine guest artist”, his performance described as “first-rate” (The Baltimore Sun). He was both a Carnegie Hall Fellow, taking him on a tour of concerts, outreach, and cultural exchange in Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic, as well as a Peabody Singapore Fellow, spending a month in Southeast Asia assisting with inaugural ceremonies for the new Yong Siew Toh Conservatory and performing as guest with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra. Jason Fisher and his wife, violinist Asuka Usui, live in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston. He plays on an 18th-century English viola by Richard Duke made in London, 1768.

Nathan Whittaker, violoncello, enjoys a unique and diverse career as a concert soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, teacher, and historical cello specialist. He plays regularly with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, and is a founding member of the Op. 20 String Quartet. His 2012-2013 concert season included appearances at the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, Vancouver Early Music Festival, and Pacific Baroque Festival (Victoria, B.C.), as well as other concert stops ranging from Seattle to New York to Dubai. He also composed and recorded an original score for the Emmy nominated documentary "When Seattle Invented the Future". He can be heard on recordings by ATMA Musique and Harmonia and broadcasts by NPR, CBC, and KING FM. An active pedagogue, he maintains a dynamic private studio and is faculty at the Academy of Music Northwest and Cornish College of the Arts. Along with his busy performance and teaching schedule, he completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Washington in 2012. Dr. Whitaker also holds degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Jeffrey Savage, Piano

2015-01-17T00:00:00-08:00

January 17, 2015 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

Jeffrey Savage returns to Camerata Musica with an all Beethoven sonata performance

Jeffrey Savage, Piano Information

Program
Beethoven Sonatas
Sonata in F Minor, Op. 2, No. 1	Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Allegro
Andante
Menuetto: Allegretto
Prestissimo

Sonata in A Major, Op. 101	Ludwig van Beethoven
Etwas lebhaft und mit innigsten Empfindung
Lebhaft: Marschmässig
Langsam und Sehnsuchtsvoll
Geschwind, doch nicht zu sehr, und mit Entschlossenheit
Intermission

Sonata in F Minor, Op. 57 “Appassionata”	Ludwig van Beethoven
Allegro assai
Andante con moto
Allegro ma non troppo - Presto

Artiest Bio

Jeffrey Savage, pianist

Jeffrey Savage is active as both soloist and chamber musician, having performed in such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, the Juilliard Theater, New York’s FOCUS! Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Banff Keyboard Festival. His solo performances have been broadcast on public television and radio. Orchestral appearances include performances with the Shreveport and Lincoln symphonies, and orchestras in New York, Washington, Colorado, Wyoming, and Pennsylvania. Jeffrey represented The Juilliard School in performances at the Kyoto International Chamber Music Festival, and in a series of solo and chamber recitals and masterclasses in China. Recent performances include concerts in Singapore, New York, and Vancouver (BC). Jeffrey has also toured Southeast Asia, where he premiered new works in Thailand, Vietnam, Singapore, and Malaysia. Other performances include a duo piano recital at the University of Puget Sound’s Piano Festival, and the National Federation of Music Clubs National Conventions in Orlando and Washington, D.C.

Jeffrey Savage has been recognized in national and international competitions, including the Missouri Southern International, Fort Collins, and Wideman Competitions. Jeffrey’s piano duo 88SQUARED won first prize at the Ellis Piano Duo Competition and the Abild American Music Prize in American music. The duo recently gave international premieres of a new two-piano work by Lowell Liebermann. 88SQUARED was subsequently invited by Liebermann to record his complete two-piano works for a new CD this summer. The duo received second prize and a Special Mention Prize in the Two-Piano Division of the Concours Grieg International Piano Competition in Oslo, Norway, where they performed with members of the Oslo Philharmonic.

Raised in Nebraska, Jeffrey received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he studied with Robert Spillman and Angela Cheng. After graduating from Colorado with highest honors, he completed graduate studies at The Juilliard School, finishing the master’s program with Martin Canin and the doctoral program with Yoheved Kaplinsky. Dedicated to teaching, Jeffrey has adjudicated and presented workshops and masterclasses in Washington, Alaska, Nevada, Idaho, and Oregon. His students have been winners of regional competitions, including MusicFest Northwest Young Artist Competition and Washington Idaho Symphony’s concerto competition. Before joining the piano faculty of Washington State University, Dr. Savage taught at Lebanon Valley College, and in both the Pre-College and College divisions at Juilliard.

Auryn Quartet

2015-02-28T00:00:00-08:00

February 28, 2015 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

Matthias Lingenfelder, violin
Jens Oppermann, violin
Stewart Eaton, viola
Andreas Arndt, violoncello

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Program
String Quartet In C Major op. 64/1	Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809)
Allegro moderato
Menuetto
Allegretto scherzando
Finale: Presto

String Quartet in E-flat major, op. 51	Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Allegro ma non troppo
Dumka: Andante con moto; Vivace
Romanza: Andante con moto
Finale: Allegro assai
Intermission
String Quartet in F major, Op.59, No. 1	Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Allegro
Allegretto vivace e sempre scherzando
Adagio molto e mesto
Thčme Russe: Allegro

Artiest Bio

An outstanding career spanning three decades has made the Auryn Quartet one of the most sought-after and respected ensembles performing around the globe. The Quartet has not changed its personnel over this long period, and continues with its fresh and pioneering approach to all genres of music.

Matthias Lingenfelder (violin) was born in Germany in 1959, and started playing the violin at the age of 7. He studied with Klaus Eichholz, Max Rostal and Gerard Poulet. In 1981 he co-founded the Auryn Quartet. In 1982 the Quartet won prizes at international competitions in Portsmouth and Munich, and in Bratislava in 1989. Lingenfelder was concert master of the ECYO, and also was co-founder of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. It was as concert master with the COE that he also played as soloist under Claudio Abbado and Sir Georg Solti.

Jens Oppermann (violin) was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1960. While studying at the Albert-Schweitzer School, he started violin lessons with Prof. Marianne Petersen. In 1977 Jens Oppermann started working with the Hamburg City Opera Orchestra, continued his studies with Prof. Vlach and Prof. U. Heiberg, and was awarded the Koerber Prize two years in a row.?In 1980 Mr. Oppermann became a member of the EUYO and took part in master-classes with Gerard Poulet in Paris.?Soon after, he played with the chamber Orchestra of Europe, and became a founder member of the Auryn Quartet.

Stewart Eaton was born in Aylesbury, UK. He studied viola and piano at the Royal College of Music, receiving its prestigious Entrance Scholarship. He studied the viola with Frederick Riddle and Margaret Major, and took part in master classes with Hugh Bean and Yfrah Neaman. Mr. Eaton continued his studies with Piero Farulli, Hariolf Schlichtig, Peter Schidlof and Michael Tree. From 1979 to 1981 he was principal viola of the Orchestra Teatro alla Scala, at the invitation of Claudio Abbado. In 1981 Stewart Eaton co-founded the Auryn Quartet. His other chamber music work has included playing with Boris Pergamenschikow, Tabea Zimmermann, Isabelle van Keulen, Peter Orth, the Haydn Piano Trio of Vienna, Fontenay Trio, Trio Opus 8, and the Beethoven Piano Trio.

Andreas Arndt was born in Heidelberg, and at the age of 5 began his musical education, by playing the piano. At 12 years old he started playing the cello, studying with Georg Ulrich von Buelow. He continued his studies with Wolfgang Boettcher in Berlin, and Johannes Goritzki in Duesseldorf. Andreas Arndt was a prize-winner at many competitions, and received several scholarships. He also played in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and was a member of the ECYO, and the Guerzenich Orchestra in Cologne. From 1983-86 he taught at the 'Freien Kunsthochschule' in Alfter/Bonn. In 1981 he became a founder member of the Auryn Quartet. Apart from his worldwide activities with the Auryn Quartet, Mr. Arndt is a teacher and juror at various Master Classes and competitions.

The Auryn's main mentors were the Amadeus Quartet, and the Guarneri Quartet with which they studied between 1982 and '87 in Cologne, Germany, and at the University of Maryland, USA. Claudio Abbado was also an important influence on the Quartet's musical development, under whose baton they performed as string principles in the European Union Youth Orchestra.

The four musicians of the Auryn Quartet play on wonderful Italian instruments: a Stradivari violin (1722, ex-Joachim), a Petrus Guarneri violin, a Brothers Amati viola (1616) and a Niccolo Amati cello. Since 2003 the Auryn Quartet has been sharing its wealth of experience with musicians of younger generations, in the form of a teaching position at the Music Academy in Detmold, Germany, where they are professors for chamber-music.

Blue Moon Trio Buxtehude: The Fantastic Style

2015-03-28T00:00:00-07:00

March 28, 2015 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

Linda Melsted, violin
John Dornenburg, viola da gamba
Jillon Stoppels Dupree, harpsichord

Program
Trio Sonata III in A minor, Opus 1, no.3	Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Adagio
Allegro
Lento - Vivace - Largo
Presto - Lento

Suite in A minor, Op. 3, no. 10, for solo viol	Carolus Hacquart (ca. 1640-1701)
Preludium: Lente - Vivace - Grave
Sarabande: Variatio
Gigue

Trio Sonata III in G minor, Opus 2, no.3	Dietrich Buxtehude
Vivace – Lento – Allegro – Andante – Grave - Gigue

Sonata III in A major, (1694)	Philipp Heinrich Erlebach (1657-1714)
Adagio – Allegro - Lento
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Ciaconne
Final: Adagio
Intermission
Sonata Prima in C major, for solo violin and basso continuo from Sonatae Unarum Fidium, 1664	Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (ca. 1620-1680)

Arietta and Variations in F major, P.29, for solo keyboard	Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)

Trio Sonata IV in B-flat major, Opus 1, no.4	Dietrich Buxtehude
Vivace – Allegro/Presto
Lento – Allegro/Vivace

Buxtehude: The Fantastic Style

Dietrich Buxtehude was one of the most ingenious proponents of the Stylus Fantasticus, or the Fantastic Style. The root of this style of baroque music lies in the early Italian instrumental music of the first decades of the 17th century. Free improvisation was an important element, and often ground basses (repeated bass patterns) were used for these elaborate, amazing improvisations. The most famous chordal pattern is that of the Chaconne or Passacaglia, with its four descending notes. Sonatas in the Fantastic Style are characterized by a free form and short, contrasting movements that flow from one to another. Many German composers, studying in Italy, became particularly enamored of this style, so much so that by the second half of the 17th century the Fantastic Style became associated mostly with German music. The music explores all the musical affects, or emotional expressions: from virtuosic fireworks to soulful melodies to rich, chromatic harmonies, showing off the extremes of expressivity on all the instruments. This represents some of the most beautiful repertoire ever written for strings and basso continuo.

Artiest Bio

Described as “one of the most outstanding early musicians in North America” (IONARTS) and “a baroque star” (Seattle Times), harpsichordist Jillon Stoppels Dupree has captivated audiences in cities ranging from London to Amsterdam to New York. Her world premiere recording of Philip Glass’s Concerto for Harpsichord and Chamber Orchestra with the Northwest Chamber Orchestra (heralded as “superb” by the New York Times) was released to high acclaim in fall of 2006 on the Orange Mountain Music label. Her playing can also be heard on the Meridian, Wild Boar, Decca and Delos record labels, and she has appeared live on BBC England, Polish National Television, CBS Television and National Public Radio.

Ms. Dupree has been a featured artist at the highly-respected early music festivals of York (England), Boston and Berkeley, as well as at the National Music Museum, the Cleveland and Santa Barbara Museums of Art, and numerous universities and colleges. Her chamber music collaborations include performances with violinists Ingrid Matthews, Stanley Ritchie and Jaap Schröder; violists da gamba Wieland Kuijken and Margriet Tindemans; singers Julianne Baird, Ellen Hargis and Ann Monoyios; and recorder virtuosi Marion Verbruggen, Eva Legene and Vicki Boeckman. She is currently the harpsichordist with Magnificat Baroque Ensemble, based in the San Francisco Bay area, as well as with the Seattle Symphony. Recent activities include a residency at Stanford University, a performance at the Bloomington Early Music Festival, participation in the Gustav Leonhardt Tribute recital at the Berkeley Early Music Festival, and a solo Bach recording project.

A recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship and the National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalists grant, Ms. Dupree has taught at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, the University of Washington, and the University of Michigan. She is currently on the early music faculty at Seattle’s Cornish College of the Arts and is the founding director of the Gallery Concerts early music series in Seattle.

John Dornenburg is a San Francisco Bay Area performer, teacher, and recording artist. He performs on all sizes of viola da gamba and has been featured on more than 30 CD recordings. His two most recent CDs feature virtuoso music for unaccompanied viola da gamba by Schenck, Abel, Sainte-Colombe, Kühnel, Simpson, Hacquart, and Hume, and he has also recorded solo music by more familiar Baroque composers such as J.S. Bach, Telemann, Marais, and Handel. John has appeared as soloist at major festivals in the British Isles, Poland, Turkey, Lebanon, Australia, New Zealand, and Holland, and at both the Oregon and Carmel Bach Festivals in the U.S.A. He is director of the Sex Chordae Consort of Viols, co-director of the Archetti Baroque String Ensemble, and co-founder of the Baroque ensemble Music’s Re-creation. In the Bay Area he also performs regularly with Magnificat, and, on occasion, with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Jubilate Orchestra, and many others. He studied with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and with Wieland Kuijken in The Hague, where he was awarded the Soloist’s Diploma. John is Lecturer in viola da gamba at Stanford University, Instructor of violone at UC Berkeley, and Faculty Emeritus in music history at CSU, Sacramento.

The passionate artistry of violinist Linda Melsted has won the hearts of audiences across North America, Europe, and Japan. She has appeared as soloist, member, and leader of many outstanding ensembles including Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, and Pacific Music Works. Linda is the featured soloist in Tafelmusik’s TV documentary, DVD and CD “Le Mozart Noir,” where she musically incarnates the remarkable 18th-century virtuoso and adventurer, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. An active chamber musician, Linda has appeared on many series including Early Music Vancouver, Gallery Concerts, Primavera Concerts, Bloomington Early Music Festival, the Calgary Symphony’s Italian Music Festival, Folia, Toronto Music Garden, Quadra Island Discovery Chamber Music Festival, and Tactus.

Linda was a member of Tafelmusik 1992-2004, Music Director of Nota Bene Baroque Orchestra, 2005-2009, a regular guest leader and soloist of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra’s “Baroque and Beyond” series, and taught violin at the University of Waterloo. Happily back in Seattle since 2010, she has formed the Salish Sea Players, a group dedicated to performing chamber music in retirement and nursing facilities, and is the Director of Seattle’s community Baroque orchestra, the New Baroque Orchestra. This past spring, 2013, she was thrilled to perform in the first Baroque chamber music concert in Hamilton, Montana. Linda performs on a Nicolo Amati violin from 1670.

Seattle Baroque Orchestra

2015-04-12T00:00:00-07:00

April 12, 2015 3:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

Early Music Guild Web Site

Carrie Krausse director and violinist
Flute soloist Janet See
Olga Hauptman violin
Mary Manning violin
Christine Wilkkinson Beckman violin
Courtney Kuroda violin
Stephen Creswell viola
Nathan Whittaker cello
Jillon Stoppels Dupree Harpsichord
John Lenti Lute
Curtis Daily Bass

Program
Sinfonia to "La morte del cuor penitente"	Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690)
Sinfonia to "Battalla de Barabaso yerno de Satanas, No. 20" from Il primo libro di Canzone	Andrea Falconieri (1558-1656)
Sinfonie
Fantasie
Capricci
Brandi
Correnti
Gagliarde
Alemane
Volte

Passacaglia a 4, Op 22	Biagio Marini (1594-1663)
Sinfonia to part II from "La Senna Festaggiante," RV 693	Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Adagio
Presto-Adagio
Allegro Molto
Flute Concerto No. 2 in G minor, RV 439 "La notte"	Antonio Vivaldi
Largo
Presto (Fantasmi)
Largo
Presto
Largo (Il sonno)
Allegro
Intermission
Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring)	Antonio Vivaldi
Allegro
Largo e pianissimo sempre
Allegro pastorale
Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315, "L'estate" (Summer)	Antonio Vivaldi
Allegro non molto
Adagio e piano – Presto e forte
Presto
Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293, "L'autumno" (Autumn)	Antonio Vivaldi
Allegro
Adagio molto
Allegro
Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297, "L'inverno" (Winter)	Antonio Vivaldi
Allegro non molto
Largo
Allegro

Artiest Bio

Seattle Baroque Orchestra was founded in 1994 by violinist Ingrid Matthews and harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, and quickly established itself as one of the most vibrant of the American early music ensembles. The group has appeared across North America from California to Vermont, been featured extensively on National Public Radio, and garnered rave reviews for its six recordings, while winning loyal fans in Seattle for the excitement and intimacy of their live performances. The Seattle Baroque Orchestra has collaborated with contemporary composers, jazz musicians, Baroque dancers, and many of the most prominent soloists in the field of early music.

The goal of Seattle Baroque Orchestra is to awaken contemporary audiences to the vitality of 17th- and 18th-century music through historically informed performance of both familiar and unknown works. We hope through live performances, recordings and educational programs to foster an awareness and appreciation of this music, which not only illuminates past eras but provides a unique lens through which to view our own.

Carrie Krause (violin) serves as concertmaster of the Bozeman Symphony. She has appeared as concertmaster of New Trinity Baroque, Pacific Baroque, and San Francisco Bach Choir; associate concertmaster of Apollo’s Fire (Cleveland); and performed with Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Chatham Baroque (Pittsburgh), NYS Baroque (Ithaca), Portland Baroque Orchestra, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado, and as a founding member of the I-90 Collective. Krause was soloist with Apollo’s Fire in Miller Theatre, the Fairbanks Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, Casper Symphony, and Bozeman Symphony. Recent festival engagements include the Spoleto Festival, Strings Music Festival in Steamboat Springs, Montana Baroque Festival, Big Sky Festival (concertmaster), Belgrade Early Music Festival (Serbia), and Sastamalla Gregoriana (Finland). Krause studied music performance at Carnegie Mellon University with Andres Cardenes and at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She is currently a graduate student in the Juilliard School’s historical performance program. Krause plays a Baroque violin from the workshop of Antonius and Hieronymus Amati, Cremona 1625 (generously loaned by Makris Foundation and New Trinity Baroque).

Janet See is one of today’s outstanding performers on baroque and classical flute. For over 30 years she has performed as a soloist, in chamber music, and in orchestras throughout North America and Europe. In London, where Janet lived for 12 years, she played principal flute for Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s two orchestras, and with those groups recorded the complete Mozart Operas and Beethoven Symphonies as well as numerous other discs. While in London she also played principal flute for 'The Taverner Players', conducted by Andrew Parrott. In North America Janet plays principal flute with Philharmonia Baroque under Nicholas McGegan and has recorded Vivaldi and Mozart Concertos with that orchestra. She also performs frequently with the Portland Baroque Orchestra and as guest soloist with chamber music ensembles throughout the US and Canada.

Among her highly acclaimed recordings are the Vivaldi Concertos and the complete Bach Flute Sonatas, both recorded on the Harmonia Mundi label. Other labels she has recorded on include DG Archive, EMI, Erato, Hyperion and Phantom Partner.

Janet is on the Early Music Faculty at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and is an active and enthusiastic teacher of early flutes and also of interpreting the nuance and language of baroque and classical music on modern flute. She received her degree on the modern flute at Oberlin Conservatory, training with Robert Willoughby. Her post-graduate training was with Frans Vester in The Hague. Janet is a qualified teacher of the F.M. Alexander Technique, having trained in London with Walter Carrington. She currently lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington with her husband and son.

Stephen Beus, piano

2015-09-26T00:00:00-07:00

September 26th, 2015 8:00pm and

September 27th, 2015 2:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

Stephen Beus, piano

Stephen Beus Web Site

Program
French Suite No.5 in G Major, BWV 816	J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Chaconne in D Minor from Partita No. 2	Bach-Busoni (1866-1924)
Intermission
Transcendental Etudes S. 139	Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2	Liszt-Horowitz

Artiest Bio

“Mesmerizing… explosive… intelligent… he belongs on the world stage” (Salt Lake Tribune). In the space of four months, American pianist Stephen Beus won first prize in the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, first place in the Vendome Prize International Competition (Lisbon) and he was awarded the Max I. Allen Fellowship of the American Pianists Association (Indianapolis).

As a result of winning the Juilliard School Concerto Competition Mr. Beus made his Carnegie Hall debut with the Juilliard Orchestra and James DePreist, playing Prokofiev Concerto No. 3. He has also performed as guest soloist with the Gulbenkian Symphony (Lisbon), Oxford Philomusica, the Tivoli Symphony (Copenhagen), the Tbilisi National Opera Orchestra, the Northwest Sinfonietta (Seattle), the Royal Philharmonic of Morocco (Casablanca), the Vaasa Symphony Orchestra (Finland) as well as with the Hamburg, Indianapolis, Nashville, Santa Fe, Utah, Fort Worth, Tucson, Yakima, Bellevue, Salt Lake, Eastern Sierra, Corvallis, Jacksonville, Texarkana and Walla Walla Symphonies.

Equally active as a soloist, Mr. Beus has performed at Wigmore Hall, the Salle Gaveau and Salle Cortot (Paris), Merkin Hall, the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, the Central Conservatory (Beijing), Teatro San Carlo (Naples), Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall), the Queluz Palace (Lisbon) and has performed for the Dame Myra Hess and Fazioli Salon series (Chicago), the International Keyboard Institute and Festival (New York City), and has given recitals across the United States as well as in Kazakhstan, Russia, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, Georgia, China, France, Italy, Portugal, the Czech Republic, and Morocco.

Born and raised on a farm in eastern Washington, Mr. Beus began lessons at age 5 and made his orchestral debut four years later. He went on to win numerous national and international competitions throughout his youth, capturing the attention of both audiences and critics. Commenting on Mr. Beus’ competition success, Fanfare magazine writes: “In some ways Beus doesn’t fit the mold of the typical competition winner. His playing is strikingly original and, despite his youth, he has an interpretive voice all his own… Above all, his playing is so natural as to seem effortless and the sound he produces has extraordinary richness and depth, not quite like anyone else’s.”

Mr. Beus holds degrees from Whitman College, The Juilliard School, and Stony Brook University, where his teachers have included Leonard Richter, Robert McDonald, Gilbert Kalish and Christina Dahl. He has recorded on the Endeavor Classics and Harmonia Mundi labels. Stephen Beus is a Steinway Artist and currently teaches at the University of Oklahoma.

Cheifetz and Guggenheim

2015-10-24T00:00:00-07:00

October 24th, 2015 8:00pm at the Battelle Auditorium

Hamilton Cheifetz, cello and Janet Guggenheim, piano

Hamilton Cheifetz Web Site

Program
Sonata in G minor, Op. 5, No. 2	Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
Sonata in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1	Beethoven

Sonata in A Major, Op. 69	Beethoven

About the Artists

Hamilton Cheifetz has been described in Fanfare Magazine as “unquestionably a magnificent player" for his solo recordings, and he has performed throughout North America and in Europe, Asia, and Australia. A native of Chicago, Cheifetz began playing cello when he was seven and first appeared as soloist with orchestra at the age of eleven. He studied with Janos Starker at Indiana University beginning at the age of 16 and later became the teaching assistant to Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi at the University of Western Ontario. The winner of the Piatigorsky Prize at Tanglewood, he toured the United States and Canada on the Music from Marlboro concert series and performed at the White House for President Carter and the members of Congress. He presented a solo recital in the Sydney Opera House and has often been featured on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.” His playing was highlighted, together with jazz great Dave Frishberg and vocalist Rebecca Kilgore, on the CBS television special “Gary Larson’s Tales From the Far Side.” In 2001, he performed duos in concert with Janos Starker which were broadcast nationally on NPR, and he appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York.

Mr. Cheifetz presented solo recitals and gave master classes in China in the spring of 2010 in Beijing and Tianjin and returned to China for concerts in 2012. He has presented master classes in Korea and taught as Guest Lecturer at Indiana University. He has recorded for Koch, Delos, New World, and Gagliano Recordings and is featured on “Sound of the Five”, chamber music of Chen Yi, with Third Angle Ensemble. In the summer of 2014, he performed at Chamber Music Northwest and in Puebla, Mexico, and this summer he will be featured at Chamber Music Northwest and the Oregon Bach Festival.

Hamilton Cheifetz is professor of music at Portland State University and a founding member of the Florestan Trio, which is celebrating its 40th season this year. Together with pianist Janet Guggenheim and violinist Carol Sindell, the Florestan Trio has received international acclaim, including three tours of Japan and concerts in Europe. A dedicated teacher, Professor Cheifetz’s students have gone on to positions in orchestras such as the Boston Symphony and Atlanta Symphony. Hamilton Cheifetz plays a Matteo Goffriller cello made in 1704.

Hamilton Cheifetz can be heard live in concert in audio recordings and videos at his website at hamiltoncheifetz.com. He is a member of the Subud International Cultural Association, an organization dedicated to promoting original culture.

Janet Goodman Guggenheim began her piano studies with her father when she was five years old and, in her hometown, Spokane, also worked with Margaret Saunders Ott. At the age of ten she was accepted for summer master classes by the legendary piano teacher Rosina Lhevinne, who was her mentor for many years. She made her orchestral debut with the San Francisco Symphony at the age of sixteen. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she was awarded an Alfred Hertz Fellowship, she received her master's degree at Juilliard, where she was the recipient of the Josef Lhevinne scholarship. She coached under Dame Myra Hess in London and performed concerts throughout Europe. She was a recipient of a Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation grant. Prior to moving to Portland in 1995 she was on the music faculty at the University of California. She was founding pianist of the Chamber Soloists of San Francisco and has participated in numerous music festivals in the United States and Europe.

For over thirty years she collaborated with the celebrated violinist Itzhak Perlman, including concerts in Hong Kong, Taipei, Istanbul and Russia. The Moscow concert encores are included in the DVD, “Perlman Live in Russia”. She has been pianist numerous times on the Johnny Carson Show for Mr. Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, and Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg. Additionally she has collaborated with violinists Young Uck Kim, David Kim, Dong Suk Kang, Ivry Gitlis, Uto Ughi, Miriam Fried, Pinchas Zukerman, Stuart Canin, hornist Barry Tuckwell, cellists Pierre Fournier and Matt Haimovitz, and has recorded CDs of Rachmaninov and Prokofiev (Naxos) with cellist Michael Grebanier.

The Rose Ensemble

2015-11-21T00:00:00-08:00

November 21 at 8:00pm in the Battelle Auditorium

The Rose Ensemble

The Minneapolis–based vocal group returns to our series with Il Poverello (“the poor one”), a thematic program featuring readings and music about Francis of Assisi ranging from the 12th to the 15th centuries.

The Rose Ensemble Web Site

Texts, Translations, and Notes (PDF)

Cosi Quartet

2016-01-23T00:00:00-08:00

January 23 at 8:00pm in the Battelle Auditorium

Linda Melsted (Violinist), Laurel Wells (violist), Meg Brennand (cellist), and Curtis Foster (oboist) will be performing pieces from the little-known oboe quartet literature featuring pieces by Krommer, Masek, and Mozart, as well as a trio by Eybler

Program
Quartet for oboe, violin viola, cello in F major	Franz Krommer (1759-1831)
Quartet for oboe, violin, viola, cello in C major	Pavel Masek (1761-1826)

Intermission
Trio for violin, viola, cello in C major	Joseph Eybler (1765-1846)
TQuartet for oboe, violin, viola, cello in F major, K. 370	W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)

Artiest Bio

Curtis Foster, Baroque oboe and recorder, has appeared as soloist and member of many outstanding groups, including the Seattle and Pacific Baroque Orchestras, Pacific MusicWorks, American Bach Soloists, Musica Angelica, Mercury Baroque, Bach Society Houston, the Newberry Consort, Victoria Baroque Players, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Chicago Opera Theater, and Baroque Band. Festival Performances include the Vancouver, Chicago, and Bloomington Early Music Festivals, Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, and the Oregon and Phoenix Bach Festivals. Curtis has performed with small ensembles in concert from San Francisco to Dubai, including appearances with Byron Schenkman and Friends, Seattle Baroque, MusicSources (Berkeley), SacroProfano, as well as his own Seattle-based group, sound | counterpoint. Mr. Foster is also a passionate advocate for music of our own time, and has commissioned and premiered many works by contemporary composers for old instruments.Mr. Foster has recorded for ATMA Classique, Cedille Records, and IU Press. He is a graduate of Indiana University's Early Music Institute.

The passionate artistry of violinist Linda Melsted has won the hearts of audiences across North America, Europe, and Japan. She has appeared as soloist, member, and leader of several outstanding ensembles including Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, and Pacific Music Works. An active chamber musician, Linda frequently appears on many series including Early Music Vancouver, Gallery Concerts, Skagit Symphony’s Spotlight series, Folia, and Toronto Music Garden. Linda is a co-founder of the new group sound|counterpoint, which recently toured Montana, and Salish Sea Players, a group dedicated to performing in retirement and nursing facilities. She also regularly performs with Marc Destrubé and Friends, Pacific Baroque Festival, and Early Music Underground. Linda performs on a Nicolo Amati violin from 1670.

Laurel Wells is known for her work on both baroque and modern viola and violin. She has enjoyed an extensive and eclectic musical life, performing in Hong Kong, Norway, Canada, and throughout the United States. For twenty years she played violin with the Lyric Opera of Chicago, between seasons earning Master’s degrees in violin and viola from Indiana University. She studied chamber music at the Banff Centre in Canada and performed extensively under the guidance of the Vermeer Quartet. Laurel was a member of the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, holding the position of principal viola. She is currently a member of the Pacific Northwest Ballet orchestra and performs often with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, and at the 5th Avenue Theater. In the early music world, Laurel plays with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Pacific MusicWorks, and with her quartet, Opus 20, in the Gallery Concert Series. She has also participated in the Whidbey Island Music Festival, and the EMG's Early Music Fridays. Laurel has recorded with Seattle Baroque, for NPR, and the Wild Boar and Centaur labels.

Cellist Meg Brennand enjoys an eclectic musical life in Seattle. She has been cellist with the critically-acclaimed Onyx Chamber Players since 2001, at Town Hall Seattle and now ensemble-in-residence at First Church Seattle and with whom she has performed throughout the Northwest and on KING-FM. She is also cellist with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra in Seattle, and she will be part of the second NYC tour in February 2016. Meg serves on the cello faculty at Seattle Pacific University, and she maintains an active cello studio, where she teaches privately and coaches chamber music ensembles. As a member of the period-instrument community in Seattle, Meg performs on baroque cello with the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and Pacific Music Works.She has performed as solo cellist and with small ensembles on Gallery Concerts Series and with the Cosi Quartet. Past seasons have included performances with the Portland Baroque Orchestra and Pacific Baroque Orchestra in Vancouver, BC. Meg is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music.

Trio Tremonti

2016-02-27T00:00:00-08:00

February 27 at 8:00pm in the Battelle Auditorium

Saul Bitrán, Violin
Jan Müller-Szeraws, Cello
Sally Pinkas, Piano

Trio Tremonti Web Site

Program
Círculo, Fantasia Para Piano, Violin y Violoncello, Op. 91	Joaquín Turina (1882-1949)
Trio no. 2 in G minor, Op. 26	Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)

Intermission
Trio pour Piano, Violon et Violoncelle	Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Artiest Bio

Trio Tremonti presents three internationally-acclaimed artists, joined together with a deep musical bond: Mexican-born violinist Saul Bitrán, Chilean cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws, and Israeli pianist Sally Pinkas. Now in its third year as Ensemble-in-Residence at the Cambridge School of Weston, Trio Tremonti members are also Artists-in-residence at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts (Bitrán and Müller-Szeraws), and the Hopkins Center in New Hampshire (Pinkas).

Violinist Saul Bitrán has been first violinist with Grammy award-winning Cuarteto Latinoamericano since 1986. A graduate of the Rubin Academy of Music at Tel Aviv University, Bitrán tours worldwide and has recorded extensively with the Cuarteto. As a soloist, he has played with orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Dallas Symphony and National Arts Center Orchestra among many others. The Cuarteto Latinoamericano, recipient of the Mexican government Fine Arts Medal, served as Quartet in Residence at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh between 1987 and 2008. Currently, the Cuarteto heads the Latin American Academy for String Quartets, in Caracas, Venezuela, under the auspices of the Sistema. Saul Bitrán is Artist in Residence at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, MA.

Cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws's musical journey has taken him over three continents as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Recent performances include solo engagements with the New England Philharmonic, the Concord Orchestra, the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción and Orquesta de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile. His recording of the Allende cello concerto with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile has been released by the Chilean Academy of Fine Arts. Other recent recordings include Bernard Hoffer's "Concerto di Camera II" for cello and ensemble written for him and Boston Musica Viva, a CD for Cello, Tabla and Carnatic soprano with works by composer Shirish Korde and Brahms and Chopin sonatas with pianist Adam Golka for Hammond Performing Arts. He is member of contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva, is currently on faculty at the Phillips Academy Andover and has recently been appointed Artist-in-Residence and Chamber Music Coordinator at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He is a grant recipient of the Saul and Naomi Cohen Foundation.

Following her London debut at Wigmore Hall, Israeli-born pianist Sally Pinkas has been heard as recitalist and chamber musician throughout the USA, Europe, Asia, Russia and Nigeria. She has appeared as soloist with the Boston Pops, Aspen Philharmonia, Jupiter Symphony and the Bulgarian Chamber Orchestra. Summer credits include the festivals at Marlboro, Tanglewood, Aspen, Monadnock, Apple Hill and Rockport, as well as Kfar Blum in Israel, Officina Scotese in Italy and Masters de Pontlevoy in France. Pinkas's extensive solo discography features works by Schumann, Fauré, Debussy, Martinu and Rochberg, released on Naxos, MSR and Centaur.. Pinkas appears regularly with her husband, pianist Evan Hirsch (The Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo), and with Ensemble Schumann (with oboist Tom Gallant and violist Steve Larson). Pianist-in-residence at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, she is Professor of Music at Dartmouth's Music Department.

Borealis Wind Quintet

2016-03-19T00:00:00-07:00

March 19 at 8:00pm in the Battelle Auditorium

Keith Bonner, Flute
Tamar Beach Wells, Oboe
Kathryn Taylor, Clarinet
Dan Culpepper, French Horn
Wayne Hileman, Bassoon

Photo by Andrew Fingland

Program
Suite, Op. 57	Charles Lefebvre (1843-1917)
Three Summer Dances	Joseph Turrin (b. 1947)
Lincolnshire Posy	Percy Grainger (1882-1961)

Intermission
Variations sur un thčme libre, Op.42	Eugčne Bozza (1905-1991)
Three Moods	Andrey Rubtsov (b. 1982)
Potpourri Fantastico	Giulio Briccialdi (1818-1881)

Artiest Bio

The Borealis Wind Quintet, nominated for a 2006 Grammy Award in the Chamber Music Category, is acclaimed as one of America's preeminent chamber ensembles. The highest musical integrity, irresistible energy and five-fold charisma distinguish Borealis in the chamber music field. Audiences love their exquisite programming that includes the finest of the classics, engaging commissioned works, opera arias and works for piano and winds. The Washington Post praised their "sensitive collaborations that have a sophisticated and cosmopolitan air." Peter G. Davies of the New York Times described one concert as "a polished, elegantly turned performance...each work received lively, expert and musicianly treatment by this skilled and exceptionally talented chamber group." Joseph Horowitz, also of the New York Times describes "lively communicative readings...the performance was a scintillating one." The Philadelphia Inquirer writes, "They demonstrated the sort of rapport that characterizes the very best chamber playing."

Keith Bonner, flutist, has performed in a wide variety of ensembles, including symphony and opera orchestras, Broadway pits, movies and television. Mr. Bonner is currently principal flute of the Riverside Symphony, and will be performing the Nielsen Flute Concerto with them this spring at Lincoln Center, NYC. He has performed with the Symphony orchestras of New Jersey and Stamford, CT as well as the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, New York City Ballet, American Symphony Orchestra and the New York Symphonic Ensemble. Mr. Bonner can be heard in the orchestra of the 25th anniversary production of Les Miserables now on Broadway. He is on the faculty of Brooklyn College and Special Music School in New York City. He has degrees from the Manhattan School and the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Tamar Beach Wells is principal oboist with the Greater Bridgeport Symphony and has played with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the American Composers Orchestra, the Berkshire Bach Ensemble and the Westchester Symphony. Ms. Wells has been a member of the Springfield Symphony and the Goodspeed Opera, and has toured nationally with Andrea Bocelli. In addition to the oboe, she plays the English horn, oboe d’amore and bass oboe and frequently collaborates with vocalists, choruses and other artists in diverse settings ranging from traditional solo performances to recording sessions, pop to opera. She has also given hundreds of childrens’ concerts with the Hartford Symphony’s inner city outreach program. Ms. Wells has been on the faculty of the Hartt School and the University of Connecticut. She is a voting member of the Grammy Foundation. Ms. Wells holds Bachelor’s degrees in performance and education from the Hartt School and a Masters degree from the Juilliard School.

Kathryn Taylor, clarinet, has performed across the US as a chamber and orchestra musician as well as a soloist. A resident of Connecticut, she is principal clarinetist of the Greater Bridgeport Symphony. She performs with the Stamford, New Haven and Hartford Symphonies. Ms. Taylor has performed in several festivals including the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, the Windham Festival in New York and the Newport Festival in Rhode Island. She has toured Europe as principal clarinetist with the American Symphonietta and performed in the orchestra of Beauty and the Beast on Broadway. Ms. Taylor attended the Juilliard School where she studied with the legendary Leon Russianoff.

Dan Culpepper is a very active freelance horn player in New York City. He performs with the New York City Ballet, New York Pops, Little Orchestra Society, Pitstop Players and at Radio City Music Hall. Mr. Culpepper's career has been both diverse and eclectic. He has performed or recorded with Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, Elton John, James Taylor, Beyoncé, Pavarotti, Sting and Yo-Yo Ma among others. He has recorded numerous film soundtracks, TV and radio commercials and live broadcasts. On Broadway Mr. Culpepper has been a member of the orchestras of Les Miserables, Miss Saigon and is currently principal horn of Phantom of the Opera.

Wayne Hileman, bassoon, has performed with many orchestras including the New Haven, Stamford, American and Westchester Symphonies, and appeared as a chamber player, soloist, or as continuo at many venues, including the Pro-Arte, Windham, Alliance Artist, and New England Bach Festivals. In addition, he is an audio engineer, restoring historic recordings for major labels, producing live concerts for NPR, editing and mastering new releases for many classical artists, and is a voting member of the Recording Academy (the Grammys). In 2006 he co-founded Candlewood Digital, a high-end recording company dedicated to the needs of classical musicians. Mr. Hileman holds degrees from Potsdam College and Yale University.

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Simphonie

2016-04-23T00:00:00-07:00

April 23 at 8:00pm in the Battelle Auditorium

Ingrid Matthews, baroque violin
Jeffrey Cohan, baroque flute
Hans-Jürgen Schnoor, harpsichord

Program
Trio Sonata in G Major, BWV 1027 and 1039	Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
(originally for viola da gamba and obbligato harpsichord, or two flutes and continuo)
Sonata in G Major for violin and continuo, BWV 1021	Bach
Sonata in B Minor, BWV 1030	Bach
(flute and obbligato harpsichord)

Intermission
Musical Offering Trio Sonata in C Minor, BWV 1079	Bach
(originally for flute, violin and continuo)
Trio Sonata in G Major, BWV 1019	Bach
(originally for violin and harpsichord obbligato)

Artiest Bio

Ingrid Matthews has long been established as one of the leading baroque violinists of her generation. She founded the Seattle Baroque Orchestra with Byron Schenkman in 1992, and served as Music Director until stepping down from that position in 2013.

Matthews won first prize in the 1989 Erwin Bodky International Competition for Early Music, and since that time has performed extensively around the world with numerous period-instrument ensembles. She has served as concertmaster for orchestras such as the New York Collegium, the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, and Musica Angelica (Los Angeles); and has appeared as a guest director and soloist with many others including the New York Collegium, the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, the Magnolia Baroque Festival Orchestra (Winston-Salem, NC), New Trinity Baroque (Atlanta), the Bach Sinfonia (Washington DC), Les Idees Heureuses (Montreal), the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and the Victoria Symphony. For close to a decade she was first violinist of the ensemble La Luna, which specialized in 17th-century music, touring and recording to great critical acclaim.

Matthews' career as a chamber musician has taken her to such venues as the Frick Collection (New York), the Boston Early Music Festival, the Berkeley Festival, Netwoork voor Oude Muziek (the Netherlands), the Getty Center (LA), the Pittsburgh Renaissance and Baroque Society, Early Music Vancouver, Woodstock Concerts, the Cambridge Society for Early Music, the Newberry Library (Chicago), CBC-Toronto, the San Francisco Early Music Society and the Library of Congress, among many others.

Matthews has won international critical acclaim for a discography ranging from the earliest solo violin repertoire through the Sonatas and Partitas of J.S. Bach. The latter recording was named by Third Ear's Classical Music Listening Companion as "the finest complete set of these works," and the critic for American Record Guide writes "this superb recording is my top recommendation for this music… on either modern or period instruments."

Ingrid Matthews has served on the faculties of the University of Toronto, the University of Washington, Indiana University, the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, the <a href="http://www.longy.edu/" target="_blank"International Baroque Institute at Longy, and Amherst Early Music; and has given master classes in baroque repertoire and style at numerous colleges and universities. She is currently on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Ingrid Matthews is a graduate of Indiana University, where she studied with Josef Gingold and Stanley Ritchie.

Ingrid Matthews is also known as Ingrid Matthews Olson. A passionate life-long interest in the visual arts has led her to amass an eclectic training in various techniques, and her paintings have been shown in group and solo exhibitions in Seattle and elsewhere.

The Baltimore Consort with Danielle Svonavec, soprano

2016-09-24T00:00:00-07:00

September 24th, 2016 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

Mary Anne Ballard – treble and bass viols
Mark Cudek – cittern and bass viol
Larry Lipkis – bass viol, recorder, krummhorn, gemshorn
Ronn McFarlane – lute
Mindy Rosenfeld – flutes, fifes, bagpipes, krummhorn
Danielle Svonavec – soprano

The Baltimore Consort Web Site

The Baltimore Consort appears by arrangement with Joanne Rile, rilearts.com

The Food of Love: Songs for Shakespeare

About the Musicians

Founded in 1980 to perform the instrumental music of Shakespeare’s time, the Baltimore Consort has explored early English, Scottish, and French popular music, focusing on the relationship between folk and art song and dance. Their interest in early music of English/Scottish heritage has also led them to delve into the rich trove of traditional music preserved in North America. Recordings on the Dorian label have earned them recognition as Top Classical-Crossover Artist of the Year (Billboard), as well as rave reviews elsewhere. Besides touring in the U.S. and abroad, they often perform on such syndicated radio broadcasts as St. Paul Sunday, Performance Today, Harmonia and the CBC’s OnStage.

Program Notes

Download the Program Notes (PDF). These notes contain

Full Program
Detailed Artist Biographies
About the instruments
Music in Shakespeare's Plays
Detailed Program Notes
Baltimore Consort CDs

This program is supported in part by a grant from ArtsWa (the Washington State Arts Commission) and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Photo Credit: James Skaggs

The Vienna Piano Trio

2016-10-22T00:00:00-07:00

October 22nd, 2016 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

David McCarroll - violin
Matthias Gredler - cello
Stefan Mendl - piano

The Vienna Piano Trio Web Site

The Vienna Piano Trio is represented by Shupp Artists Management Inc www.shuppartists.com

Program

Beethoven: Variations for pianotrio on “Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu” op.121a
Schönberg: Verklärte Nacht op.4 (Piano trio-version by Eduard Steuermann)
Schubert: Piano trio No.1 in B-flat major op.99,.D898

About the Musicians

Founded in 1988 and celebrated for its finesse, infectious exuberance, tonal allure, and irresistible panache, the Vienna Piano has long been hailed as one of the world’s top piano trios by audiences and the media alike. Since September 2015, this reputation is being kept alive with David McCarroll as the new violinist who brings to this ensemble an extensive knowledge of the chamber music repertoire. He studied with prominent teachers in Boston and Berlin and has already collaborated with renowned artists on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Vienna Piano Trio performs in the major concert halls worldwide. In North America, it appeared, among others, in New York City (Lincoln Center, Weil Recital Hall, Frick Collection) Washington (Kennedy Center, National Gallery, Library of Congress), in Baltimore, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Mexico City, and the Caribbean.

In addition, the trio has been invited to many leading music festivals, including the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Wiener Festwochen, Salzburg Mozartwoche, Casals Festival Prades, Festival of Flanders, Aix-en-Provence, Schleswig-Holstein, Kuhmo, Princeton Summer, Caramoor, Chautauqua, and to the Canadian festivals of Ottawa International Chamber, Toronto Summer Music, Music and Beyond, Lanaudiere, Domaine Forget, Orford, Quebec City International, Casals Festival San Juan, the Morelia and Santa Lucia Festivals in Mexico.

In Vienna, during the first years, the ensemble regularly performed at the Wiener Musikverein; since 2006 it has been ensemble-in-residence at the Konzerthaus. Wigmore Hall named it ensemble-in-residence for 2011/12 and has invited the trio through 2017. In the 2012/13 season the trio served as resident ensemble for BBC's series at St. Lukes, and since the 2015/16 season now also at the University of Southhampton’s Turner Sims Hall.

Among the upcoming projects is a collaboration with tenor Park Padmore premiering in 2017 at Wigmore Hall and the Vienna Konzerthaus a work commissioned for Mr. Padmore and the trio with Austrian composer Thomas Larcher, winner of Lincoln Center’s Elise L. Stoeger Prize 2014/15.

The Trio performed Beethoven's Triple Concerto with orchestras such as the Orchestre Philharmonique Belgique, the English Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal, and the Munich Chamber. It will perform the Beethoven and the Casella triple concertos with the Tonkuenstler Orchestra at the 2017 Grafenegg Festival.

Concerts of the ensemble have been repeatedly broadcast on ORF, BBC3, WNYC, NPR stations, and the trio has appeared live on WGBH Boston and St. Paul Sunday, and radio stations world-wide.

Since 2003, the ensemble has been recording with the German MDG label. For its many CDs the trio won numerous prestigious prizes, including the Echo Klassik award. Upcoming releases will be two Brahms recordings in 2016 and the recordings of the Beethoven and Casella Triple concertos with the Vienna Radio Symphony in 2017.

Besides its concert activities, the ensemble has been giving master classes at Wigmore Hall and the Royal College of Music, at Sydney’s Conservatory of Music, at the University of Wellington as well as in Finland, France, Canada, Mexico, and throughout the USA.

The trio won numerous prizes at international competitions and had among its most important mentors Isaac Stern, Ralph Kirshbaum, Joseph Kalichstein as well as members of the Trio di Trieste, the Beaux Arts Trio, and of the La Salle and Guarneri Quartets.

Photo Credit: Nancy-Horowitz

The Los Angeles Cello Quartet

2016-11-19T00:00:00-08:00

November 19th, 2016 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

Ruslan Biryukov
Anne Suda
Efraín J. del Pilar
Paul Maxwell

The Los Angeles Cello Quartet Web Site

Program

Wilhelm Fitzenhagen (1848-1890): Concert-Walzer, Op. 31

David Popper (1843 – 1913): Suite for 4 celli, Op.16

Andante Grazioso
GAVOTTE (Allegro Vivace ma non troppo)
SCHERZO (Quasi Presto)
Largo espressivo
MARCIA. FINALE (Allegro ma non troppo)

Intermission

KOMITAS (1869-1935) Five Medieval Armenian Chants

Alexander Zemchuznikov (b.1975): “Invitation” (US Premiere)

Invitation
Acceptance
Impatience
Tour de force

About the Musicians

LA Cello Quartet is a project of Positive Motions Foundation initiated by Ruslan Biryukov, founder of the Glendale Philharmonic Orchestra. The ensemble was introduced first at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Fundraiser in Palos Verdes in May 2010. Music making by four charismatic cellists-soloists immediately attracted attention of the public and the quartet was instantly placed into a category of the leading chamber music groups.

The Byrd Ensemble

2017-01-28T00:00:00-08:00

January 28th, 2017 8:00 pm at Battelle Auditorium

The Byrd Ensemble

The Byrd Ensemble Web Site

Program

Flemish Music for the House of Habsburg

The peak of one of Europe’s most extraordinary ruling dynasties coincided with the flourishing musical climate of the 16th century. This program features Flemish music associated with monarchs Maximilian I and Charles V.


Magnificat tertii et octavi toni	Nicolas GOMBERT
Lugebat David Absalon	GOMBERT
Tota pulchra es	Heinrich ISAAC
Gaude virgo mater	JOSQUIN
Intermission
Pater peccavi	Thomas CRECQUILLON
Quis dabit oculis nostris	arr. Ludwig SENFL
Virgo prudentissima	ISAAC

Program Notes

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About the Musicians

THE BYRD ENSEMBLE is a Seattle-based vocal ensemble specializing in the performance of chamber vocal music. Since 2004, the ensemble has performed medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and modern music on an international stage. Described as “pure and radiant” (Gramophone), “immensely impressive” (Early Music Review), and “rich, full-voiced, and perfectly blended” (Early Music America), the ensemble is garnering international acclaim for its recordings of Renaissance vocal music. The Byrd Ensemble is an Artist-in-Residence at St. Mark's Cathedral, Seattle, WA where the group presents its concert series. The Byrd Ensemble is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. The group’s creative efforts are led by Markdavin Obenza.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MARKDAVIN OBENZA has dedicated his career to music. In addition to the Byrd Ensemble, Markdavin is also Director and founder of Seattle-based chamber choir, Vox16, and Producer for Scribe Records, an independent record label. He is an active singer and has performed with the Tudor Choir and members of the Tallis Scholars. He is currently the Director of Choral Music at Trinity Parish Church (Seattle, WA).

Photo Credit: Charleen Cadelina Photography

The Telegraph Quartet

2017-02-18T00:00:00-08:00

February 18th, 2017 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

Eric Chin, Violin
Joseph Maile, Violin
Pei-Ling Lin, Viola
Jeremiah Shaw, Cello

The Telegraph Quartet Web Site

The Telegraph Quartet appears by arrangement with Lisa Sapinkopf Artists, www.chambermuse.com

Program

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Quartet in C major Op. 33 No. 3 "The Bird"

Allegro moderato
Scherzo: Allegretto
Adagio
Presto

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
Cypresses, B.152

1. I Know that My Love to Thee (Já vím, že v sladké nadeji)
2. Death Reigns in Many a Human Breast (V tak mnohém srdci mrtvo jest)
9. Thou Only, Dear One (Ó duše drahá jedinká)
12. You Ask Why My Songs (Ty se ptás, proc moje zpevy)
11. Nature Lies Peaceful in Slumber and Dreaming (Nad krajem vévodi lehký spánek)

intermission

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
String Quartet No. 3 in A major, Op. 41 No. 3

Andante espressivo - Allegro molto moderato
Assai agitato
Adagio molto
Finale. Allegro molto vivace

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About the Musicians

The Telegraph Quartet recently won the 2016 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition, a prize that helped launch the careers of groups including the Pacifica, Brentano and Emerson string quartets and the Eroica Trio. The prize carries with it a performance at Carnegie Hall / Weill Recital Hall and a commissioned work by esteemed American composer Robert Sirota.

The quartet also won the prestigious Grand Prize in the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition after playing together for less than a year. They were the only American quartet of the fifteen from around the world invited to showcase at the 2016 Paris Biennale de quatuors à cordes (Biennial String Quartet Festival and Symposium).

The Telegraph Quartet was formed in 2013 with a passionate commitment to the standard repertoire as well as contemporary and new music. Recent appearances include a New York début in Carnegie Hall / Weill Recital Hall, a European début in the Emilia Romagna Music Festival (Italy), Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Chautauqua Music Festival, Capistrano Chamber Music Festival, Chicago Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Yellow Springs, and Great Lakes Music Festival. They have given three concerts on the San Francisco Conservatory’s Chamber Music Masters Series, and a tour of the Midwest sponsored by the Fischoff Foundation. They have participated Robert Mann’s Quartet Seminar at the Manhattan School of Music and the St. Lawrence Quartet's workshop at Stanford University. Their début CD of Webern, Britten and Kirchner will be released in 2017.

The quartet collaborates with pianist Simone Dinnerstein, cellist Norman Fischer, violist James Dunham (formerly of the Cleveland Quartet) and the Henschel Quartett from Germany.

Beyond the concert stage, the Telegraph Quartet seeks to spread its music through education and audience engagement. They have given master classes at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. The quartet members hold teaching positions at various music institutions including San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Chamber Music Program and Young Chamber Musicians in San Francisco’s South Bay.

The Telegraph Quartet is based in the San Francisco Bay area.

The Telegraph Quartet appears by arrangement with Lisa Sapinkopf Artists, www.chambermuse.com

Adaskin String Trio with Tom Gallant

2017-03-25T00:00:00-07:00

March 25th, 2017 8:00 pm at Battelle Auditorium

Emlyn Ngai, violin
Steve Larson, viola
Mark Fraser, cello
Tom Gallant, oboe and English Horn

Adaskin Trio web site

Tom Gallant web site

Program


Quator for English Horn and Strings	Jean Francaix (1912-1997)
String Trio Op. 9, No. 2	L. van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Intermission
String Trio	Alexis Roland-Manuel (1891-1966)
Quartet in F Major for oboe and strings, K. 370	W. A. Mozart (1756-1791)

About the Musicians

Emlyn Ngai, in addition to his role on modern violin in the trio, is a highly respected historical violinist. He is Associate Concertmaster for the Carmel Bach Festival Orchestra and Concertmaster of the Philadelphia baroque orchestra and chamber ensemble Tempest di Mare. He has performed with these and numerous other renowned ensembles throughout Europe and North America. As first prize winner at the 1995 Locatelli Concours Amsterdam, Emlyn recorded a solo CD for Vanguard Classics and has since released many other highly praised discs for Musica Omnia, ATMA, Centaur, Eclectra, Koch, New World Records, and Telarc. Currently he teaches modern and baroque violin, chamber music and performance practice at The Hartt School where he also co-directs the Collegium Musicum.

Violist Steve Larson performs regularly in duo with his wife, violinist Annie Trépanier and throughout the Americas and Europe with their chamber groups Avery Ensemble and Cuatro Puntos. He is also a member of the acclaimed oboe, viola & piano trio, Ensemble Schumann. Praised for a singing tone and flawless intonation, Larson performs and teaches each summer at the Wintergreen Festival in Virginia and has performed as a guest with esteemed ensembles such as the Emerson String Quartet and Lions Gate Trio. Also a former member of the Alcan String Quartet, Larson won second prize at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition in 1997 in Great Britain, receiving the award for his performance of the commissioned work. Currently Senior Artist Teacher at The Hartt School of the University of Hartford in Connecticut where he has served both as String Department Chair and Chamber Music Chair, Larson holds degrees from McGill University, the University of Montreal and The Hartt School. He plays an exceptional 17-3/8 inch viola made by Helmuth Keller in 1981.

Cellist Mark Fraser, originally from Montreal, studied with Walter Joachim, Aldo Parisot, Yuli Turovsky, and David Finckel; he holds degrees from McGill University, l'Université de Montréal, and The Hartt School. For many years he was the founding Artistic Director of Project Renaissance, an arts festival near Montreal. Mark also performs frequently as a soloist and in recital - recording credits include a CD of works by Bach, Schumann, and Prokofiev with pianist Sooka Wang, and a 2013 CD of three of the Bach Suites for Solo Cello. In 2014 he became Executive Artistic Director of Mohawk Trail Concerts, a 45-year-old chamber music series based in Western Massachusetts, where he now lives.

Thomas Gallant is a First Prize Winner of the Concert Artists Guild International New York Competition. His performances have taken him to Avery Fisher Hall and the Frick Collection in New York City, to Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, to the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and to the Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center and Cleveland Chamber Music Society He has appeared as guest soloist with the Kronos Quartet at the Ravinia Festival and has collaborated with flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal with Cuarteto Casals, the Colorado, Calder and Lark Quartets, Cuarteto Latinoamericano and with the Adaskin String Trio. Recent and upcoming performances include a concert of solo and chamber music works for the oboe at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, and tours across the United States as soloist with Camerata Bariloche from Argentina performing concerti by J. S. Bach, Bellini and Vaughan-Williams. Mr. Gallant is the solo oboist of the Wind Soloists of New York.

Photo Credit: Susan Wilson Photography

Cotik/Lin Duo

2017-04-22T00:00:00-07:00

April 22nd, 2017 8:00 pm at Battelle Auditorium

Tomas Cotik, Violin
Tao Lin, Piano

Cotik/Lin Duo Web Site

The Cotik-Lin Duo appears by arrangement with Lisa Sapinkopf Artists, www.chambermuse.com

Program

Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770)
Variations on a Theme by Corelli

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
Violin Sonata in G major, K.301
- Allegro con spirito
- Allegro

Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Romanza andaluza Op.22, No.1

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Tzigane

intermission

Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904)
Romance, Op.11

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

George Gershwin (1898-1937)
Three Preludes (arr. J. Heifetz)
1. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso
2. Andante con moto e poco rubato
3. Allegro ben ritmato e deciso

Carlos Gardel (1890-1935) and A. Le Pera
Por una Cabeza (arr. John Williams)

Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Three Tangos (arr. Cotik)
1. La muerte del ángel
2. Oblivión
3. Escualo

About the Musicians

Argentinian violinist TOMÁS COTIK and Chinese pianist TAO LIN, both Miami residents, formed their duo in 2010 when they embarked on recording for Centaur Records the complete music for piano and violin by Franz Schubert. The first volume received numerous rave reviews in the international press, including one in Fanfare Magazine that compared their CD favorably with the classic recording by Rachmaninoff and Kreisler. On the strength of the success of this recording, the duo received a long-term recording contract with Centaur Records to record all 17 Sonatas for Piano and Violin by Mozart. The duo has already completed the final CD of the Schubert project, and meanwhile has released a much-lauded Piazzolla CD on the Naxos label.

TOMÁS COTIK (www.tomascotik.com) was the First Prize Winner of the National Broadcast Music Competition in Argentina, and the winner of the Government of Canada Award. He was educated in Germany and has worked under the guidance of the Vermeer, Tokyo and Endellion String Quartets, as well as notable artists including Midori, Christian Tetzlaff, Ana Chumachenko, Heinz Holliger, Leon Fleisher and the leaders of Vienna, Berlin, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cleveland and San Francisco Symphonies. A former rotating concertmaster of the New World Symphony, Tomas Cotik earned a doctorate of music from the University of Miami, where was adjunct professor until recently joining the faculty at Portland State University.

Mr. Cotik has performed with several internationally prominent conductors such as Michael Tilson Thomas, Valery Gergiev, Roberto Abbado, Yakov Kreizberg, Marin Alsop, Stephan Deneve, Roger Norrington and Robert Spano at important venues including Carnegie Hall. He has been a member of the Amernet String Quartet.

Shanghai native and Florida resident TAO LIN (www.taolin.net) has been a prize-winner at the Palm Beach International Invitational Competition, the International Piano e-Competition, the William Kapell International Piano Competition and the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition. He has given recitals at the Kennedy Center, National Gallery, 92nd Street Y, Rockefeller University, Chautauqua Institute, Minnesota Orchestra Hall, Izumi Hall (Osaka, Japan), and Norway’s Edvard Grieg Museum

Mr. Lin has collaborated with the St. Petersburg, Shanghai, and Ying Quartets, as well as distinguished colleagues Elmar Oliveira, Roberto Diaz and Eugenia Zukerman. A prolific recording artist, Mr. Lin can be heard on the Naxos, Artek, Centaur, Romeo, Poinciana, and Piano Lovers labels. He is a Visiting Professor at Shanghai Normal University School of Music and an Artist Faculty at Bowdoin International Music Festival. Mr. Lin is a Steinway Artist.

Young Artists of Distinction

2017-05-07T00:00:00-07:00

May 7th, 2017 2:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

Program:

Audrey Xu, age 10 – Piano	Prelude & Fugue in C minor	J.S. Bach
Michelle Fu, age 14 – Violin	Sonata No. 5, Op. 24	Ludwig van Beethoven
Ourania Glezakou-Elbert, age 11 – Piano	Polonaise in A-flat	Frédéric Chopin
Noni Mosher, age 15 – Violin	Serenade	Dauber
	Concerto in G minor, 1st mov.	Bruch
Jordon Pratt, age 18 – Bassoon	Lyric Suite	Thomas Dunhill
Michelle Fu, age 14 – Piano	Sonata No. 2, Scherzo	Sergei Prokofiev
Winter Mallon, age 16 – Voice, Mezzo Soprano	Liebhaber in Allen Gestalten	Franz Schubert
	Morning Has Broken	Akiko and Forrest Kinney (arr.)
Taryn Boonpongmonee, age 11 – Piano	L'Orage	Friedrich Burgmüller
Marcos Rangel, age 17 – Alta Sax	Pedro Interralde	Pequeña Czarda
Allen Xiong, age 11 – Piano	Humoreske	Rodion Shchedrin
Libby Allen, age 18 – Bassoon	Humoresque	Reinhold Gliere
Sofia Marina, age 12 – Piano	Diabolic Suggestions	Sergei Prokofiev
Mariah Johnson, age 17 – Voice, Soprano	Bel piacere	G. F. Handel
	When I Have Sung My Songs For You	Ernest Charles
Anastasia Crosier, age 12 – Violin	Csárdás	Vittorio Mon

Teachers:

Lilia Moses, Frank Lu, Sherry Danielson, Adella Hammerstrom, Holly Harty, Cathy Exarhos, Hania Dec, and Cynthia Vaughn

Accompanists:

Peggy Patchett
Holly Harty
Benjamin Walley

Every year, Camerata celebrates the end of the season with a tribute to local music students. About 15-20 participants are selected from a group nominated by their teachers on the basis of performance at adjudications and competitions.

If you have questions about this event or would like to learn more, please send an email to youngartists@cameratamusica.com.

Yael Weiss

2017-09-23T00:00:00-07:00

September 23rd, 2017 8:00 pm

This concert will be held at Kennewick First United Methodist Church, 2 S. Dayton Street, Kennewick

Yael Weiss, Piano

Yael Weiss web site

Program

Beethoven: Sonata no. 24 in F sharp major, Op. 78
Schumann: Humoreske, Op. 20
Intermission
Chopin: Ballade in g minor, Op. 23
Paul Chihara: Rag 109
Beethoven: Sonata no. 30 in E major, Op. 109

About the Musician

Acclaimed as a pianist of "consummate artistry" (Washington Post) Yael Weiss has performed across the United States, Europe, Japan, Korea and South America at such venues as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall and London's Wigmore Hall. Her New York recital debut, presented by the Metropolitan Museum, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "remarkably powerful and intense... fine technique and musicianship in the service of an arresting array of music."

New York Brass Arts Trio

2017-10-28T00:00:00-07:00

October 28th, 2017 8:00 pm at Battelle Auditorium

Joe Burgstaller, trumpet
David Jolley, french horn
Haim Avitsur, trombone

New York Brass Arts Trio website

This concert is made possible in part by a grant from Battelle.

Program


Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Jolley)	Three Sinfonias
Ludwig van Beethoven (arr. Avitsur)	Trio in C Major, Op. 87
Richard Strauss (arr. Jolley)	Till Eulenspiegel
Intermission
Astor Piazzola (arr. Burgstaller)	Adios Nonino
Igor Stravinsky (arr. Jolley)	Selection from Pulcinella Suite
Bela Bartok	Romanian Folk Dances Stick Dance Sash Dance In One Spot Dance from Bucsum Romanian Polka Fast Dance
Chick Corea (b.1941) (Arr. Burgstaller)	Three Children’s Songs
Astor Piazzola (arr. Burgstaller)	Libertango

About the Musicians

Three world-class virtuoso soloists have come together to revolutionize the brass trio, and are being hailed as the first brass group ever to play with the sensitivity and musicality of a string quartet. Trumpeter Joe Burgstaller (formerly of Canadian Brass), french hornist David Jolley (founding member of Orpheus Chamber Orchestra) and trombonist Haim Avitsur (Symphony Magazine Emerging Artist) have forged together Classical, Light Classical and Classical/Jazz masterworks of all eras and adapted them for this fantastic and versatile instrumentation.

The members of the New York Brass Arts Trio bring some serious experience to the table. Burgstaller is a former featured trumpeter and arranger with the legendary Canadian Brass, has performed in front of more than 40 orchestras, and has recording credentials that include solo CDs, three Top-10 Billboard hits, and a Top-50 JazzRadio hit. Jolley is a pre-eminent horn soloist of his generation, performing as a soloist with major orchestras, collaborating with major string quartets (Guarnieri, Orion and American), and is a founding member of the Grammy-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Avitsur is the only trombonist named a 2005 and 2007 Emerging Artist by Symphony Magazine and has premiered over 80 compositions.

In addition to their individual performance accomplishments, the members of the Trio all maintain teaching posts at major American musical institutions (Peabody Institute, Manhattan School, Mannes, North Carolina School for the Arts, Queens College and Westchester University).

This concert is made possible in part by a grant from Battelle.

sound|counterpoint

2017-11-18T00:00:00-08:00

November 18th, 2017 8:00 pm at Battelle Auditorium

Miyo Aoki, recorder
Linda Melsted, violin
Curtis Foster, oboe
Jonathan Oddie, harpsichord

sound|counterpoint website

Program: Sonate auf Concertenart

Johann Friedrich Fasch, Sonata in B-flat Major
Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord no. 6 in G Major
Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto in A minor
Intermission
Johann Sebastian Bach, Trio Sonata BWV 1039 in B-flat major
Georg Philipp Telemann, Concerto in A minor

About the Musicians

Established in 2014, sound|counterpoint is charming audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond with its performances of music from the late Renaissance, Baroque, and 21st century. Based in Seattle, this new ensemble has quickly gained a reputation for performances of expressive generosity, spontaneity, vivacity, and virtuosity. sound|counterpoint’s members play with many of North America’s top ensembles, including Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Pacific Music Works, and Pacific Baroque Orchestra.

This program is supported in part by a grant from ArtsWa (the Washington State Arts Commission) and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Clancy Newman with Natalie Zhu

2018-01-27T00:00:00-08:00

January 27th, 2018 8:00 pm at Battelle Auditorium

Clancy Newman, cello
Natalie Zhu, piano

Clancy Newman website

Program

Beethoven: Variations on a Theme from the Magic Flute, Wo O 46, "Bei Mannern, welche Liebe fuhlen" (1801)

Schumann: Five Pieces in Folk Style, Op. 102 I: Mit Humor

Newman: Pop-Unpopped: Inspired by the Billboard Charts
I: Meghan Trainor: All About That Bass
II: Fetty Wap: Trap Queen
III: Mark Ronson: Uptown Funk

INTERMISSION

Prokoviev: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 119

Newman: From Method to Madness (2008)

About the Artists

Cellist Clancy Newman, first prize winner of the prestigious Walter W. Naumburg International Competition and recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, has had the unusual career of a performer/composer. From Albany, NY, he began playing cello at the age of six, and at twelve he received his first significant public recognition when he won a Gold Medal at the Dandenong Youth Festival in Australia, competing against contestants twice his age. In the years that followed, he won numerous other competitions, including the Juilliard School Cello Competition, the National Federation of Music Clubs competition, and the Astral Artists National Auditions.

He has performed as soloist throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia. He can often be heard on NPR’s “Performance Today” and has been featured on A&E’s “Breakfast With the Arts”. A sought after chamber musician, he is a member of the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and a former member of Chamber Music Society Two of Lincoln Center. He has also toured as a member of “Musicians from Marlboro”.

He developed an interest in composition at an early age, writing his first piece at seven, a piece for solo cello. Since then, he has greatly expanded the cello repertoire: he premiered his Four Pieces for Solo Cello at the Violoncello Society in New York, his Sonata for Cello and Piano in New York's Weill Hall, and his Four Seasons for cello and string orchestra with Symphony in C in Philadelphia. He has also written numerous chamber music works, including two string quartets, a clarinet trio, and a piano quintet. He has been a featured composer on the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “Double Exposure” series and the Chicago Chamber Musicians’ “Freshly Scored” series, and has received commissions from Astral Artists, the Barnett Foundation, the Carpe Diem String Quartet, and the Silo Collective, among others. His piano trio, Juxt-Opposition, is available on Bridge Records.

Mr. Newman is a graduate of the five-year exchange program between Juilliard and Columbia University, receiving a M.M. from Juilliard and a B.A. in English from Columbia. His teachers have included David Gibson, Joel Krosnick and Harvey Shapiro.

The recipient of a 2006 Musical Fund Society Career Advancement Award, the 2003 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2003 Andrew Wolf Memorial Chamber Music Award, pianist Natalie Zhu is a winner of Astral Artistic Services' 1998 National Auditions. The Philadelphia Inquirer heralded Astral’s presentation of Ms. Zhu in recital as a display of "emotional and pianistic pyrotechnics"; selections from the recital were later broadcast on National Public Radio’s "Performance Today." Natalie Zhu began her piano studies with Xiao-Cheng Liu at the age of six in her native China and made her first public appearance at age nine in Beijing. At eleven she emigrated with her family to Los Angeles, and by fifteen was enrolled at the Curtis Institute, where she received the Rachmaninoff Award and studied with Gary Graffman. She received a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Claude Frank.

Photo Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Aeolus Quartet

2018-02-24T00:00:00-08:00

February 24th, 2018 8:00 pm at Battelle Auditorium

Nicholas Tavani violin
Rachel Shapiro, violin
Caitlyn Lynch, viola
Alan Richardson, cello

Aeolus Quartet website

Program

F. Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): String Quartet in F, Op. 74 no. 2

F. Mendelssohn (1809-1847): String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13

L.V. Beethoven (1770-1827): String Quartet in C# minor, Op. 131

About the Musicians

Praised by the Baltimore Sun for combining “smoothly meshed technique with a sense of spontaneity and discovery,” the Aeolus Quartet is committed to presenting time-seasoned masterworks and new cutting-edge works to widely diverse audiences with equal freshness, dedication, and fervor.

The Aeolus Quartet was formed in 2008 at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Since its inception, the all-American quartet has been awarded prizes at nearly every major competition in the United States and performed across the globe with showings "worthy of a major-league quartet" (Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News). Luke Quinton of the Austin American Statesman writes, “The Aeolus Quartet is a powerful and thoughtful group of young musicians who are plotting an ascending course…this vibrant group shows great promise.” They were the 2013-2015 Graduate Resident String Quartet at the Juilliard School, and they currently make their home in New York City.

The Aeolus Quartet are Grand Prizewinners of the 2011 Plowman Chamber Music Competition and 2011 Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition. They were awarded First Prize at the 2009 Coleman International Chamber Ensemble Competition, a Silver Medal at the 2011 Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition, and a Bronze Medal at the 2010 International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in New England. The 16th Annual Austin Critics' Table named the Aeolus Quartet their 2010-2011 "Best Ensemble." The Aeolus Quartet has released two critically acclaimed albums of classical and contemporary works through the Longhorn/Naxos label which are available on iTunes, Amazon, and major retailers worldwide.

The Quartet has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia in venues such as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Reinberger Recital Hall at Severance Hall, Merkin Hall, The Library of Congress, Renwick Gallery, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center.

Dedicated to bringing music into the community, the Aeolus Quartet has been widely recognized for their highly innovative and engaging outreach programs. For the 2015-2016 season, the Quartet was the recipient of a CMA Residency Partnership Grant. Named the 2015-2016 Guarneri Quartet Residency in recognition of Aeolus' artistic achievement, the project involved extensive outreach and performance at Duke Ellington School for the Arts, the Sitar Arts Center, and George Washington University. The Fischoff National Chamber Music Association awarded the Aeolus their 2013 Educator Award in acknowledgment of the positive impact their educational efforts have had in diverse communities. Additionally, they were awarded the 2012 Lad Prize which culminated in large-scale community engagement work, performing in the Stanford area, and a masterclass residency at Stanford University. The Aeolus Quartet has also served as teaching faculty at Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), the Austin Chamber Music Workshop, and Da Camera of Houston's Music Encounters Program. Working in collaboration with the University of Texas through the Rural Chamber Music Outreach Initiative, the Quartet has presented educational programs and performances in communities throughout the state of Texas.

The Aeolus Quartet has studied extensively with the Miró, Guarneri, and Juilliard Quartets. Other mentors include artists such as William Preucil, Peter Salaff, Donald Weilerstein, Itzhak Perlman, Gerhard Schulz, and Mark Steinberg. Members of the Quartet hold degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Texas at Austin, where they served as the first Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence.

Rose City Trio

2018-03-24T00:00:00-07:00

March 24th, 2018 8:00 pm at Battelle Auditorium

Sarah Kwak, violin
Nancy Ives, cello
Susan Chan, piano

Program


Piano Trio No. 39 in G Major, Hob. XV/25 "Gypsy"	Franz Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 17	Clara Schumann
Intermission
Trio No. 2 in C Major for Piano, Violin and Cello, Op. 87	Johannes Brahms

About the Musicians

The Rose City Trio is a recently founded piano trio in Portland. Its members consist of violinist Sarah Kwak, cellist Nancy Ives, and pianist Susan Chan, who have performed nationally and internationally as soloists and chamber musicians in various groups, and whose performances have received critical acclaim. Sarah Kwak and Nancy Ives are currently the Concertmaster and Principal Cello of the Oregon Symphony, and Susan Chan serves as Associate Professor of Music and Piano Area Coordinator at Portland State University. The Trio has been performing in various venues in Portland, including Portland State University and on the Classical Up Close Series of the Oregon Symphony.

Byron Schenkman & Friends

2018-04-21T00:00:00-07:00

April 21st, 2018 8:00 pm at Battelle Auditorium

Joshua Romatowski, flute
Debra Nagy, oboe
Anna Marsh, bassoon
Ingrid Matthews, violin
Nathan Whittaker, cello
Byron Schenkman, harpsichord

Byron Schenkman website

Program


Antonio Vivaldi	Trio-sonata in D, RV 84
Antonio Vivaldi	Oboe Sonata in G Minor, RV 28
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier	Trio-sonata in G Major, op. 37, no. 1
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier	Concerto in E Minor, op. 37, no. 6,
Intermission
Anna Bon	Harpsichord Sonata in C, op. 2, no. 4
Giuseppe Brescianello	Trio-sonata in C Minor
Johann Ernst Galliard	Bassoon Sonata no. 2 in G
Antonio Vivaldi	Concerto in D "Il Gardelino"

About the Musicians

BYRON SCHENKMAN has recorded more than thirty CDs of 17th- and 18th-century repertoire, including recordings on historical instruments from the National Music Museum, Vermillion, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A recipient of the Erwin Bodky Award from the Cambridge Society for Early Music “for outstanding achievement in the field of early music,” he was voted “Best Classical Instrumentalist” by the readers of Seattle Weekly in 2006, and his piano playing has been described in The New York Times as “sparkling,” “elegant,” and “insightful.” He has been a featured guest with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston, the Daedalus Quartet, the Northwest Sinfonietta, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Philharmonia Northwest, and the Portland Baroque Orchestra. He was also founding co-director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra with violinist Ingrid Matthews. In 2013 he launched “Byron Schenkman & Friends,” a Baroque and Classical chamber music series at Benaroya Hall in Seattle. Recently he has been studying Klezmer music with Shawn Weaver and has begun collaborating on performances of Russian Jewish art music with violinist Steven Greenman. Schenkman is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and received his master’s degree with honors in performance from the Indiana University School of Music. He currently teaches at Seattle University and Cornish College of the Arts. In 2012 he also served as guest lecturer in harpsichord and fortepiano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Notes on the Program

By Byron Schenkman

Before Antonio Vivaldi, most chamber music featured pairs or groups of like instruments such as trio sonatas for two violins and continuo or string concertos or (earlier) consorts for recorders or viols. In the early 18th century Vivaldi popularized sonatas and concertos for diverse combinations of instruments including many chamber concertos for flute, oboe, violin, bassoon, and continuo. Besides being a celebrated violinist and a prolific opera composer, Vivaldi presided over the Ospedale della Pieta, a famous Venetian music school and home for girls. Some of the young musicians in residence there were orphans; others came from wealthy families willing to pay for their daughters to have such a great musical education. The virtuosity of the music Vivaldi composed for these students indicates that there must have been many phenomenally talented young women and girls at the Ospedale.

Joseph Bodin de Boismortier was one of the first composers to earn a living by selling music to the general public, neither relying on a church, court, or theater for employment, nor on aristocratic patronage. Therefore he had to be up on the latest fashions and to present works with broad popular appeal. His opus 37 contains five trio sonatas which he indicates may be performed by flute and viol, oboe and bassoon, or violin and cello (always with continuo accompaniment), retaining the traditional preference for pairing like instruments when possible. These five trios are then followed by a chamber concerto with the mixed instrumentation most typical of Vivaldi.

Anna Bon was one of the paying students at the Ospedale della Pieta beginning at the age of four. While still a teenager she was hired as a professional singer at the Brandenburg court in Bayreuth. She published three volumes of instrumental music by the time she was nineteen before marrying and drifting into obscurity.

The violinist Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello was another of the many Italian musicians employed at German courts during the Baroque era. European music was becoming increasingly international in flavor and his C Minor trio sonata incorporates French dotted rhythms in the first movement, Italian virtuosity in the second, and German empfindsamkeit (a kind of expressive sensitivity) in the third. Meanwhile Johann Ernst Galliard was a German musician who settled in England where he became the principal oboist in George Friderick Handel’s opera orchestra.

Photo Credit: Will Austin

Young Artists of Distinction

2018-05-06T00:00:00-07:00

May 6th, 2018 2:00 pm at

The Gallery at the Richland Public Library
955 Northgate Dr, Richland, WA 99352 (map)

Program:


Kory Carterby	Ruggero Leoncavallo: Mattinata
Holly Shaw	David Popper: Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68
Kristen Nakamura	Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in C-sharp minor
Nathan Hu	Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata Op. 10, No. 1 in C minor, 1st movement
Karissa Nakamura	Carl Kölling: Fluttering Leaves
Claudia Wells	J. S. Bach: Suite No. 1 in G Major, Prelude
Alice Xu	A. Babajanian: Humoresque
Emilie Cooper	G. Antheil: Valentine Waltzes #VII-IX
Daniel Li	H. Eccles: Sonata No. 11 in G minor - Largo, Allegro
Jessica Chen	Friedrich Kuhlau: Sonatina in C, Op. 55 No. 1
Le-Yi Wang	Sergei Rachmaninoff: Polka
Noni Mosher	Henryk Wieniawski: Romance Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22
Sofia Marina	Edvard Grieg: Piano Sonata in E minor, Op. 7, I. Allegro Moderato
Audrey Xu	W. A. Mozart: Fantasie
Ourania Glezakou-Elbert	V. Kalinnikov: Elégie

If you have questions about this event, please send an email to youngartists@cameratamusica.com.

Jovanni-Rey de Pedro

2018-09-22T00:00:00-07:00

September 22, 2018 7:30 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Jovanni-Rey de Pedro website

Program

STRAUSS II/DOHNANYI Schatzwalzer from "Der Zigeunerbaron"

F. HAYDN Sonata in E-flat, Hob. 52

F. GULDA Variations on “Light My Fire”

(intermission)

T. LESCHETIZSKY Andante Finale from Lucia di Lammermoor, for Left Hand

S. RACHMANINOFF Sonata in B-flat minor, Op. 36

About the Musician

Filipino-American pianist Jovanni-Rey V. de Pedro has developed an international reputation as a soloist, collaborator, pedagogue, speaker, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

Coming from a family of musicians whose musical heritage dates back more than a century, Jovanni has appeared to public acclaim in recital and academic venues on five continents including London’s St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Eroica-Saal in Vienna, and the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. Jovanni has received numerous prizes in competitions in the United States, Canada, Spain, England, Austria, and Greece, including the Isabelle Bond Gold Medal for Performance Excellence, first place at the Pacific International Competition, and second place at the Ibiza International Competition.

Jovanni’s academic research and pedagogical interests have led to presentations for the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) and its state and local affiliates, the College Music Society (CMS), and the European Piano Teachers Association/World Piano Teachers Association in Serbia. He has also been featured as a keynote speaker and recitalist for the Australasian Piano Pedagogy Conference, and the Music Teachers Association of Queensland’s Alan Lane Memorial Workshops in Australia.

A recipient of the 2017 Steinway Top Teacher Award, Jovanni's mission as a pedagogue is to develop pianists and teachers who are intelligent, creative, disciplined, reflective, and communicative. In addition to helping students reach their full potential as sensitive musicians, he is passionate about the growth of professional skills. In 2012, he received national recognition for spearheading the formation of the Piano Pedagogy Symposium, a conference by college students for college students. This MTNA event has since brought together hundreds of young music professionals to share creative ideas, network, and develop skills as scholars, presenters, thinkers, performers, entrepreneurs, and teachers. Jovanni is also a founding member of the Young Professionals Track at the MTNA National Conference, and currently serves as in MTNA’s Special Committee on Young Professionals and committees for the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy.

Whether it be collaborating with engineers to perform at a University of Idaho football game on a spinning piano with the Vandal Marching Band, or teaming up with Millsaps College’s award-winning community service program to bring piano lessons to adults from impoverished areas of Jackson, Jovanni can be continuously seen seeking ways to reach a wider audience, further music and music education, and give back to the community. Over the years, he has helped raise more than $100,000 for dozens of civic and religious organizations such as the Alay Sa Kabataan (Gift of the Children) Foundation in the Philippines, the Filipino Catholic Chaplaincy of Vienna, Grace House Mississippi, and the Austrian-American Council West.

A California native and alumni of the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts (LACHSA), Jovanni holds a Diplom (with auszeichnung) from the Vienna Conservatory’s Konzertfach Abteilung in Austria where his studies were supported by the ASCAP/Leiber & Stoller Foundations. He received a Master of Music degree in Performance Studies from Trinity College of Music in London, and earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Piano Pedagogy and Performance from the University of Michigan (Go Blue!). After teaching appointments at Millsaps College in Mississippi, Levine School of Music in Washington D.C., and the University of Idaho, Jovanni joined the faculty at Samford University’s School of the Arts as Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy.

Now a mentor to his own students, “Dr. J” is grateful for his teachers and people who have positively impacted his life - namely his parents (his dad was his first piano teacher), Gloria Ho-Sims, Vilma Posadas, Robert Ward, Gerhard Geretschläger, Aries Caces, Yonty Solomon, Mikhail Kazakevich, Deniz Arman Gelenbe, Louis Nagel, and John Ellis.

For more information, please visit www.jdepedro.com

The Byrd Ensemble

2018-10-27T00:00:00-07:00

October 27, 2018 7:30 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

SOPRANO
Ruth Schauble
Margaret Obenza
Christina Siemens

ALTO
Sarra Sharif
Joshua Haberman

TENOR
Orrin Doyle
Kurt Kruckeberg

BASS
Willimark Obenza
Kevin Wyatt
Clayton Moser

DIRECTOR
Markdavin Obenza

The Byrd Ensemble Web Site

Program

MUSICAL POLITICS: Motets of Influence


Ne irascaris	William Byrd	c. 1540-1623
To Morning	Gabriel Jackson	b. 1962
Gaude gloriosa	Thomas Tallis	c. 1505-1585
(intermission)
Miserere	Gregorio Allegri	c. 1582-1625
The Woman with the Alabaster Box	Avro Pärt	b. 1935
Tribue Domine	William Byrd	c. 1540-1623

About the Musicians

Sacred music generally served a liturgical purpose, and often also a political one. Whether it was Tallis and Byrd dedicating large collections of motets to the Queen in return for a monopoly on music printing rights, or the music from Tallis’s Gaude gloriosa used as a battle rallying cry when the King was at war with France, each piece on the program comes with an interesting story and gives us a peek into the composers’ allegiances and a sense of the intertwined religious and political turbulence of the time.

Described as “pure and radiant” (Gramophone), “immensely impressive” (Early Music Review), and “rich, full-voiced, and perfectly blended” (Early Music America), the Byrd Ensemble is garnering international acclaim for its performances and recordings of chamber vocal music, particularly Renaissance polyphony. The Byrd Ensemble, directed by Markdavin Obenza, is a Seattle-based professional ensemble made up of 10 to 12 singers.

Since 2004, the ensemble has performed in the greater Seattle area and has toured across the United States, presenting concerts for the Gotham Early Music Scene in New York with Peter Phillips (director of the Tallis Scholars) and the Boston Early Music Fringe Series. In 2014, the Byrd Ensemble was one of sixteen groups—the only ensemble from the United States—chosen to sing at the London International A Cappella Choir Competition and worked with Peter Phillips, Mark Williams, and John Rutter, who described the ensemble as “a fine group that has achieved an enviable standard of tuning, blend, and ensemble.” The group presents an annual subscription series at St. James Cathedral in Seattle and regularly performs in Portland, Oregon. The Byrd Ensemble is a nonprofit organization.

The Byrd Ensemble became part of the Scribe Records label in 2011 and has since produced six records—four of which feature Renaissance polyphony— and have been reviewed by major early music publications: Early Music America, Gramophone, and Early Music Review. Our Lady: Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks (2011) featured reconstructions by musicologist Nick Sandon of music by lesser-known English Renaissance composers—Pasche, Merbecke, and Ludford—and included two world-premiere recordings. In the Company of William Byrd (2012), Music for the Tudors (2015), and Music of the Renaissance: Italy, England & France (2016) featured more mainstream Renaissance composers Tallis, Sheppard, Byrd, and White. The Byrd Ensemble's recording of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt appeared in the international edition of Gramophone Magazine in 2014 and recently in French film L'apparition (2018).

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR MARKDAVIN OBENZA has dedicated his career to music. In addition to the Byrd Ensemble, Markdavin is also Director and founder of Seattle-based chamber choir Vox16 and Producer for Scribe Records, an independent record label. He is an active freelance singer who performs with the Byrd Ensemble and has performed with the Tudor Choir, Early Music Vancouver, and members of the Tallis Scholars. He is the Director of Choral Music at Trinity Parish Church in Seattle, WA.

Frisson

2018-11-17T00:00:00-08:00

November 17, 2018 7:30 pm at Kennewick First Presbyterian Church

Adelya Nartadjieva, violin
Caeli Smith, viola and Associate Director
Julian Schwarz, cello
Sam Suggs, bass
Ji Weon Ryu, flute
Thomas Gallant, oboe and Artistic Director
Bixby Kennedy, clarinet
Rémy Taghavi, bassoon
Eric Huckins, French horn

Frisson website

Program


Divertimento in C Major for viola oboe and bass	Michael Haydn
Allegro molto	1737-1806
Aria
Menuetto
Andante
Presto
Octet for strings and winds Op. 7	August Walter
Allegro moderato	1821-1896
Scherzo
Finale – Vivace
(intermission)
Off Pist	Svante Henryson
	b. 1956
Bachianas Brasileiros No. 6	Hector Villa-Lobos
Aria (Chôro)	1887-1955
Fantasia
Nonet No. 2	Bohuslav Martinů
Poco allegro	1890-1959
Allegretto

About the Musicians

Frisson is an explosive group of rising classical stars who are the best of the recent graduates of the top music schools, including Juilliard, Curtis and Yale. Led by Artistic Director and oboist Thomas Gallant, the musicians were chosen through auditions, and the group already has an impressive tour schedule this season including upcoming debuts in New York City and at the Bermuda Festival. The members of the group all have impressive bios and many have already performed at such prestigious venues as the Verbier, Aspen, Marlboro, and Ravinia Festivals as well as at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall. Frisson programs include music with different combinations of strings and winds, and the core group of violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn perform such works as the Beethoven Septet, Prokoviev Quintet, Schubert Octet and the Martinu Octet. Frisson also expands into a larger group for performances of the complete Brandenburg Concerti as well as a small chamber orchestra for symphonies of Haydn and Mozart. Frisson is based in New York City.

Maxwell Quartet

2019-01-26T00:00:00-08:00

January 26, 2019 7:30 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Colin Scobie, 1st violin
George Smith, 2nd violin
Elliot Perks, viola
Duncan Strachan, cello

Maxwell Quartet website

Program

Franz Josepf Haydn (1732-1809)
String Quartet in E-flat major, Op.71 no. 3, Apponyi, Hob.III:71

Joey Roukens (b.1982)
Visions at Sea (2011)

Scottish Folk Music (to be announced from the stage)

(intermission)

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Quartet in B-flat major, Op.130

The Maxwell Quartet appears by arrangement with Lisa Sapinkopf Artists, www.chambermuse.com

About the Musicians

1st Prize winner and Audience Prize winner at the Trondheim (Norway) International Chamber Music Competition in 2017, the Maxwell Quartet has been hailed for "great communication" by The Strad Magazine and as “brilliantly fresh, unexpected and exhilarating” by The Scottish Herald. The Glasgow-based Maxwell Quartet is now firmly regarded as one of Britain's finest string quartets, with a strong connection to their folk music heritage and a commitment to bringing together wide-ranging projects and programmes to expand the string quartet repertoire.

The quartet performs regularly across the UK and abroad, at venues including London’s Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, St Martin-in-the-Fields, and the BBC Chamber Music Proms. Their 2017-18 season includes engagements in Denmark, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, France and China. Their first North American tour, in January 2019, is to coincide with the release of their début CD, featuring works by Haydn and traditional Scottish folk music.

The Maxwell Quartet consists of four great friends who grew up playing classical and folk music together in youth orchestras and music schools across Scotland. The group officially began in 2010 at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where its founding members met as postgraduate students. The very next year, the Quartet was appointed as the Conservatoire's Young Artists in Residence.

Performing widely across Scotland, the quartet has established a reputation for delighting audiences with their "unnaffected enthusiasm" (North Highland Times) and their "panache and conviction" (Strathearn Herald). The quartet has held residencies at Oxford University, Perth Concert Hall and many chamber music festivals across the UK, including their own Loch Shiel Festival in the Scottish highlands.

Passionate about collaborating with other musicians and art forms, the quartet has worked with world-renowned pianists Benjamin Grosvenor and Jeremy Menuhin as well as a global roster of artists and institutions including Cryptic Theatre, the experimental performance space Wintour’s Leap, the Royal Ballet School, the Scottish-German soul duo Lunir, cinematographer Herman Kolgen, and many more. They have also commissioned works by some of the UK's most dynamic composers including Anna Meredith, Tom Harrold, Mark Simpson and Colin Broom. The quartet regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio Scotland, as well as giving school workshops and children's concerts.

The Maxwell Quartet was mentored by the Endellion Quartet at King's Place, London, and studied privately with Hatto Beyerle, founding member of the Alban Berg Quartet, in Germany.

Program Notes

Haydn:

Although commissioned by Count Apponyi, a good violinist and generous patron of the arts, this quartet was actually written in preparation for Haydn's second trip to London, and the violinist more on Haydn's mind was surely the London impresario Johann Peter Salomon. So the work incorporates several of the tricks Haydn developed to impress (or, in the beginning, subdue) his English audiences. The first movement, for instance, begins with what László Somfai memorably called a "noise-killer curtain," one loud, attention-getting chord separated from the main Vivace material by a full bar's rest. Another London trick is the series of unusual-for the time, almost freakish-modulations in the development section that veer from the sonata-form movement's standard harmonic path. The movement's witty first theme spins along happily for four bars before stopping to check itself with two quiet, bouncy little measures, and continues to repeat that pattern. The second subject is a slippery canon that never quite fires its contrapuntal shot.

The Andante con moto is a set of free variations on two themes, one an informal major-mode humming tune, and the other a minor-mode subject closely related to the first. The two are so similar, in fact, that it can be difficult to determine which is being varied-or if the second theme itself is simply a minor variation on the first. The movement's most notable moment comes in the third variation, in which the often-neglected cello gets the leading voice.

As if emboldened by his cello solo in the slow movement, Haydn allots a brief solo to each instrument in his lengthy Minuet, as if the momentarily dominant player were making a quiet confession to the others. The central trio begins deep in the solo cello, and by the end has risen to a violin part placed well above the staff.

The final movement, Vivace, takes ternary form, with the loping outer sections looking ahead to the Viennese waltz. The middle portion is a mild fugato in which Haydn shows off to the Londoners his superior Teutonic technique. —James Reel

Roukens:

Joey Roukens was born in Schiedam, the Netherlands, in 1982. He studied composition with Klaas de Vries at the Rotterdam Conservatory and psychology at Leiden University. His works have been performed by major ensembles and soloists in the Netherlands and abroad, such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Britten Sinfonia, and Tokyo Sinfonietta. For a long time, Roukens has also been active in pop music.

Roukens strives to move away from modernist ways of thinking in search for a more eclectic and direct idiom. He seeks to organically integrate elements from highly diverse influences and aesthetics, and thus doesn’t shy away from the use of tonality, references to popular music, vernacular culture, "stealing" from the musical heritage of the past, and the odd trivial turn.

Visions at Sea explores the turbulent voyages that Dutch seafarers made in the 17th century. It uses old Dutch sea shanties carefully woven into a dynamic framework which lurches from moments of serene beauty to ones of wild frenzy.

Beethoven:

Beethoven's last string quartets were composed during the final years of his life between 1824 and 1826. The project began with a commission from the Russian Prince Nicholas Galitzin, an amateur cellist who requested "one, two or three" string quartets. Once Beethoven began work in earnest, he turned out five massive quartets that ultimately become six separate works known simply and profoundly as "The Late Quartets." For decades, these quartets were regarded by most as quite possibly the work of a once great composer now degenerated into a deafness and insanity. (Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann thought differently). It was not until the 20th century that the late quartets became widely regarded as profound and transcendent masterworks worthy of entering, if not becoming, the apex of the traditional repertoire.

The third of the late quartets in the order Beethoven composed them, Op.130 was completed in November of 1825. Beethoven and his publisher surprisingly agreed that the finale did not sit well with the rest of the quartet movements. The bristling fugue of epic proportions was deemed "too much" for audiences of the time, and it was detached and published as a separate opus. Beethoven composed a fresh, much lighter finale to complete Op. 130 in its revised, final version. The quartet will be performed tonight in its original version.

Like nearly all of the Beethoven's late quartets, Op.130 can be approached in many ways. Without regard to the well-established elite tradition of quartet form, style and expression, Op.130 presents a surface beauty, technical facility and rich emotional aspect that can't fail to strike a casual listener as truly lovely music with profound tendencies. But seen within a framework of traditional works by Haydn and Mozart, Op.130 is, like the other late quartets, a very odd and possibly incomprehensible departure. Herein lies one sense of the term "difficult" applied to these late works: "difficult to follow" compared to the rhetorical conventions of the time. But surely another meaning behind the term "difficult" is the emotional demands they make they induce in the listener. Throughout the late quartets, one finds extreme emotional states that can, at times, be difficult because they are simply so intense and effective.

Op.130, particularly in its original form, is truly an anomaly from a conventional perspective. Rather than the traditional four movements, it has six. Of these, two are almost laughably short while the original fugal finale was outrageously long and truly "difficult" in every sense of the word. The fourth movement is a triple meter German dance with a trio of a rustic character, but the second movement is also clearly a scherzo of ternary design. Two scherzi? Although the opening movement appears to be in a rather straightforward sonata form (it is far more), the fifth movement is a basic operatic cavatina of surprisingly simple design with an indescribably haunting character nonetheless. The musicologist Michael Steinberg suggests that to the listeners of the day, this must have seemed like a miscellany of movements, more like a divertimento or suite than a string quartet. Musicologist Leonard Ratner provides a convincing analysis that Beethoven was indeed intentionally invoking an antique form of suite complete with Renaissance canzona, a march, an aria and a gigue, a design that practically renders the Grosse Fuge an inextricable part of a grand design.

All of this only reinforces the essential fact that Beethoven was an undaunted pioneer and artistic visionary who created, particularly in the late quartets, truly complicated works of high art that speak on many levels lending themselves to multiple if not infinite interpretations and reactions. They are indescribably compelling works that have mesmerized players, composers, scholars, poets and avid listeners for nearly two hundred years. Perhaps one of their most essential traits is that they can become as "difficult" as one wishes or, miraculously, as direct, simple and obvious as one's willingness to hear and feel. Feel and "understand" them as you can and as you will. It is a project worthy of a lifetime. —Kai Christiansen

Ensemble Caprice Family Program

2019-02-23T16:00:00-08:00

February 23, 2019 4:00 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

**This performance is in addition to the evening performance and the lecture demonstration **

Matthias Maute et Sophie Larivière, recorder
Susie Napper, violoncello
David Jacques, baroque guitar
Ziya Tabassian, percussion

Ensemble Caprice website

Family Program

A baroque feast: Music and stories

Music tells stories. What is the story hidden behind J.H.Schmelzer’s Serenata con altre arie or A.Vivaldi’s La Follia? Ensemble Caprice performs and tells musical stories which reach out to us today throughout the centuries. The program A baroque feast celebrates the magic of music!

This event is ideal for parents and children.

There is no admission charge. First-come, first-seated.

**This performance is in addition to the evening performance and the lecture demonstration **

About the Musicians

Ensemble Caprice has been hailed by the New York Times as “an ensemble, that encourages the listener to rehear the world”.

In 2019 the Caprice will celebrate its 30th anniversary!

Founded by acclaimed conductor, composer and recorder soloist Matthias Maute, Ensemble Caprice has become known for its innovative and adventuresome approach to an increasingly expanding musical repertoire on period instruments.

In addition to its series of concerts in Montreal, the group tours extensively, giving dozens of concerts in Quebec, Canada, the USA, Europe, and even Asia. The ensemble is a regular guest at many prestigious European festivals: the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music in London, the Bruges (Belgium) and Utrecht (Netherlands) festivals, the Felicia Blumenthal International Music Festival in Tel Aviv; and in Germany, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, the Regensburg Early Music Festival, the Händel-Festspiele in Halle, and the Stockstadt festival. The New York Times published a lengthy article hailing the musicians’ innovative and refreshing approach, praising them as “imaginative (and) powerful; the playing is top-flight”.

The Ensemble’s recording activity is every bit as impressive: Their CDs have gained many honors and much critical acclaim. The CD Gloria! Vivaldi and his Angels received a JUNO Award and three prestigious Prix Opus awards. Ensemble Caprice was also recognized for its artistic approach and the quality of its performances by being selected “People’s choice and was a finalist in the music category for the Montreal Arts Council’s Grand Prix de Montréal. The group also earned a nomination for the Echo Klassic award in Germany and the acclaimed publication Gramophone Magazine chose the group’s CD Telemann and the Baroque Gypsies as one of its recommended recordings.

In 2015 and 2016 the ensemble went twice to China and represented Canada at the festival Meet in Beijing. In 2017 the Ensemble will be touring in Central America, South America and again in China.

Ensemble Caprice produces videos for the website noncerto which promote classical music in a new way. The videos have been viewed in more than 150 countries around the world.

In the USA the CD Chaconne-Voices of Eternity has been selected CD of the year 2016 by Radio WBRB in Boston.

Ensemble Caprice Lecture Demonstration

2019-02-23T16:00:00-08:00

February 22, 2019 11:00 am at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Ensemble Caprice Artist Director Matthias Maute

The Columbia Basin College Arts Center is pleased to announce that Ensemble Caprice Artist Director Matthias Maute will be presenting a lecture demonstration on Friday, February 22, from 11AM to 12PM, in the CBC Theatre. He will be providing a solo demonstration and lecture as an introduction to the upcoming concerts on Saturday, February 23. There will also be time for a Q & A for those attending.

This is a wonderful opportunity to hear this gifted artist speak about his work with Ensemble Caprice and the literature he focuses on, as well as, answer questions. This lecture demonstration is brought to you through the partnership formed between Camerata Music and the CBC Arts Center. The public is welcome and this event is offered free of charge.

Ensemble Caprice website

This performance is in addition to the evening performance and the family concert on Saturday, February 23rd

Ensemble Caprice

2019-02-23T19:30:00-08:00

February 23, 2019 7:30 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

There is an additional family performance in the afternoon and a lecture demonstration on Friday.

Matthias Maute et Sophie Larivière, recorder
Susie Napper, violoncello
David Jacques, baroque guitar
Ziya Tabassian, percussion

Ensemble Caprice website

Main Program


Johann Heinrich and Maria
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer	Serenata con altre arie
(1623-1680)	Serenata-Arlecchino-Adagio-Allegro-Ciacona-Campanella e Lamento
Biagio and Monica
Biagio Marini	Sonata sopra la Monica
Andrea Falconieri	Passacalle (1650)
Carlo Calvi (Italy, 17th century)	Aria di Fiorenza y sua Corente (1646)
Anonymus (Rome, 1657)	Ciacona di Paradiso, et dell inferno
Krystof and Ana	Stories of love and solitude
Anonymous (16th century)	Czech Folk songs
Andrea and his wife
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer	Sonata seconda op.III,3 (1660)
Andrea Falconieri	Battalla de Barabaso yerno de Satanas (1650)

(Intermission)

Johann Sebastian and Maria Barbara
J.S.Bach (1685-1750)	Chaconne BWV 1004 (arr.M.Maute)
Henry and Frances
Henry Purcell (1659-1696)	Two in one upon a Ground
Anonymous 17th century	The Duke of Norfolk, or Paul’s Steeple (1684)
Henry Purcell (1659-1696)	A New Scotch Tune
Anonymous 17th century	Budro
Santiago and Isabella
Santiago de Murcia (1673 - 1739) La Jota

Antonio, Paula and Ana
Antonio Vivaldi (1681-1741)	Sonate op.I,12 La Follia

There is an additional family performance in the afternoon and a lecture demonstration on Friday.

About the Musicians

Ensemble Caprice has been hailed by the New York Times as “an ensemble, that encourages the listener to rehear the world”.

In 2019 the Caprice will celebrate its 30th anniversary!

In 2015 and 2016 the ensemble went twice to China and represented Canada at the festival Meet in Beijing. In 2017 the Ensemble will be touring in Central America, South America and again in China.

Ensemble Caprice produces videos for the website noncerto which promote classical music in a new way. The videos have been viewed in more than 150 countries around the world.

In the USA the CD Chaconne-Voices of Eternity has been selected CD of the year 2016 by Radio WBRB in Boston.

Ensemble Caprice is supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Ensemble Caprice

2019-02-23T19:30:00-08:00

February 23, 2019 7:30 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

There is an additional family performance in the afternoon and a lecture demonstration on Friday.

Matthias Maute et Sophie Larivière, recorder
Susie Napper, violoncello
David Jacques, baroque guitar
Ziya Tabassian, percussion

Ensemble Caprice website

Main Program


Johann Heinrich and Maria
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer	Serenata con altre arie
(1623-1680)	Serenata-Arlecchino-Adagio-Allegro-Ciacona-Campanella e Lamento
Biagio and Monica
Biagio Marini	Sonata sopra la Monica
Andrea Falconieri	Passacalle (1650)
Carlo Calvi (Italy, 17th century)	Aria di Fiorenza y sua Corente (1646)
Anonymus (Rome, 1657)	Ciacona di Paradiso, et dell inferno
Krystof and Ana	Stories of love and solitude
Anonymous (16th century)	Czech Folk songs
Andrea and his wife
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer	Sonata seconda op.III,3 (1660)
Andrea Falconieri	Battalla de Barabaso yerno de Satanas (1650)

(Intermission)

Johann Sebastian and Maria Barbara
J.S.Bach (1685-1750)	Chaconne BWV 1004 (arr.M.Maute)
Henry and Frances
Henry Purcell (1659-1696)	Two in one upon a Ground
Anonymous 17th century	The Duke of Norfolk, or Paul’s Steeple (1684)
Henry Purcell (1659-1696)	A New Scotch Tune
Anonymous 17th century	Budro
Santiago and Isabella
Santiago de Murcia (1673 - 1739) La Jota

Antonio, Paula and Ana
Antonio Vivaldi (1681-1741)	Sonate op.I,12 La Follia

There is an additional family performance in the afternoon and a lecture demonstration on Friday.

About the Musicians

Ensemble Caprice has been hailed by the New York Times as “an ensemble, that encourages the listener to rehear the world”.

In 2019 the Caprice will celebrate its 30th anniversary!

In 2015 and 2016 the ensemble went twice to China and represented Canada at the festival Meet in Beijing. In 2017 the Ensemble will be touring in Central America, South America and again in China.

Ensemble Caprice produces videos for the website noncerto which promote classical music in a new way. The videos have been viewed in more than 150 countries around the world.

In the USA the CD Chaconne-Voices of Eternity has been selected CD of the year 2016 by Radio WBRB in Boston.

Ensemble Caprice is supported by the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

Aristeia Trio

2019-03-23T00:00:00-07:00

March 23, 2019 7:30 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello
Vijay Venkatesh, piano
Micah Wright, clarinet

Aristeia Trio website

Program


Kegelstatt Trio	W.A. Mozart
	1756-1791
Andante
Menuetto
Allegretto

Trio in Bb, Op. 11	Ludwig van Beethoven
	1929-2010
Allegro con brio
Adagio
Tema con variazioni
[INTERMISSION]
Fantasy Trio	Robert Muczynski
Allegro energico
Andante con espressione
Allegro deciso
Eight Pieces	Max Bruch
	1832-1920
III. Andante con moto
IV. Allegro agitato
V. Andante "Rumänische Melodie"
VII. Allegro vivace
Golliwog's Cakewalk	Claude Debussy
	1862-1918

About the Musicians

Aristeia Trio is a newly-formed trio based in Los Angeles. Annie Jacobs-Perkins (cello), Vijay Venkatesh (piano), and Micah Wright (clarinet) met as students at the USC Thornton School of Music. While Aristeia Trio has only existed since 2016, the trio has already given dozens of performances in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Washington state. As winners of the 2016 Frances Walton Competition, the trio performed a live, nationally-broadcast concert on KING FM 98.1.

Vijay Venkatesh, pianist, a native of Orange County, California, has been hailed in concert review for his “sublime phrasing, tremendous and powerful virtuosity, beautiful lyricism, and mature and sensitive interpretation” in performances “equaling that of Radu Lupu, Itzhak Perlman, and Andres Segovia.” At age 14, he made his orchestral debut with the South Coast Symphony. In addition, he has performed with the Symphony Orchestras of Seattle, Vienna, Roanoke, USC Thornton, Eastern Connecticut, YMF Debut, UCI, Pasadena, Rio Hondo, Transylvania, and the Brevard Music Center. He has collaborated with such celebrated conductors as Ludovic Morlot, David Lockington, David Stewart Wiley, Toshiyuki Shimada, Ken Lam, Robert Lehrbaumer, Kimo Furumoto, and more.

His 2016-17 season contains a performance with USC Thornton Symphony and recitals at the McCallum Theatre, Annenberg Theatre, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and a 30-concert tour of Washington with the trio, Aristeia Trio pianist Vijay has won Grand Prizes in the 2016 Classics Alive Artists competition, 2016 Frances Walton Chamber Music Competition, 2015 Seattle Symphony International Piano Competition and 2008 Los Angeles Music Center’s Spotlight Awards. In 2008 he was named a Davidson Fellow, honored with an award ceremony and reception at the Library of Congress. A 2009 alumnus of NPR’s ‘From the Top’ with host Christopher O’ Riley, and a 2009 Winner of NFAA YoungARTS, he took 1st Prizes in the 2011 Zimmerli International Solo Piano Competition, 2004 San Jose International Piano Competition, 2007 World Piano Pedagogue Competition, and 2nd prize in the 2007 Virginia Waring International Piano Competition. Vijay’s principal professors have included Dr. Sarkis Baltaian, Norman Krieger and Jeffrey Kahane. He is a recipient of the 2015 Parnassus Society Prize, 2014 Birte Moller Young Artist Award, and the 2013 Thornton Music Faculty Award from the University of Southern California graduating as a 2017 Discovery Scholar. He plans to pursue a Masters at Indiana University with professor Norman Krieger as a recipient of the Barbara and David Jacobs Fellowship. He is currently managed by Classics Alive Artists.

Annie Jacobs-Perkins, known for her intense musicality and “hypnotic lyricism” (Alex Ross, the New Yorker), is a senior Trustee Scholar studying cello performance with Ralph Kirshbaum at USC’s Thornton School of Music and pursuing minors in German Studies and Literature. Annie is the winner of many awards and competitions in her hometown of Rochester, NY. Most recently in 2016, Annie was a member of the youngest ensemble, the Callisto Piano Trio, to win a top prize in senior division of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. In 2014 Annie had two appearances on NPR, once as a soloist on “From the Top” with host Christopher O’Riley and the other on “Air Play.” As a part of the Woodstock Duo with David Steinhardt (guitar and cello), Annie won all age divisions of the Virtuosi Chamber Music Competition, resulting in subsequent radio appearances. The same group recently won Thornton’s prestigious Gluck Fellowship. After sitting principal of the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra for four consecutive years, at age seventeen Annie was selected to be the associate principal for the New York String Orchestra’s 2014 concerts in Carnegie Hall.

In her last year of high school Annie was a volunteer strings teacher at an El Sistema-based, after-school strings program for inner-city students in Rochester. At the same she graduated from high school, Annie obtained a diploma from the Honors Certificate Program at the Hochstein School of Music and Dance under the tutelage of Kathleen Murphy Kemp and Doleen Hood as well as a Pre-Collegiate Diploma in Music Theory from the Eastman Community Music School. In 2015 she won the Thornton School’s Solo Bach Competition and the Burbank Philharmonic’s Hennings-Fischer Young Artist Competition. As a result of the latter, Annie performed Elgar’s Cello Concerto with the Burbank Philharmonic last February.

Micah Wright, an exciting and versatile young clarinetist, is quickly gaining a following in Southern California and the United States. This year alone, Micah has given solo performances in Honolulu, Nashville, Flint, Santa Barbara, and Thousand Oaks with great success. Micah is the 2nd prize winner of the 2017 Backun International Clarinet Competition, one of five finalists in the 2017 William C. Byrd International Young Artists Competition, winner of the 2016 MTNA California Young Artists Woodwind Competition, and winner of the 2016 Frances Walton Competition. Micah has also received 2nd prize in the 2012 International Woodwind Festival’s Young Artist Competition, and was one of six finalists in the 2012 International Clarinet Association’s Young Artist Competition, and was a 2009 youngARTS winner. Micah won the concerto competition for the world-renowned Shepherd School Symphony in 2011 and has been a featured concerto soloist with the Masterworks Festival Orchestra, Drake University Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Metro Concert Band, and the Orange County Youth Symphony Orchestra.

In addition to his solo playing, Micah is an active chamber musician, orchestral clarinetist, studio musician, and collaborative pianist. Micah is currently the Adjunct Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone at California Lutheran University, maintains a private studio, and gives clinics and masterclasses throughout the Southwest as clinician for D’Addario Woodwinds. Micah received his D.M.A from USC (2015), his M.M. from Rice University (2012), and his B.M. from Drake University (2009) at the age of 19.

Paul O’Dette and Ronn McFarlane

2019-04-27T00:00:00-07:00

April 27, 2019 7:30 pm at Kennewick First Presbyterian Church

Paul O’Dette
Ronn McFarlane

Paul O’Dette website
Ronn McFarlane website

Program

For Two Lutes: Virtuoso Duets from Italy and England

Saltarello & Piva Joanambrosio Dalza (pub. 1508)
Contrapunto Primo Vincenzo Galilei (c. 1520-1591)
Canzona Prima à doi liutti unisoni Claudio Merulo/ arr. Giovanni Antonio Terzi (pub. 1593)
Passacaglia Alessandro Piccinini (1566-1638)
Toccata à dui Liuti Alessandro Piccinini

Intermission

Dreweries accordes Anonymous (c.1600)
Galliard after Laveche Anonymous
De la Tromba Pavin Anonymous
The Earl of Essex Galliard John Dowland (1563-1626)
A Fancy John Danyel (1564-after 1625)
Fantasie #7 John Dowland
Chi Passa John Johnson (? - 1594)

Program Notes (PDF)

About the Musicians

Paul O'Dette,

“…should I come to meet Saint Peter at the pearly gates, I hope he will say, ‘Welcome, good and faithful servant! By the way, be sure to hear Paul O’Dette—he’s leading the angel band.’” Early Music America

Paul O'Dette has been described as “the clearest case of genius ever to touch his instrument.” (Toronto Globe and Mail) One of the most influential figures in his field, O'Dette has helped define the technical and stylistic standards to which twenty-first-century performers of early music aspire. In doing so, he helped infuse the performance practice movement with a perfect combination of historical awareness, idiomatic accuracy, and ambitious self-expression.

Paul O'Dette has made more than 140 recordings, winning two Grammys, seven Grammy nominations and numerous other international record awards. “The Complete Lute Music of John Dowland” (a 5-CD set for harmonia mundi usa), was awarded the prestigious Diapason D'or de l'année, while “The Royal Lewters” received the Diapason D’or, a Choc du Monde de la Musique, a 5-star rating in BBC Music Magazine, 5-star rating in Goldberg and a perfect score of 10 from ClassicsToday.com. “The Bachelar’s Delight: Lute Music of Daniel Bacheler” was nominated for a GRAMMY in 2006 as “Best Solo Instrumental Recording.”

Mr. O'Dette is also active conducting Baroque operas. His recent recording of Charpentier’s La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers with the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble won a GRAMMY for “Best Opera Recording of 2014,” as well as an Echo Klassik Award in the same category. In 1997 he began a collaboration with Stephen Stubbs, co-directing performances of Baroque operas, beginning with Luigi Rossi's L'Orfeo at Tanglewood, the Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF) and the Drottningholm Court Theatre in Sweden. Since 1999 they have co-directed performances of Cavalli's Ercole Amante at the Boston Early Music Festival, Tanglewood, and the Utrecht Early Music Festival, Provenzale's La Stellidaura Vendicata at the Vadstena Academy in Sweden, Monteverdi's Orfeo and L'Incoronazione di Poppea for Festival Vancouver, Lully's Thésée, Conradi’s Ariadne (Hamburg, 1691) Mattheson’s Boris Goudenow, Lully’s Psyché, Monteverdi’s Poppea and Ulisse, Handel’s Acis and Galatea, Steffani’s Niobe _andHandel’s Almira for the Boston Early Music Festival. Their recording of _Ariadne was nominated for a GRAMMY as “Best Opera Recording of 2005,” Thésée in 2007 and Psyché in 2008. Their most recent opera recording, Niobe, was awarded a Diapason D’or de l’année, Echo Klassik Award, the Jahrespreis der Deutschenschallplattenkritik, and was nominated for this year’s Grammys. Paul O'Dette has guest directed numerous Baroque orchestras and opera productions on both sides of the Atlantic.

In addition to his activities as a performer, Paul O'Dette is an avid researcher, having worked extensively on the performance and sources of seventeenth-century Italian and English solo song, continuo practices and lute music. He has published numerous articles on issues of historical performance practice and co-authored the Dowland entry in the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians.

Paul O'Dette is Professor of Lute and Director of Early Music at the Eastman School of Music and Artistic Director of the Boston Early Music Festival.

Ronn McFarlane

GRAMMYnominated lutenist, Ronn McFarlane strives to bring the lute the most popular instrument of the Renaissance into today’s musical mainstream and make it accessible to a wider audience.

Born in West Virginia, Ronn grew up in Maryland. At thirteen, upon hearing “Wipeout” by the Surfaris, he fell madly in love with music and taught himself to play on a “cranky sixteendollar steel string guitar.” Ronn kept at it, playing blues and rock music on the electric guitar while studying classical guitar. He graduated with honors from Shenandoah Conservatory and continued guitar studies at Peabody Conservatory before turning his full attention and energy to the lute in 1978. The next year, Mr. McFarlane began to perform solo recitals on the lute and became a member of the Baltimore Consort. Since then, he has toured throughout the United States, Canada and Europe with the Baltimore Consort and as a soloist.

McFarlane was a faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory from 1984 to 1995, teaching lute and lute-related subjects. In 1996, Mr. McFarlane was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music from Shenandoah Conservatory for his achievements in bringing the lute and its music to the world. He has over 35 recordings on the Dorian/Sono Luminus label, including solo albums, lute duets, flute & lute duets, lute songs, the complete lute music of Vivaldi, a collection of Elizabethan lute music and poetry, and recordings with the Baltimore Consort.

Ronn has composed new music for the lute, building on the tradition of the lutenist/composers of past centuries. His original compositions are the focus of his solo CD, Indigo Road, which received a GRAMMY Award Nomination for Best Classical Crossover Album of 2009. In 2010 Ronn founded Ayreheart, an ensemble brought together to perform new compositions as well as early music. Ayreheart’s first CD release, One Morning, consists of alloriginal music by Ronn McFarlane. Ayreheart’s 2016 release, Barley Moon, blends folk music and art music from Renaissance and Medieval England, Scotland and Wales.

Young Artists of Distinction

2019-05-05T00:00:00-07:00

May 5th, 2019 2:00 pm at Kennewick First Presbyterian Church

Program:

Coming soon!

If you have questions about this event, please send an email to youngartists@cameratamusica.com.

Baltimore Consort

2019-09-28T00:00:00-07:00

September 28, 2019 7:30 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Mary Ann Ballard (viol, rebec)
Mark Cudek (Cittern, Viol, Crumhorn, Recorder & Whistle, Renaissance Guitar, Percussion)
Larry Lipkis (Viol, Recorder & Whistle, Crumhorn, Gemshorn)
Ronn McFarlne (Lute)
Mindy Rosenfeld (Flute & Fife, Bagpipes)
Danielle Svonanec, guest artist (Soprano)

Baltimore Consort website

Program

Crossing to the New World - Early and Traditional Music in the British Isles, France, and North America

Program notes (PDF)

Park Brothers Guitar Duo

2019-10-26T00:00:00-07:00

October 26, 2019 7:30 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Alex and Wesley Park

Park Brothers Guitar Duo website

Program

Program notes (PDF)

Park Brothers Guitar Duo

2019-10-26T00:00:00-07:00

October 26, 2019 7:30 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Alex and Wesley Park

Park Brothers Guitar Duo website

Program

Program notes (PDF)

Kouzov Duo

2019-11-23T00:00:00-08:00

November 23, 2019 7:30 pm at Kennewick First Presbyterian Church

Dmitry Kouzov (Cello)
Yulia (Fedoseeva) Kouzova. (Piano)

Kouzov Duo website

Program

Full program (Word Document)

Program notes (Word Document)

Carpe Diem String Quartet with Cameron Bennett

2020-01-25T00:00:00-08:00

January 25, 2020 7:30 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

There is an additional family performance in at 4:00 PM

Charles Wetherbee (Violin)
Marisa Ishikawa (violin)
Korine Fujiwara (viola)
Gregory Sauer (Cello)

Carpe Diem String Quartet website

Program

Piano Quintet in E flat Major, Op. 44 Robert Schumann
Positive Energy Bradley Sowash
Fiddle Suite Montana Korine Fujiwara
String Quartet No. 6, Giga Sergei Taneyev

This program is supported in part by a grant from ArtsWa (the Washington State Arts Commission) and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Performer Biographies

Carpe Diem bio (Word Document)

Cameron Bennett bio (Word Document)

Charles Wetherbee bio (Word Document)

Marisa Ishikawa bio (Word Document)

Korine Fujiwara bio (Word Document)

Gregory Sauer bio (Word Document)

Carpe Diem String Quartet with Cameron Bennett Afternoon

2020-01-25T00:00:00-08:00

January 25, 2020 4:00 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

This performance is in addition to the evening performance at 7:30 PM

Charles Wetherbee (Violin)
Marisa Ishikawa (violin)
Korine Fujiwara (viola)
Gregory Sauer (Cello)

Carpe Diem String Quartet website

Program

Piano Quartet in E flat Major, Op. 47 Robert Schumann
Positive Energy Bradley Sowash
Fiddle Suite: Montana Korine Fujiwara
String Quartet No. 6, Giga Sergei Taneyev

Axiom Brass

2020-02-22T00:00:00-08:00

February 22, 2020 7:30 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Dorival Puccini, Jr. (Trunpet)
Michael Hawes (Trunpet)
Michael Bronstein (Horn)
Corey Sansalo (Trombone)
Kevin Harrison (Tuba)

Axiom Brass website

Program

Download full program (Word Document)

Performer Biographies

Axiom Brass bios (Word Document)

St Petersburg Piano Quartet

2020-03-28T00:00:00-07:00

This concert has been canceled

Please keep yourselves safe - we hope to see you all at our next concert.

You can reach out to us if you have any questions.

March 28, 2020 7:30 pm at Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Alla Aranovskaya (Violin)
Thomas Mesa (Violin)
Boris Vayner (Viola)
Tao Lin (Piano)

St Petersburg Piano Quartet website

Program

Download full program (Word Document)

Download program notes (Word Document)

Performer Biographies

St Petersburg Piano Quartet bios (Word Document)

The St. Petersburg Piano Quartet appears by arrangement with Lisa Sapinkopf Artist, learn more at https://www.chambermuse.com/

Byron Schenkman & Friends

2020-04-25T00:00:00-07:00

This concert has been canceled

Please keep yourselves safe - we hope to see you all at our next concert.

You can reach out to us if you have any questions.

April 25, 2020 7:30 pm at Kennewick First Presbyterian Church

Byron Schenkman (Piano)
Nathan Whittaker (Cello)
Rachel Wong (Violin)

Byron Schenkman website

Program

Download full program (Word Document)

Download program notes (Word Document)

Performer Biographies

Byron Schenkman bio (Word Document)

Nathan Whittaker bio (Word Document)

Rachel Wong bio (Word Document)

Canova Winds

2022-09-24T00:00:00-07:00

Sat, September 24, 2022

Family Concert: 4:00PM

Evening Concert: 7:30PM

Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Joshua Romatowski, flute
Sand Dalton, oboe
Elise Bonhivert, clarinet
Anna Marsh, bassoon
Sadie Glass, horn

Canova Winds website

Program

Wind Quintet: The Origin Story

Giuseppe Maria Cambini: Wind Quintet No. 1 in B-flat Major
Franz Danzi: Wind Quintet in E Minor, Op. 67, No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: Duo for Clarinet and Bassoon No. 1 in C Major, WoO 27/1
Anton Reicha: Wind Quintet No. 1 in E Minor, Op. 88, No. 1

Balourdet Quartet

2022-10-22T00:00:00-07:00

Sat, October 22, 2022

7:30 PM

Kennewick First Presbyterian Church

Angela Bae, violin
Justin DeFilippis, violin
Benjamin Zannoni, viola
Russell Houston, cello

Balourdet Quartet website

Photo credit: Kevin W Condon

Program

Sunrise. Sunset.

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 76, No. 4, Hob.III:78 (“Sunrise”)
Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10
Nina C. Young: Memento Mori – Phase 1
Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51 No. 2

Byron Schenkman & Friends

2022-11-19T00:00:00-08:00

Sat, November 19, 2022

7:30 PM

Kennewick First Presbyterian Church

Byron Schenkman, piano
Anna Okada, violin
Sarah Rommel, cello

Byron Schenkman & Friends website

Photo credit: WillAustin.com (Byron Schenkman)

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97 No. 7 (“Archduke”)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 12 in F Major, K. 332/300k
Carlso Simon: “Be still and know”

Cheng² Duo

2023-01-14T00:00:00-08:00

Sat, January 14, 2023

7:30 PM

Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Silvie Cheng, piano
Bryan Cheng, cello

Cheng² Duo website

Photo credit: Uwe Arens

Program

European Excursion

Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 1 for Cello and Piano in E Minor, Op. 38
David Popper: Hungarian Rhapsody, Op. 68
Antonín Dvořák: Silent Woods, Op. 68 No. 5, B. 173 (from From the Bohemian Forest)
Antonín Dvořák: Rondo, Op. 94, B. 171
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for Cello and Piano in C Major, Op. 119

Fandango!

2023-02-25T00:00:00-08:00

Sat, February 25, 2023

7:30 PM

Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Eugenia Moliner, flute
Denis Azabagic, guitar
Blaise Magnière, violin
Cheng-Hou Lee, cello

Fandango! website

Photo credit: Ryan Bennett

Program

Antonio Vivaldi (arr. Fandango!): L'Inverno (Winter) from Le quattro stagioni (The Four Seasons)

Luigi Boccherini (arr. Fandango!): Grave assai-Fandano from Quintet for Guitar and Strings in D Major

Miroslav Tadic (arr. Fandano!): Three Balkan Pieces

Manuel de Falla (arr. Fandango!): Danza Española from La Vida Breve

Carlos Rafael Rivera: Plegaria y Canto (Al Bodre de la Mar)

Alan Thomas: Fantasy on Themes from the Opera "Carmen"

Vieness Piano Duo

2023-03-25T00:00:00-07:00

Sat, March 25, 2023

7:30 PM

Columbia Basin College, Performing Arts Theatre

Eva Schaumkell, piano
Vijay Venkatesh, piano

Vieness Piano Duo website

Photo credit: Mark Harry Westling

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. Mary Howe): Sheep May Safely Graze, BWV 208

Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances, WoO 1

Franz Schubert: Fantasie in F-minor, D. 940

Frédéric Chopin: Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op. 60

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Selections from Six Moments Musicaux, Op. 16

Camille Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals

Tomás Cotik/Monica Ohuchi

2023-04-22T00:00:00-07:00

Sat, April 22, 2023

7:30 PM

Kennewick First Presbyterian Church

Tomás Cotik, violin
Monica Ohuchi, piano

Tomás Cotik website

Monica Ohuchi website

Photo credit: Robert Hubner (Cotik)

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 454

Johannes Brahms: Scherzo from the Sonatensatz in C Minor, WoO 2 (“FAE Sonata”)

César Frank: Violin Sonata in A Major, CFF 123

Jupiter String Quartet

2023-09-23T00:00:00-07:00

Jupiter String Quartet Members

Nelson Lee, violin
Meg Freivogel, violin
Liz Freivogel, viola
Daniel McDonough, cello

Photo credits: Elle Logan, Sarah Gardner

Program

The Jupiter String Quartet explores classical and contemporary works shaped by periods of upheaval and uncertainty throughout history.

Elizabeth Maconchy: String Quartet No. 3
Carlos Simon: An Elegy: A Cry from the Grave
Nathan Shields: Medusa
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2

About

The Jupiter String Quartet is a particularly intimate group, consisting of violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel (Meg's older sister), and cellist Daniel McDonough (Meg's husband, Liz's brother-in-law). Now enjoying their 20th year together, this tight-knit ensemble is firmly established as an important voice in the world of chamber music.

The quartet chose its name because Jupiter was the most prominent planet in the night sky at the time of its formation and the astrological symbol for Jupiter resembles the number four.

Frisson Ensemble

2023-10-28T00:00:00-07:00

Frisson Ensemble Members

Rachel Lee Priday, violin
Giancarlo Latta, violin
Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola
Patrick Hopkins, cello
Sam Suggs, bass
Tom Gallant, oboe

Photo credit: Dorothy Shi

Program

Artistic director and oboist Tom Gallant, collaborating with classical music's best and brightest, presents an exciting evening of music for winds and strings.

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868): String Sonata No. 4 in B flat major
Peter Lurye (b. 1956): Quartet for Oboe and Strings
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Quartet for Oboe and Strings in F major, K. 370
Domenico Dragonetti (1763-1846): Waltz No. 3 for Double Bass
Sam Suggs (b. 1990): Waltz-Variations
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77

About

Frission features the best and brightest of classical music's stars! The group showcases emerging young artists as well as seasoned professionals and has skyrocketed to become one of the leading musical groups. Frission performs engaging programs for winds, piano trio, and piano quartet programs, as well as popular programs featuring music by such composers as Gershwin and Piazzolla. The ensemble performs in over 25 cities annually including appearances in such diverse venues as the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City, for the Da Camera Society in Los Angeles, and at the Bermuda Festival.

Frission comes from the French word meaning "a shiver or a thrill, a sudden feeling of excitement."

Park Brothers Guitar Duo

2023-11-18T00:00:00-08:00

Park Brothers Guitar Duo Members

Alex Park, Guitar
Wesley Park, Guitar

Program

Alex Park and Wesley Park redefine the boundaries of classical guitar with music spanning the Renaissance to the contemporary.

Anonymous (Trans. Patrick Russ): Two Renaissance Lute Pieces
Enrique Granados (1867-1916) (Trans. Emilio Pujol): Intermezzo
Agustín Barrios (1885-1944): Una Limosna por el amor de Dios
Andrew York (1958-): Jubilation
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) (Trans. Ronald Ravenscroft): Praise Ye the Lord
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) (Trans. Patrick Russ): Cancion y Danza

Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) (Trans. Patrick Russ): De los alamos vengo, madre
Celso Machado (1953-): Boliviana
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) (Trans. Emilio Pujol): Ciranda No. 1
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (Trans. Christopher Parkening): Prelude No. 1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) (Trans. Andrés Segovia/Manuel Ponce): Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1
Carlo Domeniconi (1947-): Koyunbaba
Andrew York (1958-): Evening Dance
Paulo Bellinati (1950-): Jongo

About

Originally starting as a duo on the piano, the Park Brothers transformed into a duo on two guitars. Both Alex and Wesley Park started their music education on the piano at an early age, then began their guitar studies in their teen years. They both studied classical guitar at Pepperdine University under Christopher Parkening, celebrated as one of the world's preeminent virtuosos of the classical guitar, and they came together as a guitar duo. The brothers enjoy collaborating and working together, as they complement each other with a natural synergy of sounds.

The Park Brothers have performed together as far away as Canada, Austria, and Germany. Together, they are the recipient of the USC Thornton Ensemble Award for making a significant contribution to upholding the long tradition of guitar ensemble excellence. They also performed at a tribute concert honoring the great Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia alongside the Grammy Award winning artists, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and Andrew York in 2019. They have participated in masterclasses from Christopher Parkening, Angel Romero, Andrew York, Jason Vieaux, Scott Tennant, Jubilant Sykes, and Meng Su. In the 2014 Pacific Guitar Competition in Monrovia, CA, they placed as a finalist in the chamber mixed division category. The Park Brothers guitar duo are signed under Jean Schreiber Management.

Park Brothers Guitar Duo

2023-11-18T00:00:00-08:00

Park Brothers Guitar Duo Members

Alex Park, Guitar
Wesley Park, Guitar

Program

Alex Park and Wesley Park redefine the boundaries of classical guitar with music spanning the Renaissance to the contemporary.

About

Valencia Baryton Project

2024-01-13T00:00:00-08:00

Valencia Baryton Project Members

Matthew Baker, baryton
Brett Walfish, viola
Benjamin Birtle, cello

Photo credit: Alex Baker (alexbakerimages.com)

Program

The Valencia Baryon Project showcases a rare gem of the Baroque period, the baryton (a bowed string instrument with extra resonating and plucked strings) in a sonorous trio with viola and cello. The program includes highlights from Haydn's extensive baryton repertoire as well as recent commissions.

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Baryton Trio No. 67 in G major, Hob. XI:67
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Baryton Trio No. 9 in A major, Hob. XI:9
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Baryton Trio No. 71 in A major, Hob. XI:71

Steve Zink: The River (2020) (written for the Valencia Baryton Project)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Baryton Trio No. 87 in A minor, Hob. XI:87
John Pickup: Prelude No. 1 (2021) (written for the Valencia Baryton Project)
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809): Baryton Trio No. 69 in D major, Hob. XI:69

About

A string trio with four instruments? A harpsichord hiding behind the cello? The Valencia Baryton Project has dedicated itself to the performance of music written for an ancient and little-known instrument, the baryton. A cross between the viol da gamba and lirone, with 10 resonating and plucked strings down the back of the instrument, the baryton gives the traditional string trio an entirely new dimension.

The Valencia Baryton Project was formed by colleagues from the opera of the Palau de les Arts and the Orchestre Nationale Montpellier with the vision of performing the nearly 160 works written by Franz Joseph Haydn as well as compositions by other composers, both modern and classical. At the heart of the ensemble is the traditional formation in trio - baryton, viola, and violoncello - for which Haydn wrote 123 works of outstanding beauty during his time as the court composer for the Prince Esterhazy of Austria.

Tom Hicks

2024-02-24T00:00:00-08:00

Photo credit: Chris Tostevin-Hall

Program

A 'brilliantly evocative' recitalist, Tom Hicks presents an intimate evening of Chopin, Debussy, Schumann, and Beethoven solo piano works.

Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): Two Nocturnes, Op. 48
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849): Two Nocturnes, Op. 55
Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915): Prelude and Nocturne for the Left Hand, Op. 9
Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Nocturne, Rêverie, and Clair de Lune

Clara Schumann (1819-1896): Notturno, from Soirées musicales, Op.6
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847): Notturno, H. 337
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 27, No. 2, 'Moonlight'

About

Hailed as an artist of 'magnificent pianism' with an 'engaging personality', Guernsey-born pianist and Yamaha Artist, Tom Hicks, has been praised for his 'brilliantly evocative' (International Piano) and 'gorgeously creative playing' (Fanfare). Hicks has an expansive repertoire and has appeared as recitalist in venues such as The Wigmore Hall in London, The Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, and in many other venues throughout Europe and the United States. He has appeared as concerto soloist on more than 60 occasions, including complete cycles of the Rachmaninoff and Brahms Piano Concerti. Hicks is a gold medalist in competitions including the Wales International Piano Competition, the EPTA UK Piano Competition, and the Croydon Piano Concerto Competition.

ensemble132

2024-03-23T00:00:00-07:00

ensemble132 Members

Stephanie Zyzak, violin
Luther Warren, viola
Zachary Mowitz, cello
Sahun Sam Hong, piano

Photo credit: Alyssa Wang

Program

Schumann Carnaval for Piano Quartet

ensemble132 creatively combines Robert Schumann's masterpiece "Carnaval" reimagined for piano quartet along with works from Clara Schumann and Brahms for a dramatic evening of music.

Clara Schumann (1819-1896): 3 Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22
Robert Schumann (1810-1856) (arr. Hong for piano quartet): Carnaval: "Little scenes on four notes", Op. 9
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60

About

ensemble132 is an American collective of 11 soloists and chamber musicians of the highest caliber, uniting with a shared mission to reimagine the chamber music landscape. The only group of its kind to continually create and premiere new standards in the chamber music repertoire with its artist-crafted arrangements, ensemble132 excites the imagination of audiences across the country with its uniquely genre-defying programs.

At every e132 event, audiences can expect a one-of-a-kind chamber music experience characterized by ensemble132's versatile artistry and limitless programming possibilities. Chamber ballets, transcriptions of symphonies and jazz standards, and orchestrations of solo works comprise just a few of ensemble132's programming highlights. Each member of ensemble132's dynamic roster, all with stellar careers and accolades, brings their unique blend of uncompromising individuality and collaborative spirit to traditional masterworks as well as unearthed gems.

Ensemble Caprice

2024-04-20T00:00:00-07:00

Ensemble Caprice Members

Matthias Maute, recorder, traverso
Sophie Larivière, recorder, flute
John Lenti, baroque guitar
Lucie Ringuette, baroque violin
Anna Ogaka, baroque violin
Pemi Paull, baroque viola
Susie Napper, baroque cello

Photo credit: Gilles Brissette

Program

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Nations

Ensemble Caprice embarks on a musical journey through England, Spain, France, and India with Vivaldi's Four Nations Concertos for recorders, guitar, and strings.

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704): Sans frayeur dans ce bois, H. 467
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto La Francia*, RV 821

Anonymous (18th century): Hungaricus 53
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto Il Gran Mogul, RV 431a

III

Francesco Corbetta (ca. 1615-1681): Corrente
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto for Strings, RV157

Anonymous (17th century): The Duke of Norfolk
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto L'Inghilterro*, RV 822

Matthias Maute (1963-): La Primavera (2018)
Marin Marais (1656-1728): Les Folies d'Espange

Antonio Y Col Xacharas (18th century): Prelude
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto La Spagna*, RV825

VII

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Postlude: Largo

*Reconstructed by Matthias Maute

About

Since it was founded by flautist Matthias Maute three decades ago, Ensemble Caprice has made its mark as one of the most sought-after ensembles on the classical music scene. Caprice has gained a solid reputation for its innovative programming and vibrant, compelling performances.

The musicians of Ensemble Caprice have traveled to the four corners of the globe, giving performances in dozens of countries on four continents. The Ensemble's tours have taken its members to Asia, China, Taiwan, Africa, Morocco, Tunisia and South Africa as well as several European Countries and the Americas. It has been the featured guest ensemble in many prestigious festivals, including the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music in London, festivals in Bruges (Belgium) and Utrecht (the Netherlands), the Felicia Blumental International Music Festival in Tel Aviv, and, in Germany, the Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci, the Early Music Days in Regensburg, the Händel-Festspiele in Halle, and the Stockstadt Festival. In the USA, the group has performed at New York City's Miller Theater and Frick Collection, the Boston Early Music Festival, and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. In Canada, the Ensemble has been heard in Ottawa at the Music and Beyond Festival and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival; it has performed at Early Music Vancouver, Early Music Voices in Calgary, the Edmonton Chamber Music Society, the Elora Festival and the International Festival Domaine Forget. This impressive roadmap bears witness to the fact that Caprice is recognised as being one of today's leading baroque ensembles. In 2009, the New York Times devoted a full article to the Ensemble, praising it as a progressive force on the contemporary musical scene.

Program Notes

Antonio Vivaldi's cycle of descriptive violin concertos "The Four Seasons" is some of the most famous music ever devised. It is therefore more than surprising that another cycle of four recorder concertos with descriptive titles by the same composer went completely unnoticed, even though the fact that most of the music is lost explains the lack of attention:

Concerto La Francia (France)
Concerto La Spagna (Spain)
Concerto L'Inghilterro (England)
Concerto Il Gran Mogol (India)

The Indian concerto highlights the reign of the Gran Mogul, however the music clearly stays within European boundaries, albeit with some interesting appogiatura figures that must have had enough exotic flavor for the composer to warrant the title.

The other three concertos come with some national features : The third movement of the English concerto, L’inghilterro, bears as titles "La tempesta di mare" and features a highly virtuosic depiction of a storm at sea, a normal sight on an island like England!

The Spanish concerto La Spagna surprises with a cadenza for recorder and violin that imitates the sounds of castagnettes. And the pizzicato passages in the third movement make us believe to listen to Spanish guitars in the streets of Madrid.

One might claim that the punctuated rhythms and ascending scales in the first movement of the Concerto La Francia allude to the overture in French style with exactly these features as prominent element. But since as opposed to the Four Seasons this newly reconstructed cycle is based on the more abstract idea of national representation, the listener will have to fill in some of the national colors with the own imagination.

Each concerto is preceded with a prelude composed in the country that the ensuing concerto is dedicated to.

It is a great pleasure to see how much Antonio Vivaldi is inspiring us today, 382 years after his untimely death.

Matthias Maute

Ensemble Caprice

2024-04-20T00:00:00-07:00

Ensemble Caprice Members

Photo credit: Gilles Brissette

Program

Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Nations

Ensemble Caprice embarks on a musical journey through England, Spain, France, and India with Vivaldi's Four Nations Concertos for recorders, guitar, and strings.

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704): Sans frayeur dans ce bois, H. 467
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto La Francia*, RV 821

Anonymous (18th century): Hungaricus 53
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto Il Gran Mogul, RV 431a

III

Francesco Corbetta (ca. 1615-1681): Corrente
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto for Strings, RV157

Anonymous (17th century): The Duke of Norfolk
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto L'Inghilterro*, RV 822

Matthias Maute (1963-): La Primavera (2018)
Marin Marais (1656-1728): Les Folies d'Espange

Antonio Y Col Xacharas (18th century): Prelude
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto La Spagna*, RV825

VII

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Postlude: Largo

*Reconstructed by Matthias Maute

About

Program Notes

Concerto La Francia (France)
Concerto La Spagna (Spain)
Concerto L'Inghilterro (England)
Concerto Il Gran Mogol (India)

Each concerto is preceded with a prelude composed in the country that the ensuing concerto is dedicated to.

It is a great pleasure to see how much Antonio Vivaldi is inspiring us today, 382 years after his untimely death.

Matthias Maute

Ying Quartet

2024-09-21T00:00:00-07:00

Ying Quartet Members

Robin Scott, violin
Janet Ying, violin
Phillip Ying, viola
David Ying, cello

Photo credits: Tim Greenway, Todd Maturazzo

Program

Love Letters

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Two Waltzes, Op. 22
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Two Selections from Cypresses, B. 152
Carter Pann (1972-): Love Letters for String Quartet
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106

About

The Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music world, combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today's world. Now in its third decade, the Quartet has established itself as an ensemble of the highest musical qualifications. The Quartet’s performances regularly take place in many of the world's most important concert halls; at the same time, the Ying’s belief that concert music can also be a meaningful part of everyday life has drawn the foursome to perform in settings as diverse as the workplace, schools, juvenile prisons, and the White House.

As longtime quartet-in-residence at the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, the Ying Quartet teaches in the string department and leads a rigorous, sequentially designed chamber music program. One cornerstone of chamber music activity at Eastman is the noted “Music for All” program, in which all students curate opportunities to perform in community settings beyond the concert hall. The Quartet is also the ensemble-in-residence at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and from 2001-2008, the members of the Ying Quartet were the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University.

Verona Quartet

2024-10-26T00:00:00-07:00

Verona Quartet Members

Jonathan Ong, violin
Dorothy Ro, violin
Abigail Rojansky, viola
Jonathan Dormand, cello

Photo credits: Dario Acosta, Kaupo Kikkas

Program

Essences

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847): String Quartet No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 12
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (1906-1975): String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 117
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2, "Razumovsky"

About

Acclaimed as an "outstanding ensemble ... cohesive yet full of temperament" (The New York Times), the Verona Quartet has firmly established itself amongst the most distinguished ensembles of today's chamber music scene. The recipient of Chamber Music America's 2020 Cleveland Quartet Award, the Verona Quartet serves as the Quartet-in-Residence at Oberlin College and Conservatory, at Nova Scotia's Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance, and at the ENCORE Chamber Music Institute.

Promo

Morpheus Piano Trio

2024-11-16T00:00:00-08:00

Morpheus Piano Trio Members

Tom Hicks, piano
Amy Dodds, violin
Sally Singer-Tuttle, cello

Program

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875-1912): Five Negro Melodies for Piano Trio. Op. 59
John Ireland (1879-1962): Phantasie for Piano Trio in A minor
Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979): Piano Trio

About

Morpheus Piano Trio members Amy Dodds, Sally Singer Tuttle and Tom Hicks originate from the US, England and Guernsey respectively. They share a common interest in presenting works from Britain and featuring composers who may not have received full recognition in their time in history. The trio members met as colleagues at Whitman College, Washington State, and continue to perform together as Dr. Hicks assumes a new position at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. The ensemble is named after Rebecca Clarke's chamber work Morpheus, titled after the Greek god of dreams.

Yoon-Wha Roh and Evan Gray

2025-01-18T00:00:00-08:00

Yoon-Wha Roh, piano
Evan Gray, baritone

Program

Schubert's Winter

Franz Liszt (1811-1886): "Der Wanderer" from 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert, S.558, no.11
Franz Liszt (1811-1886): "Ständchen" from Schwanengesang von Franz Schubert, S.560, no.7
Franz Schubert (1797-1828): Der Winterreise D. 911

About

Pianist Yoon-Wha Roh has been acknowledged for her versatile and sophisticated performances. Roh has appeared as a celebrated soloist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, New Jersey Garden State Orchestra, Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Seoul National Symphony Orchestra, Sungnam Philharmonic Orchestra, and New York Classical Symphony Orchestra. Roh has been featured on WFMT and KPBX radio stations and Korean monthly music magazines, Eumak Journal and The Piano. Roh has won awards and prizes from London International Music Competition, Clara Schumann International Competition, Manhattan International Music Competition, National Artists Competition, American Prize, International Moscow Music Competition, Carles and Sofia Piano Competition, Piano Texas Concerto Competition, and Hakata Fukuoka International Piano Competition among others.

Evan Gray is a Bass-Baritone from Winterthur, Switzerland. Since entering the Curtis Institute of Music in 2019, he has had the chance to perform various operatic roles, concert repertoire, as well as recital work both in and outside of the school. In his young career Evan has performed roles such as: The Forester in Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen, Figaro in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at Curtis and Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni. An accomplished recitalist he has performed Schubert's Winterreise and Ralph Vaughn William's Songs of Travel among many others. Evan has a deep love for contemporary music and has commissioned several pieces, for chamber ensemble and voice, which he will premiere for his Master's Recital. He has also been a participant of the Marlboro Music Festival for their 2023, 2024 and upcoming 2025 seasons, where he has had the chance to delve into chamber repertoire and perform with musicians such as Mitsuko Uchida and Peter Wiley.

The Aznavoorian Sisters

2025-02-22T00:00:00-08:00

Ani Aznavoorian, cello
Marta Aznavoorian, piano

Photo Credit: Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

Program

Komitas Vartabed (1869-1935): Selected Songs
Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, L.135
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946): Suite Populaire Espagnol
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897): Sonata for Cello and Piano in E Minor, op. 38
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840): Variations on One String on a Theme by Rossini ("Moses")

About

The Aznavoorian Sisters' first public performance was at the ages of 4 and 8 at their Armenian church in Evanston, IL. They won First Prize in the Illinois Bell Young Performers Competition, resulting in a live performance with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on PBS. Since then, they have toured France, Armenia, and Finland, performed at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, and presented countless programs in their hometown of Chicago including a major fundraiser for the Armenian earthquake in 1988. They gave a residency at the Seattle Chamber Music Society, and highlights of their 24-25 season includes performances at the prestigious Ravinia Festival; tours of the West Coast from La Jolla, CA to Washington State; and concerts across the USA including Colorado and Oklahoma.

The Strad magazine describes cellist Ani Aznavoorian as having "scorchingly committed performances that wring every last drop of emotion out of the music. Her technique is well-nigh immaculate, she has a natural sense of theater, and her tone is astonishingly responsive." Ani has appeared as soloist with many of the world's leading orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Finnish Radio Symphony, the Boston Pops, and the Juilliard Orchestra. She received both her Bachelor and Master of Music Performance degrees from The Juilliard School in New York, where she studied with Aldo Parisot.

"A pianist of exceptionally finished technique and purity of musical impulse" (Boston Globe), Marta Aznavoorian is known for her inspiringly spirited playing and vast emotional reach. The multi Grammy-nominated artist made her professional début at the age of 13 performing Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 with the Chicago Symphony at the invitation of Sir Georg Solti. She went on to perform with orchestras throughout the United States and abroad including the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Chicago Symphony and the New World Symphony at the invitation of Michael Tilson Thomas, who was also the conductor.

WindSync

2025-03-22T00:00:00-07:00

WindSync Members

Garrett Hudson, flute
Noah Kay, oboe
Graeme Steele Johnson, clarinet
Kara LaMoure, bassoon
Anni Hochhalter, horn

Photo credit: Philip Greenberg

Program

Taxonomies

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707): Passacaglia in D Minor, BuxWV 161 (arr. LaMoure)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Serenade in C minor, K. 388 (arr. Rechtman)
Väsen: Botanist Suite (arr. LaMoure)
Viet Cuong (1990-): Flora (2023)

About

Versatile and vibrant, the musicians of WindSync "play many idioms authoritatively, elegantly, with adroit technique, and with great fun" (All About the Arts), showing off the uniquely wide-ranging sonorities of the wind quintet. The group's charismatic and personal performance style, combined with a three-pronged mission of artistry, education, and community-building, lends WindSync its reputation as "a group of virtuosos who are also wonderful people, too" (Alison Young, Classical MPR).

WindSync launched an international touring career after winning the 2012 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. WindSync has appeared in concert at Ravinia, the Met Museum, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, the Library of Congress, and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Building a new repertoire, WindSync's recent premieres include works by Marc Mellits, Ivan Trevino, Mason Bynes, Nathalie Joachim, and Pulitzer finalist Michael Gilbertson.

Farallon Recorder Quartet

2025-04-12T00:00:00-07:00

Farallon Recorder Quartet Members

Vicki Boeckman
Frances Blaker
Letitia Berlin
Miyo Aoki

Program

Between Heaven and Earth

The heavenly temple and stars below
From the stars to terra firma
All that lies between
With roots in the earth

About

The FARALLON RECORDER QUARTET was founded in 1996 to explore the vast and varied repertoire for four recorders, bringing music of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Modern Eras to today's audiences with professional polish, verve, and precision. They are sought after instructors at workshops across the country and in Europe for all levels of recorder players from amateurs to young professionals. The quartet has twice been awarded grants from InterMusicSF to develop programs with guest musicians. Their CD recording, From Albion's Shores, has been described by Early Music America as "the sound one would get if one could turn honey into wood or stand underneath a caramel fountain."

Alias Brass

2025-09-20T00:00:00-07:00

Alias Brass Members

Jonathan Bhatia, trumpet
T.J. Tesh, trumpet
Natalie Brooke Higgins, horn
Dunwoody Mirvil, trombone
Clayton Maddox, tuba

Program

Prisim

Kevin McKee (b. 1980): Escape
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. Ronald Romm: Little Fugue in G Minor
Hoagy Carmichael (1899-1981)/Mitchell Parrish (1900-1993), arr. Jack Gale: Stardust
Traditional, arr. Luther Henderson: Amazing Grace
Ennio Morricone (1928-2020), arr. Jonathan Bhatia: Gabriel's Oboe
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), arr. Justis MacKenzie: Scherzo from Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34
Kevin McKee (b. 1980): Vuelta del Fuego

Traditional, arr. Luther Henderson: St. James Infirmary
Harold Arlen (1905-1986), arr. Phil Snedecor: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), arr. Larry Engstrom: Rondo from Horn Concerto in E-flat Major, K.495
Traditional Russian, arr. Madeline Lee: Fugue on a Theme from Tetris
Duke Ellington (1899-1974), arr. David Kosmyna: It Don't Mean A Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
Georges Bizet (1838-1875), arr. Madeline Lee: Carmen Suite

About

Described as "the only name for music innovation" by Martin Hackleman, formerly of the Empire and Canadian Brass, the Alias Brass, founded in 2013, is a collaboration of five uniquely talented artists and educators from across the nation. Alias Brass' performances are comprised of standards and original compositions, along with concepts that blend virtuosic musicianship with a high level of entertainment. From Baroque and Classical, to Jazz and Pop, Alias Brass' shows are "a sure-fire hit; chamber music of the future with something for everyone!"

The Alias Brass demonstrates their artistic range with an array of different shows that take audiences on an emotional journey by combining diverse elements of classical music, modern pop-culture, and all things in between to create an experience that is both engaging and exciting. Receiving critical acclaim for being captivating, diverse, and innovative, Alias Brass continues to dazzle audiences across the globe.

Cheng² Duo

2025-10-25T00:00:00-07:00

Bryan Cheng, cello
Silvie Cheng, piano

Photo Credit: Andrej Grilc

Program

Unravelling Ravel

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946): Siete canciones populares españolas
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Sonate posthume, M.12
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971): Suite Italienne for Cello and Piano

Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Scherzo, L.39
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881), arr. Cheng² Duo: Pictures at an Exhibition

About

Rooted by a sibling bond that transcends the familial, the JUNO-nominated Cheng² Duo transfixes listeners through its impassioned expressivity, contagious joy, and an uncanny ability to forge instant and lasting connections with global audiences--critics have hailed their performances as "brilliant" (The Sunday Times, UK), "truly exhilarating" (The WholeNote, Canada), and "absolutely captivating ... through a tremendous mastery of their instruments" (Pizzicato Magazine, Luxembourg).

Cellist Bryan Cheng, prizewinner of the 2022 Queen Elisabeth Competition and Verbier Festival's coveted Prix Yves Paternot, and pianist Silvie Cheng, 2022-23 Cecilia Concerts Musician-in-Residence, have been making music together for nearly their entire lives. Since officially forming the Cheng² Duo at their 2011 Carnegie Weill Hall debut, their artistry has left lasting impressions across the globe, with extensive tours to illustrious concert halls and international festivals throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and South Africa.

Tekalli Duo

2025-11-15T00:00:00-08:00

Suliman Tekalli, violin
Jamila Tekalli, piano

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Sonata for Piano and Violin in B-flat Major, K.454
Reena Esmail (b. 1983): Jhula Jhule (2013)
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971): Suite after themes, fragments and pieces by Giambattista Pergolesi

Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983): Pampeana No. 1, Op. 16
Samuel Barber (1910-1981): Canzone, Op. 38a
Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), arr. Suliman Tekalli: West Side Story Selections

About

Suliman Tekalli

Violinist Suliman Tekalli has established his voice as an exciting and versatile concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. As the top-prize winner of the Seoul International Music Competition and prize winner in the Sendai International Music Competition, International Violin Competition "Rudolfo Lipizer Prize" and the Henryk Szeryng International Competition, Suliman has performed throughout the US, Canada, Central America, Europe, and Asia, appearing on the stages of Carnegie Hall, Seoul Arts Center, Wigmore Hall, and the Kennedy Center among others. His performances have been broadcasted on KBS World TV in Korea, CBC Radio 3 in Canada, and WQXR and NPR in the U.S.

An exponent of chamber music, Suliman has made appearances at numerous festivals, including Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn, and the Banff Centre. He has collaborated and performed with eminent musicians such as Gil Shaham, Miriam Fried, Cho-Liang Lin, Donald Weilerstein, Paul Watkins, Wu Han, David Shifrin, and Robert McDonald. Suliman has also served as concertmaster of numerous critically acclaimed conductorless ensembles including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Sphinx Virtuosi, and the International Sejong Soloists of which he is currently a principal member.

Jamila Tekalli

Hailed for her “delightful and warm performance ... all played with immediacy and conviction” by Washington Post’s Anne Midgette, Washington D.C.-based pianist Jamila Tekalli Hanner has enjoyed a career as a solo and chamber musician, educator, and arts advocate. Dedicated to increasing diversity in the classical music field, Jamila is the Artistic Director of the Washington Musical Pathways Initiative, a talent development program for Washington D.C. area middle and high school orchestral students from communities historically excluded from classical music.

As a chamber musician, Jamila has performed with members of the National Symphony, Kennedy Center Opera, Colorado Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and Orlando Philharmonic on stage at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Arsht Center, and New World Center. Duo performances with her brother and violinist, Suliman Tekalli, have taken her throughout Libya in 2010 as an American Cultural Ambassador, promoting musical and cultural exchange through the U.S. Embassy, and concerts at the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts (Chicago), Concert Artist Guild (New York), and with the Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra (Mexico). She has performed in residences at the Banff Centre, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, the Keyboard Institute at Mannes, and Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute, studying with members of the Brentano String Quartet, Tokyo String Quartet, Robert McDonald, Gilbert Kalish, and Dawn Upshaw.

Tesla Quartet

2026-01-17T00:00:00-08:00

Tesla Quartet Members

Ross Snyder, violin
Michelle Lie, violin
Edwin Kaplan, viola
Austin Fisher, cello

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): String Quartet No. 14 in G major, K.387

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), arr. Ross Snyder: Le Tombeau de Couperin, M.68
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): String Quartet in F major, M.35

About

The Tesla Quartet takes its name from the famed inventor Nikola Tesla, a visionary scientist and engineer celebrated for his originality, innovation, and unconventional spirit. Much like their namesake, the quartet is known for its individuality, creative energy, and forward-thinking approach. Drawing inspiration from Tesla’s relentless pursuit of new ideas, the ensemble brings a distinctive voice to the chamber music world, combining technical mastery with fresh interpretations that captivate audiences.

Now in its 18th season, the Tesla Quartet is known the world over for their “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play, regardless of era, style, or technical demand” (The International Review of Music). The quartet performs regularly across North America and Europe, with recent highlights including their debut at New York’s Lincoln Center, a return to London’s Wigmore Hall, and performances at Stanford University’s Bing Concert Hall as winners of the prestigious John Lad Prize. Other recent international engagements include tours of Brazil, China, and South Korea. Notable festival appearances include the Banff Centre International String Quartet Festival; the Joseph Haydn String Quartet Festival at the Esterházy Palace in Fertőd, Hungary; the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival in Germany; and the Festival Sesc de Música de Câmara in São Paulo, Brazil. Having served as the Marjorie Young Bell String Quartet-in-Residence at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, Canada from 2016-2017, the Tesla Quartet also recently completed a four-year community residency in Hickory, North Carolina that included performances and workshops at local colleges, universities, and in the public school system, as well as a dedicated chamber music series.

Lysander Piano Trio

2026-02-21T00:00:00-08:00

Lysander Piano Trio Members

Itamar Zorman, violin
James Kim, cello
Liza Stepanova, piano

Photo Credit: Irina Rozovsky

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Piano Trio in E major, K.542
Gaspar Cassadó (1897-1966): Piano Trio in C major (1926)

Shulamit Ran (b.1949): Soliloquy (1997)
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904): Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65

About

The Lysander Piano Trio has been praised by The Strad for its "incredible ensemble, passionate playing, articulate and imaginative ideas and wide palette of colors" and by The Washington Post for "an uncommon degree of heart-on-the-sleeve emotional frankness" and "vivid engagement carried by soaring, ripely Romantic playing." The Lysander Trio is devoted to inventive programming, finding intriguing connections between works from all over the world, and uncovering lesser-known gems of the repertoire from the past to the present.

The Lysander Piano Trio has spent over a decade performing at notable venues and series throughout North America such as the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, Los Angeles' Da Camera Society, Atlanta's Spivey Hall, San Francisco's Kohl Mansion, Palm Beach's Kravis Center and Norton Museum of Art, Chamber Music Raleigh, Feldman Chamber Music Society, Florida Keys Concert Association, Juneau Jazz and Classics, Calgary Pro Musica, Pro Musica San Miguel de Allende, and notable college venues including Middlebury College, Clemson University, Lee University's Presidential Concert Series, Purdue University's Convocations Series, University of Illinois' Krannert Center, and University of Idaho's Auditorium Chamber Music Series. Summer and festival appearances include the Bard Music Festival, Cooperstown Summer Music Festival, Copenhagen Summer Festival, The Chautauqua Institution, Hunter Music Festival, Princeton University Summer Chamber Concerts, and a critically acclaimed recital at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Parker Quartet

2026-03-21T00:00:00-07:00

Parker Quartet Members

Daniel Chong, violin
Ken Hamao, violin
Jessica Bodner, viola
Kee-Hyun Kim, cello

Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 95 ("Serioso")
Philip Glass (b. 1937): String Quartet No. 5 (1991)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D.887

About

Grammy Award–winning Parker Quartet is acclaimed for its fearless performances, deep musical insight, and commitment to both classical masterworks and contemporary music. Formed in 2002, the Quartet performs regularly on major international stages, including Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, and the Konzerthaus Berlin.

The 2025–26 season features The Schubert Project, a series of collaborations exploring Schubert’s late chamber works with cellists Jay Campbell, Paul Watkins, and Raman Ramakrishnan. The Quartet also tours Hawaii and continues work with mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron.

Champions of new music, they’ve commissioned works by Augusta Read Thomas, Anthony Cheung, and Wang Lu, and recorded for ECM, Zig-Zag, and Naxos—the latter earning a Grammy for their Ligeti Quartets.

The Parker Quartet serves as Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University and maintains residencies at the University of South Carolina and Walnut Hill School for the Arts.

Ensemble Schumann

2026-04-11T00:00:00-07:00

Ensemble Schumann Members

Thomas Gallant, oboe
Steve Larson, viola
Sally Pinkas, piano

Program

Arthur Foote (1853-1937): Sarabande and Rigaudon for oboe, viola, and piano
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Trio No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 11 ("Gassenhauer")

Michael White (1931-2022): Introduction and Dance (2015)
Max Bruch (1838-1920): Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola, and piano, Op. 83

About

A dazzling, colorful trio of soloists, the members of ENSEMBLE SCHUMANN - Thomas Gallant, Oboe, Steve Larson, Viola, and Sally Pinkas, Piano, present works by their name-sake Robert Schumann, as well as by Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Loeffler, Poulenc, Shostakovich and others. Gallant, Larson and Pinkas have each performed at notable venues, including Lincoln Center, the Frick Collection and Carnegie Hall in New York City, Jordan Hall in Boston, Wigmore Hall in London, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and the festivals at Tanglewood, Ravinia, Lucerne, Spoleto and Mostly Mozart. Performing together since 2005, Ensemble Schumann has been featured at the prestigious Da Camera Series in Los Angeles, at the Clark Art Museum in Massachusetts and on Live From Fraser on WGBH- Radio in Boston.

Recent seasons have included performances for the Stockton Friends of Music in California, Mount Vernon Museum of Art and Principia College in Illinois, Cornell College in Iowa, Auburn Chamber Music Society in Alabama, Washington University Chamber Series in St. Louis, Young Auditorium in Whitewater, Wisconsin, and Strathmore Hall in Maryland, Big Arts on Sanibel Island, The Forum in St. Thomas, and appearances in Iowa, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Georgia.

Tomás Cotik / Shinmyung Rho

2026-09-26T00:00:00-07:00

Tomás Cotik, violin
Shinmyung Rho, piano

Photo Credit: So-Min Kang, Shinmyung Rho

Program

French Sonatas and Character Pieces

Lili Boulanger (1893-1918): Deux Morceaux for Violin and Piano (Nocturne. Cortège.)
Claude Debussy (1862-1918): Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor, L. 140
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): Sonata for Violin and Piano, FP 119

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in G major, M.77
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Tzigane, M.76

About

Tomás Cotik, violin

Tomás Cotik is a violinist, recording artist, and Professor of Violin at Portland State University. He has released 20 albums on Naxos and Centaur Records, reaching more than five million streams worldwide. His discography includes complete works by Bach, Telemann, Mozart, and Schubert, as well as widely praised recordings of Piazzolla and Spanish repertoire. His most recent release, Paganini: Capriccio, features a personal selection of Paganini works and has received international attention.

Cotik is the recipient of numerous honors, including a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Fulbright Scholar Award, the Kamelia Massih Outstanding Faculty Prize, the Dean's Council Award for Research, five Global Music Awards, and two International Classical Music Awards nominations. In 2025, he received first prize in The American Prize for string performance.

As a performer, Cotik has appeared as soloist, chamber musician, and concertmaster with ensembles including the Amernet String Quartet and the New World Symphony, and has collaborated with artists such as Joseph Kalichstein and Franklin Cohen. He has performed at venues including Merkin Hall in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. His artistic work often integrates historical performance practice with contemporary perspectives and interdisciplinary projects.

Shinmyung Rho, piano

Shinmyung Rho is an accomplished soloist, chamber musician, and collaborative pianist whose career spans South Korea, Germany, and the United States. She holds advanced degrees in piano and collaborative piano from the Universität der Künste Berlin and the Hanns Eisler School of Music, where she studied with Fabio Bidini, Wolfram Rieger, and Mi-Joo Lee.

Rho has appeared in recital and chamber music performances at venues including the Seoul Arts Center, Kumho Art Hall, Essen Duisburg, and The Old Church Concert Hall in Portland. She has collaborated extensively with vocalists and instrumentalists in lieder recitals, opera productions, and chamber concerts, and is a laureate of numerous international competitions, receiving prizes in Italy, Spain, Korea, and the United States.

In addition to her performing career, Rho has taught at Gachon University in South Korea, served as a lecturer at the Universität der Künste Berlin, and coached young musicians at music festivals in Switzerland and Germany. She is currently based in Portland, Oregon, where she remains active as a performer and collaborative artist.

Catalyst Quartet

2026-10-24T00:00:00-07:00

Catalyst Quartet Members

Karla Donehew Perez, violin
Abi Fayette, violin
Paul Laraia, viola
Karlos Rodriguez, cello

Photo Credit: Ricardo Quiñones

Program

Cinematic Refuge

Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648-1695) (arr. Catalyst Quartet): Madre la de los primores
Philip Glass (b. 1937): String Quartet No. 3 "Mishima"
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Movement III from String Quartet 15 in A Minor, Op. 132

Max Richter (b. 1966): On the Nature of Daylight
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957): String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 26

About

Hailed by The New York Times at its Carnegie Hall debut as “invariably energetic and finely burnished ... playing with earthy vigor,” the Grammy Award-winning Catalyst Quartet was founded by the internationally acclaimed Sphinx Organization in 2010. The ensemble (Karla Donehew Perez, violin; Abi Fayette, violin; Paul Laraia, viola; and Karlos Rodriguez, cello) believes in the unity that can be achieved through music and imagine their programs and projects with this in mind, redefining and reimagining the classical music experience.

Catalyst Quartet, known for “perfect ensemble unity” and “unequaled class of execution” (Lincoln Journal Star), has toured widely throughout the United States and abroad, including sold-out performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., at Chicago’s Harris Theater, Miami’s New World Center, and Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall in New York. The quartet has been guest soloists with the Cincinnati Symphony, New Haven Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, and has served as principal players and featured ensemble with the Sphinx Organization’s featured ensemble, the Sphinx Virtuosi, on six national tours. They have been invited to perform at important music festivals such as Mainly Mozart in San Diego, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Sitka Music Festival, Juneau Jazz and Classics, Strings Music Festival, and the Grand Canyon Music Festival. The Catalyst Quartet was ensemble-in-residence at the Vail Dance Festival in 2016 and in the 2021-22 season were in residence with San Francisco Performances where they presented the complete series of works from their Uncovered Project. In 2014, they opened the Festival del Sole in Napa, California with Joshua Bell and participated in England’s Aldeburgh Music Foundation String Quartet Residency with two performances in Jubilee Hall. In 2022 the Catalyst Quartet was named ensemble in residence for the Chamber Music Northwest Festival in Portland and for the Met Museum's LiveArts series in NYC.

Catalyst Quartet’s largest ongoing project, UNCOVERED, is a multi-volume set of albums on Azica records that celebrates composers of color whose works have been overlooked by the traditional canon. Volume 1, released in February 2021, includes the string quartet and quintets of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Stewart Goodyear. Volume 2 features works by Florence B. Price and Volume 3, released in February 2023, featuring Coleridge-Taylor, Perkinson, William Grant Still, and George Walker, was nominated for a GRAMMY in the best small chamber ensemble category.

Marguerite Lynn Williams

2026-11-14T00:00:00-08:00

Marguerite Lynn Williams, harp

Program

Dances Around the World

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), arr. ML Williams: Suite No. 4 in E Major, BWV 1006a
Béla Bartók (1881-1945), arr. ML Williams: Romanian Folk Dances, Sz 56
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857): Mazurka in C Minor
Alphonse Jean Hasselmans (1845-1912): Mazurka, Op. 31
Edmund Schuëcker (1860-1911): Mazurka in E-flat Minor, Op. 12

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) arr. Michael Maganuco: Chiquilín de Bachín
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992) arr. María Luisa Rayan-Forero: Libertango
Ekaterina Adolfovna Walter-Kühne (1870-1931): Fantasy on a Theme from Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky
Marcel Tournier (1879-1951): Féerie: Prélude et Danse

About

Marguerite Lynn Williams is the Principal Harpist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

An avid chamber musician, Ms. Williams is a founding member of the Chicago Harp Quartet, International Chamber Artists, and La Folia (Harp & Flute). Along with performing at music festivals around the world with these ensembles, she often collaborates with musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Lyric Opera of Chicago.

A distinguished pedagogue, Marguerite is a member of the faculty at both the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University and the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. With a deep passion for teaching, she is the founder of the Chicago Harp Ensemble and was the Director of this student ensemble from 2010- 2022.

Ms. Williams has performed in a range of distinguished venues such as The Berliner Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall (New York), National Centre for the Performing Arts (Beijing), Philharmonie de Paris, Royal Albert Hall (London), Symphony Center (Chicago), Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow), and Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall.

She has also had the pleasure to work with some of the world's most famous conductors including Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Sir Andrew Davis, Sir Colin Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Valery Gergiev, Bernard Haitink, Lorin Maazel, Klaus Mäkelä, Riccardo Muti, Leonard Slatkin, and Michael Tilson Thomas.

She has appeared as guest Principal Harp with some of the finest orchestras in North America including: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Toronto Symphony.

Ms. Williams was a prizewinner at the American Harp Society, American Opera Society, Anne Adams Award, National Federation of Music Clubs, Sigma Alpha Iota and Young Arts competitions. She has appeared as a featured performer and lecturer at American Harp Society conventions and the World Harp Congress in Vancouver as well as served as judge for both the American Harp Society and Young Artist's Harp Competitions.

Born in Dayton, OH, Ms. Williams began her music studies at five on the piano and at fourteen on the harp. A student of Kathleen Bride, she received her B.M. and Performer's Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. She continued her graduate studies at the Chicago College of Performing Arts, where she received her M.M. studying with Sarah Bullen. Following her studies, she served as Principal Harpist of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and the New World Symphony (Miami, FL).

Idaho Piano Trio

2027-01-16T00:00:00-08:00

Idaho Piano Trio Members

Giselle Hillyer, violin
Miranda Wilson, cello
Roger McVey, piano

Program

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, "Ghost"

About

The Idaho Piano Trio is a resident faculty ensemble of the Lionel Hampton School of Music, at the University of Idaho. Formed in 2013, the trio and its members (Giselle Hillyer, violin; Miranda Wilson, cello; Roger McVey, piano) regularly perform throughout the Pacific Northwest. All three members regularly perform as soloists, in addition to their chamber music activities.

Giselle Hillyer is Lecturer of Violin and Viola at the University of Idaho, and also serves as co-concertmaster of the Washington-Idaho Symphony. She has performed frequently with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. She is also a certified Suzuki teacher and teaches students from beginning to college level.

Miranda Wilson serves as Professor of Cello at the University of Idaho and Artistic Director of the Idaho Bach Festival. In addition to teaching and performing, Dr. Wilson is also active as a writer—she is a frequent contributor to Strings magazine, and has authored three books about cello playing.

Pianist Roger McVey is a Professor of Piano at the University of Idaho. He was a top prizewinner in the International Beethoven Competition, and has released six solo albums. Dr. McVey serves as a board member for the Idaho Music Teachers Association and the Washington State Music Teachers Association. He is a Steinway & Sons Hall of Fame Teacher.

In addition to the standard trio repertoire, the Idaho Piano Trio is committed to performing works by living composers, women composers, and underrepresented composers.

Galvin Cello Quartet

2027-02-20T00:00:00-08:00

Galvin Cello Quartet Members

James Baik, cello
Haddon Kay, cello
Sydney Lee, cello
Luiz Fernando Venturelli, cello

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), arr. Douglas B. Moore: Marriage of Fígaro: Overture
Jules Massenet (1842-1912), arr. Aurelien Sabouret: Meditation from "Thais"
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), arr. Ka-Wai Yu: 12 Variations on a Theme from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus
Clara Schumann (1819-1896), arr. Galvin Cello Quartet: 6 Lieder, Op. 13 (Ich stand in dunklen Träumen. Liebeszauber.)
Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840), arr. Galvin Cello Quartet: Variations on a Theme by Rossini ("Moses")

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868), arr. Douglas B. Moore: Overture from Barber of Seville
Richard Wagner (1813-1883): Feierliches Stucke
Johann Strauss Jr. (1825-1899), arr. Galvin Cello Quartet: Overture to "Die Fledermaus"

About

The Galvin Cello Quartet explores the limitless range of a cello ensemble by bringing together new works from diverse cultural backgrounds while seeking to establish the cello quartet as a core part of the classical music world.

Praised as a quartet whose “cellists are brilliant instrumentalists and thoughtful musicians individually, but their renditions as a group are glorious,” (Arnold Steinhardt, Guarneri String Quartet) the Galvin Cello Quartet burst onto the scene after capturing the Silver Medal at the 2021 Fischoff Competition. Riding on the momentum of their Fischoff success, Galvin went on to win the 2022 Victor Elmaleh Competition and joined the Concert Artists Guild roster. With members from Brazil, South Korea, and the United States, the Quartet takes its name from the Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, where three of its members – Sydney Lee, Haddon Kay, and Luiz Fernando Venturelli – met as students in the studio of acclaimed pedagogue Hans Jørgen Jensen. In June of 2024, the Quartet welcomed James Baik, another former student of Jensen, as their newest member.

With their untamable desire to create, change, and ultimately bring joy through music, the Galvin Cello Quartet is incredibly excited to make the undeniable case that the cello quartet belongs at the center of the expressive lexicon for chamber music alongside other traditional forms. The group's vibrant international spirit reflects its artistic mission to bring together new works from diverse cultural backgrounds and dazzle audiences with the cello’s limitless capabilities. Each a true virtuoso with a distinct voice, the members of the Galvin Cello Quartet are able to authentically occupy a wide array of styles, colors and moods, as well as shifting roles within given arrangements. Recent highlights include performances and educational residencies at Rockport Music Festival, Bravo! Vail, Ravinia, Ascent International Cello Festival, Merkin Hall, and a reappearance at Newport Classical.

The Galvin Cello Quartet is currently represented by Dinin Arts.

Seraph Brass Quintet

2027-03-20T00:00:00-07:00

Seraph Brass Quintet Members

Mary Elizabeth Bowden, trumpet
Morgen Low, trumpet
Layan Atieh, horn
Lauren Casey-Clyde, trombone
Robyn Black, tuba

Program

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), arr. Jeff Luke: Holberg Suite, Op. 40 (Prelude)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), arr. Jeff Luke: "Der Hölle Rache" from Die Zauberflöte, KV 620
Claude Debussy (1862-1918), arr. Egil Smedvig: Prelude from Suite Bergamasque
Jeff Scott (b. 1967): Showcase
Bernice Petkere (1901-2000), arr. Robyn Black: Lullaby of the Leaves
Franz Liszt (1811-1886), arr. Jeff Luke: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

George Gershwin (1898-1937), arr. Layan Atieh: Rhapsody in Blue
Reena Esmail (b. 1983): Khirkiyaan (Windows): Three Transformations for Brass Quintet (Tuttarana)
Catherine McMichael (b. 1954): Asteria (Virgo)
Anthony DiLorenzo (b. 1967): Cosmos

About

Seraph Brass, now in its 12th season, was founded by trumpet soloist Mary Elizabeth Bowden with a mission to showcase the excellence of women brass players and highlight musicians from marginalized groups, both in personnel and in programming. Winners of the American Prize in Chamber Music, the group has been praised for its "beautiful sounds" (American Record Guide), "fine playing" (Gramophone), and "staggeringly high caliber of performance" (Textura).

The ensemble tours nationally and globally, and the 2025-2026 highlights included the premiere of Steven Juliani's new concerto for Brass Quintet and Wind Ensemble alongside Jerry Junkin and the Dallas Winds, performances in Japan and across the U.S., as well as residencies at universities such as the University of Texas in Austin. Members of Seraph Brass are passionate about music education, and hold faculty positions at Shenandoah Conservatory and Texas State University. In each of their tours, the group works to provide educational outreach to local schools.

Seraph Brass performs a diverse body of repertoire, ranging from original transcriptions to newly commissioned works and core classics. Seraph Brass is passionate about commissioning and premiering new works, and has released two albums showcasing these works, Asteria (Summit Records) and Showcase (Tower Grove Records).

Seraph Brass is a Yamaha Performing Group.

Kenari Quartet

2027-04-17T00:00:00-07:00

Kenari Quartet Members

Bob Eason, soprano saxophone
Kyle Baldwin, alto saxophone
Corey Dundee, tenor saxophone
Steven Banks, baritone saxophone

Program

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), arr. Bob Eason: Capriccio in E Minor, Op. 81, No. 3
Pierre Max Dubois (1930-1995): Quatuor
Edvard Grieg (1843-1907), arr. Julian Velasco: Holberg Suite, Op. 40

Alexander Glazunov: Saxophone Quartet, Op. 109
Eugène Joseph Bozza (1905-1991): Nuages

About

Applauded for their “flat-out amazing” performances and “stunning virtuosity” (Cleveland Classical), the highly acclaimed Kenari Quartet delivers inspiring performances that transform the perception of the saxophone. The quartet aims to highlight the instrument’s remarkable versatility by presenting meticulously crafted repertoire from all periods of classical and contemporary music.

The Kenari Quartet has found a home performing on many of the premiere chamber music series in the United States. Recent engagements include appearances at Chamber Music Northwest, Chamber Music Tulsa, People’s Symphony Concerts, String Theory, Beaches Fine Arts, Schneider Concerts, and Chamber Music Utica, among others. For many chamber institutions, the Kenari Quartet has been proud to serve as the first ensemble of its kind to be presented.

Kenari has a keen proclivity for collaboration and innovation. As a testament to the flexibility of the saxophone quartet, the group was a featured artist at the 86th Annual Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Bach Festival. Here, they collaborated with performance and academic faculty, as well as student musicians to present an unprecedented residency that explored the influence of baroque music on the late composer David Maslanka and improvisation throughout musical history. The quartet has also participated in collaborations with other artists, including the Imani Winds and WindSync.

Advocating passionately for the continued growth of the saxophone quartet repertoire, the quartet has given world premieres of new works by Mischa Zupko, Joel Love, and David Salleras. It has also participated in consortia to commission composers Martin Bresnick, Carlos Simon, Nina Shekhar, and Ted King-Smith. Through the support of Chamber Music Tulsa, Kenari gave the world premiere of The Current, a 35-minute work by Steven Banks, the group’s baritone saxophonist, which explores the relationship between music and the divine. The Kenari Quartet was also awarded Chamber Music America’s Classical Commissioning Grant, which facilitated the creation of the… of my… are an…, a work from Corey Dundee, the group’s tenor saxophonist. This project was made possible by the Andrew. W. Mellon Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund

The Kenari Quartet is regularly involved in community engagement opportunities and educational endeavors, performing and teaching at youth centers and grade schools around the country. In 2023, the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association presented the group with the Ann Divine Educator Award. As a result, they participated in Fischoff’s flagship S.A.M. I Am Arts-in-Education Residency program, a weeklong program in which the group created and performed a musical rendition of Malcolm Mitchell’s My Very Favorite Book in the Whole Wide World. The quartet has also given performances, masterclasses, and lectures around the country at various universities, including the University of Michigan, Indiana University, the University of Southern California, the University of Houston, and the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory.

The quartet released their debut album—titled French Saxophone Quartets—on the Naxos Records label. This recording project features early masterworks for saxophone quartet by French composers Eugéne Bozza, Alfred Desenclos, Pierre Max Dubois, Jean Françaix, Gabriel Pierné, and Florent Schmitt. The Kenari Quartet also appears on David Deboor Canfield’s 2018 album, Saxophone Music, Vol. II, with their performance of Canfield’s Opus Pocus, a delightful and witty work that depicts wondrous magicians and illusionists such as Merlin and Houdini.

Formed in 2012 at Indiana University, the quartet’s name is derived from the Malay word “kenari”, which may be translated as “songbird.” The Kenari Quartet seeks to exemplify this concept in concert by communicating with each other and their audiences through sound.

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Brasil Guitar Duo

September 27, 2014 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

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Onyx Chamber Players

October 25, 2014 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

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Byron Schenkman & Friends

November 22, 2014 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

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Jeffrey Savage, Piano

January 17, 2015 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

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Beethoven Sonatas

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Auryn Quartet

February 28, 2015 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

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Blue Moon Trio Buxtehude: The Fantastic Style

March 28, 2015 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

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Buxtehude: The Fantastic Style

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Seattle Baroque Orchestra

April 12, 2015 3:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

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Stephen Beus, piano

September 26th, 2015 8:00pm and

September 27th, 2015 2:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

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Cheifetz and Guggenheim

October 24th, 2015 8:00pm at the Battelle Auditorium

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The Rose Ensemble

November 21 at 8:00pm in the Battelle Auditorium

Cosi Quartet

January 23 at 8:00pm in the Battelle Auditorium

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Trio Tremonti

February 27 at 8:00pm in the Battelle Auditorium

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Borealis Wind Quintet

March 19 at 8:00pm in the Battelle Auditorium

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Simphonie

April 23 at 8:00pm in the Battelle Auditorium

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The Baltimore Consort with Danielle Svonavec, soprano

September 24th, 2016 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

The Food of Love: Songs for Shakespeare

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The Vienna Piano Trio

October 22nd, 2016 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

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Photo Credit: Nancy-Horowitz

The Los Angeles Cello Quartet

November 19th, 2016 8:00pm at Battelle Auditorium

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The Byrd Ensemble

January 28th, 2017 8:00 pm at Battelle Auditorium

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Flemish Music for the House of Habsburg

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