INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC
PROFOUND, PERSONAL STATEMENTS
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 AT 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio
BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer CALIDORE STRING QUARTET JEFFREY MYERS, violin RYAN MEEHAN, violin JEREMY BERRY, viola ESTELLE CHOI, cello
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The Chamber Music Society’s education and outreach programs are made possible, in part, with support from the AE Charitable Foundation, Colburn Foundation, Consolidated Edison Company, Eugene and Emily Grant Family Foundation, Hearst Fund, The Frank and Helen Hermann Foundation, Alice Ilchman Fund, Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Fund, Tiger Baron Foundation, and The Helen F. Whitaker Fund. Public funds are provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC PROFOUND,
PERSONAL STATEMENTS
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 AT 6:30
Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio
BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer CALIDORE STRING QUARTET JEFFREY MYERS, violin RYAN MEEHAN, violin JEREMY BERRY, viola ESTELLE CHOI, cello
JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)
Quartet in F major for Strings, Op. 50, No. 5, “The Dream” (1787)
Haydn’s Quartet in F major, Op. 50, No. 5 can be heard in concert on November 11th at Alice Tully Hall.
PLEASE TURN OFF CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES. This evening’s event is being streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/WatchLive Photographing, sound recording, or videotaping this event is prohibited.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS BRUCE ADOLPHE Composer Bruce Adolphe has written music for many renowned musicians and
ensembles, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Sylvia McNair, the Brentano String Quartet, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the IRIS Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Human Rights Orchestra of Europe. Coming up this season, 2016-17, violinist Daniel Hope plays Mr. Adolphe’s violin concerto I Will Not Remain Silent with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Kahane. Mr. Adolphe will be a guest speaker at the Century Club, McGill University, Juilliard, and the Colorado Music Educators Association. This November, Naxos American Classics will release a CD of his two major piano works—Chopin Dreams and Seven Thoughts Considered as Music—played by Carlo Grante, who commissioned the works. Highlights of the 2015-16 included: the U.S. premiere of Chopin Dreams, performed by pianist Carlo Grante at Alice Tully Hall, and the work’s European premiere at the Brahms-saal of the Musikverein in Vienna; the world premiere of Mr. Adolphe’s Piano Concerto with Fabio Luisi conducting the Zürich Philharmonia, Carlo Grante soloist; the release of the soundtrack for Einstein’s Light with violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Marija Stroke on Sony Classical; and a presentation of Tunes and ‘Toons with Mr. Adolphe in collaboration with Kal, the political cartoonist of The Economist in Colorado. Highlights of the 2014-15 season included: the world premiere of Musics of Memory at the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC in LA; the IRIS Orchestra conducted by Michael Stern gave the world premiere of I Will Not Remain Silent, a violin concerto based on the life of Joachim Prinz, with Sharon Roffman, soloist, and the European premiere of the work in Lucerne at KKL, with Ilya Gringolts, violin soloist, and the Human Rights Orchestra conducted by Alessio Allegrini. Adolphe’s Self Comes to Mind, written with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, premiered at the American Museum of Natural History in 2009 with soloist Yo-Yo Ma, and was released in 2014 as a CMS Live download featuring cellist Efe Baltacigil in concert in Alice Tully Hall. In addition to composing, Mr. Adolphe holds several positions concurrently: founder and director of the Meet the Music! family concert series and resident lecturer at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; creator/performer of public radio’s weekly Piano Puzzler on Performance Today; co-artistic director of Off the Hook Festival in Colorado; founder and creative director of The Learning Maestros. The author of three books on music, Mr. Adolphe has taught at Yale, The Juilliard School, and New York University, and was recently appointed composer-in-residence at the Brain and www.ChamberMusicSociety.org
Creativity Institute in Los Angeles. The second edition of his book The Mind’s Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination was published by Oxford University Press in 2013.
CALIDORE STRING QUARTET Described as “the epitome of confidence and finesse,” (Gramophone Magazine)
and “a miracle of unified thought,” (La Presse, Montreal), the Calidore String Quartet has established an international reputation for its informed, polished, and passionate performances. Currently the quartet is artist-in-residence at Stony Brook University (SUNY) and is a member of Chamber Music Society Two. In recognition of its international acclaim, the quartet won the 2016 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, becoming the first North American ensemble to win the prestigious career grant. The Calidore String Quartet regularly performs throughout North America, Europe, and Asia and has debuted in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, Seoul’s Kumho Arts Hall, Schneider Concerts (NYC), and at many significant festivals, including Verbier, Ravinia, Mostly Mozart, Rheingau, East Neuk, and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The Calidore String Quartet has won grand prizes in virtually all the major U.S. chamber music competitions, including the Fischoff, Coleman, Chesapeake, and Yellow Springs competitions. It also captured top prizes at the 2012 ARD Munich International String Quartet Competition and Hamburg International Chamber Music Competition. Most recently the Calidore won the Grand Prize at the 2016 M-Prize, an international chamber arts competition that showcases the highest caliber of international chamber arts ensembles, presented by the University of Michigan. Highlights of the quartet’s 2015-16 season included its debut at Carnegie Hall, Ladies’ Morning Music Club (Montreal), New York City Town Hall, performances of the complete Mendelssohn quartet cycle at the East Neuk Festival (UK), and performances of the Mendelssohn Octet with the Emerson Quartet at Princeton and Stony Brook universities. As advocates of contemporary music, the Calidore performed Pulitzer-prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte in concerts throughout the 2014-15 season in New York, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles. In summer 2015, the quartet premiered Patrick Harlin’s Birdsongs for the City Dweller, commissioned by the Caramoor Center, as well as Prometheus by Mark Grey, commissioned by the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. In February 2015, the Calidore String Quartet released its critically-acclaimed debut recording of quartets by Mendelssohn and Haydn. Additionally, in February 2016 the quartet released an album on the French label Editions Hortus, with music by Hindemith, Milhaud, Stravinsky, de la Presle, and Toch commemorating the World War I Centennial. The Calidore was featured as Young Artists-in-Residence on The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
American Public Media’s Performance Today and its performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio, BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Korean Broadcasting Corporation, Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Hamburg), and were featured on German national television as part of a documentary produced by ARD public broadcasting. Formed in 2010 at the Colburn School of Music, the Calidore has studied closely with such luminaries as the Emerson Quartet, David Finckel, Andre Roy, Arnold Steinhardt, Günther Pichler, Gerhard Schulz, Heime Müller, Guillaume Sutre, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Paul Coletti, Ronald Leonard, and the Quatuor Ebène. Using an amalgamation of “California” and “doré” (French for “golden”), the ensemble’s name represents a reverence for the diversity of culture and the strong support it received from its home, Los Angeles, California, the “golden state.”
TRAVEL WITH CMS CUBA: MUSIC IN THE LAND OF RHYTHM Cienfuegos to Havana January 28 - February 4, 2017 Enjoy the rich cultural diversity of Cuba on the Mega Yacht Variety Voyager, accommodating 72 guests in 36 cabins. Each day you will discover a new port of call and CMS musicians Michael Brown, Daniel Phillips, Nicholas Canellakis, and Tara Helen O'Connor will perform three concerts throughout the trip. For more information, please call Sharon Griffin at 212-875-5782.
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UPCOMING CONCERTS AT CMS INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 6:30 PM DANIEL AND JOANNA S. ROSE STUDIO WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 6:30 PM DANIEL AND JOANNA S. ROSE STUDIO
Profound, Personal Statements: Focus on works by Mozart and Schubert. This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive
ROSE STUDIO & LATE NIGHT ROSE THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 6:30 PM & 9:00 PM DANIEL AND JOANNA S. ROSE STUDIO
Featuring works by Haydn and Bloch. The 9:00 PM event will be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive
TRAVELS WITH MENDELSSOHN TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 7:30 PM ALICE TULLY HALL
CMS’s Alice Tully Hall season welcome offers a sampling of the rich cultural journey that enthralled the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
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