Bank of America Chamber Music

Geoff Nuttall, The Charles E. and Andrea L. Volpe Director of Chamber Music

Livia Sohn, Assistant Director of Chamber Music

Artists

Saxophone/Composer Steven Banks Recorders Tabea Debus Oboe James Austin Smith Clarinet/Arranger Todd Palmer Violin Alexi Kenney Violin Livia Sohn Viola Ayane Kozasa Cello/Composer Paul Wiancko Cello Nina Lee Double Bass Anthony Manzo

Piano/Harpsichord Pedja Muzijevic Piano/Arranger Stephen Prutsman Piano/Arranger Inon Barnatan Piano Julia Hamos Tenor Paul Groves Tenor Karim Sulayman Theorbo Adam Cockerham

St. Lawrence String Quartet

Violin Geoff Nuttall Violin Owen Dalby Viola Lesley Robertson Cello Christopher Costanza

DOCK STREET THEATRE

May 27, 1:00pm; May 28 – June 12, 11:00am and 1:00pm

1 hour, 15 minutes Performed without an intermission

Castalian String Quartet

Violin Sini Simonen Violin Daniel Roberts Viola Ruth Gibson Cello Christopher Graves

The St. Lawrence String Quartet is the Arthur and Holly Magill quartet in residence.

The following musicians’ participation is generously sponsored by the following individuals: Stephen Prutsman and the Castalian String Quartet are sponsored by Erica Pascal and Michael Hostetler; Inon Barnatan is sponsored by Miriam DeAntonio, M.D. and by Stono Construction, in loving memory of Joseph D. Logan III; Julia Hamos is sponsored by Nancye B. Starnes; Pedja Muzijevic is sponsored in memory of Keith S. Wellin, by his wife, Wendy C. H. Wellin.

These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America.

Support provided by The Robert and Janice McNair Foundation.

Additional support from Dr. Martin Morad.

Michael Bloomberg’s gift commemorates our longtime and devoted board member Jennie DeScherer who, in turn, would like to honor Geoff Nuttall.

Video recordings made possible by Erica Pascal and Michael Hostetler, the Danielle Rose Paikin Foundation, and Jan Serr and John Shannon.

String Sextet from Capriccio, op. 85

St. Lawrence String Quartet; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello

Limestone & Felt

Ayane Kozasa, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello

String Quartet in E-flat major, K. 428

St. Lawrence String Quartet Richard Strauss (1864 – 1949)

Caroline Shaw (b. 1982)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 91)

^ This chamber music concert has been endowed though the generous support of Ann and Andrew Barrett.

PROGRAM II

Passacaglia

Alexi Kenney, violin

Cries, Sighs, and Dreams

Steven Banks, saxophone; St. Lawrence String Quartet

Sonata in Three Parts in G minor, Z.790

Alexi Kenney, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello

Tiny Doors to Big Worlds

St. Lawrence String Quartet; Paul Wiancko, cello

May 29, 11:00am and 1:00pm*; May 30, 11:00am

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644 – 1704)

Steven Banks (b. 1993)

Henry Purcell (1659 – 95)

Paul Wiancko (b. 1983)

* This chamber music concert has been endowed though the generous support of Ann and Michael Tarwater.

PROGRAM III

As I Am

Steven Banks, baritone saxophone; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Außer Atem for three recorders and one player

Tabea Debus, recorders

String Quartet in D minor, op. 76 no. 2, “Quinten”

St. Lawrence String Quartet

Ever Yours

St. Lawrence String Quartet; Livia Sohn, violin; Alexi Kenney, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello

May 30, 1:00pm; May 31, 11:00am and 1:00pm

Steven Banks (b. 1993)

Moritz Eggert (b. 1965)

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)

Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960)

PROGRAM IV

Die Romantiker, op. 167

Geoff Nuttall, violin; Alexi Kenney, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Anthony Manzo, double bass

June 1, 11:00am⁺ and 1:00pm; June 2, 11:00am

Joseph Lanner (1801 – 1843)

Recorder Concerto in C major, RV 443 Antonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) Tabea Debus, recorder; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Alexi Kenney, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord

“The War Below” from Prospects of a Misplaced Year

Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Alexi Kenney, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello

String Quartet in F minor, op. 80

Castalian String Quartet

⁺ This chamber music concert is dedicated in loving memory of Mary and Marion Field. Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 47)

PROGRAM V June 2, 1:00pm; June 3, 11:00am and 1:00pm

Brandenburg Concerto in F major, BWV 1047

Alexi Kenney, violin; Tabea Debus, recorder; James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Castalian String Quartet; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord

Children of The Fire

James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Sini Simonen, violin; Ruth Gibson, viola; Anthony Manzo, double bass Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)

Gabriella Smith (b. 1991)

La Monica Renaissance set

Tabea Debus, recorder; Adam Cockerham, theorbo Unknown

Two and a Half Minutes to Midnight

Tabea Debus, recorder Dani Howard (b. 1993)

Piano Quartet in E-flat major, op. 47

Stephen Prutsman, piano; Alexi Kenney, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello Robert Schumann (1810 – 56)

PROGRAM VI June 4, 11:00am and 1:00pm^; June 5, 11:00am

Concerto a quattro for Recorder, Oboe, Violin, and Continuo in G major, TWV 43:G6

Tabea Dabus, recorder; James Austin Smith, oboe; Alexi Kenney, violin; Paul Wiancko, cello; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord Georg Philipp Telemann (1681 – 1767)

“Where’er you walk” from Semele, HWV 58

George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)

Karim Sulayman, tenor Geoff Nuttall, violin; Alexi Kenney, violin; Sini Simonen, violin; Daniel Roberts, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Ruth Gibson, viola; Paul Wiancko, cello; Christopher Graves, double bass; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord

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Sextet in B-flat major, op. 18

Castalian String Quartet, Ayane Kozasa, viola, Paul Wiancko, cello Johannes Brahms (1833 – 97)

^ This chamber music concert has been endowed through the generous support of Gary and Mary Becker.

PROGRAM VII

Première Rhapsodie

Todd Palmer, clarinet; Stephen Prutsman, piano

More or Less for pre-recorded and live violin (world premiere) Livia Sohn, violin

June 5, 1:00pm; June 6, 11:00am and 1:00pm

Claude Debussy (1862 – 1918)

Mark Applebaum (b. 1967)

Oboe Concerto in D minor, op. 9 no. 2

James Austin Smith, oboe; Castalian String Quartet; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord

Piano Quintet in A minor, op. 30

Julia Hamos, piano; Alexi Kenney, violin; Ruth Gibson, viola; Nina Lee, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass Louise Farrenc (1804 – 75)

PROGRAM VIII

Ten Blake Songs (selected) I. “Infant Joy” III. “The Piper” VI. “Ah! Sun-flower” IX. “The Divine Image” X. “Eternity”

Paul Groves, tenor; James Austin Smith, oboe

Symphonic Dances, op. 45: III. Lento assai – Allegro vivace

Inon Barnatan, piano

Sonata for Clarinet and Cello

Todd Palmer, clarinet; Nina Lee, cello

Steve’s Wonder

Five Stevie Wonder songs for tenor and piano Paul Groves, tenor Stephen Prutsman, piano

June 7, 11:00am and 1:00pm; June 8, 11:00am

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 – 1958)

Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 – 1943), arr. Inon Barnatan

Francis Poulenc (1899 – 1963)

arr. Stephen Prutsman

PROGRAM IX

Three Romances, op. 22

James Austin Smith, oboe; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

String Quartet, “Kreutzer Sonata”

Castalian String Quartet

Piano Trio in B major, op. 8

Inon Barnatan, piano; Livia Sohn, violin; Nina Lee, cello

June 8, 1:00pm; June 9, 11:00am and 1:00pm

Clara Schumann (1819 – 96)

Leoš Janáček (1854 – 1928)

Johannes Brahms (1833 – 97)

PROGRAM X

Keyboard Concerto in E-flat major, op. 7 no. 5, WC59

Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Livia Sohn, violin; Nina Lee, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass

Sonata for Double Bass and Piano

Anthony Manzo, double bass; Inon Barnatan, piano

Clarinet Quintet in F-sharp minor, op. 10

Todd Palmer, clarinet; Castalian String Quartet

June 10, 11:00am* and 1:00pm; June 11, 11:00am

Johann Christian Bach (1735 – 82)

Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931)

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 – 1912)

* This chamber music concert has been endowed though the generous support of Deborah Chalsty.

Le Nozze di Figaro: Overture, Act I (world premiere) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 91), Castalian String Quartet, Geoff Nuttall, violin; Livia Sohn, violin; Nina Lee, cello; arr. Todd Palmer Anthony Manzo, double bass; James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet

Trio Sonata in C minor, HWV 386a

James Austin Smith, oboe; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Nina Lee, cello; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord

The Rite of Spring for two pianos

Inon Barnatan, piano; Pedja Muzijevic, piano George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)

Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)

Artists

GEOFF NUTTALL (violin/The Charles E. and Andrea L. Volpe Director for Chamber Music) began playing the violin at age eight after moving to Ontario from Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto, where he studied under Lorand Fenyves. In 1989, Nuttall co-founded the St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) and has played more than 2,000 concerts around the world. In 2020, the PBS-produced television show Great Performances invited Nuttall to co-present on his favorite composer, Franz Joseph Haydn, in a documentary miniseries called Now Hear This, “Haydn: King of Strings.” He is now on faculty at Stanford University, where the SLSQ has been ensemble-in-residence since 1999 and makes his home in the Bay Area with his wife, Livia Sohn, and their sons, Jack and Ellis. This is Nuttall’s 13th season as chamber series director.

STEVEN BANKS (saxophone) has performed with esteemed orchestras and ensembles such as the Colorado Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Oregon Mozart Players, in addition to appearances at the Colorado Music Festival and Festival Napa Valley. A First Prize winner of the 2019 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, he was also recently chosen to join WQXR’s 2022 Artist Propulsion Lab. An emerging composer, Banks will premiere an original composition in Carnegie Hall alongside the Borromeo String Quartet. Banks earned an undergraduate degree in Saxophone Performance from Indiana University and a Master of Music degree from the Northwestern University.

INON BARNATAN (piano), “one of the most admired pianists of his generation” (The New York Times), is celebrated for his poetic sensibility, musical intelligence, and consummate artistry. He began his tenure as Music Director of La Jolla Music Society Summerfest in 2019. Barnatan is a regular soloist with many of the world’s foremost orchestras and conductors. He recently served for three seasons as the inaugural Artist-in-Association of the New York Philharmonic. The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, Barnatan is also a sought-after recitalist and chamber musician and has toured worldwide with frequent cello partner Alisa Weilerstein.

CASTALIAN QUARTET has distinguished itself as one of the most dynamic, sophisticated young string quartets performing today. Named the inaugural Hans Keller String Quartet in Residence at the Oxford University Faculty of Music in 2021, they are also the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s 2019 Young Artists Award. The Quartet received the prestigious inaugural Merito String Quartet Award and Valentin Erben Prize in 2018, has won a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award, and is beginning to gain international acclaim as they take their talents abroad. The Castalian Quartet will have debut performances in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Atlanta, Vancouver, and many other cities across North America in the 2021-22 season.

CHRISTOPHER COSTANZA (cello) enjoys a variety of interests and passions, among them are running, cooking, and passenger rail-related pursuits. He finds running a perfect opportunity to explore the unique locales he visits during his extensive travels. As a runner, he has completed several full and half marathons as well as 5K and 10K races. Costanza’s cooking interests and skills revolve around a plant-based diet and are focused on local, organic, and seasonal ingredients. He has performed throughout the world as a soloist and chamber musician. Learn more about his life and career by visiting his new website.

OWEN DALBY (violin) has been praised as “dazzling” (The New York Times), “expert and versatile” (The New Yorker), and “a fearless and inquisitive violinist” (San Francisco Classical Voice). As a member of the St. Lawrence String Quartet, Dalby is Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University and regularly tours all the major chamber series in North America and Europe. Dalby received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale. With his wife, violist Meena Bhasin, he is the co-artistic director of Noe Music, a concert series in San Francisco, where they make their home with their two children.

TABEA DEBUS (recorder) is described by The Times as a “charismatic virtuoso,” and much sought after as soloist, collaborator, teacher, and communicator. This season she gives recitals across the United States, including Merkin Concert Hall and the Houston, San Francisco, and Napa Valley festivals. She returns to the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in Germany where she won the Soloists Prize and makes her debut at Spoleto Festival USA. Recent highlights include recitals at Wigmore Hall, live recordings for the Shriver Hall Washington, DC Discover Series and Vancouver Recital Society, and the release of her recording for Delphian: Ohrwurm to critical acclaim. Debus was a prize-winner at the YCAT (London) and CAG (New York) International Auditions.

PAUL GROVES (tenor) has performed with Opéra National de Lyon for performances as Faust in Boito’s Mefistofele and at Taiwan’s National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in the title role of Candide. A veteran of the concert stage, Groves has appeared with the LA Phil for Stravinsky’s Perséphone, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for Bruckner’s Te Deum, and with both the Nashville Symphony and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde. In 2022 and 2023, Groves will take part in two new productions at the Houston Grand Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.

JULIA HAMOS (piano) combines her American and Hungarian roots with an adventurous spirit to explore the essence of repertoire ranging from Bach to composers living today. Instinctive artistic expression, a forward-thinking attitude, a joyful physical flexibility at the instrument, and an unyielding fascination with the music she plays makes her an artist to watch. In 2021 she worked with Daniel Barenboim in a series of filmed masterclasses on Beethoven solo piano and string sonatas. At the invitation of Sir András Schiff, she will appear in the Building Bridges series throughout Europe in the 2022—23 season. She currently serves as the assistant to the musicology program at the Barenboim-Said Akademie.

ALEXI KENNEY (violin) is building a career that defies categorization, following his interests, intuition, and heart. The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award, Kenney has performed as soloist with orchestras including the Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Indianapolis symphonies; the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra; and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, and has given recitals at Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall. He plays with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at festivals throughout the United States and Europe. Born in Palo Alto, California, Kenney studied at the New England Conservatory and resides in New York. AYANE KOZASA (viola), hailed for her "magnetic, wide-ranging tone" and her "rock solid technique" (Philadelphia Inquirer), is the winner of the 13th Primrose International Viola Competition and is a founding member of the Grammy-nominated Aizuri Quartet. In September 2020, the quartet launched their interactive web series for children called "AizuriKids," an engaging series of episodes that explores music from Beethoven to Eleanor Alberga with guest artists such as Rhiannon Giddens. Her duo with composer and cellist Paul Wiancko—known as "Ayane & Paul"— actively performs and commissions new works for viola and cello and collaborated with Norah Jones on her album Pick Me Up Off the Floor.

ANTHONY MANZO (double bass) performs vibrantly interactive music, making him a ubiquitous figure in the upper echelons of classical music. He performs regularly at venues including Lincoln Center, Boston’s Symphony Hall, and Spoleto Festival USA. He appears regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and with chamber groups and chamber orchestras across the country. Manzo has also been guest principal with Camerata Salzburg during their summer residency at the Salzburg Festival, as well as two tours as soloist alongside bass/baritone Thomas Quasthoff. Manzo is also an active performer on period instruments and teaches at the University of Maryland.

PEDJA MUZIJEVIC (piano and harpsichord) has performed with the Atlanta, Milwaukee, and New Jersey symphonies and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has played solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall and 92Y in New York, Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater, the Phillips Collection in Washington, and many others. His festival appearances include Spoleto Festival USA, Aldeburgh, Gilmore, and Bay Chamber Concerts. Muzijevic’s interdisciplinary projects with Mikhail Baryshnikov and Trisha Brown have taken him to the Paris Opera, Lucerne, Melbourne, and Holland festivals. Pedja is the artistic administrator at Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York and artistic advisor at Tippet Rise Art Center in Montana.

NINA LEE (cello) is an active chamber musician and cellist of the Brentano Quartet. She has collaborated with many artists such as Felix Galimir, Jaime Laredo, and Mitsuko Uchida. After receiving a Certificate of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music, Lee earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from The Juilliard School with her mentor, Joel Krosnick. She currently teaches at the Yale School of Music where her quartet is Quartet in Residence. Nina’s hobbies include making artisan brioche donuts for various arts organizations as well as organizing and hosting chamber music reading salons for the community. She resides with her husband and two children in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

TODD PALMER (clarinet) is a three-time Grammy nominee who has appeared as soloist, recitalist, chamber music collaborator, educator, arranger, and presenter in musical endeavors around the world. As a winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the grand prize in the Ima Hogg Young Artist Auditions, he has appeared as soloist with many symphony orchestras and as recitalist in concert halls around the world. Palmer gave the world premieres of Orpheus and Euridice by Ricky Ian Gordon at Lincoln Center, and Crosswalk, a new work for clarinet and dance specially created for him by choreographer Mark Morris. His Broadway credits include South Pacific, The King & I, Sunset Boulevard (starring Glenn Close), and Lincoln Center Theater's recent revival of My Fair Lady.

STEPHEN PRUTSMAN (piano) is active as a classical, world, and jazz pianist; composer; and festival curator. Prutsman continues to explore and seek common ground in music of all cultures and languages. As a young man he performed with several art rock bands and was a regular on a syndicated gospel television show. He won The Gong Show in 1976. In the 1990s Stephen was a medal winner at the Tchaikovsky and Queen Elisabeth Competitions. He was Artistic Partner with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Cartagena International Music Festival. As a composer his music has been performed throughout the world by leading known classical and popular artists.

LESLEY ROBERTSON (viola), celebrating 33 years with the internationally celebrated St. Lawrence String Quartet, is proud to make her life at Stanford University where, along with her SLSQ colleagues, she directs the chamber music program at the department of music. At Stanford, Robertson teaches viola, coaches chamber music, and spearheads the SLSQ’s Emerging String Quartet Program and SLSQ’s annual Chamber Music Seminar. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School, Robertson also holds a degree from the University of British Columbia. She has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and served on the juries of the Banff, Melbourne, and Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competitions.

JAMES AUSTIN SMITH (oboe) has been praised for his “virtuosic,” “dazzling," and “brilliant” performances (The New York Times) and his “bold, keen sound” (The New Yorker). He is an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, co-principal oboist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Artistic and Executive Director of Tertulia, a chamber music series that takes place in eating-and-drinking spaces in New York, San Francisco, and Serenbe, Georgia. He is a member of the faculties of Stony Brook University and the Manhattan School of Music. Smith has appeared annually on the Bank of America Chamber Music series since 2011. LIVIA SOHN (violin/chamber music administrator) is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where she studied violin with Dorothy DeLay and chamber music with Felix Galamir. She started playing violin at age five in her home state of Connecticut and gave her first public performance two years later as a guest soloist with the New Haven Symphony. At the age of 12, Sohn won first prize in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition. She has since played concerts across six continents with orchestras and festivals worldwide. Sohn makes her home in the Bay Area with her husband, Geoff Nuttall, and their two sons, Jack and Ellis.

ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET, founded in 1989, is fiercely committed to living composers and has enjoyed fruitful partnerships with John Adams, Jonathan Berger, Osvaldo Golijov, and many others. SLSQ is renowned for the intensity of its performances, its breadth of repertoire, and its commitment to concert experiences that are at once intellectually exciting and emotionally alive. SLSQ has been the ensemble in residence at Stanford University since 1999 and has performed at Spoleto Festival USA every season since 1995.

PAUL WIANCKO (cellist/composer) was recently featured in The Washington Post’s “22 for ’22: Composers and Performers to Watch” and called “a restless and multifaceted talent who plays well with others”—a reference to Wiancko’s varying collaborations with artists like Max Richter, Chick Corea, Norah Jones, and members of the Emerson, Guarneri, and Juilliard quartets. Wiancko’s music-making extends beyond performance—Wiancko was composer-in-residence at Spoleto Festival USA in 2019 and has written for the St. Lawrence, Kronos, Aizuri, and Attacca quartets, among many others. NPR writes, “If Haydn were alive to write a string quartet today, it may sound something like Paul Wiancko.”