2023 Apple Hill Program Book

Twenty-one years ago this June, my parents dropped me off at Apple Hill for the first time. A nervous teenage violinist, I had never been to a sleepaway camp. I was insecure about whether I knew my music well enough, worried about how long it would take to find a friend, and completely freaked out at the thought of navigating the long walk to Cabin N in the dark. My fears could not have been more unfounded. Within hours, I felt a sense of belonging that I’d never quite found anywhere else.

It is surreal to welcome you to Apple Hill as President of the Board to our 53rd summer festival. Your presence is essential to making the summer so special and we are thrilled to celebrate a return to the full, five-session format with ten Tuesday night concerts and our annual gala for the first time since 2019. My hope is that, whether this is your first or twenty-first time here, you feel welcomed and inspired to stay connected to Apple Hill long after this concert is over.

I am also humbled to lead Apple Hill alongside Executive Director, Javier Caballero, who completed his first year in this role in February. We played the Beethoven “Ghost” trio together at Apple Hill in 2003, and have been friends ever since. His leadership style aligns with the principles of chamber music playing—active listening, flexibility, keen observation—and is driven by a deep commitment to our continued growth and excellence on behalf of the diverse communities we serve.

On behalf of my fellow Board members, thank you for joining us and for your support of Apple Hill. Your involvement is central to nurturing and sustaining our mission. We hope you enjoy the performance.

Warmly,

Molly McCarthy President, Apple Hill Board of Trustees

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APPLE HILL CENTER for CHAMBER MUSIC

Javier Caballero, Executive Director | Apple Hill String Quartet, Artistic Directors

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Molly McCarthy, President

Taryn Fisher, Vice-President

Patsy Beffa-Negrini, Secretary

Jan Weekes, Treasurer

Maria Coviello, Past President

Mike Anderson

Victor Dvortsov

Alison Frisbee

Ceil Goff

Katie Hewitt

Vanessa Holroyd

Jean Prior

Reem Abu Rahmeh

Peter Roos

Sue Quinn

STAFF

Javier Caballero, Executive Director

Apple Hill String Quartet & Artistic Directors:

Elise Kuder and Jesse MacDonald, violin;

Michael Kelley, viola;

Richard Anderson, Facilities Manager

Keegan Brosseau, Facilities Assistant

Gail Malitas, Office Administrator

Amelia Perron, Summer Workshop Administrative Director

Jan Woiler Meuse, Director of Development

At Apple Hill we believe in inclusion, support, and artistic excellence. As a contributor, you help us sustain these values day after day. We dream that Apple Hill will be able to continue its mission for generations to come. We hope you feel the same way.

Please help us make this dream a reality!

Many Apple Hill supporters choose to designate estate or planned gifts through their will, retirement plan, or insurance policy. Others donate now through IRAs or gifts of appreciated stock. Let us know so that we may recognize you for your thoughtfulness! If you are one of these supporters who have already identified a planned gift to Apple Hill in your will or trust, please contact Javier Caballero at javier@applehill.org so that we may add you to our legacy society, Apple Hill for the Ages.

The following individuals have included Apple Hill in their Estate Plans: Anonymous

Mike and Serafin Anderson

Doug and Barb Bletcher

Victoria Gray Bross

Arthur E. Cohen

Lindsay Dearborn

Dita and Bob Englund

Cecile Goff

The Estate of Bernie Gondos

Bill and Peggy Heyman

Eric Kawamoto

Lenny Matczynski

Mary Day Mordecai and Ned Hulbert

The Estate of Polly Perry

Linda Singer and Greg Rothman

Linda Stavely

Judy and Bill Waterston

The Estate of Dorian Zachai

SUMMER 2023 CONCERT SERIES

For 52 years, the Summer Concert Series has nourished audience members from New Hampshire and beyond. Each Tuesday evening performance features the Apple Hill String Quartet, Summer Workshop faculty, and guest artists—hosted in Apple Hill’s Louise Shonk Kelly Concert Barn on

SINGLE TICKET PRICES:

$30 Reserved seating

$10 Students and unreserved seating in Barn (if available)

Outside seating is always FREE!

JOIN US FOR A PRE-CONCERT DINNER

6:00–6:45 pm on Tuesdays in the Summer Concert Series

Pre-concert dinner $20 per person

the Apple Hill campus, 410 Apple Hill Road, in Nelson, New Hampshire.

All concerts are free and open to the public. To reserve a seat, the suggested donation is $30. Reserve online or call 603-847-3371 for more information.

Outside seating is always free.

SEASON PASSES:

$340 Nine concerts + Gala (1 free concert)

$240 Nine concerts (1 free concert)

$235 Five concerts + Gala (includes $15 discount)

$135 Five concerts (includes $15 discount)

$205 Four concerts + Gala (includes $15 discount)

AUGUST 8 – THE SUMMER GALA

Tickets: $100, www.applehill.org

All Tuesday evening concerts begin at 7:30 pm. • Order online at www.applehill.org Box Office Telephone: 603-847-3371

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Supporting the health and wellness mission of Cheshire Medical Center, a non-profit organization caring for our community for 130 years and counting.

Supporting the health and wellness mission of Cheshire Medical Center, a non-profit organization caring for our community for 130 years and counting.

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Apple Hill began in 1971 as a summer chamber music camp in rural NH. While the original focus was the educational program, a performing group emerged in 1973, the Apple Hill Chamber Players, and they performed throughout the U.S. for the next 20 years.

The summer program soon expanded and evolved from a music camp for teenagers to a program for all ages and levels with an inclusive philosophy of teaching and community-building based on mutual respect, acceptance, listening to each other, and supporting and cultivating each student’s unique abilities, no matter their skill level or experience.

On its first international tour, to the Middle East in 1989, Apple Hill expanded its philosophy of acceptance by founding Playing for Peace so Israeli and Palestinian students could play music together. After 30 years Playing for Peace has expanded its reach, now bringing together communities underrepresented or underexposed to classical music, separated by racial or ethnic discord, or with gender, orientation,

religious, age, or playing level differences.

In 2008, Apple Hill faculty and violist Lenny Matczynski took over the leadership of Apple Hill as the Director. That year, the Apple Hill Chamber Players became the Apple Hill String Quartet, when longtime Chamber Players Elise Kuder, violin; Mike Kelley, viola; and Rupert Thompson, cello, were joined by Sarah Kim, violin, to create a string quartet in residence. Violinist Colleen Jennings joined the group in 2013, replacing Sarah, and violinist Jesse MacDonald joined the group in 2020, replacing Colleen.

In 2021, the organization celebrated its 50th anniversary year. The following year, longtime Apple Hill alum, faculty, and cellist Javier Caballero was appointed as Apple Hill’s next Executive Director.

Today the Summer Workshop and Concert Series is still a vital part of Apple Hill, fully enrolled, with sold out concerts, and a diverse faculty and student body of all races, cultures, levels, and ages from around the globe playing music together.

JAVIER CABALLERO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Executive Director Javier Caballero joined Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music in 2022 with nearly 20 years of experience as an arts leader, educator, and cellist. He is committed to celebrating Apple Hill’s 50-plus year legacy, preserving its spirit, and continuing to foster a community of radical inclusivity—Apple Hill has always been at the forefront of what it means to create space for everyone to have a voice, to feel valued, and to feel a sense of belonging across boundaries.

Mr. Caballero previously served as part of the senior leadership team at NPR’s From the Top as its Scholarship and Recruitment Manager, leading all aspects of its national admissions department as well as the prominent Jack Kent Cooke Young Artist Award. He also served as the Artistic Director of Project STEP, a string training program for students from underrepresented communities in classical music. He led student performances for the Governor of Massachusetts and the Mayor of Boston, as well as joint appearances with the Boston Pops. During

his tenure, Project STEP visited the White House to receive an award from First Lady Michelle Obama in 2014 and returned in 2016 to perform for a State Dinner with President Obama. In 2017, Javier was invited to speak before the National Endowment for the Arts on Project STEP’s legacy of artistic excellence.

A graduate of the University of South Florida and the Boston Conservatory, Javier has studied with J. Alfredo Carbonell, Scott Kluksdahl, and Rhonda Rider. With performances in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, he has previously served on the faculties of Apple Hill, Point Counterpoint, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s Junior Strings Intensive summer festivals, as well as the New England Conservatory Preparatory School, and the Brookline and Watertown (MA) public schools.

He also serves on the board of directors for A Far Cry, The Theater Offensive, and Challenge the Stats. Born in Puerto Rico, Javier is a passionate advocate for artistic excellence, music education, and social justice.

The Colonial Performing Arts Center needs your help!

Over the past two years, The Colonial has been transformed into a state-of-the-art campus for arts entertainment and discovery. Extensive renovations have provided greater accessibility for audiences and artists, as well as crucial backstage updates to help attract world-class performances. We also acquired and remodeled a second building, creating a wonderful new performance and event space for our community: SHOWROOM.

However, the COVID-19 pandemic had a profound impact on our Capital Campaign to fund these improvements, including 25-50% increases in the cost of almost all building materials. Now we have an urgent need to fill this financial gap—a shortfall of approximately $1.6 million.

We are asking our community to help us close this gap.

As we raise the curtain on our 100th year . . .

Central to Apple Hill is Playing for Peace, founded in 1988 to assemble musicians from areas in political conflict to play chamber music together. Over the span of 30 years, the program has grown to include communities that are underrepresented or underexposed to classical music—communities separated by racial or ethnic discord, or gaps in equality based on gender, orientation, religion, age, and playing level. In small ensembles, our musicians play music focusing on the five skills of chamber music—listening, watching, adjusting, sensitivity, and flexibility—the same skills needed to work and function effectively in the world. Everyone learns

not only to play music, but also to communicate and connect with each other in ways that may not be possible in their home communities.

Because Apple Hill is alive with people from all over the world doing a task together, our chamber music is not just an artistic, academic, or technical pursuit, but a powerful catalyst for connection.

In order for Apple Hill to ensure diversity and acceptance, we have formed partnerships with similar music programs and institutions around the world. These include embassies, universities, schools, conservatories, and youth orchestras in many countries, as well as organizations that reflect the

racial and ethnic diversity of our U.S. communities such as Project STEP in Boston; Dallas Young Strings in Dallas; Community MusicWorks in Providence; the Juilliard MAP Program in New York City; Burncoat High School in Worcester; and schools in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and Memphis. Through scholarship programs with these organizations, students who would otherwise not have access are able to attend Apple Hill’s Summer Workshop.

Students come to Apple Hill from New Hampshire, many U. S. states, and around the world to work with one another in an atmosphere that promotes diversity, creativity, and understanding through excellence in music.

To learn more about supporting the Playing for Peace program, call 603-847-3371 or visit www.applehill.org.

Above: Children at a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon listen to the Apple Hill String Quartet and Kinan Azmeh.

Left: Students from Dallas Young Strings.

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MAKING WORLD CLASS MUSIC ACCESSIBLE TO

June 15, THU, 12PM | Depot Park ~ Peterborough, NH - FREE

18, SUN, 4PM | Jaffrey Meetinghouse ~ Jaffrey, NH - FREE

21, WED | 6:30pm, Salon Concert ~ Keene, NH - $35/$30

25, SUN, 4PM | Franklin Pierce University ~ Rindge, NH - FREE

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5:30pm, Supper Club ~ OPEN TO SUPPER CLUB MEMBERS

29, THU, 7PM | Emmanuel Church ~ Dublin, NH - FREE

July 6, THU | Family Concerts ~ 12pm, Keene, NH - FREE 2pm, Peterborough, NH - FREE 4pm, Nelson NH - FREE

9, SUN, 4PM | Ahavas Achim Synagogue ~ Keene, NH - FREE

16, SUN, 4PM | Lawn Concert ~ Wilton, NH - $30/$25/UNDER 18 FREE

20, THU, 7PM | Milford Town Hall ~ Milford, NH - FREE

22, SAT | Progressive Garden Party ~ Thru out the Region - $80/$75

26, WED | Supper Club - OPEN TO SUPPER CLUB MEMBERS

27, THU, 7PM | Park Hill Meeting House ~ Westmoreland, NH - FREE

August 9, WED, 7PM | Nelson Congregational Church ~ Nelson, NH - FREE

30, SUN, 4PM | Harrisville Community Church ~ Harrisville, NH - FREE

13, SUN, 4PM | Francestown Meeting House ~ Francestown, NH - FREE

25, FRI, 6PM | Gala Under the Stars ~ Wilton, NH - $150/$125

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EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY

Aphilosophy of teaching and community building has evolved at Apple Hill that is based on inclusivity, mutual respect, acceptance, listening, supporting, and cultivating each student’s unique abilities, no matter what their skill level or experience. These three values form the basis of everything we do:

1. Everyone is accepted

2. Everyone has an expressive voice

3. Everyone deserves to be encouraged and supported equally

Our philosophy of acceptance brings out the true identity of each person. Instead of people strategizing to fit in, they find and free themselves, and are able to grow, heal, and connect with each other and themselves through music. Our outlook is that we want each person to be unique, to be creative, to feel free, and to express individuality while at Apple Hill.

Since one of Apple Hill’s core values is that all participants are coached and supported equally, each chamber music group requires the same care. Regardless of a musician’s experience level, we want to ensure that everyone has a group where they will be challenged and another where they will be a leader. Students play new works as well as established masterpieces. We accommodate their requests if possible, and at the same time push them towards music they might not have realized they love (yet)— all while maintaining Apple Hill’s commitment to creating as diverse an environment as possible.

We have other values too: we value the authority of the teacher; we value learning through self-esteem— everyone can learn without judgment; we value critical thinking; we value exploration—our work is in depth (13-½ hours of coaching per movement); and we work out all the details by using many different methods like the five skills of chamber music (watching, listening, being sensitive, being flexible, and adapting), slow playing for tuning/ensemble work, and feedback on the physical technique of playing.

Learning a piece of music can be difficult, but we believe everyone can learn and this enables our students to gain self-confidence and self-esteem. Since chamber musicians are constantly assessing how they are doing, they develop the skills of discipline and critical thinking.

Our philosophy is reflected in the makeup of the groups, the coaches, and the composers of the pieces. Luckily the chamber music repertoire is a deep well and something wonderful exists for just about every person and every situation.

Students performing. Summer 2018.

Faculty coaching a student group.

At Apple Hill, we continue to realize our dream of bringing students together from all over the world to live, create, relax, replenish, and converse. We teach people how to experience the true essence of music and how to relate to each other without words by using the skills of chamber music. When students are here, this is their physical and creative home.

Apple Hill spans 100 acres with 41 buildings. Over the past few years, we have continued improving the living environment for everyone, from upgraded living and practice spaces for participants who live in 22 cabins, two-thirds of which have been updated, to completion of the Sugar House, which provides year-round housing, the Rehearsal Barn, a bath and shower building, a small kitchenette, and the beautiful Hoffman Community Auditorium.

We recently completed a major milestone: upgrades to the central campus buildings. This update has

brought more public space; a transformed entrance and lobby area; an expanded kitchen that includes a dishwashing station; more space for the winter/ green room; new accessible restrooms adjacent to the entrance lobby; new practice rooms; new mechanicals and storage in the basement; decks that allow the public to enjoy the outdoors; expanded brick pathway; a new water well; and physical changes that, along with our ever-growing student and audience population, represent an effort to open up Apple Hill and break down any boundaries due to outdated facilities.

Our upgraded physical space is an essential ingredient to our continued viability. It offers us additional capacity, positive residential experiences and camper comfort, and a campus that reflects the beautiful, natural setting of Nelson, NH.

Your support has made this possible—thank you!

APPLE HILL STRING QUARTET

Artistic Directors and Resident Artists of Apple Hill

Called “dashing and extraordinary” by The Strad magazine, the Apple Hill String Quartet are the Artistic Directors and resident musicians at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, winner of the CMAcclaim Award from Chamber Music America. The Quartet serves as the Music Directors for Apple Hill’s Summer Chamber Music Workshop in Nelson, New Hampshire, cultivating connection and understanding among people of diverse backgrounds, cultures, playing levels, and ages through music performance and education centered around the values of acceptance, inclusivity, creative expression, and encouragement.

During the regular concert season, the Quartet performs concerts and conducts residencies locally in NH, nationally in major U.S. cities, and internationally around the globe—in venues as diverse as the Curtis Institute of Music, Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Iowa String Quartet Residency Program, the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, ChatterABQ, Burncoat High School in Worcester, Project STEP in Boston, Cedarcrest Center for Children with Disabilities in Keene, NH, the Ketermaya refugee camp outside Beirut, Lebanon, the Moscow Conservatory, the Conservatorio National de Musica in Lima, Peru, the Gitameit Music School in Yangon, Myanmar, and the Harrisville General Store.

The Quartet’s concert programs reflect the diversity of Apple Hill: pieces amplifying new voices, views, and backgrounds in classical music; compositions from places representing the Quartet’s global travels and the summer workshop community; and music from the historic canon and new commissions, especially from renowned alumni.

The Quartet has collaborated with members of the Brentano String Quartet, Silk Road Ensemble, Dorian Wind Quintet, Hirsch-Pinkas Piano Duo, New York Philharmonic, and Community MusicWorks in Providence, RI. Members of the Quartet have received degrees from Oberlin Conservatory, the Juilliard School, New England Conservatory of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and a Fulbright Fellowship to London, England.

Elise Kuder, Violin

Called “first-rate” by The Boston Globe, Elise Kuder is the first violinist of the Apple Hill String Quartet and a Co-Artistic Director of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music where she has been a resident musician since 1998. With Apple Hill, Elise has performed and taught in venues as diverse as the Curtis Institute of Music, Moscow Conservatory, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Zipper Hall at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, the Institutes of Music in Damascus and Alleppo, Gitameit Music Institute in Burma, the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in Lima, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

in Dallas, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Ketermaya refugee camp outside of Beirut, and the General Store in Harrisville, New Hampshire. With the Apple Hill String Quartet, described as “dashing and extraordinary” by The Strad magazine, recent studio recordings include a premiere of Dana Lyn’s Suite for Fiddler and String Quartet , a revival of Ahmed Adnan Saygun’s String Quartet No. 1, and transcriptions of Purcell Fantasias. Elise serves as a Music Director for Apple Hill’s Summer Chamber Music Workshop. Elise is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and The Juilliard School where she studied with Marilyn McDonald and Joel Smirnoff. She attended the Tanglewood Music Center where she won the Kohn Award for outstanding musicianship and served as concertmaster of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra

under conductors Robert Spano and Bernard Haitink. As a Fulbright Scholar, Elise studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, England with David Takeno. In her spare time away from Apple Hill, she has performed at the Alhambra Ballroom in Harlem with disco legends Patrick Adams, Black Ivory, and Donna McGhee and teaches violin in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. Her students have gone on to attend Walnut Hill School for the Arts and Boston Conservatory at Berklee, been selected as concertmaster of the Middle School Honors Performance Series at Carnegie Hall, participated in the New Hampshire All State Orchestra, and learned Bach’s Solo Sonatas and Partitas at the age of 82.

Jesse MacDonald, Violin

Jesse MacDonald, second violinist of the Apple Hill String Quartet and Co-Artistic Director of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, has participated and placed in festivals and competitions in various regions of the United States. With the AHSQ, Jesse has toured and given masterclasses at Oberlin Conservatory, University of Iowa, UCLA, Ulster University (Northern Ireland), Keene State College and around the East Coast. He is also currently a core violinist of the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra and Palaver Strings (Portland, ME). He has also played with the Cape Symphony, The Dessoff Choirs (NYC) under the baton of Doctor Malcolm Merriweather and with Off-Broadway Theaters such as the Company Theatre in Norwell, MA, and the Seacoast Repertory Theater in Portsmouth, NH. He was also the lead fiddle player for the Broken String Band, a contra dance and swing band based out of Bozeman, MT, for 10 years. He has also previously performed with the Luminaria String Quartet, based in NYC, and the Emma String Quartet and the Tempest String Quartet, both based out of Boston, which have performed in NEC’s Jordan Hall, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), and the Harvard Club (NYC). New to the arranging and composing scene, Jesse has arranged all types of genres of music extensively for Palaver Strings, and Scuta Music Productions (MA), a Cape Verde-based recording studio for which his string

arrangements can be heard on numerous recordings. Jesse also has private teaching studios on the Seacoast and Southwest regions of New Hampshire and has been a substitute conductor and violin faculty with the University of New Hampshire Youth Symphonies, and their summer program String Youth Music School (SYMS). Previously, he was an orchestra manager, judge, chamber music coach and music theory tutor at the New England Conservatory and NEC Prep Programs. Jesse received his Bachelor’s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music, studying with Masuko Ushioda and Joanna Kurkowicz, and was awarded the Rachmael Weinstock Scholarship for Violin and Hugo Kortschak Award for Chamber Music while graduating with a Master’s degree studying with Mark Steinberg at the Manhattan School of Music.

Michael Kelley, Viola

Mike Kelley, Apple Hill String Quartet violist and Co-Artistic Director at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, graduated from The Walnut Hill School for the Arts and has received degrees from Oberlin Conservatory and The Juilliard School. His teachers have included Leonard Matczynski, Jeffrey Irvine, and Karen Tuttle. A Primrose International Viola Competition finalist at the age of 18, Mike joined the resident ensemble of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music three years later and has been performing and touring internationally with the group for over 20 years. He is the Music Director and Coordinator of Apple Hill’s Summer Chamber Music Workshop where he directs sessions, performs concerts, and coaches chamber music throughout the summer in New Hampshire. An active composer, Mike has been a Teaching Fellow in Electronic Music at Juilliard, and a guest lecturer at Harvard on the subject of electronic dance music. Under a pop-disco alias, he has performed worldwide in clubs such as Webster Hall (NYC), the O2 (London), and Berghain (Berlin), and has written and produced music for many pop acts, including Metro Area, Caribou, Madonna, and Pharrell. His albums have been selected for the “best of the decade” lists of music magazines Stylus and Fact, and have been highly recommended by Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, and The Guardian.

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music Summer Festival Concert Series presents The Session I Faculty

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 | 7:30 PM | Louise Shonk Kelley Concert Barn

This concert is generously underwritten by the Apple Hill Board of Trustees

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) (GMM No. 50), TWV 41:a3

Sonata for oboe & continuo in A minor

1. Siciliana

2. Spirituoso

3. Andante

4. Vivace

Söyleşi (Dialogue)

Marilyn Coyne, oboe; Marc Ryser, piano

Ekrem Zeki Ün (1910-1987)

Marilyn Coyne, oboe; Eric Thomas, clarinet

Threnody for Ann Arcenaux Eric Thomas (b. 1955) Eric Thomas, clarinet; Marc Ryser, piano

~ INTERMISSION ~

Quintet for 2 violins, viola & 2 cellos

Ethyl Smith (1858-1944) in E major, Op. 1 (1884)

1. Allegro con brio

2. Scherzo

3. Allegro vivace

4. Adagio con moto

5. Allegro molto

Elise Kuder, Cenovia Cummins, violins; Mike Kelley, viola; Jennifer Morsches, Greg Hesselink, cellos

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Summer Festival Concert Series presents Summer Fellowship Ensembles

Tuesday, June 27, 2023 | 7:30 PM | Louise Shonk Kelley Concert Barn

This concert is generously underwritten by Bob & Dita Englund

Piano Trio Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962)

I. Pale Yellow

II. Red

Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 17

I. Allegro moderato

II. Scherzo: Tempo di menuetto

III. Andante

IV. Allegretto

Clara Wieck Schumann (1819-1896)

Emma Gabriel, violin; Avi Graf, cello; Carl Questad, piano

~ INTERMISSION ~

Piano Trio, Op. 150

I. Allegro

II. Lento espressivo

III. Allegro con brio

Piano Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101

I. Allegro energico

II. Presto non assai

III. Andante grazioso

IV. Allegro molto

The Chiara Trio

Amy Beach (1867-1944)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Yik Liang Soo, violin; Khalil Johnson, cello; Angeliki Giannopoulou, piano

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Summer Festival Concert Series presents

The Session II Faculty

Tuesday, July 4, 2023 | 7:30 PM | Louise Shonk Kelley Concert Barn

This concert is generously underwritten by C & S Wholesale Grocers, Inc.

Sonata, Op. 15 for 2 violins and piano Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

I. Anime

II. Modere

III. Tres vif

Jesse MacDonald, Sarah Kim, violins; Mikael Darmanie, piano

Myrrha Trio for violin, viola and cello

I. Scene 1 - Myrrha

II. Scene 2 - Cinyras

III. Scene 3 - Cinyras deceived

IV. Scene 4 - Myrrha’s escape and Cinyras’s pursuit of her

V. Scene 5 - Myrrha begs Gods and they turn her into a Myrrh tree

VI. Scene 6 - Birth of Adonis

Ivan Stefanović, violin; Elizabeth Oka, viola; Pei Lu, cello

~ INTERMISSION ~ Abschied von der Erde for voice and piano, D. 829

Lenny Matczynski, narrator; Mikael Darmanie, piano

Souvenirs de Voyage for Clarinet Quintet

I. Andante pastorale - Allegro

II. Berceuse

III. Andante tranquillo quasi barcarolla

Ali Hoca (b. 1961)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975)

Rane Moore, clarinet; Ivan Stefanović, Jesse MacDonald, violins; Elizabeth Oka, viola; Pei Lu, cello

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Summer Festival Concert Series presents

Jesse MacDonald, violin and Myriam Avalos Teie, piano

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 | 7:30 PM | Louise Shonk Kelley Concert Barn

This concert is dedicated to the memory of Charles Wetherbee

Sonatina No. 3 in G minor for violin and piano, Op. 137, D 408

I. Allegro giusto

II. Andante

III. Minuetto: Allegro vivace

IV. Allegro moderato

Suite Populaire Espagnole (after Siete canciones populares españolas)

I. El Pano Moruno

II. Nana

III. Cancion

IV. Polo

V. Asturiana

VI. Jota

Suite Italienne (from Pulcinella)

I. Introduzione

II. Serenata

III. Tarantella

IV. Gavotta con due variazioni

V. Scherzino

VI. Minuetto - Finale

Le Grand Tango for violin and piano

~ INTERMISSION ~

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)

Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Jesse MacDonald, violin; Myriam Avalos Teie, piano

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Summer Festival Concert Series presents

The Session III Faculty

Tuesday, July 18, 2023 | 7:30 PM | Louise Shonk Kelley Concert Barn

This concert is generously underwritten by Peter & Elisabeth Roos, in loving memory of Elisabeth ‘Tibby’ Tobey

Suite for viola da gamba & continuo in E minor

Marin Marais (1656-1728)

I. Prelude V. Sarabande à l’espagnol

II. Fantaisie VI. Gigue

III. Allemande VII. Passacaille

IV. Courante

Chelsea Bernstein, viola da gamba; Myriam Avalos Teie, piano

A Scattered Sketchbook

Sketch #1

Sketch #2

Sketch #3

Sketch #4

Sketch #5

Sketch #6

Kinan Azmeh (b. 1975)

Nihat Agdac, violin; George Georgiou, clarinet

~ INTERMISSION ~

Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25

I. Allegro

II. Intermezzo. Allegro, ma non troppo

III. Andante con moto

IV. Rondo all Zingarese. Presto

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Darragh Morgan, violin; Mike Kelley, viola; Jacob Mackay, cello; Mary Dullea, piano

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Summer Festival Concert Series presents

Maiani da Silva, violin and Lisa Kaplan, piano

Tuesday, July 25, 2023 | 7:30 PM | Louise Shonk Kelley Concert Barn

DiGit #2

Mayke Nas (b. 1972)

Road Movies John Adams (b. 1947)

I. relaxed groove

II. meditative

III. 40% swing

The Casting of Bones

Sonata no. 1 “X/O”, for Violin and Electronic sounds

I. TRAPPIST1e

II. Kepler16b

III. Wolf1061c

Bongani Ndodana-Breen (b. 1975)

Kelley Polar (b. 1974)

Maiani da Silva, violin

~ INTERMISSION ~

Peace for violin and piano

Histoire du Tango

I. Bordello 1900

II. Cafe 1930

Fratres, for violin & piano

Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981)

Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)

Maiani da Silva, violin; Lisa Kaplan, piano

Arvo Pärt (b. 1935)

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Summer Festival Concert Series presents

The Session IV Faculty

Tuesday, August 1, 2023 | 7:30 PM | Louise Shonk Kelley Concert Barn

This concert is generously underwritten by Peter & Elisabeth Roos

Selections from 44 Duos for two violins, Sz. 98, BB 104 BélaBartók(1881-1945)

Selections from 34 Duetti for two violins LucianoBerio(1925-2003)

A Tale for Two Violins KristaporNajarian(b.1991)

II.Kef/Festivities(LoyLoy)

V.MistyMorning/Lament

VI.Escape(NehaventLonga)

JoshuaAddison,MovsesPogossian,violins

Afro-American Suite, for flute, cello & piano UndineSmithMoore(1904-1989)

I.Andante III.Adagiomaappassionato

II.Allegromoltoemarcato IV.Allegromolto

VanessaHolroyd,flute;IrisJortner,cello;JeanSchneider,piano

Sonoralia for String Quartet, Op. 3, La Zacatecana EmmanuelAriasyLuna(b.1935)

I.Danza

II.Jarabe

String Quartet No. 1 SilvestreRevueltas(1899-1940)

I. AllegroEnergico

II. Vivo

String Quartet (Ragamala) (2013) ReenaEsmail(b.1983)

I. Fantasie (Bihag) III. Recitative (Basant)

II. Scherzo (Malkauns) IV. Rondo (Jōg)

EliseKuder,JesseMacDonald,violins; MikeKelley,viola;MattSmith,cello

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music Summer Festival Concert Series presents

The Summer Gala: featuring Apple Hill String Quartet with guest cellist Chelsea Bernstein and Newport String Quartet

Tuesday, August 8, 2023 | 7:30 PM | Louise Shonk Kelley Concert Barn

Program will include English Fiddle Tunes for String Octet by Apple Hill alum, Dana Lyn

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Summer Festival Concert Series presents The Session V Faculty

Tuesday, August 15, 2023 | 7:30 PM | Louise Shonk Kelley Concert Barn

This concert is dedicated to the memory of James F. Whipple and is generously underwritten by The Kingsbury Fund

Suite en Trio for flute, violin and piano, Op. 59

I. Serenade. Allegretto

II. Pastorale. Andantino

III. Scherzo

Trio Sonata in C Major

I. Allegro

II. Andante

III. Rondo Allegretto

Mel Bonis (1858-1937)

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach (1732-1795)

Gretchen Pusch, flute; Jesse MacDonald, violin; Yi-heng Yang, piano

Cadenzas from Double Concerto for clarinet and violin

Kinan Azmeh (b. 1976)

Layale Chaker (b. 1990)

Layale Chaker, violin; Kinan Azmeh, clarinet

String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 77, B. 49

I. Allegro con fuoco

II. Scherzo. Allegro vivace

III. Poco Andante

IV. Allegro assai

Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

Salley Koo, Ealaín McMullin, violins; Jesse Holstein, viola; Edvard Pogossian, cello; Max Zeugner, double bass

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music

Summer Festival Concert Series presents A Far Cry

Tuesday, August 22, 2023 | 7:30 PM

Louise Shonk Kelley Concert Barn

Un día Bom (A Good Day), arr. Alex Fortes OsvaldoGolijov(b.1960)

III. Arum dem Fayer (AroundtheFire)

Banner JessieMontgomery(b.1981)

The Glittering World JuantioBecenti(b.1983)

String Quartet No. 12 in F major, AntonínDvořák(1841-1904)

Op. 96 "American”, arr. Sarah Darling

I. Allegro,manontroppo

II. Lento

III. Moltovivace

IV. Finale.Vivace,manontroppo

Thank you, Rupert!

This spring, Apple Hill bid farewell to cellist Dr. Rupert A. Thompson as he embarks on his next musical endeavors. First joining the Apple Hill Chamber Players in 1997, he later became the founding cellist of the Apple Hill String Quartet in 2007. Over his tenure, Rupert performed with the Chamber Players and the Quartet at concert venues in the United States and around the world, including international Playing for Peace tours to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Georgia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Peru, Russia, South East Asia, Syria, and Turkey.

Rupert, a former principal cellist of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, made his solo debut with the Baltimore Symphony at the age of seventeen. Hailed by WQXR’s Bob Sherman as “a cellist of high gifts and major promise,” he performed live broadcasts on WFMT’s Dame Myra Hess concert series in Chicago and WQXR’s annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. concert, hosted by world-renowned mezzo-soprano Betty Allen. A Concert Artist Guild Career Grant recipient and Tanglewood Music Center Fellow, Rupert earned degrees from the Peabody Conservatory (B.M.) and SUNY Stony

Brook (M.M. and D.M.A.). His teachers include Mihaly Virizlay, former principal cellist of the Baltimore Symphony, and Timothy Eddy, Orion String Quartet cellist. Rupert is also an accomplished photographer, screenwriter, and composed the music for the award-winning movie Sensation of Sight.

As co-artistic director, cellist, and teaching faculty member at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Rupert leaves a lasting legacy, having influenced musicians of all ages and mentored ensembles that now perform worldwide. Apple Hill violinist Elise Kuder remarked, “It’s been a true honor working and performing with Rupert over the last twenty years. We all wish him the very best!” His unwavering passion for music, exceptional skill, and talent for fostering community through chamber music have made him a role model for many.

“Rupert has been an integral part of Apple Hill and an inspiration to me personally, as well as to many others,” notes Executive Director Javier Caballero. “We are all grateful for his partnership, artistry, and longevity—and eagerly anticipate his next chapter.”

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Called a “world-wide phenomenon” by Boston’s WBUR, A Far Cry has nurtured a distinct approach to music-making since its founding in 2007. The selfconducted orchestra is a democracy in which decisions are made collectively and leadership rotates among the players (“Criers”). A Far Cry has risen to the top of Billboard’s Traditional Classical Chart, been named Boston’s best classical ensemble by The Improper Bostonian, and celebrated two Grammy nominations for its Visions and Variations. Described as “joyfully musician-led” by the Boston Globe, the group’s democratic spirit has been in overdrive in recent seasons. As The Arts Fuse stated this past season, “As is the norm with this group and their selections, everything somehow connects—and on multiple levels.” In the season ahead, this connectivity is central, with programs exploring home and sense of place, love, and purposeful interaction. A Far Cry seeks to do its part in reinforcing the idea of a “world that listens.” The orchestra’s subscription series includes five programs at New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, and four chamber music concerts at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Jamaica Plain. A Far Cry also continues its residency at Longy School of Music, and performs Copland’s Appalachian Spring on the Celebrity Series of Boston. The group’s spring tour includes its Kennedy Center debut. The 18 Criers are proud to call Boston home, and maintain strong roots in the city, rehearsing at their storefront music center in Jamaica Plain. The group recently celebrated the conclusion of a 10-year residency at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Collaborating with local students through educational partnerships with the New England Conservatory, Longy School of Music, and Project STEP, A Far Cry aims to pass on the spirit of collaboratively-empowered music to the next generation.

Violinist Joshua Addison currently serves as Associate Director and Resident Musician at musiConnects, a unique non-profit musical residency whose educational and performance activities are centered in the Boston neighborhoods of Roslindale and Mattapan. Joshua joined musiConnects in its inaugural year as second violin of the Chittick String Quartet and returned to musiConnects in 2011 after a three-year hiatus as a founding member of the Sumner Quartet. Josh has worked with many orchestras throughout New England, and appeared as soloist with the Keene Chamber Orchestra, where he served as concertmaster for five years. Joshua holds a B.A. in History from Boston University and a M.M. in Violin Performance from University of California, Los Angeles. His primary teachers include Movses Pogossian, Guillaume Sutre, Daniel Phillips, and Rohan Gregory.

Born in Famagusta, violinist Nihat Agdac was one of the first two musicians from Cyprus to receive Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music’s “Playing for Peace Award” which took him to Apple Hill in 1999 and 2008. Holding degrees from prominent institutions including the Royal Academy of Music and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Nihat has toured many countries with world-class orchestras. After enjoying permanent as well as guest leading, principal, and tutti positions in TRNC Presidential Symphony, Cyprus Chamber, City of Birmingham Symphony, Verbier Festival, London Symphony orchestras and many more, Nihat is looking forward to become a full member of the prestigious BBC Symphony Orchestra in London as of August. He continues giving recitals, solo performances and chamber music concerts with different musicians.

Myriam Avalos Teie, piano, has earned critical acclaim throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Her appearances and broadcasts include the Phillips Collection, Kennedy Center, the Dumbarton Concert Series, Purcell Room in London, the Royal Academy of Music in Stockholm, the Voice of the OAS, the Pan American Hall, WGMS Radio, Teatro Municipal in Lima, and two State Department sponsored tours of China and Brazil. She holds a Doctorate degree in Chamber Music. In 2004, she was conferred the title of Cultural Ambassador by the government of Peru.

Hailed by critics and audiences alike, winner of Opus Klassik award in 2019 clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh has gained international recognition for his distinctive voice across diverse musical genres. Originally from Damascus, Syria, Kinan Azmeh brings his music to all corners of the world as a soloist, composer and improviser. He has appeared as a soloist with the New York Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony, Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Dusseldorf Symphony, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, The Azerbaijan State Symphony, Winnipeg Symphony, Symphony Nova Scotia, Toronto Symphony, A Far Cry, The Knights Orchestra, Calgary philharmonic, Qatar Philharmonic and the Syrian Symphony Orchestra among others, and has shared the stage with such musical luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma, Daniel Barenboim, Marcel Khalife, John McLaughlin, Francois Rabbath, Aynur and Jivan Gasparian. Kinan’s recent compositions were commissioned by The New York Philharmonic, The Seattle Symphony, The Knights Orchestra, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Elbphilharmonie, Apple Hill String Quartet, Quatuor Voce, Brooklyn Rider, Cello Octet Amsterdam, Aizuri Quartet and Bob Wilson. In addition to his own Arab-Jazz Quartet CityBand and his Hewar trio, he has

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also been playing with the Silkroad Ensemble since 2012. Kinan Azmeh is a graduate of New York’s Juilliard School as a student of Charles Neidich, and of both the Damascus High institute of Music where he studied with Shukry Sahwki, Nicolay Viovanof and Anatoly Moratof, and Damascus University’s School of Electrical Engineering. Kinan earned his doctorate degree in music from the City University of New York in 2013. He has recently been appointed to the National Council for the Arts on a nomination by President Joe Biden.

Chelsea Bernstein is a broad and dynamic musician who specializes in the performance of the modern cello, baroque cello, and the viola da gamba. Her playing described as “brimming with confidence” (Washington Classical Review), Chelsea enjoys an active and varied performing career—on stage, she performs regularly as a multi-instrumentalist with the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Les Arts Florissants, Boston Early Music Festival, American Bach Soloists, Four Seasons, Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, Washington Performing Arts, Gotham Early Music Scene, Elm City Consort and Music Before 1800 concert series. Chelsea holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland’s School of Music, where her dissertation concerned the influence of the vast canon of solo repertoire from France’s illustrious bass-viol tradition on Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions for unaccompanied cello; she also holds a Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School. In her free time, Chelsea enjoys chipping away at the restoration of the 19th century home she shares with her husband, Frank, and little dog, Arrow, in historic Dedham, MA. Chelsea serves on the music faculties of Salve Regina University and St. Georges School, in Newport, Rhode Island.

Lebanese violinist and composer Layale Chaker is the 2017 Ruth Anderson Competition Prize winner, the recipient of the 2018 Royal Academy of Music’s Guinness Award, and a finalist for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé 2018 Prize. Layale has appeared as soloist, performer, improviser, and composer in concerts, recitals, and projects around Europe, the Middle East, North and South America, and Asia, performing in the Aldeburgh Festival, Junger Kunstler Festival Bayreuth, the Lucerne Festival for Contemporary Music, Impuls’ Festival, Beethoven Festival Bonn, and Avignon Festival among others. She performed her first violin concerto with the Bayreuther Philharmoniker, her string trio with members of the New World Symphony in Miami, as well as a tour across Germany, France, the UK, and the USA with her own ensemble, Sarafand. She has received commissions from the Newlands with Holland Baroque and the Diaphonique Franco-British Commission Fund

in partnership with the London-based Notes Inegales Ensemble and musicians of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. As a member of Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, she performs around the year in concert halls such as the Royal Albert Hall, Teatro Colon, Mozarteum Salzburg, Philharmonie de Paris, Salzburg Festspiele and der Philharmonie Berlin among others. She has studied at the National Higher Conservatory of Beirut in her native Lebanon, the Conservatoire de Paris, the Royal Academy of Music in London, and is currently working towards her doctoral degree at Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris. She has studied under professors Mohamed Hashem, Carmen Scripcariu, Jeanne-Marie Conquer, and Nicholas Miller.

Marilyn Coyne is a native of California studying music in the public school system. She attended San Francisco State University, Northwestern University and the Juilliard School of Music. Marilyn has been a member of the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra in the position of 2nd oboe and English horn for many years. Dividing her time between the east and west coasts of the United States, Marilyn has performed with many chamber music groups, orchestras and Broadway shows throughout her career. Teaching is also a part of Marilyn’s musical life which she enjoys very much. Marilyn is excited to return to Apple Hill, continuing the tradition of communication and community through chamber music.

Cenovia Cummins, violinist, is the concertmaster of The New York Pops, Riverside Symphony and the School of American Ballet Orchestra. Cenovia has recorded, performed and toured with many of the music industry greats such as Tony Bennett, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Madonna, Sheryl Crow, James Taylor, Britney Spears, Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell, Diana Krall, P. Diddy, Rod Stewart, and Michael Jackson. Cenovia has also held many chairs on Broadway shows. Most recently she was the concertmaster for the recent revivals of Carousel, West Side Story, and presently concertmaster of Funny Girl. Cenovia’s violin solos have been featured in the major motion pictures Lovely & Amazing and Julie and Julia. She can be heard every week on the Masterpiece Theater’s “Mystery” series tango theme. As a soloist, she has also performed several times in New York City Ballet’s production of “Red Angels” for four dancers and solo electric 5 string violin. Also a composer and improviser, Cenovia performs with her jazz quintet “CC and Friends” to sold out venues and has a CD release of her improvisations entitled “Solo Piano”.

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Maiani da Silva first picked up the violin at age 8 thanks to public schooling with Ms. Carol Dobbs in South Central L.A. She has since concertized with her four-time Grammy-winning sextet Eighth Blackbird, founded Brouhaha— an interdisciplinary project combining newly commissioned solo violin pieces with the work of scholars in anthropology—and is currently Lecturer at Yale’s Department of Music where she teaches a course on contemporary chamber music performance. She has premiered concertos with the Cincinnati Symphony and the U.S. Navy Band, premiered works by Joan Tower and David Lang, and has also collaborated with Bang On a Can All-Stars, Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), Electric Earth Concerts, Wild Up, Louis Andriessen, Kelley Polar, Viet Cuong, Childish Gambino, Julianna Barwick, Peter Gabriel, Joe Hisaishi, and more. Maiani is an Artist in Residence and Fellow at Morse College at Yale University. Maiani was born in Bahia, Brazil, grew up in Los Angeles, and also lived in Boston, Paris, Mexico City, and San Francisco before settling in woodsy Connecticut. She enjoys in-person philosophical debates, traveling the world, and reading. Listening to ‘90s slow-jams and Motown always lifts her spirits. www.maianidasilva.com

Mikael Darmanie regularly performs throughout the Americas, Europe, and the Caribbean as a pianist, improviser, conductor, chamber musician with his group the Warp Trio, and as a DJ. He is currently a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in composition and is a Doctoral Candidate in Piano Performance at Stony Brook University in New York under the mentorship of Gil Kalish.

As soloist and chamber musician, Irish pianist Mary Dullea leads a diverse performance career internationally. Her frequent broadcasts include BBC Radio 3, Radio 4, RTHK, RTÉ Lyric FM, WQXR, Radio New Zealand and Sky Arts, Irish, French, Austrian and Italian television. Her piano trio, Fidelio Trio, are passionate advocates for piano trio repertoire around the world. Constantly commissioning new works, composers that the Trio have worked closely with include Johannes Maria Staud, Donnacha Dennehy, Joe Cutler, Judith Weir, Piers Hellawell, Ann Cleare, and Charles Wuorinen, to name but a few. Mary has been the curator of Soundings (an annual UK/Austrian collaborative music festival) at the Austrian Cultural Forum London since 2008. She has served on the jury of ‘Schubert und die Musik der Moderne’ International Chamber Music Competition in Graz, Austria. In 2014 she founded ‘Chamber Music on Valentia’ an annual chamber music festival in Co. Kerry, Ireland, with the aim of bringing chamber music performances

of international standing, innovative programming and outreach and engagement programmes to this unique place. Mary’s own studies were at The Royal College of Music, London, on the Edith Best Scholarship, Goldsmiths, University of London (MMus) and her PhD in Performance is from Ulster University. Mary was on the piano faculty of Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama for 9 years. She previously held the position of Director of Performance at University of Sheffield and since 2015 she has held this position at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she is also Reader in Music.

Emily Edelstein is a violist originally from Lexington, Massachusetts. She spent two years as a performing artist for Lincoln Center Stage, where she presented a diverse array of concerts in a piano quintet aboard Holland America Line cruises, traveling to countries around the world. Emily is the founding violist, banjoist, and vocalist for Quartet Davis, an ensemble dedicated to playing innovative original works for string quartet with a focus on improvisation across multiple folk-music traditions. In 2020, Quartet Davis released their debut album, Three Lefts Make a Right. The quartet has collaborated with artists such as Billy Childs and Fabian Almazan, and has played in art museums, festival stages, bars, barns, bandshells and concert halls across the country. As an educator, Emily teaches private violin and viola lessons and has coached chamber music as a guest practitioner at programs including Chamber Music Connection Columbus, Artaria School of Chamber Music in St. Paul, and Kings Academy in Amman, Jordan. She helped design and co-teach a community music program in Lorain, OH that teaches musical and collaborative skills to students aged 5-13 through the medium of Javanese gamelan. Emily holds a Bachelor’s degree in Viola Performance from the Oberlin Conservatory, where she studied with Kirsten Docter and Michael Strauss and received a minor in Ethnomusicology. She has been a string quartet fellow at Madeline Island Chamber Music and Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, as well as a student at the PROJECT Trio Collaborative Composition workshop, and the Silkroad Global Musician Workshop where she performed with members of the Silkroad Ensemble. When not playing viola, Emily loves hiking, making art, learning Yiddish, and watching dog videos.

Hailed for his energetic and inspirational performances, Cypriot George Georgiou enjoys a career as a classical and contemporary clarinetist. He appeared in many solo concerts and recitals in Europe, the Middle East, and USA. He collaborated with some prominent musicians such as the legendary cellist Rohan de Saram, Prazak Quartet, Apple Hill String Quartet, Chilingirian String

Quartet, the violinist Movses Pogossian, and he appeared as a soloist with the Commandaria Orchestra and Moscow Virtuosi. In his research for new repertoire, George started commissioning works for clarinet and so far he has collaborated with the most dominant composers from Cyprus. George premiered several works featuring the clarinet with most of them being dedicated to him. He is a member of Georgiou Georgieva DUO, Lyrical Noise Ensemble, Evohe Wind Quintet, Chronos Contemporary Music Ensemble and Claritar Duo. He holds the position of clarinet professor at the University of Nicosia. George is a graduate from City University, London, where he studied clarinet with Julian Farrell and Joy Faral at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is also an MBA graduate from the Neapolis University Paphos, Cyprus and a member of Mensa Cyprus. His busy profile gained him international recognition and he became a Selmer Paris Clarinet Artist, a Silverstein Ligature Artist, Marca Reeds Artist and a Royal Global Accessories Artist. He is also the Cyprus Chair and the Middle East Regional Chair of the International Clarinet Association and a member of the association’s New Music Committee.

After many years living an eclectic musical life in New York City, Greg Hesselink is now the cello teacher at Ithaca College. As a chamber musician, he is a winner of the Naumburg Chamber Award with the New Millennium Ensemble, and is a former member of numerous other ensembles including Sequitur, Newband (caretakers of the Harry Partch instrument collection), the Argento New Music Project, New York Philomusica, the Manhattan Sinfonietta and the Bang on a Can ‘Spit’ Orchestra. He continues to perform with the Locrian Chamber players, the Orchestra of the League of Composers and as principal cello of Riverside Symphony. An active promoter of new music, Greg has premiered more than 150 works including concertos by Ross Bauer, Daniel Weymouth and James Tenney’s Song and Dance for Harry Partch (on the tenor violin) at the Donaueschingen Musiktage. He has been the recipient of numerous awards with his ensembles, including the CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, NEA, Ditson Fund, Copland and Mary Flagler Cary recording grants, CMA, Fromm, Meet the Composer and NYSCA commissioning grants. Recordings can be heard on CRI, Nonesuch, Naxos, Bridge, Koch, Albany, Wergo, Innova, PPI and Point Records. Greg received his training at the Interlochen Arts Academy with Cris Campbell, the Eastman School of Music with Steve Doane, and SUNY Stony Brook with Tim Eddy. In addition, he studied during summers with Janos Starker, Aldo Parisot, Orlando Cole and Stephen Geber, as well as extensive chamber music studies with members of the Cleveland, Juilliard, Alban Berg, Emerson, Tokyo, Prague, Bartok and Mendelssohn String Quartets, the Beaux Arts Trio, Gil Kalish, Julius Levine,

Jan De Gaetani and Martha Katz. Greg has taught at Princeton, Sarah Lawrence, Hunter College and for 20 years at Mannes prep, not to mention many summers at Apple Hill!

Flutist Vanessa Holroyd is a frequent soloist and regular Principal performer with the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music in Boston and enjoys an active freelance career with a focus on chamber music. Past collaborations include performances with Helga Davis at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Arneis Quartet, Phoenix, A Far Cry, the Craft Quartet and her most recent chamber music project, “Trichrome” with harpist Franziska Huhn and violist, Daniel Doña. She has been privileged to perform and coach as a guest summer faculty artist at the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music since 2007 and has participated in chamber music concerts presented by the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Emmanuel Music, Steinert & Sons, Rochester (VT) Chamber Music Society and Winsor Music, in addition to recitals throughout the US and British Virgin Islands with pianist Joy Cline Phinney. Vanessa is a member of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra and has been invited to perform with the Boston Ballet Orchestra, the Portland (ME) Symphony, the Back Bay Chorale in addition to other Boston-area ensembles. Currently, Vanessa co-owns and operates Music Management Inc.(musicmanage.com), an entertainment agency that contracts and produces over 500 events annually and employs hundreds of freelance professional artists. She is eternally grateful for her teachers: Geralyn Coticone, Robert Willoughby, Michael Parloff, Ransom Wilson and Elssa Green. Thanks in large part to their guidance, she holds a B.A. in Literature from Yale University, a M.Mus. in Flute Performance from McGill University and an Artist Diploma from the Longy School of Music of Bard College. Vanessa resides in Boston with her husband, two children, and highly energetic shih-tzu.

Jesse Holstein graduated from Oberlin where he studied with Marilyn McDonald and then received his Master’s with James Buswell at the New England Conservatory. Prior to Oberlin, he studied violin with Philipp Naegele in Northampton, Massachusetts. Jesse would be remiss if he did not send a huge thank you to his wonderful Suzuki teacher Diana Peelle who started him at age 5 and was extremely patient with his slouching posture for years. An active recitalist, orchestral and chamber musician, Jesse is currently concertmaster of the New Bedford Symphony. In recent summers, he has performed at the Bravo! Festival in Vail Colorado, the Montana Chamber Music Festival in Bozeman, the Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine, and the Apple Hill Festival in Nelson, New Hampshire. While an undergraduate, Jesse taught for the Oberlin

Preparatory Program in the Lorain, Ohio public schools. Also at Oberlin, he served as Assistant Concertmaster and later as Music Director of the Royal Farfissa Disco Juggernaut, the premier disco orchestra in the greater Cleveland area in the mid-1990s. Currently, Jesse is a teacher and resident musician for Community MusicWorks and was a founding member of the Providence String Quartet. With the Quartet, Jesse performed with the Muir, Miro, Orion, Turtle Island, and St. Lawrence Quartets, as well as pianist, Jonathan Biss; cellist, Matt Haimovitz; Cleveland Orchestra Principal Oboe, Frank Rosenwein, and violist Kim Kashkashian, among others.  Jesse has been a Violin Professeur at L’Ecole de Musique, Dessaix Baptiste in Jacmel, Haiti and is currently on the faculty at Brown University. He has a cat, Lord Nelson who is an ordained on-line minister (this is true) and is available for weddings and services (this is probably not true). Jesse has been coming to Apple Hill since 2003 and met his wonderful wife, longtime Apple Hiller Ealaín McMullin, by the gazebo in 2004.

Iris Jortner, cello, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, studied with Uri Vardi, Paul Katz, Bernard Greenhouse, and Timothy Eddy, among others. She has participated in music festivals such as Verbier, Banff, Taos, Tanglewood, Dubrovnick, Kfar Blum, and Prussia Cove, and has collaborated with Itamar Golan, Yefim Bronfman, Michael Tree, and the Orion Quartet. Iris was a founding member of the Aviv Quartet between 1997-2002, with whom she performed in major venues in the USA, Europe, Israel, Australia, and China. She has recorded for the Naxos label.

Born in Motown, Lisa Kaplan is a pianist specializing in the performance of new work by living composers. Kaplan is the founding pianist and Executive Director of the four-time Grammy Award-winning sextet Eighth Blackbird. Kaplan has won numerous awards, performed all over the

country and has premiered new pieces by hundreds of composers, including Andy Akiho, Jennifer Higdon, Amy Beth Kirsten, David Lang, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, George Perle, and Pamela Z.  She has had the great pleasure to collaborate and make music with an eclectic array of incredibly talented people - Laurie Anderson, Jeremy Denk, Bryce Dessner, Philip Glass, Bon Iver, J. Ivy, Glenn Kotche, Shara Nova, Will Oldham, Natalie Portman, Gustavo Santaolalla, Robert Spano, Tarrey Torae, Dawn Upshaw and Michael Ward-Bergeman to name a few. As a proud, single-mamaby-choice, Kaplan has been having an incredible time raising and learning from her happy-go-lucky daughter, Frida. Musically as of late, she has also greatly enjoyed and appreciated the opportunity to do both composing and arranging for Eighth Blackbird as well as some producing.  In 2019, Kaplan co-produced her first record, When We Are Inhuman with Bryce Dessner.  Kaplan is a true foodie, gourmet cook, avid reader, crossword and Wordle addict, enjoys baking ridiculously complicated pastry and loves outdoor adventures. She has summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, braved the Australian outback, stared an enormous elephant in the face in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Crater and survived close encounters with grizzly bears in the Brooks Range of Alaska.

Violinist Sarah Kim began her musical studies at the age of three and has performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. From 2008 – 2013, Sarah was a member of the Apple Hill String Quartet, resident ensemble of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music. Based in Kansas City from 2013 – 2017, Sarah enjoyed teaching a wide spectrum of students and received the 2015 Studio Teacher Award from the Missouri chapter of the American String Teachers Association. Sarah holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University, a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music, and a Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University where her principal teachers included Pamela Frank, Phil Setzer, Peter Oundjian, and Miriam Fried. Sarah is currently a Resident Musician at Community MusicWorks and a Teaching Associate at Brown University in Providence, RI.

Salley Koo began her violin studies at the age of 4. She has been lucky enough to study with many famous people at many famous schools. Ms. Koo performs all over the world with very cool people of varying degrees of fame and tries to get along famously with her colleagues and her own students. She now splits her time between her homes in Urbana, IL, and Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY, with her husband and their very cute dogs. www.salleykoo.com

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Cellist Pei Lu is the recipient of many awards and honors including the second prize of the National Cello Competition in China and the Gregor Piatigorsky Award from the Peabody Conservatory of Music. She has performed in Europe, Asia and the East and West Coasts of the United States. She also toured in the Middle East, England, Ireland, Northern Ireland and China with Apple Hill. Ms. Lu began her musical education at the Xian Conservatory of Music where she earned her Bachelor’s degree in Cello Performance. Upon her arrival in the United States, Ms. Lu completed the Master’s Degree and the most prestigious Artist Diploma in Cello Performance at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where she studied with Professor Stephen Kates.

A believer in music as a vehicle for social change, cellist Jacob MacKay is dedicated to projects that bring classical music to new and diverse audiences, highlight cultural challenges in our society, and spotlight underrepresented communities. As an educator, he has been on the faculty of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, and held teaching positions at Worcester Chamber Music Society’s Neighborhood Strings, Salve Regina University, St. George’s School, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School. Jacob graduated Summa Cum Laude from Brandeis University where he was awarded a four-year Leonard Bernstein Music Fellowship, the Coffey Award for “excellence in the performance of music”, and the Fisher Prize for “extraordinary achievement in the creative arts.” In 2019, he received a master’s degree in Cello Performance from Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music where he studied with Norman Fischer. Jacob is currently in his fourth season as Resident Cellist and Education Coordinator at the Newport String Project, and performs regularly with the New Bedford Symphony and Rhode Island Philharmonic.

With a career in the performing arts spanning over 30 years, Lenny Matczynski has worked as a concert violist, teacher, and arts administrator, and has had a long affiliation with Apple Hill. Lenny has been teaching as a Summer Workshop Faculty member each year since 1982, joined as a member of the Board of Directors in 2005, and then became the Artistic and Executive Director in 2007 until March 2022. As a concert violist, he studied with Martha Strongin Katz, Heidi Castleman, and Karen Tuttle, participated in chamber music studies with members of the Budapest, Cleveland, and Guarneri Quartets, and pursued advanced studies at the International Musician’s Seminar in Prussia Cove, England, with Sandor Vegh. In addition to his teaching activities with Apple Hill,

he has been on the faculty of Walnut Hill School for the Arts, New England Conservatory of Music, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and the Tanglewood Music Center. From 1993-2007, he was the founding executive director of Boston’s Emmanuel Music. Outside of Apple Hill, he received the 2021 Ewing Arts Lifetime Achievement award for artistic excellence in the Monadnock region; was one of the founders and past chairs of Arts Alive, an organization that promotes arts and culture in the Monadnock region of NH; and was chosen to participate in the 2016 Leadership NH program, a program that increases civic involvement in communities by educating and connecting leaders from throughout the state of NH.

Ealaín McMullin, violinist, was first introduced to chamber music through one of Apple Hill’s very first Playing for Peace tours to Donegal, Ireland. An avid devotee ever since, Ealaín has been a long-time summer participant at Apple Hill and was a Playing for Peace scholar at Keene State College in 2006. A graduate of Trinity College in Dublin and The Boston Conservatory, her influential teachers have included Michael D’Arcy, Elise Kuder, Mike Kelley, and Lenny Matczynski. She has performed with members of the Miró, Brooklyn Rider, Kronos, and Lydian String Quartets and has performed at the West Cork Chamber Music Festival (Ireland) and Music From Salem (New York). In 2011–13, Ealaín was a Fellow at Community MusicWorks (Providence) a nationally acclaimed organization exploring the intersection between artistry, education and community. Currently, Ealaín is the co-director of the Newport String Project, a performance and youth mentoring initiative serving youth, families and audiences in Newport, RI.

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Clarinetist Rane Moore enjoys an active performing schedule at home and abroad. She is a member of the Talea Ensemble, Sound Icon, and the awardwinning wind quintet The City of Tomorrow. Ms. Moore has given numerous premieres of new works and appeared with International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Guerilla Opera, New York New Music, Alarm Will Sound and the Bang on a Can All-Stars among many others.  She is a frequent guest with Bostonbased ensembles Emmanuel Music, Boston Modern Orchestra Project and the Boston Ballet Orchestra. She is also the principal clarinetist of the Boston Philharmonic and the Boston Landmarks Orchestra. She serves as the Co-Artistic Director of Winsor Music, a Boston area based concert series and community engagement organization. Ms. Moore has recordings on Tzadik, Pi, Wergo, and ECM records and is on faculty at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Longy School of Music of Bard College. Critics have praised her “enthralling,” “tour-de-force,” and “phenomenal” performances.

Irish violinist Darragh Morgan is a founder member of ‘the virtuosic Fidelio Trio’ (Sunday Times). He has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician at The Wigmore Hall, Aldeburgh Festival, Maerzmusik Berlin, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, BBC Proms, Osterfestival Tirol, National Sawdust, Philips Collection Washington DC, Beijing Modern Music Festival and Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre. He has performed concertos with Ulster Orchestra, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Johannesburg Philharmonic, Istanbul Symphony, and National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland and recorded 50+ albums many of which have received Diapason D’or and Gramophone Awards.

Jennifer Morsches enjoys an international career as a versatile cellist, acclaimed for playing with “intelligence and pathos” (The Strad) and a “fine mixture of elegance and gutsiness”

(Gramophone). Especially inclined towards historical performance, she is the principal cellist of Florilegium since 2000, with whom she performs around the globe and has recorded multiple awardwinning discs for Channel Classics Records. She is Co-Artistic Director of Sarasa Ensemble, based in Cambridge, MA, highly acknowledged for its outreach in youth detention centers in the Boston metropolitan area. She is also a founding member of Richter Ensemble, tracing and focusing on the interdependence of today’s music with the past. A long-time member of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Les Siècles and Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, she has toured and recorded with eminent artists such as Sir Simon Rattle, Sir András Schiff, Vladimir Jurowski, Sir

Roger Norrington, Dame Emma Kirkby, Sir Michael Chance, David Zinman, François-Xavier Roth, and Philippe Herreweghe. Jennifer graduated Phi Beta Kappa, magna cum laude, First Group Scholar from Smith College with degrees in Music History and German Literature, and was awarded the Ernst Wallfisch Prize in Music. She received her Master’s and Doctorate in Cello Performance as a scholarship student of Timothy Eddy at the Mannes College of Music and SUNY at Stony Brook in New York. Recipient of the CD Jackson Prize for outstanding merit and contribution at Tanglewood, she was featured on Wynton Marsalis’s educational music videos with Yo-Yo Ma. Awarded a Finzi Travel Scholarship and residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Jennifer continues to focus research on the ambiguous history of the fivestring piccolo cello.

Originally from Southern California, Elizabeth Oka is the violist with Kassia Music, a contemporary chamber ensemble in Washington, DC. She has performed as Assistant Principal Violist of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra/Washington National Opera and Principal Viola of the Des Moines Metro Opera Orchestra. She has also played with several orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa. She spent two years in Miami Beach as a fellow with the New World Symphony. In addition to orchestral playing, Elizabeth loves the intimacy of chamber music. She has premiered new works in New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, attended chamber workshops at Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music and the Castleman Quartet Program, founded and performed with Sodam and the All-Stars throughout Miami Beach, and appeared in various living rooms at Groupmuse performances. Elizabeth has spent summers as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Round Top Festival-Institute. She holds degrees from Tufts University, where she double majored in English and music, and the New England Conservatory. She also served as the Associate Instructor in Viola while pursuing a performance diploma at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Ms. Oka’s many wonderful teachers include Ed Gazouleas, Martha Katz, and Lenny Matczynski. Outside of the viola, Elizabeth enjoys hiking, reading, and finding new things to eat.

Cellist Edvard Pogossian was the proud Overall Winner, Strings Winner, and Audience Prize Winner at the Tunbridge Wells International Music Competition in 2022. As the winner of the Juilliard Concerto Competition, Edvard performed the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations at David Geffen Hall in New York and at the Harris Theater in

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Chicago with the Juilliard Orchestra under the direction of Itzhak Perlman. The Chicago Tribune praised Edvard’s performance for his “astonishing musical and technical maturity,” as well as his “winning lightness of touch to everything he played, combined with a velvety tone.” He has appeared as a soloist with the Boston Pops, Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Royal Northern Sinfonia, and the New Mexico Philharmonic. Edvard attended Yellow Barn and the Marlboro Festival from 2019 to 2022. Highly committed to chamber music, he is a member of Trio Isimsiz, who have performed throughout Europe, most notably at the Wigmore Hall. He is a frequent guest principal cello in the Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Movses Pogossian made his American debut performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Boston Pops in 1990, about which the Boston Globe wrote: “There is freedom in his playing, but also taste and discipline. It was a fiery, centered, and highly musical performance…” Laureate of several competitions, including the Tchaikovsky International Competition, he performs worldwide in a wide variety of genres. A devoted chamber musician and Founding Artistic Director of the acclaimed Dilijan Chamber Music Series, Pogossian has performed with members of the Tokyo, Kronos, and Brentano string quartets, and with such artists as Kim Kashkashian, Jeremy Denk, Lynn Harrell, Ani and Ida Kavafian, and Rohan de Saram. He frequently collaborates with the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, teaching annually at their summer music festival since 1992. A committed champion of new music, Pogossian has premiered over 100 works, and works closely with composers such as G. Kurtág, K. Saariaho, T. Mansurian, Gabriela Lena Frank, and many others. Pogossian’s extensive discography includes the Complete Sonatas and Partitas by J. S. Bach, “Con Anima” (ECM), and solo CDs “Inspired by Bach”, “Blooming Sounds”, “In Nomine”, and, most recently, “Hommage à Kurtág” (2022). Pogossian is Distinguished Professor of Violin at the UCLA Herb Alpert School

of Music and Founding Director of the UCLA Armenian Music Program. As Head of the Music for Food’s Los Angeles Chapter, he actively participates in projects which raise awareness of the hunger problem and give the opportunity to experience the powerful role music can play as a catalyst for change.

Flutist Gretchen Pusch made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut as winner of the Artist International Competition. She has appeared in recital and as concerto soloist in North America, Europe and Asia. Gretchen is a member of the Dorian Wind Quintet and has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, American Symphony and on Broadway, among others. She has served on the flute faculties of Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program, Rutgers University, and the Round Top International Festival. She studied with Julius Baker, James Pappoutsakis, and Keith Underwood.

Marc Ryser, piano, teaches and performs in the Boston area, and each summer helps organize Music by the Sea, an artists’ residency and concert series in a remote village on the coast of Vancouver Island. He performs regularly with the Boston Artists Ensemble, Music from Salem, and other groups. He has taught at Pomona College, San Francisco Conservatory, Drake University, Smith College, Brandeis University, and currently teaches at NEC Preparatory School, the Rivers School Conservatory, and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts.

Jean Schneider, piano, began her piano studies at age seven, and by the age of fifteen had performed three times as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has been heard in recital in the U.S. and Europe, and on the radio in Germany, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and on NPR’s Performance Today. She has collaborated with numerous artists in concerts at Tanglewood, Aspen, and Norfolk Festivals, the Banff Centre, and the Sarasota Music Festival, where she is Associate Piano Faculty. Jean currently lives in New York City, where she performs as soloist and chamber musician.

Matthew Smith is a highly skilled cellist, celebrated for his expertise in chamber music and education. He has captivated audiences across the United States and Asia with his rich, emotive performances. As a Co-Artistic Director of Palaver Strings, a musician-led chamber orchestra, Matthew has achieved remarkable milestones. His ensemble has been invited to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., served as the

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ensemble-in-residence at the Boston Center for the Arts, and at the Longy School of Music of Bard College. He has also collaborated with his duo partner, Peipei Song, in performances at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and at the Tianjin Conservatory in China. In addition to his performing career, Matthew is an accomplished educator. He currently serves as the Managing Director of Education for Palaver Strings, where he has spearheaded the development and design of the Palaver Music Center in Portland, Maine. Matthew has also led the course “Music and Civic Engagement” at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA for the past two years. His talents as a teaching artist have been recognized through his appointment as a Music Educator and Teaching Artist Fellow by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as his role as a Graduate Assistant at The Boston Conservatory. Matthew has been fortunate enough to learn from some of the most renowned cellists in the world, including Colin Carr, Gautier Capuçon, Bernard Greenhouse, and Emmanuel Feldman, and studied chamber music with members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet and Brentano String Quartet. He received his Master of Music degree from The Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he studied with Andrew Mark, and his Bachelor of Music degree from Arizona State University, where he studied with Thomas Landschoot.

Ivan Stefanović was born in Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, and now lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he is Associate Principal Second Violin in Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Principal Second Violin in Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. He graduated from Cleveland Institute of Music in 1991 with Bachelor of Music and Artist Diploma. He teaches and coaches at Peabody Preparatory and Baltimore School for the Arts. He is a co-founder and co-coordinator of Chamber music by Candlelight that features BSO members.

Winner of the international Concert Artist Guild competition Eric Thomas is an active performer, a virtuoso clarinetist who has appeared as a guest artist with several groups including the internationally acclaimed Apple Hill Chamber Players, the Sylvan Winds, the Boston Pops Traveling Ensemble, the Bravo! Festival at Vail, the Wellesley Composers Conference, and the Cabrillo Contemporary Music Festival. As a freelance artist he has toured with Goldovsky Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Opera New England, The New England Ragtime Ensemble, The New England Conservatory Contemporary Ensemble, and The National Gilbert and Sullivan Tour. He has been a substitute with several orchestras including The Florida Orchestra, The Charlotte Symphony, La Orquesta Sinfonica de Monterrey, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra,

New York City Opera in the Park Orchestra, The Southwest Florida Orchestra, and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. As a composer, his most recent commissions have come from the Sonad Project, Colby College Symphony Orchestra, concert pianist Ilya Friedberg, and the Bar Harbor Music Festival. Eric has been a guest lecturer/ performer at several colleges and universities including Brown, Harvard, Boston University, Centenary College, Southeastern Louisiana University, Boston Conservatory of Music, and Duke. Recently retired as the Director of Bands at Colby College, Mr. Thomas is the newly appointed Conductor and Director of Music for the Keene Chamber Orchestra and Director of Music at the Putney School in Putney, VT. He is adjunct faculty at University Maine Augusta and this past fall served as guest conductor for the Phillips Exeter Symphony Orchestra.

Kenneth Trotter is a violinist from Knoxville, Tennessee. He received a Bachelor of Music from SUNY Purchase where he studied with Laurie Smukler and Carmit Zori. Kenneth was a founding member of the Puck Quartet. The quartet’s activities included the premiere of Jason Eckardt’s Ascension, participating in the Mannes Beethoven Institute, Robert Mann String Quartet Institute, Emerging Artist Series at Garth Newell, and concerts at the Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society. Puck also gave the New York premiere of Stephen Prutsman’s score to the iconic silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in a sold-out performance at the Baryshnikov Arts Center. Kenneth was among the first-year participants of the Decoda Chamber Music Festival, where he was exposed to the concepts of Interactive Performance. These skills were developed further as a teaching artist at the Manchester Music Festival Young Artist’s Program, at the Carnegie Hall Audience Engagement Institute, and the St. Lawrence Emerging Quartet Program. This direct contact with community ignited a passion for serving more diverse audiences, and the opportunity came with an invitation to

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Our Joyful Noise Baltimore’s ‘Azure’ Concert series. As an endlessly curious musician with the belief that almost all music can be considered chamber music, Kenneth has expanded his musical activities into many genres. He has taken part in a collaboration with the former principal dancer of the New York City Ballet, Wendy Whelan, at the Joyce Theater, and acted as concertmaster of Camerata New York Orchestra at the Mannes Sounds Festival’s presentation of Gluck’s opera Orpheus and Eurydice. Kenneth was a founding member and fiddle player of folk-foursome Elijah and the Moon, and has recorded and performed live with such diverse artists as R&B/disco legend Patrick Adams, Japanese rapper Lotus Juice, and singer-songwriter Mitski.

Pianist and fortepianist Yi-heng Yang has been described as an “exquisite collaborator (Opera News), “superbly adept (Gramophone)” and noted for her “remarkable expressivity and technique (Early Music Magazine).” Her work spans from collaborations on period instruments with visionary artists such as the Grammy awardwinning tenor Karim Sulayman, in their acclaimed and timely album, “Where Only Stars Can Hear Us (Avie Records),” to groundbreaking and provocative explorations into Romantic and

Classical performance practice with cellist Kate Bennett Wadsworth (Brahms Cello Sonatas, Deux-Elles) In May 2022, she released her first solo fortepiano album, “Free Spirits: early Romantic music on the Graf piano (Deux-Elles),” received 4-stars from BBC Music Magazine. Yi-heng just appeared in the People’s Symphony Concerts in NYC’s Town Hall with baritone Roderick Williams, and at the Brattleboro Music Center, VT. Other recent recitals include The Boston Clavichord Society, UNC Greensboro, Early Music of the Islands, BC, Carnegie Hall Subscription Series, The Phillips Collection, Chatham Baroque, Columbus Early Music, Mountainside Baroque, Gotham Early Music Midtown Concerts, and The Helicon Series. Yi-heng is on the faculty at The Juilliard School, teaching piano, fortepiano, and improvisation in the Precollege, College, and Historical Performance departments. www.yihengyangpianist.com

Max Zeugner joined the New York Philharmonic in September 2012 and serves as Associate Principal Bass. Originally from Worcester, Massachusetts, he began taking lessons at the New England Conservatory Preparatory School with bassist Deborah Dunham and studied with Richard Hartshorne. He went on to become a scholarship student of New York Philharmonic bassist Orin O’Brien at The Juilliard School and Edwin Barker at Boston University. He has performed, recorded, and toured with the Apple Hill Chamber Players and has been on their Summer Chamber Music Faculty since 2006. He is a founding member of the Worcester Chamber Music Society; gave a performance of Mozart’s Per questa bella mano with bass-baritone Daniel Gross at the Elbereth Chamber Music Series in New York City; and performed with the Providence Quartet, Apple Hill String Quartet, and Quartet X. As a soloist, Zeugner performs frequently with his wife, pianist/fortepianist Yi-heng Yang. In the non-classical realm, he is a former member of the Eastern Jazz Project, Charles Ketter Quartet, and Delfino Brothers Duo and has performed with such artists as Joanna Newsom, Kelley Polar, and the Pet Shop Boys. Zeugner was previously section leader (i.e. principal) double bass of the Northern Sinfonia and was offered a trial as principal double bass with the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2010, following a brief stint with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, Zeugner was appointed principal double bass with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in Manchester, England. Zeugner has served on the faculties of the Royal Northern College of Music, Newcastle University, and The Sage Gateshead Weekend School. In August 2008 he made his debut as a conductor leading the Darlington Youth Orchestra at the Edinburgh Festival. He continues to work as a music educator at the Royal Northern College of Music and the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music.

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M Jane Perron

Bob Perron

Tamara Plummer

Vivian Podgainy and Thomas Goldsworthy

Renna and Christopher Pye

Alice Pyle

Cheri Robartes

Gargi Roysircar Sodowsky

David and Rebecca Sayles

Peggy Senter

Vera and Sara Shapiro

Nancy Shepherd

Ivan Shin

Lisa Sieverts

Sherry and Winston Sims

Matthew Sotiriou

Conrad Spens

Eva Steinmetz

Eric Thomas

Carin Torp

Kenneth Trotter

Pam Turci

Jo Valens

Thuy-Duong Vu

Thompson and Joan Webb

Lee Wells

Mary Alison Wilder

Barbara Wright

Thomas L. Wright

Yankee Publishing Inc.

Edward J. Yoxen

* deceased

Gifts were made in memory of the following:

Julie Albright

Donna Boyko

Katy Brosseau

Anju Diggs

Tal Gregory

Linda Hedrick

Fred Kelley

Marilyn La Due

Thomas P. Malitas

Eugene Harold Minor

Rana Gladstone Rappaport

Betsy Richards

Steve Rosenthal

Elisabeth “Tibby” Tobey

Gifts were made in honor of the following:

Richard Anderson

Apple Hill String Quartet

Javier Caballero

Eric Farnan

Dominique Lallement

Lenny Matczynski

Molly McCarthy

Ealaín McMullin and Jesse Holstein

Jan Woiler Meuse

Naomi Morey

Peter Roos

Laura Sices

Eric Stumacher

Myriam Avalos Teie

Rupert Thompson

Matching Gift Companies

Johnson & Johnson Foundation

In-Kind Donations

Apple Hill Campus Beautification Crew

Friends of Apple Hill

Genest Design/Jodi Genest

Madeni Software/Brian Ford

Jayne West

Oster & Wheeler PC

Apple Hill is supported in part by grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mark Meess

FRIENDS OF APPLE HILL

We’d like to extend our deepest gratitude to The Friends of Apple Hill—a small group of dedicated volunteers who support and help organize special events that cultivate new relationships and steward existing ones within the Apple Hill community. To join the Friends of Apple Hill or request more information, please contact music@applehill.org.

Taryn Fisher, Chair

Emily Carr

Suzanne Coble

Maria Coviello

Dita Englund

Deb Ford

Glenn Galloway

Anne Havill

Don & Joyce Healy

Bill Heyman

Mark Meess

Sara Mustin

Ann Shedd

Linda Singer

Craig Stockwell

Chip & Kathy Woodbury

The Sostenuto Society

Want to help Apple Hill in a unique way? Join the Sostenuto Society (a musical term that means to be played in a sustained or prolonged manner) and become a monthly donor. Monthly donations are quick, effortless, and even a small amount adds up:

$5 per month = $60 per year

$10 per month = $120 per year

$25 per month = $300 per year

You get the picture! To become a member: Go to applehill.org and click on “Give” and then “Recurring Donation.” Indicate the amount you wish to donate monthly, fill out the form, click submit, and you’re done. You will see the transaction on your account every month.

Thirty-four members of the Sostenuto Society collectively contribute nearly $1,200 per month to Apple Hill. We’d love increase both the number of donors and the amount given; a monthly gift is easier on your budget and is also terrific for Apple Hill in that it provides a steady stream of income all year long.

Reem Abu Rahmeh

Ed and Susan Bureau

Hannah Bureau

Jack Calhoun and Beth Healy

Jim and Leslie Casey

Joy Clendenning

Wendy Clymer

Russell Cobb and Brett Amy Thelen

Carolyn Cunningham and Christopher Hague

Siobhon Cute

Pamela Worden and Charles Faucher

Richard J. Forde, MD

Katie Gardella and Peter Straus

Matt Gillman

Jimmy Haber

Vanessa Holroyd and Dave Jamrog

Susan Quinn Jacobs

Wendy Scott Keeney

Bevin Kelley

Pattama Ladpli

Leslie Lawrence

Molly McCarthy and Tito Carvalho

Daniel Melody

Naomi Morey and Glenn Parker

Dana Polson

Jean and Jay Prior

Nancy B. Roberts

Annette Schaich

Deborah Shapiro

Suzan Smith and Peter Shea

Stephanie and Tuan-Anh Tran

Judith and William Waterson

Janet and Anthony Yeracaris

Edward Yoxen

Have a question? Please contact our Director of Development, Jan Woiler Meuse: jan@applehill.org. You can also call 603-847-3371.