Primrose Memorial Program FINAL (1)

Primrose Memorial Concert Matthew Lipman, viola Kwan Yi, piano

7:30 PM | FEBRUARY 13, 2025 | RECITAL HALL | MUSIC BUILDING

PROGRAM

Lute Ayres (1597 - 1600) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHN DOWLAND 1563 - 1626

Flow my tears If my complaints…

Lachrymae, Op. 48 (1948) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BENJAMIN BRITTEN 1913 - 1976

Sonata in Eb Major, Op. 120 No. 2 (1894) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHANNES BRAHMS 1833 - 1897

Allegro amabile Allegro appassionato Andante con moto - Allegro — INTERMISSION —

Partita No. 3 in A Major, BWV 1006 (1720) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH 1685 - 1750

Preludio Loure Gavotte en Rondeau Metamorfose (2017) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CLARICE ASSAD b. 1978

Crisálidas Dança das Borboletas

Waxman - Carmen Fantasy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . GEORGES BIZET Arr. Matthew Lipman

BIOGRAPHIES

Matthew Lipman Viola

American violist Matthew Lipman has been praised by the New York Times for his “rich tone and elegant phrasing” and by the Chicago Tribune for a “splendid technique and musical sensitivity.” Recent seasons have included appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, American Symphony Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra, Ensemble Resonanz, and the Minnesota Orchestra. He has performed recitals at Carnegie Hall, Aspen Music Festival, and the Zürich Tonhalle and was invited by Michael Tilson Thomas to be a soloist at the New World Symphony Viola Visions Festival. He has appeared in chamber music with Anne-Sophie Mutter at the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, and on Deutsche Grammophon Stage+, and with mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton at Boston’s Celebrity Series, the Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center, premiering a piece by Joel Thompson.

An alum of the Bowers Program, he performs regularly on tour and at Alice Tully Hall with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where he occupies the Wallach Chair, in addition to performances with his string trio composed of violinist Stella Chen and cellist Brannon Cho. In 2022, he made his Sony Classical debut on The Dvořák Album, and his 2019 solo debut recording, Ascent, was released by Cedille Records, marking world premieres of the Shostakovich Impromptu and Clarice Assad Metamorfose. Additionally, he recorded the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Rachel Barton Pine and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conducted by the late Sir Neville Marriner. An Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and major prize winner at the Primrose and Tertis International Viola Competitions, he studied with Heidi Castleman at The Juilliard School and Tabea Zimmermann at the Kronberg Academy.

Lipman is on faculty at Stony Brook University in New York and is a visiting professor at Juilliard. He performs on a 2021 Samuel Zygmuntowicz viola, made for him in New York.

Kwan Yi Piano

Pianist Kwan Yi has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kimmel Center, Kennedy Center, Chicago Symphony Center, Mann Performing Arts Center, Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Library of Congress, Metropolitan and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museums, Großer Sendesaal des Hessischen Rundfunks, Auditorium du Louvre, Teatro Gayarre, Suntory Hall, and Seoul Arts Center.

Yi has appeared as a soloist with the Russian National Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, Brevard Festival Orchestra and the North Carolina Symphony under the batons of Hans Graf, Julian Kuerti, Grant Llewellyn, and Mikhail Tartanikov. As a recitalist and masterclass instructor, he has completed residencies at University of Cincinnati College - Conservatory of Music, University of Maryland College Park, Bowling Green State University, University of Georgia, Michigan State University, and University of South Carolina. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried, and Roberto Diaz on national tours and was invited to perform at the Kronberg, Ravinia, Trondheim, and the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern festivals and Carnegie Hall Presents, Curtis Presents, CIM Mixon Hall Masters, and Peoples’ Symphony Concert series. He has recorded for FHR and Hänssler labels with violinist Itamar Zorman.

A recipient of many honors and prizes, Yi’s awards include Mieczyslaw Munz Prize, National Federation of Music Clubs Award, and prizes in the Fourth Sendai International Piano Competition.

Yi is a graduate of the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School and the Peabody Institute where he worked with Leon Fleisher and Robert McDonald. He currently serves as associate professor of piano at the ECU School of Music.