Dear Friends, Welcome to the Shandelee Music Festival as we celebrate our 22nd Season! On behalf of the SMF Board of Directors, I thank you for your support in attendance, in membership, in corporate sponsorship and in concert underwriting. Founded in 1993, the Shandelee Music Festival is the manifestation of a love for the arts and the recognition of the human spirit. A private, not-for-profit organization, the Shandelee Music Festival’s philosophies and goals provide for the further development and nurturing of an individual’s creativity and passion for music while enriching the cultural community of Sullivan County. We are especially proud of our 2015 summer season’s internationally acclaimed performers! We are excited to share beautiful music with you in the inspirational and intimate setting of our Sunset Concert Pavilion, and at our concluding concert in the Event Gallery at Bethel Woods Center for the Performing Arts. Enjoy the season! With warmest regards, Daniel Stroup President
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2015 Sunset Concert Series
Concerts at the Sunset Concert Pavilion on the Shandelee Music Festival Grounds An Evening of Chamber Music featuring Hermitage Piano Trio Misha Keylin, Violin Sergey Antonov, Cello Ilya Kazantsev, Piano Thursday, August 13 at 8 PM Young Artist Concert featuring Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner, Solo Piano Saturday, August 15 at 8 PM An Evening of Chamber Music featuring Adrienn Kántor, Flute Erika Allen, Piano Thursday, August 20 at 8 PM An Evening of Chamber Music featuring Dmitri Berlinsky, Violin Richard Young, Viola Andrey Tchekmazov, Cello Santiago Cañón-Valencia, Cello Elena Baksht, Piano Saturday, August 22 at 8 PM An Evening of Chamber Music featuring Aeolus Quartet Rachel Shapiro, Violin Gregory Luce, Viola Ilya Kazantsev, Cello Monday, August 24 at 8 PM Concluding Concert at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Event Gallery Afternoon of A Cappella featuring The Princeton Nassoons Sunday, October 4 at 3 PM 3
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An Evening of Chamber Music featuring
Hermitage Piano Trio Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 8 PM
Misha Keylin, violin Sergey Antonov, cello Ilya Kazantsev, piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11 “Gassenauer” Ludwig van Beethoven Allegro con brio (1770-1827) Adagio Tema con variazioni Trio in A minor, JS 207 “Hafträsk” Allegro maestoso Andantino Scherzo. Vivace Rondo Intermission Notturno in E-flat Major, Op. 148, D. 897
Trio No. 3 in C minor, Op. 101 Allegro energico Presto non assai Andante grazioso Allegro molto
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
This concert is dedicated in honor and memory of Earl “Bud” Wertheim, and was generously underwritten by Barbara Martinsons and Larry Boutis
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Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco
Hermitage Piano Trio nearly out of breath.” The Trio has performed to similarly tremendous acclaim for audiences in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere. The 2014-15 season saw performances on major U.S. chamber music series – including those in Tucson, Portland, OR, and New Orleans – with immediate re-engagements at many of those series. In 2015-16, the Hermitage will perform in Washington, D.C., New York, Virginia, Florida, Alabama, Mexico and Canada. A rarity in the chamber music world, this elite trio is comprised of three musicians who are noted soloists in their own right. In a career already spanning forty-five countries on five continents, violinist Misha Keylin is attracting particular attention with his world-premiere
escending from the great Russian musical tradition, the Hermitage Piano Trio is distinguished by its exuberant musicality, interpretative range, and sumptuous sound. In the same way that St. Petersburg’s venerable Hermitage State Museum both represents the very essence and history of Russia while also using its collection to embrace and promote cultures from around the world, the Hermitage Piano Trio embodies the majesty of its Russian lineage while at the same time including in its immense repertoire works from the great European tradition to contemporary American commissions. Following a recent performance, The Washington Post raved that “three of Russia’s most spectacular young soloists… turned in a performance of such power and sweeping passion that it left you
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stratum of sought-after classical artists has already placed him on stages at world-renowned venues from Russia’s Great Hall at the Moscow Conservatory to Suntory Hall in Tokyo. And pianist Ilya Kazantsev, a fresh and exciting presence on the international music scene and a passionate interpreter of his native Russian repertoire – hailed by The Washington Post as “virtually flawless” – has performed as recitalist and soloist with orchestras in Russia, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Mr. Kazantsev made his sold-out U.S. solo debut at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall as a winner of the Nadia Reisenberg Piano Award at Mannes College.
CD series of the seven Henri Vieuxtemps violin concertos, released by Naxos. These recordings have already sold over 150,000 copies worldwide and have garnered numerous press accolades and awards, including “Critic’s Choice” by The New York Times, Gramophone, and The Strad. Hailed as “a brilliant cellist” by the legendary Mstislav Rostropovich, Sergey Antonov went on to prove his mentor’s proclamation when he became one of the youngest cellists ever awarded the gold medal at the world’s premier musical contest, the quadrennial International Tchaikovsky Competition. Antonov’s entry into this elite
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Young Artist Concert featuring
Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner solo piano Saturday, August 15, 2015 at 8 PM Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Alborada del gracioso, from Miroirs
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110 Ludwig van Beethoven Moderato cantabile molto espressivo (1770-1827) Scherzo: Allegro molto Adagio ma non troppo. Fuga: Allegro ma non troppo Intermission Polonaise-Fantaisie in A-flat Major, Op. 61
Moment-Musicaux in B-flat minor, Op. 16, No. 1 Andantino Apres une Lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata
FrĂŠdĂŠric Chopin (1810-1849) Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
This concert is generously underwritten by The Joseph D. Feuerstein Family Fund
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Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner solo piano at age 14 as the youngest-ever admittee to the College Division. In 2009, he performed solo at the White House for President Obama; and in 2013, for the Presidential Inauguration concert at the Kennedy Center. In 2010, he was the first American soloist to perform with the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra in Iraq, for an international audience of diplomats, US soldiers, and Iraqis of all ages. The concert raised funds to support the Children’s Cancer Hospital and celebrated World Day for Cultural Diversity. He was recognized by
lewellyn is the 2014 Gilmore Young Artist, an honor awarded every two years singling out the most promising American pianists of the new generation. The National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts awarded him the only YoungArts gold medal for music in 2015. Llewellyn received the Atlantic Council’s 2014 Young Global Citizen Award, along with fellow recipients Robert De Niro, Prime Ministers Shimon Peres and Lee Kuan Yew, and Presidents Enrique Pena Nieto and Petro Poroshenko. Llewellyn made Juilliard history
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Ireland; Banff Summer Arts Festival, Canada; the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.; and Lincoln Center, New York. Llewellyn was selected the youngest-ever Discovery Artist of the New West Symphony and was the Artist-in-Residence at the Canandaigua LakeMusic Festival in New York. He was also featured in a WDR-Arte documentary by Hilan Warshaw and has collaborated with the Gershwin Family on a concert and biographical tribute to the Gershwin brothers. CNN International featured him on “Connect the World” as the Connector of the Day. Juilliard is Llewellyn’s second college experience. He became a full-time student at Ventura College at age 5, where he completed 170 college credits toward degrees in Music and International Relations. Born in California, Llewellyn studies with Yoheved Kaplinsky in New York.
General Petraeus “for his courageous humanitarian contributions through the arts” and for “strengthening the ties that unite our nations,” in a Pentagon performance. In Rwanda, Llewellyn performed for President Kagame and for humanitarian and economic leaders, hosted by US Ambassador Symington, to help Rwandans continue rebuilding from the 1994 genocide. To excite more youth about classical music, Llewellyn performed 16 concerts for 20,000 North American students; for an antibullying campaign, he performed “Beethoven and the Bully” for 6,000 students. He has performed in recitals and as soloist with orchestras on 4 continents, including at Smetana Hall, Prague, Czech Republic; Gijon International Piano Festival, Spain; Miami International Piano Festival’s “Prodigies and Masters of Tomorrow;” Ashford Castle,
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An Evening of Chamber Music featuring
Adrienn Kรกntor, flute Erika Allen, piano Thursday, August 20, 2015 at 8 PM
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
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Phillippe Gaubert (1879-1941)
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Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Intermission
Introduction and Rondo capriccioso
Sonata for Flute and Piano
Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921) Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
This concert is generously underwritten by Lee Siegel and Jane & Harvey Susswein
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Adrienn Kántor, flute "excelled in nuance, tone, and poetic edge." (Kevin T. McEneaney, The Millbrook Independent). Adrienn is a prizewinner of the New York Flute Club's Competition and the Bard Conservatory's Concerto Competition. After winning two competitions at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, she was awarded to play two flute concertos in 2015 with the RCS orchestra in Glasgow. Ms. Kántor is currently pursuing her Master of Music degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and is participating in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's mentoring scheme. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Flute Performance from the Bard Conservatory and a Bachelor of Arts degree in German Studies from Bard College.
drienn Kántor is an internationally acclaimed and prizewinning flautist, with performances in eleven countries over the past five years. Ms. Kántor has toured with orchestras in prestigious venues such as Alice Tully Hall, Shanghai Grand Theater, National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Konzerthaus Vienna, and Konzerthaus Berlin. Adrienn played in Carnegie Hall already at the age of 19, and was praised for "her graceful adornment in the slow movement of the Brahms Double Concerto.” (Eugene Chan, examiner.com). As a soloist, she recently performed Carl Reinecke's Flute Concerto with the American Symphony Orchestra, where she
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Erika Allen, piano of Oberlin's chamber orchestras after winning the school's Mozart Piano Concerto Competition. An avid chamber musician and collaborator, Ms. Allen has performed with numerous artists including soprano Dawn Upshaw, violinist Ray Chen, violist Peter Barsony, and members of the Cassatt Quartet. She has served as a staff pianist for Sejong International Music Festival at the Curtis Institute, Bowdoin Music Festival, Juilliard, New England Conservatory, and Boston Conservatory. In past summers, she has attended Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Banff, Eastern Music Festival, and Bowdoin International Music Festival. Ms. Allen is currently on faculty at Bard College in New York.
rika Allen, a native of Blue Hill, Maine, began her musical studies at age 7. In May 2011 she received her master's degree in collaborative piano at Juilliard, as a student of Jonathan Feldman and Margo Garrett. There, Ms. Allen was awarded the Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship, James Friskin Scholarship, and Howard & Ethel B. Ross Piano Scholarship. In the spring of 2008, she completed a master's degree in solo piano performance at New England Conservatory as an Agnes Lindsay Scholar, under the tutelage of Vivian Weilerstein. Ms. Allen received her bachelor's degree from Oberlin Conservatory where she studied with Angela Cheng. In January 2006, she soloed with one
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An Evening of Chamber Music featuring
Dmitri Berlinsky, violin Richard Young, viola Andrey Tchekmazov, cello Santiago Ca帽贸n-Valencia, cello Elena Baksht, piano Saturday, August 22, 2015 at 8 PM
String Quartet No. 2, Op.35 in A mino Moderato Variations on the theme of Tchaikovsky Finale. Andante sostenuto
Anton Arensky (1861-1906)
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
This concert is generously underwritten by Jane & Harvey Susswein and Jerrold & Vivian Ehrlich
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Virginia, Kalamazoo, Miami, San Antonio, and West Virginia Symphonies, Seoul Philharmonic, New Jersey Philharmonic, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Weimar Staatskapelle, Berlin Staatskapelle, Gent Opera Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonia Siciliana, UNAM Symphony in Mexico City, I Musici de Montreal in Canada and the United States, South American tour with the Prague Chamber Orchestra,as well as appearances at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico and festivals in Italy, Belgium, Germany, Scandinavia, Taiwan and Costa Rica. His playing was featured in EmmyAward documentary “Life on Jupiter” and “New York Canvas”. Mr.Berlinsky is the founder of the chamber orchestra “International Chamber Soloists” and Artistic Director of “Southampton Arts Festival” in Long Island, New York. Mr.Berlinsky has been recipient of many awards including SONY, Juilliard, YCA and Bagby Foundations. For several years he played on famous “Yusupov” Stradivarious-same instrument David Oistrakh and Leonid Kogan played.
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r. Berlinsky has performed in such major venues as Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington DC, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Mariinsky Concert Hall, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Berlin Philharmonic Hall, Munich Herkulessaal, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels, Bonn Beethoven Hall, Le Place des Arts in Montreal, and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, among others. His extensive performance schedule has taken him to the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Prague Spring Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the Newport Music Festival, the Settimane Musicale in Stresa, Italy, Bratislava Festival, as well as appearances at the Ambassador Foundation in Pasadena, the Fiddle Fest at Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y. Recently he performed with Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival, Russian National Orchestra at the Arts Square Festival in St.Petersburg, Prague Radio Symphony at the Budapest Spring Festival, Orchestra de Chambre Français in New York, Russian Chamber Philharmonic on European Tour, Directed and performed with “International Chambers Soloists” at the Fontana Arts Festival, San Francisco Conservatory, New York, Los Angeles, Toronto. He gave recital in US, Taiwan, Korea, England, Italy, Mexico, and Brazil. Recent highlights include performances with the London Philharmonic, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Sinfonia Toronto, Montreal Symphony, New York Chamber Symphony, Leipzig Radio Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Quebec, Utah,
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Mr. Young has performed at many prestigious festivals throughout the old world and has recorded over three dozen works for Teldec, Naxos, Orion, Cedille, Vox, Musical Heritage, Angelicum, and Alden Productions. He has received three Grammy nominations, and was the producer of the Vermeer Quartet’s CD of Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ, which has been broadcast to over 60 million people throughout the world. His most recent CD – with Alex Klein and Ricardo Castro – includes works for viola, oboe, and piano by Loeffler, Klughardt, Hindemith, White, and Yano. Mr. Young is also the author of a best-selling book on Haydn entitled Echoes from Calvary, published by Rowman & Littlefield. He has taught at Northern Illinois University, the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, Colombia), Wichita State University, North Park University, and was chairman of the string faculty at Oberlin Conservatory. He has an honorary doctorate from Dominican University and is a Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England. In addition to his more traditional teaching activities, Mr. Young has done a substantial amount of inner-city volunteer work for the benefit of disadvantaged children – at the People’s Music School in Chicago, and as a supervisor of the International Music Foundation’s extensive “outreach” program. He has also been seriously involved with various social/music projects, including the YOURS Project in Chicago, NEOJIBA in Brazil, Esperanza Azteca in Mexico, and BATUTA in Colombia. His Comprehensive String Pedagogy & Curriculum provides uncommon assistance for teachers and conductors of both sistema-inspired projects and traditional youth orchestras.
Andrey Tchekmazov, cello
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ailed by critics as an “extraordinary musician” (Washington Post), cellist Andrey Tchekmazov is known for his versatility as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. Mr. Tchekmazov was the Grand Prize winner of the Vittorio Gui International Chamber Music Competition and the Premio Trio di Trieste and has performed extensively throughout North and South America, Europe, Russia and Asia, appearing at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Osaka Symphony Hall in Japan, New York's Alice Tully Hall, Brazil's Sala Cecilia Mereles, Sala Sao Paulo and Teatro Alfa with orchestras such as the São Paolo Symphony, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Brazil National Symphony, the Kiev Philharmonic and the Teatro Alfa Symphony. He has also been a top prizewinner at the Koussevitzky Cello Competition in New York, the Schadt Competition, Artists International, Premio della Critica in Trieste and the Russian Kobalevsky Competition. Ever since his critically acclaimed debut at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, Mr. Tchekmazov has enjoyed an active career as recitalist and chamber musician, performing at such renowned venues as Zankel Hall, the Caramoor Music Center, Barge Music, the Rhode Island Chamber Music Series, Bar Harbor Festival, Merkin Concert Hall in New York City and Hampden Sydney, where he was invited to perform by the members of The Emerson String Quartet. As a performer with the Jupiter Chamber Players in New York and at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C, Mr. Tchekmazov "impressed his audiences with a big, warm tone and Russian brand of virtuosity” (The Strad) by introducing them to rarely-performed jewels of classical music alongside the works of great masters.
He has premiered works and worked closely with contemporary composers such as Alfred Schnittke, Lukas Foss, George Warren, Ira Cremer and Ralf Ytrehus and has recently recorded the Cello Sonata by David Winkler and “Byzantine Chants, The Sacred Concerto for Solo Cello,” by Margarita Zelenaia, both which were written and dedicated to him. He has also participated in ambitious, unique projects such as performing Dmitri Shostakovich’s entire chamber music repertoire for cello at the Phillips Collection. As an orchestral musician, Mr. Tchekmazov was appointed principal cellist of the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the São Paulo Symphony. His performances have been featured on WQXR, WGBH, NPR and other TV and radio stations across Eastern and Western Europe and South America. Born in Moscow into a family of professional pianists, Mr. Tchekmazov studied piano and later cello at the Gnessin Specialized Music School in Moscow. He continued his education at the Moscow State Conservatory with Mstislav Rostropovich’s protégé Nataliya Shakhovskaya, and later at the Juilliard School as a Leonard Rose scholarship student of Harvey Shapiro. At Juilliard he worked closely with members of the Juilliard and Guarneri String Quartets. Mr. Tchekmazov has made several recordings including a recent release on NAXOS with the Russian National Phiharmonic as well as a recording for the Delos label. Mr. Tchekmazov is currently on the faculty of The University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.
on the world stage today", the young virtuoso cellist Santiago Cañón Valencia has established himself as one of the most exciting new musical talents. Born in 1995 in Bogotá Colombia, he commenced studies at the age of 4 with his mother, Rocío Valencia and the Polish cellist Henryk Zarzycki, and gave his first concerto performance with the Bogotá Philharmonic at the age of 6. Santiago has since gone on to perform concertos with orchestras in Colombia, Australia, New Zealand, China, South Africa, United States, Canada, Hungary and recently, he was invited to perform Haydn in C Major cello Concerto with the Moscow Soloists and Yuri Bashmet as conductor, in Bogota, Colombia. He has also been a guest artist several times at the Cartagena International Music Festival. He moved to New Zealand in 2007 to study with the American cellist, James Tennant, and received his Bachelor of Music Soloist Specialization from the University of Waikato with the highest honors in 2012. Since 2007 he has performed over 100 recitals around the Pacific region with pianist Katherine Austin and was responsible for the NZ premiere of the Gulda cello Concerto with the Auckland Chamber Orchestra. He is a prize winner at several International Competitions such as: 3rd prize at the Pablo Casals International Violoncello Competition, Budapest, Hungary, September 2014, 2nd prize at the Lynn Harrel Concerto Competition, Dallas, Texas, April 2014 , First prize at the Lennox International Young Artist Competition in Richardson, Dallas, Texas, January 2014, Best performer of the Cassado work at the III Gaspar Cassado International Violoncello Competition in Hachioji, Japan, Nov/Dec 2013, 2nd prize at the Johansen International String Competition in Washington D.C. March 2012, First Prize at the National Concerto Competition, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 2012, First prize at the Gisborne International Music Competition in New Zealand, November/December 2011, Top Prize at the III Beijing International
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Cello Competition in Beijing, China, October 2010 among others. At the age of 16, Santiago finished recording his first CD which consists of XX Century works for solo cello by: Cassadó, Ginastera, Ligeti and Kodaly. The CD was released in January of 2013 and has been acclaimed internationally by magazines such as ‘The Strad’. Santiago now plays on a Pietro Gallinotti cello made in 1940 kindly loaned to him by Darnton & Hersh Violins.
Stroudsburg University Concert Series and at the Wadenberg Center for the Arts, Return to Phillips Collection, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, and Rutgers University among others. Ms. Baksht has appeared at such festivals as the Tangelwood Music Festival, Fontainebleau Festival (France), International Festival De Musica (Costa Rica), Bruge Recital Festival Series (Belgium), Rutgers University Summer Fest, Mackinac Island Art Festival and Gubbio Music Festival (Italy). An active chamber musician, Ms. Baksht regularly collaborates with violinist Dmitri Berlinsky. Together they have been heard at numerous concert venues both in United States and overseas. She has also collaborated with violinist Vadim Repin and violist Yuri Bashmet. In addition to her musical career, Ms. Baksht is also a poet, published as part of "The Anthology of Russian Poets in the West." It has been her life's journey to unite the Arts through the means of new multi-media performances. A native of Moscow, Elena Baksht first came to public attention at the age of 11 when she appeared as a soloist with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, and has since concertized throughout the former Soviet Union. She studied at the Central School for Gifted Children with Sergey Dijur and at the Moscow Conservatory with Henrietta Mirvis. After coming to the United States, Ms. Baksht attended the Manhattan School of Music on full scholarship in the studio of Nina Svetlanova, where she earned her Bachelor degree in 1998. The same year Ms. Baksht was a winner of the Helene and Jerome Dreskin Foundation Career Grant and the Artists International Competition. In the spring of 2000 she received her Masters Degree from The Juilliard School of Music, where she studied with Jerome Lowenthal. During the last years of her studies Ms. Baksht also studied with Alexander Slobodianik and participated in master classes with Daniel Barenboim, Emanuel Ax, Phillippe Entermont, Ursulla Opens and Byron Janis.
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An Evening of Chamber Music featuring
Aeolus Quartet “Former Graduate Resident String Quartet at The Juilliard School”
Nicholas Tavani, violin Rachel Shapiro, violin Gregory Luce, viola Alan Richardson, cello Monday, August 24, 2015 at 8 PM Quartet in D Major, Op. 71, No. 2 Adagio - Allegro Andante cantabile Menuetto: Allegretto Finale: Allegretto-Vivace Quartet No. 2 Moderato Allegro motto capriccioso Lento
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
Intermission Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 130 Ludwig van Beethoven Adagio ma non troppo - Allegro (1770-1827) Presto Andante con moto, ma non troppo. Poco scherzoso Alla danza tedesca. Allegro assai Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo Finale - Allegro This concert is generously underwritten by Barbara Martinsons and Larry Boutis
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Aeolus Quartet raised by the Baltimore Sun for combining “smoothly meshed technique with a sense of spontaneity and discovery,” the Aeolus Quartet is committed to presenting time-seasoned masterworks and new cutting-edge works to widely diverse audiences with equal freshness, dedication, and fervor. Violinists Nicholas Tavani and Rachel Shapiro, violist Gregory Luce, and cellist Alan Richardson formed the Aeolus Quartet in 2008 at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Since its inception, the all-American quartet has been awarded prizes in nearly every major competition in the United States and performed across the globe with showings “worthy of a major-league quartet”
(Scott Cantrell, Dallas Morning News). Luke Quinton of the AustinAmerican Statesman writes, “The Aeolus Quartet is a powerful and thoughtful group of young musicians who are plotting an ascending course… this vibrant group shows great promise.” They are currently the Graduate Resident Quartet at The Juilliard School. The Aeolus Quartet are Grand Prizewinners of the 2011 Plowman Chamber Music Competition and 2011 Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition. They were awarded First Prize at the 2009 Coleman International Chamber Ensemble Competition, a Silver Medal at the 2011 Fischoff International Chamber Music
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Competition, and a Bronze Medal at the 2010 International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition in New England. The 16th Annual Austin Critics' Table named the Aeolus Quartet their 2010-2011 "Best Ensemble." The Aeolus Quartet has released two critically acclaimed albums of classical and contemporary works through the Longhorn/Naxos label which are available on iTunes, Amazon, and major retailers worldwide. The Quartet has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia in venues such as Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, Reinberger Recital Hall at Severance Hall, Merkin Hall, The Library of Congress, Renwick Gallery, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, and the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center. Dedicated to bringing music into the community, the Aeolus Quartet has been widely recognized for their highly innovative and engaging outreach programs. The Fischoff National Chamber Music Association awarded the Aeolus their 2013 Educator Award in acknowledgment of the positive impact their educational efforts have had in diverse communities. Additionally, they were awarded the 2012 Lad Prize by the St. Lawrence String Quartet, which culminated in large-scale community engagement work, performing in the Stanford area, and a masterclass residency at Stanford University. The Aeolus Quartet has also served as teaching faculty at Stanford University's
Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY), the Austin Chamber Music Workshop, and Da Camera of Houston's Music Encounters Program. Working in collaboration with the University of Texas through the Rural Chamber Music Outreach Initiative, the Quartet has presented educational programs and performances in communities throughout the state of Texas. The Aeolus Quartet has studied extensively with the Miró, Guarneri, Juilliard, and St. Lawrence Quartets. Other mentors include artists such as William Preucil, Peter Salaff, Donald Weilerstein, Itzhak Perlman, Gerhard Schulz, and Mark Steinberg. Members of the Quartet hold degrees from the Peabody Conservatory, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the University of Texas at Austin, where they served as the first Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence. The Quartet’s 2014-2015 season includes two performances at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, a tour of South Korea, extended residencies with the Detroit and Tulsa Chamber Music Society, collaborations with the Juilliard Quartet, Miro Quartet, and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond, and concert touring throughout the United States. The Quartet is named for the Greek god Aeolus, who governed the four winds. This idea of a single spirit uniting four individual forces serves as an inspiration to the members of the Aeolus Quartet as they pursue their art. 33
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An Afternoon of A Cappella featuring
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The Princeton Nassoons evening in 1941. Seven men, as the story goes, stood before the sold-out Princeton-Yale Weekend Glee Club Concert audience. Having obtained permission from the Glee Club director, they launched into a short set in the middle of the Princeton program. The dishearteningly lukewarm reaction of the audience began to take its toll on the ensemble who, in desperation, pulled out an arrangement which the Glee Club director had explicitly prohibited them from using. Its racy lyrics and bawdy five-part harmonies, he feared, would offend the tender sensibilities of the stodgy New Haven audience. That song was Perfidia, and as the last robust chords echoed throughout the hall the audience rose to its feet in a chorus of applause, demanding an encore. The seven Princetonians had no choice but to launch into Perfidia for a second time and the Nassoons were born.
he Princeton Nassoons is one of the world’s finest collegiate performance ensembles. Founded in 1941, we have sung our signature four-, five-, and six-part harmonies alongside the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, the Lettermen, and Ben Folds. We tour the globe three times a year, sharing our music, dancing, and jokes with audiences that have included three U.S. presidents, royalty, vacationers in Cancun, screaming school children in Hong Kong, and socialites in Monte Carlo. The group is currently made up of 16 undergraduates at Princeton. Formed as a close-harmony a capella alternative to the University Glee Club in the late 1930’s, their early days were spent practicing in the basement of Princeton’s Murray-Dodge Hall. The yetunnamed group mainly rehearsed for and performed small on-campus shows. However, the turning point came on a cool autumn New Haven
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Have a wonderful 2015 Summer Season! Murray & Ellen Bresky Dean & Stacey Koplik Tel 845-434-5051 • 800-588-5051 P.O. Box 13, South Fallsburg, NY 12779 Fax 845-436-5001
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Sincere & Special Thanks To The 2015 SMF Concert Underwriters Barbara Martinsons & Larry Boutis Jerrold & Vivian Ehrlich Lee Siegel (In Memory of Marjorie B. Siegel) Harvey & Jane Susswein Joseph D. Feuerstein Family Fund Donors Deborah Brenner Andrew Feuerstein Bernard & Irene Feuerstein Daniel & Deborah Feuerstein Kenneth & Mindy Feuerstein Mark Feuerstein
Marjorie Feuerstein Michael Feuerstein Elliot & Renee Fleischer Erwin Levin Stephen & June Lobell Allen & Renee Wadler u u u
Mary Loftus Memorial Fund Ulla Rodriguez Jim Ricketts Memorial Fund William & Margaret Hunt Ulla Rodriguez u u u Grants & Significant Additional Gifts Paul Huang
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2015 Corporate Sponsors Fortissimo River Reporter & Stuart Communications Creative Services Forte Accurate Carpentry and General Contracting Bethel Woods Center For The Arts Clear-Rite Pools & Spas Forestburgh Playhouse J. Yaun Inc. Merrell Benco and Lawrence Miller Insurance Agency M & M Auto Group Roche’s Garage Shortlines Coatings Steve’s Music Center Wells Fargo Advisors Andante Allees Sign Company The Arnold House Barnhart Services, Incorporated Baum Law Offices, LLP Gateway at Shandelee Inn At Lake Joseph Jeff Bank Johnston Forest Products Johnstons Toyota Keyboard Express Livingston Manor Chamber Of Commerce Manor Ink The Medicine Shoppe Murray’s All Natural Chicken Pestech Exterminating, Inc. Quik Type / Canvas Art Rolling River Café Gallery & Inn Stone Wall Acres Bed & Breakfast Village Wine & Liquors 45
2015 Shandelee Music Festival Members Supporter, continued Marion Kaselle (In Memory of Katydid Kaselle, Max, & Shadow King) Robert & Barbara Konvalin (In Honor and Memory of Bud Wertheim) Anne Larsen & Malcolm Brown Steve & Michiko Levine Mark & Barbara Levy (In Memory of Alvin Levy) Lynne Mayocole Evelyn Proctor Kenneth & Marya Rodgers Maureen Rouse (In Honor of The Pettei Family) Mike Uretsky & Wendy Burnett
Benefactor Paul Huang Barbara Martinsons & Larry Boutis Daniel Stroup (In Memory of Bud Wertheim) Grace Lyu-Volckhausen Patron George & Assunta Cha Lana Ivanov Charles Huang Christopher Kennedy (In Memory of Dr. CJ Huang) Walter Ledwith & Eileen Bernstein (In Memory of Walter Karl Bernstein) Sponsor Dianne Balfour & Carl Adkins Steven Fulmer Roger & Loann Jee Judy Rhulen & Family (In Memory of Grandson, Trevor Loughlin) Lee Siegel (In Memory of Marjorie B. Siegel) Don Simkin (In Memory of Ellen Singer) Marlene Wertheim (In Memory of Bud Wertheim) Supporter Helen Anderson Paul Beito Sheldon & Sheila Bellovin Susan Rosenberg & Peter Benitez Charles & Elain Berger Gene & Julie Burns Walter & Miriam Cohen Jerrold & Vivian Ehrlich Ellen Hoffman (In Memory of Gustav Gavis, MD) Linda Horak Henry Huber Jeanette Hubert Jerome & Patricia Janof Richard & Nancy Judd Members current as of July, 2015 46
Family Sheldon Bach & Phyllis Beren Steven & Carolyn Ellman Adelaide Gredish John Lump & Kevin Thammavong Robert Michel & Jean Warshaw Maureen Molloy Friend Russell Asnes Dino & Fran Caterini Debbie & Bernie Cohen (In Memory of Mildred & Irving Sporn) Bob & Joanne Davis Michael & Hazel Farrell Maurice Gerry Anne Jarema Nancy Johnston (In Honor of Sean Carmichael) David & Barbara Kerner Babette Kleinkopf & Nobert Singer Marie Langer Blanche Margolis (In Memory of Sam Margolis) Charlotte Orkin (In Memory of Henry E. Orkin) Dorothy Shapiro Richard Singer Daniel Struble & Carl Pope Ted Waddell Lorraine Zam
Acknowledgements Accounting Consultant Matthews & Co, LLP Advertising Allees Sign Company Bethel Woods Center for the Arts Delaware & Hudson Canvas L. M. Chamber Of Commerce Manor Ink Quik Type River Reporter / Stuart Communications Roscoe & Livingston Manor Visitors Guide S. C. Chamber Of Commerce S. C. Community Chorus S. C. Cultural Directory S. C. Visitors Association Times Herald-Record Communications AT & T Cronk’s Electronics DIRECTV Go Daddy.com MAHL Verizon Financial Services Capital One Citibank, N.A. Jeff Bank Putnam Investments Smith Barney Graphic Design Quik Type / CanvasArt
Artist Advisor & Consulting Showbiz Visas, Kathi Kleiner, Immigration Consultant Insurance Merrell Benco / Lawrence B. Miller & Associates Insurance Agency Legal Council Baum Law Offices, L.L.P. Lighting Consultant Rafael Latorre Maintenance Accurate Carpentry Klinger Power Sports Kurt Adolph Barnhart Services Cintas Fire Protection Computer Doctors Fosterdale Equipment Ed Lundquist Mowers & More OCL Analytical Services P. Buckel & Sons Pestech Ratner & Son Paving, Inc. Shortlines Coating J. Yaun Plumbing & Heating Pianos Steinway & Sons Piano Technicians Christopher Kennedy Philippos Poulos Photography Ted Waddell 47
Printing Orbis Brynmore Lithographers Quik Type Security Sentry Alarms SMF Outreach Programs Carolyn Bivins - Manor Ink Catskill Regional Medical Center Center for Discovery New Hope Community Suppliers Agway The Arnold House The Bake Hoouse B & D Bakery Big Apple Lights Brandenburg Bakery Hillside Greenhouses Kristt Company Liberty Shoprite Liberty Trading Post Limpac Matas Restaurant Supply Mirabito NYSEG Peck's Markets Sam's Club Steve's Music Center Suburban Propane Vita’s Farm & Garden Market Transportation Keyboard Express Rolling V Shortline Bus Company
BoARD oF DIRECToRS Daniel Stroup Co-Chair Marjorie Feuerstein Co-Chair Harvey Susswein Treasurer Jane Susswein Secretary
Shandelee Music Festival, Incorporated
36 East 74th Street New York, NY 10021 Tel 212-288-4152 • Fax 212-879-2462 (September - June)
Eileen Berstein - Ledwith Lana Ivanov Barbara Martinsons Lee Siegel
P.O. Box 1264 Livingston Manor, NY 12758-1264 Tel 845-439-3277• Fax 845-439-3307 (July - August)
BoARD oF ADVISoRS Sara Davis Buechner Maurice Gerry Charles Hamlen
www.shandelee.org
Linda Horak Christopher Kennedy Head Piano Technician Metropolitan Opera House Barbara Konvalin Mary Lanza Charles Matz Conductor - Music Historian HoNoRARY BoARD Professor Joseph Machlis In Memoriam John Perry André-Michel Schub Earl Wild In Memoriam
STAFF Ryan Cerrulo Youth & Outreach Program Director Nathaniel DePaul Summer Staff Ignacio Feijo Summer Staff Iris Gillingham Summer Staff
Roan Gillingham Summer Staff
Evan Madison Summer Staff
Lana Ivanov Artistic Director
Robert Porco House Manager
Aden Johnston Summer Staff
Daniel Stroup Founding President
Christopher Kennedy Piano Technician
Ashlen Udell Office Manager
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