The Ariel Quartet, Featuring Guest Artist Menahem Pressler - Sept. 9, 2014

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Featuring guest artist Menahem Pressler, piano 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014 Corbett Auditorium

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UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE-CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC STRING QUARTET-IN-RESIDENCE

THE ARIEL QUARTET Alexandra Kazovsky, violin Gershon Gerchikov, violin Jan Grüning, viola Amit Even-Tov, cello Featuring distinguished guest artist Menahem Pressler, piano Corbett Auditorium Tuesday, September 9, 2014 Season Presenting Sponsor The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation

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THE ARIEL QUARTET 2014-15 CCM CONCERT SERIES

8 P.M. TUESDAY, OCT. 21 WIESENBERG: Between the Sacred and the Profane for String Quartet SCHUMANN: String Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 41, No. 2 RAVEL: String Quartet in F Major, M. 35 8 P.M. TUESDAY, JAN. 27 SCHULHOFF: Divertimento for String Quartet, Op. 14 STRAVINSKY: Three Pieces for String Quartet SCHUBERT: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D. 887 8 P.M. TUESDAY, MARCH 31 HAYDN: String Quartet in B flat Major, Op. 76, No. 4 (“Sunrise”) BARTÓK: String Quartet No. 5, Sz. 102 BRAHMS: String Quartet No. 3 in B-flat Major, Op. 67.

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PROGRAM String Quartet in G Major, Op. 76, No. 1 (1799)

JOSEPH HAYDN (1732-1809)

I. Allegro con spirito II. Adagio sostenuto III. Menuet. Presto IV. Finale. Allegro ma non troppo

String Quartet, Op. 3 (1920)

I. Langsam

II. Mäßige Viertel

ALBAN BERG (1885-1935)

—Intermission—

Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 (1865) JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)

I. Allegro non troppo

II. Andante, un poco Adagio

III. Scherzo: Allegro

IV. Finale: Poco sostenuto—Allegro non troppo

Featuring distinguished guest artist Menahem Pressler, piano

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PROFILE

ABOUT THE ARIEL QUARTET STRING QUARTET-IN-RESIDENCE AT CCM

Characterized by its youth, brilliant playing and soulful interpretations, the Ariel Quartet has quickly earned a glowing international reputation. The Quartet was formed in Israel 16 years ago when its members were young students, and they have been playing together ever since. Recently awarded the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, the Quartet members serve as the faculty quartet-in-residence at the University of Cincinnati CollegeConservatory of Music, where they direct the chamber music program and perform their own annual series of concerts – a remarkable achievement for an ensemble so young.

Highlights of the 2014-15 season include a groundbreaking Beethoven cycle performed at New York’s SubCulture that includes a midnight performance of the Grosse Fuge; a performance featuring music by three generations of Israeli composers at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; performances resulting from the Cleveland Quartet Award in Kansas City, Austin and Buffalo; and a tour of South America. The Ariel will also collaborate with the pianist Orion Weiss in a program commemorating the 100th anniversary of World War One featuring three works written in 1914.

The Ariel Quartet performs widely in Israel, Europe and North America, including two record-setting Beethoven cycles last season, performed before all the members of a quartet turn 30. The Ariel continues to astonish with its performances of complete works by memory and has remained committed to performing extensively in Israel. In addition, the Quartet has collaborated with the pianists Menahem Pressler and Orion Weiss; violist Roger Tapping; cellists Alisa Weilerstein and Paul Katz; and the American and Jerusalem String Quartets. Additionally, the Ariel was quartet-in-residence for the Steans Music Institute at the Ravinia Festival, the Yellow Barn Music Festival and for the Perlman Music Program.

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Formerly the resident ensemble in the New England Conservatory’s Professional String Quartet Training Program, the Ariel Quartet has won a number of international prizes including the Grand Prize at the 2006 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. After winning the Székely Prize for its performance of Bartók, as well as the overall Third Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2007, the American Record Guide described the Ariel Quartet as “a consummate ensemble gifted with utter musicality and remarkable interpretive power” and called the Quartet’s performance of Beethoven’s Op. 132 “the pinnacle of the competition.”

The Ariel Quartet has been mentored extensively by Itzhak Perlman, Paul Katz, Donald Weilerstein, Miriam Fried, Kim Kashkashian and Martha Strongin Katz, among others. The Quartet has received extensive scholarship support for the members’ studies in the United States from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Dov and Rachel Gottesman, and the Legacy Heritage Fund. Most recently, they were awarded a substantial grant from the A. N. and Pearl G. Barnett Family Foundation.

Learn more about the Ariel Quartet’s residency at CCM by visiting ccm.uc.edu.

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PROFILE

ABOUT MENAHEM PRESSLER

A founding member and pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler has established himself among the world’s most distinguished and honored musicians, with a career that spans almost six decades. At 90 years old, he continues to captivate audiences throughout the world as performer and pedagogue, performing solo and chamber music recitals to great critical acclaim while maintaining a dedicated and robust teaching career.

Born in Magdeburg, Germany in 1923, Pressler fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and emigrated to Israel. Pressler’s world renowned career was launched after he was awarded first prize at the Debussy International Piano Competition in San Francisco in 1946. This was followed by his successful American debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Eugene Ormandy. Since then, Pressler has toured North America and Europe extensively, performing with the orchestras of New York, Chicago, Cleveland, London, Paris, Brussels and many others.

After nearly a decade of an illustrious and praised solo career, the 1955 Berkshire Music Festival saw Pressler’s debut as a chamber musician, where he appeared as pianist with the Beaux Arts Trio.

This collaboration quickly established Pressler’s reputation as one of the world’s most revered chamber musicians. With Pressler at the Trio’s helm as the only pianist for nearly 55 years, the New York Times described the Beaux Arts Trio as “in a class by itself” and the Washington Post exclaimed that “since its founding more than 50 years ago, the Beaux Arts Trio has become the gold standard for trios throughout the world.” The 2007-08 season was nothing short of bitter-sweet, as violinist Daniel Hope, cellist Antonio Meneses and Menahem Pressler took their final bows as The Beaux Arts Trio, which marked the end of one of the most celebrated and revered chamber music careers of all time. What saw the end of one artistic legacy also witnessed the beginning of another, as Pressler continues to dazzle audiences throughout the world, both as piano soloist and CCM 6

collaborating chamber musician, including performances with the Juilliard, Emerson, American and Cleveland Quartets, among many others.

For nearly 60 years, Pressler has taught on the piano faculty at the worldrenowned Indiana University Jacobs School of Music where he currently holds the rank of Distinguished Professor of Music as the Charles Webb Chair. Equally as illustrious as his performing career, Professor Pressler has been hailed as “Master Pedagogue” and has had prize-winning students in all of the major international piano competitions. His former students grace the faculties of prestigious schools of music across the world, and have become some of the most prominent and influential artist-teachers today. In addition to teaching his private students at Indiana University, he continuously presents master classes throughout the world, and continues to serve on the jury of many major international piano competitions.

Pressler has received honorary doctorates from the Manhattan School of Music, the University of Nebraska, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the North Carolina School of the Arts, six Grammy nominations, lifetime achievement awards from Gramophone magazine and the International Chamber Music Association, Chamber Music America’s Distinguished Service Award and the Gold Medal of Merit from the National Society of Arts and Letters. He has also been awarded the German Critics “Ehrenurkunde” award, and was elected into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007 Pressler was appointed as an Honorary Fellow of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance in recognition of a lifetime of performance and leadership in music. In 2005 Pressler received two additional awards of international merit: the German President’s Deutsche Bundesverdienstkreuz (German Cross of Merit) First Class, Germany’s highest honor, and France’s highest cultural honor, the Commandeur in the Order of Arts and Letters. His more recent honors and awards include the prestigious Wigmore Medal (2011), the Menuhin Prize given by the Queen of Spain (2012), inductions into the American Classical Music and Gramophone Magazine Halls of Fame (2012), and the Music Teachers National Association Achievement Award.

In addition to recording nearly the entire piano chamber repertoire with the Beaux Arts Trio on the Philips label, Menahem Pressler has compiled over 30 solo recordings, ranging from the works of Bach to Ben Haim.

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