David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Romanticism to Modernism: Close Connections Wednesday Evening, September 30, 2015 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio
BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer ANNA POLONSKY, piano THE CALIDORE STRING QUARTET JEFFREY MYERS, violin RYAN MEEHAN, violin JEREMY BERRY, viola ESTELLE CHOI, cello
2015-2016 Season
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The Chamber Music Society’s education and outreach programs are made possible, in part, with support from the AE Charitable Foundation, Colburn Foundation, Consolidated Edison Company, The Florence Gould Foundation, The Grand Marnier Foundation, Hearst Fund, The Frank and Helen Hermann Foundation, Alice Ilchman Fund, Newman’s Own Foundation, Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Fund, Esther Simon Charitable Trust, Tiger Baron Foundation, and The Helen F. Whitaker Fund. Public funds are provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Romanticism to Modernism: Close Connections BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer ANNA POLONSKY, piano THE CALIDORE STRING QUARTET JEFFREY MYERS, violin RYAN MEEHAN, violin JEREMY BERRY, viola ESTELLE CHOI, cello
GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924)
Quintet No. 1 in D minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 89 (1887-95)
Fauré’s Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89 can be heard in concert on November 10th at 7:30 PM at Alice Tully Hall.
Please turn off cell phones, pagers, and other electronic devices. Photographing, sound recording, or videotaping this performance is prohibited. This evening’s event is being streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/WatchLive
meet tonight’s
ARTISTS
Composer Bruce Adolphe has written music for many renowned musicians and ensembles, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Joshua Bell, Sylvia McNair, the Brentano String Quartet, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the IRIS Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Human Rights Orchestra of Europe. Highlights of the 2015-16 include: the U.S. premiere of Chopin Dreams performed by pianist Carlo Grante at Alice Tully Hall, and the work’s European premiere at the Brahmssaal of the Musikverein in Vienna; the world premiere of Mr. Adolphe’s Piano Concerto with Fabio Luisi conducting the Zürich Philharmonia, Carlo Grante soloist; the premiere in Amsterdam of Einstein’s Light, a film by Nickolas Barris, with music by Mr. Adolphe featuring Joshua Bell, violinist, and Marija Stroke, pianist; the release of the soundtrack for Einstein’s Light on Sony Classical; and a presentation of Tunes and ‘Toons with Mr. Adolphe in collaboration with Kal, the political cartoonist of The Economist, in Colorado. Highlights of the 2014-15 season included: the world premiere of Musics of Memory at the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC in LA; the IRIS Orchestra conducted by Michael Stern gave the world premiere of I Will Not Remain Silent, a violin concerto based on the life of Joachim Prinz, with Sharon Roffman, soloist, and the European premiere of the work in Lucerne at KKL, with Ilya Gringolts, violin soloist, and the Human Rights Orchestra conducted by Alessio Allegrini. Adolphe’s Self Comes to Mind, written with neuroscientist Antonio Damasio, premiered at the American Museum of Natural History in 2009 with soloist Yo-Yo Ma, and was released in 2014 as a CMS Live! download featuring cellist Efe Baltacigil in concert in Alice Tully Hall. In addition to composing, Bruce Adolphe holds several positions concurrently: founder and director of the Meet the Music! family concert series and resident lecturer at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; creator/performer of public radio’s weekly Piano Puzzler on Performance Today; co-artistic director of Off the Hook Festival in Colorado; founder and creative director of The Learning Maestros. The author of three books on music, Mr. Adolphe has taught at Yale, The Juilliard School, and New York University, and was recently appointed composer-in-residence at the Brain and Creativity Institute in Los Angeles. The second edition of his book The Mind’s Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination was published by Oxford University Press in 2013.
Described as “the epitome of confidence and finesse” (Gramophone magazine) and “a miracle of unified thought” (La Presse, Montreal), the Calidore String Quartet has established an international reputation for its informed, polished, and passionate performances. The Calidore String Quartet is currently artists-in-residence and visiting faculty at Stony Brook University (SUNY) and was appointed to the roster of the Chamber
Music Society Two program for the 2016-19 seasons. The Calidore String Quartet has won grand prizes in virtually all the major U.S. chamber music competitions, including the Fischoff, Coleman, Chesapeake, and Yellow Springs competitions and captured top prizes at the 2012 ARD Munich International String Quartet Competition and Hamburg International Chamber Music Competition. The Calidore String Quartet regularly performs throughout North America, Europe, and Asia and has debuted in such prestigious venues as Wigmore Hall, Lincoln Center, Seoul’s Kumho Arts Hall, and Schneider Concerts at Mannes College in New York. Highlights of the quartet’s 2015-16 season include its debut at Carnegie Hall, Ladies’ Morning Music Club (Montreal), New York City Town Hall, performances of the complete Mendelssohn quartet cycle at the East Neuk Festival (UK), and performances of the Mendelssohn Octet with the Emerson Quartet at Princeton and Stony Brook universities. Summer 2015 was filled with important debuts including Festspiele MecklenburgVorpommern, East Neuk Festival, Ottawa Chamber Music Festival, Music Mountain, and the Mostly Mozart Festival. The Calidore String Quartet returned as quartet-in-residence at the Bellingham Festival of Music (WA) and the Innsbrook Institute Summer Music Academy and Festival (MO), as well as a return to the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival (MI). In February 2015, the Calidore String Quartet released its critically-acclaimed debut recording of quartets by Mendelssohn and Haydn. Additionally, the Calidore will release an album on Editions Hortus later in 2015, with music by Hindemith, Milhaud, Stravinsky, de la Presle, and Toch commemorating the World War I Centennial. Advocates of contemporary music, the Calidore String Quartet has performed Pulitzer-prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw’s Entr’acte, Patrick Harlin’s Birdsongs for the City Dweller, and Prometheus by Mark Grey. The Calidore String Quartet recently conducted residencies at the University of Michigan School of Music and at Chamber Music Connection in Columbus, Ohio. In January 2014, the Calidore joined the faculty of the Ed and Mari Edelman Chamber Music Institute at the Colburn School. Most recently, the Calidore was selected by the Saint Lawrence String Quartet to conduct a two-week outreach residency of over 20 performances in the San Francisco area. Formed in 2010 at the Colburn School of Music, the Calidore has studied closely with such luminaries as the Emerson Quartet, David Finckel, Andre Roy, Arnold Steinhardt, Günther Pichler, Gerhard Schulz, Heime Müller, Guillaume Sutre, Gábor TakácsNagy, Paul Coletti, Ronald Leonard, and the Quatuor Ebène. Using an amalgamation of “California” and “doré” (French for “golden”), the ensemble’s name represents a reverence for the diversity of culture and the strong support it received from its home of origin, Los Angeles, California, the “golden state.” The Calidore String Quartet aims to present performances that share the passion and joy of the string quartet chamber music repertoire.
Anna Polonsky is widely in demand as a soloist and chamber musician. She has appeared with the Moscow Virtuosi, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the St. Luke’s Chamber
Ensemble, and many others. Ms. Polonsky has collaborated with the Guarneri, Orion, and Shanghai Quartets, and with such musicians as Mitsuko Uchida, David Shifrin, Richard Goode, Ida and Ani Kavafian, Cho-Liang Lin, Arnold Steinhardt, Anton Kuerti, Gary Hoffman, and Fred Sherry. She is regularly invited to perform chamber music at festivals such as Marlboro, Chamber Music Northwest, Seattle, Music@Menlo, Cartagena, Bard, and Caramoor, as well as at Bargemusic in New York City. Ms. Polonsky has given concerts in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall’s Stern, Weill, and Zankel Halls, and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. A frequent guest at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, she was a member of CMS Two during 2002-2004. In 2006 she took part in the European Broadcasting Union’s project to record and broadcast all of Mozart’s keyboard sonatas, and in the spring of 2007 she performed a solo recital at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium to inaugurate the Emerson Quartet’s Perspectives Series. She is a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award. Ms. Polonsky made her solo piano debut at the age of seven at the Special Central Music School in Moscow. She immigrated to the United States in 1990, and attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Music diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music, where she worked with the renowned pianist Peter Serkin, and continued her studies with Jerome Lowenthal, earning her Master’s Degree from The Juilliard School. In addition to performing, she serves on the piano faculty of Vassar College. She is a Steinway Artist.
upcoming
EVENTS
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC
Wednesday, October 7, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Featuring Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit for Piano. This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive
ROSE STUDIO CONCERT
Thursday, October 8, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Featuring works by Reicha, Suk, and Janáček.
LATE NIGHT ROSE
Thursday, October 8, 9:00 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Featuring works by Reicha, Suk, and Janáček, with host Patrick Castillo. This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive
Fall 2015
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Inside Chamber Music Late Night Rose Inside Chamber Music Master Class with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Inside Chamber Music The Zemlinsky Cycle New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse The Nielsen Cycle Late Night Rose Master Class with Torleif ThedĂŠen
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