David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Romanticism to Modernism: Close Connections Wednesday Evening, October 7, 2015 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio
BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer CARLO GRANTE, piano
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 CARLO GRANTE, piano
MAURICE RAVEL
Gaspard de la nuit for Piano (1908)
(1875-1937)
Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit can be heard in concert on May 13th at 7:30 PM at Alice Tully Hall.
This evening’s event is being streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/WatchLive Photographing, sound recording, or videotaping this performance is prohibited. Please turn off cell phones, pagers, and other electronic devices.
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 Brahms-saal 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 composerin-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.
Pianist Carlo Grante is one of Europe’s foremost concert artists, having performed in such major venues and prestigious halls as the Grosser Saal of the Konzerthaus and the Goldener Saal of the Musikverein in Vienna, the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie, Wigmore Hall and the Barbican in London, Sala Santa Cecilia in Rome, the KMS of the Berlin Philharmonie, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Dresden Semperoper, Stuttgart Opera, and Alice Tully Hall in New York. He has appeared as soloist with major orchestras including the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Royal Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphony, Orchestra of St. Cecilia, Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, MDR Leipzig, Capella Istropolitana, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and Concertino Wien. He gave the first live performance of all 53 of Godowsky’s Studies on the Études of Chopin at the Newport Festival. He will give the world premiere of Bruce Adolphe’s Piano Concerto under Fabio Luisi in Zurich next year. His discography runs to more than 50 CDs and ranges from Domenico Scarlatti (he is recording the complete sonatas, a 40-CD project, under the auspices of Bösendorfer and Badura-Skoda in Vienna), to Platti, Clementi, Chopin, Liszt, and Schumann, 20th-century composers like Godowsky and Busoni, to contemporary composers such as Adolphe. Mr. Grante graduated from the Conservatory S. Cecilia in Rome, studying with Sergio Perticaroli, after which he studied in the US with Ivan Davis at the University of Miami and at The Juilliard School with Rudolf Firkušný; he then studied in London with Alice Kezeradze-Pogorelich and in Vienna with Paul BaduraSkoda.
Fall 2015
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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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upcoming
EVENTS
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
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC
Wednesday, October 14, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Focus on Bartók’s Quartet No. 4. This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive