David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Romanticism to Modernism: Close Connections Wednesday Evening, October 14, 2015 at 6:30 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio
BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer AMPHION STRING QUARTET KATIE HYUN, violin DAVID SOUTHORN, violin WEI-YANG ANDY LIN, viola MIHAI MARICA, 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 AMPHION STRING QUARTET KATIE HYUN, violin DAVID SOUTHORN, violin WEI-YANG ANDY LIN, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello
BÉLA BARTÓK (1881-1945)
Quartet No. 4 for Strings, BB 93 (1928)
Bartók’s Quartet No. 4 for Strings can be heard in concert on February 4th at the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio.
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.
The Amphion String Quartet is a winner of the 2011 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition and joined the roster of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s CMS Two Program in fall 2013. Through CMS, the ensemble made its Alice Tully Hall debut in March 2014, about which the New York Times praised “the focused, forceful young Amphion String Quartet” for its “sharply detailed performances.” The quartet’s debut album (Nimbus Records) has received critical acclaim with the New York Times describing its playing as having “propulsive energy and raw drama…jaunty exuberance…epic sweep” and “fiery temperament.” Highlights of the 2015-16 season include a performance with the Chamber Music Society at Alice Tully Hall and at the Melbourne (Florida) Chamber Music Society in November. The quartet will collaborate with harpist Bridget Kibbey in performances at SubCulture (NYC) and in San Francisco’s Morrison Chamber Music Center. Other highlights of the year include a return to the Tilles Center Chamber Music Series on Long Island and performances at the Chamber Music Society of Bethlehem and the Newburgh Chamber Music Series. The ASQ will return to the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC for a concert in collaboration with percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum. Recent performances include Mostly Mozart recitals at Avery Fisher Hall, critically acclaimed performances at Alice Tully Hall for The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and return engagements at the Tilles Center Chamber Music Series and BargeMusic. In May 2015 the ensemble premiered David Philip Hefti’s Sextet at the Chamber Music Society’s Kaplan Penthouse alongside Yura Lee and Jan Vogler. This past May the quartet had a three-week residency in Portland with the contemporary dance company BodyVox on a special project entitled “Cosmosis.” Internationally the Amphion Quartet has performed in South Korea at the Music Isle Festival in Jeju, Seoul Arts Center, and the Busan Chamber Music Festival. Previous US festival appearances include The Chautauqua Institution, OK Mozart, Chamber Music Northwest, La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, New Jersey’s Mostly Music Series, NYU String Quartet Workshop, Princeton Summer Concerts, Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival, and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival. Summer 2013 featured the world premiere of a new quartet by Yevgeniy Sharlat at the Caramoor Music Festival (commissioned by Caramoor as the culmination of the 2012-13 Stiefel String Quartet Residency). The ASQ has collaborated with such eminent artists as the Tokyo String Quartet, Ani Kavafian, David Shifrin, AnneMarie McDermott, Carter Brey, Edgar Meyer, Michala Petri, James Dunham, and Deborah Hoffmann.
Fall 2015
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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
HAYDN, MENDELSSOHN, & SCHUMANN
Sunday, October 18, 5:00 PM & Tuesday, October 20, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall The CMS season begins with three jewels of the chamber music repertoire, taking listeners on a journey from the classical to romantic era.
MASTER CLASS WITH JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET, PIANO
Monday, October 19, 11:00 AM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio The art of interpretation and details of technique are explained as master artists share their widsom with the next generation of chamber musicians. This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC
Wednesday, October 21, 6:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Focus on Britten’s Quartet No. 1 in D major for Strings, Op. 25. This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive