David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, January 14, 2016 at 9:00 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio 3,514th Concert
PATRICK CASTILLO, host SEAN LEE, violin DANBI UM, violin PAUL NEUBAUER, viola RICHARD O'NEILL, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello
2015-2016 Season
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 10th Floor New York, NY 10023 212-875-5788 www.ChamberMusicSociety.org
This concert is made possible, in part, by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation. Thanks to Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, official wine sponsor of Rose Studio concerts.
LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, January 14, 2016 at 9:00 PATRICK CASTILLO, host SEAN LEE, violin DANBI UM, violin PAUL NEUBAUER, viola RICHARD O'NEILL, viola MIHAI MARICA, cello
KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI (b. 1933)
Trio for Violin, Viola, and Cello (1990-91) Allegro molto—Vivo—Adagio— Vivace UM, O'NEILL, MARICA
FRANK BRIDGE (1879-1941)
FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847)
Lament for Two Violas (1912) NEUBAUER, O'NEILL
Quintet No. 2 in B-flat major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 87 (1845) Allegro vivace Allegretto scherzando Adagio e lento Allegro molto vivace LEE, UM, NEUBAUER, O'NEILL, MARICA
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
Patrick Castillo leads a multifaceted career as a composer, performer, writer, and educator. His music has been featured at festivals and venues throughout the United States and internationally including Spoleto Festival USA, June in Buffalo, the Santa Fe New Music Festival, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Berklee College of Music, Bavarian Academy of Music in Munich, Nuremberg Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Havana Contemporary Music Festival. His vocal chamber music is featured on The Quality of Mercy, a forthcoming release from Innova Recordings. He is variously active as an explicator of music to a wide range of listeners. He has provided liner and program notes for numerous recording labels and concert series: most prolifically for Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in Silicon Valley for which he served as artistic administrator for more than ten years. In this latter capacity, he has led a variety of pre-concert discussion events; designed outreach presentations for middle and high school students; and authored, narrated, and produced the widely acclaimed AudioNotes series of listener’s guides to the chamber music literature. Mr. Castillo has been a guest lecturer at Fordham University, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass in Kentucky, ChamberFest Cleveland, and String Theory at the Hunter in Chattanooga, Tennessee, among others. From 2010 to 2013, he served as senior director of artistic planning for the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. With performances described by the New York Times as “breathtakingly beautiful,” violinist Sean Lee is quickly gaining recognition as one of today’s most talented rising artists. His debut album featuring the Strauss Violin Sonata was released by EMI Classics and reached the Top 20 of the iTunes “Top Classical Albums” list. Having received prizes in the Premio Paganini International Violin Competition and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, he has appeared as a soloist with the Jerusalem Symphony, Utah Symphony, Orchestra Del Teatro Carlo Felice, Westchester Symphony, Peninsula Symphony, and the Juilliard Orchestra. As a recitalist, he has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium, Festival di Carro Paganiniano, and Wiener Konzerthaus. A former member of Chamber Music Society Two, he has performed with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Alice Tully Hall, as well as on tour at the LG Arts Center in Seoul, Korea, the St. Cecilia Music Center, and the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park. Mr. Lee currently teaches chamber music at the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School, and joined the violin faculty of the Perlman Music Program in 2010. He performs on a violin originally made in 1999 for violinist Ruggiero Ricci, by David Bague. Romanian-born cellist Mihai Marica is a First Prize winner of the “Dr. Luis Sigall” International Competition in Viña del Mar, Chile and the Irving M. Klein International Competition, and is a recipient of Charlotte White’s Salon de Virtuosi Fellowship Grant. He has performed with orchestras such as the Symphony Orchestra of Chile, Xalapa Symphony in Mexico, the Hermitage State Orchestra of St. Petersburg in Russia, the Jardins Musicaux Festival Orchestra in Switzerland, the Louisville
Orchestra, and the Santa Cruz Symphony in the US. He also appeared in recital performances in Austria, Hungary, Germany, Spain, Holland, South Korea, Japan, Chile, the United States, and Canada. A dedicated chamber musician, he has appeared at the Chamber Music Northwest, Norfolk, and Aspen music festivals where he has collaborated with such artists as Ani Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, David Shifrin, André Watts, and Edgar Meyer, and he is a member of the award-winning Amphion String Quartet. Mr. Marica studied with Gabriela Todor in his native Romania and with Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music where he was awarded Master's and artist diploma degrees. He is a former member of Chamber Music Society Two. Violist Paul Neubauer's exceptional musicality and effortless playing led the New York Times to call him “a master musician.” This season he will record the Aaron Jay Kernis Viola Concerto with the Royal Northern Sinfonia in the United Kingdom, a work he premiered with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony, and Idyllwild Arts Orchestra in 2014. A solo album of music recorded at Music@Menlo will also be released this season. At CMS, he will premiere a new work for solo viola by Joan Tower at Alice Tully Hall, the fourth work Ms. Tower has composed for him. Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at age 21, he has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras including the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki philharmonics; National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth symphonies; and Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle orchestras. Mr. Neubauer performs in a trio with soprano Susanna Phillips and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott. He has premiered viola concertos by Bartók (revised version of the Viola Concerto), Friedman, Glière, Jacob, Kernis, Lazarof, Müller-Siemens, Ott, Penderecki, Picker, Suter, and Tower. A two-time Grammy nominee, he has recorded on numerous labels including Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, RCA Red Seal, and Sony Classical. He is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Mannes College. Violist Richard O’Neill is an Emmy Award winner, two-time Grammy nominee, and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient. He has appeared as soloist with the London, Los Angeles, Seoul, and Euro-Asian Philharmonics; the BBC, KBS, and Korean Symphonies; the Moscow, Vienna, and Württemburg Chamber Orchestras; and Alte Musik Köln with conductors Andrew Davis, Vladimir Jurowski, and Yannick NézetSéguin. Highlights of this season include collaborations with Gidon Kremer, concertos with Kremerata Baltica, his first tour to China with Ensemble DITTO, and a European tour and complete Beethoven quartet cycle with the Ehnes Quartet. As recitalist he has performed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Louvre, Salle Cortot, Madrid’s National Concert Hall, Tokyo’s International Forum and Opera City, Osaka Symphony Hall, and Seoul Arts Center. A Universal/DG recording artist, he has made eight solo albums that have sold more than 150,000 copies. Dedicated to the music of our time, he has premiered works composed for him by Elliott Carter, John Harbison, Huang Ruo, and Paul Chihara. In his tenth season as artistic director of DITTO, he has introduced tens of thousands to chamber music in South Korea and Japan. The first violist to receive the artist diploma from Juilliard, he was honored with a Proclamation from the New York City Council for his achievement and contribution to the arts. He serves as Goodwill Ambassador for the
Korean Red Cross, The Special Olympics, and UNICEF; runs marathons for charity; and teaches at UCLA. He is a former member of CMS Two. Violinist Danbi Um has appeared as a soloist with the Israel Symphony, Vermont Symphony, Herzliya Chamber Symphony, Auckland Philharmonic, and Dartmouth Symphony, and in venues such as the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Kumho Arts Hall, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Bennett Gordon Hall of the Ravinia Festival, and the Seattle Chamber Music Society. She is a winner of Astral Artists' 2015 National Auditions and is a member of Chamber Music Society Two. An avid chamber musician, she has made appearances at Marlboro, Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn, Prussia Cove, Caramoor, and North Shore Chamber Music Festival. She tours frequently with Musicians from Marlboro and has performed with Jupiter Chamber Players. She received second prize in the Young Artists Division of the Menuhin International Violin Competition, and third prize at the Michael Hill International Violin Competition. At age ten she was admitted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where she graduated with a bachelor’s degree, and she also holds an artist diploma from Indiana University. Her teachers include Shmuel Ashkenasi, Joseph Silverstein, Jaime Laredo, and Hagai Shaham. She plays a 1683 “ex-Petschek” Nicolo Amati violin, on loan from the collection of Seth Novatt.
upcoming
EVENTS
THE ART OF THE RECITAL
Thursday, January 21, 7:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Featuring David Shifrin, clarinet, and Gloria Chien, piano. This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive
PIANOS/PIANISTS
Sunday, January 24, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Four exceptional CMS pianists share the stage (and sometimes, piano!), performing works that range from playful to fiery.
THE BARTÓK CYCLE: PART I
Thursday, January 28, 7:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Featuring the Jerusalem Quartet. This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive
Winter 2016
WATCH LIVE Enjoy a front row seat from anywhere in the world. View chamber music events streamed live to your computer or mobile device, and available for streaming on demand for the following 24 hours. Relax, browse the program, and experience the Chamber Music Society like never before.
1/21/16 7:30 PM Art of the Recital: David Shifrin & Gloria Chien 1/28/16 7:30 PM The Bart贸k Cycle: Part I 2/4/16 7:30 PM The Bart贸k Cycle: Part II 2/10/16 6:30 PM Inside Chamber Music 2/11/16 7:30 PM New Music in the Kaplan Penthouse 2/17/16 6:30 PM Inside Chamber Music 2/18/16 11:00 AM Master Class with the Escher String Quartet 2/24/16 6:30 PM Inside Chamber Music 2/25/16 7:30 PM Art of the Recital: Anne-Marie McDermott
All events are free to watch. View full program details online. www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/WatchLive
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