David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
INSIDE CHAMBER MUSIC Restless Romanticism Wednesday, February 17, 2016 at 6:30PM Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio
BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer
MICHAEL BROWN, piano DANBI UM, violin MATTHEW LIPMAN, viola NICHOLAS CANELLAKIS, cello
2015-2016 Season
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Many donors support the artists of the Chamber Music Society Two program. This evening, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Ann Bowers. 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, 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 Restless Romanticism BRUCE ADOLPHE, resident lecturer MICHAEL BROWN, piano DANBI UM, violin MATTHEW LIPMAN, viola NICHOLAS CANELLAKIS, cello
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897)
Quartet No. 3 in C minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 60 (1855-56, 1874)
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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.
Winner of a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Michael Brown has been described by the New York Times as a “young piano visionary” and “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers.” His recent schedule includes debuts with the Seattle and Maryland symphony orchestras, a Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium debut with the New York Youth Symphony, and recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Louvre, Alice Tully Hall, and Weill Hall. Recent commissions of his own compositions include a piano concerto for the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and works for the Look & Listen Festival, Bargemusic, and the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation. His compositions have been performed at Tanglewood, Ravinia, and Chamber Music Northwest, and in such venues as the Kennedy Center, (Le) Poisson Rouge, and SubCulture. He has recorded several albums, including an all-George Perle CD for Bridge Records and a solo album for CAG Records. Recordings with pianist Jerome Lowenthal, cellist Nicholas Canellakis, and violinist Elena Urioste are all scheduled for release this season. A native New Yorker, Mr. Brown earned dual bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano and composition from The Juilliard School, where he studied with pianists Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald and composers Samuel Adler and Robert Beaser. He is the first prize winner of the 2010 Concert Artists Guild Competition and was recently appointed adjunct assistant professor of piano at Brooklyn College. He is a Steinway Artist and a member of Chamber Music Society Two. Hailed as a “superb young soloist” (The New Yorker), Nicholas Canellakis has become one of the most sought-after and innovative cellists of his generation, captivating audiences throughout the United States and abroad. In the New York Times his playing was praised as “impassioned” and “soulful,” with “the audience seduced by Mr. Canellakis’s rich, alluring tone.” In the spring of 2015 he made his Carnegie Hall concerto debut, performing Leon Kirchner’s Music for Cello and Orchestra with the American Symphony Orchestra in Isaac Stern Auditorium. A former member of CMS Two, he performs regularly with the Chamber Music Society in Alice Tully Hall and on tour. He performs numerous recitals throughout the country each season with his duo partner, pianist/composer Michael Brown, and has been a guest artist at many of the world’s leading music festivals, including Santa Fe, La Jolla, Music@Menlo, Ravinia, Bridgehampton, Verbier, Mecklenburg, Moab, and Bowdoin. He is also the co-artistic director of the Sedona Winter MusicFest in Arizona. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and New England Conservatory, where his teachers included Orlando Cole, Peter Wiley, and Paul Katz. He is on the faculty of the Brooklyn College Conservatory of Music. Filmmaking is a special interest of Mr. Canellakis. He has produced, directed, and starred in several short films and music videos, including his popular comedy web series “Conversations with Nick Canellakis.” The recipient of a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, American violist Matthew Lipman has been hailed by the New York Times for his “rich tone and elegant phrasing” and by the Chicago Tribune for his “splendid technique and musical sensitivity.” His debut recording of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with violinist
Rachel Barton Pine and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Sir Neville Marriner was recently released on the Avie label. He has performed with the Juilliard, Minnesota, Grand Rapids Symphony, Wisconsin Chamber, Ars Viva Symphony, and Montgomery Symphony orchestras. The only violist featured on WFMT Chicago’s recent list of “30 Under 30” top classical musicians, he has been profiled by The Strad and BBC Music magazines and recently performed Penderecki’s Cadenza for solo viola live on WQXR with the composer in attendance. A member of CMS Two, Mr. Lipman has performed with the Chamber Music Society at Alice Tully Hall, Wigmore Hall, and the Kissinger Sommer Festival in Germany, and under the auspices of the Marlboro, Ravinia, Perlman Music Program, and the Music@ Menlo festivals. A top prizewinner of the Tertis, Primrose, Washington, Stulberg, and Johansen International competitions, Mr. Lipman is the recipient of a Kovner Fellowship at The Juilliard School, where he serves as a teaching assistant to Heidi Castleman. He has also studied with Steven Tenenbom, Misha Amory, and Roland Vamos, and performs on a 1700 Matteo Goffriller viola from the REB foundation.
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 on a 1683 “ex-Petschek” Nicolo Amati, on loan from a private collection.
Winter — Spring 2016
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upcoming
EVENTS
MASTER CLASS WITH THE ESCHER STRING QUARTET
Thursday, February 18, 11:00 AM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio The art of interpretation and details of technique are explained as master artists share their wisdom with the next generation of chamber musicians. This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive
MENUHIN AT 100 WITH DANIEL HOPE
Friday, March 4, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall Daniel Hope curates a personal tribute to his longtime friend, Yehudi Menuhin, celebrating the 100th birthday of this legendary violinist and humanitarian.
MOZART, SCHUBERT, & MENDELSSOHN
Sunday, March 13, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall Sunday, March 15, 7:30 PM • Alice Tully Hall The virtuosity of the soloist is featured in this program of intimate concertos.