David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors
LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, March 31, 2016 at 9:00 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio 3,561st Concert
PATRICK CASTILLO, host WU QIAN, piano PAUL HUANG, violin CHO-LIANG LIN, violin MATTHEW LIPMAN, viola SOPHIE SHAO, 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 The Florence Gould Foundation and the Grand Marnier Foundation. Many donors support the artists of the Chamber Music Society Two program. This evening, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Ann Bowers. Thanks to Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, official wine sponsor of Rose Studio concerts. The Chamber Music Society is deeply grateful to Board member Paul Gridley for his very generous gift of the Hamburg Steinway & Sons model “D� concert grand piano we are privileged to hear this evening.
LATE NIGHT ROSE Thursday Evening, March 31, 2016 at 9:00 PATRICK CASTILLO, host WU QIAN, piano PAUL HUANG, violin CHO-LIANG LIN, violin MATTHEW LIPMAN, viola SOPHIE SHAO, cello
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
(1756-1791)
Quartet in G minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, K. 478 (1785) Allegro Andante Rondo: Allegro WU, HUANG, LIPMAN, SHAO
CÉSAR FRANCK (1822-1890)
Quintet in F minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello (1879) Molto moderato quasi lento—Allegro Lento, con molto sentimento Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco WU, LIN, HUANG, LIPMAN, SHAO
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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. Recipient of a prestigious 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Taiwanese-American violinist Paul Huang is quickly gaining attention for his eloquent music making, distinctive sound, and effortless virtuosity. His busy season includes debuts with the Louisiana Philharmonic, Brevard Symphony, and Seoul Philharmonic, as well as return engagements with the Detroit Symphony, Alabama Symphony, Hilton Head Symphony, Bilbao Symphony, National Symphony of Mexico, and National Taiwan Symphony. This season he performs in London in Wigmore Hall, as well as in Munich, Madrid, and Prague, and appears in recitals at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, and the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach; and performs chamber music on the Caramoor Festival’s Rising Stars series. In addition to his soldout recital at Lincoln Center on the Great Performers series, he has performed at the Morgan Library and Museum, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Jordan Hall, the Stradivari Museum in Cremona, Italy, the Seoul Arts Center in Korea, the National Concert Hall in Taiwan, and at the Louvre in Paris. His first solo CD, a collection of favorite encores, is on the CHIMEI label. Mr. Huang, who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Juilliard, won the 2011 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and received Taiwan’s 2009 Chi-Mei Cultural Foundation Arts Award. He plays the Guarneri del Gesù Cremona 1742 ex-Wieniawski violin, on loan through the Stradivari Society, and is a member of Chamber Music Society Two. In a concert career that has spanned the globe for more than 30 years, Cho-Liang Lin is equally at home with orchestra, in recital, playing chamber music, and in the teaching studio. His recent concert engagements include solo appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Nashville Symphony,
English Chamber Orchestra, Stockholm Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, and the Royal Philharmonic. In 2000 Musical America named him Instrumentalist of the Year. He has enjoyed collaborations and premieres with composers such as John Harbison, Christopher Rouse, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Lalo Schifrin, Paul Schoenfield, Bright Sheng, Steven Stucky, Tan Dun, Joan Tower, John Williams, and many more. He has been music director of La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest since 2001; he also serves as artistic director of Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival. Mr. Lin’s recordings have won such awards as Gramophone’s Record of the Year, as well as Grammy Award nominations. Born in Taiwan, Mr. Lin studied at the Sydney Conservatorium before enrolling at The Juilliard School to study with Dorothy DeLay at age 15. He was invited to join the faculty of The Juilliard School in 1991. He is currently a professor at Rice University and plays the 1715 "Titian" Stradivarius. 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 at 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. Cellist Sophie Shao received an Avery Fisher Career Grant at age 19, was a major prizewinner at the 2001 Rostropovich Competition, and was a laureate of the XII Tchaikovsky Competition in 2002. She has given the world premiere performances of Howard Shore's Mythic Gardens, a concerto written for her, and Richard Wilson's Concerto for Cello and Mezzo-Soprano with Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra. She has also appeared as soloist with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Keith Lockhart in performances of the Elgar and Haydn C major concertos; performed Saint-Saëns’ La Muse et Le Poete with violinist Miranda Cuckson at the Bard Music Festival; and presented the six Bach Suites in one afternoon at Union College in Schenectady. She can be heard on EMI Classics, Bridge Records (Marlboro Music’s 50th anniversary recording), and on Albany Records, and will release a double-CD set of the Bach Cello Suites this season. Ms. Shao studied at the Curtis Institute with David Soyer and Felix Galimir, and, upon graduating, continued with Aldo Parisot at Yale University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies from Yale
College and a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music, where she was enrolled as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. Ms. Shao is a former member of CMS Two, on the faculty of Bard Conservatory and Vassar College, and plays an Honore Derazey cello previously owned by Pablo Casals. Selected as classical music’s bright young star for 2007 by The Independent, pianist Wu Qian has appeared as soloist in many international venues including the Wigmore, Royal Festival, and Bridgewater halls in the UK, City Hall in Hong Kong, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. As an orchestral performer, she has appeared with the Konzerthaus Orchester in Berlin, the Brussels Philharmonic, I Virtuosi Italiani, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Symphoniker, and many others. Wu Qian is the first prize winner of the Trio di Trieste Duo Competition, the Kommerzbank Piano Trio competition in Frankfurt, and has received numerous other awards. Her debut recording of Schumann, Liszt, and Alexander Prior was met with universal critical acclaim and her next disc, an all Schumann program, is due to be released this year. She is a founding member of the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio. In addition to performing in major concert halls and series around the world, this acclaimed young trio has released two recordings on the BIS label and also a disc of Brahms and Schubert on the Wigmore Live Label. Wu Qian is a member of Chamber Music Society Two.
upcoming
EVENTS
DAVID FINCKEL AND WU HAN: RESONANCE
Sunday, April 3, 5:00 PM • Alice Tully Hall The power of music to excite, inspire, transport, and impassion is revealed in this unique program featuring CMS artistic directors.
MASTER CLASS WITH WU HAN
Monday, April 4, 11:00 AM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio CMS co-artistic director Wu Han leads a master class with talented young artists. This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive
THE GINASTERA STRING QUARTET CYCLE
Thursday, April 7, 7:30 PM • Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio Featuring soprano Kiera Duffy and the Miró Quartet. This event will also be streamed live at www.ChamberMusicSociety.org/watchlive
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