Considered “the state’s finest chamber ensemble” by Oregon Arts Watch, the Delgani String Quartet presents exciting performances of both classic and contemporary repertoire in intimate concert settings. The quartet curates their own subscription series in Portland, Salem, Corvallis, and Eugene while regularly appearing as guest artists throughout the state. Delgani has also performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC and at Charles University in Prague. Committed to community engagement, Delgani provides educational opportunities to students throughout the Willamette Valley. The quartet’s Classical Spark program brings music to elementary classrooms in Lane, Benton, and Multnomah counties in an effort to ignite an early interest in music. Delgani also works frequently with student composers at the University of Oregon and Portland State University. Additional programs include a Summer Quartet Academy, biannual Chamber Music Workshops, and an ongoing virtual seminar series. Formed in 2014, Delgani operates as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and has received foundation support from the Oregon Cultural Trust, Oregon Community Foundation, Oregon Arts Commission, Lane Arts Council, Springfield Arts Commission, and Springfield Education Foundation. Delgani is the recipient of consecutive Cultural Development Grants from OCT and consecutive Creative Heights Grant from OCF.
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Dreams and Prayers Concert sponsored by David Wade and Nancy Pobanz featuring Wonkak Kim Guest artist sponsored by David and Paula Pottinger
Reza Vali (b. 1952) Câhârgâh (Calligraphy No. 19) (2022)
Korean-born clarinetist Wonkak Kim has captivated audiences around the world with his …excellent breath control” (The Washington Post) and …exuberant musicianship” (Fanfare). Kim appeared as a soloist and chamber musician at major venues throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. A Naxos Recording Artist, he has garnered international acclaim with his extensive discography: Gulfstream, a collection of new American chamber music, received many distinctions, including“Music US Choice” (BBC Music Magazine), “Recording of the Month” (MusicWeb International), and American Record Guide Critic’s Choice, and was praised for its …very highest quality” (Gramophone, UK). The International Clarinet Association Journal lauded Kim’s …sensitive playing, a lovely sound and consummate facility” in François Devienne: Clarinet Sonatas. On his most recent Naxos release of Stephen Krehl’s Clarinet Quintet, American Record Guide wrote: …Kim renders the Clarinet Quintet with a clear and nicely rounded timbre…with seamless blend and excellent legato.” Kim’s live and recorded performances have been featured on Radio France, BBC Radio 3, Swedish Radio, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CJPX Radio Classique Québec, Hong Kong RTHK-HK, Korean Broadcasting System, and NPR stations around the US. Kim is Associate Professor of Clarinet at the University of Oregon and a performing artist/clinician for Buffet Crampon, Silverstein, and Vandoren. He is regularly invited as a guest artist and teacher at world’s renowned institutions, including the Juilliard, Yale, and Manhattan School of Music. To learn more about Wonkak Kim, please visit: www.wonkakkim.com.
Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor, “From My Life” I. Allegro vivo appassionato II. Allegro moderato à la Polka III. Largo sostenuto IV. Vivace
Intermission Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960) The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind Prelude: Calmo, sospeso I. Agitato - Con Fuoco - Maestoso - Senza misura II. Teneramente - Ruvido - Presto III. Calmo, sospeso - Allegro pesante Postlude: Lento, liberamente Eugene: Sunday October 22, 3 pm, Christian Science Church Eugene: Tuesday October 24, 7:30 pm, Christian Science Church Corvallis: Friday October 27, 7:30 pm, First Presbyterian Church Portland: Saturday October 28, 7:30 pm, PSU Lincoln Recital Hall Salem: Sunday October 29, 3 pm, Unitarian Universalist Congregation * All Eugene performances are livestreamed and can be watched virtually on demand
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The second program of our ninth season, Blueprints, explores connections between composers across hundreds of years and the remarkable music that is born from inspiration. The sixth quartet of Beethoven's first set (Op. 18) culminates in "La Malinconia," and the ensuing struggle between despair and joy inspired Caroline Shaw's 2016 Blueprint. Another pairing of works completes the program Britten's Second Quartet with its massive "Chacony," an homage to English Baroque composer Henry Purcell. Caroline Shaw is a musician who moves among roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. She is the recipient of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music, several Grammy awards, an honorary doctorate from Yale, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. She has worked with a range of artists including Rosalía, Renée Fleming, and Yo Yo Ma, and she has contributed music to films and tv series including Fleishman is in Trouble, Bombshell, Yellowjackets, Maid, Dark, and Beyonce’s Homecoming. Her favorite color is yellow, and her favorite smell is rosemary. The following program notes by Caroline Shaw talk about her piece, Blueprint (March 2016): “In the 1820s, artists in Japan began to import a particular blue pigment known as "Prussian blue," which was first synthesized by German paint producers in the early 18th century and later modified by others as an alternative to indigo. Blueprint, takes its title from this beautiful blue woodblock printing tradition as well as from that familiar standard architectural representation of a proposed structure: the blueprint. This piece began its life as a harmonic reduction — a kind of floor plan — of Beethoven's string quartet Op. 18 No. 6. As a violinist and violist, I have played this piece many times, in performance and in joyous late-night reading sessions with musician friends. Chamber music is ultimately about conversation without words. We talk to each other with our dynamics and articulations, and we try to give voice to the composers whose music has inspired us to gather in the same room and play music. Blueprint is also a conversation — with Beethoven, with Haydn (his teacher and the "father" of the string quartet), and with the joys and malinconia of his Op. 18 No. 6.” Blueprint was commissioned by the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts for the Aizuri Quartet
Blueprints Concert sponsored by Brooke Collison
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) String Quartet in Bb Major, Op. 18/6 I. Allegro con brio II. Adagio ma non troppo III. Scherzo: Allegro IV. La Malinconia: Adagio - Allegretto quasi Allegro Caroline Shaw (b. 1982) Blueprint (2016) Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Fantasias
Intermission Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) String Quartet No. 2 in C Major, Op. 36 I. Allegro calmo, senza rigore II. Vivace III. Chacony: Sostenuto
Eugene: Sunday February 4, 3 pm, Christian Science Church Eugene: Tuesday February 6, 7:30 pm, Christian Science Church Corvallis: Friday February 9, 7:30 pm, First Presbyterian Church Portland: Saturday February 10, 7:30 pm, Alberta House Salem: Sunday February 11, 3 pm, Unitarian Universalist Congregation * All Eugene performances are livestreamed and can be watched virtually on demand
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Thank You for Your Support! Delgani Angels ($5000 and up) Ken de Looze and Elizabeth Harchenko # – Kimberlee Uwate chair sponsors John Hidalgo and Lynnette Campbell #+ – Anthea Kreston chair sponsors Charles Missar and Jan Tuininga #+ – Wyatt True executive director sponsors Dunny and Debbie Sorensen #+ – Intimate Letters concert sponsors Anice Thigpen and Andrea Halliday Catherine York and Kevin Strode Delgani Sustainers ($3000-$4999) Rob and Janet Barnes # Susan and Greg Fitz-Gerald – Classical Spark sponsors Bob and Debbie Heaton David and Sherrie Kammerer – Jannie Wei chair sponsors Anthony Mulder – Eric Alterman chair sponsor Marion Sweeney, Kate, and Cama # Jason Tavakolian and Jennifer Lamberg Friends of Delgani ($1000-$2999) Carolyn and Brent Abrenica Betsy Belshaw # Elizabeth Bickford Steven Butt and Mary Pugsley Angela and Marlan Carlson David Christie Brooke Collison – Blueprints concert sponsor John and Linda Cummens # Birgit Foley # Diana Gardener # Loi and Bruce Heldt # Leslie Hildreth and Mark Herring # Don and Lin Hirst # Diana Learner – String Circle concert sponsor Yvonne Lyles #+ Linda Deery Nelson Fund of OCF Paula and David Pottinger – Wonkak Kim guest artist sponsors Lynne Roe Jim and Paula Salerno Roma Sprung and James Bishop-Edwards Ray and Cathie Staton Tom Stone # George and Else Struble Dan Temmesfeld and Audrey Lucero #+ Phyllis and Mitch Temple Wyatt True and Jannie Wei #+ Kimberlee Uwate + Marilyn Uwate Rob Voss #+ David Wade and Nancy Pobanz – Dreams and Prayers concert sponsors Karalyn Walker Sprung and David Sprung Jim and Barbara Walker
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Over the past thirty years, Kenji Bunch has established himself as one of America’s most engaging, influential, and prolific composers, with genre-defying music that has been performed on six continents and by over seventy American orchestras. Cited by Alex Ross in his seminal book “There Rest Is Noise” and dubbed “One of the new faces of new music” by the NY Times (A. Tommasini), Bunch’s unique compositional voice has earn acclaim from audiences, performers, and critics alike. Influenced by his mother’s experience as a Japanese immigrant, his father’s as a political/social activist, and his childhood spent in the meditative natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest, Bunch combines his interests in history, philosophy, nature, and intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue with the intention to entertain, inspire, and facilitate healing with his music- at times with vulnerable sincerity, irreverent humor, dazzling virtuosity, or by confronting difficult issues of trauma from our shared histories. As the 2021 Composer in Residence for the Moab Music Festival, Bunch collaborated with actor/ activist George Takei to create Lost Freedom: A Memory, interweaving music for chamber ensemble with Takei’s narration of his own WWII-era childhood incarceration in America. Other recent works include commissions and premieres from the Seattle Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Lark Quartet, Britt Festival, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Music From Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, Eugene Ballet, Third Angle New Music, and Grant Park Music Festival. All-Bunch concerts have been mounted in New York City, Boston, Denver, Nashville, Mobile, and Portland, as well as at the Perpignon Conservatoire in southern France, the Stamford Festival in England, and the Oranjewoud Festival in The Netherlands. His dance collaborations include work with such renowned choreographers as David Parsons, Toni Pimble, Nai-Ni Chen, Kate Skarpetowska, Paul Vasterling, and Darrell Grand Moultrie. Bunch's film credits include The Bellman Equation and The Argentum Prophecies, and his extensive discography includes many recordings, now streaming on all platforms. Also recognized as a groundbreaking violist, Bunch was the first student to receive dual degrees in viola and composition from The Juilliard School and was a founding member of influential ensembles Flux Quartet (1996-2002), Ne(x)tworks (2003-2011), and Nurse Kaya String Quartet (2002-2005), as well as the bluegrass band Citigrass (1998-2013). Committed to a multi-style approach to the instrument that includes improvisation and modalities of playing beyond the conventions of western classical art music, Bunch has worked with a diverse array of prominent artists including Ornette Coleman, Lenny Kravitz, Mike Gordon (Phish), and vocalist Joan La Barbara. After several decades in New York City, Bunch returned to his hometown of Portland, Oregon in 2013 with his wife, pianist Monica Ohuchi, with whom he co-directs the new music group Fear No Music. Additionally, Bunch directs MYSfits, the Metropolitan Youth Symphony’s multi-style string ensemble, and teaches viola, composition, and music theory at Portland State University, Reed College, and for the Portland Youth Philharmonic. Most of all, he and Monica enjoy time with their two children and their dogs Marcie and Nutmeg.
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String Circle Concert sponsored by Diana Learner featuring Kenji Bunch
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) String Quartet in G Major, Op. 77/1 I. Allegro moderato II. Adagio III. Minuet: Presto - Trio IV. Finale: Presto Kenji Bunch (b. 1973) String Circle (2005) I. Lowdown II. Shuffle Step III. Ballad IV. Porch Picking V. Overdrive
Intermission Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) String Quintet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 88 I. Allegro non troppo ma con brio II. Grave ed appassionato – Allegretto vivace III. Allegro energico – Presto Eugene: Sunday March 17, 3 pm, Christian Science Church Eugene: Tuesday March 19, 7:30 pm, Christian Science Church Corvallis: Friday March 22, 7:30 pm, First Presbyterian Church Portland: Saturday March 23, 7:30 pm, Alberta House Salem: Sunday March 24, 3 pm, Unitarian Universalist Congregation * All Eugene performances are livestreamed and can be watched virtually on demand
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Intimate Letters Concert sponsored by Dunny and Debbie Sorensen
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters” I. Andante - Con moto - Allegro II. Adagio - Vivace III. Moderato - Andante - Adagio IV. Allegro - Andante - Adagio
Intermission Franz Schubert String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D887 I. Allegro molto moderato II. Andante un poco moto III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace - Trio: Allegretto IV. Allegro assai
Eugene: Sunday May 5, 3 pm, Christian Science Church Eugene: Tuesday May 7, 7:30 pm, Christian Science Church Corvallis: Friday May 10, 7:30 pm, First Presbyterian Church Portland: Saturday May 11, 7:30 pm, Venue TBD Salem: Sunday May 12, 3 pm, Unitarian Universalist Congregation * All Eugene performances are livestreamed and can be watched virtually on demand
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