Bartok & Beethoven by New York Classical Players

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2014-15 SEASON OPENING

Bartok Beethoven

DONGMIN KIM Conductor ITAMAR ZORMAN Violin

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Bartok & Beethoven DONGMIN KIM conductor ITAMAR ZORMAN violin Friday, September 26 at 8pm Flushing Town Hall Queens, NY Saturday, September 27 at 8pm Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church New York, NY Sunday, September 28 at 3pm West Side Presbyterian Church Ridgewood, NJ

S. RACHMANINOFF

Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14

B. BARTOK

Divertimento for String Orchestra, Op. BB118

1. Allegro non troppo 2. Molto Adagio 3. Allegro assai

intermission

L. V. BEETHOVEN

Violin Concerto in D, Op. 61 (NYCP edition, arr. by David Schneider)

1. Allegro, ma non troppo 2. Larghetto3. Rondo: Allegro

Notes on the Program

S. RACHAMNINOFF (1973-1943) Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 In 1912, Rachmaninov composed a set of 14 songs dedicated to a number of prominent singers, including the famous Russian bass, Fyodor Chaliapin. The last song was a haunting wordless tune, which he aptly named Vocalise. In its seamless unfolding, the beautiful melody recalls some of J.S. Bach’s grander long-breathed themes such as the “Air” from the third orchestral suite and the obbligato melody from the cantata, Wachet auf (“Sleepers Awake!”) despite having been composed some two centuries and several stylistic periods later. The Vocalise has appeared in many guises with different solo instruments assuming the singer’s role, including double bass. Steven Lowe

B. BARTOK (1881-1945) Divertimento for String Orchestra, Op. BB118 The Divertimento was composed during August 1939 in a Swiss Chalet owned by Bartók’s friend Paul Sacher, who had commissioned the work for performance by the Basle Chamber Orchestra. Unlike some of Bartók’s music, the Divertimento offers comparatively few barriers to comprehension. The mood of the music is generally spirited and joyful, with the slow second movement serving as the only dark reminder of the turmoil raging across Europe at the time. For the medium of the Divertimento, Bartók looked back to the 18th century “concerto grosso” form, with its concertino of solo instruments and ripieno, but using his own structural ideas in a very individual way. The opening of the sonata form first movement is announced by a single melody on the violins over a driving pulse of accented chords. The F major tonality progressively becomes less certain, and the development section is preceded by a persistent B flat clashing with

successive sharp key harmonies. Little use is made of the solo quartet in the sombre adagio, where the slow chromatic climb upwards has much in common with the composer’s earlier “Miraculous Mandarin”. The joyous finale has a double fugato as its central section, from which the solo cello briefly emerges as the tempo becomes progressively slower. Near the end of the movement there is a good example of Bartók’s violent humour, when part of the first theme is reworked as an elegant polka. This is abruptly terminated by thirteen bars of rolling triplets, which pile up into clusters, and a vivacissimo coda. Brandon Hill Chamber Orchestra

L. V. BEETHOVEN (1770-1827) Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 Beethoven studied the violin in childhood, and though he was never more than a mediocre player, he came to know the instrument’s resources intimately. He composed his only violin concerto for a leading Viennese virtuoso, Franz Clement, whose playing was admired not so much for power and bravura as for beauty, elegance, and delicacy. Beethoven obviously kept this in mind: witness the insistent lyricism and high tessitura of the solo part in the first movement, and the gracious ornamentation in the second. The concerto was written in haste, apparently in just four or five weeks, and finished just in time for the première on December 23, 1806, at which Clement was virtually sight-reading. The first movement, long and crowded with incident, has the heroic, occasionally militaristic tone of many of Beethoven’s middleperiod works, but it is also leisurely, lyrical, and quiet to a degree unusual in a fast movement of a concerto. Beethoven was thinking symphonically; note, for instance, how the motif of five repeated notes, quietly introduced by the timpani in the opening

Meet the Artist Itamar Zorman violin bars, pervades the movement. Indeed, the soloist often seems incidental, embellishing and commenting on ideas that are introduced and primarily developed by the orchestra. The slow movement, its solemn, hymn-like theme quietly introduced by muted strings, unfolds at first as a conventional set of variations, but changes course midway, becoming something altogether more remarkable and profound. A second theme is introduced among the variations, then a third; the movement evolves as a kind of rhapsodic fantasy and the music is deeply expressive, dreamy, and poetic. The finale, which follows without a break, is also pastoral: it has the rhythm of traditional “hunting” music. The wit, playfulness, and studied naïveté of the music nicely balance the grandeur of the first movement, though there is also a sweetly melancholy episode in the middle. The long, jubilant coda is founded on transformations of the main theme, and the violin gets one last, charming solo—in pianissimo!—just before the final chords. This string orchestral version that NYCP premieres today is masterfully arranged by David Schneider. Kevin Bazzana/NYCP

Recently awarded the 2014 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and the 2013 Avery Fisher Career Grant, violinist Itamar Zorman is also the winner of the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition, where he subsequently performed in the winners’ concerts with Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra. Other competition successes include the first prize and special prize for a performance of a Mozart Concerto at the 2010 International Violin Competition of Freiburg and the Juilliard Berg Concerto Competition in April 2011, which led to his Avery Fisher Hall debut with the Juilliard Orchestra led by the late James DePreist. Itamar Zorman has performed as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, Het Gelders Orkest in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Tokyo Symphony in Suntory Hall, Utah Symphony, Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra, Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, and Orquesta Filharmonica de Cali, amongst others. Highlights last season included summer engagements at the Marlboro Music Festival, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, his debut at the Verbier Festival (broadcast live on Switzerland’s main classical music radio station) and an East Coast tour with the ‘Musicians from Marlboro’. Itamar Zorman undertook a nine-concert, two-city tour of Israel with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and David Robertson; performed with the Tokyo Symphony in Japan’s Suntory Hall; and gave concerts with the Philharmonie Baden Baden, Russian State Symphony Orchestra “Novaya Rossiya”, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of South Bay, Haifa Symphony, Waterbury Symphony and the Fundación Sinfonia in Santo Domingo. In October 2013, Zorman gave recitals in the Laeiszhalle Hamburg and the HR-Sendesaal Frankfurt and took part in the Kronberg Academy Festival, which included a concert with the Moscow Soloists and Yuri Bashmet. In 2014 he will undertake another tour with ‘Musicians from Marlboro’ and make his debut on the Louvre recital series in Paris.In November 2014 he will appear at the Teatro Massimo in Palermo playing the Beethoven concerto with Daniel Oren. In the spring of 2014 his first CD recording will be issued

by Profil-Editions Günther Hänssler featuring works by Messiaen, Schubert, Chausson, Hindemith and Brahms. As a chamber musician, Itamar Zorman has appeared at the Lincoln Center, the Zankel and Weill Recital Halls in Carnegie Hall, and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. A founding member of the Israeli Chamber Project, Zorman has toured Israel and North America for the past five seasons. He is also a member of the Lysander Piano Trio, with which he won the 2012 Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Grand Prize in the 2011 Coleman Chamber Music Competition, 1st prize in the 2011 Arriaga Competition, and a bronze medal in the 2010 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. In July 2010, Mr. Zorman played in a series of recitals broadcast on Radio France for the Radio France Festival in Montpellier. He was one of three protagonists featured in the documentary film “Violinissimo”, which followed the lives of three promising young violinists, and was released by Detail Films throughout Germany in 2012. A recipient of scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation, Itamar Zorman has participated in numerous master classes around the world, working with Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zuckerman, Shlomo Mintz, Ida Handel and Ivry Gitlis, to name a few. He has also participated in festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival and School, the NAC Young Artist Program in Ottawa (Canada), Keshet Eilon (Israel), Voice

of Music (Israel), Masters de Belesbat (France), The Heifetz International Music Institute (New Hampshire), and ISA Prague-Vienna-Budapest (Austria). Born in Tel-Aviv in 1985 to a family of musicians, Itamar Zorman began his violin studies at the age of six with Saly Bockel at the Israeli Conservatory of Music in Tel-Aviv. He graduated in 2003 and continued his studies with Professor David Chen and Nava Milo. He received his Bachelor of Music from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance as a student of Hagai Shaham. He received his Master’s of Music from The Juilliard School in 2009, where he studied with Robert Mann and Sylvia Rosenberg, and received an Artist Diploma from Manhattan School of Music in 2010, and an Artist Diploma from Julliard in 2012, studying with Ms. Rosenberg. Itamar Zorman is currently a student of Christian Tetzlaff at The Kronberg Academy. Itamar Zorman plays on a Pietro Guarneri violin from 1745 from the private collection of Yehuda Zisapel.

Music Director

Dongmin Kim music director/conductor

Dongmin Kim is quickly establishing a reputation as one of the most sought after conductors to emerge in recent years. He has been servings as the Music Director of the New York Classical Players; a New Yorkbased professional chamber orchestra of today’s most gifted young instrumentalists. Dongmin has appeared as guest conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra at the J. F. Kennedy Center, and Seoul Arts Center Festival Orchestra conducting The Magic Flute with 10 sold-out shows. He was also at the podium with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Jacksonville Symphony, the Memphis Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony, the San Antonio Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM, the RheinlandPfalz State Philharmonic and the Ensemble Zandonai, among others. He was awarded the distinguished The Karajan Conducting Fellowship and served a residency with the Wien Philharmonic Orchestra at the Salzburg Music Festival. Dongmin was one of conducting staffs at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra as the Schmidt Conducting Fellow, a position he has held until 2006, and covered entire classical series with renowned conductors and performing artists such as Andrew Litton, Raymond Leppard, Mario Venzago, Christoph Poppen, Lynn Harrell, André Watts, Garrick Ohlsson, and Lang Lang. His conducting mentors include Kurt Masur, Lorin Maazel, Christoph Eschenbach, Leonard Slatkin, Sergiu Comissiona, and Gustav Meier among others. As a keen advocate of contemporary music, Dongmin has premiered over 50 composi-

tions. He led various contemporary ensembles in performances, readings and recording of new compositions. Among the highlights of his collaborations, he was the first to conduct the new opera Lorenzo de’ Medici by P. Q. Phan in 2007. He also collaborated with important composers such as George Crumb, Harrison Birtwistle, David Dzubay, Don Freund, and Clint Needham. Dongmin has held the principal viola positions at the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra under the music directorship of Michael Tilson-Thomas, the Yonsei Symphony Orchestra in Seoul and the IU Symphony Orchestra. He was the first violist ever to win First Prize in the Yonsei Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition where he appeared as solo violist. As a recitalist and chamber musician, he has given numerous concerts in Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore as well as the United States. He studied the viola with Alan de Veritch, Paul Neubauer, James Dunham, Yozhak Schotten, YongYoon Kim and SeungYong Choi. His chamber music mentors include members of Beaux Arts Trio, Juilliard Quartet, Tokyo Quartet, Cleveland Quartet, Orion Quartet, Mendelssohn Quartet, and Janos Starker. A native of Seoul, Dongmin studied Orchestral Conducting under David Effron, Thomas Baldner and Imre Pallo at the Jacobs School of Music Indiana University, where he taught the graduate conducting courses, and served as the music director of the IU All Campus Orchestra. Dongmin also served as the assistant conductor of the IU Opera Theater and the IU New Music Ensemble. Prior to his study in the states, he graduated from Yonsei University, where he was awarded the Music Merit Scholarship. Dongmin currently resides in New York with his wife Sally S. Yang.

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About NYCP The New York Classical Players (NYCP) is a professional chamber orchestra of highlygifted young instrumentalists from different cultures committed to bringing free classical repertoire concerts to the public. Envisioned by Dongmin Kim, NYCP brings together seven nationalities combining personal and cultural strengths and a high level of chamber musicianship based upon democratic principles in the process of creating music. Trained at distinguished music institutions, members of the NYCP are en route to careers as critically acclaimed soloists, chamber musicians, and orchestral musicians in major American orchestras. Music Director Dongmin Kim has conducted orchestras in Germany, Italy, Mexico, Canada, Korea, and the States such as the National Symphony Orchestra in Wash-

ington D.C. and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Studying with Kurt Masur, Leonard Slatkin and Christoph Eschenbach, he was awarded the distinguished Karajan Fellowship and served a residency with the Wien Philharmonic at the Salzburg Music Festival, and was a cover conductor as the Schmidt Conducting Fellow at the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Since its founding season in 2010-11, NYCP presented over 40 concerts collaborating with some of worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renowned performing artists such as Kim Kashkashian, Cho-Liang Lin, Chee-Yun, Mark Kosower, Alex Kerr, Stefan Jackiw, Edward Auer, Jasmine Choi, Ji-Yong, among others. Most recently NYCP has completed its first US National Tour in 4 major cities with esteemed Sumi Jo, to nearly 10,000 audiences across the country.

Musicians Now in their fifth season in 2014-2015, the NYCP continues to present free concerts in different venues around the New York metropolitan area. This season’s guest artists include Donald Weilerstein, Itamar Zorman, Siwoo Kim(violin), Yeol Eum Son, Vivian Weilerstein(piano), Richard O’Neill(viola), and Carol Wincenc(flute). In addition, the NYCP is highly committed to creating new repertoire to convey a different dimension of interest to the public by presenting pieces by young outstanding composers of today, including, Joseph Hallman, Elliot Bark, David Schneider, Yoomi Paick, Edward Niedermaier and Jeeyoung Kim. As one of today’s most exciting young performing arts organizations, the NYCP takes on the responsibility of being an emerging cultural source by connecting people with a broader world of musical art and culture.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 27, 28 / 2014

NOVEMBER 14,15 / 2014

ITAMAR ZORMAN

Winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, and a recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant.

YEOL EUM SON

MARCH 21, 22 / 2015

Donald Weilerstein, and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein Acclaimed for its performances and teaching.

composer

CAROL WINCENC

YOOMI PAICK

principal arranger

“An impecable flute soloist.” The New York Times

MAY 1, 2, 3 / 2015

THE WEILERSTEIN DUO

ELLIOTT BARK

FEBRUARY 21, 22 / 2015

Winner of the Van Cliburn, Tchaikovsky, and Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition.

RICHARD O’NEILL A recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant. Artistic Director of Ensemble DITTO.

JOSEPH HALLMAN composer

JEEYOUNG KIM composer

WELCOME TO OUR 2014-15 SEASON! The 2014-15 season of the New York Classical Players features 13 free concerts with the world’s leading performing artists including violinist Itamar Zorman, pianist Yeol Eum Son, flutist Carol Wincenc, The Weilerstein Duo, and violist Richard O’Neill. In addition, NYCP also premieres new pieces by some of the most important young composers in today’s classical music scene. We cordially invite you to join our exciting 2014-15 season!