Chamber Music Society of Detroit 75th Season Finale Concert Program Book

Listening Together 75 TH SEASON FINALE CONCERT — SUNDAY, MAY 12 , 2019 — ORCHESTRA HALL

TABLE OF CONTENTS Letters of Congratulations.................................................3 75 Years of Listening Together...........................................6 Season Finale Program......................................................8 Artist Profiles....................................................................10 75th Anniversary Composer Commission.......................20 The 2019-2020 Season....................................................22 Board and Staff................................................................24 Contributors to the Campaign for the 75th Season.........26

The Chamber Music Society of Detroit is supported in part by the Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, the Kresge Foundation, the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Chamber Music Society of Detroit

Dear Friends,

Dear Music Lover,

So much of the magic in great music making happens in the silences. The rapt expectation of a favorite piece about to begin.

The eloquent pause between phrases that’s slightly longer than a metronome might allow. The lifted eyebrow that telegraphs a spontaneous intention to try something new and unexpected. The indescribable moment of deep fulfillment that applause seems unable to break.

This afternoon we are sharing an incredible musical journey, from Bach, through Mozart and Mendelssohn, to a newly commissioned work written expressly for this occasion and paid for by donations from our audience.

For 75 years, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit has served our community by bringing the excitement of intimate, live music to diverse audiences and venues, ranging from outreach programs in elementary schools to concerts in magnificent halls like this one.

Across 75 years of listening together, Chamber Music Society of Detroit audiences have built a tradition of kinship with the greatest music makers of our time. To put it simply, the best musicians make their best music when they know their audience cares. Musicians the world over treasure their time on our stage as much as we love to hear them perform; it’s in the silences that they really feel it.

Thank you for being a part of this great music making tradition.

Whether it is your first experience with us, or your fiftieth subscription season – welcome to our celebration!

Steve Wogaman, President Chamber Music Society of Detroit

As our organization’s current chair, I wish to express my appreciation for the generosity and dedication of all those who have made this work possible over these past 75 years, from Karl Haas and successive presidents, to the board members, donors, and dedicated volunteers whose work has brought us to this place today. There are many things needed to keep Metro Detroit a thriving community, but it is Music and the Arts that elevate people’s spirit and transport us from the mundane to the beautiful.

Your generous support makes this musical journey possible, now and in the future.

Thank you.

Randolph Schein, Chairman Chamber Music Society of Detroit

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Dear Friends, It is my honor as governor of Michigan to welcome you to the Chamber Music Society of Detroit’s 75th anniversary concert at Orchestra Hall in Detroit.

For the last 75 years, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit (CMSDetroit) has set an example for chamber music throughout the state. Recognized locally, nationally, and even internationally, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit has left an enormous impact on the residents of Southeast Michigan and those around the state.

CMSDetroit has expanded its reach, providing educational outreach programs and adding performances in an increasing number of cities in Southeast Michigan. Your shared work in educating people across the state is an important mission. It is a reminder to appreciate art and music collectively and I am proud to have such an inspiring group in our state.

On behalf of the people of Michigan, it is my privilege to congratulate CMSDetroit on 75 years of community involvement. Please accept my best wishes for a memorable event and best of luck in the years ahead.

To the Chamber Music Society of Detroit: On behalf of the citizens of the City of Detroit, I congratulate the Chamber Music Society of Detroit on the milestone of your historic 75th Anniversary Season.

Since you first gathered in the 1940s under the leadership of Detroit musical legend Dr. Karl Haas, your excellence in this most intimate of musical art forms has brought joy and inspiration to countless listeners of all ages. Your service to our city and region has touched the lives of many thousands more, from your pivotal role in saving Orchestra Hall, to your tireless ongoing work in our local schools. As Detroit’s anchor organization for chamber music, your influence upon your field is felt not only across our region, but nationally and internationally as well.

The City of Detroit is proud of the excellence and diversity of its thriving arts community, and deeply values your vital role in it. As you mark today the culmination of this auspicious anniversary, we join you in celebrating the first 75 years, and we look forward to 75 more!

Sincerely,

Gretchen Whitmer Governor of Michigan

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Mike Duggan Mayor City of Detroit

Chamber Music Society of Detroit

May, 2019 To the Board, Staff, and Audiences of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, Congratulations to the Chamber Music Society of Detroit on your 75th Anniversary! Reaching this impressive milestone is surely the result of great leadership, vision, and teamwork, so my hat’s off to the entire CMSD family. In addition to the outstanding musicians you have featured over the years, I applaud the work you have done to strengthen your commitment to making performances accessible, to community outreach and education, and to extending your reach to new geographic areas.

Thank you for providing opportunities to experience thoughtfully-crafted and moving performances, as well as opportunities for learning through your important work, which contributes to rich diversity of the arts in Detroit and far beyond. Here’s to you, and to 75 more years of beautiful music making!

With admiration, Ann Meier Baker Director of Music and Opera National Endowment for the Arts

It is my distinct privilege to congratulate everyone whose support and dedication has brought the Chamber Music Society of Detroit to this special 75th Anniversary Celebration. What an immense achievement to have presented glorious performances by distinguished artists for 75 seasons!

Under the stewardship of exemplary leaders and visionaries—Karl Haas, Zalman “Tiny” Konikow, Lois R. Beznos, and Stephen Wogaman—CMSD has delivered first-rate performers, traditional as well as new work, and consistently high-quality programming to Detroit audiences for decades. And they were helped by devoted Board and staff, who have never wavered in their support and enthusiasm for the organization’s mission.

But what is a performance without an appreciative audience? This anniversary is due, in large part, to the decades of audiences who recognized the importance and power of live music, and who, by their attendance, publicly acknowledged the significance and value of the Chamber Music Society in their community as well as in their own lives.

On behalf of the Board of Directors and your colleagues in the membership of Chamber Music America, please accept my most sincere congratulations on this auspicious anniversary, and my deepest appreciation for your contributions to a vital chamber music environment in the United States.

Cordially, Margaret M. Lioi Chief Executive Officer

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75 Years of Listening Together

By Sue Levytsky

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t’s quite the milestone birthday for the Chamber Music Society of Detroit as it turns 75 years old in 2019.

In 1944, when musician and radio personality Dr. Karl Haas founded the Society, chamber music was in its infancy in terms of popularity with America’s music audiences.

Today, thanks to its mission of bringing the highest levels of performance and introducing new works to its discerning audience, the Society is regarded as one of the most prestigious presenters of world-class chamber music in the United States.

Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Yo-Yo Ma, Midori, Murray Perahia, the Guarneri, Cleveland, Tokyo and Juilliard String Quartets and scores of other international artists have appeared on the series throughout the Society’s illustrious history.

This evening’s 75th Anniversary Season Finale Concert offers a prime example of the caliber of

The program from the first concert of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, then called the Chamber Music Festival, April 11, 1945.

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talent who consider Detroit and its music audiences among the most sophisticated in America.

Master pianist Leon Fleisher is joined by four of America’s most exciting young string quartets – the Attacca, Catalyst, Dover and Harlem Quartets. The program also features the premiere of a CMSD Left: Samuel Barber and Karl Haas, 1955. commission, “Trading Fours,” Above: The Chamber Music Society presented by composer and violinist Jessie Aaron Copland conducting a program of his Montgomery of the Catalyst Quartet. music in 1963.

The commissioning of a new work to celebrate a major anniversary, notably one that during the first decade, twenty-four were Detroit is paid for by audience members and small donors, premieres of works by contemporary composers of the was first established in 1954 for the Chamber Music day, including Chausson, Faure, Prokofiev, Villa-Lobos Society’s Tenth Season, when founding CMSD and others, all performed by leading musicians of the President Karl Haas persuaded the great American Detroit Symphony Orchestra at The Detroit Institute of composer Samuel Barber to write what became Arts Lecture Hall, the Society’s home during this period.

“Summer Music”, a work which has since become a The focus of the Society would shift in 1968-69, staple of the wind quintet repertory. when Dr. Zalman “Tiny” Konikow assumed the helm.

Such innovative ideas are representative of the Konikow pursued world-class performers with the leading role played by the CMSD in the city’s classical intent of raising the Society’s profile both nationally and arts arena through the decades. internationally, and he met his goal with astonishing “The Chamber Music Society of Detroit success in his 25 years as president. has fulfilled different roles in the city’s musical Jean-Pierre Rampal, Isaac Stern, landscape through different eras,” says Mark Alicia de Larrocha, Academy of St. Stryker, former arts reporter and music critic Martin in the Fields and the Tokyo with the Detroit Free Press, in talking about String Quartet are just a few of the the historic contributions of the Society. “In famous artists and ensembles that the 1950s and 1960s, under Dr. Haas, it made appearances on the series during provided an opportunity for local musicians Konikow’s tenure. to play chamber music at virtuoso levels, Konikow also moved the series and they focused substantially on what was to Detroit’s yet-to-be-renovated then contemporary music. If not for CMSD, Orchestra Hall, the first organization Detroiters might not have heard the music of to perform there after the historic Prokofiev, Bartok, Poulenc, Samuel Barber and building had sat vacant for several the like. That’s what was new at that time.” years. By re-establishing the series in Tiny Konikow backstage at Of the ninety-two compositions performed Orchestra Hall. the legendary space, CMSD would Chamber Music Society of Detroit

“ Our past has been rooted in the passion of our founding generation” says Wogaman.

“Our future lies in making that passion the Society’s gift to the whole community.” play a critical role in its preservation. to metropolitan Detroit’s classical music scene when when we still have in our midst some members of our “That was quite something to experience,” she established a collaboration with the Wayne State founding generation such as Ruth Adler Schnee and remembers current board University Department of Music in Ronnie Fagin who have attended our concerts for all of member and longtime concert 1995, introducing master classes by our 75 years. goer Rick Grauer. “The place renowned musicians performing on “Here in Detroit,” says concert pianist and Montrose looked like a war zone. But the CMSD series.

Trio member Jon Kimura Parker, “we know that we have the acoustics were there and The Pacifica Quartet, the extremely dedicated music lovers.” we witnessed the rebirth of Claremont Trio and the Shanghai Wogaman sees the Society “growing but in a way that Orchestra Hall.”

Quartet are among the ensembles carries the same sort of participatory listening to new By the late 1980s, the that have participated in the locations regionally.” series had matured and grown program. Gradually increasing its To this end, the CMSD has reshaped its concert in renown. But it also faced scope over the years, the education series and expanded its geographic radius. rising costs and competition program has In 2012, the Society re-established for a dwindling classical music evolved into a a presence in the City of Detroit with Lois Beznos with the Pacifica Quartet at Seligman audience, a conundrum shared multi-faceted its Midtown Series at Wayne State by major classical music organizations across the country. initiative encompassing several University’s Schaver Recital Hall. In 2013, Lois Beznos become the third president of the ensembles serving pre-school through a partnership was established between the Chamber Music Society in 1995 after serving as Chair of college age students across southeast CMSD and the School of Music, Theatre the Board of Trustees since 1987. She recognized the need Michigan each season. and Dance at Oakland University creating for development and pioneered the pursuit of corporate Current President Steve Wogaman, the Oakland Series. support, endowment funding and publicity to ensure who succeeded Beznos in 2011, sees These series, together with the the Society became an adequately funded organization a broadening of the Society’s role Signature Chamber Series at Seligman capable of sustaining itself. Under Beznos’ leadership, the within the greater Detroit area as the Performing Arts Center in Beverly Steve Wogaman has expanded the Society tripled both its subscriber base and its budget. key to continuing its relevance with Hills, bring many of the world’s CMSD’s education and outreach Beznos also introduced another CMSD innovation contemporary audiences. great performers each season to venues programming.

“Our past has been across metro Detroit. Concerts at The War rooted in the passion of our founding Memorial in Grosse Pointe and in Canton were added in generation” says Wogaman. “Our future 2018. lies in making that passion the Society’s Making chamber music – any music – is ultimately gift to the whole community.” about connecting and communicating with an audience.

Wogaman, himself a pianist and Longtime series subscriber and former board member former student of Beaux Arts Trio pianist Rohn Goldman feels that connection on a visceral, Menahem Pressler, is an ardent believer joyous level. “Chamber music at the Society speaks to me in what he calls “the magic of chamber like the musicians were sitting in my living room,” says music.”

Goldman in describing why his passion for the art form “What’s special about chamber music remains strong. “It’s just so moving.” in Detroit is the way this audience Here’s to 75 more years of listening together. listens,” says Wogaman. “This will likely Source: Chamber Music Society of Detroit and Detroit Free Press be the last quarter century milestone Olga Kern’s Detroit recital debut at Seligman Performing Arts Center, October 10, 2018 www.CMSDetroit.org

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75th Anniversary Season Finale SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2019 ORCHESTRA HALL DETROIT, MICHIGAN

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Amy Schroeder, violin Keiko Tokunaga, violin Nathan Schram, viola Andrew Yee, cello

Catalyst Quartet

Jessie Montgomery, violin Karla Donehew Perez, violin Paul Laraia, viola Karlos Rodriguez, cello

Dover Quartet

Joel Link, violin Bryan Lee, violin Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola Camden Shaw, cello

Harlem Quartet

Ilmar Gavilán, violin Melissa White, violin Jaime Amador, viola Felix Umansky, cello with Rachel Calin, bass Sonia Lee, violin

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FELIX MENDELSSOHN Octet for Strings in E-flat major, Op. 20 Allegro moderato ma con fuoco Andante Scherzo: Allegro leggierissimo Presto

JESSIE MONTGOMERY Trading Fours (World Premiere, Commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Detroit with support from subscribers and donors*) INTERMISSION

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Sheep May Safely Graze, from Was mir behagt, ARR. EGON PETRI (“Birthday Cantata”), BWV 208

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414 Allegro Andante Allegretto

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This concert is made possible with generous sponsorship support from

CECILIA BENNER

*Please see page 20 for a list of donors to the 75th Anniversary Composer Commissioning Fund. Contributors to the 75th Season Campaign are listed on pages 26-27.

The Chamber Music Society of Detroit expresses its sincere appreciation to Cecilia Benner, Merilee and Andrew Broder, Cindy and Harold Daitch, Kathleen and Randolph Schein and Roberta Viviano for their generous hospitality in hosting the members of the four quartets this week.

Leon Fleisher appears by arrangement with Frank Salomon Associates, New York.

The Attacca Quartet appears by arrangement with Judson Management Group, Inc., New York.

The Catalyst Quartet appears by arrangement with California Artists Management, Vallejo, California.

The Dover Quartet appears by arrangement with MKI Artists, Burlington, Vermont.

The Harlem Quartet appears by arrangement with Sciolino Artist Management, New York.

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s a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2007, pianist Leon Fleisher was recognized as a “consummate musician whose career is a testament to the life-affirming power of art.”

The child prodigy began to study the piano at the age of four and by the age of nine, the legendary Artur Schnabel invited him to be his student, first in Lake Como, Italy and then in New York, where he nurtured and inspired the young Mr. Fleisher for the next ten years as he evolved into one of the great music masters of our time. Leon Fleisher made his debut with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Pierre Monteux when he was sixteen years old.

Maître Monteux called him “the pianistic find of the century.”

Mr. Fleisher went on to international renown, becoming the first American to win the prestigious Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition in Brussels in 1952. He subsequently enjoyed a prolific recording career, most notably with George Szell and The Cleveland Orchestra, recordings recognized as among the great collaborations in the concerto repertoire. In 1965, before a scheduled tour of Russia with The Cleveland Orchestra, Leon Fleisher began to suffer symptoms of a debilitating condition of his right hand, later diagnosed as focal dystonia, a neurological condition that causes the fingers to curl into the palm of the hand.

After a period of great despair, Mr. Fleisher channeled his creativity in new directions, mastering the piano repertoire for left hand and initiating a career in conducting. He renewed his dedication to teaching at Peabody, where he has been the inspiration to hundreds of students since 1959. Leon Fleisher holds the Andrew W. Mellon Chair at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. As a teacher, he has carried on a tradition that descends directly from Beethoven himself, handed down generationally through Carl Czerny, Theodor Leschetizky and Artur Schnabel to Leon Fleisher himself.

In the mid-90s, with the combined therapies of Botox injections and Rolfing, he regained sufficient use of his right hand, leading to an extraordinary career renaissance. In 2003, Mr. Fleisher joined forces with his wife, pianist Katherine Jacobson, to form the Fleisher-Jacobson Piano Duo, giving concerts worldwide and recording for Sony Classical. Leon Fleisher released the album “Two Hands” in 2004, which went on to hold a Top 5 Billboard Chart position and was hailed by critics as one of the best recordings of the year. “Two Hands” is also the title of the Oscar nominated 17-minute documentary film about his amazing life story. In 2013, Sony Classical issued a 23-CD box set of his entire Chamber Music Society of Detroit

recorded output, and in 2014, Mr. Fleisher released his first solo CD in a decade, the Grammy nominated “All The Things You Are,” which reached No. 1 on the classical charts.

In 2006, in Paris, Leon Fleisher received the honor of Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters by the Minister of Culture of the French government.

Mr. Fleisher continues with an international schedule of performances, orchestral guest conducting and master classes. In recent seasons, he has conducted leading orchestras in the U.S., Canada, China, and Japan; appeared as concerto soloist with orchestras including the Baltimore and Cincinnati Symphonies; performed as recitalist worldwide; and given his memorable master classes at festivals, conservatories, and universities around the country.

In celebration of his 90th year, he appeared in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal as soloist with the Toronto Symphony and Peter Oundjian and at the Gilmore Festival. In 2018-2019 he has continued the celebration with recitals at Carnegie Hall, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, as well as at the Ravinia and Tanglewood Festivals in Summer 2018, and today’s performance at CMSDetroit’s 75th anniversary season finale concert.

Leon Fleisher records for Sony Classical, CBS Masterworks, Vanguard, Desto, Odyssey, and Deutsche Grammophon. Please visit his Facebook page (@leonfleisherofficial) for additional information about touring, recordings, and special projects. www.CMSDetroit.org

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raised by The Strad as “stunning” and for possessing “a musical maturity far beyond its members’ years,” the Attacca Quartet is one of the most dynamic ensembles of its generation.

First prize winners of the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, top prize and Listeners’ Choice award recipients of the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and Grand Prize Winners of the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition, the Attacca Quartet has received acclaim internationally. They have served as Juilliard’s Graduate Resident String Quartet, the Quartet-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Quartet-in-Residence at Texas State University.

Now in its 16th season, the Attacca tours extensively in the United States and abroad. Recent and upcoming highlights include performances at Wolf Trap, Carolina Performing Arts, the Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert series, Lincoln Center’s White Lights Festival, a residency at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, and a Beethoven String Quartet cycle at New York’s Trinity

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Lutheran Church and on the University of Buffalo’s historic Slee concert series. In addition, this season the Quartet makes its debut at the New York Philharmonic’s newly announced Nightcap series and on the Chamber Music Society of Detroit series.

The Attacca recently completed “The 68,” a six-year performance project in New York City featuring the complete string quartets of Franz Joseph Haydn.

It is currently presenting two new series in the New York area: “Recently Added,” featuring the complete string quartets of living composers, and “Based on Beethoven,” a project juxtaposing the complete Beethoven string quartets with new works.

Outside of the US, recent and upcoming performances include Gothenburg Konserthuset, Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao and tours to Japan, Central and South America and Europe, including a debut at London’s Wigmore Hall.

Passionate advocates of contemporary repertoire, the Quartet is dedicated to presenting and recording new works. The next recording project will feature works for string quartet by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Caroline Shaw. Previous recordings include three critically acclaimed albums with Azica Records, including a disc of Michael Ippolito’s string quartets, and the complete works for string quartet by John Adams. The latter was praised by Steve Smith of The New York Times as a “vivacious, compelling set,” and described the Attacca Quartet’s playing as “exuberant, funky, and … exactingly nuanced.” The album was the recipient of the 2013 National Federation of Music Clubs Centennial Chamber Music Award. Additional awards for their recordings include both the Arthur Foote Award from the Harvard Musical Association and Lotos Prize in the Arts from the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation.

The Attacca Quartet has engaged in extensive educational and community outreach projects, serving as guest artists and teaching fellows at the Lincoln Center Institute, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and Bravo! Vail Valley, among others.

For more information about the Attacca Quartet, please visit www. attacaquartet.com.

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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra congratulates the Chamber Music Society of Detroit on 75 years of sharing the joy of great music in our community.

We are proud that together we share the history of Orchestra Hall.

CATALYST QUARTET

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ailed by The New York Times at their Carnegie Hall debut as “invariably energetic and finely burnished…playing with earthy vigor,” the Grammy Award-winning Catalyst Quartet comprises top laureates and alumni of the internationally acclaimed Sphinx Competition. Praised for its rhythmic energy, polyphonic clarity and tight ensemble-playing, the ensemble has toured throughout the United States and abroad, including sold-out performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, at Chicago’s Harris Theater, Miami’s New World Center and Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Catalyst Quartet has done residencies at the University of Michigan, University of Washington, Rice University, Houston’s Society for the Performing Arts, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Pennsylvania State University. Internationally, the quartet has performed and taught master classes in residence at the University of South Africa, England’s In Harmony Project, and the Teatro de Bellas Artes in Cali, Colombia.

Catalyst Quartet has been invited as guest artist at important music festivals, including Mainly Mozart in San Diego, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Detroit, Sitka Music Festival and Juneau Jazz and Classics www.CMSDetroit.org

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in Alaska, the Strings Music Festival and the Vail International Dance Festival in Colorado, and the Grand Canyon Music Festival in Arizona, where they appear annually. They opened the Festival del Sole in Napa, California with Joshua Bell in 2014 and participated that year in England’s Aldeburgh Music Foundation String Quartet Residency with two performances in Jubilee Hall.

The quartet served as principal players and featured ensemble with the Sphinx Virtuosi on six national tours. Recent seasons have brought international engagements in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Puerto Rico, and expanded tours throughout the United States. The ensemble’s New York City presence has included concerts on the café series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre, for Schneider Concerts at The New School, and six concerts with Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant for Jazz at Lincoln Center. The subsequent recording with Ms. McLorin Salvant won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album. The quartet launched its New York concert series CQ@Howl in 2018.

The Catalyst’s recordings reflect the ensemble’s wide range of interests. Their debut album, The Bach/Gould Project, features their own arrangement of J.S. Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations paired with Glenn Gould’s String Quartet Op. 1. Catalyst Quartet can also be heard on Strum, the solo debut of CQ violinist, composer Jessie Montgomery; Bandaneon y cuerdas, tango inspired music for string quartet and Bandaneon by JP Jofre; and Dreams and Daggers, their two-CD Grammy winning album with Cecile McLorin Salvant.

Catalyst has performed on numerous television and radio broadcasts for Detroit Public Television, American Public Media’s Performance Today, as well as local stations in Chicago, Houston, Seattle and Vermont. The ensemble has been featured in The Strad and Strings Magazine.

Founded by the Sphinx Organization, the Catalyst Quartet combines a serious commitment to diversity and education with a passion for contemporary works. In 2016 the Quartet completed its sixth national tour as principal players and featured ensemble with the Sphinx Virtuosi. Catalyst Quartet members serve as principal faculty at the Sphinx Performance Academy at The Cleveland Institute of Music and Curtis Institute of Music.

Additional information about the quartet with links to audio and video performances can be found at www.catalystquartet.com.

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he phenomenal Dover Quartet catapulted to international stardom following a stunning sweep of the 2013 Banff Competition, at which they won every prize. A recent winner of the Cleveland Quartet Award, and honored with the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Dover has become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world. The Quartet’s rise from up-and-coming young ensemble to occupying a spot at the top of their field has been “practically meteoric” (Strings magazine). With its burnished warmth, incisive rhythms, and natural phrasing, the Quartet’s distinctive sound has helped confirm its status as “the young American string quartet of the moment” (New Yorker). The Quartet serves as the quartet-in-residence for the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, Chamber Music Northwest, Artosphere, the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, and Peoples’ Symphony in New York, and was recently named the first-ever quartet-in-residence for the Kennedy Center.

In 2018-19 the Dover Quartet performs more than a hundred concerts around North America, including performances at the Kennedy Center, San Francisco Performances, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Spivey Hall, Boston’s Celebrity Series, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, and Carnegie Hall. In addition, the Dover’s season features tours of Hong Kong,

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Europe, and Australia, collaborations with Emanuel Ax, Inon Barnatan, Peter Serkin, Anthony McGill, and Roomful of Teeth, and premieres of new works

by Caroline Shaw and Matan Porat. The Quartet was thrilled to be invited by the maverick filmmaker and cultural icon David Lynch to be featured at his Los Angeles Festival of Disruption.

Cedille Records released the Quartet’s sophomore album in 2017, entitled Voices of Defiance: 1943, 1944, 1945. The recording takes listeners on a powerful journey through works written during World War II by Viktor Ullmann, Dimitri Shostakovich, and Simon Laks. The 2016-17 season saw the release of its all-Mozart debut recording on the Cedille label, a nod to the 1965 debut album of the Guarneri Quartet, whose founding violist, the late Michael Tree, joined the Dover Quartet on the recording.

In addition, the group has participated in three complete Beethoven quartet cycles, including the University at Buffalo’s famous “Slee Cycle” – which has presented annual Beethoven quartet cycles since 1955 and has featured the likes of the Budapest, Guarneri, and Cleveland Quartets – and will record the cycle over the next three seasons. The group’s world-class collaborators have included pianists Anne-Marie McDermott, Emanuel Ax, Marc-André Hamelin, JeanYves Thibaudet, Peter Serkin, and Jon Kimura Parker; violists Roberto Díaz and Cynthia Phelps; bassist Edgar Meyer; and the Pacifica and Escher Quartets.

In the spring of 2016, the Dover Quartet was recognized with the Hunt Family Award, one of the inaugural Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Awards, and in past years has taken top prizes at the Fischoff Competition and the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. All four Quartet members are consummate solo artists: first violinist Joel Link took first prize at the Menuhin Competition; violinist Bryan Lee and violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt have appeared as soloists with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic, respectively; and cellist Camden Shaw released a solo album debut on the Unipheye Music label. As Strad observes, “With their exceptional interpretative maturity, tonal refinement, and taut ensemble,” the Dover Quartet is “pulling away from their peers.”

Hailed as “the next Guarneri Quartet” (Chicago Tribune), the Dover Quartet draws from the lineage of that distinguished ensemble, as well that of the Cleveland and Vermeer Quartets; its members studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where they were mentored extensively by Shmuel Ashkenasi, James Dunham, Norman Fischer, Kenneth Goldsmith, Joseph Silverstein, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, and 75th Season Anniversary • May 2019 • 15

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Peter Wiley. It was at Curtis that the Quartet first formed, and its name pays tribute to Dover Beach by fellow Curtis alumnus Samuel Barber. The group has since returned for residencies to Rice in 2011-13, and to Curtis, where it became the conservatory’s first Quartet-in-Residence, in 2013-14. In addition, in 2015 the Dover was appointed the first Resident Ensemble of Peoples’ Symphony Concerts in the 116-year history of New York City’s oldest concert series.

The Dover Quartet is dedicated to sharing its music with underserved communities and is actively involved with Music for Food, an initiative enabling musicians to raise resources and awareness in the fight against hunger.

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he New York-based Harlem Quartet, currently serving a three-year residency at London’s Royal College of Music, has been praised for its “panache” by The New York Times and hailed in the Cincinnati Enquirer for “bringing a new attitude to classical music, one that is fresh, bracing and intelligent.” Since its public debut at Carnegie Hall in 2006, the ensemble has thrilled audiences and students in 47 states as well as in the U.K., France, Belgium, Brazil, Panama, Canada, Venezuela, Japan, and South Africa.

Harlem Quartet strives to offer diverse programming combining music from the standard string quartet canon with jazz, Latin, and contemporary works.

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audiences through the discovery and presentation of varied repertoire that includes works by minority composers. Passion for this work has made the quartet a leading ensemble in both educational and community engagement activities. In 2016 the Harlem received a Guarneri String Quartet grant from Chamber Music America, allowing it to participate in an extended performance and educational residency in Mobile, Alabama that included a close partnership with the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. In 2017-18 the quartet undertook a week of residency activities with the Santa Fe Youth Symphony. And since 2015 it has led an annual workshop at Music Mountain in Falls Village, Connecticut, culminating in a concert at that venue.

The Harlem Quartet has collaborated with such distinguished artists as classical pianists Michael Brown, Awadagin Pratt, Misha Dichter and FeiFei; jazz pianists Chick Corea and Aldo López-Gavilán; violist Ida Kavafian; cellist Carter Brey; clarinetists Paquito D’Rivera, Eddie Daniels, Anthony McGill, and David Shifrin; saxophonist Tim Garland; jazz legends Ted Nash, Gary Burton, Stanley Clarke, and John Patitucci; the Shanghai Quartet; and Imani Winds. Highlights of Harlem Quartet’s 2018-19 season include debut appearances at Koerner Hall in Toronto and at the Detroit Jazz Festival (with the Eddie Daniels Quartet), as well as today’s return to the Chamber Music Society of Detroit. Also scheduled are appearances at Ithaca College, SUNY Fredonia, Shriver Hall, the Schubert Club (St. Paul, MN), Youngstown State University, Chamber Music Columbus, Dumbarton Concerts, and the Phoenix Chamber Music Society.

The Harlem Quartet has performed a variety of works written for string quartet and orchestra. In 2012, with the Chicago Sinfonietta, the quartet gave the world premiere performance of Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story arranged for string quartet and orchestra by Randall Craig Fleischer. The Chicago Sinfonietta and the quartet also recorded the work, along with music for string quartet and orchestra by Michael Abels and Benjamin Lees, for the Cedille label.

The Harlem Quartet has been featured on WNBC, CNN, NBC’s Today Show, WQXR-FM, and the PBS News Hour, and performed for President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House. The quartet made its European debut in October 2009 performing at the residence of the U.S. ambassador to the U.K., and returned to Europe as guest artists and faculty members of the Musica Mundi International Festival in Belgium.

The quartet’s recording career began in 2007 when White Pine Music Chamber Music Society of Detroit

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IMPACTING OUR COMMUNITY.

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Congratulating the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, enriching the cultural life of Metro Detroit for 75 years.

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issued Take the A Train, a release featuring the string quartet version of that jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn; the CD was highlighted that year in the November issue of Strings magazine. A second CD, featuring three string quartets by Walter Piston, was released in 2010 by Naxos. The quartet’s third recording, released in 2011, is a collaboration with pianist Awadagin Pratt and showcases works by American composer Judith Lang Zaimont. More recently the quartet collaborated with jazz pianist Chick Corea in a Grammy-winning Hot House album that included Corea’s “Mozart Goes Dancing,” which won a separate Grammy as Best Instrumental Composition. Its latest jazz album, recorded with the Eddie Daniels Quartet and released in June 2018 on Resonance Records, is called Heart of Brazil: A Tribute to Egberto Gismonti.

Harlem Quartet was founded in 2006 by The Sphinx Organization, a national nonprofit dedicated to building diversity in classical music and providing access to music education in underserved communities. In 2013 the quartet completed its third and final year in the Professional String Quartet Training Program at New England Conservatory, under the tutelage of Paul Katz, Donald Weilerstein, Kim Kashkashian, Miriam Fried, and Martha Katz.

For more information, please visit www.harlemquartet.com.

RACHEL CALIN Bassist Rachel Calin, praised by The New York Times as “a lyrical soloist in command of her instrument,” won First Prize at the Juilliard Concerto Competition in 1994 and made her concerto debut in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center with the Juilliard Orchestra. She has subsequently made solo appearances with Sejong Soloists and the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, Ms. Calin has appeared in concert throughout Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the United States, and has collaborated with MyungWha Chung, Lawrence Dutton, Frank Huang, Ron Leonard, Itzhak Perlman, and Gil Shaham, among others.

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Ms. Calin has also performed frequently with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, at Live from Lincoln Center, the Aspen Music Festival, and the Mostly Mozart Festival, and can be heard on numerous soundtracks including “The Departed” and “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” among others.

Rachel Calin is a graduate of The Juilliard School, and is currently on faculty at the Perlman Music Program and the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. She performs on a double bass crafted by Nicolo Amati in 1654.

SONIA LEE Violinist Sonia Lee, born in Buffalo and based in Detroit, made her concerto debut with the Buffalo Philharmonic while still in high school and shortly after began her studies at the Juilliard School, where her teachers included Paul Kantor and Dorothy DeLay. While still an undergraduate, Sonia won an audition with the Toronto Symphony and was promoted to Principal Second Violinist the following year. Sonia has also appeared as concerto soloist with the New York Chamber Orchestra at the 92nd Street Y, the Toronto Symphony, the Saginaw Bay Symphony, the Grosse Pointe Symphony and the Michigan Sinfonietta.

Also active as a chamber musician, Sonia has concertized across the U.S., Canada and in Europe. She was a featured artist at the CBC Glenn Gould Studio with Marc-Andre Hamelin, Amanda Forsyth and Martin Beaver and performed with the AVANTI Saraste Chamber Players for CBC Radio. In Michigan she has appeared with Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, at the Scarab Club, on the Cranbrook Artist Series and the Schoolcraft Recital Series.

Sonia Lee is a dedicated violin pedagogue, teaching privately and coaching members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Civic Youth Ensembles Honors Program. Many of her students have gone on to be accepted at top tier schools of music and conservatories, win positions with major orchestras and place in international competitions.

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Looking Back, Looking Forward: The Chamber Music Society of Detroit’s 75th Anniversary Composer Commission

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n 1954, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit was fast approaching its first big milestone anniversary: the Tenth Season. In one of the greatest stories of its long history, the CMSD chose to celebrate the occasion by commissioning a new work from the great American composer Samuel Barber. To fund the commission, founding CMSD President Karl Haas proposed a “public subscription,” inviting the Chamber Music Society’s audience members to contribute what they could to underwrite Mr. Barber’s fee. It was the first time a commission had ever been funded in this manner, and Haas hoped this precedent would be emulated by other communities around the country, creating, in his words, “an effective, democratic means to provide funds for the advancement of American music and musicians.”

In his notebooks, Haas wrote, “My joy was being stopped in the street by people who had given me two bucks. ‘When am I going to hear my piece?’ they’d ask.”

The project was a huge success. In March 1956 a wind quintet comprising Detroit Symphony principal musicians premiered Barber’s new “Summer Music” to a packed house in the Lecture Hall at the Detroit Institute of Arts, filled with the subscribers who had supported the 10th Anniversary Composer Commission and gathered to hear the first-ever performance of “their piece” — a work that is now a well-established staple of the wind Composer Samuel Barber quintet repertoire.

Sixty-five years later, in honor of that history and the 75th anniversary, we chose to fund a new commission in the same way, and invited Jessie Montgomery to write a new work that is receiving its world premiere today.

We are proud to announce that over 120 donors have made contributions of $75 to fund this commission, and we take this opportunity to thank them for making today’s very special performance possible.

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Contributors to the 75th Anniversary Commissioning Fund Sandra Altman Suzanne Antisdel Lori & Mathias Bahnmueller Seymour Baxter Cecilia Benner, Raymond Benner, in Memory Claire & Arnold Berkman Johanna & Martin Bermann Ann & Charles Bieneman Doris & Eric Billes Linda & Maurice Binkow Lee & Paul Blizman James Bond Jerome Bookstein Lorraine Bookstein, in Memory Michael Bradie Bonnie & Les Bricker Carol & Stephen Bromberg Arthur Brown Roberta Brown & Keith Wissman Carol Chadwick & Taylor Burleson Lauri & Murray Christianson Marilyn Citron Lois Pincus Cohn & Avern Cohn Richard Cowan Damien Crutcher Cindy & Harold Daitch Danny DeRose & Vinnie Roberts Adrienne & Robert Z. Feldstein Adrienne Ruby & Herschel Fink Rita Folbe Harry Francis Nicole Francis Sara & Michael Frank Christine Pavelka & Maximilian Fuhrig Margot & Herbert Gardner Charles Gelfond Harriet & Allan Gelfond

Maria Y. Etienne & Howard Goldberg Rohn Goldman Phebe & Sidney Goldstein Barbara & Paul Goodman Enid & Richard Grauer Ivan Green Paul Groffsky Mary Ellen & Harold Gurewitz Amy and Mark Haimann Sue & Chang Han Fay Herman Suzanne Burke & Robert Hick Judith & Alan Hudson Kenneth Hull Jeanette J. Isenhour Nancy Jones Agatha Pfeiffer Kalkanis Diane & John Kaplan Ann & Norman Katz Barbara and Edward Klarman Diane Klein & Jeffrey Maisels Sharon & Jerry Knoppow Monica & Robert Koenig Sandra Landau David Lebenbom, in Memory Lorraine Lerner Jan Leventer Carol Levin Terry Lewis Diana Lieberman Barbara Linnenbrink Laura & Channing Lipson Beth Denenberg Lowe & Jonathan Lowe Ida Milstein Lowe & A. Freda Milstein, in Memory Kypros Markou Cindy Maxwell-Philips & John Philips Craig R. McLean Lynne Metty Barbara Milberger

Yvonne & Joel Milinsky Jane Miller Wendy S. Sheine & Edwin Monsell Cyril Moscow Surayyah R. Muwwakkil Anne Neale Marilyn Pincus Martha Pleiss Dolores Silverstein & Leonard Posner Diane & Morton Raban Sandra & Claude Reitelman Rick Robinson Joan & Arthur Rose Helen Rowin, in Memory Beth & Richard Rubinstein Loretta Ryder Jeanne Salathiel Kathleen O’Toole Schein & Randolph Schein Sally Schottenfels Susan Sheiner Susan & Henry Shevitz Norma Jean Shufro Aimee Ergas & Tor Shwayder Lila Silverman Barbara Solms Gail Ernstein & David Sonnenschein Ruth Tobias Kim & Ngoc Trinh Marilyn Tuchow Tina & Roger Valade Gerri & Ron Vander Molen Bloomfield Hills Financial Roberta Viviano Willa & Andy Walker Sanford Waxer Elaine Weingarden Kathleen & Ronald Whitney Jackie & Bob Wiggins Beverly & Barry Williams Rissa & Sheldon Winkelman Susan Winshall Michele & Stephen Wogaman Monica Ziegelman Richard Zirkin Chamber Music Society of Detroit

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JESSIE MONTGOMERY

A native of New York, Jessie Montgomery is a violinist, composer and music educator who composes and performs in her own film, theater and concert music, and is a regular performer in New York’s classical and new music scenes.

Jessie began her violin studies at the highly respected Third Street Music School Settlement and later received a Bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School in Violin Performance. She joined Community MusicWorks in Providence, Rhode Island, a nationally recognized leader in community development and music education, where she became resident composer and a member of the Providence String Quartet. She later was a founding member of PUBLIQuartet, an ensemble of composers and arrangers which features members’ own music as well as music of other New York composers.

Since 1999, Jessie has been affiliated with The Sphinx Organization, which supports the accomplishments of young African-American and Latino string players. In addition to being a two-time Sphinx Competition laureate, she was Concertmaster of the 2009 national tour, faculty of the Sphinx Performance Academy, and became a member of the acclaimed Catalyst Quartet in 2012. She also performs regularly with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, and has appeared with The Knights, East Coast Chamber Orchestra and NOVUS New York.

In addition to her accomplishments as a performer, Jessie received her Master’s Degree in Composition and Film Scoring from New York University; her www.CMSDetroit.org

composition teachers and mentors have included Ira Newborn, Joan Tower, Derek Bermel and Laura Kaminsky.

Jessie served as Composer-in-Residence with the Sphinx Virtuosi, which performed her compositions on tour for three seasons. A review in the Washington Post called her music “turbulent, wildly colorful and exploding with life.” In 2014, Jessie was awarded Sphinx’s generous MPower grant to assist in the recording of her acclaimed debut album, Strum: Music for Strings, for Azica Records.

Since 2012, Jessie has received commissions and performance opportunities from the American Composers Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta and numerous chamber groups throughout New York. Last Fall, Jessie served as a Virginia B. Toulmin Fellow at the Centre for Ballet and the Arts, where she worked on a new ballet for Dance Theater of Harlem and the Virginia Arts Festival in collaboration with choreographer Claudia Schreier. Other upcoming highlights include premieres of new work for soprano Julia Bullock, the Muir Quartet and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, in addition to today’s premiere for the Chamber Music Society of Detroit.

For more information, please visit www.jessiemontgomery.com.

ABOUT “TRADING FOURS”

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rading Fours is a celebration of the chamber music medium closest to my heart—the string quartet. As a member of the Catalyst Quartet over the past eight seasons I have grown quite attached to the repertoire that we play which has become a part of our canon—from Haydn and Beethoven to Bartok, Ginastera, Glass, and Shaw to our own arrangements of popular American folk songs—and it is rare that we have the opportunity to share the stage with our colleagues in the string quartet world to mix and mingle our unique voices, sharing the effects of our collective repertories with audiences and

each other. With Trading Fours, for four string quartets (not for “string orchestra” as a few people have tried to suggest) I highlight each individual quartet as a unit, taking turns with group “solos”, trading motifs across the stage, much like a jazz combo “trades fours“ during a tune. The result, I hope, is one that reminds us all of just how exciting it is to make and listen to music in Fours! Thanks to the Chamber Music Society of Detroit and Steve Wogaman for bringing us together to celebrate chamber music in this epic formation.

—Jessie Montgomery

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Fall for the Clarinet Miro Quartet with Anthony McGill, clarinet Saturday, September 14, 2019 Mozart Clarinet Quintet

Danish String Quartet Saturday, February 1, 2020 Quartet in B-flat, Op. 130 with the Grosse Fuge

Paquito D’Rivera, clarinet with the Harlem Quartet Saturday, October 12, 2019 Bolcom, Debussy, Weber, D’Rivera

Alisa Weilerstein, cello & Inon Barnatan, piano Saturday, March 28, 2020 Complete Cello Sonatas

Polonsky-Shifrin-Wiley Trio Saturday, November 16, 2019 Brahms Clarinet Trio

Yefim Bronfman, piano Saturday, April 18, 2020 Appassionata Sonata

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Jaap Ter Linden, Baroque cello Fri., Dec. 13, Midtown Detroit Sat., Dec. 14, Beverly Hills 3rd Annual Holiday Baroque Bach: Cello Suites 1, 3 & 6

Gryphon Trio Fri., Jan. 24, War Memorial Sat., Jan. 25, Village Theater Sun., Jan. 26, Varner Recital Hall Beethoven Piano Trio Cycle

Randall Goosby, violin Fri., Feb. 28, Midtown Detroit Sat., Feb. 29, Beverly Hills First Prize, 2018 Young Concert Artists Audition

Harlem Quartet Fri., Oct. 11, Midtown Detroit (see also Signature Series) Music by Wynton Marsalis, William Grant Still and more

Imani Winds with Tian Tian Fri., Nov. 1, War Memorial Sat., Nov. 2, Village Theater Sun., Nov. 3, Varner Recital Hall Poulenc Sextet and more

Vera Quartet & Meng-Chieh Liu Fri., Mar. 13, War Memorial Sat., Mar. 14, Village Theater Sun., Mar. 15, Varner Recital Hall Franck: Piano Quintet and more

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5470 Chene St., Suite 205 • Detroit, MI 48211 Ticket Service: 313-335-3300 Administrative Offices: 313-335-3350 • Fax: 313-335-3349 www.CMSDetroit.org BOARD OF DIRECTORS & OFFICERS Randolph Schein Chairman Stephen Wogaman President Paul J. Blizman Secretary Lori Bahnmueller Thomas H. Bergh Carol Chadwick Wendy Zimmer Cox Damien Crutcher Harold Daitch Paris Dean Norah Duncan IV Jim Evola

Robert D. Hicks Treasurer Howard S. Goldberg Richard Grauer Harold Z. Gurewitz Karen Isble Diane Kaplan Barbara Klarman Martin Liebman Jonathan Lowe Anthony Marek

Cindy Maxwell-Philips Richard Robinson Susan Sheiner Norma Jean Shufro Eric Thomas Roberta Viviano Ronald E. Whitney Jackie Wiggins Gary Wozniak

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Arnold Steinhardt, Violin Richard Stoltzman, Clarinet Dawn Upshaw, Soprano Melissa White, Violin Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Composer

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From the world-renowned Emerson String Quartet performing all of Beethoven's string quartets to an unforgeeable recital featuring virtuoso violinist and MacArthur Genius, Leila Josefowicz, the 2019 Fessval is shaping up to be one that you cannot miss. These remarkable arssts and many more are coming to the Fessval. Are you?

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THANK YOU CAMPAIGN FOR THE 75TH SEASON

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he work of crafting this historic season began nearly three years ago, with a comprehensive quiet campaign to build $1 million in new support for CMSDetroit programs and operations.

The Chamber Music Society of Detroit is pleased to acknowledge individuals whose gifts over these three years has totaled $300 or more, as well as those institutions and businesses whose support during the 75th season itself has made it all possible.

In addition, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit is pleased to acknowledge those individuals whose previously-established endowed funds of $10,000 or more have helped to support this historic season, as well as those persons who have made generous new endowment, planned giving and/or comprehensive gift commitments throughout the Campaign period.

The work of this Campaign is ongoing. To explore additional opportunities to support the ongoing work of the Chamber Music Society of Detroit, please contact Steve Wogaman at 313-335-3350 x4.

INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTORS OF $300 OR MORE, 2016-17 THROUGH 2018-19 $25,000 and up Floy & Lee Barthel Cecilia Benner Lee & Paul Blizman Lois Pincus Cohn & Avern Cohn Andrea Page Kathleen O’Toole Schein & Randolph Schein Norma Jean Shufro $10,000 - $24,999 Sandy & Thomas Bergh Linda & Maurice Binkow Cindy & Harold Daitch Teresa & Jim Evola Enid & Richard Grauer Mary Ellen & Harold Gurewitz Suzanne Burke & Robert Hicks Diane & John Kaplan Barbara and Edward Klarman Susan Sheiner Dolores Silverstein & Leonard Posner Roberta Viviano $5,000 - $9,999 Carol Chadwick & Taylor Burleson Maria Y. Etienne & Howard Goldberg Karen & Andrew Isble Adrienne & Robert Z. Feldstein Monica & Robert Koenig Miriam Sandweiss Marjorie Simon Richard Sonenklar and Gregory Haynes Miriam Leventhal & Norman Tepley Kathleen & Ronald Whitney Erica & Don Wogaman $2,500 - $4,999 Wendy & Andy Cox Adrienne Ruby & Herschel Fink Carol & Burke Fossee Fay Herman Kenneth Hull Bill Hulsker Carole & Norman Hyman Ellen Kahn Stanley Levy

Cindy Maxwell-Philips & John Philips Lauri Ellias & James Murphy Marilyn Pincus Diane & Morton Raban Jeanne Salathiel Susan & Henry Shevitz Rissa & Sheldon Winkelman Carolyn & Phil Wogaman Michele & Stephen Wogaman Gary Wozniak Monica Ziegelman $1,000 - $2,499 Nina Dodge Abrams & Howard Abrams Beth Goldman & David Anderson Claire & Arnold Berkman Ann & Charles Bieneman Joyce & George Blum Carol & Stephen Bromberg Richard Cowan Harry Francis Sara & Michael Frank Rohn Goldman Linda Golumbia Amy and Mark Haimann DeWard Johnson, Jr. Ann & Norman Katz Michael Kuhne Lorraine Lerner Carol Levin Laura & Channing Lipson Beth Denenberg Lowe & Jonathan Lowe Anthony Marek Jane Miller Wendy S. Sheine & Edwin Monsell Jerrilyn & David Nathanson Martha Pleiss Joan & Arthur Rose Beth & Richard Rubinstein Dorothy & Herschel Sandberg Norma & Richard Shaw Joel & Ruth Shayne Gail Ernstein & David Sonnenschein Mildred Subrin Willa & Andy Walker Jackie & Bob Wiggins

$300 - $999 Suzanne Antisdel David Assemany Lori & Matthias Bahnmueller Elizabeth Baergen Jeanne Hansen & Scott Bertschy Doris & Eric Billes James Bond Bonnie & Les Bricker Marilyn & Leonard Brose Lynne Cookson Suzi & Larry Dell Barbara & Samuel Dorchen John Dreifus Susan & Daniel Drucker Margaret Dufault Nancy & William Duffy Christine Pavelka & Maximilian Fuhrig Margot & Herbert Gardner Harriet & Allan Gelfond Arlene Gendelman Anne Ginn Barbara & Paul Goodman Ivan Green Cheryl & Bruce Hack Cleo & James Hamilton Marian Kantor Jean Klarich Sharon Klein Diane Klein & Jeffrey Maisels Margot Kohler Dana & Jim Lentini Fran Lewis Diana Lieberman Richard Lobert Lynne Metty Joyce & James Montante Cyril Moscow James Edwards & Pat Murray Sandra Nathanson Hedda & William Panzer Stephanie & Peter Ruseckas Loretta Ryder Charles Schmitter Sally Schottenfels

Lillian Sherbin Lila Silverman Gail Ernstein & David Sonnenschein Jill & Steven Stone Marilyn Tuchow Gerald Weintraub Sandra & Robert Weitz Beverly & Barry Williams Susan Winshall Loretta & Seymour Ziegelman Richard Zirkin INSTITUTIONAL AND BUSINESS CONTRIBUTORS SUPPORTING THE 75TH SEASON $25,000 and up Paul M. Angell Family Foundation Michigan Council for Arts & Cultural Affairs National Endowment for the Arts $10,000 - $24,999 Chemical Bank Flagstar Foundation Greenleaf Trust Kresge Foundation PVS Chemicals Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Legacy Fund at the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan $5,000 - $9,999 Azimuth Capital Management DTE Energy Foundation Evola Music Northern Trust Bank Varnum Law $1,000 - $4,999 Arts Midwest Touring Fund Comerica Wealth & Institutional Management Goodness Gracious Floral Honigman, Miller, Schwartz & Cohn LLP E. Nakamichi Foundation David and Andrea Page Family Fund The Irving and Ethel Palman Foundation Roberts Restaurant Group

MEDIA SPONSOR WRCJ-FM Radio 90.9 PLANNED GIFTS AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO ENDOWMENT FUND Established Endowed Funds Supporting the 75th Season Beverly Franzblau Baker Endowment Fund Lee & Paul Blizman Endowment for Contemporary Music Cindy & Harold Daitch Chair in Cello Performance Dr. I. Harold & Gertrude S. Friedman Fund Diane L. & John A. Kaplan Chair in Piano Performance David & Andrea Page 1797 Concert, Celebrating Music of the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Periods Kathleen O’Toole Schein & Randolph Schein Emerging Artist Chair Norma Jean and Arthur S. Shufro Chair in Violin Performance New Endowment, Planned Giving and Comprehensive Campaign Commitments of $10,000 and above $250,000+ Kathleen O’Toole Schein & Randolph Schein $100,000 - $249,999 Lee & Paul Blizman Fay Herman $10,000 - $99,999 Lorraine & Jerome Bookstein Rohn Goldman Enid & Richard Grauer Diane & John Kaplan Susan & Henry Shevitz Norma Jean Shufro