Frankly Music - Words and Music

Monday, Dec. 2, 2013– 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013- 7 p.m.

Bader Recital Hall Wisconsin Conservatory of Music

Words and Music Kelly Markgraf, baritone Jeannie Yu, piano Frank Almond, violin Margot Schwartz, violin Nicholas Cords, viola Wei-Ting Kuo, viola Stephen Balderston, cello Julian Schwarz, cello

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PROGR A M Der Erlkönig, D. 328.......................................................................................................... Franz Schubert text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1797-1828) Kelly Markgraf, baritone Jeannie Yu, piano From Hermit Songs (1953), text eighth century Gaelic St. Ita’s Vision The Desire for Hermitage Sure on this shining night (1938).................................................................................Samuel Barber text by James Agee (1910-1981) Frank Almond, violin Jeannie Yu, piano Dover Beach (1931).............................................................................................................Samuel Barber text by Matthew Arnold (1910-1981) Kelly Markgraf, baritone Frank Almond, violin Margot Schwartz, violin Nicholas Cords, viola Julian Schwarz, cello War Scenes (1969).......................................................................................................................Ned Rorem text by Walt Whitman b. 1923 1. A Night Battle 2. Specimen Case 3. An Incident 4. Inauguration Ball 5. The Real War Kelly Markgraf, baritone Jeannie Yu, piano Intermission Verklärte Nacht (or Transfigured Night), Op. 4 for String Sextet............. Arnold Schoenberg From a poem by Richard Dehmel (1874-1951) Frank Almond, violin Margot Schwartz, violin Nicholas Cords, viola Wei-Ting Kuo, viola Stephen Balderston, cello Julian Schwarz, cello

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K E L LY M A R K G R A F Possessing a voice that the New York Times calls “heart-stirring” as well as a “charismatic” and “powerful” stage presence, American baritone Kelly Markgraf is rapidly distinguishing himself on the opera and concert stages.

Kelly Markgraf’s 2013-2014 calendar brings concert performances of Beethoven’s 9th Symphonywith Donato Cabrera and the Green Bay Symphony as well as Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Kent Tritle and the Oratorio Society of NY at Carnegie Hall. He will also be the featured vocalist on a chamber music program of Barber, Schubert, and Rorem with Frank Almond’s Frankly Music. Additionally, he returns to the San Francisco Symphony for its traditional New Year’s Eve Concert, under the baton of Michael Francis, in a program of Viennese operetta and popular showstoppers.

Highlights of his 2012-2013 season include appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, for Le rossignol and L’enfant et les sortilèges under Charles Dutoit; the Los Angeles Philharmonic, for Bach’s O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel;Madison Opera, for the title role in Don Giovanni; a recital with the Marilyn Horne Foundation at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, and an art song program, “Love Songs”, with the The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Kelly Markgraf debuts with the San Francisco Symphony in summer 2013, as Bernardo in performances of West Side Story, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas. He subsequently returns to Aspen Music Festival, as Ned Keene in a semi-staged performance of Peter Grimes, conducted by Robert Spano.

In the 2011-2012 season he took the stage as Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Kentucky Opera, made his role debut as Malatesta in Don Pasquale at Hawaii Opera in Honolulu, and sang Papageno in Die Zauberflöte with Apollo’s Fire Baroque Orchestra. In concert, he joined the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra for Ned Rorem’s Aftermath. The baritone’s 2012 summer season brought appearances with the New York Philharmonic for concerts with Music Director Alan Gilbert, theOklahoma Mozart Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, and the Music@Menlo Festival with acclaimed pianist Gilbert Kalish.

His 2010-2011 season included the US Premiere of Shostakovich’s War Front Songs at Symphony Space, Escamillo opposite mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke with Brazos Valley Symphony, the title role in Don Giovanni with Opera Omaha, Allazim in Mozart’s Zaide at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall with Maestro David Robertson, and the role of Zebul in Handel’s Jephtha with Kent Tritle for Sacred Music in a Sacred Space. He also appeared in a leading role in a workshop of Michael Torke’s opera Senna as part of the Metropolitan Opera/Lincoln Center Theater Opera/Theater Commissions Program, sang Mahler and Brahms at the Caramoor International Music Festival, and Schumann Lieder at the Music@Menlo Festival with internationally renowned pianist Wu Han. In the 2009-2010 season, Mr. Markgraf made his New York City Opera debut as Masetto in Christopher Alden’s new production of Don Giovanni, followed by Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Omaha and the Crested Butte Music Festival. He also made his role debut as Escamillo alongside Kate Aldrich as Carmen with Pittsburgh Opera. In concert, he appeared as the baritone soloist in Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, Paul Moravec’s Songs of Love and Warwith Princeton Pro Musica, followed by Schumann’s Dichterliebe at the La Jolla Music Festival with pianist Ken Noda. In recital, Music and Words

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he appeared at Carnegie Hall as part of the Marilyn Horne Foundation’s The Song Continues series.

Kelly Markgraf is a distinguished graduate of the Juilliard Opera Center, where his work included the roles of Mamoud in a staged concert of John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer, conducted by the composer, and Ford in Verdi’s Falstaff in a production directed by Stephen Wadsworth and conducted by Keri-Lynn Wilson. In fall 2008, he participated in the knockout West Side Storyportion of the all-Bernstein program, which opened Carnegie Hall’s season and was nationally televised under Michael Tilson Thomas. Mr. Markgraf also made his Pittsburgh Opera debut as Ragged Man in Ricky Ian Gordon’s The Grapes of Wrath, a role he created at Minnesota Opera in 2007. In spring 2009, he was part of Ken Noda’s Winterreise project at The Juilliard School.

Mr. Markgraf is a former member of the Resident Artist Program at Minnesota Opera, where he sang Mercutio in Roméo et Juliette, Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro, Frédéric in Lakmé, Dappertutto and Coppélius in Les contes d’Hoffmann, as well as Ragged Man in the world premiere of The Grapes of Wrath. At Opera Theatre of St. Louis, he performed Dick McGann in James Robinson’s production of Street Scene, of which the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote: “Kelly Markgraf was terrific as Dick McGann: dancing up a storm, singing as well as he danced, and projecting palpable, hilarious lust.”

As an apprentice at the Santa Fe Opera, he sang the role of the Bosun in Paul Curran’s production of Billy Budd, under the baton of Edo de Waart.

The artist’s honors include a First Prize Award from the Gerda Lissner Foundation Competition(2010), the Sullivan Foundation’s Sullivan Award (2009), the Grand Prize in the Opera Index Competition (2009), awards from the Giulio Gari Foundation and the Licia Albanese Puccini Foundation (2009), a Richard F. Gold Career Grant (2009), an Outstanding Apprentice Award from the Santa Fe Opera, a Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grant Nomination, the Civic Music Association Competition Grand Prize, and an Encouragement Award from theMetropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. A native of Wisconsin, Mr. Markgraf holds degrees from Boston University, the University of Cincinnati – College Conservatory of Music, and The Juilliard School.

FR ANK ALMOND Violinist Frank Almond holds the Charles and Marie Caestecker Concertmaster Chair at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He returned to the MSO after holding positions as Concertmaster of the Rotterdam Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev, and Guest Concertmaster of the London Philharmonic with Kurt Masur. Other Guest Concertmaster appearances have included the Seattle Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, and the Grand Tetons Music Festival. He continues an active schedule of solo and chamber music performances in the US and abroad including appearances with the Ojai Festival, Frankly Music, An die Musik, the Nara Academy in Nara, Japan, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Music in the Vineyards, and various solo appearances with orchestras. He has been a member of the chamber group An die Musik in New York City since 1997, and also founded and directs

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the much-loved and somewhat notorious Frankly Music Chamber Series based in Milwaukee. At 17, he was one of the youngest prizewinners in the history of the Nicolo Paganini Competition in Genoa, Italy, and five years later was one of two American prizewinners at the Eighth International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, which was documented in an award-winning PBS film. Since then he has kept up an eclectic mix of activities in addition to his concertmaster duties, appearing both as a soloist and chamber musician.

In addition to his work with An die Musik, Mr. Almond’s work as a chamber musician has generated collaborations over the years with many of today’s well-known institutions, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Hal Leonard Corporation, the Ravinia Festival, La Jolla Summerfest, Music in the Vineyards, and numerous other summer festivals.

He has recorded for Summit, Albany, Boolean (his own label), Innova, Newport Classic, Wergo and New Albion and has appeared numerous times on NPR’s Performance Today.

In both 2002 and 2004 An die Musik received Grammy nominations for its “Timeless Tales” series. The re-release of Mr. Almond’s recording of the complete Brahms Sonatas, performed in collaboration with pianist William Wolfram, brought extraordinary critical acclaim, and was also listed in the American Record Guide top recordings of 2001.

With pianist William Wolfram, a CD of sonatas by Respighi, Janacek, and Strauss was released on the AVIE label, and was named a “Best of 2007” by the American Record Guide. His latest CD of American violin and piano music was released on Innova Recordings with pianist Brian Zeger and has also garnered much press enthusiasm. A CD of selected works of Samuel Barber was released in 2010, in cooperation with the Hal Leonard Corporation. In April 2013 AVIE released A Violin’s Life, featuring works and composers directly associated with the “Lipinski” Stradivarius, charting in the Billboard Top 10 in its first week of release. It has received notable press in major news outlets, and was recently featured in a full 90-minute program of interviews and excerpts on SiriusXM Symphony Hall.

When he’s not traveling around playing the violin he lives in Milwaukee with his wife and two young daughters. He plays on a violin by Antonio Stradivari from 1715, the “ex-Lipinski”. In December 2011, he appeared in concerts and masterclasses in Poland to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Karol Lipinski performing on his former violin. In July 2012 he was featured in an episode of NatGeo’s America’s Lost Treasures. In 2008 he started writing an online column called nondivisi.

Mr. Almond holds two degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay. Other important teachers included Michael Tseitlin, Felix Galimir, and Joseph Silverstein. He has held academic positions at San Diego State University, Texas Christian University, and is currently on the faculty at Northwestern University. In 2014 he joins the faculty at the Chicago Conservatory of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

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JEANNIE YU Jeannie Yu was awarded first prize in the Frinna Auerbuch Piano Competition in New York, the Flint Symphony International Concerto Competition, the Portland Symphony International Concerto Competition, and the Kingsville Piano Competition in Texas. She also earned the prestigious Gina Bachauer Memorial Scholarship Award, a full scholarship for the master’s degree program at The Juilliard School of Music where she also received the Bachelor’s Degree. Subsequently she was awarded an accompanist fellowship at the Peabody Conservatory of Music where she received her Doctor of Musical Arts Degree.

Ms. Yu has performed as soloist with the Flint Symphony, Portland Symphony, Marina del Rey-Westchester Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, Des Moines Brandenburg Symphony, the Xiamen Symphony Orchestra in China, Sheboygan Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Ballet Orchestra, the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, and the Festival City Symphony Orchestra. She has been in great demand as a soloist and collaborative artist in live performances on WQXR in New York, WOI, in Iowa, WFMT in Chicago, and chamber music series such as the Northwestern University Winter Chamber Music Series, the Rembrandt Chamber Players Series in Chicago, and Chamber Music North in Michigan, Midsummers Music in Door County, Frankly Music Series in Milwaukee in addition to her schedule of performances as a member of the Florestan Duo and the Trio Antigo. Recently she has been asked to join the Rembrandt Chamber Players as an associate member.

Ms. Yu has also participated as faculty in the Alfred University Summer Chamber Music Institute, the Ohio Wesleyan Summer Chamber Music Festival, the Milwaukee Chamber Music Festival, the Troy Youth Chamber Music Institute, and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.

M A R G O T S C H WA R T Z Violinist Margot Schwartz is a member of the First Violin section of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Originally from Oakland, California, she has performed around the world on both violin and viola, and since moving to Milwaukee has begun teaching privately and coaching chamber music in numerous area schools. In addition to her performances with her MSO colleagues in the Arcas String Quartet, she performs with local new-music ensemble Present Music, and Bowing Rogue, a duo with her friend and colleague Ilana Setapen.

In the summer, Margot performs chamber music at Music on the Hill (RI), as well as in the First Violin section of both the Bellingham (WA), and Peninsula (WI) Music Festivals. She holds a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music, where she studied with Ani Kavafian, and a Bachelor of Music which she earned cum laude from the Northwestern University School of Music, where she was a student of Roland and Almita Vamos.

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NICHOL AS CORDS Violist Nicholas Cords is strongly committed to the advocacy and performance of music from a very broad historic and geographical spectrum. His busy touring schedule has led him in recent years to Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Cologne Philharmonie, and the Library of Congress. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the New York String Seminar Orchestra. Recent highlights include performances at the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg, in works ranging from Feldman to Wuorinen, and the Vail International Dance Festival, where he performed Stravinsky’s Élegie for solo viola in a late Balanchine choreography (dormant for the past thirty years) with the great Brazilian ballerina Carla Körbes. His debut solo album, Recursions (2013- In a Circle Records), features works ranging from Biber to Hindemith to Cords’ recently composed Five Migrations.

Mr. Cords is a regular member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, a musical collective that uses the historic Silk Road trading route as a metaphor for musical exchange and creativity in the present. The group has not only traveled to many of the major musical centers of the United States and Europe, but also to China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, India, Egypt, Iran, Syria and a number of the Central Asian Republics. In addition to performing with the ensemble, he has taken a role in the organization and development of new creative projects, programming for concerts and museum residencies, and as an active part of two long-term residencies with the group; one at the Rhode Island School of Design and one at Harvard University. Mr. Cords appears on all four of the ensemble’s albums; Silk Road Journeys, Beyond the Horizon, New Impossibilites and Off the Map. A new studio recording, live concert DVD, and full-length documentary are all slated for later 2013 release to help celebrate the group’s upcoming fifteenth anniversary season.

Mr. Cords is also a founding member of Brooklyn Rider (www.brooklynrider.com); an intrepid string quartet which NPR credits with “recreating the 300-year-old form of string quartet as a vital and creative 21st-century ensemble.” The group has collaborated with composers all over the globe, as well as with Irish fiddler Martin Hayes, Persian kemancheh virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor, Japanese shakuhachi player Kojiro Umezaki, banjo phenomenon Béla Fleck, and songstress Suzanne Vega, to name a few. Equally at home in concert halls and clubs, Brooklyn Rider was the only classical group invited to play in the 2010 South By Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. This season sees the group touring in North America and Asia, along with premieres of works by John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Vijay Iyer, Padma Newsome, Greg Saunier, and more. Their recordings, Silent City, Passport, Dominant Curve, Brooklyn Rider Plays Philip Glass, and Seven Steps have received wide critical acclaim from sources ranging from Gramophone Magazine to Pitchfork.

Their most recent release, A Walking Fire, was released by the Mercury Classics label (Universal Music) in early May. He has appeared frequently on television and radio including a Chinese National Television broadcast from the Great Wall, the David Letterman Show, numerous National Public Radio broadcasts, Good Morning America, NHK Japan, and a four year run as resident commentator and performer on WQXR New York’s Radio weekly On A-I-R. Mr. Cords is an active member of many ensembles, including the Caramoor Virtuousi, An Die Musik, The Knights, and the Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert.

Mr. Cords began his musical education at the Juilliard School where he won top honors in the viola competition and subsequently gave the New York premiere of John Music and Words

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Harbison’s Viola Concerto at Avery Fisher Hall. He completed his studies at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music. His teachers have included Karen Tuttle, Harvey Shapiro, Joseph Fuchs, and Felix Galamir. A committed teacher, Mr. Cords currently teaches at Stony Brook University in New York. He spends part of his summer schedule teaching at the Bennington Chamber Music and Composers Conference and served for eight years as viola instructor at Princeton University. He has twice participated as a mentor along with other members of the Silk Road Ensemble in the Weill Institute Professional Training Workshops at Carnegie Hall and has also delivered a series of teacher workshops for the New York City Department of Education on music and the role of it can play in crosscultural understanding. He recently presented a talk at the American Association of Museums National Conference on the role of music in museum settings. He is a regular contributor to NPR’s classical music blog Deceptive Cadence. Mr. Cords plays on an instrument made for him in 2008 by famed Brooklyn maker Samuel Zygmuntowicz (www.nicholascords.com) W E I -T I N G K U O Wei-Ting Kuo was born in Taiwan, where he began his viola studies at the age of 9. He quickly gained recognition after winning the first prize in the Taiwan Viola Competition and attracted critical attention as the first violist to win the first prizes in Hsing-Tien-Gong String Competition, Young Artist Showcase String Competition, and National Taiwan Normal University String Competition. He was awarded and recognized as the ‘Most Potential Young Musician’ by the members of the Taiwan National Symphony Orchestra. He attended the Taos Music Festival in 2008 and was selected as a finalist for the 2008 Primrose International Viola Competition. In 2009, Mr. Kuo was a prize winner of Tokyo International Viola Competition and also recieve a special Prize of the best interpretation. He attended the Ravinia Festival in 2009 as well.

Currently Mr. Kuo is the Assistant Principal of Viola in the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

S T E P H E N B A L D E R S TO N Stephen Balderston joined the DePaul School of Music faculty as Professor of Cello after twenty successful years as an orchestra and chamber musician. Balderston was Assistant Principal Cello with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for ten years after ten years with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. He performed as soloist with both orchestras and was an artist-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. Balderston began his studies on the cello with Gabor Rejto in his native southern California, and earned both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Lynn Harrell.

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with Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, Lynn Harrell, Yo-Yo Ma, Menahem Pressler, Gil Shaham, Joseph Silverstein and Pinchas Zukerman. He debuted as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in 2000. He has been a featured artist at the Ravinia Festival in Illinois, Bargemusic in New York City and the Affinis Music Festival in Japan. Additionally, he has participated in the OK Mozart International Festival in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, the Santa Barbara Chamber Music Festival and the International Music Festival in Shanghai, China.

Balderston’s summers have been spent performing and working with students at a variety of venues. Balderston was the cello coach for Daniel Barenboim’s “West-Eastern Divan” workshops in 1999 and 2000 in Weimar, Germany, the 2001 Workshop held in Chicago, and the 2004 Workshop in Seville, Spain. In 2002 he accompanied a group of colleagues to Shanghai, China for that city’s international music festival. In August of 2004 Balderston was featured as lecturer, soloist and coach at the International String Music Festival in Taipei, Taiwan. Since 2002, he has been a teacher, coach and soloist at a number of prestigious summer venues, including the Marrowstone Music Festival, the International Festival – Institute at Round Top, the Midwest Young Artists Festival, the ARIA International Festival and the Northwestern University High School Institute.

J U L I A N S C H WA R Z Born in 1991 to a musical family, cellist Julian Schwarz is already being recognized as one of the finest cellists now before the public.

Mr. Schwarz made his orchestral debut at the age of 11 playing the Saint-Saens Concerto No. 1 with the Seattle Symphony and his father, Gerard Schwarz, on the podium. Since then he has appeared as soloist with the Virginia, Omaha, Hartford, Puerto Rico, Grand Rapids, Columbus, San Diego, Memphis, Sarasota, Springfield MA, Syracuse, Boca Raton, Greensboro, Seattle, UNLV, and Las Cruces Symphonies, as well as many regional orchestras from the Pacific Northwest. In winter of 2010 he was one of the featured soloists on an extensive US tour with the Moscow State Radio Symphony Orchestra, performing 13 concerts on East and West coasts, as well as the deep South.

Upcoming performance highlights include concerto appearances with the Seattle, Chesapeake, Modesto, Binghamton, and Wichita Symphonies, as well as tour of central New York with the new Syracuse Symphony (Symphoria). In October he will travel to Australia for a series of trio concerts culminating in a recording of the Schubert Trios. He will also be a featured soloist with the All Star Orchestra for national public television to be aired Fall 2013 performing the Samuel Jones Cello Concerto. After broadcast, the performance will be released as a DVD on the Naxos label.

Julian Schwarz has performed solo recitals in Los Angeles, San Diego, Palm Springs, New York, Greensboro, High Point, Tacoma, Aspen, Seattle, St Thomas USVI, and at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. In summer 2009 he was the “Featured Young Artist” at both the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival and the Seattle Chamber Music Society. He has appeared at the Verbier, Bellingham, Aspen, Interlochen, Encore music festivals, and in Pollack and Weill Halls as part of the Montreal International String Quartet Festival and a Carnegie Hall workshop, respectively. Summer 2013 includes chamber concerts at the Cape Cod and Eastern festivals, a performance with the Chesapeake Orchestra on the River Series, and a teaching residency at the PianoSonoma festival in Sonoma, CA. Music and Words

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In 2007 Mr. Schwarz was appointed assistant conductor of the Lake Union Civic Orchestra under Christophe Chagnard. In his two years as assistant he led the orchestra in Borodin’s Second Symphony and Dukas’ Sorcerer’s Apprentice at Seattle’s Town Hall. He returned to LUCO as cellist in 2010 for a performance of the Elgar Concerto.

Mr. Schwarz was profiled in the Spring ‘09 cover story of Teen Strings Magazine, the July ‘11 cover story of GoTriad Magazine, and has been featured on the acclaimed NPR radio program “From the Top.” He has recorded twice for the Naxos Label: a world premier recording of Gerard Schwarz’s “In Memoriam” (2006) and a recording of traditional concertos (2009). In 2011, a live recording of his Brahms Double concerto with Caroline Goulding was limitedly released by WCPE Greensboro.

Mr. Schwarz is an advocate for contemporary music and has premiered many works for chamber ensembles as well as solo cello. Of particular note were the premiers of Samuel Jones’ Cello Concerto (2010) and the Piano Quartet of Henri Lazarof (2008). The premier of “A Prayer for Our Time” for cello and chamber orchestra of Richard Danielpour is scheduled for summer 2013.

Julian Schwarz started piano lessons at the age of five and began his cello studies the following year with the late David Tonkonogui; subsequent teachers have included Toby Saks, Lynn Harrell, Paul Coletti, Neal Cary, Arnold Steinhardt, Andre Roy, and Ronald Leonard at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. He makes his home in New York City where he studies with Joel Krosnick at the Juilliard School.

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Suite for Violin and Piano, Op. 6 Suite for solo cello Selections from Vingt Regards Sur L’Enfant Jesus Quartet for the End of Time

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