2024 Summer Concert Season
This concert season at Tippet Rise includes five weekends of classical and co ntemporary chamber concerts featuring four world premieres and three Tippet Rise commissions, more than 30 outstanding musicians, and the inauguration of the Geode—a new outdoor performance venue. Thank you for joining us in celebrating music and art beneath the beautiful Montana sky.
Co-Founders, Cathy and Peter Halstead
Cathy and Peter Halstead have known each other since they were 16. Cathy is an abstract painter whose work explores the similarities between the infinitesimal and the infinite, between the repetition of invisible but essential patterns in nature. Examples of her work are available online at cathyhalstead .com.
Peter is a pianist, photographer, novelist, and poet. He has published 11 volumes of poems, as well as the novel Bug the Great. He recently published A Winter Ride, which combines prose, photos, and poetry to create a sense of the anticipation of winter in Montana. Tippet Rise Beginnings captures through photos and text the explorations which led to Tippet Rise. His six-album piano series The Himalaya Sessions will be online this year. Four eBooks of his Himalayan photos are available on the Tippet Rise website, as is Brahms in the Mountains .
In addition to Tippet Rise, Cathy and Peter are founders of the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation, which gathers poems from across places, eras, and traditions for audiences worldwide. They are also trustees of the Sidney E. Frank Foundation, which makes grants in climate, education, and the arts. Cathy is on the board of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, of Storm King Art Center, and trustee emeritus of Brown University.
Cathy and Peter have two wonderful daughters and two adorable grandchildren.
Artistic Advisor, Pedja
Mužijević
Pedja Mužijević is a pianist and curator and has been the artistic advisor since 2018.
He has defined his career with creative programming and lasting collaborations with artists and ensembles performing with the Atlanta Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, Residentie Orkest in The Hague, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Shinsei Nihon Orchestra in Tokyo.
Pedja has played solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall, 92Y and The Frick Collection in New York, Terrace Theater at Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks and Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Casals Hall and Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo.
Pedja’s interdisciplinary projects include touring with Mikhail Baryshnikov throughout the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia and with Simon Keenlyside in Trisha Brown’s staged version of Schubert’s Winterreise at Lincoln Center in New York, Barbican in London, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra Nationale de Paris, as well as Holland, Lucerne, and Melbourne festivals.
Pedja is the artistic administrator at Baryshnikov Arts in New York, and he also directs workshops around the world, from Verbier Festival Academy and Banff Center to Colburn and Longy schools, in which he looks at the concert experience, both in programming and presentation, in an attempt to make it more accessible and relevant today.
2024 TABLE OF CONTENTS
2024 Concert Season Schedule
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 5:30 PM
The Olivier Music Barn
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 11:00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn
Yevgeny Sudbin, piano
SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 11:00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn
Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano
Kunal Lahiry, piano
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 5:30 PM
The Olivier Music Barn
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 2:00 PM
The Geode
Arlen Hlusko, cello
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 11:00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn Owls
Alexi Kenney, violin
Ayane Kozasa, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Paul Wiancko, cello
Pedja Mužijević, piano
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2:00 PM
The Geode
Claire Chase, flute
Hidejiro Honjoh, shamisen
*Artists and/or programs subject to change without notice.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 11:00 AM
The Domo Owls
Alexi Kenney, violin
Ayane Kozasa, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Paul Wiancko, cello
Claire Chase, flute
FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 5:30 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 11:00 AM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 11:00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Abigél Králik, violin
Natalie Loughran, viola
Cara Pogossian, viola
Sterling Elliott, cello
Nina Lee, cello
Evren Ozel, piano
The Olivier Music Barn
Abigél Králik, violin
Cara Pogossian, viola
Sterling Elliott, cello
Nina Lee, cello
Evren Ozel, piano
The Olivier Music Barn
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Abigél Králik, violin
Natalie Loughran, viola
Cara Pogossian, viola
Sterling Elliott, cello
Evren Ozel, piano
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 5:30 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 11:00 AM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 11:00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn
Chad Hoopes, violin
Christopher Costanza, cello
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
The Olivier Music Barn
Tessa Lark, violin
Charles Overton, harp
The Olivier Music Barn
Baroque Music Montana
Carrie Krause, baroque violin
Nate Helgeson, dulcian
John Lenti, theorbo
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 5:30 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 11:00 AM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 11:00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn
Julien Brocal, piano
Iron Tree and Daydreams/ Cursive Takes a Holiday
Jessica Sindell, flute
Tamer Edlebi, oboe
Afendi Yusuf, clarinet
Jake Thonis, bassoon
Nelson Ricardo Yovera Perez
The Olivier Music Barn
Camille Thomas, cello
Julien Brocal, piano
FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 5:30 PM
The Olivier Music Barn
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
MAURICE RAVEL: Valses nobles et sentimentales (Noble and Sentimental Waltzes)
RAVEL: Gaspard de la nuit (Treasurer of the Night)
Ondine
Le Gibet Scarbo
RAVEL: Tombeau de Couperin (The Grave of Couperin)
Prélude
Fugue
Forlane
Rigaudon
Menuet
Toccata
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 11:00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn
Yevgeny Sudbin, piano
FRANZ LISZT: Funérailles, S. 173
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Ballade No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 52
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: L’isle joyeuse (The Joyous Island), L. 106
ALEXANDER SCRIABIN: Sonata No. 10, Op. 70
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre, Op. 40 (arr. F. Liszt, V. Horowitz, and Y. Sudbin)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 2:00 PM
The Geode
Arlen Hlusko, cello
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH: Prelude from Cello Suite No. 5 in C Minor, BWV 1011
REENA ESMAIL: Sandhiprakash
DOMENICO GABRIELLI: Ricercar No. 1
GABRIEL KAHANE: Hollywood & Vine
PAUL V. CORTEZ: Hyacinth Garnishes from Bouquet Suite - World Premiere
BACH: Bourrée II from Cello Suite No. 4 in E-flat Major, BWV 1010
SULKHAN TSINTSADZE: Chonguri from Five Pieces for Cello and Piano
FRANKIE CARR: Improvisations
DAWN AVERY: Àkweks Katyes (The Eagle Flies) – Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere
LEYLA MCCALLA: Meditation #1
BACH: Gigue from Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008
SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 11 : 00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn
Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano
Kunal Lahiry, piano
DEVOTIONS
PRIAULX RAINIER: “Wee cannot bid the fruits” from Cycle for Declamation
AARON COPLAND: “There came a wind like a bugle” from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
FRANZ SCHUBERT: “Herbst” (Autumn), D. 945
SERGEI PROKOFIEV: No. 2 from Five Songs Without Words, Op. 35
COPLAND: “Dear March, come in!” from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
COPLAND: “The world feels Dusty” from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
COPLAND: “Why do they shut me out of heaven?” from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
SCHUBERT: “Der Unglückliche” (The Unhappy One), D. 713
SCHUBERT: “Nacht und Träume” (Night and Dreams), D. 827
COPLAND: “Nature, the gentlest mother” from Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson
EMILY DOOLITTLE: Vocalise (for bees)
OLIVIER MESSIAEN: Vocalise-étude
GEORGE CRUMB: “The Fly” from Sun and Shadow (Spanish Songbook II)
SCHUBERT: “Die Mutter Erde” (Mother Earth), D. 788
NAHRE SOL: Apperceptive Algorithms (2022) - North American Premiere
I. Time
II. digital prayer
III. journey to the center of the Internet
IV. Gido
FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 5 : 30 PM
The Olivier Music Barn
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN: Sonata in D Major Hob. XVI:37
Allegro con brio
Largo e sostenuto
Finale: Presto ma non troppo
FRANK ZAPPA: Ruth Is Sleeping
STEFAN WOLPE: Passacaglia
JOHN OSWALD: Tip
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF: Sonata No. 2, Op. 36 (1931 version)
Allegro agitato
Non allegro – Lento
Allegro molto
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 11:00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn Owls
Alexi Kenney, violin
Ayane Kozasa, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Paul Wiancko, cell
Pedja Mužijević, piano
PAUL WIANCKO: Vox Petra (arr. Owls)
FRANÇOIS COUPERIN: Les Barricades Mystérieuses (The Mysterious Barricades) (arr. Owls)
TERRY RILEY: Good Medicine: String Quartet No. 10, from Salomé Dances for Peace (arr. Owls)
ROBERT SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47
Sostenuto assai – Allegro ma non troppo
Scherzo: Molto vivace – Trio I – Trio II
Andante cantabile
Finale: Vivace
Kenney, Kozasa, Cabezas, and Mužijević
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 2:00 PM
The Geode
Claire Chase, flute
Hidejiro Honjoh, shamisen
DAI FUJIKURA: Lila for Solo Flute
FUJIKURA: neo for Solo Shamisen
FUJIKURA: Reizei for Alto Flute and Shamisen - World Premiere
HIROYA MIURA: Waga-Mono for Bass Flute and Shamisen - World Premiere
VIJAY LYER: Jiva for Solo Shamisen
YU KUWABARA: Dharani of Wind for Bass Flute and Shamisen
SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 11 : 00 AM
The Domo Owls
Alexi Kenney, violin
Ayane Kozasa, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Paul Wiancko, cello Claire Chase, flute
PAUL WIANCKO: When The Night (arr. Owls
SAMUEL BARBER: Adagio for Strings (arr. Owls)
FRANGHIZ ALI-ZADEH: Rəqs (arr. Owls)
TERRY RILEY: Suite from The Holy Liftoff for Flute, Strings, and Electronics (realized by Samuel Clay Birmaher) (2024) - Tippet Rise Co-Commission and World Premiere
FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 5:30 PM
The Olivier Music Barn
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Abigél Králik, violin
Natalie Loughran, viola
Cara Pogossian, viola
Sterling Elliott, cello
Nina Lee, cello
Evren Ozel, piano
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Andante spianato and Grande polonaise brillante for Piano, Op. 22 Ozel
GEORGE WALKER: Sonata for Cello and Piano
Allegro passionato
Sostenuto
Allegro
Elliott and Ozel
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK: String Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 97, B. 180
Allegro non tanto
Allegro vivo
Larghetto
Finale. Allegro giusto
Fraustchi, Kralik, Pogossian, Loughran, and Lee
SATURDAY, AUGUST 31, 11:00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn
Abigél Králik, violin
Cara Pogossian, viola
Sterling Elliott, cello
Nina Lee, cello
Evren Ozel, piano
FRANZ SCHUBERT: String Trio in B-flat Major, D. 471
Allegro
KEVIN DAY: Sonata for Cello and Piano, No. 1
Allegro agitato Lento Giocoso
Kralik, Pogossian, and Lee
Elliott and Ozel
ROBERT SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana, Fantasies for Piano, Op. 16 Ozel
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 11:00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Abigél Králik, violin
Natalie Loughran, viola
Cara Pogossian, viola
Sterling Elliott, cello
Evren Ozel, piano
BARTÓK: Selections from 44 Duos for Two Violins
14. Pillow Dance
17. Hungarian March 1
19. Fairy Tale
41. Scherzo
27. Limping Dance
Loughran and Pogossian
VALENTYN SILVESTROV: Twelve Waltzes of the Moment and One Serenade for Violin and Piano (2020) - Tippet Rise Commission and World Premiere
Frautschi and Ozel
JOHANNES BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60
Allegro non troppo
Scherzo: Allegro
Andante
Finale: Allegro comodo
Kralik, Loughran, Elliott, and Ozel
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 5 : 30 PM
The Olivier Music Barn
Chad Hoopes, violin
Christopher Costanza, cello
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: 32 Piano Variations on an Original Theme, for Piano in C Minor, WoO 80
McDermott
BEETHOVEN: 7 Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen” for Cello and Piano, WoO 46
Costanza and McDermott
BEETHOVEN: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 7 in C Minor, Op. 30 No. 2
Allegro con brio
Adagio cantabile
Scherzo: Allegro
Finale: Allegro; Presto
Hoopes and McDermott
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 11:00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn
Tessa Lark, violin
Charles Overton, harp
CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS: Fantaisie for Violin and Harp, Op. 124
EUGÈNE YSAŸE: Ballade from Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 27
YSAŸE: Finale from Violin Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 27
TESSA LARK: “Ysaÿe Shuffle” for Violin
CHARLES OVERTON: “Once More” for Harp
TRADITIONAL: “Boy in the Gap” for Violin and Harp (arr. T. Lark and C. Overton)
MORGAN LEWIS: “How High the Moon” for Harp (arr. C. Overton)
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA: Histoire du Tango for Violin and Harp
Bordel 1900
Café 1930
Nightclub 1960
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 11 : 00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn
Baroque Music Montana
Carrie Krause, baroque violin
Nate Helgeson, dulcian
John Lenti, theorbo
GIOVANNI LEGRENZI: Sonata “La Galini”
JOHANN ROSENMÜLLER: Sonata for Volin, Dulcian, and Basso Continuo
BIAGIO MARINI: Sonata Quarta, for Violin “to play with two strings”
MARINI: Il boncio
MARINI: La caotorta
MARINI: Il vetestrain
BARTOLOMÉ DE SELMA Y SALAVERDE: Fantasia for Bassoon and Continuo
DE SELMA Y SALAVERDE: Corrente
DE SELMA Y SALAVERDE: Balletto
DE SELMA Y SALAVERDE: Gagliarda
TARQUINIO MERULA: Canzona “La pighetta”
JOHANN MICHAEL NICOLAI: Sonata for Violin, Dulcian, and Basso Continuo
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 5 : 30 PM
The Olivier Music Barn
Julien Brocal, piano
JULIEN BROCAL: Baume à l’âme
JOHN LUTHER ADAMS: Nunataks
BROCAL: En apesanteur, Vol. 1
ADAMS: Tukiliit
BROCAL: En apesanteur, Vol. 2
PHILIP GLASS: Metamorphosis
I II
BROCAL: L’ombre du Crépuscule
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 11 : 00 AM
Iron Tree ― Daydreams and Cursive Takes a Holiday
Jessica Sindell, flute
Tamer Edlebi, oboe
Afendi Yusuf, clarinet
Jake Thonis, bassoon
Nelson Ricardo Yovera Perez, horn
Wander Series Concert
GYÖRGY LIGETI: Six Bagatelles
Allegro con spirito Rubato. Lamentoso
Allegro grazioso
Presto ruvido
Adagio. Mesto (Béla Bartók in memoriam)
Molto vivace. Capriccioso
ENDRE SZERVÁNSZKY: Wind Quintet No. 1
Adagio – Allegro moderato
Allegro scherzoso – Trio
Andante
Allegro vivace
SAMUEL BARBER: Summer Music, Op. 31
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA: Libertango (arr. J. Scott)
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 11 : 00 AM
The Olivier Music Barn
Camille Thomas, cello
Julien Brocal, piano
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN: Prelude, Op. 28 No. 4 in E Minor (arr. C. Thomas)
AUGUSTE FRANCHOMME: Nocturne for Cello and Piano, Op. 14 No. 1
CHOPIN: Prelude, Op. 28 No. 15 in D-flat Major, “Raindrop” (arr. A. Franchomme)
CHOPIN: Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 65 Allegro moderato Scherzo Largo Finale. Allegro
CHOPIN: Nocturne in B Minor, Op. posth., Lento con gran espressione (arr. M. Maisky)
FRANCHOMME: Air russe varié No. 2 for Cello and Piano, Op. 32
2024 Artists
Dawn Avery, composer
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, piano
Julien Brocal, piano
Claire Chase, flute
Christopher Costanza, cello
Tamer Edlebi, oboe
Sterling Elliott, cello
Jennifer Frautschi, violin
Marc-André Hamelin, piano
Nate Helgeson, dulcian
Arlen Hlusko, cello
Hidejiro Honjoh, shamisen
Chad Hoopes, violin
Abigél Králik, violin
Carrie Krause, baroque violin
Kunal Lahiry, piano
Nina Lee, cello
John Lenti, theorbo
Natalie Loughran, viola
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Pedja Mužijević, piano
Ema Nikolovska, mezzo-soprano
Charles Overton, harp
Owls, quartet collective
Evren Ozel, piano
Nelson Ricardo Yovera Perez
Cara Pogossian, viola
Terry Riley, composer
Valentyn Silvestrov, composer
Jessica Sindell, flute
Yevgeny Sudbin, piano
Camille Thomas, cello
Jake Thonis, bassoon
Afendi Yusuf, clarinet
DAWN AVERY T
he Grammy- and NAMA-nominated performer, composer, and professor Dawn Avery has worked with Pavarotti, Sting, Darling, Nakai, and Shenandoah, as well as composers John Cage, Charles Wuorinen, and Philip Glass. Her exploration of sacred traditions and music around the world led her to study the relationship between spirituality and music as her work seeks to enter different realms of vibration and connection with the human spirit, the land, and the skyworld. She looks forward to hearing her music connect with the land and people of Tippet Rise.
Avery has been honored to work with spiritual masters Ron Young, Hilda Charleton, Tawente’se, the Dalai Lama, Chidvilasananda, and Sherif Baba Chatilkaya. A remix, Chakra, features world grooves on the Hindu chakra system and will be released later this year. Of Mohawk Kaniènkeha descent, Avery is dedicated to the Indigenization of composition and performance. With a PhD in ethnomusicology, she focuses on works related to Native Classical Music and Indigenous theory and research. Her work has been performed at the National Museum of the American Indian, the Lincoln and Kennedy centers, and throughout Europe. Several of her chamber works apear on the recordings Tulpe and Ajijaak on Turtle Island: A Journey.She composed music for the award-winning film Imagining the Indian: The Fight Against Native Mascots and won best composer in the Paris Women’s Film Festival (Duo Concertante).
The award-winning pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet enjoys a prolific recording and international concert career. He collaborates with many renowned conductors and regularly performs with the Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, and other leading ensembles.
Engagements during the 2023–24 season include a Chinese tour with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Lan Shui; Les Siècles with Renaud Capuçon, under the direction of François-Xavier Roth; both Ravel concertos with the Lähti Symphony Orchestra and Dalia Stasevska; and performances with the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin and the Kyoto Symphony Orchestra under Junichi Hirokami. He also appears with the Manchester Camerata at the Enescu Festival in Romania and with the Karol Szymanowski Filharmonia in Kraków.
In recital Bavouzet continues his three-year residency at the Wigmore Hall. Other recitals include a Rachmaninoff-centered two-piano performance with the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Center. In summer 2023 Bavouzet returned to perform at the International Keyboard Institute and Festival in New York, Bravo! Vail Festival, and the Aspen Festival, finishing the tour at Finland’s Mänttä Music Festival.
Bavouzet records exclusively for Chandos. One recent release, A Musical Tribute to Pierre Sancan, with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra under Yan Pascal Tortelier, won the Gramophone Editor’s Choice and Diapason d’Or awards. His complete Haydn Piano Sonatas series was named “the modern benchmark” by Gramophone magazine, and his release The Beethoven Connection was also widely praised. Ongoing cycles include the complete Mozart Piano Concertos with the Manchester Camerata and Gábor Takács-Nagy, the fourth volume of which was nominated for a Gramophone Award in 2020.
JEAN-EFFLAM BAVOUZET
PIANO
JULIEN BROCAL
Julien Brocal, BBC Music Magazine’s 2018 Revelation of the Year, has gained recognition for his performances in prestigious venues worldwide. The French pianist has released two highly acclaimed solo albums, one dedicated to Chopin and the other to Ravel and Mompou, as well as a triple album of Chopin’s music with cellist Camille Thomas on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Highlights of the 2024–25 season include the release of his third solo album, Here, dedicated to his own compositions, and the release of a second album with Thomas. In addition to his solo recitals, he collaborates regularly with renowned musicians such as Thomas, Daniel Hope, and Rosanne Philippens.
When he’s not performing in traditional concert halls, Brocal works in the “Jardin Musical” that he created in his studio: a creative ecosystem that reflects the principles of permaculture by providing a space to produce live performances, recordings, and residencies.
Recently described by The New York Times as “the North Star of her instrument’s ever-expanding universe,” Claire Chase is a musician, interdisciplinary artist, and educator. Passionately dedicated to the creation of new ecosystems for the music of our time, Chase has given the world premieres of hundreds of new works by a new generation of artists, and in 2013 launched the 24-year commissioning project Density 2036. Having celebrated its 10th year in 2023, Density 2036 reimagines the solo flute literature over a quarter century through commissions, performances, recordings, education, and an accessible archive at density2036.org
Chase co-founded the International Contemporary Ensemble in 2001, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2012, and in 2017 was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Chase is currently professor of the practice of music at Harvard University’s Department of Music, a creative associate at the Juilliard School, and a collaborative partner with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony. She was the Debs Creative Chair at Carnegie Hall for the 2022–23 season.
CLAIRE CHASE
CHRISTOPHER COSTANZA
For more than three decades, cellist Christopher Costanza has enjoyed an exciting and varied career as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. A winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the recipient of a Solo Recitalists Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, he has performed to critical acclaim throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, South America, Australia, New Zealand, China, and South Korea. In 2003 he joined the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the ensemble in residence at Stanford University. A strong proponent of contemporary music, he has worked extensively with many leading composers, including John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, Olivier Messiaen, Gunther Schuller, and Pierre Boulez. Costanza’s discography includes chamber music and solo recordings on the EMI/Angel, Nonesuch, Naxos, and Albany labels, and his recordings of the Six Suites for Solo Cello by J.S. Bach are available on his website, costanzacello.com.
Costanza received a Bachelor of Music degree and an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he studied cello with Bernard Greenhouse, Laurence Lesser, and David Wells; and chamber music with Eugene Lehner, Louis Krasner, and Leonard Shure. When not immersed in the world of music, he enjoys a variety of interests and passions, including running, hiking, cooking, and passenger rail–related pursuits.
Tamer Edlebi joined the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra as assistant principal oboe during the 2018–19 season. Before his appointment to the FWSO, he made guest appearances with the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and the Houston Grand Opera and Ballet orchestras.
Edlebi has participated in numerous summer festivals, including the Kent/Blossom Music Festival and four summers at the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he studied with Richard Woodhams and Elaine Douvas. More recently, Edlebi served as principal oboe of Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería in Mexico City, performing not only standards of the orchestral repertoire but also many contemporary works by notable Mexican composers. An avid lover of chamber music, Edlebi is a founding member of the Prismatics Woodwind Quintet, prizewinners of the 2015 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. In 2017 he was named a Zarin Mehta Fellow through the New York Philharmonic Global Academy partnership with Rice University.
Edlebi holds a bachelor’s degree from Chapman University, where he studied with Ariana Ghez. He also completed graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music under the tutelage of Frank Rosenwein and earned a master’s degree from Rice University as a student of Robert Atherholt. Other teachers include Adam Dinitz and Jonathan Fischer of the Houston Symphony.
TAMER EDLEBI
STERLING ELLIOTT
Acclaimed for his stellar stage presence and joyous musicianship, cellist Sterling Elliott was a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the winner of the Senior Division of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition. He has appeared with many major orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. This season he performs the world premiere of a new orchestral version of John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria, which was commissioned for him by a consortium of orchestras.
Elliott has a long history with the Sphinx Organization. He won the 2014 junior division competition, becoming the first alumnus from the Sphinx Performance Academy to win the Sphinx Competition. The following year he went on to tour with the Sphinx Virtuosi and received the Organization’s Isaac Stern Award in 2016. In 2024 he accepts a Sphinx Medal of Excellence, the highest honor bestowed by the Sphinx Organization, awarded to artists who, early in their career, demonstrate artistic excellence, outstanding work ethic, a spirit of determination, and an ongoing commitment to leadership and their communities.
Elliott studies at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Joel Krosnick and Clara Kim. He is an ambassador of the Young Strings of America, a string sponsorship operated by Shar Music. He performs on a 1741 Gennaro Gagliano cello on loan through the Robert F. Smith Fine String Patron Program, in partnership with the Sphinx Organization.
Atwo-time Grammy nominee and Avery Fisher career grant recipient, Jennifer Frautschi has appeared as soloist with numerous ensembles, including the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. As a chamber musician, she has performed with the Boston Chamber Music Society and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has appeared at Chamber Music Northwest; La Jolla Summerfest; Music@Menlo; Tippet Rise Art Center; Toronto Summer Music; and the Bridgehampton, Charlottesville, Lake Champlain, Moab, Ojai, Santa Fe, Seattle, and Spoleto music festivals.
Frautschi’s extensive discography includes several discs for Naxos: the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, conducted by Robert Craft; and two Grammy-nominated recordings with the Fred Sherry Quartet, of Schoenberg’s Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra and Schoenberg’s Third String Quartet. Her most recent releases are with pianist John Blacklow on Albany Records. The First is devoted to Robert Schumann’s three sonatas; the second, American Duos, explores recent additions to the violin and piano repertoire by the contemporary American composers Barbara White, Steven Mackey, Elena Ruehr, Dan Coleman, and Stephen Hartke.
Born in Pasadena, California, Frautschi attended the Colburn School, Harvard, the New England Conservatory, and the Juilliard School. She performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the “ex-Cadiz,” on generous loan from a private American foundation with support from Rare Violins In Consortium. She currently teaches in the graduate program at Stony Brook University.
JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI
VIOLIN
MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN
Described as “a performer of near-superhuman technical prowess” by The New York Times, Marc-André Hamelin is known for his unrivaled blend of musicianship and technique in the great works of the established repertoire, as well as for his intrepid exploration of the rarities of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. He regularly performs around the globe with the leading orchestras and conductors of our time and gives recitals at major concert venues and festivals worldwide.
Highlights of Hamelin’s 2023–24 season include appearances with the Philharmonische Hagen, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Recital and chamber music engagements bring him to Prague, Poland, Oslo, Hamburg, London, Amsterdam, Portland, Cleveland, and many other cities.
Hamelin, who records exclusively for Hyperion Records, has released more than 70 albums featuring a broad range of solo, orchestral, and chamber repertoire. In September 2023 the label released his recording of Fauré’s nocturnes and barcarolles, including the Dolly Suite, Op. 56, played with his wife, Cathy Fuller. He has composed more than 30 works, most of which are published by Edition Peters. He performed his Toccata on “ L’homme armé,” along with music by C.P.E. Bach and William Bolcom, on NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series in 2023.
Nate Helgeson is one of the West Coast’s leading specialists in historical bassoons. He appears frequently as soloist with period instrument orchestras such as Portland Baroque Orchestra, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, and Mercury Chamber Orchestra. He can be heard on recordings by Apollo’s Fire, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Pacific MusicWorks, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra. Beginning in 2018 he has performed works of Rossini and Bellini on period instruments as part of Teatro Nuovo, a festival in New York exploring 19th century bel canto sounds and performance practices on the opera stage. He is on faculty at the Bozeman Baroque Performance Workshop and was professor of bassoon at the University of Oregon during the 2019–20 academic year.
Helgeson studied modern bassoon with Steve Vacchi and Richard Svoboda before taking up the Baroque bassoon, continuing his studies with Dominic Teresi at the Juilliard School. He lives in Salem, Oregon, with his wife, Annabeth Shirley, cellist and whole human being in her own right.
NATE HELGESON
BASSOON
ARLEN HLUSKO
Hailed for her “sublime cello prowess” (Take Effect ), “absorbing originality” ( Gramophone), and “mesmerizing beauty” ( NY Music Daily ), the internationally acclaimed Canadian cellist Arlen Hlusko is a dynamic, versatile artist who has performed extensively as soloist and chamber musician across North America, South America, Asia, and Europe. Cellist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars sextet (extolled by the New York Times for “combining the power and punch of a rock band with the precision and clarity of a chamber ensemble”), Hlusko is also a laureate of numerous competitions, a Grammy-award winner for her collaboration with The Crossing, and a recent alumna of the Curtis Institute of Music and Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect. She has been featured on CBC’s “30 Under 30,” and is a Larsen Artist. She has debuted with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Concert Orchestra, and the Calgary Philharmonic, and she has performed at several leading chamber music festivals, including Music from Angel Fire, Spoleto USA, and Tippet Rise.
Committed to using her music to connect with and serve her community, Hlusko founded her own interactive chamber music concert series, Philadelphia Performances for Autism, and is involved with numerous communities, including Carnegie Hall’s Musical Connections program at Sing Sing Correctional Facility.
Hidejiro Honjoh studied both classical and modern music under Hidetaro Honjo. In 2018 he was appointed as a cultural envoy by the Agency for Cultural Affairs. He has given approximately 30 recitals and other performances around the world, premiered 21 commissioned pieces, and received numerous awards. In 2019 he made his recital debut at Wigmore Hall in London and appeared on BBC Radio 3. That same year he performed the world premiere of Fujikura Dai’s Shamisen Concerto at the Mostly Mozart Music Festival at Lincoln Center in New York; in July 2020, during the pandemic, he played it for the first time in Japan with the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. He regularly collaborated with the late Ryuichi Sakamoto on NHK New Year Radio and Hermès radio programs. In April 2020 he appeared on television improvising with Sakamoto. He has commissioned works from many composers, with the aim of creating “modern shamisen music.”
He graduated from Toho Gakuen Junior College, where he studied under Katsuyoshi Kineya, then went on to graduate from the Institute of Contemporary Japanese Music, where he studied Tsugaru shamisen with Yuto Hasegawa. He is the first shamisen player to perform at the Tokyo Opera City Cultural Foundation’s recital series B› C, the Japan Contemporary Music Church Pegasus Concert, and the Da Vinci Music Festiva l.
HIDEJIRO HONJOH
SHAMISEN
CHAD HOOPES
Acclaimed by critics worldwide for his exceptional talent and magnificent tone, American violinist Chad Hoopes has remained a consistent and versatile performer with many of the world’s leading orchestras.
Highlights of past and present seasons include performances with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse. He has performed with leading orchestras including San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Houston, and National Symphony orchestras, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Hoopes frequently performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He has additionally performed recitals at the Ravinia Festival, the Tonhalle Zürich, the Louvre, and at Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series in New York City.
His debut recording with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra under Kristjan Järvi featured the Mendelssohn and Adams concertos. He was most recently featured on the Sony Classical release of chamber music works by Dvořak, alongside cellist Jan Vogler.
Hoopes began his violin studies in Minneapolis and continued at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He studied at the Kronberg Academy under Professor Ana Chumachenco, who remains his mentor. Hoopes is a 2017 recipient of Lincoln Center’s Avery Fischer Career Grant and was featured on the November 2021 cover of The Strad. He is on the faculty of Southern Methodist University and is a sought-after masterclass teacher.
He plays the 1991 Samuel Zygmuntowicz, ex Isaac Stern violin.
The only musician listed in the 2020 Forbes Hungary “30 under 30” list, Abig é l Kr á lik is quickly gaining attention as “a shooting star in the truest sense of the word” ( Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Kultur ). After a musical journey that brought her from Dublin to Budapest and eventually to Juilliard, then Brussels, Kr á lik frequently performs with leading orchestras.
In addition to her solo appearances, she is a passionate chamber musician, appearing as a featured artist at the Verbier, Clasclas, Budapest, Krzyzowa, Moritzburg, and Prussia Cove Festivals, as well as the Perlman Music Program and Festival Mozaic. She has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Guy Braunstein, Vilde Frang, Viviane Hagner, Hsin-Yun Huang, Maxim Rysanov, Jan Vogler, Gary Holman, and many others.
Kr á lik studied with Krist ó f Bar á ti in Budapest and earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School under Itzhak Perlman and Laurie Smukler. She currently serves as artist in residence at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, mentored by Augustin Dumay.
In the 2023–24 season, Kr á lik releases a recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto, with the Mexico City Philharmonic and Scott Yoo. She performs Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with the Casco Philharmonic, Richter’s Violin Concerto with Brugger Ensemble, Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos with Mozaic Orchestra, and Mozart’s Double Violin Concerto alongside Augustin Dumay with the Warsaw Chamber Orchestra. She also launches the debut season of the TARA Chamber Concerts in Brussels, of which she is founder and co-artistic director.
ABIGÉL KRÁLIK
VIOLIN
CARRIE KRAUSE
BAROQUE VIOLIN
Praised for her “elegant, sparkling performance [that] brought audience cheers” by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Carrie Krause performs as a Baroque violinist with groups across the nation and on numerous international series. She performed as soloist in New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall, and the Thomaskirche in Leipzig. She served as guest artistic director of Seattle Baroque, concertmaster of New Trinity Baroque, guest concertmaster of Pacific Baroque and the San Francisco Bach Choir, associate concertmaster of Apollo’s Fire, and section leader of the Oregon Bach Festival and Spire in Kansas City. She has played with American Classical Orchestra and Concert Royale in New York City, Chatham Baroque in Pittsburgh, Portland Baroque, and the Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado. Festival engagements include the Spoleto Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, Belgrade Early Music Festival in Serbia, Sastamalla Gregoriana in Finland, Utrecht Early Music Festival, and the BBC Proms with Apollo’s Fire. She founded Baroque Music Montana, presenting a concert series across Montana and workshops with visiting teaching artists.
Originally from Fairbanks, Alaska, Krause serves as concertmaster of the Bozeman Symphony, and holds a second master’s degree from the Juilliard School’s Historical Performance program. She is an avid adventurer and some days loves to skate ski even more than practicing the violin.
Tessa Lark is one of the most captivating artistic voices of our time, consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds, technical agility, and musical elegance. In 2020 she was nominated for a Grammy award in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category, and she is also a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky.
Highlights of Lark’s 2023–24 season include the world premiere of Carlos Izcaray’s Violin Concerto and performances of Michael Torke’s violin concerto Sky —both pieces written for her—as well as her European orchestral debut with the Stuttgart Philharmonic. She performs with the Virginia Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, England’s City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and others, and gives duo concerts with double bassist Michael Thurber and jazz guitarist Frank Vignola.
Lark’s newest album, The Stradgrass Sessions, was released this past spring. Her debut commercial recording was the Grammy-nominated SKY. Her discography also includes Fantasy ; Invention, recorded with Michael Thurber, and a live recording of Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires .
In addition to her performance schedule, Lark champions young aspiring artists and supports the next generation of musicians through her work as co-host/creative of NPR’s From the Top.
Lark plays a c. 1600 G.P. Maggini violin on loan from an anonymous donor through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.
TESSA LARK
VIOLIN
KUNAL LAHIRY
The Indian-American pianist Kunal Lahiry is a recent BBC New Generation Artist and recipient of the 2021 Carl Bechstein Foundation scholarship. Recent performance highlights include recitals at Wigmore Hall, Kennedy Center, Pierre Boulez Saal, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Carnegie Hall Weill Recital Room, Musée d’Orsay, Ludwigsburg Festival, Life Victoria de Los Angeles Festival, and at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute. He has performed for broadc asts on BBC Radio 3, Icelandic National Public Radio RÁS1, Austrian Radio Ö1, and RBB Kultur and was featured on ARTE’s “Hope@Home” and “Europe@Home” series hosted by violinist Daniel Hope.
Lahiry has commissioned and premiered works by Nico Muhly, Errollyn Wallen, Nahre Sol, Héloïse Werner, Pablo Campos, Molly Joyce, Viktor Orri Árnason, Guðmundur Emilsson, Zachary Radler, Zubaida Azezi, and Edo Frenkel. He received grants from the Musikfonds and the Center for Musical Excellence to finance and co-produce an interdisciplinary video project called Homescapes with Icelandic soprano and visual artist Álfheiður Erla Guðmundsdóttir. He created a music video with oomtown Media Productions exploring queerness in classical music through the support of the Liedzentrum Heidelberg. Currently based in Berlin, he frequently collaborates with pop singer Lie Ning.
Originally from Gainesville, Georgia, Kunal was a Schulich Scholar at McGill University and graduated with distinction in song interpretation from the Hochschule for Müsik Hanns Eisler. He is an Equilibrium Young Artist, Samling Artist, Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Artist, and Britten Pears Young Artist.
Through a public-school program, Nina Lee began learning cello in Chesterfield, Missouri, at age 10. Six years later, she left home to study with David Soyer at the Curtis Institute of Music. She went on to complete her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music at the Juilliard School with Joel Krosnick; to attend the Tanglewood Music Festival; and to tour with the Marlboro Music Festival, where she collaborated with Mitsuko Uchida, Andras Schiff, Felix Galimir, and Samuel Rhodes.
In 1999 Lee joined the Brentano Quartet, with whom she has performed throughout North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Japan. She not only has recorded the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven, but has also championed new music, as represented in the quartet’s commissioned works by Stephen Hartke, Steve Mackey, Vijay Iyer, James MacMillan, Bruce Adolphe, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Shulamit Ran, among others. Among the Brentano Quartet’s many projects is the soundtrack to the 2012 film A Late Quartet, which focuses on Beethoven’s Op. 131 and features Ms. Lee playing herself in a cameo.
A committed teacher of chamber music, Lee has been on the faculty at Princeton and Columbia Universities and currently coaches chamber music at the Yale School of Music, where the Brentano Quartet has been in residence since 2014. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children and loves spending time with her family, cooking, entertaining, organizing chamber music salons, and finding new ways to be creative.
NINA LEE
CELLO
JOHN LENTI
THEORBO
John Lenti, praised by Gramophone for his “nuanced beauty and character” and acclaimed as “a joy to behold” by the Seattle Times, specializes in music of the 17th century and has made basso continuo improvisation on lute, theorbo, and Baroque guitar the cornerstone of a career that encompasses Baroque and modern orchestras, chamber music, recitals, and opera. He plays for the Metropolitan Opera, Seattle Symphony, Seattle Opera, and many other orchestras both modern and Baroque. He has recorded, with various ensembles, some nice albums you can find on the various streaming services. His primary artistic influences are Vladimir Horowitz and T.S. Eliot, though he doesn’t really write poetry or play the piano, and nothing he’s ever done would remind anybody of either of those guys. He studied lute with Nigel North, Jacob Heringman, and Elizabeth Kenny. His all-time favorite authors are Jorge Luis Borges and Nancy Mitford, though Mona Awad and E. Lily Yu are knocking his socks off lately. When Lenti is not on the road, he’s mostly a stay-at-home dad in Seattle. He likes cheap wine, fancy sausage, and midlevel cheese.
The 26-year-old American violist Natalie Loughran is quickly establishing herself as one of the world’s most versatile young artists. She was awarded first prize at the 2021 Primrose International Viola Competition, along with the Audience Award, and the BIPOC Composer Prize for her arrangement and performance of William Grant Still’s “Mother and Child.” She appeared as a finalist in the 2020 Young Concert Artist auditions and was awarded a special prize for her performance of the Bowen Viola Sonata in C Minor at the Tertis International Viola Competition. Loughran received the William Schuman prize for her outstanding leadership and achievement in music from the Juilliard School.
A former member of the Kila Quartet, Loughran is a sensitive and passionate chamber musician. She has appeared on WQXR’s series Midday Masterpieces and has performed at Marlboro, Yellow Barn, the Perlman Music Program Chamber Workshop, Robert Mann’s String Quartet Institute, and Kronberg’s Chamber Music Connects the World. She has performed with Itzhak Perlman, Gidon Kremer, Mitsuko Uchida, Christian Tetzlaff, and Tabea Zimmermann, among other re nowned musicians.
Loughran earned her BM and MM degrees in viola performance at the Juilliard School, under the tutelage of Roger Tapping, Misha Amory, and Hsin-Yun Huang. Loughran was awarded the Kovner Fellowship. She is currently pursuing her professional studies diploma at the Kronberg Academy with Tabea Zimmermann.
NATALIE LONGHRAN
VIOLA
ANNE-MARIE MCDERMOTT
Anne-Marie McDermott has been artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Music Festival since 2011. She enjoys performing, recording, commissioning, and planning a tremendous variety of music encompassing many centuries and styles. Current projects include recording the complete Mozart Concertos with the Odense Symphony in Denmark and all of Haydn’s piano sonatas for release. This summer she looks forward to presenting all nine of Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas (which she has recorded) with pianists Anna Geniushene and Ilya Shmukler, whom she discovered while serving as a jurist for the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Last summer she premiered a new concerto by Chris Rogerson, commissioned for her by Bravo! Vail in honor of her 10th anniversary. She debuts an expanded version of the work with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in April 2024.
McDermott has been devoted to chamber music her entire career and performs regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, where she has been a member since 1995. She is the artistic director of two chamber music festivals: one at the McKnight Performing Arts Center in Oklahoma; the other in Ocean Reef, Florida. Her discography includes Bach’s English Suites and Partitas; Gershwin’s complete works for piano and orchestra; and recordings devoted to works by Haydn, Chopin, and Schubert. She plans to record all of Beethoven’s piano concertos with Mexico’s Orquesta Sinfonica de Mineria and the conductor Carlos Miquel Prieto. She has performed concertos with many American orchestras and international ensembles.
Pedja Mužijević is a pianist and curator and has been the artistic advisor at Tippet Rise since 2018.
He has defined his career with creative programming and lasting collaborations with artists and ensembles performing with the Atlanta Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony, Residentie Orkest in The Hague, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Shinsei Nihon Orchestra in Tokyo. Pedja has played solo recitals at Alice Tully Hall, 92Y and The Frick Collection in New York, Terrace Theater at Kennedy Center, Dumbarton Oaks and Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Casals Hall and Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo.
Pedja’s interdisciplinary projects include touring with Mikhail Baryshnikov throughout the United States, South America, Europe, and Asia and with Simon Keenlyside in Trisha Brown’s staged version of Schubert’s Winterreise at Lincoln Center in New York, Barbican in London, La Monnaie in Brussels, Opéra Nationale de Paris, as well as Holland, Lucerne, and Melbourne festivals.
Pedja is the artistic administrator at Baryshnikov Arts in New York, and he also directs workshops around the world, from Verbier Festival Academy and Banff Center to Colburn and Longy schools, in which he looks at the concert experience, both in programming and presentation, in an attempt to make it more accessible and relevant today.
PEDJA MUŽIJEVIĆ
PIANO
EMA NIKOLOVSKA
Born in North Macedonia, Ema Nikolovska grew up in Toronto, where she studied violin at the Glenn Gould School before studying voice with Helga Tucker. She received her master’s degree in voice at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, where she also completed the opera course. Nikolovska was a BBC New Generation Artist from 2019–22. In 2019 she won first prize at the International Vocal Competition in ‘s-Hertogenbosch and the Ferrier Loveday Song Prize (Kathleen Ferrier Awards), and she was a prizewinner at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Auditions. In 2022 she received the Borletti-Buitoni Trust award.
Her 2022–23 opera appearances included her role debut as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier at the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin. An alumna of their International Opera Studio, her roles in Berlin have included Lucile in Henze’s Cubana, Fatima Mansur in Christian Jost’s Die Arabische Nacht, Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte, Schäferin in Jenůfa, Giovanna in Rigoletto, and Diane in Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie. Recent concert highlights include Mozart’s Coronation Mass with Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg at the Salzburg Festival; Schumann’s Das Paradies und die Peri and Mozart’s Requiem with the Staatskapelle Berlin; Jaquet de la Guerre’s Céphale et Procris on tour with Reinoud van Mechelen and Nocte Temporis in Versailles, Namur, and Brussels; Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Münchener Rundfunkorchester; Mozart’s Requiem with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Musikkollegium Winterthur; and Ravel’s Chansons madécasses with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
MEZZO-SOPRANO
Equally at home in an orchestra or in a jazz club, the Boston-based harpist Charles Overton aims to create a musical environment that is accessible and exciting and resonates deeply with audiences.
Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Overton began his musical journey with formative experiences with the American Youth Harp Ensemble and the Interlochen Arts Academy before moving to Boston in 2012 to expand his musical horizons at the Berklee College of Music. During his studies he became immersed in the world of jazz and improvised music, owing much of his outlook on music to lessons from the renowned artist faculty of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute.
Overton performs frequently with the Boston Symphony as both a second and substitute principal harpist. Highlights in chamber music include concerts with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia, and several summers performing at the Yellow Barn Summer Music Festival. An avid jazz musician, he performs regularly in venues across the northeast as a band leader and internationally in collaboration with such artists as Shabaka Hutchings, Ganavya Doraiswamy, and Esperanza Spalding
Overton serves on the faculty of the Boston Conservatory at Berklee.
CHARLES OVERTON
OWLS
Alexi Kenney, violin
Ayane Kozasa, viola
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Paul Wiancko, cello
Declared “a dream group” by The New York Times, and drawing from a deep well of musical passions and backgrounds, Owls is a quartet collective that defies expectations and labels with original, visceral, and personal performances. Each member is an artistic force in their own right; violinist Alexi Kenney, violist Ayane Kozasa, cellist Gabriel Cabezas, and cellist-composer Paul Wiancko share an uncommonly fierce creative spirit that drives the quartet to challenge the way meaningful concert experiences are conceived. By weaving together new compositions with original arrangements of music ranging from the 1600s to the present, Owls’ distinctive instrumentation allows them access to beautiful and exhilarating new sound worlds—effectively guaranteeing that each performance is uniquely theirs and without limits.
Evren Ozel has established himself as a musician of “refined restraint” (Third Coast Review ), combining fluent virtuosity with probing, thoughtful interpretations. The American pianist received a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2022 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and was recently selected as a 2024-27 Bowers Program Artist for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He is currently represented by Concert Artists Guild as an ambassador prizewinner of the 2021 Victor Elmaleh Competition.
Since his debut at age 11 with the Minnesota Orchestra, Ozel has performed as a featured soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony, Boston Pops Orchestra, and The Orchestra Now at Bard College. He has performed solo recitals across the United States, and in the 2023–24 season performed the last three Beethoven sonatas in recital and made his recital debut at Boston’s Jordan Hall. An esteemed chamber musician, he has appeared at the Marlboro Music Festival and ChamberFest Cleveland, with artists such as Jonathan Biss, Franklin Cohen, Hsin-Yun Huang, Joseph Lin, Christoph Richter, and Peter Wiley.
Ozel began learning piano using the Suzuki method in his hometown of Minneapolis, taking lessons from Cindy Malmin. He studied for seven years with Dr. Paul Wirth in Minneapolis before moving to Massachusetts at 15 to study with Wha Kyung Byun at the Walnut Hill School for the Arts and the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the New England Conservatory and is currently a candidate in the Artist Diploma program, under the tutelage of Wha Kyung Byun.
EVREN OZEL
NELSON RICARDO
YOVERA PEREZ
Nelson Ricardo Yovera Perez is the current Principal Horn of the Tucson Symphony Orchestra. Winner of First Prize in the Brass and Percussion category of the Sphinx Orchestral Partners Auditions 2023.
In 2024 Nelson won second prize at the International Horn Competition of America.
Nelson is a frequent substitute for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as an active participant in many of the best festivals in music, such as the Marlboro Music Festival Cleveland ChamberFest and Classical Tahoe. During the years 2015 and 2018 he was a member of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, making multiple tours of Europe and Latin America under the baton of Maestro Gustavo Dudamel. Between 2018 and 2021 he held the position of Associate Principal Horn of the San Juan-Argentina Symphony Orchestra. Between the years 2021 and 2023 he was a Member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and third horn of the Battle Creek Symphony Orchestra. He was a student at the National School of horn of Venezuela between 2010 and 2018, studying with teachers Juan Carlos Maldonado and Ulises Aragón. He began his undergraduate studies at Roosevelt University in Chicago with master teachers David Cooper and David Griffin.
An avid chamber musician, Armenian-American violist Cara Pogossian has performed in numerous summer festivals, including the Marlboro Festival, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, and Taos School of Music. She was the 2023–24 winner of the New England Conservatory Concerto Competition, culminating in a performance of Bartók’s Viola Concerto with the NEC Philharmonia. She has toured with the Curtis Institute on multiple occasions, performing Schubert’s Cello Quintet, as well as with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra as principal violist. She has had the privilege of collaborating and performing with many of the leading figures in classical music, such as Don Weilerstein, Ida Kavafian, Joseph Lin, Marcy Rosen, Peter Wiley, Daniel Phillips, Kim Kashkashian, and the Borromeo String Quartet.
Pogossian is lucky enough to have an entire family of musicians, with whom she frequently performs. During the pandemic the Pogossian/Manouelian Clarinet Quintet collaborated with composers Timo Andres, Ian Krouse, Artashes Kartalyan, and Aida Shirazi, premiering each of their works in a series of online concerts.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Hsin-Yun Huang and Misha Amory, Pogossian is currently continuing her graduate studies with Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory of Music as the recipient of the Abraham Skernick Memorial Presidential Scholarship.
CARA POGOSSIAN
TERRY RILEY
Composer and performer Terry Riley is one of the founders of music’s Minimalist movement. His early works, notably In C (1964), pioneered a form in Western music based on structured interlocking repetitive patterns. The influence of his hypnotic, multilayered, polymetric, brightly orchestrated Eastern-flavored improvisations and compositions is heard across the span of contemporary and popular music.
Performers who have commissioned or played his works include Kronos Quartet, Rova Saxophone Quartet, ARTE Quartet, Array Music, Zeitgeist, Steven Scott Bowed Piano Ensemble, John Zorn, Sarah Cahill, California E.A.R. Unit, guitarist David Tanenbaum, electric violinist Tracy Silverman, and drummer George Marsh.
Born in Colfax, California, Riley studied at Shasta College, San Francisco State University, and the San Francisco Conservatory before earning a master’s degree in composition at the University of California, Berkeley, under Seymour Shifrin and Robert Erickson. At UC Berkeley he met La Monte Young; together they worked with the dancer Anna Halprin. During a European sojourn in 1962–64, he collaborated with members of the Fluxus group, playwright Ken Dewey, and trumpeter Chet Baker. In 1965 he moved to New York and joined Young’s Theater of Eternal Music. For more than 25 years, he appeared in concert with Pandit Pran Nath, a master of classical voice, as tampura, tabla, and vocal accompanist. Riley continues to perform in concerts featuring his own music and Indian classical music and also conducts raga-singing seminars.
Born in Kiev, in 1937, Valentyn Silvestrov came to music relatively late, at age 15. Initially self-taught, he took music classes at night while studying to become a civil engineer. From 1958 to 1964, he studied composition and counterpoint at Kiev Conservatory and then taught music for several years.
As a freelance composer, Silvestrov was based in Kiev from 1970 until March 2022. He is considered one of the leading representatives of the “Kiev avant-garde,” which came to public attention around 1960 and was aggressively suppressed by Soviet authorities. In the 1960s and 1970s, his music was scarcely played in his native city; premieres, if given at all, took place only in Russia, primarily in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), or in the West. After Russia’s aggressive invasion of Ukraine, the composer, at the request of his family and with the help of friends, fled with his daughter and granddaughter to Berlin, where he currently lives.
During the political unrest in Ukraine, Silvestrov has fought for his country by musical means, responding through numerous choral works, including Majdan Hymns and Prayers for the Ukraine. Although the world premiere of his Symphony No. 9 was postponed for two years on account of the global pandemic, the five-movement work was debuted on July 19, 2022, in Yerevan, Armenia.
VALENTYN SILVESTROV
COMPOSER
JESSICA SINDELL
Jessica Sindell joined the Cleveland Orchestra in October 2018. Before winning this audition, she was the solo piccolo player of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. After graduating from the Eastman School of Music, she won her first orchestral audition at age 22 to become principal flute of the Oregon Symphony. Sindell has been performing with the Lake Tahoe Music Festival orchestra from 2012 to 2018, and also acted as principal with the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego as well as the Colorado Music Festival. She has performed and recorded at the Tippet Rise Arts Center. A Cleveland native and graduate of Western Reserve Academy, Sindell was a member of the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra from 2005–07.
The Telegraph hailed Yevgeny Sudbin as “potentially one of the greatest pianists of the 21st century.” As BIS Records’ only exclusive artist, he has released several critically acclaimed recordings, which are regularly featured as BBC Music Magazine ’s CD of the month or Editor’s Choice by Gramophone. Sudbin’s Scriabin recording was named CD of the year by The Telegraph and received the MIDEM Classical Award for best solo instrument recording at Cannes. Gramophone described it as “a disc in a million.” Sudbin was nominated as Gramophone Artist of the Year in 2016.
Sudbin performs regularly in many of the world’s finest venues and concert series, both in recital and with orchestras such as Tonhalle Zurich; Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Wigmore Hall in London; Concertgebouw (Meesterpianisten, Amsterdm); Avery Fisher Hall in New York; and Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Recent engagements and tours include performances with the New Zealand Symphony, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Lucerne Symphony, Czech Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Philharmonic, BBC Philharmonic, and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. His performance of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 1 at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall was described by The Telegraph as “sublime.”
Sudbin lives in London with his wife and three young children. In his spare time, he is an avid photographer.
YEVGENY
SUDBIN
PIANO
CAMILLE THOMAS
Optimism, vitality, and joyful exuberance are elements of Camille Thomas’s rich and compelling personality. The Franco-Belgian cellist, who signed an exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon in 2017, understands the power of art to bring people together and to unite individuals from diverse cultures, countries, and backgrounds. Her charismatic artistry is driven by a passion for life and a desire to inspire others to open their hearts to the wonder and emotion of classical music.
Thomas’s recent debuts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Houston Symphony, as well as recitals in Boston and New York, garnered standing ovations. In the 2023–24 season she performed in a series of concerts at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, followed by recitals in Duszniki, Biarritz, and the Kronberg Festival. She also made her debut with the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C., and her recital debut in the Bay area with San Francisco Performances. She regularly performs at summer festivals across Europe and at Tippet Rise Art Center. She has worked with leading conductors such as Gemma New, Paolo Bortolameolli, Paavo J ä rvi, Mikko Franck, Darrell Ang, Kent Nagano, and St é phane Den è ve.
In June 2023 Thomas released a new recording: The Chopin Project, a tribute to Chopin’s favorite instrument, the cello. This trilogy of albums showcases Thomas’s deep understanding of Chopin’s music and its relationship with the cello.
Jake Thonis is the acting associate principal bassoon of the Florida Orchestra. He has performed with the Charleston, Chicago, Hawaii, and Houston symphonies, as well as the Louisiana Philharmonic. He has spent recent summers at the Marlboro Music Festival and was previously a member of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. He has performed in chamber music settings with the Gamut Bach Ensemble and the Walden Chamber Players. He began his studies with Janet Underhill in his hometown of Wellesley, Massachusetts, and went on to study at the Colburn School, Rice University, and the Curtis Institute of Music.
JAKE THONIS
BASSOON
AFENDI YUSUF
Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Afendi Yusuf has appeared as guest principal with a number of North American ensembles, including the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Canadian Opera Company, and the Toronto and Cincinnati symphony orchestras. He joined the Cleveland Orchestra as principal clarinet with the start of the 2017–18 season. He has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist, he has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Grant Park Orchestra, Colburn Orchestra, and Royal Conservatory Orchestra, among others. He is an alumnus of the Aspen Music Festival and School, Marlboro Music Festival, Brott Music Festival, National Youth Orchestra of Canada, and the National Arts Centre’s Young Artists Program. He holds a BA degree from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, as a student of Ross Edwards, and an artist diploma from the Glenn Gould School in Toronto, Ontario, as a student of Joaquin Valdepeñas. He also holds an MM degree and a professional studies certificate from the Colburn School’s Conservatory of Music, where he was a student of Yehuda Gilad. Yusuf is a Buffet Crampon USA Artist and currently serves on faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
The Tippet Rise Team
Lindsey Hinmon, Co-Director
Pete Hinmon, Co-Director
Pedja Mužijević, Artistic Advisor
Ben Wynthein, Ranch Manager
Melissa Moore, Communication and Guest Experience Manager
Beth Korth, Art Education and Visitor Center Manager
Rhema Mangus, Artistic Programs and Production Manager
Whitney Hegeman, Editor and Publications Administrator
Brian Langeliers, Digital Experience Administrator
Monte Nickles, Audio and Technology Systems Manager
Dan Luttschwager, Maintenance and Facilities Manager
Jenny Van Ooyen, Visitor Experience Manager
Drew Mangus, Maintenance and Operations Assistant
Jim Ruberto, Assistant Audio Engineer and Technical Systems Engineer
Kevin Richey, Filmmaker
Mike Toia, Piano Technician
Shannon Mentzer, GSST Manager (Guest Service and Safety Team)
Bryon Best, Facilities Operator
Ben Johnson, Fire Systems Manager
Gene Lacombe, GSST
Ralph Millikin, GSST
Laura Devitt, GSST
Garth Pelton, Ranch Assistant
Caden Vandesandt, Ranch Maintenance
Jeanne Reid White, Special Projects Advisor
Craig White, Creative Consultant and Graphic Design
Photography: James Florio, Kevin Kinzley, Brian Langeliers, Erik Petersen, Yevgeny Sudbin
Program Design and Production: Craig White
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