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Table of Contents 4 About The Indianapolis 45 About Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis 6 IVCI Board of Directors & Administration 7 IVCI Laureates 8 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Program 9-12 About the Artists 13-16 Program Notes 21-24
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Supported by the Arts Council and the City of Indianapolis
Our 2023/2024 Season PLEASE NOTE: In consideration of our artists, no children under the age of six are admitted. No unauthorized photographic or recording equipment is allowed at the performances. Please turn off all sound devices including watches, cell phones and pagers. International Violin Competition of Indianapolis 32 E. Washington Street, Suite 1320 Indianapolis, IN 46204 (ph) 317.637.4574 ivci@violin.org | www.violin.org
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About The Indianapolis REMARKABLE PERFORMANCES, extraordinary prizes and a festival atmosphere characterize the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (IVCI) as “the ultimate violin contest…” writes the Chicago Tribune. Laureates of The Indianapolis have emerged as outstanding artists in concert halls across the globe. For 17 days every four years, 40 of the world’s brightest talents come here to perform some of the most beautiful music ever written before enthusiastic audiences in venues throughout the city including the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, the Howard L. Schrott Center for the Performing Arts and the Hilbert Circle Theatre, where the finalists collaborate with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Of the prizes awarded, one of the most significant is the four-year loan of a concert instrument from the Competition collection which comprises the 1683 “ex-Gingold” Stradivari violin and several modern instruments. Under the guidance of Thomas J. Beczkiewicz, Founding Director, and the late Josef Gingold, who had served on the juries of every major violin competition in the world, the IVCI became known by the musical and media communities as one of the world’s most compelling competitions. In 1994, the artistic leadership of this Competition passed from Gingold to his most famous pupil, Jaime Laredo, one of the master musicians of our time. Since 1982, Indianapolis has hosted 11 Competitions. It is a unique showcase for the world’s most gifted young violinists and a demonstration of Hoosier hospitality and American volunteerism. Regarded as the “Olympics of the Violin,” each Competition generates significant national and international media coverage for the artists and the state. Hundreds of volunteers work tirelessly to make this event possible. Through the performances of its Laureates, the influence of the Competition continues for years afterward in cities of the world far from Indianapolis. These Laureates uphold the tradition of quality and excellence which has made the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis one of the most prestigious music competitions in the world.
The 12th Quadrennial will take place in 2026.
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President John N. Failey Vice President Sue Wilson Treasurer Anne E. Lazarz Board Members Colette G. Abel Lorelei Farlow John J. Goodman Elaine J. Holden Joanne T. Hom, PhD Barbara MacDougall
Joerg Schreiber, PhD Nancy Chesterman Smith Shandon Whistler Marianne S. Wokeck, PhD Emeriti Board Members Jane Nolan Julia Marks Nancy Chesterman Smith Program Annotator Nicholas Johnson, PhD
100% of our board members and officers provide financial support to the Society each season. Please join them and our other donors with your gift.
Pre-Concert Discussion Lisa Brooks, DMA Nicholas Johnson, PhD
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HISTORY
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The Ensemble Music Society was formed in the winter of 1944 by a nucleus of civicminded music lovers. The group originally met in the Herron Art Museum on 16th Street (later becoming the Indianapolis Museum of Art). Guided by Leonard Strauss and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra founder Ferdinand Schaefer, they decided to form a chamber music society to bring a regular season of chamber music concerts to Indianapolis. They selected the name Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis (EMSI) and formed an organizational committee. The first concert was announced for April 1945 in the Indiana War Memorial Concert Hall. EMSI remains an all-volunteer organization. Thousands of volunteer hours given annually by the board keep expenses down and ticket prices reasonable. Most concerts are presented at the Indiana Historical Society and Indiana Landmarks Center in downtown Indianapolis.
MISSION The mission of EMSI is to present a regular series of chamber music concerts with internationally-known touring and recording artists each season in Indianapolis. Beyond their role as performers, often the ensembles are very generous and gifted teachers. Part of the mission includes promoting music education through the EMSI Chamber Music in Schools program. These guest ensembles visit schools throughout central Indiana, with lectures and hands-on demonstrations for students.
IVCI Board of Directors Steve Hamilton, President Mike MacLean, Vice President Kurt Tornquist, Treasurer Dawn Bennett, Secretary Christina Abossedgh Mario Arango Andrew Dunham, Ph.D. Julia Gard Toby Gill Rosalie Held
Stanton Jacobs Daniel Kim Deborah Loughrey Roxanne McGettigan Monica Peterson Gary J. Reiter
Theresa Rhodes David Schurger Cheryl Strain Susan Brock Williams
IVCI Ex-Officio Directors Donna L. Reynolds, Past President Louis E. Daugherty, Past President Thomas R. Neal, Past President Alan Whaley, Past President
Gingold Fund Board of Directors Daniel C. Appel, President Alan Whaley, Treasurer Glen Kwok, Secretary Louis E. Daugherty Steve Hamilton
Marci M. Matthews Donna L. Reynolds
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Glen Kwok Executive Director
Mindy Miller Director of Operations
Mary Jane Sorbera Director of Development
Zack French Director of Communications and Artist Advancement
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Sirena Huang, United States Julian Rhee, United States Minami Yoshida, Japan Claire Wells, United States SooBeen Lee, South Korea Joshua Brown, United States
Richard Lin, Taiwan/United States Risa Hokamura, Japan Luke Hsu, United States Anna Lee, United States Ioana Cristina Goicea, Romania Shannon Lee, United States/Canada Jinjoo Cho, South Korea Tessa Lark, United States Ji Young Lim, South Korea Dami Kim, South Korea Yoojin Jang, South Korea Jiyoon Lee, South Korea
Clara-Jumi Kang, South Korea Soyoung Yoon, South Korea Benjamin Beilman, United States Haoming Xie, China Antal Zalai, Hungary Andrey Baranov, Russia Augustin Hadelich, Germany Simone Lamsma, The Netherlands Celeste Golden, United States Yura Lee, South Korea Ye-Eun Choi, South Korea Bella Hristova, Bulgaria
Barnabás Kelemen, Hungary Sergey Khachatryan, Armenia Soovin Kim, United States Frank Huang, United States Susie Park, Australia Alina Pogostkina, Germany
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Judith Ingolfsson, Iceland Liviu Prunaru, Romania Ju-Young Baek, South Korea Svetlin Roussev, Bulgaria Andrew Haveron, Great Britain Bin Huang, China Juliette Kang, Canada Stefan Milenkovich, Yugoslavia David Chan, United States Jaakko Kuusisto, Finland Michiko Kamiya, Japan Robin Sharp, United States
Pavel Berman, Russia Marco Rizzi, Italy Ivan Chan, United States Virginie Robilliard, France David Kim, United States Martin Beaver, Canada
Kyoko Takezawa, Japan Leonidas Kavakos, Greece Andrés Cárdenes, United States Chin Kim, South Korea Sungsic Yang, South Korea Annick Roussin, France
Mihaela Martin, Romania Ida Kavafian, United States Yuval Yaron, Israel Olivier Charlier, France Nai-Yuan Hu, Taiwan Yuriko Naganuma, Japan
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Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Tuesday, January 24, 2024 | 7:30 PM Grand Hall, Indiana Landmarks Center
PROGRAM & ARTISTS L. Beethoven (1770-1827)
Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello in E-flat, Op. 1, No. 1 (1793) Allegro Adagio cantabile Scherzo: Allegro assai Finale: Presto
Richard Lin, violin David Finckel, cello Wu Han, piano
D. Shostakovich Sonata in D minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 40 (1934) (1906-1975) Allegro non troppo
Allegro Largo Allegro
David Finckel, cello Wu Han, piano
Intermission (20 minutes)
A. Dvorák Quartet in E-flat for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello, Op. 87 (1889) ˇ (1841-1904) Allegro con fuoco
Lento Allegro moderato, grazioso Finale: Allegro ma non troppo
Richard Lin, violin Timothy Ridout, viola David Finckel, cello Wu Han, piano
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Artist Biographies Co-Artistic Director of Chamber Music Society since 2004, cellist David Finckel’s dynamic musical career has included performances on the world’s stages in the roles of recitalist, chamber artist, and orchestral soloist. The first American student of Mstislav Rostropovich, he joined the Emerson String Quartet in 1979, and during 34 seasons garnered nine Grammy Awards and the Avery Fisher Prize. His quartet performances and recordings include quartet cycles of Mozart, ˇ Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Dvorák, Brahms, Bartók, and Shostakovich, as well as collaborative masterpieces and commissioned works. In 1997, he and pianist Wu Han founded ArtistLed, the first internet-based, artist-controlled classical recording label. ArtistLed’s catalog of more than 20 releases includes the standard literature for cello and piano, plus works composed for the duo by George Tsontakis, Gabriela Lena Frank, Bruce Adolphe, Lera Auerbach, Edwin Finckel, Augusta Read Thomas, and Pierre Jalbert. In 2022, Music@Menlo, an innovative summer chamber music festival in Silicon Valley founded and directed by David and Wu Han, celebrated its 20th season. As a young student, David was winner of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s junior and senior divisions, resulting in two performances with the orchestra. Having taught extensively with the late Isaac Stern in America, Israel, and Japan, he is currently a professor at both The Juilliard School and Stony Brook University, and oversees both CMS’s Bowers Program and Music@Menlo’s Chamber Music Institute. David’s 100 online Cello Talks, lessons on cello technique, are viewed by an international audience of musicians. Along with Wu Han, he was the recipient of Musical America’s 2012 Musicians of the Year Award. 2023/2024 Laureate Series
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Taiwanese-American violinist Richard Lin continues to gain international prominence since his Gold Medal prize at the 2018 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Following his June 2022 Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium recital debut, New York Concert Review asserted, “Richard Lin. Remember the name. For he has everything required to take the world by storm.” He has collaborated with numerous orchestras and performed at celebrated concert venues throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. He is a laureate of the Sendai, Joseph Joachim, Singapore, and Michael Hill International violin competitions and has just joined the faculty of the National Taipei University of Education. His 2023–24 season includes appearances as Guest Concertmaster, soloist, and chamber artist with the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan and Japan. He will appear in recitals across the United States, including performances with CMS as a member of the Bowers Program. His soon-to-be released album with pianist Thomas Hoppe on the Azica label features his Carnegie Hall program with works by Vitali, Richard Strauss, John Corigliano and Frolov. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in Taiwan, Lin graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard School, where he studied with Aaron Rosand and Lewis Kaplan, respectively. Timothy Ridout, a former BBC New Generation Artist, Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship 2020 winner, and recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society 2023 Young Artist Award, is one of the most sought-after violists of his generation. The 2023–24 season sees him join the WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Orchestre National du Capitole 10
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de Toulouse, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra alongside the likes of Kazuki Yamada and Sir Simon Rattle. Further highlights include his return to America with Camerata Pacifica and his debut with Royal Northern Sinfonia. Recent seasons have included appearances with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Odense Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester, TonhalleOrchester Zürich, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Hamburger Symphoniker, Orchestre National de Lille, Camerata Salzburg, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, the Hallé, BBC Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestra. Across his engagements he has worked with conductors such as Sakari Oramo, Lionel Bringuier, Sylvain Cambreling, Nicholas Collon, and Sir András Schiff, and performed as far and wide as South America and Australia. In 2020 Ridout won Hamburger Symphoniker’s inaugural Sir Jeffrey Tate Prize and in 2021 he joined CMS’s Bowers Program. Born in London in 1995, Ridout studied at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with the Queen’s Commendation for Excellence. He completed his master’s at the Kronberg Academy with Nobuko Imai in 2019 and, in 2018, took part in the Kronberg Academy’s Chamber Music Connects the World. He plays a viola by Peregrino di Zanetto, c. 1565–75, on loan from a generous patron of Beare’s International Violin Society. Pianist Wu Han, recipient of Musical America’s Musician of the Year Award, enjoys a multi-faceted musical life that encompasses artistic direction, performing, and recording at the highest levels. CoArtistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2004 as well as Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Silicon Valley’s innovative chamber music festival Music@Menlo since 2002, she also serves as Artistic Advisor for Wolf Trap’s Chamber Music at the Barns series and Palm Beach’s Society of the Four Arts, 2023/2024 Laureate Series
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and as Artistic Director for La Musica in Sarasota, Florida. Her recent concert activities have taken her from New York’s Lincoln Center stages to the most important concert halls in the United States, Europe, and Asia. In addition to countless performances of virtually the entire chamber repertoire, her concerto performances include appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony, and the Aspen Festival Orchestra. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of ArtistLed, classical music’s first artistdirected, internet-based recording label, which has released her performances of the staples of the cello-piano duo repertoire with cellist David Finckel. Her more than 80 releases on ArtistLed, CMS Live, and Music@Menlo LIVE include masterworks of the chamber repertoire with numerous distinguished musicians. Wu Han’s educational activities include overseeing CMS’s Bowers Program and the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo. A recipient of the prestigious Andrew Wolf Award, she was mentored by some of the greatest pianists of our time, including Lilian Kallir, Rudolf Serkin, and Menahem Pressler. Married to cellist David Finckel since 1985, Wu Han divides her time between concert touring and residences in New York City and Westchester County. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is represented by David Rowe Artists.
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Program Notes Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) Trio in E-flat for Piano, Violin and Cello, Op. 1, No. 1 (1793) In 1792, as France convulsed in revolution and war broke out in Europe, Beethoven moved from his hometown of Bonn to study composition with Franz Joseph Haydn in Vienna. Mozart had died just eleven months before, and the tastemakers of the town were keeping their eyes open for the next big talent. Beethoven—with his wild looks, untamed personality, and unconventional, aggressive pianistic sound, paired with undeniable talent— was a top candidate. He had no trouble finding a series of patrons—even several at once. The competition for the bragging rights of facilitating the creation of exciting new works had become so fierce that many families went into tremendous (even ruinous) debt trying to outdo their neighbors. Buoyed by this unabashed enthusiasm, within a handful of years Beethoven’s music was printed by no fewer than five of the music publishers in town. Carl Czerny, who would become one of Beethoven’s most famous pupils, confirmed the composer “received all manner of support from our high aristocracy and enjoyed as much care and respect as ever fell to the lot of a young artist.” Shortly after his arrival, Beethoven was invited by Prince Karl Lichnowsky and his wife to live with them in their home. Prince Lichnowsky patronized Beethoven for over a decade, and Beethoven became extremely close to the family. He considered Princess Christiane von Lichnowsky a “second mother” and dedicated works such as the Sonata in C minor, Op. 13 (“Pathétique”), the Sonata in A-flat, Op. 26, and the Symphony No. 2 to the Prince. However, over time Beethoven became increasingly agitated by the arrangement. Musicologist Maynard Solomon notes that it “troubled him to think that he was admired primarily for his talents rather than for his qualities as a person,” and that he once lamented in a letter to a friend, ”Am I then nothing more than a music maker for yourself or the others?” The sentiment wasn’t limited to the Lichnowskys. It seems Beethoven felt similarly toward more than one of his patrons. The attention was a double-edged sword. Beethoven wrote the set of three piano trios, published as Op. 1, for Lichnowsky during the halcyon days of their relationship, to be performed at a home salon (various accounts exist, but Haydn may have been in attendance). Divided into four movements, the opening sparkles with elegant Viennese classism, but is tinged with the unmistakably muscular quality of 2023/2024 Laureate Series
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Beethoven. This is balanced by the second movement, in which his masterful writing of achingly beautiful melodies is on full display. The spotlight is particularly given to the piano—not accidentally, as it is the part Beethoven himself played at the premiere. In the rollicking third movement we already hear a foreshadowing of the kind of élan infused in his later scherzos, like that of the Symphony No. 7, while the finale displays the composer’s spirit of playful virtuosity. Listen for the sneaky return of the first movement’s opening arpeggio motive in the very last measures of the work.
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) Sonata in D minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 40 (1934) In January 1934, Dmitri Shostakovich premiered his second opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. It was received with acclaim and continued a successful run for two years. By this time, the composer had been on an upward trajectory since the premiere of his First Symphony nearly a decade earlier, in 1926. A work of his teenage years, the symphony catapulted Shostakovich onto the international stage, earning him attention from conductors such as Toscanini and Stokowski, and composers as diverse as Darius Milhaud and Alban Berg. Building on this cornerstone, the remainder of his twenties saw a flurry of productivity, including reaching the finals of the first Chopin Piano Competition, and the creation of many works that have endured in popularity, including two more symphonies, his first opera (The Nose), the First Piano Concerto, and the 24 Preludes for Piano. The Cello Sonata was one of the first works Shostakovich completed after Lady Macbeth, and also represents his first mature foray into chamber music. It was commissioned by Viktor Kubatsky, principal cellist of the Bolshoi Theater, and its inception collided with a turbulent period in the composer’s domestic life: the temporary separation from his wife, Nina, following an affair he pursued with a young translator. The marriage, mutually agreed to be open, was emotionally complex, marred by some reluctance, and further complicated by a desire for children that hung in the balance when Nina was diagnosed with a kidney disease that doctors believed could be life-threatening in childbirth. After she underwent a successful treatment and became pregnant, Shostakovich wrote to a friend, “There is to be no more talk of my divorce from Nina.” But the drama was just beginning. Two years later, in January 1936, Shostakovich was giving a performance of the Cello Sonata while simultaneously finding himself the direct target of public political intimidation. An unsigned article was published in the newspaper Pravda condemning Lady Macbeth as “Muddle Instead of Music,” just days
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after Stalin had attended a performance. A second disapproving article, this time singling out one of his ballet scores, ran less than a month later. Performances of Shostakovich’s works were canceled, and he fell into an abyss of fear as Stalin’s purges raged around him. Ironically, Shostakovich would be censured from that moment for “formalist” tendencies (a government catch-all for anything they deemed outside of the Socialist-Realism ideal), while his Cello Sonata is almost staunchly traditionalist in its structure. Opening with an elegant melody in the cello, the expansive beauty of the first movement is by turns pensive, laced with gloom, and sweetly wistful. This emotional ambiguity is enhanced by the vagueness of the movement’s tonal centers. This is all hung on a scaffolding of ClassicalRomantic sonata form (A–B–A), but modified with unique features such as the return of the A-section material strikingly changed to a slower tempo. The second movement is in perpetual motion, powered by a vigorous triple meter that churns with an array of short, repeated patterns. In stark contrast, the third-movement Largo is lugubrious yet beautifully expressive. Everything is pitched down into the very low register of each instrument, communicating a palpable sense of oppression, and the cello is the definitive focal point. The final movement is a customary rondo (A–B–A–C–A) conclusion for a sonata, but rendered as a tour de force of virtuosity and novelty where breathtakingly rapid finger work is required of both players and new themes combine without transition. Covering the entire folk-music inspired finale is a gloss of sardonic humor—an attribute that would become a hallmark of Shostakovich’s works for years to come.
ˇ Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) Quartet in E-flat for Piano, Violin and Cello, Op. 87 (1889) A profoundly impactful period in Antonín Dvorák’s life was marked by ˇ the enthusiastic reception of his works by orchestras and audiences in England. Everything had changed for the Czech composer when Johannes Brahms extended his support in 1877, encouraging his own publisher, Fritz Simrock, to take on Dvorák ˇ as a new talent. Virtually overnight he went from a church organist and regionally popular composer to a burgeoning European celebrity. However, the endorsement could not spare him from the political climate of increasing anti-Czech sentiment in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, most vividly evidenced by the Vienna Philharmonic’s extended delay premiering his Symphony No. 6, which ultimately ended with a first performance in Prague instead. 2023/2024 Laureate Series
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Amid this storm, Dvorák ˇ was invited to England in 1884 for the first of what would become multiple tours over the course of 12 years. His optimism after such a warm reception leaps off the page in one of his letters: “From all I have gained the conviction that a new, and with God’s will happier, period is now beginning here for me in England.” This turn of events paved the way for his work to spread throughout the continent and to the United States, where he would spend three years as director of the new National Conservatory of Music in New York. It also provided him with true financial security for the first time, allowing him to purchase a summer home in the country where he could write, and giving him leverage to demand better pay from Simrock now that there was competition for publishing rights. In 1889, now at a new height in his career, Dvorák ˇ completed the Quartet, Op. 87, which fulfilled a request from Simrock for a new piano quartet. It was written quickly, between July 10 and August 19, just a few weeks after ˇ was awarded one of the highest orders of merit, the Austrian Order Dvorák of the Iron Crown. The buoyant feelings he surely felt as this transformative decade neared its end resonate throughout the quartet, which is one of his most delightful works. Opening the piece is a full-throated statement of the primary theme by the strings in unison, followed by a call-and-response passage with the piano. Shifting into G major, Dvorák ˇ introduces the sweetly lyrical second theme on the viola—a personal touch as this was his instrument during the years he worked as a performer before turning to composition. Throughout the movement the intensity grows until it is bursting with nearly symphonic energy as Dvorák ˇ brilliantly transforms the themes. The expansive second movement is rhapsodic in its treatment of multiple themes and moods through a slew of key changes. The first theme is a melancholy melody delivered by the cello, accompanied by sparse pizzicato (plucked) chords and harp-like arpeggiation. The second, equally lyrical theme is picked up by the violin before a third chordal theme is introduced by the piano. A tumbling cascade of chromatic octaves introduces a passionately strident fourth theme that dovetails into a fifth theme, again carried by the piano, accompanied by sighs in the strings. For the third movement, Dvorák ˇ takes a cue from the Classical minuet-andtrio structure, but inserts evocations of traditional folk dances into the ternary (ABA) form. Closing the work is a high-spirited finale in the same folkmusic vein. Beginning unexpectedly in E-flat minor, the movement displays Dvorák’s endless capacity for melody all the way to the end before pivoting ˇ to conclude in the home key. Kathryn Bacasmot writes about music and is a regular program annotator for CMS.
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HONOR/MEMORIAL GIFTS In memory of Robert A. Anker ANSER Angela Ballard Henry and Pat Barnett Tom and Dawn Bennett Donald P. Bogard Laurie Carter Kathleen A. Custer Leslie Donchetz and Michael Dick Linda D. Faires Zack and Jessica French Glen Kwok and Chih-Yi Chen Eleanor Lopez David J. Mallon, Jr. Mindy Miller David Murray Peggy and Byron Myers Ralph G. Nowak Cecilia Nyman Helen O'Guinn Edie Olson and Terry DeBoo Jane Paine Reinhard Pollach and Jane Ann Pitz Mike and Lindy Richman Steve and Carol Risting Robert and Mary Jane Sorbera Ann M. Stack Jim and Cheryl Strain Mr. and Mrs. Robert Strebing Alan and Elizabeth Whaley James P. White David Whitman and Donna Reynolds Sherry Wilson Bill and Roberta Witchger Don and Angela Woodley In memory of Jane Cavagnini Glen Kwok and Chih-Yi Chen In memory of Pamela Saunders French Zack and Jessica French In honor of Sirena Huang Dr. and Mrs. Donald R. Hardman In memory of Keith Norwalk Tom and Dawn Bennett Zack and Jessica French
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IVCI Annual Fund Gifts Glen Kwok and Chih-Yi Chen Mindy Miller Robert and Mary Jane Sorbera In memory of Marianne Tobias Kathleen A. Custer Zack and Jessica French Glen Kwok and Chih-Yi Chen Peggy and Byron Myers N. Clay and Amy Robbins Robert and Mary Jane Sorbera James P. White Alan and Elizabeth Whaley David Whitman and Donna Reynolds In memory of Anna S. White JoEllen Florio Rossebo In honor of Marion Wolen Jenifer Ostermann
12TH QUADRENNIAL PLEDGES RECEIVED AS OF JANUARY 5, 2024 Stradivari ($50,000 and above) Tom and Dawn Bennett Carter Family Fund Lilly Endowment, Inc. Cynthia P. Matthews Family Foundation Silver ($10,000 - $24,999) Barnes & Thornburg LLP Donald P. Bogard Kathy and Lou Daugherty Ann M. Stack Bronze ($5,000 - $9,999) Jim and Cheryl Strain Virtuoso ($2,500-$4,999) Emily A. West
2023 VIVA FUND-A-NEED GIFTS Viva il Violino is an annual event designed to raise funds in addition to Annual Fund gift which support the education, outreach and career mentoring of the IVCI. Cara Abbott Ian and Sonia Arnold Tom and Dawn Bennett 2023/2024 Laureate Series
Fred and Annette Biesecker Kori Chambers Megan Coffin Donald and Dorothy Craft Kathleen A. Custer John Danberry Kathy and Lou Daugherty Ann Deagan-Romberg Rosemary Dorsa Dean and Judy Drilling Zack and Jessica French Sarah Harrell Katie Harris Ann Hinson Brian Hollingsworth Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hulka Leanne and Dave Jackson Sarah and Mike Janicki Liz Krueger Angela Kumar Steve Jones Deborah and Joe Loughrey Marci Matthews Mickey and Janie Maurer Tom and Roxanne McGettigan Robert Meitus Clayton Miller Dinah and Jerry Montgomery Joel and Mary O'Brien Jane Paine Carol Fosso and Raye Pankratz Gary and Ann Reiter Anne E. Scheele Alice K. and Robert E. Schloss Carrie Sieglitz Robert and Mary Jane Sorbera Anne Longtine and Marco Spallone Jim and Cheryl Strain Suzanne Sweeney Jasmine Tse and Kam Cheung Girish Vitalpur Jackie and Pat Walsh Alan and Elizabeth Whaley David Whitman and Donna Reynolds Y. Rosalind Wolen Dr. Christian Wolf and Mrs. Elaine Holden-Wolf Conrad Wong Vince and Lori Wong Woodley Farra
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The Josef Gingold Fund Endowment The Josef Gingold Fund is an endowment established in 1985 to secure a financial base for the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis’ future. In order for the Competition to become self-supporting, it is vitally important that the endowment continues to grow. The importance of an endowment is recognized by both friends of the Competition and its Laureates. A strong endowment provides the foundation needed to maintain our Competition’s status. Please join the growing list of supporters of The Josef Gingold Fund. Whether you choose to make a planned or an outright gift, your contribution will help ensure the future of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis - a great cultural and community asset.
Please call the Competition office at (317) 637-4574 or email Mary Jane Sorbera at maryjane@violin.org if you wish to discuss a planned or outright endowment gift.
JOSEF GINGOLD FUND GIFTS The following list reflects gifts made from August 1, 2023 through January 5, 2024. Anonymous Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Kathy and Lou Daugherty Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Gross Jr. Jim and Cheryl Strain Alan and Elizabeth Whaley
THE JOSEF GINGOLD SOCIETY The Josef Gingold Society has been created in order to recognize kind supporters who have included The Josef Gingold Fund in their estate plans. Anonymous (3) Bob and Pat Anker Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Beczkiewicz Suzanne Blakeman Donald P. Bogard Anita and Bill Cast Mrs. Chris J. Christy
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Lou and Kathy Daugherty Don Earnhart Rosalie Held Kay Koch Glen Kwok and Chih-Yi Chen Deborah and Joe Loughrey Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Foundation
Laura and Alan Mendelsohn Melinda J. Miller Ina Mohlman Peggy and Byron Myers Jane and Andrew Paine Nancy J. Schmidt Alan and Elizabeth Whaley Anna S. and James P. White
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Ensemble Music Society Support Contributions for 12 months ending January 5, 2024. FOUNDERS’ CIRCLE $5,000 AND ABOVE Elaine Holden and Dr. Christian Wolf PRESIDENT’S CLUB $2,000-$4,999 Tom & Dawn Bennett Mr. & Mrs. John Failey Max D. Kime, Jr. Doris McCullough Marianne Wokeck CONCERT SPONSOR $1,000-$1,999 John & Barb Chirgwin Donna L. Clark & Randolph M. Russell Sarah Kunz & John Goodman Frank & Nancy Gootee Bill & Renate Hubbard Phyllis Karrh Julia Krohn Larry & Anne Lazarz Anne Longtine & Marco Spallone Barbara MacDougall Valerie Purvin Susan Sawyer & Scott Putney Charles Rudesill James W. & Nancy C. Smith Ieva Straatman Philip & Shandon Whistler PATRON $500-$999 Marsha Brown Lorelei & Tom Farlow Katherine Simmons & Helmut Fortense Bernardino & Caterina Ghetti Gottlieb Glauninger Thomas & Mary Grein Ann Hunt Mr. & Mrs. Dennis McCafferty Royce D. Thrush Ken & Mary Anne Winslow PARTNER $250-$499 Emily Chenette Gayl & Beverly Doster Reynold & Ann B. Frutkin James Gallagher Joanne Hom Laureate Series 2023/2024 John A Katterjohn
Elisabeth Ohly-Davis Jean Patton & Ray Gotshall Kenneth & Debra Renkens Klaus & Joel Schmiegel John Seest Ed Staubach Jim & Cheryl Strain Larry & Sue Wilson DEVOTEE $100-$249 Mr. & Mrs. Alfred Abel Sarah Binford & Peter Racher David & Mary Bodle Laura Bramble John & Catherine Bridge Helen Carroll David & Ann Cook Alan S. Duncanson Susan Edenberg Marni Fechtman Karla Fehd Steve Foley Carol Frohlich Thomas Gerber Alan Hamburger Samuel & Margaret Hazlett Glen Helman James & Rosemarie Jeffery James Johnson Kelly Koehler Paul Krasnovsky Philip & Holiday McKiernan Lucila Mena Dr. & Mrs. Richard Miyamoto Joan Pauls & Ernest Hite Heather Platt Dr. Joerg & Annemarie Schreiber Beverly Scott Anne Smith Bonnie Swaim Paul & Marjorie Valliere Norma Wallman Alan Whaley Richard & Kealoha Widdows
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CONTRIBUTOR $50-$99 Kent Farr Michael Finnerty George Freije Judy Harmon Janet A. Hollis Joie Kipka Matt Koher Keith Phelps Lisa Teague John Wood OTHER Nikolaus Brahtz Carol Sue Chapman Polly Spiegel & Peter Grossman August Hardee II Mary Hudson Kayoko Komatsubara Lee Lange & Ted Planje David Suzuki Peter & Katerina Vorsilak Michael & Heather Witt FOUNDATIONS AND GRANTS Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, Inc Arts Council of Indianapolis In Support of Virtual Broadcasting Marian Pettengill
HONORS AND MEMORIALS In Honor of Nancy Chesterman Smith Doris McCullough In Honor of Lorelei Farlow Ed Staubach In Honor of Scott Putney Elaine Holden & Christian Wolf In Memory of Dr. Louis Chenette Emily Chenette In Memory of Joan Gerzon Anne Smith James W. & Nancy C. Smith Julia Krohn Mr. & Mrs. John Failey Lorelei & Tom Farlow Sarah Kunz & John Goodman In Memory of Joseph L. Kivett Royce D. Thrush In Memory of John S. Marks, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Failey In Memory of Lamar Richcreek Elaine Holden & Christian Wolf In Memory of Tom and Ursula Roberts Norma Wallman In Memory of Ursula Roberts Emily Chenette
THANK YOU TO OUR 23-24 SEASON SPONSORS
Gift in Memory of Wayne and MaryJo Wallace From Their Children and Grandchildren
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Support The Indianapolis Join the ranks of those whose gifts positively affect the work of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (IVCI) and its influence on the world of music. Be among those who have chosen to make a meaningful impact on IVCI’s leadership role in Indiana’s cultural community while retaining its respected worldwide position as an industry leader. Contact Mary Jane Sorbera at maryjane@violin.org or (317) 637-4574 for assistance.
2023/2024 Laureate Series 2022 Gold Medalist Sirena Huang Photo by Denis Ryan Kelly Jr.
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Saturday, March 9 | 2:30 PM | Madam Walker Theatre
IVCI Celebrates Indianapolis - Free community concert The IVCI presents a free concert for the city featuring its 2014 Gold Medalist Jinjoo Cho with special guests Bethlehem Kelley and Javier F. Torres Delgado, recipients of IVCI Scholarships to the ENCORE Music Institute in Ohio. Pianist Hyunsoo Kim joins the soloists in a program featuring solo, duo and trio works.
Tuesday, April 2 | 7:30 PM | Indiana History Center
1998 Silver Medalist Liviu Prunaru and Chih-Yi Chen, piano
Live & Virtual
1998 Silver Medalist Liviu Prunaru, Concertmaster of the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, joins forces with IVCI Official Pianist Chih-Yi Chen in a program featuring a mixture of Baroque serenity, Classical brilliance and Romantic passion in beloved works from the violin repertoire.
Wednesday, May 29 | 7:30 PM | The Cabaret
Contrasts featuring Charles Yang, Peter Dugan and Mark Dover NEARLY SOLD OUT! Back by popular demand, violinist/vocalist Charles Yang (Time for Three) and pianist Peter Dugan return to Indy, this time with Grammynominated clarinetist Mark Dover in a cabaret-style evening featuring daring improvisations and exhilarating interpretations of musical styles.
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