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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 ESPRESSIVO! Program 9-13 About the Artists 14-16 Program Notes 21-24

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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 September 17 October 4, 2026.

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 Royce Thrush Shandon Whistler Abigayle Witt 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

PLEASE SUPPORT our Annual Fund by sending your tax deductible contribution to: Ensemble Music Society P.O. Box 40188 Indianapolis, IN 46240

HISTORY

Any amount is appreciated.

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 Sonja Chen Arnold Andrew Dunham, Ph.D. Julia Gard

Toby Gill Stanton Jacobs Daniel Kim Tibor Klopfer Deborah Loughrey

Roxanne McGettigan Monica Peterson Gary J. Reiter 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

Petra Clark 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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ESPRESSIVO! Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | 7:30 PM Indiana Landmarks Center

PROGRAM Piano Quartet in E-flat, K. 493 (1786) Allegro Larghetto Allegretto

W.A. Mozart (1756-1791)

Nokuthula Ngwenyama (b.1976)

Joy Steppin’ (2024) *Indiana Premiere*

World Premiere October 21-22, 2024 in Cincinnati, OH

Intermission (20 minutes) Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25 (1861) Allegro Intermezzo. Allegro ma non troppo - Trio. Animato Andante con moto Rondo alla Zingarese. Presto

J. Brahms (1833-1897)

ESPRESSIVO! Anna Polonsky, piano • Jaime Laredo, violin Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, viola • Sharon Robinson, cello Represented by Frank Salomon Associates Barrie Steinberg, President www.franksalomon.com | (212) 581-5197 @EspressivoQuartet

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Jaime Laredo, violin For over six decades, Jaime Laredo has excelled in the roles of soloist, conductor, recitalist, pedagogue and chamber musician. Since his orchestral debut at the age of eleven with the San Francisco Symphony, he has won the admiration and respect of audiences, critics and fellow musicians with passionate and polished performances. At seventeen, Bolivian-born Laredo won the prestigious Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition, launching his rise to international prominence.

In addition to championing many new works throughout his career, conducting and performing highlights include the Chicago, Boston, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco, London and BBC symphonies, Los Angeles and New York philharmonics, and the Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras.

Laredo has recorded nearly one hundred discs, including a Grammy Award-winning disc of Brahms’ Piano Quartets with Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern and Yo-Yo Ma. His recordings range from collaborations with Glenn Gould to double concertos with violinist Jennifer Koh and cellist Sharon Robinson, plus awardwinning recordings with the beloved Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, with whom he toured for 45 years. A 23-CD Box Set on Sony Classical celebrates Laredo’s extraordinary recorded legacy.

Laredo’s stewardship of the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis are beloved educational pillars of the musical community. He served for decades as Music Director of the Vermont Symphony and as Artistic Director of the Chamber

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Music at the Y in New York. 2024 marks Laredo’s 13th year at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Born in Bolivia, Laredo resides in Guilford, Vermont and Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife, Sharon Robinson.

Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, viola Praised by Strad magazine as having “lyricism that stood out...a silky tone and beautiful, supple lines,” violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt has established herself as one of the most sought-after violists of her generation. In addition to appearances as soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Jacksonville Symphony, and the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra, she has performed in recitals and chambermusic concerts throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe and Asia, including an acclaimed 2011 debut recital at London’s Wigmore Hall, which was described in Strad as being “fleet and energetic...powerful and focused.”

Ms. Pájaro-van de Stadt was the founding violist of the Dover Quartet, and played in the group from 2008-2022. During her time in the group, the Dover Quartet was the First Prize winner and recipient of every special award at the Banff International String Quartet Competition 2013, and winner of the Gold Medal and Grand Prize in the 2010 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition.

Her numerous awards also include First Prize of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and top prizes at the the Sphinx Competition and the Tokyo International Viola Competition. While in the Dover Quartet, Ms. Pájaro-van de Stadt was on the faculty at The Curtis Institute of Music and Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music, and a part of the Quartet in Residence of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. 10

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A violin student of Sergiu Schwartz and Melissa Pierson-Barrett for several years, she began studying viola with Michael Klotz at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in 2005. Ms. Pájaro-van de Stadt graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Roberto Diaz, Michael Tree, Misha Amory and Joseph de Pasquale. She then received her Master’s Degree in String Quartet with the Dover Quartet at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music as a student of James Dunham.

Sharon Robinson, cello Winner of the Avery Fisher Recital Award, Piatigorsky Memorial Award, Pro Musicis Award and a GRAMMY nominee, cellist Sharon Robinson is recognized worldwide as a consummate artist and one of the most outstanding musicians of our time. Whether as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra or member of the worldfamous Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, critics, audiences and fellow musicians respond to what the Indianapolis Star has called “a cellist who has simply been given the soul of Caruso.”

Her guest appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia and Minnesota orchestras; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, National, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and San Francisco symphonies; and in Europe, the London Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Zürich’s Tonhalle Orchestra and the English, Scottish and Franz Liszt chamber orchestras.

Recipient of the 2012 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts from the state of Vermont, Robinson divides her time between teaching, solo engagements, performing with her husband, violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, and is much in demand as a chamber player. She is co-artistic director of the Linton Chamber Music Series in Cincinnati and of the Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle at Bard College. As of fall 2012, she began teaching 2024/2025 Laureate Series

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on the renowned instrumental and chamber music faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music. She previously was a full professor at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and has an Honorary Doctorate from Marlboro College. In 2015, Robinson established the Cleveland Chapter of Music for Food, which raises funds for food assistance for hungry families in NE Ohio. Highly sought after for her dynamic master classes, she brings insight to her teaching from the rare combination of her lifetime experiences as member of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Ciompi String Quartet of Duke University, 45 years with the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, plus countless solo recitals and concerto performances.

Robinson works closely with many of today’s leading composers, including Ned Rorem, Leon Kirchner, Arvo Pärt, Stanley Silverman, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Joan Tower, David Ludwig, Katherine Hoover, Richard Danielpour and André Previn. She is admired for consortium building, putting together multiple presenters as co-commissioners of both chamber music works and concertos with orchestra. This season, she gathered ten presenters to co-commission Nokuthula Ngwenyama’s Elegy for Piano Quartet which was written as a response to the tragic events and social reckoning of 2020.

Currently, Robinson is in the midst of putting together a consortium to commission Shawn Okpebholo’s Wind Quintet, which mourns racial inequity.

Anna Polonsky, piano Anna Polonsky is widely in demand as a soloist and chamber musician.

She has appeared with the Moscow Virtuosi, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, and many others.

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Guarneri, Orion, Daedalus and Shanghai quartets, and with such musicians as Mitsuko Uchida, Yo-Yo Ma, David Shifrin, Richard Goode, Emanuel Ax, Arnold Steinhardt, Peter Wiley and Jaime Laredo. She has performed chamber music at festivals such as Marlboro, Chamber Music Northwest, Seattle, Music@Menlo, Cartagena, Bard and Caramoor, as well as at Bargemusic in New York City. Ms. Polonsky has given concerts in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall’s Stern, Weill and Zankel halls, and has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. A frequent guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, she was a member of the Chamber Music Society Two during 2002-2004. In 2006, she took a part in the European Broadcasting Union’s project to record and broadcast all of Mozart’s keyboard sonatas, and in the spring of 2007 she performed a solo recital at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium to inaugurate the Emerson Quartet’s Perspectives Series. She is a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award.

Anna Polonsky made her solo piano debut at the age of seven at the Special Central Music School in Moscow, Russia. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Music diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of the renowned pianist Peter Serkin, and continued her studies with Jerome Lowenthal, earning her Master’s Degree from The Juilliard School. In addition to performing, she serves on the piano faculty of Vassar College, and in the summer at the Marlboro and Kneisel Hall chamber music festivals.

In addition to being a member of the ESPRESSIVO! piano quartet, Ms. Polonsky is the pianist of the Polonsky-Shifrin-Wiley Trio, with clarinetist David Shifrin and cellist Peter Wiley.

Ms. Polonsky is a Steinway Artist.

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Program Notes Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Piano Quartet in E-flat, K. 493 (1786) In 1785, Mozart received a commission for three piano quartets from publisher Franz Anton Hoffmeister. At that point, Mozart’s reputation as a performer was firmly established in the music-mad city of Vienna, but his standing as a composer was still somewhat in question. The genre itself was new, and Mozart’s first quartet for the commission (K. 478) may have been the first publication for a quartet of piano, violin, viola and cello.

Despite its newness, or perhaps because of it, Hoffmeister was worried the piano part was too difficult and that no one would purchase the scores.

The primary market for chamber music at the time was amateur musicians playing at home—it would be several decades before this music was regularly performed in concerts. Hoffmeister cancelled the commission for any further piano quartets.

Mozart, however, decided to compose this quartet anyway, completing it just a few weeks after the premiere of The Marriage of Figaro. He seems to have ignored Hoffmeister’s complaints, as the piano part is difficult throughout.

This could perhaps be because Mozart was known as a virtuosic pianist in Vienna and wanted to build on that reputation, or he simply wanted to incorporate elements of the concerto for artistic reasons.

That is not to say the strings are not active throughout the composition.

Small themes appear in the violin, for example, that are quickly picked up by the other strings and eventually the piano, giving a sort of growing form to the piece. Just like in the chamber music of his friend and mentor, Joseph Haydn, Mozart is at his best here when the four instruments are engaged in lengthy exchanges of musical ideas.

Note by Nicholas Johnson, Ph.D. Butler University

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Nokuthula Ngwenyama (b. 1976) Joy Steppin’ (2024 - Indiana Premiere) When Sharon Robinson of the fabulous piano quartet ESPRESSIVO! kindly invited me to write a piece for the ensemble, she offered this prompt: Embrace the joy that is all around us! I was honored to accept.

“Happiness” skirts around the edges, while “joy” settles deep and carries us beyond the abyss. Joy can be a challenge to cultivate, but it remains one of our great human gifts. Joy – on both a personal and universal level – draws from the same deep wellspring as grief, celebrating our capacity for love, compassion and generosity. It is ever hopeful, drawing us forward, embracing and nourishing the human capacity to make things better.

Joy Steppin’ anxiously begins walking along the shallow side of happy. It then settles and reflects, through the piú lento, adagio, and piú andante, before toe-tapping into its G minor dance theme of the title. And then, just before the final section brings the work to a close, the cello and piano take a deep breath, create a sliding, reverberating tone, a deep spiritual sound that begins low and gradually rises – like a meditational “Om ॐ”– providing a unifying moment to allow us to feel our interconnectedness.

As I was composing, I was uplifted reading “The Book of Joy” by the 14th Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams and moved by the words of Dr. Brittney Cooper: Joy is an invitation to make new worlds rather than being held hostage to the old ones.1 To which I add this wish: May all beings know love, compassion, peace and the experience of stepping into joy.

Thanks very much to ESPRESSIVO! - Anna Polonsky, Jaime Laredo, Milena Pájarovan de Stadt and Sharon Robinson - for including me in this blessing. Thanks also very much to the International Arts Foundation, Inc. for supporting the creation of this work and to the commissioners: Linton Chamber Music, generously supported by Ann and Harry Santen (world premiere); Apex Concerts; Arizona 1 Smith College. “Reflecting Joy and Justice.” Last modified November 26, 2023. Accessed October 11, 2024. https:// www.smith.edu/news-events/news/reflecting-joy-and-justice. (Dr. Cooper is an award-winning author, commentator and professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University.)

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Friends of Chamber Music; Brattleboro Music Center; Chamber Music Albuquerque; Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland; Denver Friends of Chamber Music; El Paso Pro Musica; Emory Chamber Music Society; Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Festival; Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle; International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis; Kansas City Friends of Music; Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival; Peoples’ Symphony Concerts; Phoenix Chamber Music Society; Portland Ovations; Schubert Club; Seattle Chamber Music Society; and Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music. © Nokuthula Ngwenyama

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25 (1861) Unlike Mozart’s Piano Quartet, composed with the domestic audience in mind, Brahms’ Piano Quartet was written after the genre had been firmly accepted as appropriate for concerts. Clara Schumann was at the piano for the premiere in Hamburg; she was, by the 1860s, frequently supporting her close friend Brahms by programming his music in her concerts, especially following the death of Robert Schumann in 1856.

Arnold Schoenberg orchestrated this piano quartet in the 1930s because, as he put it, if the pianist is too loud “you hear nothing from the strings. I wanted once to hear everything, and this I achieved.” One of the main elements that Schoenberg pointed out in Brahms’ style is his ability to begin developing musical ideas immediately after they appear, rather than waiting for the development section of a work, which was tradition at the time.

For example, the opening movement begins with an almost disjunct four note motive in the piano that is quickly picked up by the strings. The four musicians then begin to parse out the motive, exploring it musically from different angles as if trying to discover the main theme itself, instead of offering a clear presentation of the melody and later dissolution, as was common in the music of Beethoven, for example.

The second movement includes a constant pulsing of eighth notes that can sound mechanical or even frantic. The melody itself, however, is mostly lyrical and at times playful. The third movement opens with a luxuriously romantic chorale before a contrasting exuberant middle section. The rambunctious finale contains elements drawn from Brahms’ study of Eastern European music. It is all fast movement, jarring rhythmic punctuations, and lively outbursts under a glittering sheen.

Note by Nicholas Johnson, Ph.D. Butler University

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Sirena Huang 2022 IVCI Gold Medalist

Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 7:30 PM Zankel Hall 57th Street & Seventh Avenue New York, NY

Join us for the Carnegie Hall debut of 2022 IVCI Gold Medalist Sirena Huang with Official IVCI Pianist Chih-Yi Chen – a quadrennial tradition!

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Funk beats, jazz, wit, and classicism collide in a kaleidoscopic program. ISO’s beloved Principal Cellist Austin Huntington shines in Gulda’s virtuosic Cello Concerto that takes us to a pastoral Austrian vista, a Viennese court, a manic dance club, and everywhere in between in this raucous tribute to rule breaking. ISO Associate Conductor Su-Han Yang leads Schnittke’s Moz-Art a la Haydn, a playful piece for strings that subversively pays tributes to the past masters. Mozart’s great “Linz” Symphony restores our bearings and rounds out the program.

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MESSIAH With the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra At the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts Thursday, December 19 at 7:30 PM

FESTIVAL OF CAROLS Featuring Soloist Bruno Sandes & Special Guest Debby Knox With the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra At the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts Friday, December 20 at 8 PM Saturday, December 21 at 3 PM Sunday, December 22 at 3 PM At the Schrott Center for the Arts On Butler University’s campus Monday, December 23 at 7:30 PM ISC’S BIGGEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR Our Annual Fundraising Gala At the Cabaret Saturday, February 22, 2025 - Save the Date!

VOICES OF THE SPIRIT: AN AMERICAN CELEBRATION Our First Pay-What-You-Can Performance Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning Margaret Bonds’ Credo Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms Saturday, April 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM

PEACE ON EARTH: BEETHOVEN’S 9TH

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With the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra Friday, June 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM Saturday, June 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM

IVCI Annual Fund Gifts The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (IVCI) operates on an overall four-year cycle, with four individual fiscal years comprising the full quadrennial budget. Gifts to the Annual Fund are acknowledged in the year received. The following list reflects Fiscal Year 2025 gifts received as of October 7, 2024.

Gold ($25,000-$49,999) Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, Inc. Silver ($10,000-$24,999) Arts Council of Indianapolis Indiana Spine Group Storied Company Bronze ($5,000-$9,999) AMPG Arts Council of Indianapolis Marian Pettengill Virtuoso ($2,500-$4,999) Donald P. Bogard Laurane and Alan Mendelsohn Nicholas H. Noyes Jr. Memorial Foundation, Inc. Encore ($1,000-$2,499) Donald and Dorothy Craft Tibor Klopfer and Shawna Frazer-Klopfer Ray and Cindy Wilson Debut ($400-$999) Kathleen Custer Hugh Dotson Zack and Jessica French Dennis and Anne McCafferty Additional Donors Leanne and Dave Jackson Mr. Charles S. Mason N. Clay and Amy Robbins Tim Smitka Joyce A. Sommers Mr. and Mrs. Anthony T. Tolokan HONOR/MEMORIAL GIFTS In honor of Thomas J. Beczkiewicz Marco Spallone and Anne Longtine In honor of Glen Kwok Joyce A. Sommers

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In memory of Pamela Saunders French Zack and Jessica French In honor of Marion Wolen Y. Rosalind Wolen

12th Quadrennial Pledges/Gifts Stradivari ($50,000 and above) Tom and Dawn Bennett Carter Family Fund Lilly Endowment, Inc. Cynthia P. Matthews Family Foundation Gold ($25,000 - $49,999) Deborah and Joe Loughrey Silver ($10,000 - $24,999) AMPG Mrs. Pat Anker Barnes & Thornburg LLP Donald P. Bogard Kathy and Lou Daugherty Steve Hamilton Laurane and Alan Mendelsohn Mindy Miller Marco Spallone and Anne Longtine Ann M. Stack Alan and Elizabeth Whaley Bronze ($5,000 - $9,999) Kathleen Custer Jim and Cheryl Strain Virtuoso ($2,500-$4,999) Emily A. West Debut ($400-$999) Joyce A. Sommers Barnes & Thornburg LLP is a proud supporter of the 12th Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis IDEA Initiatives.

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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 October 7, 2024.

Anonymous Christel DeHaan Family Foundation Kathy and Lou Daugherty

Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Gross Jr. Mr. Thomas P. Murphy 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

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

IVCI Education Outreach is supported by the Christel DeHaan Sub-Fund of the Josef Gingold Fund.

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Ensemble Music Society Support Contributions for 12 months ending October 2, 2024.

FOUNDERS’ CIRCLE $5,000 AND ABOVE John & Jill Failey Phyllis Karrh Elaine Holden & Christian Wolf PRESIDENT’S CLUB $2,000-4,999 Tom & Dawn Bennett Sarah Kunz & John Goodman Frank & Nancy Gootee Doris McCullough Charles Rudesill Ieva A. Straatman Marianne Wokeck CONCERT SPONSOR $1,000-1,999 Frankie Besch John & Barb Chirgwin Donna L. Clark & Randolph M. Russell Bill & Renate Hubbard Max D. Kime, Jr. Larry & Anne Lazarz Anne Longtine & Marco Spallone Barbara MacDougall Jane R. Nolan Valerie Purvin Susan Sawyer & Scott Putney James W. & Nancy C. Smith Philip & Shandon Whistler PATRON $500-$999 Marsha Brown Lorelei Farlow Katherine Simmons & Helmut Fortense Bernardino & Caterina Ghetti Mrs. Annette & Dr. Gottlieb Glauninger Thomas & Mary Grein Joanne Hom Ann Hunt Anne McCafferty Klaus & Joel Schmiegel Royce D. Thrush Ken & Mary Anne Winslow

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PARTNER $250-$499 Dr. Christopher Bunce & Dr. Dolores Olivarez Emily Chenette Mary O. DeVoe Gayl & Beverly Doster Reynold & Ann B. Frutkin Samuel & Margaret Hazlett John A. Katterjohn Elisabeth Ohly-Davis Jean Patton & Ray Gotshall Kenneth & Debra Renkens John Seest Katherine Simmons & Helmut Fortense Ed & Joan Staubach Jim & Cheryl Strain Tim & Cathy Wright DEVOTEE $100-$249 Alfred & Colette Abel Sarah Binford & Peter Racher David & Mary Bodle Laura Bramble John & Catherine Bridge Helen Carroll David & Ann Cook Alan S. Duncanson Robert & Debbie Falk Marni Fechtman Karla Fehd Steve Foley Carol Frohlich Thomas Gerber Alan Hamburger Glen Helman James & Rosemarie Jeffery James Johnson Kelly Koehler Matthew Koher Paul Krasnovsky Rosalie Lange & Ted Planje

International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

Ensemble Music Society Support Philip & Holiday McKiernan Joan Pauls & Ernest Hite Heather Platt Dr. Joerg & Annemarie Schreiber Bonnie Swaim Paul & Marjorie Valliere Alan Whaley Richard & Kealoha Widdows John Wood CONTRIBUTOR $50-$99 Michael Finnerty George Freije Judy Harmon Janet A. Hollis Joie Kipka John North Keith Phelps Lisa Teague Peter & Katerina Vorsilak Betty Wagoner Sara Zeckel OTHER Nikolaus Brahtz Nancy Fyffe Polly Spiegel & Peter Grossman Joe Hale August Hardee II Mary Hudson Deborah McCarty & David Suzuki Thomas Waldo

2024/2025 Laureate Series

HONORS AND MEMORIALS In Honor of Lorelei Farlow Ed & Joan Staubach In Honor of Scott Putney Elaine Holden & Christian Wolf In Honor of Nancy Chesterman Smith Doris McCullough In Memory of Dr. Louis Chenette Emily Chenette In Memory of Joan Gerzon Frankie Besch In Memory of Joseph L. Kivett Royce D. Thrush In Memory of Ursula Roberts Emily Chenette ESTATE GIFTS Estate of Mark D. and Carmen S. Holeman FOUNDATIONS AND GRANTS Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Arts Council of Indianapolis

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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.

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2022 Gold Medalist Sirena Huang Photo by Denis Ryan Kelly Jr.

International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

VIVA IL VIOLINO To benefit the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

Come support the world’s finest young violinists discovered by The Indianapolis at the world’s elite Dallara IndyCar Factory. Exceptional cuisine, distinctive silent and live auction items and the virtuosic artistry of 2022 IVCI Laureate Joshua Brown await you in the racing capital of the world. Join us for this exciting evening!

Saturday, November 2 | 6:00 PM | Dallara IndyCar Factory

ONLINE REGISTRATION CLOSES TOMORROW! violin.org/viva

Joshua Brown 2022 Laureate

TITLE SPONSORS ASSOCIATE SPONSORS FUND-A-NEED SPONSOR Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Foundation

CO-CHAIRS Barbara Riordan & Stan Cuppy

International Violin Competition of Indianapolis 2024-2025 Laureate Series Friday, November 22 | 7:30 PM | Indiana Landmarks Center

2006 Gold Medalist Augustin Hadelich with pianist Chih-Yi Chen In collaboration with the Violin Society of America as they celebrate their 50th anniversary, 2006 IVCI Gold Medalist Augustin Hadelich and pianist Chih-Yi Chen perform works by Poulenc, Lang, Ysaÿe, Beach, Perkinson and Ravel. This performance will be livestreamed, and is made possible by the generous support of Pirastro GmbH.

Saturday, February 1 | 7:30 PM | Schrott Center for the Arts

2022 Gold Medalist Sirena Huang performs Beethoven Concerto with ICO Presented in collaboration with Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, 2022 Gold Medalist Sirena Huang performs the breathtaking violin concerto

by Beethoven with the ICO, led by Music Director Matthew Kraemer.

The evening also includes a work by Brian Raphael Nabors, and a world premiere by Jorge Muñiz. Tickets available at icomusic.org.

Tuesday, April 8 | 7:30 PM | The Cabaret Wednesday, April 9 | 7:30 PM | Hendricks Live! (Plainfield)

Take3 - Where Rock Meets Bach!

Born out of practice rooms of the country’s top conservatories, Take3 lives at the intersection where pop, rock and classical fusion collide.

Their unmistakable style and infectious joy in music making can be witnessed in two performances in Central Indiana: April 8 in the intimate setting of The Cabaret with catering provided by the Jazz Kitchen; and April 9 in Plainfield’s newly-constructed Hendricks Live!

Performing Arts Center, just 25 minutes west of downtown.

Tuesday, May 6 | 7:30 PM | Indiana History Center

2022 Silver Medalist Julian Rhee with pianist Chelsea Wang 2022 IVCI Silver Medalist Julian Rhee collaborates with guest pianist Chelsea Wang as they close out the season in a recital at the Indiana History Center.

PURCHASE TICKETS AT

www.violin.org