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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 17October 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
Pre-Concert Discussion
Lisa Brooks, DMA
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HISTORY
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
IVCI Ex-Officio Directors
Roxanne McGettigan
Monica Peterson
Gary J. Reiter
Susan Brock Williams
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
IVCI Administration
Glen Kwok Executive Director
Mary Jane Sorbera Director of Development
Marci M. Matthews
Donna L. Reynolds
Petra Clark Director of Operations
Zack French Director of Communications and Artist Advancement
Laureates are listed in order of placement
IVCI Laureates
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
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
Chin Kim, South Korea
Yuriko Naganuma, Japan 2018 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2022
Alina Pogostkina, Germany
Andrés Cárdenes, United States
Sungsic Yang, South Korea
Annick Roussin, France
Mihaela Martin, Romania
Ida Kavafian, United States
Yuval Yaron, Israel
Olivier Charlier, France
Nai-Yuan Hu, Taiwan
W.A. Mozart
espressIVo!
Tuesday, October 22, 2024 | 7:30 PM Indiana Landmarks Center
PROGRAM
Piano Quartet in E-flat, K. 493 (1786) (1756-1791)
Allegro
Larghetto
Allegretto
Nokuthula Ngwenyama Joy Steppin’ (2024) *Indiana Premiere* (b.1976)
World Premiere October 21-22, 2024 in Cincinnati, OH
Intermission (20 minutes)
J. Brahms
Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25 (1861) (1833-1897)
Allegro
Intermezzo. Allegro ma non troppo - Trio. Animato
Andante con moto
Rondo alla Zingarese. Presto
ESPRESSIVO!
Anna Polonsky, piano • Jaime Laredo, violin
Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt, viola • Sharon Robinson, cello
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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
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.
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
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. Ms. Polonsky has collaborated with the
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.
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
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.
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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
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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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© 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
Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 7:30 PM
Zankel Hall
57th Street & Seventh Avenue
New York, NY
Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concer to
Georg e Li, Piano
Superstar American pianist George Li returns to perform Beethoven’s brilliant “Emperor” Concerto following his triumphant ISO debut. Fabien Gabel conducts the revolutionary Prelude and “Liebestod” to Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, a piece that shattered conventions and forever changed the arc of music history. The concert opens with boisterous preludes from each act of Engelbert Humperdinck’s opera Die Königskinder
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Mozart and the Misfits
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
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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
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At the Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts
Friday, December 20 at 8 PM
Saturday, December 21 at 3 PM
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At the Schrott Center for the Arts
On Butler University’s campus Monday, December 23 at 7:30 PM
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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)
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Ray and Cindy Wilson
Debut ($400-$999)
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Hugh Dotson
Zack and Jessica French
Dennis and Anne McCafferty
Additional Donors
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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
In memory of Pamela Saunders French
Zack and Jessica French
In honor of Marion Wolen
Y. Rosalind Wolen
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Stradivari ($50,000 and above)
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Cynthia P. Matthews
Family Foundation
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Steve Hamilton
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Ann M. Stack
Alan and Elizabeth Whaley
Bronze ($5,000 - $9,999)
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Virtuoso ($2,500-$4,999)
Emily A. West
Debut ($400-$999)
Joyce A. Sommers
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Violin Competition of Indianapolis
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.
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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
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The Josef Gingold Society has been created in order to recognize kind supporters who have included The Josef Gingold Fund in their estate plans.
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Thomas J. Beczkiewicz
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Donald P. Bogard
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Don Earnhart
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Glen Kwok and Chih-Yi Chen
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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.
Ensemble Music Society Support
Contributions for 12 months ending October 2, 2024.
FOUNDERS’ CIRCLE $5,000 AND ABOVE
John & Jill Failey
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Elaine Holden & Christian Wolf
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Tom & Dawn Bennett
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2022 Gold Medalist Sirena Huang
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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.
