1998 Silver Medalist Liviu Prunaru & Chih-Yi Chen in Recital

1998 sIlVer medalIst lIVIu prunaru and ChIh-YI Chen In reCItal

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 | 7:30 PM

Indiana History Center

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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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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

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

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Zack French Director of Communications and Artist Advancement

1998 sIlVer medalIst lIVIu prunaru

wIth ChIh-YI Chen

Tuesday, April 2, 2024 | 7:30 PM

Frank and Katrina Basile Theater Indiana History Center

PROGRAM

J. S. Bach

Arioso from Cantata BWV 156 (1685-1750)

Ferruccio Busoni Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 36a (1866-1924)

Langsam

Presto

Andante, piuttosto grave

Intermission (15 minutes)

Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96 (1770-1827)

Allegro moderato

Adagio espressivo

Scherzo: Allegro - Trio

Poco allegretto

Camille Saint-Saëns Havanaise, Op. 83 (1835-1921)

Antonio Bazzini Calabrese, Op. 34, No. 6 (1818-1897)

Liviu Prunaru, violin Chih-Yi Chen, piano

If you would like to experience this performance again, call the IVCI office at (317) 637-4574 to receive a virtual on-demand link for just $5 (live attendees only).

Artist Biographies

Violinist Liviu Prunaru is the Concertmaster of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and gained international recognition through his participation at several prestigious violin competitions. He won Gold Medals at the Dong-A competition in Korea, the Rodolfo Lipizer in Italy, and the R. Molinari Violin Competition in Switzerland, in addition to Silver Medals at the Queen Elisabeth in Brussels in 1993 and the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 1998. After capturing First Grand Prize at the E. Nakamichi Wieniawski Violin Competition and the Juilliard Mendelssohn Competition, Prunaru made his New York City debut in 1999 with the Juilliard Symphony at Alice Tully Hall.

Liviu Prunaru has performed recitals in many of the world’s major cultural centers and has been a featured soloist with orchestras including the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Royal Philharmonic, the London Symphony, Belgium National, Bucharest Radio-Symphony, and the Puchon Philharmonic in Korea. His work has also been in demand at renowned festivals including the Menuhin, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Evian, Athens and Salzburg festivals.

Prunaru can be heard on CD with Camerata Lysy, as well as his own debut CD released by Pavane Records. The Swiss label Claves released all three violin concertos by Camille Saint-Saëns, accompanied by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, directed by Lawrence Foster.

Born in Craiova, Romania, Mr. Prunaru studied at the renowned Menuhin Academy of Gstaad, Switzerland and completed his professional studies at The Juilliard School where he was an assistant to Dorothy DeLay and actively participated in master classes with Itzhak Perlman. He previously held teaching posts at the International Menuhin Academy and the Amsterdam Conservatory.

He performs on the 1694 Stradivarius “Paschoud,” on generous loan by the Stichting Instituut Gak, and a Tourte bow from the Concertgebouw Foundation.

Pianist Chih-Yi Chen’s versatile qualities as a collaborative partner, chamber musician and teacher have contributed to a distinguished international career. Chen has been on the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 2003 and is the Associate Chair of the Chamber and Collaborative Music Department. She was a recipient of the 2023 Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award. She has also been on the faculty of the Indiana University Summer String Academy for more than two decades.

Chen has been performing with International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Laureates since 2003 when she was first invited to perform with Barnabás Kelemen. She has served as an official pianist for the competition since the 9th Quadrennial in 2014 and was awarded special recognition at the 2018 Competition for “Best Performances” of the Beethoven and Mozart sonatas. She has also served as an official pianist for the China International Music Competition in Beijing. Her early work with the talented young violinists of the Indiana University Violin Virtuosi directed by renowned pedagogue Mimi Zweig led to performances in France, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Japan and throughout the United States.

Among the numerous musicians with whom she has collaborated are violinists Jaime Laredo, Mihaela Martin, Kyoko Takezawa, Sirena Huang, Richard Lin, Luke Hsu, Andrés Cárdenes, Liviu Prunaru, Augustin Hadelich, Clara-Jumi Kang, Kerson Leong and Svetlin Roussev, violist Atar Arad, cellists Sharon Robinson, Peter Stumpf and Bion Tsang, clarinetists James Campbell, Howard Klug, Gabor Varga and Min-Ho Yeh, bassoonist William Ludwig and flutist Thomas Robertello. She has also performed with the Michelangelo, Pacifica, Rubens and Verona string quartets.

Chen has served as an adjudicator for competitions including the National Society of Arts and Letters Instrumental Competitions, MTNA and has presented at the CollabFest of the International Keyboard Collaborative Arts Society. She has given masterclasses in the United States, Taiwan and Argentina.

Born in Taipei, Chih-Yi Chen received her Bachelor, Master and Doctor of Music degrees from Indiana University where she studied with Lev Vlasenko, and with Luba Edlina-Dubinsky, pianist of the Borodin Trio.

Program Notes

J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

Arioso from Cantata BWV 156 (1727 or 1729)

Bach’s compositions for most of his career were based on his primary occupation at the time: when he worked for a court, he wrote secular music, when he was a teacher he wrote pedagogical works, and when he was employed by the Lutheran church, he wrote mostly sacred music. Of the latter, the largest body of works were his cantatas for use during Lutheran church services. Most of these were twenty to thirty minute compositions with an opening movement, alternating recitatives and arias, and a concluding chorale. Cantatas were usually performed following the reading of the Gospel and before the sermon with texts chosen to align with a specific day’s biblical readings.

Cantata BWV 156 is otherwise known as Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe (I stand with one foot in the grave) for the opening line of text. The work as a whole consists of six sections, but the Sinfonia that starts the set is by far the most famous. It is a lovely work for small orchestra and oboe solo. It has been arranged numerous times for other instruments as a solo piece with the title Arioso, meaning a light and airy piece similar to a short opera aria, even though the original Sinfonia did not include voice. The Arioso is a heartfelt piece of music that may be less showy than other popular solo works, but its tender beauty has moved audiences for centuries.

Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)

Violin Sonata No. 2 in E minor, Op. 36a (1900)

A virtuosic pianist from a young age, Busoni’s main contribution to music arguably came from his editions of J. S. Bach and from his book “Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music” (1907), in which he predicted several musical elements of a modernist style that would dominate European art music in the coming decades. He claimed, for example, that music would soon go beyond twelve tones, and that a “Young Classicism” would mark an end to romanticism as composers returned to classical forms (which came to pass in the style of Neoclassicism).

Tonight’s work was published several years before his book, but the composer and scholars have claimed it marked the arrival of his mature later style. The first movement begins with a morose solo piano section that slowly gives way to a melancholic theme in the violin. Moments of cheer, relaxation, and even frantic jubilation are occasionally encountered, but in general the movement is a somber reflection that conjures something like a memory of summer’s warmth during winter’s cold stillness.

The brief second movement is a tarantella—a folk dance from Italy that is often borrowed by classical composers. In Busoni’s own words, from a letter to his wife, he describes the movement as sounding “like going into a thickly populated street on coming out of the Forum, or like a national festival in full swing in front of the Pantheon.”

The final movement is the longest by far. It is a theme and variation of Bach’s Wie wohl ist mir for soprano and basso continuo. Bach likely wrote this piece for his wife Anna Magdalena to perform (or, as some have argued, it was possibly written by Anna Magdalena herself). Busoni offers six extensive variations that explore widely different moods.

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Violin Sonata No. 10 in G major, Op. 96 (1812)

Tonight’s work was both the last sonata for violin penned by Beethoven, and one of the final statements of his so-called Middle Period, in which the composer had thoroughly explored the concept of the musical hero and ingratiated himself in Viennese musical society (though not always its social culture). After this work he entered a period of silence as he looked for a new compositional voice.

Beethoven’s tenth violin sonata is considered his loveliest. There is more restraint and elegance that is commonly found in his early efforts for the genre. A sense of calm, divine splendor pervades much of the work, but that is not to say it is not challenging. Rather than virtuosic feats, the player is asked to maintain a tender balance with beauty and grace from its opening trill to the final cadence.

The first movement features three contrasting themes, but the gentle first theme seems to win the day. The second movement is the highlight of the work. It is a gentle adagio of the deepest beauty. Violinist Abram Loft once described that here, players are “as close to paradise as one can approach in this world.” The brief scherzo movement returns player and audience to earth with a dance that alternates between the field and the ballroom. The finale is a theme and variations based on a folksy melody of Beethoven’s composition. It is largely full of good cheer, though Beethoven never lets us fully rest in our expectations, repeatedly playing with our sense of what is to come.

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)

Havanaise, Op. 83 (1887)

In the 1880s, Saint-Saëns was regarded by many as the most significant French composer based on numerous successful works such as his opera Samson and Delilah (1877), his Third Violin Concerto (1880), and The Carnival of the

Animals (1886). He was late in life regarded as a musical conservative, but during the prime of his career he embraced progressive composers such as Wagner and Liszt, heard in the richness of his melodic and harmonic writing.

In 1887, while on tour with Spanish violinist Pablo Sarasate, Saint-Saëns composed the Havanaise in an attempt to, as he described, capture the musical spirit of Cuba. He was likely influenced by the habañera rhythm used in Georges Bizet’s Carmen (1875). Saint-Saëns does not offer any specific musical narrative, but instead attempts to conjure an abstract musical image of Cuba, though he had never travelled to the country. The melody, he wrote, came to him while watching a crackling hotel fire while on the tour.

The primary theme is an intoxicating dance over the lilting habañera rhythm. Opportunities to display virtuosity occur in the explosive second section that builds perfectly on the exquisite main melody. Twists and turns bring the listener slowly back to the original theme, played seductively in the highest registers of the instrument. Whether it is accompanied by a full orchestra or piano, the Havanaise is one of Saint-Saëns’ most enduring compositions.

Antonio Bazzini (1818-1897)

Calabrese, Op. 34, No. 6 (1859)

Bazzini was one of the most highly regarded Italian violinists of the mid1800s. At age 18 he met Paganini who encouraged him to begin his concert career. Bazzini soon began to tour and was admired throughout Europe. He also was a composer and his chamber music was highly popular during the time and is said to have been a great influence on the opera composer Giacomo Puccini.

Bazzini lived in Paris during most of the 1850s, when tonight’s work was composed. The piece is a playful and often stunning virtuosic showpiece. The title references Calabria, a mountainous region of southern Italy separated from Sicily by the narrow Strait of Messina. Although Bazzini was born in Brescia in northern Italy, the piece is meant to reflect the character of Calabria.

The work begins with a thundering introduction in the piano that segues into a playful folk dance that spans the range of the violin. Similar to a rondo, the main theme reappears numerous times, although the harmonies provide shifting background colors. Between the robust statements of the main theme are several virtuosic and spirited episodes in the violin.

Notes by Nicholas Johnson, Ph.D. Butler University

grand encounters 23/24

SARA DAVIS BUECHNER

“OF PIGS AND PIANOS”

5pm & 8pm • SATURDAY, MAY 18, 2024 INDIANA NDMARKS CENTER

The season concludes with 1981 American Pianists Awards winner Sara Davis Buechner’s autobiographical theater show, "Of Pigs and Pianos,” which details her journey through music and life as a transgender woman coming of age in New York City at the end of the 20th century.

The New York Times describes the show as “offering fine performances of nine varied and challenging works that poignantly defined moments in the journey of a courageous artist...Buechner’s story, though o en wrenching, was rich with childhood fantasies, wistful longings and absurd turns that had the audience laughing along."

presented by American Pianists Association americanpianists.org/grandencounters

British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor dazzles his way through Liszt’s colorful First Piano Concerto. The program begins with Roland furieux, a symphonic poem by Augusta Holmès, a composer with close ties to Liszt and Saint-Saëns in late 19th century. Indianapolis born conductor Kazem Abdullah concludes with Saint-Saëns' brilliant organ symphony, a piece that was dedicated to Liszt.

Winner of the 2021 American Pianists Awards & Christel DeHaan Classical Fellowship, Kenny Broberg returns to the stage that made him a superstar, performing Grieg’s cherished Piano Concerto. German conductor Michael Sanderling makes his long-awaited Indianapolis debut in program that includes Sibelius’ “confession of [his] soul,” his Symphony No. 2. This Scandinavian program rounds with Swedish composer Helena Munktell’s Breaking Waves

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Fortieth Anniversary Season

Tickets

Black Keys: The Evolution of the Black Classical Arts with Kenyetta Dance & Joshua Thompson Sat. April 20 at 7:30

New World with Dance Kaleidoscope

A Christel DeHaan Legacy Concert

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The following list reflects Annual Fund gifts received for the current fiscal year (August 1, 2023 - July 31, 2024), received as of March 19, 2024.

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ANSER

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12TH QUADRENNIAL PLEDGES

(Received as of March 19, 2024)

Stradivari ($50,000 and above)

Tom and Dawn Bennett

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2023-2024 Laureate Series

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Wednesday, May 29 | 7:30 PM | The Cabaret

International Violin Competition of Indianapolis

Contrasts featuring Charles Yang, Peter Dugan anD Mark Dover

WAITING LIST ONLY! Back by popular demand, the duo of violinist/vocalist Charles Yang and pianist Peter Dugan returns to the illustrious Cabaret, this time with Grammy-nominated clarinetist Mark Dover for an evening of musical contrasts. From jazz to pop, from soulful melodies to high-energy virtuosity, this concert promises a captivating celebration of musical exploration, seamlessly blending classical masterpieces with daring improvisations and exhilarating interpretations of various musical styles.

Patrons will enjoy this cabaret-style setting with catering provided by The Jazz Kitchen. Full tables of two, four or six can be reserved in advance for an additional $10 per seat.

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