International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
A Romantic Finale Kyoko Takezawa 1986 Gold Medalist
Chih-Yi Chen Pianist
May 17, 2022 | 7:30 PM Indiana History Center
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Table of Contents 4 About The Indianapolis 45 Board of Directors / Administration 6 IVCI Laureates 7 A Romantic Finale Program 8-11 About the Artists 14-18 Program Notes 20-23 Support 24-25 Josef Gingold Fund Endowment
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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 10 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 11th Quadrennial will be held September 9-25, 2022.
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Board of Directors Donna L. Reynolds, President Ann Hinson, Vice President Kurt Tornquist, Treasurer Steve Hamilton, Secretary Mario Arango Dawn Bennett Rebecca Dixon Julia Gard Toby Gill Rosalie Held
Peggy Myers Monica Peterson Marian M. Pettengill, Ph.D. Gary J. Reiter Theresa Rhodes David Schurger
Lesley Stoeffler Cheryl Strain Marianne Tobias Susan Brock Williams
Ex-Officio Directors Robert A. Anker, Past President Louis E. Daugherty, Past President Thomas R. Neal, Past President Alan Whaley, Past President
Gingold Fund Board of Directors Tibor Klopfer, President David P. Whitman, Treasurer Glen Kwok, Secretary Robert A. Anker Daniel C. Appel Louis E. Daugherty
Marci M. Matthews Donna L. Reynolds
Administration 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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IVCI Laureates
Laureates are listed in order of placement
1982 Competition Mihaela Martin, Romania Ida Kavafian, United States Yuval Yaron, Israel Olivier Charlier, France Nai-Yuan Hu, Taiwan Yuriko Naganuma, Japan
2002 Competition Barnabás Kelemen, Hungary Sergey Khachatryan, Armenia Soovin Kim, United States Frank Huang, United States Susie Park, Australia Alina Pogostkina, Germany
1986 Competition Kyoko Takezawa, Japan Leonidas Kavakos, Greece Andrés Cárdenes, United States Chin Kim, South Korea Sungsic Yang, South Korea Annick Roussin, France
2006 Competition Augustin Hadelich, Germany Simone Lamsma, The Netherlands Celeste Golden, United States Yura Lee, South Korea Ye-Eun Choi, South Korea Bella Hristova, Bulgaria
1990 Competition Pavel Berman, Russia Marco Rizzi, Italy Ivan Chan, United States Virginie Robilliard, France David Kim, United States Martin Beaver, Canada
2010 Competition Clara-Jumi Kang, South Korea Soyoung Yoon, South Korea Benjamin Beilman, United States Haoming Xie, China Antal Zalai, Hungary Andrey Baranov, Russia
1994 Competition Juliette Kang, Canada Stefan Milenkovich, Yugoslavia David Chan, United States Jaakko Kuusisto, Finland Michiko Kamiya, Japan Robin Sharp, United States
2014 Competition Jinjoo Cho, South Korea Tessa Lark, United States Ji Young Lim, South Korea Dami Kim, South Korea Yoojin Jang, South Korea Ji Yoon Lee, South Korea
1998 Competition Judith Ingolfsson, Iceland Liviu Prunaru, Romania Ju-Young Baek, South Korea Svetlin Roussev, Bulgaria Andrew Haveron, Great Britain Bin Huang, China
2018 Competition 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
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A Romantic Finale Kyoko Takezawa, 1986 Gold Medalist and Chih-Yi Chen, piano Tuesday, May 17, 2022 | 7:30 PM Indiana History Center Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959)
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G, Op. 78 Vivace ma non troppo Adagio – Più andante – Adagio Allegro molto moderato
Baal Shem Suite Vidui Niggun Simhat torah 15-minute intermission
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)
Nocturne in D-flat, Op. 27, No. 2
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75
Allegro agitato Adagio Allegretto moderato Allegro molto
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Kyoko Takezawa, violin As the embodiment of musicality, violinist Kyoko Takezawa electrifies audiences with a richness of playing, a virtuosic confidence of feeling, and a fiery intensity that establishes her as one of today’s foremost violinists. Ms. Takezawa’s interpretive insight and indisputable talent have made her a sought-after soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras. Ms. Takezawa has performed as soloist with such prominent ensembles as the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony, and the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Cleveland, Baltimore, St. Louis, Houston, Toronto, Dallas, Montreal, Detroit and Cincinnati. Abroad, she has been heard with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the London Symphony, the Tonhalle Orchestra of Zurich, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Orchestra National de Radio France, Lyon and also Nice, the NHK Symphony, the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and the New Japan Philharmonic. She has collaborated with many distinguished conductors including Seiji Ozawa, Sir Colin Davis, Michael Tilson Thomas, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Kurt Masur, Sir Neville Marriner, Leonard Slatkin, Charles Dutoit, Marek Janowski and Sir Andrew Davis. She has performed at major venues around the world, notably Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., London’s BBC Proms, the Musikverein in Vienna and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. In recent seasons, Ms. Takezawa has made her debut appearances with Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra in Germany, Mito Chamber Orchestra in Japan, Spring Festival in Korea, Music in the Vineyard Festival, Santa Fe Festival, Music @ Menlo Festival and Saratoga Spring Festival in the U.S. She was also a jury member for the International
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Violin Competition of Indianapolis, Concours international MargueriteLong-Jacques-Thibaud, Sendai International Competition and the International Wieniawski Violin Competition. In past seasons, she has performed with the Vancouver Symphony, the West Australian Symphony, the Kymi Sinfonietta in Finland, the NHK Symphony, Kanagawa Philharmonic, Osaka Century Orchestra and the Japan Philharmonic. In North America she performed with the Amarillo, St. Louis, Tucson, Jacksonville, Charlotte, Toronto and Seattle symphonies. She also performed with the China Philharmonic, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Japan Philharmonic, Singapore, Guangzhou, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, Tokyo City Philharmonic, Denmark’s Aarhus Symphony, France’s Orchestre National de Lille, and Manchester’s Halle Orchestra. She also appeared as the feature soloist on the Hamburg NDR Symphony tour of Japan. A highly accomplished chamber music performer, Ms. Takezawa has participated in the Grand Teton Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, the La Jolla Chamber Music Festival, the Casals Festival and the Hong Kong International Chamber Music Festival. She has been a regular guest for the La Folle Journée Festival in Japan. Ms. Takezawa’s chamber music performances have drawn high praise, and as codirector of the Suntory Festival Soloists of Suntory Hall in Tokyo, she has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Joseph Suk, the late Isaac Stern and many other distinguished artists. A prolific recording artist, she has just released her most recent recording of the Brahms Violin Sonatas with pianist Itamar Golan by Sony Music Japan. Other recordings are heard on BMG’s RCA Victor Red Seal label, a recital CD titled Romanza, on which she performed short pieces; the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14, by Samuel Barber with Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; the Brahms Violin Concerto and the Elgar Violin Concerto with Sir Colin Davis and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; the Violin Concerto No. 2 by Bartók with Michael Tilson Thomas and the London Symphony; and the Mendelssohn Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 with Claus Peter Flor and the Bamberg Symphony. Ms. Takezawa’s recording of French violin sonatas was selected as one of the best recordings of 1993 by Stereo Review.
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Ms. Takezawa has numerous television credits including “Concerto!”, the program on which she performed Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto guided by Dudley Moore on the BBC Channel 4, the Morning Show by A&E and a two hour documentary program by TV Aichi in Japan. Ms. Takezawa began violin studies at the age of three and at seven toured the United States, Canada and Switzerland as a member of the Suzuki Method Association. In 1982 she placed first in the 51st Annual Japan Music Competition, and at 17 she entered the Aspen Music School to study with Dorothy DeLay, with whom Ms. Takezawa continued to study at The Juilliard School until graduating in 1989. In 1986 she was awarded the Gold Medal at the Second Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. As an educator, she is on the faculty of the Toho Music School in Japan and served as a jury for the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and the Menuhin Competition. Most recently, she received the prestigious Idemitsu Award for outstanding musicianship and Aichi Art Cultural Award.
Chih-Yi Chen, piano Pianist Chih-Yi Chen has been on the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 2003 and has been part of the Chamber and Collaborative Music Department since its inaugural year, 2016-2017. Dr. Chen is also on the faculty of the Indiana University Summer String Academy. Her versatile qualities as a collaborative partner, chamber musician, soloist and teacher have contributed to a distinguished career, nationally and internationally. Dr. Chen has been performing with International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Laureates since 2003. She was an official pianist for the 9th and 10th Quadrennial Competitions and was awarded special recognition at the 2018 Competition for “Best Performances” of the Beethoven and Mozart sonatas. Her early work with the talented young violinists of the Indiana University Violin Virtuosi directed by
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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 Richard Lin, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Jaime Laredo, Andrés Cárdenes, David Chan, Barnabás Kelemen, Simone Lamsma, Richard Lin, Nai-Yuan Hu, Liviu Prunaru, Mihaela Martin, Augustin Hadelich, Clara-Jumi Kang, Soovin Kim, Susie Park, Luke Hsu and Svetlin Roussev, violists Atar Arad, Brian Chen and Masumi Per Rostad, cellists Sharon Robinson, Peter Stumpf and Bion Tsang, clarinetists James Campbell and Howard Klug, bassoonist William Ludwig and flutist Thomas Robertello. She has also performed with the Michelangelo, Pacifica, Rubens and Verona string quartets. Born in Taipei, Dr. 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.
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Program Notes Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Violin Sonata No. 1 in G, Op. 78 (1879) Brahms wrote seven sonatas for piano and one instrument, three of those for violin. The first one was the G major sonata written during the summers of 1878 and 1879, shortly after the premature death of his 24-year-old godson, Felix Schumann, son of Robert and Clara Schumann. It was his only piece of chamber music from a productive period in which he composed his Second Symphony, the Academic Festival and Tragic Overtures, the Violin Concerto, and the Second Piano Concerto. The sonata, like the Violin Concerto, Op. 77, owes a great deal to the violinist Joseph Joachim, who was one of the greatest musicians of the time and a close friend of the composer. The lyric nature of the sonata in G major is presented in three movements and is rumored to be his fifth attempt at writing a violin sonata. None of those earlier attempts survive. He wrote several pieces of chamber music and sonatas in four movements, but conceived of this sonata in only three. He joked with his publisher that he should receive 25% less than his usual fee for this work. The nostalgic mood and opening motive of the first movement permeates the entire work and unifies the three movements. Three Ds written in a dotted rhythm begin the first melody and are heard sporadically throughout the movement. The second movement, a somber and dramatic Adagio, brings back the initial rhythm of the three dotted notes in the middle section. The Finale, a rondo, repeats the three note motive, but in a terse and agitated presentation. The principal melodic material of this last movement comes from two earlier lieder, Regenlied (“Rain Song”) and Nachklang (“Reminiscence”), Op. 59, Nos. 3 and 4. The text of these songs, from poetry by his friend Klaus Groth, lends a somewhat programmatic air to the movement and provides material for text painting in the piano’s sixteenth-note passage work – “Pour rain, pour down, and recall to me the dreams I dreamt in childhood...” from Regenlied; and the second song projects the roots of tragedy where raindrops and tears mingle.
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Program Notes Clara Schumann, who was seventy and in deteriorating health, wrote to Brahms about the G major sonata, “I wish that the last movement could accompany me in my journey from here to the next world.” Cathleen Partlow Strauss
Ernest Bloch (1880-1959) Baal Shem Suite (1923) A Swiss-born American composer, Bloch was one of the preeminent musicians of the twentieth century. After studying in Brussels, Frankfurt and Paris, he immigrated to the United States in 1916, later worked at the Mannes School of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, the San Francisco Conservatory and the University of California, Berkeley. Many of Bloch’s compositions were inspired by his Jewish heritage, which he claimed was “the only way in which I can produce music of vitality and significance.” Tonight’s work has the subtitle “Three Pictures of Hassidic Life,” and was written for solo violin and piano, or violin and orchestra. It is named after Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer (170060), the founder of the Hassidic movement who was better known by the moniker Baal Shem Tov. Unlike composers who integrated specific folk elements into compositions, however, the connection to Judaism is heard in the general spirit of the music, rather than explicit musical elements. As Bloch described, It is neither my purpose nor desire to attempt a reconstruction of Jewish music, nor to base my work on more or less authentic melodies...I am not an archaeologist; for me the most important thing is to write good and sincere music…. What interests me is the Jewish soul, the enigmatic, ardent, turbulent soul that I feel vibrating throughout the Bible... 2021 - 2022 Laureate Series
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it is all this that I endeavor to hear in myself and to transcribe into my music; the venerable emotion of the race that slumbers way down in our souls.
The first movement is titled Vidui, which refers to the confessional portion of the liturgy of Yom Kippur in which transgressions (committed or likely) are enumerated. The violin offers its plea in a dramatic and chest-pounding style while the piano supports with open chords. The second movement is Nigun, or improvisation. Here Bloch attempts to capture the energy and spontaneity of mystical song. This movement is the best known of the composition and is sometimes programmed on its own, although the dramatic impact is heightened after the supplications of the first movement. It is as if the violinist has entered a state of divine religious ecstasy as the soul is elevated through music. The final movement is Simchas Torah, or rejoicing over the gifts of the Torah. It is a joyful piece that reflects on the tradition of carrying the Torah scrolls around the synagogue in a dancelike procession seven times. Nicholas Johnson, PhD Butler University
Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) Nocturne in D-flat, Op. 27, No. 2 (1836) Chopin was a Polish pianist and one of the most important composers of solo piano music in history. After receiving his musical education in Poland, he moved to Paris at age 21, where he performed mostly in intimate salon concerts. His compositions expanded the musical possibilities of the piano, which was included in all of his works. He frequently explored Polish folk elements in his music, as well as the early romantic language of Schubert. Several genres that would become staples for the rest of the century were made popular by Chopin, such as the nocturne, mazurka, and polonaise. Chopin composed two nocturnes for solo piano to be published as
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a pair in 1837. They are both highly recognizable pieces and have enjoyed a long tenure of audience and musician favorites ever since their debut. He wrote them during a failed engagement to Maria Wodninska, who was the dedicatee of his Grand valse brillante (Op. 18, 1834). Her father objected to their engagement due to Chopin’s chronic health conditions, and the engagement was called off in 1837. The nocturne itself is a genre that is evocative of the night, dating back to the monastic Offices of the Middle Ages, when chanting would take place at eight prescribed times during all hours of the day. In the 19th century it was commonly heard as a single-movement character piece, such as in the cantabile pieces of Irish composer John Field. Chopin wrote twenty-one nocturnes, often short suggestive pieces with flowing melodies over arpeggiated accompaniment. Several of Chopin’s solo pieces were transcribed for solo violin and piano. Tonight’s work consists of two strophes that repeat several times with growing rhythmic complexity. The melody is tender and flowering throughout and captures Chopin at his most tender and exposed. Nicholas Johnson, PhD Butler University
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75 Like Richard Strauss, Camille Saint-Saëns has often been faulted for being too successful, for composing too easily, and, most damning, for being too popular. For him writing music was not an unbearable torment, but rather a most natural act of expression. It was so normal and right for him that he once explained, “I take very little notice of either praise or censure, not because I have an exalted idea of my own merits (which would be foolish), but because in doing my work, and fulfilling the function of my nature, as an apple tree grows apples, I have no need to trouble myself with other people’s views.” Even Debussy, unlike Saint- Saëns in many ways, 2021 - 2022 Laureate Series
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appreciated the older composer’s artistic honesty and said, “M. SaintSaëns is uncompromising in a contrary sense... while others are uncompromising in order to demolish everything, he is so only in order to preserve everything.” His First Violin Sonata of 1885 demonstrates those qualities for which he always strived and almost always attained: a great lucidity, a technical mastery, and above all a clarity of form. As with his Third Symphony and Fourth Piano Concerto, Saint-Saëns constructed a work in which the traditional four movements are written in two sections. The first section having the first and second movements played without pause and the second section having the third and fourth movements similarly played without interruption. In this way the composer felt he could avoid unnecessary repetition and achieve an economy of form. The virtuosic brilliance and sheer speed demanded of the performers in the finale of this sonata and in many other of the composer’s works brings to mind a delightful story told by the great pianist Harold Bauer in his autobiography. Saint-Saëns as a virtuoso pianist and organist often played with excessive speed but constantly criticized others for doing the same. The composer was present at a private reception at which Bauer played. Bauer later wrote, “On this particular evening, I was to play, as one number on the program, Saint-Saëns’ sonata for piano and violoncello with the celebrated cellist Joseph Hollman, a great friend of the composer. Saint-Saëns sat at the piano to turn pages for me. When we came to the last movement he said, ‘Everyone plays this too fast, and I am afraid you are going to annoy me. Let me play it and you can turn the pages. Now here is the correct tempo,’ and he started very slowly. Hollman looked at me and winked—I could not imagine why. But the master’s fingers began to run away with him, and long before the movement was ended he was playing faster, I believe, than anyone had ever played that piece. He looked at me comically and, I thought, perhaps a little ruefully. ‘You see,’ he said, ‘I am a musical pig like all the rest of you.’” Frederick Fellers
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Carnegie Hall Isaac Stern Auditorium June 24, 2022 8:00 PM
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International Violin Competition of Indianapolis NY photo by Michał Ludwiczak from Pexels