Jasper String Quartet

Jasper String Quartet artist diploma recital Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence october 19 2009 music of Haydn Auerbach Smetana

Robert Blocker, Dean

october 19, 2008 · 8 pm Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

Jasper String Quartet J Freivogel, violin · Sae Niwa, violin Sam Quintal, viola · Rachel Henderson Freivogel, cello

Franz Joseph Haydn 1732-1809

Quartet in G major, Op. 76, No. 1 Allegro con spirito Adagio sostenuto Menuetto. Presto Finale. Allegro ma non troppo

Lera Auerbach b. 1973

Cetera Desunt­—Sonnet for String Quartet Dicis et non es Sic ego non sine te...

Dicis et non facis Nec tecum vivere possum...

Adventatis asinus, pulcher et fortissimus Si vis pacem, para bellum Non omnia moriar Cetera desunt intermission

Bedrich Smetana 1824-1884

Quartet No. 1 in E minor, "From My Life" Allegro vivo appassionato Allegro moderato à la Polka Largo sostenuto Vivace

This recital is in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Artist Diploma.

As a courtesy to the performers and audience members, turn off cell phones and pagers. Please do not leave the theater during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is not permitted.

The Jasper String Quartet has been hailed as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad) and as having played “flashingly, brilliantly, [and] gloriously, with excellent interplayer communication” (The Santa Fe New Mexican). Winners of the Grand Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2008 Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the Grand Prize at the 2008 Coleman Competition, First Prize at Chamber Music Yellow Springs 2008, and the Silver Medal at the 2008 and 2009 Fischoff Chamber Music Competitions, the Jaspers are currently the graduate quartet-in-residence at the Yale School of Music, studying with the Tokyo String Quartet.

standing… through music!. These programs aim to explore a country, time, or event through its music by connecting repertoire and historical or social happenings through writings and inconcert talking.

This summer they will be performing Mendelssohn’s Octet with the Tokyo String Quartet at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and participating in the Pacific Music Festival in Japan and La Jolla SummerFest in California.

The Jaspers have attended the Aspen Music Festival's Center for Advanced Quartet Studies, the Emerson Quartet International Chamber Music Workshop, the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. In the Melba and Orville Roleffson Residency at the Banff Centre they embarked on "guerilla chamber music," performing in unusual settings around Alberta. During their time at the Shepherd School of Music, the quartet collaborated with the Houston Friends of Chamber Music to bring quartet programs into local high schools. Next year, they will continue this work at Caramoor in addition to coaching undergraduate ensembles at Yale.

The Jaspers are the 2009-10 Ernst C. Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence at the Caramoor Center for Music and Arts. In 2009, they were the first ensemble to win the Yale School of Music’s Horatio Parker Memorial Prize. The Jaspers were finalists in the 2009 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition and the 2008 Concert Artists Guild Competition. Originally formed as a student ensemble at Oberlin Conservatory, the Jaspers began pursuing a professional career when they became Rice University’s graduate quartet-in-residence in 2006 studying with James Dunham, Norman Fischer, and Kenneth Goldsmith. The quartet has performed The Jasper String Quartet is named for Jasper across the United States and in Canada, Norway, National Park in Alberta, Canada, a place unmatched for its inherent and dramatic beauty England, Italy, and Japan.

– qualities integral to the Jasper’s belief in the The Jasper Quartet is dedicated to performing power of string quartet performance. The pieces emotionally significant to its members ensembles' members come from St. Louis, ranging from Haydn and Beethoven through MO (J), Tokyo, Japan (Sae), Fairbanks, AK Ligeti, Webern, and Ades. Next season they are (Sam) and Ann Arbor, MI (Rachel). beginning a series of programs called Under- » www.jasperquartet.com.

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October 20 tokyo string quartet

concerts & media Vincent Oneppo Dana Astmann Monica Ong Reed Danielle Heller Elizabeth Fleming

Sprague Hall | Tue | 8 pm Chamber Music Society Haydn: Quartet in D major, Op. 76, No. 5 Beethoven: Quartet in F minor, Op. 95, “Serioso” Bartók: Quartet No. 6.

Tickets $27-34 • Students $14

operations Tara Deming Christopher Melillo

October 23 yale philharmonia

piano curators Brian Daley William Harold recording studio Eugene Kimball Jason Robins

Woolsey Hall | Fri | 8 pm Shinik Hahm, conductor. Brahms: Academic Festival Overture; Variations on a Theme of Haydn. Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major.

October 28 lunchtime chamber music Center for British Art | Wed | 12:30 pm Program to be announced.

October 30 & 31 fall opera scenes Tickets $8-$12 / Students $5 Morse Recital Hall | Fri & Sat | 7:30 pm Yale Opera · friday: Scenes from Le Nozze di Figaro, Hamlet, and Rusalka. saturday: Scenes from Don Pasquale, Lucia di Lammermoor, L’Italiana in Algeri, The Rake’s Progress, and Manon. Mark Verzatt, stage director; Douglas Dickson and Timothy Shaindlin, musical direction and accompaniment.