Jasper String Quartet

Jasper String Quartet Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence february 3 2010 music of Beethoven ห Janรกcek Webern

Robert Blocker, Dean

february 3, 2010 · 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

ˇ leoš janácek 1854-1928

Quartet No. 1, “Kreutzer Sonata” Adagio con moto Con moto Con moto – Vivo – Andante Con moto – Adagio

anton webern 1883-1945

Langsamer Satz­ Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 Heftig bewegt, Tempo I Sehr langsam Sehr lebhaft Sehr langsam In zarter bewegung intermission

ludwig van beethoven 1770-1827

String Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1 Allegro con brio Adagio affettuoso ed appassionato Scherzo: Allegro molto Allegro

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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.

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 across the United States and in Canada, Norway, England, Italy, and Japan.

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. Whilte 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 and will coach undergraduate ensembles at Yale.

The Jasper String Quartet is named for Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, a place unmatched for its inherent and dramatic beauty – qualities integral to the Jasper’s belief in the power of string quartet performance. The The Jasper Quartet is dedicated to performing ensembles’ members come from St. Louis, pieces emotionally significant to its members MO (J), Tokyo, Japan (Sae), Fairbanks, AK ranging from Haydn and Beethoven through (Sam) and Ann Arbor, MI (Rachel).

Ligeti, Webern, and Ades. Next season they are beginning a series of programs called Under- » www.jasperquartet.com

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February 4 new music new haven Morse Recital Hall | Thu | 8 pm Featuring the Piano Trio of faculty composer Martin Bresnick. With music by Omar Surillo and Jordan Kuspa. Free admission.

February 6 tribute to george enescu Morse Recital Hall | Sat | 8 pm Faculty Artist Series Music for voice, piano, and chamber ensembles. Ilya Poletaev, piano, with James Taylor, tenor; Jennifer Curtis, violin; and Mihai Marica, cello. Sept Chansons de Clement Marot, Op. 15; Airs in Romanian Style for solo violin; Cello Sonata, Op. 26, no. 2; Piano Sonata, Op. 24, no. 1; Impressions d’Enfance for violin and piano, Op. 28.

February 8 & 9 rediscovered prokofiev Morse Recital Hall | Mon | 8 pm | Free Zankel Hall | Tue | 7:30 pm | Tickets $15-$25 at www.carnegiehall.org Premieres and rarities. Fragment from the opera Distant Seas (world premiere) Music for Athletic Exercises (New York premiere), with original choreography by Adam Hendrickson; Trapeze (New York premiere); and Schubert waltzes arranged for two pianos by Prokofiev.