Vista: A Fresh Look at Chamber Music

VISTA a fresh look at chamber music

chamber music program Wendy Sharp, Director february 20 2011 music of Brahms Debussy Dvorรกk

Robert Blocker, Dean

february 20, 2011 · 8 pm Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

VISTA

a fresh look at chamber music

antonín dvorák 1841–1904

Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, “Dumky” Lento maestoso – Allegro vivace Poco adagio Andante Andante moderato Allegro Lento maestoso – Vivace Ji-in Yang, violin Jurrian van der Zanden, cello Wayne Weng, piano

claude debussy 1862–1918

En blanc et noir Avec emportment Lent. Sombre Scherzando Joo Hyeon Park, piano Lindsay Garritson, piano

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.

chamber music program Wendy Sharp, Director

Intermission johannes brahms 1833–1897

Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8 Allegro con brio Scherzo Adagio Allegro Yeseul Ann, violin Yan Ming Alvin Wong, cello Michael Noble, piano

special thanks to the coaches who worked with the ensembles: Ani Kavafian (DvorĂĄk) Wei-Yi Yang (Debussy) Clive Greensmith (Brahms)

artist profiles

Ji-in Yan violin

Wayne Weng piano

South Korean rising star Ji-in Yang tours regularly with the New York-based string ensemble Sejong Soloists and was its Samsung Foundation of Culture Chair from 2006 to 2008. Her performances have been heard on NPR’s From the Top and Korea’s National television show Art Theatre, as well as a guest appearances on the KBS show Classic Odyssey, Japan’s NHK, and national radio in Slovenia. She has appeared at the United Nations and at festivals including Aspen, Sarasota, Festival Music Alp (Courchevel, France), and Great Mountain, Tongyeong, and the International Heyri Art Festival (Korea).

Pianist Wayne Weng’s playing has been described as having “delicacy amounting to almost reverence” to “bold, vibrant, and immensely musical” (Wiltshire Gazette and Herald). He has won prizes at the Haverhill Sinfonia Soloists Competition, Tunbridge Wells International Young Concert Artists Competition, and Washington International Competition for Piano. He has also won prizes at the Pacific Piano Competition, CBC Debut Concert Artists Auditions, and Kingsville International Young Performers Competition. Wayne is a recipient of the 2009 Solti Foundation Grant and the British Columbia Arts Council Senior Scholarship.

Ms. Yang has collaborated with artists such as Joseph Kalichstein and Cho-Liang Lin. She is dedicated to expanding the scope of the traditional concert format, including teaming up with text artist Youngeun Kim and violinist Frank Huang at the Loop Gallery in Korea for a multimedia presentation of Prokofiev’s Sonata for Two Violins. She has been invited to perform at the SFX International Sound Art Festival.

Ms. Yang began her musical journey at the age of six, winning the first of many violin competitions in Korea and the United States. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Aspen Young Artists Orchestra, the Juilliard, New Amsterdam, and Sarah Lawrence Symphony Orchestras; kbs, Bucheon, Suwon, Chuncheon, and Kangreung Philharmonic Orchestras; and Daegu and Wonju City Orchestras, and has given numerous recitals in New York and Korea. She received B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Juilliard School and is currently pursuing her artist diploma at the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Hyo Kang.

Wayne has appeared as a soloist with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Seattle, Victoria Symphony Orchestra, and Avanti Orchestra. He has performed in Canada, the U.S., Hong Kong, Holland, France, England, Serbia, Belgium, Austria, and Egypt as a recitalist and collaborative pianist. He has been featured on radio stations such as WQXR, CBC, and Seattle King FM. Wayne has participated at such summer festivals as the International Holland Music Sessions, International Keyboard Institute and Festival, TCU/Cliburn Piano Institute, Bowdoin International Music Festival, and Ecole d’Art Americaines, where he was awarded the Piano Prix. He has served as an adjudicator at the Chopin Youth Piano Competition in Houston and Festival on the Lake in Vancouver.

Wayne received his B.M. degree and Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and his M.M. degree from the Mannes College of Music. Thereafter he studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Wayne is currently an Artist Diploma candidate at the Yale School of Music, where he studies with Peter Frankl.

Joo Hyeon Park piano

Lindsay Garritson piano

Joo Hyeon Park was born in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. Soon after receiving his initial piano lessons, he went on to win various prizes in Korean youth competitions. He then entered the prestigious Yewon Arts School. At the age of twelve, Mr. Park made his professional debut at Opushall in Seoul, Korea. He earned his Bachelor of Music Arts degree with honors at the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. Mr. Park has performed in many festivals and concerts throughout Europe. He is also an active chamber musician, concertizing with the Twins Quartet, Luz Leskowitz, Heidi Litschauer, and Won-Ji Ozim. He has had solo engagements with the Dornbirn Youth Symphony Orchestra, Göttinger Symphony Orchestra, Mecenat Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. Mr. Park has won first prize and the Audience Choice Award in the 2005 Rotary Lindau-Friedrichshafen Competition, the Mozarteum (Salzburg) 2007 Mozart Prize, the 2008 Animato Foundation Competition, and the Rolf und Ingeborg Rütgers Private Foundation Award 2008. He was selected to be a member of Live Music Now, founded

by Sir Yehudi Menuhin.

As pianist and violinist, Lindsay Garritson has been touring the U.S. and abroad since the age of four. Her piano teachers include Boris Berman, Luiz de Moura Castro, Zena Ilyashov, Emilio Del Rosario, the late Jane Allen, and Jennifer Lim. A frequent participant in master classes, she has studied with Emanuel Ax, Menahem Pressler, John Perry, Ann Schein, and Awadagin Pratt, among many others. As the winner of several concerto competitions, Lindsay has performed with the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra, University City Symphony, Alton Symphony, Belleville Philharmonic, and Principia College Orchestra. In 2001 she was invited to perform with the European Philharmonic Orchestra in France. Most recently, she was awarded first prize at the 2010 Mozarteum International Chopin Competition in Salzburg, Austria. In 2009, she received the Presser Music Award and also won first place at the Connecticut Music Teachers Young Artist Competition.

During the summers she has participated in numerous music festivals including Aspen, Amalfi Coast (Italy), Nancy (France), Orford Arts Center (Canada), International Holland Music Sessions, International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College, International Institute for Young Musicians, Innsbrook Music Festival and School, and others.

As a violinist, Lindsay was concertmaster of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra from 2003 to 2006. Her teachers have included John Kendall, and she currently studies with Kyung Yu. Lindsay received her B.A. in music in 2008 from Principia College in Elsah, Illinois. She received her M.M. in piano performance from the Yale School of Music in 2010, and is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at Yale as a student of Boris Berman.

artist profiles

Yeseul Ann violin

Alvin Yan Ming Wong piano

Alvin Yan Ming Wong has appeared in concerts across five continents. He has performed in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Seoul Arts Center, and Hong Kong Cultural Center, and at music festivals such as Aspen, Orford, Fontfroide, Sion, Casals in Prades, and Great Mountains.

Recent highlights include appearances at the Festival de Carvalho in Brazil, a tour with the Indiana University New Music Ensemble to the Midwest and East Coast, and chamber music She has been awarded the Prize of Honor in concert series in Hong Kong. He has also given the Bellan International Competition, third prize concert-lectures in Korea and the United States. in the Flame Music Competition in France, A native of Hong Kong, Alvin started playing and prizes in various competitions in Korea. the piano at the age of three but did not study She has studied with such mentors as the Ysaÿe the cello until he was fourteen. After winning Quartet, Itamar Golan, and Vladimir Mendel- local competitions, he continued his cello stussohn, and has attended masterclasses with Ida dies at the Eastman School of Music while Haendel, Mauricio Fuks, and the Julliard pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology.

Quartet. Yeseul has performed as a soloist and He received his master’s degree from the chamber musician in New York at Steinway Hall Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and in Paris at Salle Cortot, Palais Bourbon where he was also an associate instructor in Assemblée Nationale, l’Eglise d’Arménie, Salle music theory. He received the Artist Diploma from Yale, where he is currently enrolled in the Pléyel, and Cathédrale Saint-Louis. doctoral program. His major teachers have been Also active as an orchestral musician, Yeseul Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker. has participated in numerous festivals in France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, including the Alvin is currently on the faculty of Connecticut Ensemble Intercontemporain with Pierre Boulez. College and is the principal cellist of the She has participated in academies at l’Orchestre Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra. de Paris with Christophe Eschenbach, Paavo Jarvi, and Essa Pekka Salonen; with the Asian Philharmonic Orchestra; and with the soloists of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra with Myung-whun Chung.

Born in 1987 and originally from Seoul, Korea, Yeseul Ann studied with Roland Daugaréil at the Conservatoire National de Région de Paris and continued her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris with Régis Pasquier and Philippe Aiche. Yeseul is currently pursuing her Master of Music degree at the Yale School of Music, where she studies with Ani Kavafian.

Michael Noble piano

Jurrian van der Zanden cello

Michael Noble gave his first public recital at the age of six. He attended the Idyllwild Arts Academy in southern California, where he studied with Nelms McKelvain. Upon graduation he was named the Outstanding Musician of 2005– 2006. Michael has won numerous awards in competitions, including the Bob H. Johnson Gold Medal at the 2009 Crescendo Music Awards (Tulsa, Oklahoma) and second prize in the 2009 Chopin International Competition of the Thousand Islands (Cape Vincent, NY). He was a laureate of the 2005 Idyllwild Arts Academy Concerto Competition.

Dutch cellist Jurrian van der Zanden studied with Jeroen den Herder and Elias Arizcuren at the Utrecht Conservatory, where he received his bachelor’s degree with distinction. He continued his studies in London, England with Leonid Gorokhov at the Guildhall School of Music. As a member of both Cello Octet Amsterdam and the New Holland Piano Trio, he has toured extensively in Europe, South America, and the United States.

In September of 2010 he moved to New Haven, Connecticut to study with Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music.

Michael has performed in numerous master classes for musicians including Gary Graffman, Jurrian plays a 1929 Max Moeller cello geneJohn Perry, Boris Berman, Antonio Pompa- rously loaned to him by the Dutch National Baldi, and Richard Danielpour. He has partici- Instrument Foundation. pated in the Eastern, Aspen, and Bowdoin music festivals as well as the Morningside Music Bridge program in Shanghai, China. He attended the International Piano Academy in Freiburg, Germany in 2009 where he worked with Vitaly and Jura Margulis among others. Additionally, he has worked with such pianists as John O’Conor, Julian Martin, Martin Canin, Anton Nel, and Marie-François Bucquet.

In the fall of 2008, Michael attended the Paris Conservatoire as part of Eastman’s Conservatory Exchange Program, where he worked with pianist Nicholas Angelich. He recently graduated cum laude from the Eastman School of Music, earning his B.M. in piano performance as well as a B.A. in English at the University of Rochester.

There he was a student of Nelita True. Michael is currently pursuing his M.M. degree at the Yale School of Music, studying with Peter Frankl.

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Yale Brass Trio February 22 | 8 pm | Tue | Free

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Tickets $18–$28 | Students $10 Horowitz Piano Series. Schubert: Impromptus, Op. 142; Sonata in A major, Op. 120, D. 664; Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960.

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Yale Philharmonia: Concertante February 25 & 26 | 8 pm | Fri & Sat | Free Twentieth-century chamber concertos by Bloch, Strauss, Martin, and Ginastera. Shinik Hahm, conductor; Ransom Wilson, flute; David Shifrin, clarinet; and Frank Morelli, bassoon.

Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio March 1 | 8 pm | Tue Tickets $20–$30 | Students $10 Chamber Music Society at Yale. Ani Kavafian, violin and viola; David Shifrin, clarinet; and Andre-Michel Schub, piano. Trios by Mozart, Schumann, Milhaud, and Stravinsky.

Robert Blocker, Dean