Wendy Sharp & Friends

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Wendy Sharp & Friends Wendy Sharp, violin Marka Gustavsson, viola Mimi Hwang, cello Melvin Chen, piano

morse recital hall January 20, 2013 • Sunday at 4 pm Music by Mozart, Honegger, and Dvorák ˇ

Robert Blocker, Dean

wend y s h a rp & f rien ds January 20, 2013 • Morse Recital Hall• Faculty Artist Series

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791

Duo in B-flat major for Violin and Viola, K. 424 I. Adagio – Allegro II. Andante cantabile III. Andante grazioso

Wendy Sharp, violin Marka Gustavsson, viola Arthur Honegger 1892–1955

Sonatine pour Violon et Violoncelle I. Allegro II. Andante III. Allegro

Wendy Sharp, violin Mimi Hwang, cello

intermission

Antonín Dvorák ˇ 1841–1904

Piano Quartet Nº. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 87 I. Allegro con fuoco II. Lento III. Allegro moderato, grazioso IV. Allegro, ma non troppo

Wendy Sharp, violin Marka Gustavsson, viola Mimi Hwang, cello Melvin Chen, piano

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

About the Artist

wendy sharp, violin

Award-winning violinist Wendy Sharp performs frequently as a recitalist and a chamber musician. In demand as a teacher and chamber music coach, she is on the faculties of the Yale School of Music and California Summer Music, and maintains a private studio. For nearly a decade, Ms. Sharp was the first violinist and a founding member of the highly acclaimed Franciscan String Quartet. As a member of the quartet she toured the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and was honored with many awards including first prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Press and City of Evian prizes at the Evian International String Quartet Competition. A native of the San Francisco Bay area, she attended Yale University, graduating summa cum laude with distinction in music, and received her Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

Ms. Sharp has served on the faculties of the Mannes College of Music, Dartmouth College, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Choate Rosemary Hall, and has participated in the Aspen, Tanglewood, Chamber Music West, Norfolk, BrittenPears, and Music Academy of the West festivals. Ms. Sharp is currently the director of chamber music at the Yale School of Music, where she has also served on the violin faculty since 1997. Ms. Sharp and her husband have two children, both undergraduates at Yale.

About the Artist

Record Guide, and a recording of Joan Tower’s piano music on the Naxos label.

Recordings of the Shostakovich piano sonatas and Gordon’s Orpheus and Euridice were released in 2007.

melvin chen, piano A native of Tennessee, pianist Melvin Chen is recognized as an important artist, having received acclaim for performances throughout the United States and abroad.

As a soloist and chamber musician Mr. Chen has performed at major venues in the United States, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Kennedy Center, and Boston’s Jordan Hall, in addition to other appearances throughout the United States, Canada, and Asia.

Mr. Chen’s performances have been featured on radio and television stations around the globe, including KBS television and radio in Korea, NHK television in Japan, and NPR in the United States. Solo recordings include Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations on the Bridge label, praised as “a classic” by the American

An enthusiastic chamber musician, Mr. Chen has collaborated with such artists as Ida Kavafian, David Shifrin, Pamela Frank, Peter Wiley, and with the Shanghai, Tokyo, Miami, Penderecki, and Miro quartets. A performer in numerous music festivals, he has performed at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Bard Music Festival, and Music from Angel Fire, among others.

Mr. Chen completed a doctorate in chemistry from Harvard University, and also holds a double master’s degree from The Juilliard School in piano and violin.

Previously, he attended Yale University, receiving a bachelor of science degree in chemistry and physics, where he also studied with Boris Berman, Paul Kantor, and Ida Kavafian.

Mr. Chen was previously on the piano faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, where he was also associate director. He is on the piano faculty of the Yale School of Music, where he also serves as Deputy Dean. He is the artistic director of the chamber music program at the Hotchkiss Summer Portals.

About the Artist

marka gustavsson, viola

A dedicated chamber musician, Marka Gustavsson has performed in major halls across Europe, Canada, and the U.S., as well as Japan and Israel. She has been invited to chamber music festivals including Bard, Mostly Mozart, Skaneateles, Portland, Bennington, and Newport. She has appeared as a guest of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, on WQXR’s Showcase Concerts, with the Yale Faculty Artists’ Series, at Banff, and in Wall-to-wall and Music of Our Time at Symphony Space. Performing and recording contemporary solo and chamber repertoire, Marka has worked closely with many composers including John Halle, Joan Tower, Kyle Gann, George Tsontakis, Yinam Leef, Katherine Hoover, Martin Bresnick, Richard Wernick, Harold Farberman, and Tan Dun. In 2000, Marka joined the Colorado Quartet, an active touring ensemble offering traditional and new repertoire. The quartet has released the complete Beethoven Quartets on Parnassus Records. Highlights of this season include premiering a viola concerto by Harold Farberman, teaching in the YAP program at Yellow Barn, completing a Beethoven cycle at Virginia Tech, and collaborating with Tamar Muskal and Lucy Shelton on Music of Our Time at Symphony Space in NYC. Ms. Gustavsson holds a teaching position at Bard College and Conservatory, where she oversees the chamber music program; with the Colorado Quartet she has served as faculty and co-artistic director at Soundfest Chamber Music Festival and Quartet Institute.

About the Artist

mimi hwang cello

The daughter of Chinese immigrants, cellist Mimi Hwang was born and raised in Los Angeles. She was a founding member of the Franciscan String Quartet, First Prize winner of the Banff International String Quartet Competition and top prize winner of the Evian International String Quartet Competition. The Quartet performed in concert halls throughout North America, Europe and Asia, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and Casals Hall in Tokyo. The Quartet held the position of Wardwell Fellows at the Yale School of Music and was Quartet-in-Residence at the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College, where Ms. Hwang was on the faculty of the

Department of Music. She has recorded for Verdi Records. She has also performed with the Tokyo, Ying, Colorado and Ciompi Quartets as well as Raphael Hillyer, Laurence Lesser and Michael Tree.

She was a member of the Peabody Trio, winners of the Naumberg Chamber Music Award. As a soloist, Ms. Hwang has performed with the Beijing Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. She received the Master’s Degree at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Bachelor’s Degree with Distinction at the New England Conservatory of Music and studied with Bonnie Hampton, Laurence Lesser, Paul Katz and Eleonore Schoenfeld.

She was a founding member of the Cello Divas and Quartos and has appeared in the festivals of Aspen, Banff, Norfolk, Roycroft, Skaneateles, and Yellow Barn.

Ms. Hwang is currently an Assistant Professor of Chamber Music at the Eastman School of Music, Lecturer of Music at Nazareth College and a founding member of the Amenda Quartet. She is also Co-Artistic Director of Yellow Barn Music School and Festival’s Young Artists Program, a three-week summer chamber music program for talented high school students in Putney, VT. Ms. Hwang serves on the Board of Trustees of the Rochester Area Community Foundation, where she chairs the Governance Committee.

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