Mozart and Dvorak Quartets

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Piano Quartets

morse recital hall January 23, 2013 โ ข Wednesday at 8 pm Music of Mozart and Dvorรกk Ani Kavafian, violin Ettore Causa, viola Ole Akahoshi, cello Peter Frankl, piano

Robert Blocker, Dean

p ia no qua rtets January 23, 2013 • Sprague Memorial Hall • Faculty Artist Series

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756–1791

Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478 I. Allegro II. Andante III. Rondo

Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 493 I. Allegro II. Larghetto III. Allegretto

intermission

Antonín Dvorák 1841–1904

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

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 Artists

Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, Norfok (Connecticut) Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest Festival (Portland, Oregon), Great Lakes Festival, the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, and Music from Angel Fire.

Violinist Ani Kavafian enjoys a prolific career as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has performed with virtually all of America’s leading orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, and San Francisco symphony orchestras, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. A renowned chamber musician, she has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1979. Her numerous solo recital engagements include performances at New York’s Carnegie and Alice Tully halls, as well as other major venues across the country.

Ani Kavafian serves as concertmaster of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, with whom she has performed the Mozart violin concertos. She has participated in the Heifetz International Music Institute,

Kavafian appears frequently with her sister, violinist and violist Ida Kavafian. With violist Barbara Westphal and cellist Gustav Rivinius, she is a member of the Triton Horn Trio, with members William Purvis, french horn; and pianist Mihae Lee. She also has teamed with David Shifrin and pianist André-Michel Schub to form the Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio. She is co-artistic director of the New Jersey chamber music series “Mostly Music.”

Kavafian has premiered and recorded a number of works written for her, including pieces by Henri Lazarof, Tod Machover, Michelle Ekizian, and Aaron Kernis.

Ani Kavafian has received the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions award, has appeared at the White House on three occasions, and has been featured on many network and PBS television specials. Her recordings can be heard on the Nonesuch, RCA, Columbia, Arabesque, and Delos labels.

Ani Kavafian is Professor of Violin at the Yale School of Music. She plays the 1736 Muir McKenzie Stradivarius violin.

About the Artist

Also a devoted chamber musician, Mr. Causa is a former member of the Aria Quartet (2004–2009) and a current member of the Poseidon Quartet, and has collaborated extensively with internationally renowned musicians such as the Tokyo and Elias String Quartets, Pascal Rogé, Boris Berman, Peter Frankl, Thomas Adès, Natalie Clein, Ana Chumachenco, Ani Kavafian, Alberto and Antonio Lysy, Liviu Prunaru, Thomas Demenga, Anthony Marwood, Ulf Wallin, William Bennett, and others.

Italian-born violist Ettore Causa is becoming one of the foremost performers and pedagogues of our time. Awarded both the P. Schidlof Prize and the J. Barbirolli Prize for the most beautiful sound at the prestigious Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition in England in 2000, he is praised for his exceptional artistry, passionate intelligence and complete musicianship.

He has made solo and recital appearances in major venues around the world, such as Carnegie Hall, Zurich Tonhalle, Madrid National Auditorium, Salle Cortot (Paris), Tokyo Symphony Hall, and Teatro Colon, among others, and has performed at numerous international festivals, such as the Menuhin (Gstaad), Salzburg, Tivoli (Copenhagen), Prussia Cove (England), Savonlinna (Finland), Launadire (Canada), and Norfolk (Connecticut) Festivals.

Having studied at the International Menuhin Music Academy with Alberto Lysy and Johannes Eskar, and later at the Manhattan School of Music with Michael Tree, then having taught both viola and chamber music for many years at the International Menuhin Music Academy, Mr. Causa joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music in 2009.

His highly praised recordings include two CDs on the Claves label, one featuring the Brahms viola sonatas and the other his transcription of Romantic pieces, which was awarded a prestigious 5 Diapasons by the eponymous French magazine.

Mr. Causa performs on a viola made for him by Frederic Chaudiere in 2003.

About the Artist

releases include the string quartet by Behzad Ranjbaran, and the Mendelssohn octet with Gil Shaham.

Cellist Ole Akahoshi from Germany enjoys a concert career before audiences in North and South Americas, Asia, and Europe in recitals, chamber music concerts, and as soloist with orchestras such as the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and Symphonisches Orchester Berlin. He has won numerous competitions, including Concertino Praga and Jugend Musiziert, and is a recipient of the Salon de Virtuosi fellowship award. Mr. Akahoshi has performed in Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Suntory Hall, Seoul Arts Center, National Center for Performing Arts Beijing, Shanghai and Taipei Concert Halls, Wigmore Hall, Wiener Musikverein, and Berliner Philharmonie. His performances have been featured on CNN, NPR, WQXR, Korean Broadcasting, and the major German stations. He has recorded for the Albany, New World, Calliope, Bridge, and Naxos labels. His most recent

Ole Akahoshi has collaborated with the Tokyo, Michelangelo, and Keller quartets and with Sarah Chang, Cho-Liang Lin, Elmar Oliveira, Gil Shaham, Lawrence Dutton, Nobuko Imai, Franz Helmerson, Edgar Meyer, Leon Fleisher, and Garrick Ohlsson, among many others. He has served as faculty at the festivals in Banff, Norfolk, Appalachian State University, Festival des Artes Brazil, and the GMMFS in Korea. He has been guest artist with the Seattle Chamber Music Society and Ensemble for the Romantic Century. He has given numerous classes, most recently at the Central Conservatory in Beijing and Sichuan Conservatory. Mr. Akahoshi has served as a judge for the Juilliard Concerto and the Eastern Connecticut Symphony competitions, among others.

At age eleven, Ole Akahoshi was the youngest student to be accepted by Pierre Fournier.

He received a bachelor’s degree from Juilliard and a master’s degree from Yale, where he studied with Aldo Parisot, as well as an artist diploma from Indiana University under Janos Starker. Mr. Akahoshi has served as teaching assistant for both Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker. Ole Akahoshi is the principal cellist of the Sejong Soloists.

He has been teaching at the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Akahoshi joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music in 1997 where he is Assistant Professor of Cello.

About the Artist

In the United States, Peter Frankl has been a regular guest artist at festivals including Aspen, Chautauqua, Marlboro, Norfolk, Ravinia, Santa Fe, and Yellow Barn. For many years the Frankl-Pauk-Kirshbaum Trio traveled the world. His many chamber music partners have included Kyung Wha Chung, Peter Csaba, Ralph Kirshbaum, and the Tokyo, Takács, Guarneri, Bartók, Fine Arts, and Lindsay quartets. He has given master classes all over the world, including the Royal Academy and Royal College in London, the Liszt Academy in Budapest, Van Cliburn Institute in Texas, and in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Seoul.

Pianist Peter Frankl made his London debut in 1962 and his New York debut with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell in 1967. Since that time he has performed with many of the world’s finest orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Concertgebouw, Israel Philharmonic, Orchestre de Paris, all the London orchestras, and the major American orchestras. He has collaborated with such eminent conductors as Abbado, Boulez, Davis, Haitink, Maazel, Masur, Muti, Salonen, and Solti, and his world tours have taken him to Japan, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. He has appeared over twenty times at London’s BBC Promenade Concerts and has been a regular participant at the Edinburgh, Cheltenham, Aldeburgh, Verbier, Kumho, and Casals Festivals.

Among his recordings are the complete works for piano by Schumann and Debussy, Bartók and Chopin solo albums, a Hungarian anthology, concertos and four-hand works by Mozart, the two Brahms piano concertos, the Brahms violin and clarinet sonatas, the Brahms trios, Bartók pieces for violin and piano, and the piano quintets by Brahms, Schumann, Dvorák, Martinu, and both Dohnányi’s.

In recognition of his artistic achievements, Mr. Frankl was awarded the Officer’s Cross by the Hungarian Republic, and on his seventieth birthday he was given one of the highest civilian awards in Hungary for lifetime artistic achievement. He is an honorary professor of the Liszt Academy and has been on the Yale School of Music faculty since 1987.

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