Serenade & Metamorphosis

SERENADE& METAMORPHOSIS Music for string orchestra

YALE in NEW YORK DAVID SHIFRIN · ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Preview Concert: April 11, 2013 · Thursday, at 8 pm · Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Hall Concert: April 12, 2013 · Friday at 7:30 pm · Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall Music by Strauss, Matthew Barnson ’12dma, and Tchaikovsky

Robert Blocker, Dean

SERENADE & METAMORPHOSIS Thursday, April 11 – 8:00 pm

Matthew Barnson ’12dma b. 1979

The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (Memento mori after Gerhard Richter) (2012) World premiere Praeludium Ricercar Passacaglia Paolo Bortolameolli, conductor Ani Kavafian, violin solo Wendy Sharp, violin solo Raul Garcia, viola solo Laura Usiskin, cello solo

Richard Strauss 1864–1949

Metamorphosen, a study for 23 solo strings, Op. 142 I. Adagio ma non troppo II. Agitato III. Adagio, tempo primo

intermission

Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky 1840–1893

Serenade for Strings in C major, Op. 48 I. Pezzo in forma di sonatina II. Valse III. Élégie IV. Finale. Tema russo

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.

Yale School of Music • Robert Blocker, Dean Yale in New York Preview Concert • David Shifrin, Artistic Director Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

Orchestra Personnel

violin i Ani Kavafian, Concertmaster and leader * Geoffrey Herd ’12ad Kyung Yu ’87mm * Sunmi Chang ’08mm, ’09ad Holly Piccoli ’12cert

cello Laura Usiskin ’09mma Yan Ming Alvin Wong ’09ad, ’11mma Jacques Wood ’08mm, ’10mma Hannah Collins ’08mm, ’09ad Soo Jin Chung ’11mm, ’12ad

violin ii Wendy Sharp ’82ba * Edson Scheid ’11mm, ’12ad Alissa Cheung ’13mm Preston Hawes ’06mm, ’07ad Choha Kim ’14mm

double bass Nicholas B. Jones ’12ad Paul Nemeth ’12mm Nathaniel Chase ’10mm

viola Raul Garcia ’09mm, ’10ad Edwin Kaplan ’10mm, ’11ad + Yi-Ping Yang ’08ad Anne Lanzilotti ’08mm Eve Tang ’11mm

* Yale School of Music faculty + Principal for Tchaikovsky

Artist Profiles

ani kavafian · violin 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, 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.

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.

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

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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, Britten-Pears, 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.

and Yale Philharmonia orchestras, and has performed numerous recitals in New York City, Seattle, Aspen, and throughout Korea. She gave her New York debut concert in Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall as a winner of the Artists International Competition. Ms. Yu has taught at the Aspen Music Festival and was an assistant to Dorothy DeLay at the Juilliard pre-college division. She served on the Fulbright Scholarship Screening Committee for Strings from 1999 to 2002. Ms. Yu has taught violin students at Lehigh University and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. She has served on the faculty at Yale since 1988.

Violinist Kyung Yu holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Juilliard School and a Master of Music degree from the Yale School of Music. She has studied with Dorothy DeLay, Paul Kantor, and the late Professor Emanuel Zetlin. Ms. Yu was concertmaster of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra from 1988 until 1999. She has appeared as a soloist with the Seattle Symphony, the New Haven Symphony,

Ms. Yu performs extensively with pianist Elizabeth Sawyer Parisot, with whom she has recorded the Strauss and Prokofiev sonatas, and appeared on Albany Records in The Music of Ezra Laderman. She performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with Elizabeth Parisot and cellist Ole Akahoshi with the Yale Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Shinik Hahm. With Elizabeth Parisot, Ms. Yu has played numerous recitals throughout Connecticut and Pennsylvania, and has performed to acclaim in concert tours of Korea and Italy.

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An accomplished pianist, Mr. Bortolameolli won the first prize of the 2003 National Chopin Competition and in 2005 the National Competition for Young Soloists playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the National Symphonic Orchestra of Chile.

paolo bortolameolli · conductor Praised by composer George Crumb for his “sensitive and insightful interpretation,” Paolo Bortolameolli is is a graduate both of the Arts Faculty of Universidad de Chile, where he studied conducting with David del Pino Klinge, and of Pontificia Universidad Católica, where he studied piano with Frida Conn. He is now in his second year of the Master of Music degree program in Orchestral Conducting at the Yale School of Music, under the guidance of Maestro Shinik Hahm and anticipates graduating in May 2013.

Mr. Bortolameolli has been the Principal Conductor of the Youth Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Colina, for the past 3 years, as well as Assistant Conductor of the USACH Orchestra and the Faculty of Arts Orchestra (OFA). Other engagements in Latin America include guest conductor of the Universidad de Concepción Orchestra and the National Symphonic Orchestra of Perú.

Deeply committed to and enthusiastic about new music, he frequently collaborates with the composers of Yale School of Music. Mr. Bortolameolli has attended master classes working with leading conductors including Bernard Haitink, Neeme Järvi, Paavo Järvi, Leonid Grin, Peter Oundjian, and Peter Gülke.

Violinist Geoffrey Herd is currently working toward his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Rice University as a student of Paul Kantor.

Previously he received an Artist Diploma from Yale University, studying with Ani Kavafian. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Herd has studied chamber music with members of the Cavani, Cleveland, Guarneri, Juilliard, and Tokyo String Quartets, as well as Laurie Smukler, Ira Weller, Seymour Lipkin, and Norman Fischer. Mr. Herd has attended numerous prestigious music festivals including the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Encore School for Strings, and the New York String Orchestra Seminar where he was Principal Second Violin. Equally committed to bringing classical music to new audiences, Mr. Herd is the founder and director of the Geneva Music Festival in the Finger Lakes region of New York State, in addition to being a founding member of the new music ensemble, Vicennium Void.

As the laureate of both the 2007 International Markneukirchen and Sion-Valais International Violin Competitions, Sunmi Chang has performed widely to much acclaim throughout North America and Europe as a soloist and chamber musician. In 2008, she was the soloist of the Yale Philharmonia’s tour to Seoul, Beijing, and Shanghai, performing the Beethoven Concerto. She studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School in England and at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule in Berlin with Professor Eberhard Feltz. An active chamber musician, Ms. Chang won first prize at the Plowman

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Chamber Music Competition and has collaborated with many renowned artists. She was invited to take part in the Rising Stars Series at Caramoor, Music@Menlo, and Chamber Music Northwest. She completed her studies with Peter Oundjian and Ani Kavafian in 2009, earning the Artist Diploma and the Master of Music degree at Yale University, where she won the concerto competition in 2006. Currently she plays with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra having won a position there in 2009.

Violinist Holly Piccoli is an alumna of the Yale School of Music, graduating with the Certificate in Performance after studying with Syoko Aki. Holly began violin in 1994, gaining a scholarship in 1999 to the Victorian College of the Arts Secondary School. She graduated in 2004 as valedictorian and received the Lenton Parr Academic Award, three Premier’s Awards, and the 2004 Melbourne Symphony Orchestra String Award.

Holly studied at the Australian National Academy of Music with Mark Mogilevski. In July 2006, she received the Australian fellowship to the National Symphony Summer Music Institute (SMI). In 2009 Holly was an Australian Chamber Orchestra Emerging Artist. Since then she has worked in the Australian Chamber Orchestra on many national subscription tours. In 2011 Holly was invited by ACO2 to perform in Japan in a quartet of Emerging Artists. In 2011, Holly was concertmaster of the Yale Opera Orchestra, performing Don Giovanni, and with baritone Tyler Simpson performed Strauss’s Notturno with the Yale Philharmonia as winners of the Woolsey Concerto Competition.

Edson Scheid earned his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Mozarteum University Salzburg (Austria) in 2009, where he studied with Igor Ozim. At the Yale School of Music, he earned his Master of Music and Artist Diploma degrees in 2011 and

2012, where he studied with Hyo Kang. He is currently a member of the Yale Baroque Ensemble.

Scheid was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where he became the first Brazilian violinist ever to record the 24 Caprices of Paganini for Solo Violin, at the age of 18. He has given concerts in Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, USA and South Korea.

Recent performances include concerts at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York, and at the Seoul Arts Center in South Korea, as a member of the Sejong Soloists. In May 2011, during the Yale School of Music Honor’s Dinner, he received the Broadus Erle Prize, awarded to outstanding violinists at the School of Music.

A native of Edmonton, Canada, Alissa Cheung (BSc ’07, BMus ’09, MM ’13) is a tenured member of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (Violin I). She is also involved with the Alberta Baroque Ensemble, and has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in Canada, USA, Europe and Japan. Her principal violin teachers were Marian Moody, Ranald Shean, Broderyck Olson (Edmonton), and Thomas Williams (McGill).

She is currently on leave from the ESO to finish her Master of Music degree under the tutelage of Ani Kavafian (Yale), and is a grateful recipient of financial support from many institutions for her musical studies. Notable highlights as a composer include Close Cover before Striking, premiered by Tonus Vivus Festival of New Music 2011, and in The spAcE of a Beat, winner of the XIBUS World Orchestra Young Composer Competition 2012. Ms. Cheung studies composition with Hannah Lash (Yale) and Piotr Grella-Mozejko (Edmonton).

Hailed by the European Academy of Arts and Sciences as an “electrifying and virtuosic” performer with “exquisite taste and rare talent,” Canadian violinist Preston Hawes is a laureate

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of the Concours de Musique Du Canada, the Andrews International Music Competitions, the Prix de Musique de Chambre à Fontainebleau, and recipient of the JC Van Hulsteyn award and Peabody Career Grant. He has been heard as a soloist in over 35 countries and in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, and Plovdiv Symphony Hall. With a Master of Music and the coveted Artist Diploma from Yale University, Preston maintains a busy concertizing schedule while completing his doctoral studies at the Peabody Conservatory. Mr. Hawes is the artistic director of the New England Symphonic Ensemble, one of the most frequently featured orchestras at Carnegie Hall. Preston is Assistant Professor of Music, Head of Strings, and Director of Orchestral Studies at Washington Adventist University in Takoma Park, MD. He has recently been appointed as director of the Columbia Valley Chamber Music Festival in Invermere, B.C. Violinist Choha Kim enjoys a varied career as a soloist and chamber musician. Born in Seoul, Korea, she made her debut with the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra at age 13. She has subsequently played with the St. Petersburg Symphony in Russia and has given solo recitals at the Kumho Prodigy Recital Series and the Saturday Concert Series at the National Museum of Korea. Choha was an active member of the Curtis Baroque Collegium while attending the Curtis Institute of Music, where she received her Bachelor of Music studying with Joseph Silverstein, Shmuel Ashkenasi, and Victor Danchenko. She is currently pursuing her Master of Music degree at the Yale School of Music as a student of Syoko Aki. Colombian violist Raul Garcia has established himself as one of the most promising artists of his generation. Career highlights include performances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and the National Arts Center. Career highlights include first prize winner of numerous competitions including the II Colombian Viola

Competition, and the Yale School of Music Georgina Lucy Grosvenor Memorial Prize. An avid chamber musician, he has appeared at the St. Lawrence Quartet Chamber Seminar, Yellow Barn, the NAC Young Artist Program, Pacific Music Festival, Innsbrook Institute, and the Perlman Music Program. Mr. Garcia holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Juan N. Corpas University, and a Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music, where he studied with Ettore Causa. Raul is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at Rutgers University with Philadelphia Orchestra principal violist Choong-Jin Chang and serves as assistant principal violist in the Colombia National Symphony Orchestra.

Violist Edwin Kaplan has already forged a versatile identity as a recitalist, chamber musician, and a committed and dynamic orchestral player.

His performances have included an appearance as soloist in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 at the La Jolla Music Society alongside renowned violist Richard O’Neill. Since moving to New York, Edwin has appeared on several concert series including Lyrica Chamber Music, NYC House Concerts, and with the Burlington Ensemble of Vermont. His vibrancy as a chamber musician has helped win him the chance to collaborate with such highly regarded musicians as violinist Scott Yoo, pianist Walter Ponce, violist Paul Coletti, and the American String Quartet.

Edwin earned a Bachelors of Arts in 2008 at the University of California with Paul Coletti and Richard O’Neill. At the Yale School of Music, Edwin received his Master of Music degree in 2010 and Artist Diploma in 2011, studying with Jesse Levine and Ettore Causa. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at the Manhattan School of Music with Lawrence Dutton.

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A fierce advocate of contemporary music, Anne Lanzilotti has premiered solo and chamber music works across Europe and the United States.

Lanzilotti has performed with new music ensembles such as Alarm Will Sound and ensemble interface. A Brooklyn-based performer, she collaborates frequently with members of Sleeping Giant. Lanzilotti is on the viola and chamber music faculty at the Wintergreen Performing Arts String Academy. Lanzilotti studied with Jesse Levine at the Yale School of Music (’08mm), and was awarded an Alumni Prize in her final year. She is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Manhattan School of Music under Karen Ritscher while continuing to perform and teach. » annelanzilotti.com Since graduating from Yale in 2008, Yi-Ping Yang has been a member of the Hyperion String Quartet, and is the acting assistant principal violist of the Albany Symphony. She actively plays with many ensembles in the tri-state area performing in the United States and overseas.

In 2011, Yi-Ping’s interest in violin-making led her to a position managing the violin shop Reed Yeboah Fine Violins in New York City. Yi-Ping has been an advocate of contemporary violin makers, and she also hosts an annual exhibition for contemporary instruments in New York City.

Born in Canada, Eve Tang began her musical studies on piano when she was five and viola at age eight. Continuing her viola studies, she received a Bachelor of Music degree from McGill University in 2009 and a Master of Music from Yale University in 2011. Her viola teachers include Steven Dann, Katharine Rapoport, Andre Roy, and Ettore Causa. Ms. Tang’s orchestral endeavors have taken her to Canada, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Switzerland, and Taiwan. Ms. Tang has performed with ensembles including Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Cleveland Orchestra, Richmond Symphony, New Haven Symphony Orchestra,

and Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Recent summer festival appearances include the Aldeburgh Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Sarasota Music Festival, Mattheiser Festival Academy, Lucerne Festival, and Verbier Festival. Ms. Tang is currently a first-year fellow at the New World Symphony, an orchestral academy led by Michael Tilson Thomas, in Miami Beach, Florida.

Laura Usiskin has performed throughout North America and Europe in venues including the Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Palazzo Chigi Saracini, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Miller Theatre, Barge Music, and many others. She was a member of the Yale Baroque Ensemble 2009-10 and a cello fellow with the Montgomery Symphony Orchestra 2010-12, where she performed concertos, recitals, and sat principal of the cello section. Other recent achievements include a full section position with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and performances of the complete Bach Cello Suites.

She is the founder and director of the Montgomery Music Project, a program for mostly underprivileged children in Montgomery, AL that has served more than 100 children in less than two years. Ms. Usiskin received a B.A. in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University, M.M. from the Juilliard School, and M.M.A. from the Yale School of Music.

Cellist Alvin 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 in music festivals such as Aspen, Atlantic, iPalpiti, Orford (Canada), Fontfroide and Casals (France), Sion (Switzerland), Carvalho (Brazil), and Great Mountains (Korea). An enthusiast in new music, Alvin has performed works by 21st-century composers extensively. He has been invited by composers such as Claude Baker, Chen Yi, Bright Sheng, and Brian Ciach to perform their works, and toured with the Indiana University

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New Music Ensemble in 2007. Recent residencies include University of Missouri-Kansas City and Murray State University (Kentucky). Upcoming engagements include appearances at the Thailand International Composition Festival and the Central Conservatory of Music in China.

Alvin is currently on the faculty of Connecticut College, and is the principal cellist of Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra. He holds music degrees from Eastman, Indiana, and Yale, where he also received an Artist Diploma. His major teachers have been Aldo Parisot and Janos Starker.

Cellist Jacques Lee Wood has performed as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout North America, Europe, and Asia in such prestigious venues as Boston’s Jordan Hall, Merkin Hall and LeFrak Hall in New York, Auditorium Marcel Landowski in Paris, and Youngsan Art Hall in Seoul, to name a few. He was a top prizewinner at the ARTS Competition and the Fischoff Chamber Music Competitions.

He has served on the faculties at Atlantic Union College, as a cello instructor at the Yale School of Music, and as a faculty member in the department of music at the New Haven Cooperative Arts Magnet High School. Mr. Wood received a B.M. from the New England Conservatory where he studied with Laurence Lesser, M.M. from Yale University, and M.M.A. from Yale University where he studied with Aldo Parisot. He is a frequent guest at several summer music festivals, including the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Banff Festival, and the International Arts Institute.

Cellist Hannah Collins, winner of the De Link Competition 2010 for contemporary interpretation, is a dynamic performer devoted to diverse forms of musical expression. With support from the Presser Foundation, Hannah spent 2009–2011 in France and The Netherlands researching and performing contemporary cello

repertoire. With New Morse Code, her duo with percussionist Michael Compitello, she collaborates with composers, singers, dancers, and actors to create new works and interdisciplinary projects.

She has performed at festivals throughout Europe and North America, including Kneisel Hall, Norfolk, Aldeburgh, and Musique de Chambre à Giverny. Hannah holds degrees in biomedical engineering and music from Yale University as well as a graduate degree from the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. She currently performs and teaches in New York City as a fellow of the Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the NYC Department of Education.

Cellist Soo Jin Chung began studying cello at age eleven in South Korea. In 2001 she gave her first concert performance with an orchestra, performing Haydn’s Concerto in D major with the Prime Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2004, she gave a solo recital and performed with the Ewha University Symphony Orchestra. She has been awarded prizes by the Strad Competition, Ewha-Kyunghyang Competition, and Eumyoun Competition. She was invited to participate in the Tong-Yeoung International Music Festival and performed as a member of a string quartet.

She received a full scholarship from Ewha Womans University where she studied with Hyungwon Chang and Il-hwan Bae where she earned her Bachelor of Music degree summa cum laude. As a winner of the Yale Chamber Competition, she performed at the annual Competition Winners Concert in Sprague Hall.

In 2011 and 2012, she earned her Master’s Degree and Artist Diploma at the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Aldo Parisot. She is currently a member of the Yale Baroque Ensemble and the Sejong Soloists.

Double bassist Nicholas B. Jones began studying violin at an early age in his hometown of Buffalo, New York before switching to the double bass

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in high school. A graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Nicholas went on to study at the Yale University School of Music and Carnegie Mellon University. Nicholas has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia as an orchestral musician. He has performed with many ensembles including the Pittsburgh Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic, Yale Philharmonia, National Orchestral Institute Orchestra, Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, and the Pacific Music Festival Orchestra under the batons of the world’s leading conductors including Pierre Boulez, Fabio Louisi, William Christie, and Lorin Maazel. His major teachers have been Paul Johnson, Jeffrey Turner, and Donald Palma.

Paul Nemeth, double bass, was born in Syracuse, New York and grew up in Princeton, New Jersey.

He received his Bachelor of Music from the Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Orin O’Brien and his Master of Music from Yale University as a student of Donald Palma. He has enjoyed working with many of today’s leading conductors and has performed in the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan and Aspen Music Festival, also having appeared with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Alice Tully Hall and the North County Chamber Players in the White Mountains Music Festival.

Paul has performed new works in New York with AXIOM, Continuum, New Juilliard Ensemble (including performances in Tokyo’s Suntory Hall), American Opera Projects, the Summergarden Festival at MoMA, and the FOCUS! Festival at Lincoln Center. He performs often with period ensembles that include the Sebastian Chamber Players, American Baroque Orchestra, Schola Cantorum, and the Yale Baroque Ensemble.

Bassist Nathaniel Chase, a graduate of the Yale School of Music, is active as a freelancer throughout the tri-state area. His performances range from early music and the standard orchestral repertoire

with Ensemble 212 and the Metro Chamber Orchestra, to chamber and contem-porary music with the Lucerne Festival and the Mimesis Ensemble. Mr. Chase is the conductor of the Really Terrible Orchestra of Westchester, a White Plains-based community orchestra, and has appeared as a conductor with the Mimesis Ensemble and on the New England Conservatory Composers’ Series. He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory and was a winner of the 2010 Yale School of Music Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition.

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