Ettore Causa & Boris Berman, Feb 16

Ettore Causa viola

& Boris Berman piano

faculty artist series February 16, 2015 • Morse Recital Hall

Robert Blocker, Dean

Faculty Artist Series

Ettore Causa & Boris Berman Monday, February 16, 2015 • 7:30 pm • Morse Recital Hall

Ludwig van Beethoven 1770–1827

7 Variations on ‘Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen’, WoO 46 Transcribed by Ettore Causa

Johannes Brahms 1833–1897

Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 120, No. 2 I. Allegro amabile II. Allegro appassionato III. Andante con moto — Allegro intermission

Beethoven

Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 102 No. 1 Transcribed by Ettore Causa I. Andante — Allegro vivace II. Adagio — Tempo d’andante — Allegro vivace

Brahms

Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120, No. 1 I. Allegro appassionato II. Andante un poco adagio III. Allegretto grazioso IV. Vivace

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Artist Profiles

Ettore Causa · viola

Boris Berman · piano

Italian-born violist Ettore Causa was awarded both the Peter Schidlof Prize and the John Barbirolli Prize for the most beautiful sound at the prestigious Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition in England in 2000. He has since made solo and recital appearances in many of the major venues around the world. A devoted chamber musician, Mr. Causa was a member of the Aria Quartet 2004–2009 and currently plays in the Poseidon Quartet. He is frequently invited to prestigious chamber music festivals where he has performed with such internationally renowned musicians as the Tokyo, Artis, and Elias String Quartets, Pascal Rogé, Boris Berman, Thomas Adès, Ana Chumachenco, Natalie Clein, Alberto Lysy, Thomas Demenga, Anthony Marwood, Ulf Wallin, William Bennett, and others.

Boris Berman is well known to audiences in over fifty countries on six continents. He regularly appears with leading orchestras, on major recital series, and in important festivals. He studied at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Lev Oborin. A Grammy nominee, Mr. Berman was the first pianist to record the complete solo works of Prokofiev (Chandos). Other acclaimed releases include all the Scriabin piano sonatas (Music and Arts) and a recital of Shostakovich piano works (Ottavo), which received the Edison Classic Award (the Dutch equivalent of the Grammy). The recording of three Prokofiev concertos with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Neeme Järvi conducting (Chandos), was named Compact Disc of the Month by CD Review.

Other recordings include works by Mozart, Beethoven, Franck, Weber, Debussy, Stravinsky, Schnittke, Shostakovich, Joplin, and Cage. In 1984, Mr. Berman joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music, where he is professor of piano, coordinator of the piano area, and music director of the Horowitz Piano Series. He also conducts master classes throughout the world. He is an honorary professor of the Shanghai Conservatory and the Royal Danish Conservatory. In 2000, Yale University Press published Mr. Berman’s Notes from the Pianist’s Bench; the book has since been translated into several languages. In 2008, the same publisher released Mr. Berman’s Prokofiev’s Piano Sonatas: A Guide for the Listener and the Performer. In 2011, Shanghai Publishing House published a new bilingual edition of the scores of Prokofiev’s piano sonatas, revised and edited by Mr. Berman.

Based on manuscripts and first editions, this is the most authoritative edition of this repertoire available.

Mr. Causa taught both viola and chamber music at the International Menuhin Music Academy for many years. He was appointed as an associate professor at the Yale School of Music in September 2009. Among his recordings, both the Brahms Sonatas and the collection of Romantic pieces garnered overwhelming success and were highly praised by critics worldwide. Ettore plays on a viola made for him by Frédéric Chaudière in 2003.

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