Robert Blocker, Dean
ysm ensembles
Argus Quartet
April 20, 2017 • Thursday at 4:30 pm Sudler Recital Hall
YSM Ensembles
Argus Quartet jason issokson, violin • clara kim, violin dana kelley, viola • joann whang, cello
Franz Joseph Haydn 1732–1809
String Quartet in C major, Hob. III:72 I. Allegro II. Andantino III. Minuet. Allegro IV. Finale. Vivace
Garth Knox b. 1956
Satellites (2015) I. Geostationary II. Spectral Sunrise III. Dimensions intermission
Ted Hearne b. 1982
For David Lang (2014)
Leoš Janáček 1854–1928
String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters” I. Andante — Con moto — Allegro II. Adagio — Vivace III. Moderato — Andante — Adagio IV. Allegro — Andante — Adagio
Andrew Norman b. 1979
Peculiar Strokes (2010)
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Artist Profile
The Argus Quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 and is receiving invitations from concert series throughout the United States and abroad. Recent performances include appearances at Carnegie Hall, Laguna Beach Live!, the Hear Now Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, the Birdfoot Festival, and the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam. This season has included performances with the Brentano String Quartet and clarinetist David Shifrin at the Yale Summer School of Music/Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and appearances on the Oneppo Chamber Music Series at Yale and at Carnegie Hall. The Argus Quartet has been serving as the Ernst Stiefel Quartet-inResidence at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts during the 2016–17 season. Argus is dedicated to reinvigorating the audience-performer relationship through innovative concerts and diverse repertoire. Connecting with and building a community of engaged listeners is at the core of the quartet’s mission. The quartet also believes that today’s ensembles can honor the storied chamber music traditions of our past while forging a new path forward. In that spirit, their repertoire includes not just staples of the chamber music canon but also a large number of pieces by living composers. Through Chamber Music America and the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, the Argus Quartet has commissioned a number of new works including quartets by Donald Crockett, composer and Grammy Award nominee Eric Guinivan, and 2014 Hermitage Prize winner, Thomas Kotcheff. Argus served as the quartet-in-residence at New Music on the Point under the guidance of the JACK Quartet, and was also selected as one of three ensembles to
perform works from Kronos Quartet’s “Fifty for the Future” commissioning project at Carnegie Hall. The quartet is the Yale School of Music’s fellowship quartet-in-residence and is the first ensemble to be mentored by the Brentano String Quartet in that capacity. In addition to their teaching responsibilities at Yale, the members of the Argus Quartet have worked with students through residencies and master classes at James Madison University, Rockport Music, the Milken School, the Young Musicians Foundation, California State University Long Beach, and the Birdfoot Festival.
Upcoming Events Peter Oundjian, principal conductor
The Bear & Le pauvre matelot
Yale Philharmonia
Yale Opera
april 21
may 5 & 6
Principal conductor Peter Oundjian leads the Yale Philharmonia and soprano Jin-Xiang Yu, a winner of the 2016 Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition, in performances of works by Beethoven, Messiaen, and Adams Woolsey Hall | Friday | 7:30 pm Tickets start at $10 • Yale Faculty/Staff $8 Students $5 • $3 surcharge for purchases at the door
Doris Yarick Cross, artistic director Yale Opera presents a new double bill of Walton’s The Bear and Milhaud’s Le pauvre matelot (The Poor Sailor) with music direction by Doug Dickson and Timothy Shaindlin Morse Recital Hall Friday & Saturday | 7:30 pm Tickets start at $10 • Students $5
Lunchtime Chamber Music
Lunchtime Chamber Music
YSM Ensembles
YSM Ensembles
april 26
may 8
Wendy Sharp, director School of Music students perform a midday chamber music program Morse Recital Hall | Wednesday | 12:30 pm Free Admission
Wendy Sharp, director School of Music students perform a midday chamber music program Morse Recital Hall | Monday | 12:30 pm Free Admission
Yale Cellos
Competition Winners
YSM Ensembles
Oneppo Chamber Music Series
may 9
april 26
Aldo Parisot, director Students from YSM faculty guitarist Benjamin Verdery’s studio perform a program of chamber music Morse Recital Hall | Wednesday | 7:30 pm Tickets start at $10 • Students $5
Featuring winners of YSM’s annual student chamber music competition Morse Recital Hall | Tuesday | 7:30 pm Tickets start at $10 • Students $6
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