2017-2018 Concert Season
Our 45th Year!
All concerts are on Sunday evenings, starting at 5pm, and are located in the beautiful Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church.
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You may know that about half our budget comes from donations from our generous subscribers. We hope that some of you may consider sponsoring a concert. For a donation of $2500 or more, you may select any ensemble we are presenting in the current or next season as your choice to sponsor. We will prominently list you in the program of that ensemble as the sponsor of this program, in recognition of your support of classical chamber music in our community, with our gratitude. We are a non-profit 501c3 organization, and all donations are tax-deductible. Please call William Horne, President, at 415-388-3884 to discuss.
October 8th, 2017
Miró Quartet
Daniel Ching, Violin
William Fedkenheuer, Violin
John Largess, Viola
Joshua Gindele, Cello
Formed in 1995, the Miró Quartet is consistently praised for their deeply musical interpretations, exciting performances and thoughtful programming. Each season, they perform throughout the world on the most important chamber music series and on the most prestigious concert stages, garnering accolades from critics & audiences alike. Based in Austin, TX, the Miró Quartet took its name from the Spanish artist, Joan Miró, whose surrealist works — with subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy — are some of the most original of the 20th century.
Concert highlights of recent seasons include a highly anticipated and sold out return to Carnegie Hall to perform Beethoven’s complete Opus 59 Quartets; collaborations with award-winning actor Stephen Dillane as part of Lincoln Center’s White Lights Festival; Miró Quartet took first prizes at several national and international competitions including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. In 2005, the Miró Quartet became the first ensemble ever to be awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Program:
Haydn: Op. 71 #3; Dvorak: Cypresses (selections); Beethoven: Op. 131
William Fedkenheuer, Violin
John Largess, Viola
Joshua Gindele, Cello
Formed in 1995, the Miró Quartet is consistently praised for their deeply musical interpretations, exciting performances and thoughtful programming. Each season, they perform throughout the world on the most important chamber music series and on the most prestigious concert stages, garnering accolades from critics & audiences alike. Based in Austin, TX, the Miró Quartet took its name from the Spanish artist, Joan Miró, whose surrealist works — with subject matter drawn from the realm of memory and imaginative fantasy — are some of the most original of the 20th century.
Concert highlights of recent seasons include a highly anticipated and sold out return to Carnegie Hall to perform Beethoven’s complete Opus 59 Quartets; collaborations with award-winning actor Stephen Dillane as part of Lincoln Center’s White Lights Festival; Miró Quartet took first prizes at several national and international competitions including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg Chamber Music Competition. In 2005, the Miró Quartet became the first ensemble ever to be awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant.
Program:
Haydn: Op. 71 #3; Dvorak: Cypresses (selections); Beethoven: Op. 131
November 5th, 2017
Telegraph Quartet
Eric Chin, Violin
Joseph Maile, Violin
Pei-Ling Lin, Viola
Jeremiah Shaw, Cello
The Telegraph Quartet recently won the 2016 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition, a prize that helped launch the careers of groups including the Pacifica, Brentano and Emerson string quartets and the Eroica Trio. The prize carries with it a performance at Carnegie Hall / Weill Recital Hall and a commissioned work by esteemed American composer Robert Sirota.
The quartet also won the prestigious Grand Prize in the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition after playing together for less than a year. They were the only American quartet of the fifteen from around the world invited to showcase at the 2016 Paris Biennale de quatuors à cordes (Biennial String Quartet Festival and Symposium).
The Telegraph Quartet was formed in 2013 with a passionate commitment to the standard repertoire as well as contemporary and new music. Recent appearances include a New York début in Carnegie Hall / Weill Recital Hall, a European début in the Emilia Romagna Music Festival (Italy), Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Chautauqua Music Festival, Capistrano Chamber Music Festival, Chicago Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Yellow Springs, and Great Lakes Music Festival. They have given three concerts on the San Francisco Conservatory’s Chamber Music Masters Series, and a tour of the Midwest sponsored by the Fischoff Foundation. They have participated in Robert Mann’s Quartet Seminar at the Manhattan School of Music and the St. Lawrence Quartet's workshop at Stanford University. Their début CD of Webern, Britten and Kirchner will be released in 2017.
Program:
Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade; Beethoven: Op. 18 #5; Schoenberg: Quartet #1, Op. 7
Joseph Maile, Violin
Pei-Ling Lin, Viola
Jeremiah Shaw, Cello
The Telegraph Quartet recently won the 2016 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition, a prize that helped launch the careers of groups including the Pacifica, Brentano and Emerson string quartets and the Eroica Trio. The prize carries with it a performance at Carnegie Hall / Weill Recital Hall and a commissioned work by esteemed American composer Robert Sirota.
The quartet also won the prestigious Grand Prize in the 2014 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition after playing together for less than a year. They were the only American quartet of the fifteen from around the world invited to showcase at the 2016 Paris Biennale de quatuors à cordes (Biennial String Quartet Festival and Symposium).
The Telegraph Quartet was formed in 2013 with a passionate commitment to the standard repertoire as well as contemporary and new music. Recent appearances include a New York début in Carnegie Hall / Weill Recital Hall, a European début in the Emilia Romagna Music Festival (Italy), Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, Chautauqua Music Festival, Capistrano Chamber Music Festival, Chicago Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Yellow Springs, and Great Lakes Music Festival. They have given three concerts on the San Francisco Conservatory’s Chamber Music Masters Series, and a tour of the Midwest sponsored by the Fischoff Foundation. They have participated in Robert Mann’s Quartet Seminar at the Manhattan School of Music and the St. Lawrence Quartet's workshop at Stanford University. Their début CD of Webern, Britten and Kirchner will be released in 2017.
Program:
Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade; Beethoven: Op. 18 #5; Schoenberg: Quartet #1, Op. 7
January 14th, 2018
Claremont Trio
Emily Bruskin, violin
Julia Bruskin, cello
Andrea Lam, piano
Lauded as “one of America’s finest young chamber groups” Strad Magazine, the Claremont Trio is sought after for its thrillingly virtuosic and richly communicative performances. First winners of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and the only piano trio ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Claremonts are consistently lauded for their "aesthetic maturity, interpretive depth, and exuberance" (Palm Beach Daily News).
During the 2015-16 season, the Claremont Trio performed at the Smithsonian Museum (DC), Texas State University (TX), Colgate University (NY), Chicago's Norton Concert Series (IL), the Chamber Music Society of Utica (NY), the JCC of Greater Washington (MD), Music Mondays (NY), the Skaneateles Festival (NY), and the Old Ship Church in Hingham (MA). They returned to Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to present a four-concert series featuring Brahms' Piano Trios alongside new works by Judd Greenstein, Robert Paterson, Donald Crockett and Lembit Beecher. In addition, the Trio will record a newly commissioned trio written for them by Robert Paterson and will be visiting artists-in-residence at Columbia University.
Bridge Records released the Claremont Trio’s newest recording of the Beethoven “Triple” Concerto with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and Beethoven’s Trio Op. 1 No. 1 this winter to critical acclaim. Their discography also includes trios by Ravel, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, Arensky, Leon Kirchner, Ellen Zwilich, Paul Schoenfield, Mason Bates, and a collaborative disc with clarinetist Jonathan Cohler which received a Critic’s CHOICE award from BBC Magazine.
Program:
Gabriella Lena Frank: Piano Trio; Smetana: Trio Op. 15; Beethoven: Trio Op. 97 “Archduke”
Julia Bruskin, cello
Andrea Lam, piano
Lauded as “one of America’s finest young chamber groups” Strad Magazine, the Claremont Trio is sought after for its thrillingly virtuosic and richly communicative performances. First winners of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and the only piano trio ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Claremonts are consistently lauded for their "aesthetic maturity, interpretive depth, and exuberance" (Palm Beach Daily News).
During the 2015-16 season, the Claremont Trio performed at the Smithsonian Museum (DC), Texas State University (TX), Colgate University (NY), Chicago's Norton Concert Series (IL), the Chamber Music Society of Utica (NY), the JCC of Greater Washington (MD), Music Mondays (NY), the Skaneateles Festival (NY), and the Old Ship Church in Hingham (MA). They returned to Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to present a four-concert series featuring Brahms' Piano Trios alongside new works by Judd Greenstein, Robert Paterson, Donald Crockett and Lembit Beecher. In addition, the Trio will record a newly commissioned trio written for them by Robert Paterson and will be visiting artists-in-residence at Columbia University.
Bridge Records released the Claremont Trio’s newest recording of the Beethoven “Triple” Concerto with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and Beethoven’s Trio Op. 1 No. 1 this winter to critical acclaim. Their discography also includes trios by Ravel, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, Arensky, Leon Kirchner, Ellen Zwilich, Paul Schoenfield, Mason Bates, and a collaborative disc with clarinetist Jonathan Cohler which received a Critic’s CHOICE award from BBC Magazine.
Program:
Gabriella Lena Frank: Piano Trio; Smetana: Trio Op. 15; Beethoven: Trio Op. 97 “Archduke”
February 18th, 2018
Bomsori Kim, Violin
Drew Petersen, Piano
Bomsori Kim
The winner of the 62nd ARD International Music Competition in Munich, Bomsori Kim’s most recent accolades include prizes at the 15th Tchaikovsky International Competition (fifth prize) and the Queen Elisabeth Competition (laureate). She made her international debut at the Fourth Sendai International Music Competition in 2010, where she became the youngest prizewinner and also received the audience prize. In that same year, she was the laureate in the Tenth International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. She won the first prize in the Third China International Violin Competition 2011 in Qingdao, as well as three special prizes. In 2012, she won fifth prize in the Eighth Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover. In 2013, she won the top prize as well as two special prizes in the prestigious 62nd ARD International Music Competition in Munich. In 2016, Bomsori Kim not only won the 2nd prize at the 2016 Montreal International Musical Competition, but also has been offered the $5,000 People's Choice Award by Radio-Canada. And recently, the 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition named her as the second winner.
Ms. Kim has performed as a soloist in such illustrious venues as the Musikverein Golden Hall in Vienna, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Slovak Radio Concert Hall in Bratislava, Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall, and the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall. She has worked with many conductors, including Andrey Boreyko, Marin Alsop, Hannu Lintu, Xincao Li, Sakari Oramo, John Storgards, Yuri Simonov, Valentin Uryupin, Pascal Verrot, Heonjeong Lim, Nanse Gum, Giancarlo Guerrero, Ja-Kyung Year, and Christopher James Lee.
Drew Petersen Bio
Drew Petersen (born 12/4/1993) is the winner of the 2017 American Pianists Awards. A prizewinner in the Leeds International Piano Competition, Drew has performed solo and concerto recitals in both Europe and the United States. He has been a top prizewinner in the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, and the New York Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. He has participated in master classes with Lang Lang, Emanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Menahem Pressler, Stephen Kovacevich, Ferenc Rados, and André Michel Schub.
Most recently, he is the 2016 winner of the Sanders-Juilliard-Tel Aviv Museum prize, which included an engagement at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel. As the First Prize winner of the Friday Woodmere Young Artists Competition, he was featured multiple times on the McGraw-Hill “Young Artists Showcase,” hosted by Robert Sherman and aired on New York’s WQXR.
Drew graduated cum laude from Harvard with bachelor of liberal arts in social science and did his undergraduate music studies at the Juilliard School with Jerome Lowenthal. He is currently pursuing his Master’s of Music at Juilliard with Robert McDonald as a recipient of the prestigious Kovner Fellowship.
Program:
Beethoven: Sonata #8; Schumann: Sonata #1; Ravel: Sonata #2; Wieniawski: Polonaise; Ysaӱe: Caprice
The winner of the 62nd ARD International Music Competition in Munich, Bomsori Kim’s most recent accolades include prizes at the 15th Tchaikovsky International Competition (fifth prize) and the Queen Elisabeth Competition (laureate). She made her international debut at the Fourth Sendai International Music Competition in 2010, where she became the youngest prizewinner and also received the audience prize. In that same year, she was the laureate in the Tenth International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition. She won the first prize in the Third China International Violin Competition 2011 in Qingdao, as well as three special prizes. In 2012, she won fifth prize in the Eighth Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover. In 2013, she won the top prize as well as two special prizes in the prestigious 62nd ARD International Music Competition in Munich. In 2016, Bomsori Kim not only won the 2nd prize at the 2016 Montreal International Musical Competition, but also has been offered the $5,000 People's Choice Award by Radio-Canada. And recently, the 15th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition named her as the second winner.
Ms. Kim has performed as a soloist in such illustrious venues as the Musikverein Golden Hall in Vienna, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Slovak Radio Concert Hall in Bratislava, Finlandia Hall in Helsinki, the Herkulessaal and the Prinzregententheater in Munich, the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall, and the Seoul Arts Center Concert Hall. She has worked with many conductors, including Andrey Boreyko, Marin Alsop, Hannu Lintu, Xincao Li, Sakari Oramo, John Storgards, Yuri Simonov, Valentin Uryupin, Pascal Verrot, Heonjeong Lim, Nanse Gum, Giancarlo Guerrero, Ja-Kyung Year, and Christopher James Lee.
Drew Petersen Bio
Drew Petersen (born 12/4/1993) is the winner of the 2017 American Pianists Awards. A prizewinner in the Leeds International Piano Competition, Drew has performed solo and concerto recitals in both Europe and the United States. He has been a top prizewinner in the Hilton Head International Piano Competition, Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, and the New York Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. He has participated in master classes with Lang Lang, Emanuel Ax, Claude Frank, Menahem Pressler, Stephen Kovacevich, Ferenc Rados, and André Michel Schub.
Most recently, he is the 2016 winner of the Sanders-Juilliard-Tel Aviv Museum prize, which included an engagement at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Israel. As the First Prize winner of the Friday Woodmere Young Artists Competition, he was featured multiple times on the McGraw-Hill “Young Artists Showcase,” hosted by Robert Sherman and aired on New York’s WQXR.
Drew graduated cum laude from Harvard with bachelor of liberal arts in social science and did his undergraduate music studies at the Juilliard School with Jerome Lowenthal. He is currently pursuing his Master’s of Music at Juilliard with Robert McDonald as a recipient of the prestigious Kovner Fellowship.
Program:
Beethoven: Sonata #8; Schumann: Sonata #1; Ravel: Sonata #2; Wieniawski: Polonaise; Ysaӱe: Caprice
March 18th, 2018
ZOFO Duet
Eva-Maria Zimmermann, piano
Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano
Since joining forces as a professional duo in 2009, internationally acclaimed solo pianists Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi – ZOFO - have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall to Tokyo, Japan with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for piano-four-hands. This GRAMMY- nominated, prize-winning Steinway Artist Ensemble – one of only a handful of duos worldwide devoted exclusively to piano duets – is blazing a bold new path for piano-four-hands groups by focusing on 20th and 21st century repertoire and by commissioning new works from noted composers each year.
ZOFO, which is shorthand for 20-finger orchestra (ZO=20 and FO=finger orchestra), also performs heart-pumping duet arrangements of famous orchestral pieces such as Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, exploring the realms in which many composers first experienced their symphonic visions. They believe that the piano duet is the most intimate form of chamber music, with two musicians playing individual parts on one instrument in a complex, often beautiful choreography of four hands.
Program:
To Be Announced
Keisuke Nakagoshi, piano
Since joining forces as a professional duo in 2009, internationally acclaimed solo pianists Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi – ZOFO - have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall to Tokyo, Japan with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for piano-four-hands. This GRAMMY- nominated, prize-winning Steinway Artist Ensemble – one of only a handful of duos worldwide devoted exclusively to piano duets – is blazing a bold new path for piano-four-hands groups by focusing on 20th and 21st century repertoire and by commissioning new works from noted composers each year.
ZOFO, which is shorthand for 20-finger orchestra (ZO=20 and FO=finger orchestra), also performs heart-pumping duet arrangements of famous orchestral pieces such as Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, exploring the realms in which many composers first experienced their symphonic visions. They believe that the piano duet is the most intimate form of chamber music, with two musicians playing individual parts on one instrument in a complex, often beautiful choreography of four hands.
Program:
To Be Announced
May 20th, 2018
Marin Music Chest
Young Artists’ Concert
Subscribers receive a free ticket to the Young Artists’ Concert of the Marin Music Chest with their subscription. The Mill Valley Chamber Music Society supports the goals of the Marin Music Chest and hopes that subscribers will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to hear talented young musicians. Each year the quality of the winners is very impressive making this concert an inspiring event for all who attend. We encourage you to bring your friends and family — the concert is free to all comers.
"A Musical Chamber"
Written by Tina Kun and Abby Wasserman
Published in "The Mill Valley Historical Society 2015 Review." Click on the cover image below to read the full story.
