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OCTOBER 6, 2013
PARKER QUARTET
David Chong, violin
Karen Kim, violin
Jessica Bodner, viola
Kee-Hyun Kim, cello
Hailed by The New York Times as “something extraordinary,” the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has rapidly distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation. The quartet began its professional touring career in 2002 and garnered international acclaim in 2005, winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France. In 2009, Chamber Music America awarded the quartet the prestigious biennial Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2009-2011 seasons.
Successful early concert touring in Europe helped the quartet forge a relationship with Zig-Zag Territoires, which released their debut commercial recording of Bartók’s String Quartets Nos. 2 and 5 in July 2007. The disc received high praise by numerous critics, including Gramophone: “The Parkers’ Bartók spins the illusion of spontaneous improvisation… they have absorbed the language; they have the confidence to play freely with the music and the instinct to bring it off.” The quartet’s second recording, of György Ligeti’s String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 and Andante & Allegretto, was released on Naxos in December 2009 to critical acclaim. The Ligeti recording won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. The quartet’s next disc will be a selection of Haydn string quartets, produced by Grammy Award-winner Judith Sherman.
The Parker Quartet served as Quartet-in-Residence with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from 2008 through 2010 and were the first-ever Artists-in-Residence with Minnesota Public Radio for the 2009-2010 season. This year, they will be in residence at the University of Minnesota, working throughout the year with chamber music students. They will also be teaching instrumental lessons at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.
Program: Beethoven: String Quartet, op.18, #5; Prokofiev: String Quartet #1; Shostakovich String Quartet #9
website:
http://www.parkerquartet.com
Karen Kim, violin
Jessica Bodner, viola
Kee-Hyun Kim, cello
Hailed by The New York Times as “something extraordinary,” the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has rapidly distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation. The quartet began its professional touring career in 2002 and garnered international acclaim in 2005, winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition as well as the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition in France. In 2009, Chamber Music America awarded the quartet the prestigious biennial Cleveland Quartet Award for the 2009-2011 seasons.
Successful early concert touring in Europe helped the quartet forge a relationship with Zig-Zag Territoires, which released their debut commercial recording of Bartók’s String Quartets Nos. 2 and 5 in July 2007. The disc received high praise by numerous critics, including Gramophone: “The Parkers’ Bartók spins the illusion of spontaneous improvisation… they have absorbed the language; they have the confidence to play freely with the music and the instinct to bring it off.” The quartet’s second recording, of György Ligeti’s String Quartets Nos. 1 and 2 and Andante & Allegretto, was released on Naxos in December 2009 to critical acclaim. The Ligeti recording won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. The quartet’s next disc will be a selection of Haydn string quartets, produced by Grammy Award-winner Judith Sherman.
The Parker Quartet served as Quartet-in-Residence with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra from 2008 through 2010 and were the first-ever Artists-in-Residence with Minnesota Public Radio for the 2009-2010 season. This year, they will be in residence at the University of Minnesota, working throughout the year with chamber music students. They will also be teaching instrumental lessons at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN.
Program: Beethoven: String Quartet, op.18, #5; Prokofiev: String Quartet #1; Shostakovich String Quartet #9
website:
http://www.parkerquartet.com
November 17, 2013
Morgenstern Trio
Catherine Klipfel, Piano
Stefan Hempel, Violin
Emanuel Wehse, Cello
"A sigh went skating on nocturnal ice." It has long been known that the poetry of Christian Morgenstern is filled with music. However, it was not until the 90th anniversary of the poet's death before a chamber music ensemble decided to name themselves after him.
The three musicians of the Morgenstern Trio joined forces in 2005 at the Folkwang Academy in Essen. In 2007, after only two years of intensive collaboration, the trio was awarded several important prizes: first prize at the International Joseph Haydn Competition in Vienna, second prize at the Fifth Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and second prize and the audience prize at the prestigious ARD Competition in Munich. More recently, the trio was named "ensemble in residence" for 2008-09 at the Folkwang Academy in Essen. As a finale to 2009, the Morgenstern Trio was awarded the prestigious Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award, the big international award for piano trio. The prize includes more than 20 concerts in the U.S. including Carnegie Hall, New York, and a CD production.
Program: Haydn: Trio in f# minor, Hob. XV, 26; Mendelssohn: Trio no. 1 in d minor op. 49; Bloch: Three Nocturnes; Ravel: Trio in A.
website:
http://www.marianneschmockerartists.com/morgensterntrio.shtml
Stefan Hempel, Violin
Emanuel Wehse, Cello
"A sigh went skating on nocturnal ice." It has long been known that the poetry of Christian Morgenstern is filled with music. However, it was not until the 90th anniversary of the poet's death before a chamber music ensemble decided to name themselves after him.
The three musicians of the Morgenstern Trio joined forces in 2005 at the Folkwang Academy in Essen. In 2007, after only two years of intensive collaboration, the trio was awarded several important prizes: first prize at the International Joseph Haydn Competition in Vienna, second prize at the Fifth Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and second prize and the audience prize at the prestigious ARD Competition in Munich. More recently, the trio was named "ensemble in residence" for 2008-09 at the Folkwang Academy in Essen. As a finale to 2009, the Morgenstern Trio was awarded the prestigious Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award, the big international award for piano trio. The prize includes more than 20 concerts in the U.S. including Carnegie Hall, New York, and a CD production.
Program: Haydn: Trio in f# minor, Hob. XV, 26; Mendelssohn: Trio no. 1 in d minor op. 49; Bloch: Three Nocturnes; Ravel: Trio in A.
website:
http://www.marianneschmockerartists.com/morgensterntrio.shtml
January 26, 2014
EMILIO COLON, cello;
SARKIS BALTAIAN, piano
Acclaimed as a passionate and virtuosic performer, Emilio Colón is highly sought after as a solo cellist, chamber musician, conductor, composer and pedagogue. An extensive international career has taken him to Canada, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hungary, Japan, Korea, Malta, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.
As the second youngest faculty member to be appointed in the history of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Emilio Colón has since established himself as one of the leading pedagogues in the country, as well as a performer, chamber musician, and composer. He has offered courses at the Paris Conservatoire, the Geneva Conservatoire, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, and Toho Gakuen in Tokyo, Japan. He is also on faculty at Chamber Music Unbound at the Mammoth Lakes Music Festival in California and resident cellist for the Fundación Musical de Ponce “Serie de Grandes Interpretes” in Puerto Rico.
A native of Puerto Rico, Colón received a bachelor’s degree from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music in 1986, where he won the Pablo Casals Medal upon graduation. As a student and teaching assistant to the distinguished cellist and pedagogue, Janos Starker, Colón earned a master’s degree from the Indiana University. He won first prize at the Las Americas Festival Solo Competition, as well as the Indiana University’s Concerto Competition. Colón plays on a Vuillaume Cello from 1844 and a Dominique Peccatte bow. Colón’s arrangements, editions and original compositions are published by Masters Music Publications and H.P. Music Publications. His recordings are featured on the Enharmonic, Centaur, Zephyr, and Lyras labels. Colón currently records for Klavier as solo cellist, chamber musician, conductor, and composer under the label.www.Emiliocolon.com
Sarkis Baltaian has gained an international reputation as a concert pianist, chamber musician, r ecording artist and pedagogue. He made his Carnegie Hall Debut in 1999 and has performed extensively both as recitalist and concerto soloist with major orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. A native of Bulgaria, he is currently on the faculty of the Coburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. www.Baltaian.com
Program: Schumann: Adagio & Allegro, op.70; C. Franck: Sonata in A; de Falla/Colon: Siete Canciones Populares Españoles; Debussy: Sonata in d minor; Piazzolla: Grand Tango
As the second youngest faculty member to be appointed in the history of the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, Emilio Colón has since established himself as one of the leading pedagogues in the country, as well as a performer, chamber musician, and composer. He has offered courses at the Paris Conservatoire, the Geneva Conservatoire, the Franz Liszt Academy of Music, and Toho Gakuen in Tokyo, Japan. He is also on faculty at Chamber Music Unbound at the Mammoth Lakes Music Festival in California and resident cellist for the Fundación Musical de Ponce “Serie de Grandes Interpretes” in Puerto Rico.
A native of Puerto Rico, Colón received a bachelor’s degree from the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music in 1986, where he won the Pablo Casals Medal upon graduation. As a student and teaching assistant to the distinguished cellist and pedagogue, Janos Starker, Colón earned a master’s degree from the Indiana University. He won first prize at the Las Americas Festival Solo Competition, as well as the Indiana University’s Concerto Competition. Colón plays on a Vuillaume Cello from 1844 and a Dominique Peccatte bow. Colón’s arrangements, editions and original compositions are published by Masters Music Publications and H.P. Music Publications. His recordings are featured on the Enharmonic, Centaur, Zephyr, and Lyras labels. Colón currently records for Klavier as solo cellist, chamber musician, conductor, and composer under the label.www.Emiliocolon.com
Sarkis Baltaian has gained an international reputation as a concert pianist, chamber musician, r ecording artist and pedagogue. He made his Carnegie Hall Debut in 1999 and has performed extensively both as recitalist and concerto soloist with major orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. A native of Bulgaria, he is currently on the faculty of the Coburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. www.Baltaian.com
Program: Schumann: Adagio & Allegro, op.70; C. Franck: Sonata in A; de Falla/Colon: Siete Canciones Populares Españoles; Debussy: Sonata in d minor; Piazzolla: Grand Tango
FEBRUARY 23, 2014
ESCHER QUARTET
Adam Barnett-Hart, Violin
Aaron Boyd, Violin
Pierre Lapointe, Viola
Dane Johansen, Cello
Within months of its inception in 2005, the Escher String Quartet was invited by both Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman to be the quartet-in-residence at each artist's summer festival. The Eschers have since collaborated with artists such as Andrés Diaz, Lawrence Dutton, Kurt Elling, David Finckel, Leon Fleisher, Vadim Gluzman, Benjamin Grosvenor, Wu Han, Gary Hoffman, Joseph Kalichstein, David Shifrin, Joseph Silverstein, and Pinchas Zukerman. In August 2012 the Quartet gave their BBC Proms debut, performing Hugh Wood’s 4th String Quartet.
Championed by members of the Emerson String Quartet, the group were proud to be BBC New Generation Artists for 2010-2012. Having completed a three-year residency as artists of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “CMS Two” programme, the ensemble has already performed at prestigious venues and festivals around the world including Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y and Symphony Space in New York, Kennedy Center, the Louvre, Ravinia and Caramoor Festivals, Music@Menlo, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Wigmore Hall, the City of London Festival and a tour of China including Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou
In 2012-2013 the Quartet will complete their final BBC New Generation Artists recording project in London. They will continue their relationship with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, performing a series of concerts celebrating the 100th anniversary of Britten’s birth. 2012-2013 releases include the complete Zemlinsky Quartets on Naxos. The Escher String Quartet takes its name from Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher and his unique method of interplay between individual components working together to form a whole.
Program: Schumann: Quartet, a minor, op. 41 #1; Berg: Quartet, op. 3; Dvorak Quartet, C, op. 61
Watch - Escher records Zemlinsky for Naxos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy5Y23mVf_8
website:
www.escherquartet.com
Aaron Boyd, Violin
Pierre Lapointe, Viola
Dane Johansen, Cello
Within months of its inception in 2005, the Escher String Quartet was invited by both Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman to be the quartet-in-residence at each artist's summer festival. The Eschers have since collaborated with artists such as Andrés Diaz, Lawrence Dutton, Kurt Elling, David Finckel, Leon Fleisher, Vadim Gluzman, Benjamin Grosvenor, Wu Han, Gary Hoffman, Joseph Kalichstein, David Shifrin, Joseph Silverstein, and Pinchas Zukerman. In August 2012 the Quartet gave their BBC Proms debut, performing Hugh Wood’s 4th String Quartet.
Championed by members of the Emerson String Quartet, the group were proud to be BBC New Generation Artists for 2010-2012. Having completed a three-year residency as artists of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s “CMS Two” programme, the ensemble has already performed at prestigious venues and festivals around the world including Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y and Symphony Space in New York, Kennedy Center, the Louvre, Ravinia and Caramoor Festivals, Music@Menlo, West Cork Chamber Music Festival, Wigmore Hall, the City of London Festival and a tour of China including Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou
In 2012-2013 the Quartet will complete their final BBC New Generation Artists recording project in London. They will continue their relationship with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, performing a series of concerts celebrating the 100th anniversary of Britten’s birth. 2012-2013 releases include the complete Zemlinsky Quartets on Naxos. The Escher String Quartet takes its name from Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher and his unique method of interplay between individual components working together to form a whole.
Program: Schumann: Quartet, a minor, op. 41 #1; Berg: Quartet, op. 3; Dvorak Quartet, C, op. 61
Watch - Escher records Zemlinsky for Naxos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy5Y23mVf_8
website:
www.escherquartet.com
March 23, 2014
ZOFO DUET
Keisuke Nakagoshi &
Eva-Maria Zimmermann
duo pianists
Since joining forces as a professional ensemble in 2009, internationally acclaimed solo pianists Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi – ZOFO* - have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall to Osaka with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for piano four-hands.
One of a rare handful of professional ensembles worldwide focusing exclusively on piano duets, this prize-winning duo is rediscovering and energetically performing hidden gems of the traditional one piano-four-hands repertoire along with a strong dedication to 20th and 21st Century works. Zofo also performs heart-pumping arrangements of famous orchestral pieces, such as Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”.
Since its inception, ZOFO has made some remarkable achievements: Two Grammy Nominations for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance and Producer of the Year, Classical, for their first album Mind Meld; First Place 2010 Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition; Carnegie Hall concert debut in May 2010; Finalists at 2011 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, the only piano duo to be elevated to the final round.
Eva and Keisuke are blazing a bold new path for one-piano-four-hands ensembles by commissioning and performing new duet works each year, including their first major commissions from acclaimed composers Gabriela Lena Frank and Allen Shawn. Based in San Francisco, California, ZOFO is a fiscally sponsored Affiliate of The San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.
* The name, ZOFO, is an acronym for “20 Finger Orchestra,” with “ZO” representing the number 20, and FO “Finger Orchestra.”
Watch - Schoenfield: Boogie from “Five Days in the Life of a Manic-Depressive” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFXrwUY7EtU
Watch: Barber: Hesitation Tango http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28kY7AP1XI
website:
http://www.zofoduet.com
Eva-Maria Zimmermann
duo pianists
Since joining forces as a professional ensemble in 2009, internationally acclaimed solo pianists Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi – ZOFO* - have electrified audiences from Carnegie Hall to Osaka with their dazzling artistry and outside-the-box thematic programming for piano four-hands.
One of a rare handful of professional ensembles worldwide focusing exclusively on piano duets, this prize-winning duo is rediscovering and energetically performing hidden gems of the traditional one piano-four-hands repertoire along with a strong dedication to 20th and 21st Century works. Zofo also performs heart-pumping arrangements of famous orchestral pieces, such as Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”.
Since its inception, ZOFO has made some remarkable achievements: Two Grammy Nominations for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance and Producer of the Year, Classical, for their first album Mind Meld; First Place 2010 Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition; Carnegie Hall concert debut in May 2010; Finalists at 2011 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, the only piano duo to be elevated to the final round.
Eva and Keisuke are blazing a bold new path for one-piano-four-hands ensembles by commissioning and performing new duet works each year, including their first major commissions from acclaimed composers Gabriela Lena Frank and Allen Shawn. Based in San Francisco, California, ZOFO is a fiscally sponsored Affiliate of The San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.
* The name, ZOFO, is an acronym for “20 Finger Orchestra,” with “ZO” representing the number 20, and FO “Finger Orchestra.”
Watch - Schoenfield: Boogie from “Five Days in the Life of a Manic-Depressive” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFXrwUY7EtU
Watch: Barber: Hesitation Tango http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F28kY7AP1XI
website:
http://www.zofoduet.com
May 18, 2014
Young Artists Concert,
Marin Music Chest
Subscribers receive a free ticket to the Young Performers 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 grows ever increasingly impressive. This concert is an inspiring event for all who attend.
website:
http://www.marinmusicchest.org
website:
http://www.marinmusicchest.org
