The Yale School of Music Robert Blocker, Acting Dean presents The Chamber Music Society at Yale

Chamber Music Competition Winners

tuesday, may 1, 2007 morse recital hall in sprague hall the chamber music society at yale Chamber Music Competition Winners Tuesday, May 1, 2007 at 8:00 p.m. Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

Trio in E-flat major,k . 498, “Kegelstatt” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Andante (1756-1791) Menuetto Rondo Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet Margot Schwartz, violin Wei-Jen Yuan, piano

Triskelion Bruce Adolphe Allegro (b. 1955) Andante (with a ghostly quality) Allegro Joel Brennan and Olivia Malin, trumpet Jocelyn Crawford, horn Joshua Cullum, trombone Stephanie Fairbairn, tuba

intermission

Quartet in D minor, d. 810, “Death and the Maiden” Franz Schubert Allegro (1797-1828) Andante con moto Scherzo: Allegro molto − Trio Presto The Alianza Quartet Sarita Kwok and Lauren Basney, violin Ah-Young Sung, viola Dmitri Atapine, cello

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Program Notes Mozart: Trio in E-flat,k . 498, “Kegelstatt” The strange subtitle (Kegelstatt or “Skittles”) alone gives this work a unique place in Mozart’s vast chamber music output. Add to that its unusual combination of instru- ments and you have a very original composition indeed. The story behind the work’s origins is that Mozart wrote this in 1786 while playing skittles (an old game similar to bowling) with his friend, the clarinetist Anton Stadler. As for the instrumental choices, it was probably intended for Mozart’s favorite piano student at the time, Franziska von Jacquin, with Stadler on clarinet and Mozart playing viola (his preferred instrument for chamber music). Though the trio is small in scope when compared with other Mozart chamber works from the same period, it has a warm intimacy and showcases particularly tender writing for the clarinet and viola, two instruments Mozart was especially fond of. The opening movement, marked Andante, always raises questions about tempo and character. The three-movement trio has no slow movement (Andante is a very moderate marking), and the first is cast in Sonata Allegro form. Ultimately it is the performer’s decision as to how ‘fast’ or ‘slow’ the movement’s tempo marking is - and interpretations have been widely varied. The opening motto, stated by all three instru- ments, can be heard throughout the movement as a ‘tag’. The second theme is five notes of the motto theme, transformed rhythmically. After a short development comes the recapitulation and coda. The middle movement is marked Menuetto, but it is a long and serious movement, much more intense than a typical 18th century minuet. It features a strong bass line and extreme dynamic contrasts. In the trio, a conflict between clarinet, which plays a short legato phrase, and viola, which responds overeagerly with gruff triplets, arises. These gestures continue to bicker and are never really resolved; only the return of the Minuet causes the conflict to subside. The Rondo third movement features a delightfully singing melody. It follows a form of A-B-A-C-A-D-A with each A being a repetition of the principal theme and the other being contrasting interludes. The C interlude, featuring an impassioned cry from the viola, is especially effective. After this episode, the music returns to a positive and upbeat flow until the movement’s happy conclusion. Adolphe: Triskelion This Quintet originated from a commission by the Music Library Association for the American Brass Quintet, who premiered Triskelion on February 15, 1991. The title hints at the work’s form: according to the American Heritage Dictionary, triskelion is “a figure consisting of three curved lines or branches, or three stylized human arms or legs, radiating from a common center.” Adolphe himself said, “The fast-paced outer movements draw power from the more contained, almost still, central movement.” The musical vernacular is quite accessible, with tonal intervals, jazzy influences, and an attractive slow movement contributing to this work’s popularity in the brass quintet repertoire. Notes by Jacob Adams chamber music society at yale

Schubert: Quartet in D minor, d. 801, “Death and the Maiden” “I feel myself the most unfortunate, the most miserable being in the world. Think of a man whose health will never be tight again, and who from despair over that fact makes it worse instead of better; think of a man, I say, whose splendid hopes have come to naught, to whom the happiness of love and friendship offer nothing but acutest pain, whose enthusiasm (at least, the inspiring kind) for the beautiful threatens to disappear; and ask yourself whether he isn’t a miserable, unfortunate fellow!” So wrote Schubert to his dear friend Leopold Kupelweiser during the unhappy spring of 1824. During the previous year, the young composer had been diagnosed with a case of syphilis, an illness which at that time was a mortal one. Schubert was stunned into a compositional silence for a long period, and when he returned to music in late 1823, his music took on a more somber tone. It is to this turbulent time, March of 1824, that the “Death and the Maiden” Quartet dates. The Quartet, written in the key of D minor, derives its subtitle from its second movement, a series of variations on Schubert’s own song “Der Tod und das Madchen.” (This kind of artistic self-cannibalism − to borrow Harris Goldsmith’s phrase − was not unusual for Schubert: consider the “Trout” Quintet, the “Wanderer” Fantasy for piano, or the “Trockne Blumen” Variations for flute.) It is debatable whether the song’s text, in which the character of Death comes as a figure of soothing peace to a fevered young girl, can be read programatically into the music of the rest of the work. There is much grace, charm, and even vivacity throughout the piece, and rarely do we encounter music of such exalted nobility as Schubert gives us in the D minor quartet. The opening Allegro is propelled forward by triplet rhythms that figure prominently in both melody and accompaniment, giving unity and motoric energy to its two con- trasting themes. The “Death and the Maiden” theme serves as the basis for the somber, poignant second movement‚s variations. Painted in simple, vertical strokes, the theme allows Schubert to add complexity or explore new emotional content in the ensuing variations. Five in number, the variations build up to a truly awe-inspiring climax. The gloomy, pensive coda shifrs to the major mode only in its last moments, giving us at last a sense of consolatory transfiguration. The fierce, slashing grimness of the Allegro molto scherzo is alleviated by a warm, tranquil trio − only to return again in a literal repeat. The whirlwind finale takes its rhythm from the tarantella, an antique Italian dance which was said to counteract the effect of the tarantula‚s bite. Fighting frantically till the very end, Schubert spins us forward to a breathless conclusion.

Performer Biographies Born in Montreal, clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois is currently in the Artist Diploma Program at Yale School of Music, where she recently won first prize in the Woolsey Hall Competition and obtained the Nyfenger Memorial Prize for excellence in woodwind playing. Having completed a Bachelor of Music at McGill University in Montreal, studying with Michael Dumouchel, she holds a Master of Music from Yale School of Music under David Shifrin. Ms. de Guise-Langlois won first place at the Ca- 2 0 0 6- 2 0 0 7 s e a s o n nadian Music Competition and received the Orford Arts Center Prize at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra Competition in 2002. In 2003, she was the first prize winner of the McGill University Classical Concerto Competition and received the Canadian Broadcasting Company award. She is pursuing her studies at Yale on grants from the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2006, Ms. de Guise-Langlois recorded a recital program for Radio-Canada, les Jeunes Artistes d’Espace Musique and gave recitals and master classes in China. Romie has participated in many summer festivals, studying with Andre Moisan, Karl Leister, James Cambell, Robert Riseling, Fan Lei, Charles Niedich and Fanklin Cohen. She has appeared at the Banff Festival of Music, the Orford Arts Centre and Marlboro Music Festival. Ms. de Guise-Langlois will also be part of The Academy—A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute starting this September. Margot Schwartz has appeared as soloist with the Berkeley Symphony, Oakland EastBay Symphony, Northwestern University Chamber and Music Academy of the West Festival Orchestras. She was a prizewinner in the Midland-Odessa Symphony and Woolsey Hall Concerto Competitions, and a finalist in the Kingsville International Competition. Additionally, she was the recipient of the Pierre Mayer Award from the Tanglewood Music Center. Margot has studied chamber music with David Shifrin, Wil- liam Purvis, Claude Frank, Joseph Silverstein, members of the Pacifica, Juilliard, Tokyo, Brentano, Vermeer, and Concord String Quartets, and has performed at Bargemusic and the Kennedy Center. As an orchestral musician, Margot has been concertmaster of the Yale Philharmonia, Tanglewood Music Center, Oberlin Chamber and Music Academy of the West Festival Orchestras. She has performed in over twenty countries and worked with conductors Daniel Barenboim, Kurt Masur, Bernard Haitink, James Levine, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos, Herbert Bloomstedt, Sir Neville Marriner, David Robertson, and Lorin Maazel. Margot is finishing her final year as a graduate violin student of Ani Ka- vafian at the Yale School of Music, having previously studied with Roland and Almita Vamos at the Northwestern University School of Music, where she graduated cum laude and was inducted into the music honor society Pi Kappa Lambda. As a cultural youth ambassador for the Taiwan Arts Program, Wei-Jen Yuan has performed solo and orchestral concerts in Taipei’s National Music Hall, Recital Hall and in the Xing Ju, Taichung, and Tainan cultural centers. In 2003, he placed fifth in the First Taiwan International Piano Competition and performed with the Taiwan National Symphony in the National Music Hall at the Chiang-Kai Memorial in Taipei, with repeated engagements in the National Music Hall in subsequent years. In 2001, he won the Haddonfield Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto with the Haddonfield Symphony. In addition, he has appeared with the Hudson Philharmonic, Schenectady Symphony, Utica Symphony Orchestra, and Catskill Symphony on numerous occasions. Most recently, after winning the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Concerto Competition, he performed the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra at Harvard’s Sanders Theater in October of 2005. Wei-Jen graduated from Harvard University in 2006, obtaining an honors degree in economics. At Harvard, he studied with noted Mozart and fortepiano scholar Robert Levin. Currently, Wei-Jen is pursuing a M.M. degree in piano performance at Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Peter Frankl. Currently pursing a Master of Musical Arts at the Yale School of Music, Joel Brennan chamber music society at yale studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music under Roy Poper and Jack Sutte before coming to Yale to study with Allan Dean. His work at Yale has focused on the music of Hans Werner Henze, culminating in the US premier of Henze’s “Drei geistliche Konzerte” and a thesis on his “Requiem: Neun geistliche Konzerte.” Joel equally enjoys symphonic, chamber and solo settings, having performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, appeared on the Cleveland Museum of Art’s “Aki Festival of New Music,” and featured as a soloist on the “Inside Music” series in Aspen, Col. Increasingly concerned with promoting new works, Joel will be moving to Holland in 2007 on a Fulbright grant to perform new works by Dutch and American composers. Currently finishing her Master of Music degree at Yale,Olivia Malin holds degrees from North Carolina School of the Arts and Illinois Wesleyan University. Her teachers include Allan Dean, Mark Niehaus, Larry Black, and Judy Saxton, as well as Kevin Cobb and Ryan Anthony. In North Carolina, she performed frequently with the Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and Charleston Symphony Orchestras, as with the two top brass quin- tets in the area. While at Yale, she earned the Robert Blocker award for academics and is an active freelancer in the area, performing salsa and jazz as well as classical styles. She also teaches music regularly at Wilbur Cross High School and Lincoln-Bassett Elementary School in New Haven, through Yale’s Class of ‘57 Outreach Program. Jocelyn Crawford is a first-year Master of Music candidate at the Yale School of Music where she studies with Prof. William Purvis. Prior to Yale, she attended the East- man School of Music where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance and Music Education. Jocelyn has performed with a wide array of ensembles including the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the King’s Brass, and the rock band Phish. Cur- rently, she is a member of the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and the Ars Ventus chamber ensemble. During the summer, Jocelyn has attended the Sarasota Music Festival, the Eastern Music Festival, and the Domaine Forget Academy. When she’s not busy per- forming and teaching, Jocelyn enjoys spending time with her family in Vermont. Joshua Cullum, trombone, is a first year master of music student at the Yale School of Music. A resident of Missouri, Joshua currently studies with Scott Hartman and will graduate in May, 2008 with a master of music degree. Prior to his studies at Yale, Joshua studied with Mark Kellogg and Dr. John Marcellus at the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, NY, receiving performer’s certificates and bachelor of music degrees in both trombone and euphonium performance. Joshua has performed with many different ensembles at the Yale School of Music and the Eastman School of Music including participation in the recent concert with Yale Philharmonia at Symphony Hall in Boston and the Asia Tour (2004) and Carnegie Hall concert (2005) with the Eastman Wind Ensemble. In addition to his performances in a brass quintet, Joshua has substituted with local orchestras in Connecticut and upstate New York, including the Rochester Philharmonic. This summer, Joshua will be working on music staff at Camp of the Woods for the fourth summer in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Stephanie Fairbairn is a first year student in the Master’s program at Yale, where she is a student of Toby Hanks. She is originally from Virginia, and she completed her undergraduate degree in performance at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. In the past she has performed as a soloist with the VCU Symphonic Wind Ensemble and at the Northeast Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference, and in ensembles at the Army Band Tuba Euphonium Conference, the Virginia Music Educators Associa- 2 0 0 6- 2 0 0 7 s e a s o n tion Conference, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall and with the Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific. She was active as a private teacher for middle and high school brass students in the Richmond area, and is now an intern in the New Haven public school system. Recent grand-prize winners of the 2007 Plowman National Chamber Music com- petition, the Alianza String Quartet was officially formed at Yale University School of Music in 2004, but has played together in various capacities for over three years. Comprised of members from USA, Australia, Korea and Russia/Spain, the ensemble is currently in residence as post-graduate associates of the Yale School of Music. They are coached and mentored here by the Tokyo String Quartet. This past summer the quartet made their debut at the Aldeburgh Festival, UK, the French Academy in Rome (Villa Medici) and the Aix-en-Provence Festival, France. While at these festivals the quartet were given the opportunity to work closely with composers Michael Jarrell and Jerome Combier, pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard and members of the Berlin Philharmonic and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. The quartet also has extensive performance experience on the US East Coast with performances at Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium 92nd St. Y in NYC, Juilliard’s Paul Recital Hall, and Yale University’s Sprague Memorial Hall and British Art Center. The Alianza String Quartet has worked intensively with the Juilliard String Quartet at the JSQ Seminar May 2005 and 2006. They have won the Yale School of Music Chamber Music Competition, been semi-finalists at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition 2006, Young Concert Artists 2005 and Concert Artist Guild 2006 competitions and finalists at the Coleman National Chamber Music 2006 competition. The quartet also has a keen interest in contemporary music, pre- miering works by Combier and Jarrell in Europe this past summer. They have enjoyed working with composers-in-residence at Yale such as Ezra Laderman and Martin Bresnick, performing the quartets of both composers on New Music series concerts at Yale. Upcoming engagements include a recording of Laderman’s string quartets for Albany Records, appearances at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and a residency at Pacific Music Festival, Japan. Australian violinist Sarita Kwok has performed as soloist with the Sydney, Mel- bourne, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestras, in the country’s major concert halls and on national television and radio. Awards she has won in Australia include the country’s most prestigious musical award: ‘The Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year 1998’, and the James Fairfax Sydney Symphony Orchestra Young Artist 1996 and the Big Brother and Nelly Apt scholarships, which allowed her to further her violin studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London, Rubin Academy, Tel Aviv. Internationally, she has been a prizewinner of the Kloster Schontal International Violin Competition, Ger- many 1997, Gisborne International Music Competition, New Zealand 1998, and the 7th Wieniawski and Lipinski International Competition for Young Violinist, Poland 2000. Ms Kwok has performed in masterclasses and privately for artists such as Lord Yehudi Menuhin, Pinchas Zukerman, Lydia Mordkovitch, Donald Weilerstein. As a chamber musician she has worked with the Tokyo, Juilliard, Guarneri and Borromeo string quartets, Meadowmount and Nobilis Trios. Ms. Kwok graduated with a B.A. (Literature) from the University of Sydney 2001, M.M from Michigan State University 2002, Masters of Musical Arts 2005 and Artist Diploma 2006 from Yale School of Music where she studied with Prof. Syoko Aki. She was recently appointed faculty at Yale University chamber music society at yale

Department of Music where she directs the musicianship program. Violinist Lauren Basney made her New York debut at Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall in January 2001. Since then, she has performed throughout the United States, Canada and Western Europe, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician, returning to Carnegie in February 2004 to give a joint concert as a member of the Latett Duo. Also in New York, Ms. Basney has performed at such venues as Alice Tully Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Art, the American Irish Society, Grace Church, and at the Juilliard Theatre, as a part of the Juilliard FOCUS Festival. Ms. Basney is the winner of the Zerounian Competition and the Madura String Award and the recipient of the Oundjian Scholarship (Juilliard), as well as having been selected as a Yamaha Young Performing Artist. She attended the Juilliard School as a full-scholarship student, receiving her BM in 2001, and continued her musical education at Yale Univer- sity, studying with Syoko Aki, where she received her MM (2005) and Artist Diploma (2006). As a chamber musician, Ms. Basney has had the opportunity to work with such artists as Glenn Dicterow, Boris Berman, Earl Carlyss, Jerome Lowenthal, Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, and the Shanghai, Juilliard, Tokyo, Daedalus, and Guarneri Quartets. Violist Ah-Young Sung, made her professional debut in England in 1996, perform- ing solo recitals throughout the Birmingham area. She received her Bachelor’s Degree from the Royal Academy of Music in London with Rose Roitman Award and Josephine Fuller Award in 2002, which were awarded to the most talented violist. She attained her Master’s from Yale University in 2004 and her Artist’s Diploma in the following year along with Georgina Lucy Grosvenor Memorial Prize, which was given to the violist whose performances exhibited the highest potential for success as a soloist or chamber musician in the field. Born in South Korea, she began her musical studies at the age of 12, and her principal teachers have been Jesse Levine, Martin Outram and John White. A dedicated chamber musician, Ms. Sung has performed in the Purcell Room at the Royal Festival Hall, Clevedon House and Lauderdale House and has worked with such famous string quartets as the Amadeus, Skampa, Alberni, Maginni, Julliard and Tokyo Quartets. She worked as a principal violist for London Korean Symphony Orchestra for 6 years along with other various student orchestras in London. The winner of the 2004 Iberoamerican “Carlos Prieto” Competition and the recipient of the 2005 Presser Foundation Award, Dmitri Atapine began his cello lessons at the age of five at the St. Petersburg Conservatory School of Music. Since 1992 Mr. Atapine is a resident of Spain, where he graduated with honors from the Asturias Conservatory under Prof. A.Fedortchenko. Since receiving in 2003 his BM and MM with high honors from Michigan State University under Prof. S.Bagratuni, Mr. Atapine continues his stud- ies with Prof. Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music, where he completed the Master of Musical Arts degree in 2005 and obtained the Artist Diploma in 2006. A regular soloist and recitalist, Mr. Atapine’s recent engagements have included solo recitals in the Juan March Foundation (Madrid) and the Great Hall of the Spanish National Auditorium, as well as orchestral appearances with the Principality of Asturias Symphony Orchestra in the Prince Philip Auditorium. Among Mr. Atapine’s multiple awards are the University of Illinois ‘Music Achievement’ Award, the Asturias Conservatory Honors Certificate, and the first prize at the Llanes International Cello Competition. 2 0 0 6- 2 0 0 7 s e a s o n

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September 25, 2007 January 29, 2008 Tokyo String Quartet Tokyo String Quartet Martin Beaver and Kikuei Ikeda, violin Kazuhide Isomura, viola Clive Greensmith, cello February 26, 2008 Alban Berg Quartet Gunter Pichler and Gerhard Schultz, violin October 16, 2007 Isabel Charisius, viola Trio Jean Paul Valentin Erben, cello Ulf Schneider, violin Martin Löhr, cello Eckart Heiligers, piano April 1, 2008 Los Angeles Guitar Quartet John Dearman November 27, 2007 William Kanengiser The Fine Arts Quartet Scott Tennant Ralph Evans and Efim Boico, violin Matthew Grief Yuri Gandelsman, viola Wolfgang Laufer, cello April 22, 2008 Bonus concert December 11, 2007 Winners of the Bonus Concert Yale School of Music Triton Trio Chamber Music Competition Ani Kavafian, violin William Purvis, horn Mihae Lee, piano

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Thursday, May 3 at 8 pm, free new music new haven Collaborative concert with London's Royal Academy of Music (RAM). Music by Òscar Colomina i Bosch, Richard Harrold, and Martin Suckling from the RAM and Edward Hearne, Matthew Barnson, and Yoshi Onishi from Yale. All pieces written with the same instrumentation as Gyorgy Ligeti’s Chamber Concerto, which will also be performed. Robert van Sice, Julian Pellicano, and Darrell Ang, conductors. NMNH Prelude at 7:30 pm: New piano music by Yuan-Chen Li and Bryan Senti

Saturday, May 5 at 8 pm, free Alianza Quartet Sarita Kwok and Lauren Basney, violin Ah-Young Sung, viola; Dmitri Atapine, cello Debussy: String Quartet in G minor Ezra Laderman: String Quartet No. 9 Beethoven: Quartet in E minor, Op. 59 No. 2

Tuesday, May 8 at 8 pm, free guest artists Meehyun Ahn, piano Kyung Sun Lee, violin Kangho Lee, cello Piano Trios by Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, and Brahms

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