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The Classical Recording Foundation EIGHTH ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2009 WEILL RECITAL HALL AT CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK CITY The Classical Recording Foundation EIGHTH ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 8:00 PM 2009 FOUNDATION AWARDS 2009 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Donald Berman and Susan Narucki 2009 Composer of the Year Award Fred Lerdahl 2009 Young Artist Award Soyeon Lee 2009 Foundation Award Dragonetti’s New Academy 2009 Special Presentation Daedalus Quartet CONCERT AND PRESENTATION OF — INTERMISSION — 2009 AWARD WINNERS Imbrications (2001) ................................................ Fred Lerdahl Opening Remarks Adam Abeshouse, President, Classical Recording Foundation Argento Chamber Ensemble Jill Sokol, flute Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet Chaconne in D minor ............................................ Bach/Busoni Miranda Cuckson, violin Karen Ouzounian, cello from Partita for Solo Violin Matt Ward, percussion Joanna Chao, piano Michel Galante, conductor Soyeon Lee, piano Three Diatonic Studies (2004-09) .......................... Fred Lerdahl Presentation of the Young Artist Award to NYC premiere Soyeon Lee I. Chasing Goldberg Jerome Lowenthal, II. The Cyclic Descent Professor of Piano, The Juilliard School III. Scalar Rhythms String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20, No. 3 ........................ Haydn Joanna Chao, piano I. Allegro con spirito Presentation of the Composer of the Year Award to Daedalus Quartet Fred Lerdahl Min-Young Kim, violin Kyu-Young Kim, violin David Starobin, Jessica Thompson, viola Raman Ramakrishnan, cello Founder of Bridge Records Special Presentation to Songs........................... ......................................................... Ives Daedalus Quartet I. Ann Street Silas Brown, II. Evening Grammy Nominated Recording Engineer III. The Housatonic at Stockbridge IV. The Greatest Man Quintet No. 18 in C Major ........................................ Dragonetti V. Songs My Mother Taught Me I. Andante II. Allegro non troppo Donald Berman, piano Susan Narucki, soprano Loma Mar String Quartet with John Feeney Presentation of the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award to Anca Nicolau, violin Krista Bennion-Feeney, violin Donald Berman and Susan Narucki Joanna Hood, viola Myron Lutzke, cello John Feeney, bass Vivian Perlis Director, Oral History of American Music, Yale University Presentation of the Foundation Award to Dragonetti’s New Academy Closing Remarks Will Crutchfield, Paul Moravec, Pulitzer Prize winning composer Director of Opera, Caramoor Festival and 2004 CRF Composer of the Year recipient 2 3 CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS 2009 SOYEON LEE Siberian Korean pianist Soyeon Lee has media features, including The New York Times, TimeOut New York, already been hailed by The New York Times as International Herald Tribune, V Magazine, Vogue.com, Miami magazine, a pianist with “a huge, richly varied sound, a the Korean Broadcasting System and ABC's “Good Morning America.” lively imagination and a firm sense of style,” Soyeon Lee was featured on the January 2006 cover of SYMPHONY while The Washington Post has lauded her for magazine’s annual “Emerging Artists” issue and in the 2008 edition of her “stunning command of the keyboard.” Musical America’s “More Thrills of Discovery.” She has been heard in live Soyeon Lee has been rapturously received broadcasts from New York City on WQXR’s “McGraw-Hill Young Artists as guest soloist with The Cleveland Orchestra Showcase” and WNYC’s “Soundcheck,” and recorded performances from and the London Symphony Orchestra, as well Washington’s WGMS and Cleveland’s WCLV; she has also been heard as the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, throughout the United States on National Public Radio. A classical music symphony orchestras of Columbus, Napa documentary featuring Soyeon Lee, entitled Classic Club, has been aired Valley, San Diego, Scottsdale, Shreveport and nationally in Japan on NHK. New York City’s Park Avenue Chamber Ms. Lee earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from The Juilliard Symphony, as well as the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra and Orquesta School, where she studied with Jerome Lowenthal and Robert McDonald. Sinfónica Nacional (Dominican Republic), including performances under While at Juilliard, she earned the distinguished Artist Diploma, won the the batons of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Jahja Ling and Otto-Werner Rachmaninoff Concerto Competition, two consecutive Gina Bachauer Mueller. Scholarship Competitions and was awarded the Helen Fay Prize, Artur Recital appearances include New York City programs at Carnegie Rubinstein Prize, Susan Rose Career Grant and the William Petschek Piano Hall’s Zankel Hall and Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Hall and Lincoln Debut Award. Center for the Performing Art’s Alice Tully Hall, Washington’s John F. Soyeon Lee is a winner of the 2004 Concert Artists Guild International Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Cleveland’s Severance Hall, the Competition, as well as the Second and Mozart prizes of the Cleveland Ravinia Festival’s “Rising Stars” series, Auditorio de Musica de Nacional International Piano Competition and the Bronze Medal of the Paloma in Madrid - part of a 13-city tour of Spain - and Baek-Am Art Hall in Seoul. O’Shea Santander International Piano Competition. An avid chamber musician, she has collaborated with the Afiara and Parker string quartets, bassist Edgar Meyer and the Edgeffect Ensemble with Mark THE YOUNG ARTIST AWARD O’Connor, and performed at the chamber music festivals of Laguna Beach, Taos and Montréal. Among Ms. Lee’s most recent collaborative projects are Soyeon Lee receives this award for her recent release Re!nvented on the joint performances in Seoul with her pop-star sister, Soeun Lee. E1 Entertainment label. Recorded during the period that Ms. Lee was Passionate about expanding environmental consciousness through preparing the Zankel Hall concert with the same repertoire, this exquisite music, Soyeon Lee gave to critical acclaim the first ever eco-awareness album captures those masterful performances of the music of Bach, Ravel concert at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall in February 2008. Presented by and Albeniz – where each piece is “recycled,” in the sense of repurposing TerraCycle, Inc. and Honest Tea, Inc., Ms. Lee wore a commissioned the music for a virtuosic realization on solo piano. Please visit concert gown, made of over 6000 used juice pouches, by eco-fashion www.e1distribution.com for more information. designer Nina Valenti. This concert, “Re!nvented,” occasioned over 20 4 5 CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS 2009 DAEDALUS QUARTET Praised by The New Yorker as “a fresh and and Alexander Fiterstein; and violists Roger Tapping and Donald vital young participant in what is a golden age Weilerstein. of American string quartets,” the Daedalus The award-winning members of the Daedalus Quartet hold degrees Quartet has established itself as a leader from the Juilliard School, Curtis Institute, Cleveland Institute, and Harvard among the new generation of string University. Brother and sister violinists Kyu-Young Kim and Min-Young ensembles. In the nine years of its existence Kim, who alternate on first violin and cellist Raman Ramakrishnan grew up the Daedalus Quartet has received plaudits in East Patchogue, Long Island; they met violist Jessica Thompson, a from critics and listeners alike for the security, Minneapolis native, at the Marlboro Festival. technical finish, interpretive unity, and sheer gusto of its performances – and this in cannily selected repertoire ranging from the classicism of Haydn to the complexities of Elliott Carter. “Polished and vigorous” (The New York Times); “a young quartet whose SPECIAL PRESENTATION moment has arrived” (The New York Sun); “jet-propelled rockets of blistering virtuosity …the music rang gloriously” (The Washington Post) -- The Classical Recording Foundation is pleased to make a special these are only a few of the accolades garnered by the Daedalus Quartet in presentation to the Daedalus Quartet for their new disc of Haydn String recent seasons. Quartets. CRF helped arrange financing of this sophomore recording to Since its founding, the Daedalus Quartet has performed in many of the their heralded debut recording which was made as the “CRF Young Artists world’s leading musical venues; in the United States and Canada these of the Year” Award two years ago. This new recording shows CRF's include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center (Great Performers series), the ongoing commitment to the success of our young artists. The new disc Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., and captures the Daedalus Quartet’s virtuosic and thrilling rendering of the Boston’s Gardner Museum, as well as on major series in Montreal, Toronto, Haydn Opus 20 quartets, recorded during their recent tour which showcased Calgary, Winnipeg, and Vancouver. Abroad the ensemble has been heard this same repertoire. The recording is to be released on the Bridge Records in such famed locations as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Mozarteum in label. Please visit www.bridgerecords.com for more information. Salzburg, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique in Paris, and in leading venues in Japan. The Daedalus Quartet has won plaudits for its adventurous exploration of contemporary music, most notably the compositions of Elliott Carter, George Perle, György Kurtág and György Ligeti. Among the works the ensemble has premiered