1 Thursday, December 31, 2020, 8Pm (PST) HOST Nathalie Joachim ARTISTS Leif Ove Andsnes, Piano • Darcy James Argue's Secret
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PREMIERE WATCH PARTY Thursday, December 31, 2020, 8pm (PST) HOST Nathalie Joachim ARTISTS Leif Ove Andsnes, piano • Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society Julia Bullock, classical singer & Laura Poe, piano Dover Quartet • David Finckel, cello & Wu Han, piano Nathalie Joachim, flute and vocals • Tessa Lark, violin Yo-Yo Ma, cello & Kathryn Stott, piano Bria Skonberg, trumpet and vocals • Tetzlaff Quartet Matthew Whitaker Quartet PERFORMING WORKS BY Darcy James Argue • Harold Arlen • Ludwig van Beethoven Claude Debussy • Edvard Grieg • Lil Hardin Nathalie Joachim • Jerome Kern • Kool & the Gang Tessa Lark • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1 ABOUT THE ARTISTS LEIF OVE ANDSNES, piano Leif Ove Andsnes was born in Karmøy, Nor - The New York Times calls Leif Ove Andsnes way in 1970, and studied at the Bergen Music “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power, and in- Conservatory. He is currently an artistic adviser sight,” and the Wall Street Journal names him for the Prof. Jirí Hlinka Piano Academy in Ber - “one of the most gifted musicians of his gener- gen, where he lives with his partner and their ation.” With his commanding technique and three children. searching interpretations, the celebrated Nor - wegian pianist has won international acclaim, DARCY JAMES ARGUE, playing concertos and recitals in the world’s composer and conductor leading concert halls and with its foremost or- Darcy James Argue is the “hyper-literate com- chestras, while building an esteemed, extensive poser who leads the Secret Society” (Nate discography. He is the founding director of the Chinen, NPR), an 18-piece big band ensemble Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, was the co- “now renowned in the jazz world” (Giovanni artistic director of the Risør Festival of Chamber Russanello, The New York Times). Argue brings Music for nearly two decades, and has served a seemingly anachronistic ensemble into the as music director of California’s Ojai Music 21st century through his “ability to combine his Festival. A Gramophone Hall of Fame inductee, love of jazz’s past with more contemporary son- Andsnes holds honorary doctorates from Nor - ics like indie-influenced electric guitar and bass, way’s University of Bergen and New York’s as well as arrangement tricks culled from his Juilliard School. study of classical music” (Seth Colter Walls, Andsnes recently partnered with the Mahler Pitchfork). As a Vancouver-born, Brooklyn- Chamber Orchestra for “Mozart Momentum based “visionary arranger” (Steve Futterman, 1785/86,” a major multi-season project explor- The New Yorker), Argue has earned three ing one of the most creative and seminal peri- Grammy nominations, a Guggen heim Fellow - ods of the composer’s career. This marks the ship, a Doris Duke Artist Award, and countless pianist’s second artistic partnership with the or- commissions and fellowships. His most recent chestra, following the success of their “Bee tho - recording—2016’s prescient Real Enemies—was ven Journey.” An epic four-season focus on the named a Top 20 jazz recording of the decade by composer’s music for piano and orchestra, this Stereogum. project saw Andsnes give more than 230 live performances in 108 cities across 27 countries, JULIA BULLOCK, classical singer as chronicled in the documentary Concerto— American classical singer Julia Bullock, “a mu- A Bee thoven Journey and captured on an award- sician who delights in making her own rules” winning Sony Classical series. Now recording (The New Yorker), combines versatile artistry exclusively for that label, the pianist recently re- with a probing intellect and commanding stage ceived his eleventh Grammy nomination and presence. Only in her early 30s, she has already has been recognized with no fewer than six headlined productions and concerts at some of Gramophone Awards. His other accolades in- the world’s preeminent arts institutions. An in- clude the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instru - novative programmer whose artistic curation is men talist Award, the Gilmore Artist Award, in high demand, Bullock’s curatorial positions and Norway’s Peer Gynt Prize and Commander include collaborative partner of Esa-Pekka of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav. Salo nen in 2020–21, the conductor’s inaugural Andsnes has been honored as the first Scandi - season as music director of the San Francisco navian to curate Carnegie Hall’s “Perspectives” Symphony; 2019–20 artist-in-residence of the series, served as a pianist-in-residence of the same orchestra; artist-in-residence of London’s Berlin Philharmonic and artist-in-residence of Guildhall School for the 2020–22 seasons; the New York Philharmonic, and been the sub- opera-programming host of the new broadcast ject of a London Symphony Orchestra Artist channel All Arts; founding core member of the Por trait Series. American Modern Opera Company (AMOC); 2 ABOUT THE ARTISTS and 2018–19 artist-in-residence of New York’s Music, Bard College’s Graduate Vocal Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chosen as a 2021 Program, and New York’s Juilliard School. She “Artist of the Year” by Musical America, which lives with her husband, conductor Christian hailed her as an “agent of change,” Bullock is Reif, in Munich. also a prominent voice of social consciousness. As Vanity Fair notes, she is “young, highly suc- DOVER QUARTET cessful, [and] politically engaged,” with the Hailed as “the next Guarneri Quartet” (Chicago “ability to inject each note she sings with a sense Tribune) and “the young American string quar- of grace and urgency, lending her performances tet of the moment” (The New Yorker), the Dover the feel of being both of the moment and in- Quartet catapulted to international stardom in credibly timeless.” 2013, following a remarkable sweep of all prizes Bullock has made key operatic debuts at San at the Banff Competition; it has since become Francisco Opera in the world premiere of John one of the most in-demand ensembles in the Adams’ Girls of the Golden West; Santa Fe Opera world. In addition to its faculty role as the in- in Adams’ Doctor Atomic; Festival d’Aix-en- augural Penelope P. Watkins Ensemble in Resi - Provence and Dutch National Opera in Stra - dence at the Curtis Institute of Music, the Dover vinksy’s The Rake’s Progress; and the English Quartet holds residencies with the Kennedy National Opera, Spain’s Teatro Real, and Rus - Cen ter, Bienen School of Music at North - sia’s Bolshoi Theatre in the title role in Purcell’s western University, Artosphere, the Amelia The Indian Queen. In concert, she has collabo- Island Chamber Music Festival, and Peoples’ rated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Symphony Concerts in New York. Among the Gustavo Dudamel, the San Francisco Sym - group’s honors are the Avery Fisher Career phony and both Salonen and Michael Tilson Grant, Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Thomas, the New York Philharmonic and Alan Quartet Award, and Lincoln Center’s Hunt Gilbert, the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Family Award. The Dover Quartet has also won Andris Nelsons, Japan’s NHK Symphony and top prizes at the Wigmore Hall International Paavo Järvi, and both the Berlin Philharmonic String Quartet Competition and the Fischoff and London Symphony Orchestra with Sir National Chamber Music Competition. Simon Rattle. Her recital highlights include The Dover’s first volume of the complete appearances at Cal Per formances, New York’s Beethoven string quartet cycle, which focuses Carnegie Hall, the Phila delphia Chamber Music on the composer’s Op. 18 quartets, was released Society, Boston’s Celebrity Series, Wash ington’s earlier this year by Cedille Records, which Kennedy Center, and the Mostly Mozart and previously released the ensemble’s Voices of Ojai Music festivals, where she joined Roomful Defiance: 1943, 1944, 1945 in 2017 and an all- of Teeth and the International Contemporary Mozart debut recording during the 2016–17 Ensemble for the world premiere of Josephine season, featuring the late Michael Tree, violist Baker: A Portrait (the original prototype for of the Guarneri Quartet. Voices of Defiance, Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine, a work which explores works written during World conceived by Bullock in collaboration with War II by Viktor Ullman, Dmitri Shostakovich, Peter Sellars, and written for her by Tyshawn and Simon Laks, was lauded as “undoubtedly Sorey and Claudia Rankine). one of the most compelling discs released this Bullock’s growing discography includes year” (The Wall Street Journal). Doc tor Atomic, recorded with the composer The Dover Quartet draws from the lineage of conducting the BBC Symphony Orches tra, and the distinguished Guarneri, Cleveland, and West Side Story, captured live with Tilson Vermeer quartets. Its members studied at the Thomas and the San Francisco Sym phony, both Curtis Institute of Music and Rice University’s of which were nominated for Grammy Awards. Shepherd School of Music, where they were Bullock was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and mentored extensively by Shmuel Ashkenasi, holds degrees from the Eastman School of James Dunham, Norman Fischer, Kenneth 3 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Gold smith, Joseph Silverstein, Arnold Stein - less young artists through a wide array of edu- hardt, Michael Tree, and Peter Wiley. It was at cational initiatives. Under their leadership at Curtis that the Dover Quartet formed; its name CMS, the Bowers Program identifies and pays tribute to Dover Beach by fellow Curtis inducts the finest young chamber artists into alumnus Samuel Barber. the entire spectrum of CMS activities. Their The Dover Quartet proudly endorses Tho - Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo has mastik-Infeld strings. provided hundreds of students with incompa- rable, immersive musical experiences over 17 DAVID FINCKEL, cello & WU HAN, piano summers. From 2009–18, David Finckel and David Finckel and Wu Han are among the most Wu Han directed the LG Chamber Music esteemed and influential classical musicians in School in South Korea, which served dozens of the world today.