Green Lake Festival of Music Camp

GREEN LAKE Chamber Music Presented by Green Lake Festival of Music Camp

July 1-14, 2018 • Ripon College, Ripon, WI

Andrew Armstrong, Artistic Director For college, graduate, and pre-college (grades 7-12) string and piano students – individually or in pre-formed groups. Camp applications and detailed camp information available at:

www.GreenLakeFestival.org – Enrollment is limited. Early application is encouraged. 2018 Faculty Andrew Armstrong, Piano / Ani Aznavoorian, Cello / Salley Koo, Violin Ayane Kozasa, Violin / Matthew Michelic, Viola / Karen Ouzounian, Cello Raman Ramakrishnan, Cello / Melissa Reardon, Viola Livia Sohn, Violin / Karl Stobbe, Violin

Visit www.GreenLakeFestival.org for the on-line application form.

The Green Lake Festival Chamber Music Camp in Central Wisconsin is chamber music concerts and the “Circle of Sound” string chamber an extraordinary opportunity for students to make music together with orchestra made up of students and faculty. greater expression, sensitivity, openness, intent, command, humility, CONCERTS: Participants receive free tickets to all Green Lake and more; they will learn by instruction, by example, by matching. Festival of Music (GLFM) concerts by faculty and guest artists. They Director and Concert Pianist Andy Armstrong has been part of the are featured performers in the Student Chamber Music Celebration Chamber Music Camp for over a decade and has gathered a faculty Concerts at the end of each week and in the Circle of Sound String of international-performing chamber musician friends who continue Chamber Orchestra with the faculty. Venues include Green Lake’s the world-class musicianship, dynamic personalities, and true caring historic Thrasher Opera House, Demmer Recital Hall at Ripon College, for each student of this outstanding program. and the Green Lake Conference Center.

The chamber music program accepts pre-college and college- RECREATION & FUN: The new Willmore Center at Ripon College aged violin, viola, cello, and piano students. The faculty and staff features a pool, three ﬁtness studios, a weight room and a cardio emphasize a supportive, nurturing environment in which to learn balcony. Ripon, WI is a friendly community energized by community chamber music skills that are also life skills: communication, celebrations, eclectic shops, tasty cuisine, historic character and listening, giving, ﬂexibility, and taking musical risks. natural beauty.

Each student lives in a single dorm room and has chamber coachings, HOUSING & MEALS: All students stay in shared rooms with hall private lessons, and performance opportunities, including The Circle bathrooms. All meals are provided. of Sound in a historic barn. Enhancing the instrumental experience, FEES, APPLICATION FORMS, & SCHOLARSHIP INFO: students will also have the opportunity to sing in a choir, learn about opera, study techniques for practicing and avoiding injury, enjoy the Application Fee: $75 ($100 after April 16) beautiful Ripon/Green Lake area, and have fun! Tuition: $1,100 | Room & Board: $1,100

ELIGIBILITY: The camp is open to college, graduate, and pre-college Tuition scholarships are available for qualified students based on (grades 7-12) string and piano students – individually or in pre- artistic ability and financial need. For the on-line camp application formed groups. Enrollment is limited, and early application & scholarship information, visit www.GreenLakeFestival.org. is strongly encouraged. DISCOUNTS & DEADLINES: Earlybird Special: $225 discount if CURRICULUM: Students receive daily chamber music coaching and application is received by April 16 and fees paid in full within 30 days a minimum of three private lessons with world-renowned faculty. of acceptance. 10% discount for qualified pre-formed ensembles. Numerous solo and chamber music masterclasses are offered by Applications received after April 16 will be reviewed in the order faculty and guest artists. Student performances include solo and received until all positions are filled. 2018 FACULTY

PIANO CELLO Andrew Armstrong Ani Aznavoorian Chamber Music Camp Director The Strad magazine describes cellist Ani Aznavoorian as having “Scorchingly committed performances that wring every Praised by critics for his passionate expression and dazzling last drop of emotion out of the music. Her technique is well- technique, pianist Andrew Armstrong has delighted audiences nigh immaculate, she has a natural sense of theater, and her across Asia, Europe, Latin America, Canada, and the United tone is astonishingly responsive.” States, including performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Grand Hall of the Moscow Ms. Aznavoorian has appeared as soloist with many of the Conservatory, and Warsaw’s National Philharmonic. world’s leading orchestras including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Helsinki Philharmonic, Andrew’s orchestral engagements across the globe have seen the Boston Pops, the International Sejong Soloists, and the him perform a sprawling repertoire of more than 50 concertos Juilliard Orchestra. She has also appeared as recitalist and with orchestra. He has performed with such conductors as Peter chamber musician in over 20 countries spanning 5 continents. Oundjian, Itzhak Perlman, Günther Herbig, Stefan Sanderling, Jean¬Marie Zeitouni, and Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, and has Ms. Aznavoorian is an avid chamber musician and teacher. She appeared in solo recitals in chamber music concerts with the is the principal cellist of Camerata Pacifica, one of the premier Elias, Alexander, American, and Manhattan String Quartets, and chamber music organizations in Southern California and she also as a member of the Caramoor Virtuosi, Boston Chamber appears regularly at chamber music festivals around the globe. Music Society, Seattle Chamber Music Society, and the Jupiter She has also served on the distinguished music faculty at the Symphony Chamber Players. University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana, and has spent summers as faculty of the Great Mountains Music Festival and He has released several award-winning recordings with his School in South Korea. longtime recital partner James Ehnes, including 3 volumes of the music of Béla Bartók, Prokofiev’s Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2 Her numerous accolades include being the recipient of the and Five Melodies, Tartini’s Devil’s Trill and Leclair’s Tambourin prestigious Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award for her outstanding Sonata, a recital disc of works by Franck and Strauss, as well cello playing and artistry, being named a Presidential Scholar in as an upcoming release featuring pieces by Debussy, Elgar, the Arts, and being a top prize winner of the International Paulo and Respighi (Onyx Classics). Cello Competition. She is a proponent of new music and she has premiered concertos by Lera Auerbach and Ezra Laderman Andrew is devoted to outreach programs and playing for and continues to expand the chamber music repertoire with children. In addition to his many concerts, his performances commissions from David Bruce, Bright Sheng, and John are heard regularly on National Public Radio and WQXR, New Harbison. This season highlights include debut appearances York City’s premier classical music station. at music festivals in Canada, Northern Ireland, and England, and a special benefit concert in Armenia, the country of her Mr. Armstrong lives happily in Massachusetts, with his wife ancestors. Ms. Aznavoorian records for Cedille Records and Esty, their two children, two dogs, two guinea pigs, and two she proudly performs on a cello made by her father Peter fish. Aznavoorian in Chicago. 2018 FACULTY

VIOLA CELLO Ayane Kozasa Karen Ouzounian Hailed for her “magnetic, wide-ranging tone” and her “rock solid Described as “radiant” and “expressive” (The New York Times) technique” (Philadelphia Inquirer), violist Ayane Kozasa enjoys and “nothing less than gorgeous” (Memphis Commercial Appeal), a career that spans a broad spectrum of musical personas. A cellist Karen Ouzounian approaches music-making with a deeply violinist turned violist, she was inspired to dedicate herself to communicative and passionate spirit. Winner of the S&R Foundation’s the alto clef when she discovered the beauty of playing the 2016 Washington Award and at home in diverse musical settings, she viola part in string quartets during her undergraduate studies has become increasingly drawn towards unusual collaborations and at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Her commitment to pursue a eclectic contemporary repertoire. life in viola led to a graduate degree from the Curtis Institute of Karen is a founding member of the Aizuri Quartet, which was Music as well as a Further Masters Degree from the esteemed awarded First Prize at the 2017 Osaka International Chamber Music Kronberg Academy Masters School in Germany. Competition in Japan and is the String Quartet-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for its 2017-18 season. The Quartet was Ayane’s solo career took off when she won the 2011 Primrose a prizewinner in the 2015 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet International Viola Competition, where she also captured Competition in London and has held residencies at the Caramoor awards for best chamber music and commissioned work Center for Music and the Arts, Curtis Institute of Music, and the Barnes performances. Following the competition, she joined the Astral Foundation in Philadelphia. The Quartet has commissioned works by Artists roster, and became a grant recipient from the S&R such composers as Caroline Shaw, Yevgeniy Sharlat, Paul Wiancko Foundation, an organization recognizing and supporting young, and Gabriella Smith, and will be featured in the 2017 premiere aspiring artists of all mediums. of the 65-minute chamber opera “Sophia’s Forest” by composer Lembit Beecher, along with soprano Kiera Duffy and custom-built, Chamber music has also been a vital part of Ayane’s musical electronically-controlled sound sculptures. career, and her interests have led her to appearances at numerous festivals including the Marlboro Music Festival, In addition to her work with the Aizuri Quartet, Karen’s commitment the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, and the Ravinia to adventurous repertoire and the collaborative process has led to her membership in the Grammy-nominated, self-conducted chamber Festival. She is a founding member of the Aizuri Quartet, the orchestra A Far Cry and the critically-acclaimed new music collective 2014-16 Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, counter induction, along with regular appearances with the Silk Road and ﬁrst prize winner of the 2017 Osaka International Chamber Ensemble and The Knights. Highlights of Karen’s recent and upcoming Music Competition. Her passion for chamber music has also seasons include performances of the Elgar Concerto in Chile with the blossomed in the form of the viola/cello duo “Ayane & Paul”, Philharmonic Orchestra of Santiago, a touring collaboration between and eclectic string trio “Bird’s Eye Trio”, both My known for the Silk Road Ensemble and the Mark Morris Dance Group, recitals their creative programming and intimate connections with at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts with pianist Ieva their audience. Jokubaviciute, a tour of Japan with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and tours with Musicians from Marlboro and Musicians from Ravinia’s Ayane is deeply grateful for the mentorship she received from Steans Music Institute. Additionally, she has performed as guest her past teachers, Nobuko Imai, Kirsten Docter, Roberto Diaz, principal of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, IRIS Orchestra, and Misha Amory, and Michael Tree. Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia. Born to Armenian parents in Toronto, Karen was a prizewinner at the 2012 Canada Council for the Arts Musical Instrument Bank Competition. She holds Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from The Juilliard School, where she was a student of Timothy Eddy. 2018 FACULTY

VIOLIN VIOLA Karl Stobbe Matthew Michelic Karl Stobbe is recognized as one of Canada’s most accomplished Violist Matthew Michelic enjoys a vibrant career as an artist- violinists, known for his dedication to excellence on the violin and teacher of the viola, and the Denver Post has praised his classical music in all its forms. As a concertmaster, soloist, and chamber “extraordinarily rich viola sound”. Mr. Michelic has performed musician, Karl has been an audience favorite in small settings and throughout North America, Europe and in Asia, collaborating large venues. His diverse career has included performances of all six with artists such as Robert McDonald, Jeffery Solow, the Fine Ysaÿe Sonatas for Solo Violin, all 16 Beethoven String Quartets, and all Arts Quartet, and the Capela Quartet of Portugal. A featured ten Mahler Symphonies. He is as comfortable directing an orchestra performer for meetings of the International Viola Society, the without conductor, as he is giving an unaccompanied recital. Noted for International Double Reed Society and the American Choral his generous, rich sound, and long, poignant phrasing, he is described Directors Association, Mr. Michelic was a guest recitalist for the by the San Francisco Classical Voice as “an artist with soulful New York Viola Society and has given a performance for Pope musicianship,” and by London’s Sunday Times as “a master soloist, Benedict XVI at the Vatican. Recently he presented research recalling the golden age of violin playing… producing a breathtaking range of tone colours.” at the national conference of the American String Teachers Association, and his discussions of string pedagogy have been Karl has performed in many of North America’s most famous concert published in the Journal of the American Viola Society and halls, including Carnegie Hall, Jordan Hall, the National Arts Centre, in Strings magazine. Increasingly active as a conductor, Mr. Roy Thompson Hall, Segerstrom Hall, and the Orpheum Theatre. As a Michelic led the premiere of Nic Bizub’s Take Ten, written for chamber musician, soloist, and orchestra director, he has shared the Lawrence’s Own Viola Ensemble, and in 2017 he conducted stage with many of the most important and eclectic violinists of our the premiere of acclaimed Dutch composer Chiel Meijering’s day, from James Ehnes to Mark O’Connor. Avie Records’ recording Perpetuate Transmigrations at the annual convention of the of Karl performing Ysaÿe’s Solo Violin Sonatas received worldwide attention, including Gramophone magazine, which hailed it as “full of International Double Reed Society. spirit and energy… exciting, fearless…” It was nominated for a 2015 As a teaching artist, Mr. Michelic has served on the faculty JUNO Award for best Classical Album: Solo or Chamber Ensemble, of numerous music festivals in the United States and Canada and was the winner of the 2015 Western Canadian Music Award for and has presented master classes at major schools of music Classical Album of the Year. Also winning a Western Canadian Music including the Oberlin College Conservatory, the Peabody School Award that year was Jocelyn Morlock, whose CD “Cobalt” featured of Music and the national conservatories of China and Vietnam. a live recording of Karl, joined by Jonathan Crow and the National Currently Mr. Michelic serves on the faculty of the Lawrence Arts Centre Orchestra. Karl frequently performs and records new music, and has been involved in numerous commissions and world University Conservatory of Music, and collaborates regularly premieres. within that community of extraordinary teaching artists. He teaches viola and orchestral literature, offers ensemble A lover of all things violin, Karl completed a minor in Violin Repair coaching and has implemented a course focused on the and Construction while completing his Master’s of Music at Indiana history of the string quartet. Former students of Mr. Michelic University. His passion for the construction and mechanics of the violin now teach in public school, community school and university is an important part of his professional musical life, and continues settings and perform in professional chamber and orchestral to inﬂuence his performances and teaching. Karl never misses an ensembles on several continents. opportunity to see and play exceptional violins and bows. He has given multiple presentations on the history of the violin family, violin building and repair, and organized showings and lecture recitals on rare, ﬁne instruments at various concert halls, art galleries, universities, and conservatories. 2018 FACULTY

Philharmonic in Mexico, Hungarian Radio Philharmonic, Orchestra del Teatro Marrucino di Chieti in Italy, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Limburgs Sinfonie Orkest in Holland, The City of London Sinfonia, Asia Philharmonic Orchestra, Korea’s Seoul and Pusan Philharmonics, and the Wuhan Philharmonic in China. She performed a multi-city tour with South Africa’s National Symphony and KwaZulu-Natal Philharmonic Orchestras and has performed solo recitals in Spain, Mexico, Cyprus, Israel, and Japan. An avid chamber musician, Livia has been a guest artist at festivals such as the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, Cartagena International Music Festival in Colombia, Spoleto Festival USA, Aspen Music Festival, Caramoor International Music Festival, Edmonton Chamber Music Society, Newport Music Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, Maverick Concerts, Brevard Festival, Chamber Music Society of Sonoma, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Prince Albert Music Festival in Hawaii, Festival of the Sound VIOLIN and Pender Harbour Music Festival in Canada, and Festival de San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. Livia Sohn In recital, Livia has appeared at New York City’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Chicago’s Ravinia Festival, Washington D.C.’s National Gallery of Art, Stanford University’s Lively Hailed by Opus Magazine as “a stunning musician”, violinist LIVIA Arts series, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Jordan Hall in Boston, Dame Myra SOHN performs widely on the international stage as concerto soloist, Hess series in Chicago, Gwinnett Performing Arts Center in Atlanta, Xavier University recitalist, and festival guest artist in North America, Europe, and Asia. in Cincinnati, University of Connecticut, Peace Center for the Performing Arts in South The Strad Magazine says, “Livia Sohn possesses a remarkably lithe Carolina, and the Broad Stage in Los Angeles. and transparent tone of exceptional purity. [Her] virtually blemishless Born from her love of chamber music, Livia is part of the piano trio Latitude 41, which accounts are nothing short of remarkable. Even when under the most was formed in 2009 with pianist Bernadene Blaha and cellist Luigi Piovano. Their debut fearsome technical pressure at high velocity, every note rings true with CD of Schubert’s monumental Trio in E flat major, and Schubert’s “Notturno”, was pinpoint accuracy.” released in 2011 on the label Eloquentia to rave reviews. Their recording of the piano Following an active summer that started with a return appearance at trios by Camille Saint-Saëns was released in March 2015 to similar acclaim. Among the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, SC, Livia went on to perform at other places, they have performed in Vancouver, New York, Los Angeles, Boston, and The Newport Music Festival in Rhode Island, Bay Chamber Concerts San Francisco. Highlights from this season will see them perform in Port Townsend, in Rockport, Maine, and the Orlando International Music Festival Washington, and Rome, Italy. This past May, they trio had the honor of performing in in The Netherlands. Highlights of Livia’s 2017-18 season includes Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in its Annual Notable Occasion concert. performances of the Brahms Concerto for Violin and Cello with cellist National Public Radio’s “Performance Today” hosted Livia as an Artist-in-Residence Joshua Roman, and recital appearances for Chamber Music San for five days, during which she gave live interviews and performances of a different Francisco with tenor Michael Schade, as well as performances in program each day. Other career highlights include performing at the inaugural concerts Washington DC, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City. of Harris Hall at Aspen, and her performance with Lukas Foss and the Brooklyn This past season saw Livia performing with orchestras from Mexico, Philharmonic Orchestra at the “11th Annual New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace”, held at Korea, Iowa, and California, as well as chamber music and recitals in New York City’s Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine before an audience of 10,000. Rome, Venice, San Francisco, New York, and Massachusetts, playing In addition to the CDs she has recorded with Latitude 41, last year the Eloquentia label repertoire ranging from Telemann to Sean Shepherd. In 2016, a released a disc of Livia playing the concertos of Benjamin Britten and living composer recording of opera transcriptions for violin and piano entitled “Opera Jonathan Berger. Gramaphone Magazine says of this recording, “Sohn’s playing… Fantasies, Volume 2”, was released on the Naxos label, featuring is shot through with angst and urgency…”, and The Strad Magazine says, “Violinist Livia and pianist Benjamin Loeb, which included world premieres by Livia Sohn gives a committed account of the solo part, and she demonstrates an ease composers Daron Hagen and Jonathan Berger. in getting through the notes, even where Britten sets his formidable double-stopping Livia has been a guest soloist in North America with the symphony challenges.” Livia can be heard on the Naxos label in the CDs “Opera Fantasies”, which orchestras of Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Seattle, Milwaukee, Edmonton, features opera arrangements for violin and piano (and includes three world premiere Rochester, Austin, Phoenix, New York Chamber Symphony, Boston transcriptions), and “Miracles and Mud”, featuring works by Jonathan Berger. She can Pops, and Brooklyn Philharmonic San Antonio, Oregon, Dayton, also be heard on iTunes performing the Dvorak and Khachaturian Concertos in a live Winston-Salem, Hartford, Cheyenne, Quad Cities, Green Bay, Boca recording with the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Raton, Louisville, I Musici de Montreal, and Aspen Festival Orchestra, Livia gave her first public performance at age eight. In 1989, at the age of 13, she among others. She has performed with many eminent conductors, won First Prize in the Yehudi Menuhin International Violin Competition, where she was including Yehudi Menuhin, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, James DePreist, also awarded the Audience Prize. She attended the Juilliard Pre-College Division from Gerard Schwarz, Sidney Harth, Myung-Whun Chung, William Eddins, the age of seven, at which time she began her studies with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Grant Llewellyn, Lukas Foss, Jane Glover, Junichi Hirokami, Murry Kang. She continued under their tutelage at the Juilliard School, where she also studied Sidlin, and Jorge Mester. chamber music with the legendary Felix Galamir. Livia plays on a J. B. Guadagnini violin Internationally, she has performed as soloist with the Budapest crafted in 1770, and a Samuel Zygmuntowicz made in 2006. She has been on faculty Philharmonic, Berlin Symphony, Cologne Philharmonic, Iceland at the Music Department of Stanford University since 2005, and makes her home in Symphony Orchestra, Mexico City Philharmonic and Boca del Rio the Bay Area. 2018 FACULTY

VIOLA CELLO Melissa Reardon Raman Ramakrishnan Melissa Reardon is the violist in the Grammy-nominated Enso Cellist Raman Ramakrishnan is a member of the Horszowski String Quartet. Lauded by Classical Voice for her “elegant” and Trio with violinist Jesse Mills and pianist Rieko Aizawa. The “virtuosic” performances, the Massachusetts-born musician trio has performed across the United States, India, Japan, won ﬁrst prize at the Washington International Competition, and in Hong Kong, and records for Bridge Records. For eleven and is the only violist to win top prizes in consecutive HAMS seasons, as a founding member of the Daedalus Quartet, he International viola competitions, as well the Tourjee Award in performed around the world. Mr. Ramakrishnan is an artist 2002. Solo engagements have included performances at the member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and is on Stevens Center, Kennedy Center, Symphony Hall, and Jordan the faculties of Columbia University and the Bard College Hall. She has performed as a soloist with Camerata Notturna Conservatory of Music. and the Boston Symphony. In 2006, she was chosen as one of Mr. Ramakrishnan has given solo recitals in New York, Boston, four violists internationally to participate in “Chamber Music Seattle, and Washington, D.C., and has performed chamber Connects the World,” in Kronberg, Germany, alongside Gidon music at Caramoor, at Bargemusic, with the Chicago Chamber Kremer and Yuri Bashmet. Musicians, and at the Aspen, Bard, Charlottesville, Four Melissa is also a founding member of the East Coast Chamber Seasons, Kingston, Lincolnshire (UK), Marlboro, Mehli Mehta Orchestra (ECCO), and is a sought-after collaborative (India), Oklahoma Mozart, and Vail Music Festivals. He has musician. She has performed with the Miami, Miro, Daedalus, toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has performed, as and Borromeo Quartets, and with members of the Guarneri, guest principal cellist, with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Mendelssohn, Brentano, St. Lawrence, and Shanghai Quartets, As a guest member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, he has and the Beaux Arts Trio. Melissa has appeared in numerous performed in New Delhi and Agra, India and in Cairo, Egypt. festivals across the United States, Europe, India, and Korea. Mr. Ramakrishnan was born in Athens, Ohio and grew up in She has toured with Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble, and with East Patchogue, New York. His father is a molecular biologist Musicians from Marlboro. and his mother is the children’s book author and illustrator Melissa holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and Vera Rosenberry. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in physics from the New England Conservatory. Her principal teachers include Harvard University and a Master’s degree in music from The Kim Kashkashian, Michael Tree, Joseph dePasquale, Karen Juilliard School. His principal teachers have been Fred Sherry, Tuttle, Samuel Rhodes, and Hsin-Yun Huang, in addition to Andrés Díaz, and André Emelianoff. He lives in New York City early chamber music studies with Eugene Lehner. Melissa with his wife, the violist Melissa Reardon, and their young son. held the position of Associate Professor of Viola at East He plays a Neapolitan cello made by Vincenzo Jorio in 1837. Carolina University From 2006-2013. She is married to the cellist Raman Ramakrishnan. 2018 FACULTY

VIOLIN Salley Koo Salley Koo began her violin studies at the age of 5. She has been lucky enough to study with many famous people at many famous schools. Ms. Koo performs all over the world with very cool people of varying degrees of fame and tries to get along famously with her colleagues and her own students. She now lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with her husband and their very cute dogs.

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