Musicians from Ravinia's Steans Music Institute
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Merkin Concert Hall Tuesday, April 2, 2012 at 2 pm Kaufman Center presents Musicians From Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute Tuesday Matinees Miriam Fried, violin; Tessa Lark, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Deborah Pae, cello; Nathan VIckery, cello and Adam Golka, piano BEETHOVEN Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11 (1770–1827) Allegro con brio Adagio Tema: Pria ch’io l’impegno. Allegretto – Var. I-IX MIRIAM FRIED, DEBORAH PAE (Steans 2010, 2011) ADAM GOLKA (Steans 2007, 2009) BERNARD RANDS String Quartet No. 2 (b. 1934) I II MIRIAM FRIED and TESSA LARK, (Steans 2007, 2008) AYANE KOZASA (Steans 2010, 2011) and NATHAN VICKERY (Steans 2010, 2011) Intermission SCHUBERT String Quintet in C Major, D. 956 (1797–1828) Allegro ma non troppo Adagio Scherzo: Presto – Trio: Andante sostenuto Allegretto TESSA LARK, MIRIAM FRIED, AYANE KOZASA, DEBORAH PAE and NATHAN VICKERY About the Artists Program director at the Steans Music Institute’s program for piano and strings since 1994, Miriam Fried also teaches at New England Conservatory. She served as first violinist of the recently disbanded Mendelssohn String Quartet and for many years was distinguished professor of music at Indiana University. Winner of Israel’s 10th Anniversary Violin Competition, Genoa’s Paganini International Competition, and Belgium’s Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, she has appeared as soloist with world’s greatest orchestras and is equally active as recitalist and chamber musician both in the United States and abroad. Kentucky native Tessa Lark performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto in G Major at age 16 with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and has since performed with the Santa Cruz Symphony, Peninsula Symphony, Gettysburg Chamber Orchestra, the Chinese Opera and Ballet Symphony Orchestra and New England Conservatory’s Symphony Orchestra (after winning the school’s Violin Concerto Competition in 2010). Lark has given solo recitals on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert series, the Chamber Music Tulsa series and the Caramoor Wednesday Morning Concert series. As a chamber musician, she has participated in the Music in the Vineyards festival and Caramoor’s Rising Star Series as well as many summer festivals and the Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Music Workshop. She has collaborated with artists Itzhak Perlman, Miriam Fried, Donald Weilerstein, Pamela Frank, Anthony Marwood, Peter Frankl, Roger Tapping Ralph Kirshbaum, Timothy Eddy and Ronald Thomas. Keeping in touch with her Kentucky roots, Tessa enjoys playing bluegrass music. She has played with her father’s gospel bluegrass band, since she was eight years old, and has attended Mark O’Connor’s Fiddle Camp in Tennessee. Tessa plays a Giovanni Tononi violin, dated ca. 1690, on loan from the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute. Violist Ayane Kozasa entered the Curtis Institute of Music in 2009 and studies with Misha Amory and Roberto Díaz. Since beginning her musical studies at age four, Ms. Kozasa has been awarded first prize in the Kingsville International Competition (at which she was also awarded the Bach Prize) and Skokie Valley Symphony Concerto Competition. She has been a prizewinner in the Cleveland Institute of Music Concerto Competition as well as the Irving M. Klein International String Competition. She also performs as a substitute in the viola section of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Ms. Kozasa has been a part of several active chamber ensembles. As the violist of the Iannis Quartet, she was invited to participate in the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and studied with the Tokyo String Quartet and the Vermeer Quartet. As the violist of the Juniper Quartet, she was invited to Music from Angel Fire’s Young Artist Program. A frequent participant in festivals, she has attended the Aspen Music Festival and School, Mimir Chamber Music Festival, New York String Orchestra Seminar and Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute. Ms. Kozasa is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music. She also studied violin performance with William Preucil while at CIM, and has worked with Nathan Cole, Cyrus Forough, and Philip Lewis. Since her international debut at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards honoring cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and her European recital debut in 2005 on the Musée de Louvre recital series in Paris, cellist Deborah Pae has performed across four continents and appeared in recital at the invitation of the Colony Club, Young Musicians Forum, Neue Galerie, Musée de Grenoble, Artists Ascending Recital Series, and the Van Wezel Foundation’s Young Artists Series. She has performed at several festivals including Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute, the 7th Adam International Cello Festival in New Zealand and the Perlman Music Program, and has participated in master classes by Alfred Brendel, Wolfgang Emmanuel Schmidt and Ralph Kirshbaum. In 2006, Ms. Pae became the first cellist in 16 years to receive the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s first prize in their 30th Annual Young Artist Auditions. She made her solo debut with the NJSO and since then has also performed as a soloist with the Livingston Symphony Orche-stra and Westchester Philharmonic. Ms. Pae has collaborated with Itzak Perlman, Pamela Frank, Miriam Fried, Paul Biss, Donald Weilerstein and Marcy Rosen. She has performed on several concert series such as the National Arts Club, the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music, and Kean University’s Ars Vitalis Concert Series. Highlights over the last year include concerts in Alice Tully Hall and Jazz at Lincoln Center in collaboration with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the Perlman Music Program. Ms. Pae began her musical studies at the age of four with Nellis Delay, sister of the late Dorothy Delay, and at the age of seven, became the youngest cellist accepted into the Pre-College Division of The Juilliard School under André Emelianoff. She completed her undergraduate studies at Juilliard in 2010 with Joel Krosnick and is currently pursuing a masters degree with Laurence Lesser at New England Conservatory. Ms. Pae plays on a Vuillaume cello ca. 1860 generously on loan to her from the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Music Institute. Cellist Nathan Vickery began his musical studies at age five and currently studies with Peter Wiley at the Curtis Institute of Music. Mr. Vickery has been a prize-winner in numerous competitions including First Prize in the Second International David Popper Cello Competition (high-school division), First Prize in the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s 2005 Maurer Young Musician’s Contest and 2006 Side-By-Side Concerto Competition and the 2008 New World Youth Orchestras Young Artist Competition, among others. He has appeared on NPR’s From the Top, as a soloist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Carmel Symphony Orchestra, and most recently with the Virginia Beach Symphony Orchestra. In 2011, Mr. Vickery participated in a chamber music tour of Europe with Curtis on Tour. As a chamber musician he has collaborated with violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Jonathan Biss and contemporary music ensemble eighth blackbird. As a solo cellist in collaboration with the Indiana University String Academy Chamber Orchestra, Mr. Vickery has performed with violinists Jaime Laredo, Alexander Kerr, Soovin Kim, and Stefan Milenkovich. He has participated in master classes with Janos Starker, Antonio Meneses, Timothy Eddy, Gary Hoffman, Frans Helmerson, Sharon Robinson, and Richard Aaron, among others, and has studied chamber music with Pamela Frank, Steve Tenenbom, Ida Kavafian, Miriam Fried, and Meng-Chieh Liu. Pianist Adam Golka, is the winner of two of America’s prestigious pianistic awards: the 2008 Gilmore Young Artist Award and the 2009 Max I. Allen Classical Fellowship Award of the American Pianists Association. His concerto appearances have included the Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Indianapolis, San Diego, Fort Worth, Syracuse, Albany, Ann Arbor, South Dakota, Pensacola, Mobile, Silicon Valley, West Virginia and Grand Rapids symphonies, the Grand Teton and Colorado music festival orchestras, and orchestras in Europe, Asia and South America. He has collaborated with conductors Donald Runnicles, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Pinchas Zukerman, Michael Christie, Andreas Delfs, David Lockington, Daniel Hege, Michael Morgan and Ryan McAdams as well as his brother, Tomasz Golka. In 2010, Golka made his debut at Carnegie Hall in Isaac Stern Auditorium with the New York Youth Symphony. His solo and chamber music appearances have taken him to venues such as the Concertgebouw (Kleine Zaal) in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall (Weill Recital Hall) concert halls in Tokyo and Osaka, and festivals such as the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Ravinia Festival, Music@Menlo, the Newport Music Festival and the Duszniki Chopin Festival. Upcoming engagements include the Phoenix, Santa Fe, Fairfax and Duluth Superior symphonies; various recitals and a two-night marathon of the complete Beethoven piano concertos with the Lubbock Symphony and his brother Tomasz at the podium. A first generation American, Golka comes from an immigrant family of Polish musicians. Born and raised in Houston, he moved to Fort Worth when he was 15 years-old, to pursue studies with Jose Feghali at Texas Christian University. Currently, Adam is studying with the Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Institute. .