The Presents ChamberFest 2020

Monday, January 13, 2019, 4:30pm Paul Hall

WALTON in D Minor

Hee Yeon Jung Violinist Hee Yeon Jung was born in Seoul and started studying the at age 9. She made her debut with Korea’s Guri Philharmonic at 11. Jung won second prize at the 2010 Osaka International Music Competition. As a member of the Con Spirito , she won the 18th Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation audition and performed at Kumho Art Hall’s young chamber series . Jung is pursuing her master’s at Juilliard with Sally Thomas and Ann Setzer. She received her bachelor of music degree at Yonsei University in Seoul, studying with Yoonjae Choi, and made her New York debut at Merkin Concert Hall in 2018. • Irene Diamond Graduate Fellowship, Cara and Hiram Lewine Scholarship

Shuhan Wang Shuhan Wang was born in Nanjing, , and started studying the viola at age 12 under the tutelage of Li Sheng at Middle School Affiliated to Conservatory of Music. As a player, Wang participated in the Music Prodigy Search program at Shanghai Oriental Art Center. She also attended the Chamber Music Art Week invitational competition of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, where she received honorable mention as part of the Phoenix Quartet. She was a participant in Chamberfest and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in 2019. Wang began studying for her bachelor’s at Juilliard under the guidance of Misha Amory and Hsin-Yun Huang in 2018. • Jody and Gerard Schwarz Scholarship, Kurt and Maria Wolter Scholarship

Xinyue Zhu Chinese cellist Xinyue Zhu is a freshman at Juilliard under the guidance of Joel Krosnick. She started studying under Min Cao Who of Shanghai Conservatory of Music when she was 9. Zhu has won many competitions and appeared at winners’ recitals including the 27th Flame Competition, first prize (2016, Paris); third Hong Kong International Music Festival, winner (2016); ninth Philadelphia International Music Competition, special prize (2017); and 12th Jan Vychytil Competition, first prize (2018). For the past three years, she attended two National Youth Orchestra of China performance tours and the Gonggeng College Summer Music Camp/Tanggong Music Festival in Suichang, China. In 2015 Zhu established the Dongping Quartet with three schoolmates under the tutelage of Shuting Wu; it was selected to attend the exchange activities and performances with Xi’an Conservatory of Music, Scotch College in Melbourne, and Ehingen National Conservatory of Music, in Germany, from 2016 to 2018. Dongping Quartet won second prize of the Chamber Music Competition of Music Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 2016. • Juilliard Scholarship

Xiaofu Ju Xiaofu Ju, who started playing piano at age 4 and made his debut at 7, began his studies with Jun Xu, later continuing with Shikun Liu and Ting Zhou. He graduated from the Music Middle School Affiliated to Shanghai Conservatory of Music and began at Juilliard in 2018, studying with Yoheved Kaplinsky. He has been taught by Jörg Demüs, , Arie Vardi, Julian Martin, Robert Levin, Vladimir Viardo, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Thomas Vasary, Pavlina Dokovska, Marc Silverman, Boris Berman, Andreas Weber, Pavel Gililov, and Dina Yoffe. • Martin Canin Scholarship, Kenneth M. and Josephine J. Bissell Scholarship, Adele Marcus Scholarship

ARENSKY Piano in D Major, Op. 51

Ben Pawlak Ben Pawlak is a graduate of Texas Christian University, where he studied with John Owings, and Ithaca College, where he studied with Vadim Serebryany, Jennifer Hayghe, and the late Greg DeTurck. He is pursuing his master’s in collaborative piano at Juilliard with Jonathan Feldman. As an undergrad, he twice won the School of Music’s concerto competition, making his solo debut playing Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto and Ravel’s Concerto in G. He made his professional concerto debut playing Liszt’s Concerto No. 1 with the Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes. Pawlak has attended several summer festivals, including the Brancaleoni International Music Festival in Piobbico, Italy; Brevard Music Center; and Credo Chamber Music. He has professionally toured with violinist Maria Beltavski, giving several in 2017 and 2018. A native of Horseheads, New York, he now lives in Manhattan. • William Randolph Hearst Foundation Scholarship, Therese and Isidore Kleppel Memorial Scholarship

Emma Richman Emma Richman, a native of Minneapolis, began studying the violin at age 5 with Susan Crawford at the Northern Lights School for Violin. She deepened her musical studies with the Minnesota Youth Symphonies and developed a passion for chamber music in the Artaria Chamber Music School. In 2015 she began studying with Minnesota Orchestra concertmaster Erin Keefe, taking a gap year to continue her studies with Keefe before attending Juilliard in the studio of Laurie Smukler. Richman has attended many summer festivals, including the Heifetz International Music Institute, Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn, and National Youth Orchestra, earning the role of concertmaster for its 2015 tour of China. Most recently, she participated in the inaugural tour of the Cuban American Youth Orchestra in Havana, intensive chamber music programs at Domaine Forget in Quebec, and Fontainebleau Schools in France. Richman is in her third year at Juilliard under the instruction of Areta Zhulla. • C.V. Starr Scholarship, Frances I. Cheyne Scholarship, Harriet and David Colvin Scholarship

Nathan Meltzer Juilliard sophomore and violinist Nathan Meltzer plays this season at the Musical de l’Orne in France, Giardini La Mortella in Italy, Aalborg Symfoniorkester in Denmark, and with the Royal Northern Sinfonia in the U.K. Last fall he gave the Gessner-Schocken recital in Cambridge and recorded his first CD. This spring he performs with Omega Ensemble and the Adelphi and Charlotte Civic . Meltzer has been a soloist with the Orchestre National d'Île-de-France, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Medellín, Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción, Berliner Symphoniker, Pittsburgh Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, and Bloomington, Evansville, and Muncie orchestras. He has participated in ChamberFest Cleveland, the Heidelberger Frühling, Moritzburg Festival, Perlman Chamber Workshop, and Verbier Festival Academy. Meltzer performs on the “Ames, Totenberg” Antonio Stradivari violin, Cremona 1734, which is on loan from Rare in Consortium. • Dorothy Starling Scholarship

Devin Moore Violist Devin Moore, a native of Pittsburgh, is a junior at Juilliard under the private instruction of Samuel Rhodes. Moore is an alumnus of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra, where he held many principal/leadership positions. He was a winner of the Montgomery Fellowship Award and Quartet Position. He has also performed as a soloist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. In 2016 he was a violinist in the National Youth Orchestra of the of America. In 2018 he was awarded an Orchestral Viola Fellowship at the Aspen Music Festival and School and was accepted into the Finckel-Wu Han Chamber Music Studio. Last summer Moore attended the Sarasota Music Festival, where he was principal with the Sarasota Festival Orchestra and performed Mendelssohn’s Octet with the Pacifica String Quartet. In 2018 he won Manhattan School of Music’s viola competition, performing Berlioz’s Harold in Italy with the MSM Symphony under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. At Juilliard, Moore has been principal violist of the Juilliard Orientation Orchestra. • Juilliard Scholarship

Joshua McClendon Cellist Joshua McClendon is pursuing his bachelor’s at Juilliard under Richard Aaron. He began his cello studies at age 8 under the tutelage of Detroit Symphony Orchestra cellist Paul Wingert. Since then, McClendon has attended the Meadowmount School of Music and the Aspen Music Festival and School. He has collaborated with musicians such as Ida Kavafian, Jonathan Koh, Eric Kim, Wei Yu, Joshua Roman, and Astrid Schween as well as the Juilliard, Escher, Pro Arte, JACK, and Cavani string . A laureate in the 2017 Sphinx Competition, McClendon has appeared in his native Detroit as a soloist with the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra at the 2017 League of American Orchestras Conference, and Detroit Symphony Orchestra. He performs on a 1933 Karel Vavra cello generously on loan by the Virtu Foundation. • C.V. Starr Scholarship, Katherine Hufnagel Scholarship in Memory of Lowell B. Miller

TCHAIKOVSKY String Sextet in D Minor, “Souvenir De Florence,” Op. 70

Phoenix Avalon replaces Clara Neubauer on violin.

Phoenix Avalon Phoenix Avalon is studying with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin at Juilliard. Previously he was a scholarship student at the Cleveland Institute of Music Young Artist Program with Jaime Laredo and Jan Sloman; studied chamber music with members of the Cavani and Cleveland Quartets; and attended the Meadowmount School of Music and Perlman Music Program. Avalon has performed with the Jena Philharmonic, Cleveland POPS Orchestra, Boulder Symphony, Arapahoe Philharmonic, New Mexico Philharmonic, and Performance Santa Fe Orchestras. He has been featured on national radio programs Performance Today and From the Top as well as giving a solo presentation for TedXABQ. He has won numerous competitions, most recently first prize at the Louis Spohr International Violin Competition, third place at the Johansen International Competition, and silver medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Association with the Razumovsky Quartet. Avalon is recipient of a 2019 EMCY award. Actively dedicated to community service, he has played for numerous fundraisers and outreach programs and has developed and toured an interactive presentation of history for school children as part of From the Top’s Leadership Training. He plays a Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume violin (c. 1850), generously loaned by Kenneth Warren and Son Ltd. of Chicago; and, in addition to violin, enjoys philosophy, history and cooking. • Juilliard Scholarship

Amy Oh Amy Oh is a freshman at Juilliard studying with Joel Smirnoff and Catherine Cho. She was a semifinalist at the Tchaikovsky Competition for Young Violinists and Louis Spohr Competition. She has attended the Great Mountains Music Festival and Ishikawa Music Academy from 2014 to 2018, winning the Ishikawa Music Academy award. She has given numerous solo concerts at Paul Hall and Morse Hall and chamber music performances at Alice Tully Hall. • Edna Reifsnider Scholarship, Richard A. Holman Scholarship

Laura Liu Miami native Laura Liu studies with Cynthia Phelps at Juilliard. She made her orchestral debut as winner of the New World Symphony Side-by-Side Concerto Competition. She also performed with the Alhambra Orchestra as winner of its Concerto Competition and was a finalist in the Blount-Slawson Competition. This season she was a National Young Arts Foundation winner, assistant principal viola of the 50th anniversary New York String Orchestra Seminar in Carnegie Hall, and 2019 Southeastern Region winner of the NFMC Wendell Irish viola award. Liu was principal viola of the Greater Miami Youth Symphony for five years and attended Music Academy of the West, Heifetz International Music Institute, and Music@Menlo. She previously studied with Michael Klotz, violist of the Amernet String Quartet, and performed in master classes for Richard O’Neill, Roberto Díaz, Paul Neubauer, Wesley Collins, Karen Dreyfus, and Vivek Kamath. • Kovner Fellowship

Miranda Lucas Miranda Lucas, a graduate of the Interlochen Arts Academy, began studying the viola in high school. She studies with Heidi Castleman and Steve Tenenbom at Juilliard. Her previous teachers are Doris Lederer and Renee Skerik. She has participated in numerous summer festivals including the Castleman Quartet Program, Curtis Summerfest, and National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America through Carnegie Hall. In addition, she toured with the Shenandoah Conservatory Symphony Orchestra in Argentina while in high school. • Jerome L. Greene Fellowship

Mizuki Hayakawa Mizuki Hayakawa is a student of Natasha Brofsky at Juilliard. She began her musical studies in on the violin, and after moving to the U.S., grew interested in the cello, soon studying with Nicole Johnson in Scarsdale, New York. She later studied at Juilliard Pre-College with Natasha Brofsky. She has since won competitions as a soloist and chamber musician. During the summer, Hayakawa has attended Greenwood Music Camp, Young Artists Orchestra at Boston University/ Tanglewood Institute, YellowBarn young artists program, and Music Academy of the West. She is a substitute cellist for the New World Symphony and has performed in master classes with Richard Aaron, Norman Fischer, Clive Greensmith, Alan Harris, Kim Kashkashian, Paul Katz, Fred Sherry, Mark Steinberg, Roger Tapping, Paul Watkins, Shanghai Quartet, and Muir Quartet. • Frederic Houston Williams Scholarship, Bidù Sayão Scholarship

Charles Zandieh Charles Zandieh started his cello studies at age 4 on Long Island with Alex Croxton and continued in Manhattan at age 7. He attended Juilliard Pre-College, studying with Clara Kim. Zandieh is a two-time winner of the Juilliard Pre-College Cello Concerto Competition, a two-time YoungArts winner, and a major prize winner in the Ensemble 212 Young Artist Competition, Adelphi Orchestra Competition, and 21st New York Music Competition. He has performed extensively around the tristate area, including at Carnegie Hall, the Tilles Center, Peter Jay Sharp Theater, and Alice Tully Hall. Zandieh is a freshman at Juilliard, studying with Clara Kim. • Lillie Chasinoff Miller Scholarship, Michael and Ethel Cohen Scholarship, Stephen E. Somers Scholarship