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CURTIS INSTITUTE of MUSIC 2018–19 STUDENT RECITAL SERIES the Edith L CURTIS INSTITUTE OF MUSIC 2018–19 STUDENT RECITAL SERIES The Edith L. and Robert Prostkoff Memorial Concert Series X TWENTIETH STUDENT RECITAL Residency Recital: Jonathan Biss, Miriam Fried, and Mozart’s Sonatas for Piano and Violin Friday, November 30 at 8 p.m. Field Concert Hall X This program is preceded by a conversation between Miriam Fried, guest artist, and Matthew Barker, director of recitals and master classes, at 7:30 pm. Sonata in B-flat major, K. 454 WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Largo-----Allegro (1756–91) Andante Allegretto Emily Shehi, violin Jonathan Biss, piano Sonata in E-flat major, K. 481 MOZART Molto allegro Adagio Allegretto Emma Carina Meinrenken, violin Junhui Chen, piano INTERMISSION Sonata in E minor, K. 304 MOZART Allegro Tempo di menuetto Danny Yehun Jin, violin Avery Gagliano, piano Sonata in A major, K. 526 MOZART Molto allegro Andante Presto Grace Clifford, violin Janice Carissa, piano X Photographic and recording equipment may not be used in Field Concert Hall. Recitals are professionally recorded for educational use and possible broadcast. This concert will be streamed live through YouTube (www.curtis.edu/YouTube). COACHES This program was prepared by Jonathan Biss, faculty, and Miriam Fried, guest artist. PERFORMERS Janice Carissa, from Surabaya, Indonesia, is a student of Gary Graffman and Robert McDonald, and entered Curtis in 2013. Junhui Chen, from Fuzhou, China, is a student of Robert McDonald and entered Curtis in 2015. Grace Clifford, from Sydney, Australia, is a student of Pamela Frank and entered Curtis in 2014. Avery Gagliano, from Washington, D.C., is a student of Jonathan Biss and Gary Graffman, and entered Curtis in 2016. Danny Yehun Jin, from Seoul, is a student of Ida Kavafian and entered Curtis in 2013. Emma Carina Meinrenken, from Toronto, is a student of Ida Kavafian and entered Curtis in 2017. Emily Shehi, from Olathe, Kans., is a student of Ida Kavafian and entered Curtis in 2016. Jonathan Biss (Piano ’01), the Neubauer Family Foundation Chair If students study with more than one faculty member, their teachers are listed alphabetically. JONATHAN BISS Jonathan Biss has appeared as a soloist with the world’s foremost orchestras— including the New York Philharmonic; the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Philharmonia, and Royal Concertgebouw orchestras; and the Chicago, Boston, London, and NHK symphony orchestras—and has given recitals in such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall, Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Théâtre du Châtelet, and the Berliner Philharmonie. An enthusiastic chamber musician, Mr. Biss has collaborated with many of today’s finest players, including Richard Goode, Mitsuko Uchida, Midori, Mark Padmore, the Elias String Quartet, and Miriam Fried. He is the recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Award, the Andrew Wolf Memorial Chamber Music Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the 2003 Borletti- Buitoni Trust Award, among other honors. Mr. Biss is recording the complete Beethoven piano sonatas for Onyx Classics and previously made four CDs for EMI Classics, as well as one for Wigmore Hall Live. He is also a prolific writer and is the first classical musician to publish two Kindle Singles, A Pianist Under the Influence and Beethoven’s Shadow. He studied at Indiana University with Evelyne Brancart and at the Curtis Institute of Music with Leon Fleisher. Mr. Biss joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2011, where he holds the Neubauer Family Chair in Piano Studies. MIRIAM FRIED Miriam Fried has been recognized for years as one of the world’s pre-eminent violinists. A consummate musician—equally accomplished as recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician—she has been heralded for her “fiery intensity and emotional depth” (Musical America), as well as for her technical mastery. She has played with virtually every major orchestra in the United States and Europe and has been a frequent guest with the principal orchestras of Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh, as well as with the Israel Philharmonic, the London Symphony, the Royal Philharmonic, and the Vienna Symphony. Chamber music plays an important role in Ms. Fried’s musical life. She was first violinist of the Mendelssohn String Quartet until it disbanded after 30 years, and has collaborated with such distinguished artists as Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Garrick Ohlsson, and Nathaniel Rosen. She also collaborates with her son, pianist Jonathan Biss; and her husband, violinist/violist Paul Biss. She has been featured guest artist at Chamber Music East in Boston, the La Jolla Chamber Music Society’s SummerFest, the Lockenhaus Festival, and the Naantali Festival in Finland. Ms. Fried’s successful solo career was launched in 1968 after she was awarded First Prize in Genoa’s Paganini International Competition. Three years later she claimed top honors in the Queen Elisabeth International Competition, where she gained further world attention by becoming the first woman ever to win the prestigious award. She came to the United States from her native Israel as a protégée of Isaac Stern, and continued her studies with Ivan Galamian at the Juilliard School and with Joseph Gingold at Indiana University. .
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