MUSIC BANK OF AMERICA CHAMBER MUSIC Dock Street Theatre May 24 at 1:00pm May 25—June 9 at 11:00am and 1:00pm SPONSORED BY BANK OF AMERICA Geoff Nuttall, The Charles E. and Andrea L. Volpe Director for Chamber Music ARTISTS Samuel Carl Adams Composer in Residence Brentano String Quartet Mark Steinberg violin Serena Canin violin Misha Amory viola Nina Lee cello Hsin-Yun Huang viola Pavel Kolesnikov piano Peter Kolkay bassoon Anthony Manzo double bass Pedja Muzijevic piano, harpsichord Tara Helen O’Connor flute Todd Palmer clarinet Daniel Phillips violin Steven Schick percussion James Austin Smith oboe Livia Sohn violin St. Lawrence String Quartet Geoff Nuttall violin Scott St. John violin Lesley Robertson viola Christopher Costanza cello Charles Wadsworth piano Alisa Weilerstein cello Additional support provided by Palmetto Partners, LTD. The St. Lawrence String Quartet is the Arthur and Holly Magill Quartet in Residence. These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina. The Chamber Music curtain in the Dock Street Theatre was designed and painted by Christian Thee. 65 MUSIC BANK OF AMERICA CHAMBER MUSIC her concerto debut performance at the Mainly Mozart Festival STEVEN SCHICK (percussion) has been with Maestro David Atherton, and made appearances at the a champion of contemporary music for Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival, the Avila Chamber Music thirty-five years, commissioning and Celebration in Curaçao, and concerts in Hawaii and Georgia with premiering more than 105 new works. the Chamber Music Society. He was the founding percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars (1992–2002) and TODD PALMER (clarinet) has appeared as served as artistic director of the Centre a soloist with many symphony and chamber International de Percussion de Genève orchestras, and as a recitalist, chamber (2000-05). Schick is founder and artistic musician, educator, arranger, and presenter director of the percussion group red fish blue fish. Currently he around the world. A three-time Grammy is music director of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus and artistic nominee and a winner of the Young Concert director of the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. In Artists Auditions, Palmer has collaborated 2012 he became the first artist in residence with the International with such world-class string ensembles Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). He also maintains a lively schedule as the St. Lawrence, Brentano, Borromeo, of guest conducting including appearances with the BBC Scottish Daedalus, and Pacifica Quartets, as well as sopranos Kathleen Symphony Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Battle, Renée Fleming, Elizabeth Futral, Heidi Grant Murphy, and Schick founded and is currently artistic director of “Roots and Dawn Upshaw. Some of this season’s highlights include giving the Rhizomes,” a summer course on contemporary percussion music world premiere of choreographer Mark Morris’s new dance work held at the Banff Centre. for clarinet, Crosswalk; collaborative programs with composers Thomas Adès, Osvaldo Golijov, and Ricky Gordon, who composed JAMES AUSTIN SMITH (oboe) is an active the song cycle Orpheus and Euridice for Palmer; a Boston premiere performer of and advocate for chamber of his Debussy Rhapsodie arrangement for chamber ensemble; and new music. Smith is an artist of the summer faculty membership at the Banff Centre; and a Ponant International Contemporary Ensemble music cruise of the Greek Islands and Istanbul. (ICE), Talea, The Declassified, and a regular guest of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. DANIEL PHILLIPS (violin) began violin In the fall of 2012 he became a member of at age 4 with his father, a violinist in the Chamber Music Society Two at the Chamber Pittsburgh Symphony. He studied with Ivan Music Society of Lincoln Center and joined Galamian and Sally Thomas at Juilliard, and the oboe faculty of the State University of New York at Purchase. later with Sandor Vegh and George Neikrug. Smith’s festival appearances include Marlboro, Lucerne, Chamber He won the Young Concert Artists Auditions Music Northwest, Schleswig-Holstein, and Schwetzingen. He in 1976, and participated in the very first holds bachelor’s degrees in music and political science from Spoleto Festival USA. He is a founding Northwestern University, a master’s degree from the Yale School member of the 25-year-old Orion String of Music, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Leipzig, Germany. His Quartet, in residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln principal teachers are Stephen Taylor, Christian Wetzel, Humbert Center. They recently collaborated in a two-week run with the Bill Lucarelli, and Ray Still. T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and appeared at Esterhaza in Austria, where Haydn wrote his string quartets. In 1985, Phillips LIVIA SOHN (violin) performs widely on toured and recorded in a string quartet with Gidon Kremer, Kim the international stage as concerto soloist, Kashkashian, and Yo-Yo Ma. He is professor of violin at the Aaron recitalist, and festival guest in Europe, Copland School of Music at Queens College, plus on the faculties North America, South America, Asia, Africa, of the Mannes College of Music and Bard College Conservatory. and New Zealand. This past season saw Phillips lives with his wife, flutist Tara O’Connor, in Manhattan. her performing wide-ranging concertos from Tchaikovsky and Bruch, to Britten and LESLEY ROBERTSON (viola), a native of Korngold, with orchestras in North America Edmonton, Alberta, is a graduate of both and Europe. In March 2013, the label the Curtis Institute of Music and The Juilliard Eloquentia released a recording featuring her in the Britten Violin School. As a member of the St. Lawrence Concerto, as well as a new Jonathan Berger concerto, premiered String quartet for 22 years, Robertson has by and written for her. She attended the Juilliard Pre-College been privileged to perform in some of Division from the age of 7, at which time she began her studies the world’s most renowned concert halls with Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang. She continued under their including Amsterdam’s Konzertgebau, New tutelage at The Juilliard School, where she also studied chamber York’s Lincoln Center, and Paris’s Théâtre de music with the legendary Felix Galamir. Sohn plays on a J.B. la Ville, as well as more unusual venues such as Hanoi’s French Guadagnini violin crafted in 1770 and a Samuel Zygmuntowicz Opera House, Luxembourg’s Bourglinster Castle, and The White made in 2006. She has been on faculty at the music department House. Apart from the SLSQ, Robertson has recently appeared of Stanford University in California since 2005. as a guest with the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the Tokyo String Quartet, the Ying String Quartet, and the Pacifica String Quartet. She has served on the juries of the Banff international String Quartet Competition and the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition. Away from the viola, Robertson gleefully enjoys motherhood and the great outdoors. 71 MUSIC BANK OF AMERICA CHAMBER MUSIC HSIN-YUN HUANG (viola) was the NINA LEE (cello) is an active chamber musician who has youngest (age 17) gold medalist at the Lionel collaborated with many artists such as Felix Galimir, Jaime Laredo, Tertis International Viola Competition. In David Soyer, Nobuko Imai, Isidore Cohen, and Mitsuko Uchida, 1993, she took the top prize at the ARD and has performed at the Marlboro and Tanglewood Music Competition in Munich, winning at the same Festivals. She has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has time Japan’s prestigious Bunkamura Orchard participated in the El Paso International Chamber Music Festival. Hall award. She has appeared as a soloist She is the recipient of a Music Certificate from the Curtis Institute with the Berlin Radio Symphony, the Russian of Music, and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from The State Symphony, the Tokyo Philharmonic, Juilliard School, where her teacher was Joel Krosnick. Lee teaches the Zagrab Soloists, the Bavarian Symphony Orchestra, and the at Princeton University and Columbia University. National Symphony of Taiwan. Recent highlights include concerto appearance in New York’s Central Park and collaboration with the ANTHONY MANZO (double bass) enjoys Guaneri, the Juilliard, the Brentano, and the St. Lawrence String performing in a broad variety of musical Quartets. Huang is also an eminent chamber musician. She has forums, despite the complications of airline made appearances in numerous international chamber music travel with a double bass! A sought-after festivals, including the Marlboro Festival; the Festival dei Due chamber musician, he is the solo bassist Mondi in Spoleto, Italy; the Stavanger Festival in Norway; the for San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Rome Chamber Music Festival; the Vancouver Chamber Music Orchestra and a regular guest artist with Festival; and the Moritzburg Festival in Dresden. the National Symphony in Washington, D.C. and Camerata Salzburg in Austria. Recent PAVEL KOLESNIKOV’S (piano) playing highlights include two critically acclaimed European tours with was described by The Telegraph as having Camerata Salzburg as a soloist alongside bass-baritone Thomas “brilliance, but also a caressing, almost Quasthoff, as well as performances with the St. Lawrence String sly intimacy”. Kolesnikov, who was named Quartet and the Auryn Quartet. Manzo is also an active performer Honens Prize Laureate in 2012, studies at on period instruments