MUSIC

BANK OF AMERICA

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 Mark Steinberg violin Serena Canin violin Misha Amory Nina Lee Hsin-Yun Huang viola Pavel Kolesnikov 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.

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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 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 . 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 , 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.

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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, , 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 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 deiDue 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 with groups that include The Handel & Moscow State Conservatory with Sergey Haydn Society of Boston and Opera Lafayette in Washington, D.C. Dorensky, at London’s Royal College of He is on faculty at the University of Maryland. His instrument, Music with Norma Fisher, and at the Queen made in Paris around 1890 by Jerome Thibouville Lamy, now has a Elisabeth Music Chapel with Maria João removable neck for travel. Pires. He made his recital debut in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in 2008 and has since played PEDJA MUZIJEVIC (piano) has performed both as soloist and collaborator throughout Russia, Germany, with the Atlanta Symphony, Residentie Italy, Poland, Spain, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom. He was Orkest in The Hague, St. Paul Chamber a featured artist at the Casalmaggiore International Music Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, Dresden Festival in Italy in 2005 and 2006 and the Verbier Festival and Philharmonic, Shinsei Nihon Orchestra Academy in Switzerland in 2007 and 2009. Recent and upcoming in Tokyo, and Orquesta Sinfonica in engagements include debuts at Berlin’s Konzerthaus, London’s Montevideo, among others. He has played Wigmore Hall, New York’s Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, Canada’s solo recitals in such venues as Alice Tully Hall Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, Banff Summer Arts in New York, Casals Hall in Tokyo, and Teatro Festival, the United Kingdom’s Plush Festival, performances with Municipal in Santiago de Chile. His Carnegie l’Orchestre National de Belgique, and the London Philharmonic Hall concerto debut playing Mozart’s Concerto K. 503 with the Orchestra. Oberlin Symphony and Robert Spano was recorded live and has been released on the Oberlin Music label. Muzijevic’s 2012–13 PETER KOLKAY (bassoon) is the only season includes performances with St. Paul Chamber Orchestra bassoonist to receive an Avery Fisher Career at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., Stanford Live with the Grant and win first prize at the Concert St. Lawrence String Quartet, two solo recitals at Bargemusic in Artists Guild International Competition. He New York, recitals with Simon Keenlyside in Atlanta and with Leila is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society Josefowicz at Dartmouth, as well as festivals in Toronto, Ottawa, of Lincoln Center and is an alumnus of that Bridgehampton, Salt Bay, and Maverick Concerts. organization’s Chamber Music Society Two program. Kolkay joined the faculty of the TARA HELEN O’CONNOR (flute) is a Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University charismatic performer sought after for her as associate professor of bassoon in 2011. Upcoming performance unusual artistic depth, brilliant technique, highlights include the world premiere of Joan Tower’s bassoon and colorful tone in music of every era. concerto with the South Carolina Philharmonic in October 2013. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant Kolkay’s first solo record, BassoonMusic (CAG Records), features and a two-time Grammy nominee, she was 21st-century American bassoon repertoire. A native of Naperville, the first wind player to participate in the Illinois, he is a graduate of Yale University, the Eastman School of Chamber Music Society Two program and Music, and Lawrence University, where he studied with Frank is now an artist of the prestigious Chamber Morelli, John Hunt, Jean Barr, and Monte Perkins. Music Society of Lincoln Center. She appears frequently at Zankel Hall, Symphony Space, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass, , Music from Angel Fire, the Banff Centre, and the Bravo! 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GEOFF NUTTALL (The Charles E. and THE BRENTANO STRING QUARTET has Andrea L. Volpe Director for Chamber Music) appeared throughout the world to popular began playing the violin at age eight after and critical acclaim since its 1992 inception. moving to Ontario from Texas. He spent most In recent seasons the Quartet has traveled of his musical studies under the tutelage of widely, appearing all over the United States, Lorand Fenyves at The Banff Centre, the Canada, Europe, Japan, and Australia. University of Western Ontario, and the The Brentano String Quartet provided the University of Toronto, where he received central music (Beethoven Opus 131) for the his bachelor’s degree. In 1989 Nuttall co- critically acclaimed independent film A Late founded the St. Lawrence String Quartet. As a member of this Quartet. In April 2012, the first of three recordings featuring the world-renowned foursome, he has played over 2,000 concerts late Beethoven Quartets was released on Aeon Records. Previous throughout North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. recordings include a disc of Mozart (also on Aeon) and the Opus Nuttall’s other notable engagements include Arvo Pärt’s Tabula 71 quartets of Haydn. In the area of newer music, the Quartet Rasa concerto for two violins, performed with Barry Shiffman and has released a disc of the music of Steven Mackey on Albany the Los Angeles Philharmonic as part of the Minimalist Jukebox Records, and has also recorded the music of , Chou Festival; and performances with soprano Dawn Upshaw in Peter Wen-chung, and . Beginning in June 2013, the Sellars’s staging of György Kurtág’s Kafka Fragments in New York, Quartet will serve as collaborative ensemble for the Van Cliburn Los Angeles, Berkeley, London, Brussels, and Rome. With the St. International Piano Competition, succeeding the Takacs Quartet. Lawrence String Quartet, Nuttall served as graduate ensemble in residence at The Juilliard School, Yale University, and Hartt School SERENA CANIN (violin) was born into a family of professional of Music, acting as teaching assistants to the Juilliard, Tokyo, and musicians in . An accomplished chamber musician, Emerson string quartets, respectively. He is now on faculty at Canin was twice invited to the Marlboro Music Festival and Stanford University, where the St. Lawrence String Quartet has has toured the United States with Music From Marlboro, the been ensemble in residence since 1999, and makes his home in Brandenburg Ensemble, and Goliard Concerts. In New York, the Bay Area with his wife Livia Sohn and sons, Jack and Ellis. This Canin performs regularly with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the is Nuttall’s fourth season as the Charles E. and Andrea L. Volpe Sea Cliff Chamber Players. She has made frequent appearances Director for Chamber Music. on the Continuum Series at Alice Tully Hall, the Summergarden Series at the Museum of Modern Art, the Garden City Chamber SAMUEL CARL ADAMS (composer) is a Music Society, and the Chamber Music Quad Cities in Davenport, California-born, Brooklyn-based composer Iowa. Canin holds teaching positions at Princeton University and of acoustic and electroacoustic music. His at New York University, and has taught chamber music to young works, hailed as “wondrously alluring” by musicians at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. She the San Francisco Chronicle and “thoroughly has degrees from Swarthmore College and The Juilliard School, ingenious” by the San Francisco Examiner, and her teachers have included Burton Kaplan and . draw from his experiences in a wide array She lives in Manhattan with her husband, pianist Thomas Sauer. of fields including jazz, noise and electronic music, programming, and phonography. He CHRISTOPHER COSTANZA (cello) has has received commissions from The San Francisco Symphony, The enjoyed a varied and exciting career as a New World Symphony, The Paul Dresher Ensemble Electroacoustic soloist, chamber musician, and teacher for Band, ACJW (The Academy, a program of Carnegie Hall, Juilliard, over two decades. A winner of the Young and The Weill Institute of Music), Mobius Trio, and The Living Concert Artists International Auditions and Earth Show. In April of 2013, Adams presented Tension Studies a recipient of a prestigious Solo Recitalists alongside the works of Tyondai Braxton, Ted Hearne, and Matt Grant from the National Endowment for the Marks as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Brooklyn Festival. Arts, Costanza has performed to wide critical In June of 2013, Adams will be composer in residence at the Visby acclaim in nearly every state in the U.S., and International Centre for Composers on Gotland Island, Sweden. in Canada, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Australia, New In the spring of 2014, violinist Anthony Marwood will premiere a Zealand, China, Korea, Germany, France, the U.K., Italy, Spain, the new work with the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra. Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Romania, and Hungary. His summer festival appearances include the Marlboro, Yellow Barn, MISHA AMORY (viola) won the 1991 Naumburg Viola Award and Santa Fe, Taos, Chamber Music Northwest, Seattle, Bay Chamber has been an active soloist and chamber musician ever since. He Concerts, Ottawa, and Bravo! Vail Valley festivals. A graduate of has performed with orchestras in the United States and Europe, the New England Converservatory of Music in Boston, Costanza and has been presented in recital at New York’s Alice Tully Hall, has been a full-time artist-in-residence at Stanford University Los Angeles’s Ambassador series, Philadelphia’s Mozart on the since 2003. In 2012 Costanza launched a website featuring his Square Festival, Houston’s Da Camera series, and Washington’s new recordings of the six suites for solo cello by J.S. Bach. The Phillips Collection. He has been invited to perform at the Marlboro site showcases his recordings in combination with commentary, Festival, the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Vancouver history, web links, and additional Bach-related resources. Visit the Festival, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the site at http://costanzabach.stanford.edu. Boston Chamber Music Society, and has released a recording of Hindemith sonatas on the Musical Heritage Society label. Amory holds degrees from Yale University and The Juilliard School; his principal teachers were Heidi Castleman, Caroline Levine, and Samuel Rhodes. Himself a dedicated teacher, Amory serves on the faculties of The Juilliard School and the Curtis Institute of Music.

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PROGRAM IX Wednesday, June 5 at 1:00pm Thursday, June 6 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

“Concerts Royaux” in D major, No. 2 François Couperin (1668–1733) Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Daniel Phillips, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; James Austin Smith, oboe; Peter Kolkay, bassoon

Sextet Guillaume Connesson (b. 1970) James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Livia Sohn, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

String Quartet in E minor, Op. 44, No. 2 Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47) St. Lawrence String Quartet

PROGRAM X Friday, June 7 at 11:00am and 1:00pm Saturday, June 8 at 11:00am

“Suite d’après Corrette,” Op. 161 Darius Milhaud (1892–1974) James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon

Sonata for Two Violins in A major, Op. 3, No. 2 Jean-Marie LeClair (1697–1764) Daniel Phillips and Livia Sohn, violins

Phantasy Quartet for Oboe and Strings, Op. 2 Benjamin Britten (1913–76) James Austin Smith, oboe; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Lesley Robertson, viola; Christopher Costanza, cello

Symphony in G major, No. 94, “Surprise” Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), arr. Salomon Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, piano; St. Lawrence String Quartet

PROGRAM XI Saturday, June 8 at 1:00pm Sunday, June 9 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

String Octet in B-flat major Max Bruch (1838–1920) Scott St. John, Daniel Phillips, Livia Sohn, and Geoff Nuttall, violins; Hsin-Yun Huang and Lesley Robertson, ; Christopher Costanza, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass

Chamber Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) Bassoon, and Violin in G minor, RV 107 Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Daniel Phillips, violin; Chris Costanza, cello; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord

Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano, FP 43 Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) James Austin Smith, oboe; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Charles Wadsworth, piano

Theme & Variations, “Tzigane” from Les Deux Pigeons André Messager (1853–1929), arr. Todd Palmer St. Lawrence String Quartet; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

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PROGRAM V Thursday, May 30 at 1:00pm Friday, May 31 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

Suite No. 1 for Solo Cello (1685–1750) Christopher Costanza, cello

Fantasy in C major, D. 934 Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Livia Sohn, violin; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

“Sequenza VII” for Solo Oboe Luciano Berio (1925–2003) James Austin Smith, oboe

La Valse Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) Pedja Muzijevic and Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

PROGRAM VI Saturday, June 1 at 11:00am and 1:00pm* Sunday, June 2 at 11:00am

Sonata for Cello and Piano Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Christopher Costanza, cello; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Duo for Flute and Oboe, Op. 13 Alberto Ginastera (1916–83) Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe

String Quartet in F major, Op. 59, No. 1 (1770–1827) St. Lawrence String Quartet

*This chamber music concert has been endowed through the generous support of Gary and Mary Becker.

PROGRAM VII Sunday, June 2 at 1:00pm Monday, June 3 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, “Spring” Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) Livia Sohn, violin; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord; St. Lawrence String Quartet

Sonata for Viola in G major Arnold Bax (1883–1953) Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

String Quartet* Samuel Carl Adams (b. 1985) St. Lawrence String Quartet

Grand Duo Concertant Carol Maria von Weber (1786–1826) Todd Palmer, clarinet; Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

*WORLD PREMIERE

PROGRAM VIII Tuesday, June 4 at 11:00am and 1:00pm Wednesday, June 5 at 11:00am

Quartet in F minor, Op. 20, No. 5 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) St. Lawrence String Quartet

“Bachianas Brasileiras” No.6 for Flute and Bassoon Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959) Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Peter Kolkay, bassoon

Piano Quartet E flat Op. 47 Robert Schumann (1810–56) Daniel Phillips, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Christopher Costanza, cello; Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

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PROGRAM I Friday, May 24 at 1:00pm* Saturday, May 25 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

“Rebonds” for Solo Percussion Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) Steven Schick, percussion

String Quintet in C major, D. 956 Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Brentano String Quartet

*This first concert of the Bank of America chamber music series is dedicated in loving memory of Ted Stern, first chairman of Spoleto Festival USA.

PROGRAM II Sunday, May 26 at 11:00am and 1:00pm Monday, May 27 at 11:00am

“Die Romantiker” Waltz, Op. 167 Joseph Lanner (1801–43) Geoff Nuttall, violin; Livia Sohn, violin; Misha Amory, viola; Anthony Manzo, double bass

“Mariel” for Cello and Marimba Osvaldo Golijov (b.1960) Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Steven Schick, percussion

Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Brentano String Quartet

PROGRAM III Monday, May 27 at 1:00pm Tuesday, May 28 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

Gran Duo Concertante Giovanni Bottesini (1821–89) Livia Sohn, violin; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

“Variations II” John Cage (1912–92) Steven Schick, percussion; Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Geoff Nuttall and Livia Sohn, violins; Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Brentano String Quartet

Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 3 Ernest Chausson (1855–99) Geoff Nuttall, violin; Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Pavel Kolesnikov, piano

PROGRAM IV Wednesday, May 29 at 11:00am and 1:00pm Thursday, May 30 at 11:00am

Concerto for Oboe and Violin in D minor Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688–1758) Livia Sohn, violin; James Austin Smith, oboe; Geoff Nuttall, violin; Mark Steinberg, violin; Misha Armory, viola; Nina Lee, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord

Selections from Duo, Op. 44 Béla Bartók (1881–1945) Geoff Nuttall and Livia Sohn, violins

Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34 Johannes Brahms (1833–97) Pavel Kolesnikov, piano; Brentano String Quartet*

*On Wednesday, May 29 at 7:00pm, Spoleto Festival USA will host an exclusive screening of the critically acclaimed film A Late Quartet that features The Brentano String Quartet. This event takes place at the Terrace Theater, located at 1956-D Maybank Highway in Charleston, SC. For details, visit www.spoletousa.org.

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MARK STEINBERG (violin) is an active chamber musician CHARLES WADSWORTH (piano) has and recitalist. He has been heard in chamber music festivals in been a Festival favorite as pianist and host of Holland, Germany, Austria, and France and participated for four Spoleto Festival USA’s twice-daily chamber summers in the Marlboro Music Festival, with which he has toured music concerts from 1977–2009, a post he extensively. Steinberg has also appeared in the El Paso Festival, on took at ’s request after he the Bargemusic series in New York, at Chamber Music Northwest, directed the chamber series at the Festival with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and in trio of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, beginning and duo concerts with pianist Mitsuko Uchida, with whom he in 1959. As the founding artistic director presented the complete Mozart sonata cycle in London’s Wigmore of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Hall in 2001, with additional recitals in other cities, a project that Center from 1969–1989, Wadsworth brought chamber music continues for the next few years. He has taught at Juilliard’s Pre- to unprecedented popularity. His innovative programming, his College division, at Princeton University, and New York University, inclusion of major soloists, and a wide range of repertoire inspired and is currently on the violin faculty of the Mannes College of a new generation of virtuoso musicians to perform chamber music Music. An advocate of contemporary music, Steinberg has worked concerts and festivals worldwide. Wadsworth has been colleague closely with many composers and performed, recorded, and and collaborator with many of the world’s outstanding musicians toured with several esteemed 20th-century music ensembles. including , , and Dietrich Fischer- Dieskau. His innovations at Lincoln Center included commissioning SCOTT ST. JOHN (violin) made his works from myriad composers, including Barber, Bernstein, Carnegie Hall debut in 1988 after winning Bolcom, Boulez, Corigliano, and Menotti. Wadsworth has played first prize in the Alexander Schneider at The White House for Presidents Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Competition; he also won the Young Concert and Reagan. He has been awarded New York’s highest honor, the Artists Award and an Avery Fisher Career Handel Medallion; South Carolina’s Order of the Palmetto and the Grant. Concertos and recitals were part Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Award; and honorary doctorates from the of St. John’s early professional life, with University of South Carolina, Converse College, Coker College, and performances all across Canada, the U.S., Connecticut College. Wadsworth was inducted into the American New Zealand, and Germany. He is especially Hall of Fame in 2012. proud of a recording produced with pianist Rena Sharon; the disc is entitled Salon Parisien. More recently Scott and his sister Lara ALISA WEILERSTEIN (cello) has teamed up for a recording of Mozart’s Symphonie Concertante attracted widespread attention worldwide with the Knights Orchestra, which won a Juno Award in Canada. for playing that combines natural virtuosic St. John is a violinist in the St. Lawrence String Quartet and artist in command and technical precision with residence at Stanford University. The foursome regularly delivers impassioned musicianship. The intensity of traditional quartet repertoire, but is also fervently committed to her playing has regularly been lauded, as performing and expanding the works of living composers. This has the spontaneity and sensitivity of her season sees them performing new works by both John Adams and interpretations. In September 2011 she was Osvaldo Golijov. named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and in 2010 she became an exclusive recording artist for Decca Classics, THE ST. LAWRENCE the first cellist to be signed by the prestigious label in over 30 years. STRING QUARTET (SLSQ), Her debut album, released in North America on October 30, 2012, established in 1989, has features the Elliott Carter and Elgar Cello Concertos with Daniel developed an undisputed Barenboim and the Berlin Staatskapelle. Weilerstein’s 2013–14 reputation as a truly world- season includes tours throughout the United States, Europe, and class chamber ensemble. Asia and engagements with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Since winning both the Banff Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the International String Quartet New York Philharmonic, the Osaka Philharmonic in Japan, the San Competition and Young Francisco Symphony, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Concert Artists International Auditions in 1992, the quartet has delighted audiences with its spontaneous, passionate, and dynamic performances. Alex Ross of The New Yorker writes, “the St. Lawrence are remarkable not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the act of connection.” The SLSQ maintains a busy touring schedule; some 2012–13 season highlights include a Carnegie Hall appearance, two visits to London (Wigmore Hall and the Barbican), and performances in San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall of Absolute Jest by John Adams with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony (written for the SLSQ, SF Symphony, and MTT). Since 1998 the SLSQ has held the position of ensemble in residence at Stanford University. Deeply committed to the creation of new works, the SLSQ maintains active working relationships with many prominent composers including John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, Jonathan Berger, and a great many others.

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