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Inna Faliks PIANOWEEKDAY / DATE / TIME Robert Davidovici VIOLINARTISTS LINE-UP Robert Brophy VIOLANAME NAME Inbal INSTRUMENT Segev CELLONAME NAME INSTRUMENT NAME NAME There INSTRUMENT will be no intermission. NAME NAME Please INSTRUMENT join us after the performance for refreshments and a conversation with the performers.

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LudwigCOMPOSER van Beethoven (1770-1827) StringTITLE Trio in C minor, Op. 9 No. 3 I.Allegro MOVEMENTS con spirito II.Adagio MOVEMENTS con espressione III.Scherzo. MOVEMENTS Allegro molto e vivace IV.Finale. MOVEMENTS Presto

DmitriINTERMISSION Shostakovich (1906-1975) Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor, Op. 40 (1934) COMPOSER Allegro non troppo TITLEAllegro I.Largo MOVEMENTS II.Allegro MOVEMENTS III. MOVEMENTS RobertIV. MOVEMENTS Schumann (1810-1856) Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47 Sostenuto assai – Allegro ma non troppo Scherzo. Molto vivace Andante cantabile Finale. Vivace

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Ukrainian-born American pianist partnerships include work with assistant to the Juilliard String INNA FALIKS (PIANO) has established musicians such as Gilbert Kalish, Quartet. He has collaborated herself as one of the most exciting, Ron Leonard, Fred Sherry, Ilya Kaler, in concert with such esteemed committed, communicative and Wendy Warner, Clive Greensmith artists as Yo-Yo Ma, Isaac Stern, poetic artists of her generation. and many others. Faliks is a founding Lynn Harrell, Yefim Bronfman, Faliks has made a name for member of the Hollywood Piano Cho Liang-Lin and Emanuel Ax, herself through her commanding Trio, with Roberto Cani and Robert among others. Carnegie Hall has performances of standard piano deMaine. Faliks is the founder and featured him as part of its repertoire, as well genre-bending curator of the award winning poetry- “American Music Masters” series interdisciplinary projects and music series Music/Words, creating and he was the subject of a television inquisitive work with contemporary performances in collaboration with special on WGBH Boston. His composers. After her acclaimed distinguished poets. This has been multifaceted career has included being teenage debuts at the Gilmore described as “surreal, impactful, Concertmaster of such orchestras as Festival and with the Chicago and relevant” (Lucid Culture). the Osaka Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, she has Her long-standing relationship with Symphony, The Residentie Orchestra performed on many of the world’s WFMT radio has led to multiple (The Hague) and Cincinnati Symphony, great stages, with numerous broadcasts of Music/Words, which as well as the Grand Teton Music orchestras, in solo appearances and she had produced alongside some Festival and Chautauqua and with conductors such as Leonard of the nation’s most recognized Colorado Music Festival Orchestras. Slatkin and Keith Lockhart. Faliks poets in performances throughout In addition to his solo engagements, is currently Professor of Piano and the United States. Faliks is equally at he is Artist-in-Residence and Head of Piano at UCLA. Ms. Faliks’s home with standard repertoire, rare Professor of Violin at Florida distinguished career has taken her and new music, and interdisciplinary International University in Miami. to thousands of recitals and concerti performances. She recently He is a guest professor at leading throughout the US, Asia, Europe and co-starred with Downton Abbey star music schools around the world, most the Middle East. Highlights of recent Lesley Nicol in Admission – One Shilling, recently at the Musashino Academia seasons include performances in a play for pianist and actor about Musicae in Tokyo, Universities of the Ravinia Festival and the National the life of Dame Myra Hess, the great Washington and British Columbia and Gallery in DC, recital tours of China British pianist. Most recently, she the Australian National University. with appearances in all the major halls is touring with her autobiographical The Montréal La Presse said that, such as Beijing Center for Performing recital-monologue, “Polonaise- “Robert Davidovici is a born violinist Arts, Shanghai Oriental Arts Theater Fantasie, the Story of a Pianist” in the most complete sense of and Tianjin Grand Theater, as well thoughout the US and Canada. the word.” In October 2013, he as acclaimed performances at the Faliks is internationally in demand performed the Beethoven Violin Festival Internacional de Piano in as an Artist Teacher, and frequently Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Mexico, in the Fazioli Series in Italy adjudicates competitions, gives Orchestra (RPO) under Grzegorz Nowak, and in Israel’s Tel Aviv Museum, at master classes and travels to Artist after which he recorded his second Portland Piano Festival and with the Residencies in major conservatories CD with the RPO under G. Nowak, Camerata Pacifica, with the modern and universities around the world. containing the Beethoven and dance troupe BODYTRAFFIC at Her past teachers included Leon Mendelssohn Concerti. The reviews The Broad Stage in Santa Monica and Fleisher, Boris Petrushansky, Gilbert for the first CD with the RPO, under the Jacaranda series in Los Angeles, Kalish, Ann Schein and Emilio del G. Nowak, released in the autumn where she performed Rzewski’s Rosario. Inna Faliks is a Yamaha Artist. of 2013, comment on “the fantastic The People United Will Never Be performance of the Kletzki Violin Defeated! Faliks has been featured ROBERT DAVIDOVICI (VIOLIN) Concerto and Robert Davidovici’s on WQXR, WNYC, WFMT and many is acclaimed in the United States, full-blooded tone being just what international television broadcasts, Canada, Europe, South America, the work deserves” (TheArtsDesk. and has performed in many other Australia and Asia as a virtuoso com). He returned to London in major venues, such as Carnegie in concerto, recital and chamber February 2015 to perform the Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Metropolitan music performances who combines Tchaikovsky and Brahms Violin Museum of Art, Paris’ Salle Cortot, spectacular technique, wide-ranging Concerti, again with the RPO Chicago’s Symphony Center, Moscow’s repertoire and magnificent artistry under Maestro Nowak. In February Tchaikovsky Hall and in many with an exciting, compelling stage 2007, he was soloist at Lincoln important festivals such as Verbier, presence. Born in Transylvania, Center’s Avery Fisher Hall in the Newport, Portland International, Romania, he began his studies as a American premiere of the Kletzki Music in the Mountains, Mondo Musica student of David Oistrakh. He went Violin Concerto (1928) with the Cremona, Brevard, Taos, International on to study with Ivan Galamian at American Symphony Orchestra Keyboard Festival in NYC, Bargemusic the Juilliard School, where, upon conducted by Leon Botstein, and Chautauqua. Her chamber music graduating, he became a teaching following which The New York Times

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commented on the “excellent” former member of the Ensō Quartet, She is also a founding member of the performance. The New York Times, Robert has worked with many leading Amerigo Trio with former New York in describing his performance composers of the 20th and 21st Philharmonic concertmaster Glenn on Bach’s Solo Sonata No. 1 said, centuries, including Joan Tower, Dicterow and violist Karen Dreyfus. “he played cleanly and without William Bolcom, Tan Dun and Bernard Inbal’s discography includes Bach Cello affectation. Contrapuntal lines Rands. Of the Ensō Quartet’s concerts, Suites (Vox 2015), In Truth works by emerged clearly because multiple the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette noted, Lucas Richman with the Pittsburgh stops stayed in tune, and a fast, tight “It was standing room only,” while Symphony (Albany 2015), Beethoven and vibrato helped keep the music from The Strad applauded their “totally Boccherini Cello Sonatas (Opus One), sounding expressive in a 19th-century committed, imaginative interpretation.” Nigun (Vox) and Max Schubel’s Esquisses manner. This was, in fact, excellent The quartet earned its place in the en Desarroi, Cello and Horn Double Bach.” In describing his performance ensemble world with multiple honors Concerto (Opus One). With the of the Bernstein Serenade, at the 2004 Banff International String Amerigo Trio she has recorded The New York Times stated that Quartet Competition, including best serenades by Dohnányi (Navona) and “it would have been hard to performance of the pièce de concert, Chopin, Schumann, Grieg (Avie) with imagine a sweeter performance,” for the quartet’s riveting performance pianist Juho Pohjonen. Her many and the Sydney Morning Herald wrote, of Stewart Grant’s String Quartet honors include the America-Israel “Robert Davidovici lingered lovingly No. 2. It also won awards at the 2003 Cultural Foundation Scholarship over the poetic passages of the Concert Artists Guild International, and top prizes at the Pablo Casals, Tchaikovsky Concerto, and ignited the Fischoff National Chamber Music Paulo and Washington International the fiery ones with passion.” and the Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competitions. She began playing the Fanfare Magazine commented on competitions. Robert can be heard on cello in Israel at age five and at 16 was his first CD that “Davidovici handles two recordings with the Ensō Quartet invited by Isaac Stern to come to the the five compositional styles with on the Naxos label. In Los Angeles, U.S. to continue her studies. She holds confidence. His tone is ripe, his Robert continues his quartet life as degrees from The Juilliard School and intonation dead on and he plays with a member of the New Hollywood Yale University. She lives in New York aplomb. This is an impressive disc String Quartet, performing with them with her husband and three children. debut.” He has recorded as violin throughout the Southland for the Her cello was made by Francesco soloist with the London Symphony last six years. This quartet recently Ruggieri in 1673. Her YouTube channel, Orchestra for Cala Records. His CD became quartet-in-residence at featuring music videos and her popular Mélodie-The Art of Robert Davidovici South Pasadena Library’s Restoration masterclass series Musings with Inbal was selected as one of the top 30 Concert Series. Robert holds degrees Segev, has thousands of subscribers CD releases in Japan in 1995. He from the Royal Northern College of and nearly half a million views. may also be heard on New World Music in Manchester, England and Records, Centaur, Clavier and Rice University, where he studied Meistermusic. His CD recording of with James Dunham, formerly of the transcriptions of Chopin’s Nocturnes Cleveland Quartet. When not busy was released in May 2004 in Japan making music, he enjoys cooking, sailing by JVC Victor. He is the recipient and hiking with his German Shepherd, of several distinguished First Prize Sascha. honors, among them, the Naumburg Competition and the Carnegie Hall International American Music Violin INBAL SEGEV (CELLO) Her playing has Competition. been described as “delivered with impressive fluency and style” by ROBERT BROPHY (VIOLA) can be seen The Strad. Equally committed to new and heard playing with the Los Angeles repertoire and known masterworks, Philharmonic, LA Opera and many Inbal brings interpretations that are West Coast chamber music series. both unreservedly natural and insightful He is featured with Nigel Kennedy in to the vast range of solo and chamber a quartet for Kennedy’s new release music that she performs. Inbal has Greatest Hits on the EMI label and has performed as soloist with acclaimed performed alongside Martha Argerich, orchestras internationally and debuted Mischa Maisky, Michel Dalberto with the Berlin Philharmonic and Israel and Dmitri Sitkovetsky. He won the Philharmonic, led by Zubin Mehta, at viola audition with the Los Angeles age 17. She has commissioned new Chamber Orchestra in December works by Avner Dorman, Timo Andres, 2011. An advocate for new music and Gity Razaz, Dan Visconti and more.

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