MUSIC 75

INTERMEZZI John Kennedy, Director

All concerts in Grace Episcopal Church

SPONSORED BY THE HENRY AND SYLVIA YASCHIK FOUNDATION

INTERMEZZO I May 27 at 5:00pm

Sinfonietta, op. 1 (1932) Benjamin Britten (1913-76) I. Poco presto ed agitato II. Variations: Andante lento III. Tarantella: Presto vivace

Concerto da camera, H 196 (1948) Arthur Honegger (1892-1955) I. Allegretto amabile II. Andante III. Vivace

Concerto grosso (1992) Philip Glass (b 1937) I. = 144 II. ♩ = 88 III. ♩ = 144

Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra Aik Khai Pung, conductor

INTERMEZZO II May 29 at 5:00pm

The Morning Inside Us (1998) John Kennedy (b 1959) Grace An, cello

Rocking Mirror Daybreak (1983) Toru Takemitsu (1930-96) I. Autumn II. Passing Bird III. In the Shadow IV. Rocking Mirror Kayla Moffett and Jennise Hwang, violins

Quartet for Clarinet and String Trio (1993) Krzystof Penderecki (b 1933) I. Notturno II. Scherzo III. Serenade IV. Abschied (Farewell) Eric Anderson, clarinet Lisa Goddard, violin; Caterina Longhi, viola; Aaron Ludwig, cello

Trio Phantasie, op. 63 (1926) Ernst Krenek (1900-91) Anna Czerniak, violin; Kevin Kunkel, cello; Renate Rohlfing,piano

Color Reels II (2013) Sidney Hopson (b 1989) Sidney Hopson, percussion

Soul Garden (2000) Derek Bermel (b 1967) Jocelin Pan, viola Tammy Wang and Anna Czerniak, violins; Ji Young Nam, viola; Valeriya Sholokhova and Jennifer Choi, cello 76 INTERMEZZI

INTERMEZZO III June 2 at 5:00pm

Enoch Arden, op. 38 Richard Strauss (1864-1949) A Melodrama for piano and speaker on a narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Part One 1. Prelude. Andante. “Long lines of cliff breaking” 2. “So these were wed” Langsam. 3. Allegro appassionato. “So when the day, that Enoch mentioned” 4. Tranquillo. “And so ten years, since Enoch left” 5. Annie’s dream. Langsam. “When lo! Her Enoch sitting on a height”

Part Two 6. Prelude, Allegro moderato. “And where was Enoch?” 7. “Thus over Enoch’s early-silvering head” 8. Allegro agitato. “When the dead man comes to life” 9. Langsam. “Women, disturb me not at the last” Stephen Brennan, speaker Lydia Brown, piano

INTERMEZZO IV June 3 at 5:00pm

PASSIONS

MATERNAL “So like your father’s” (1880) “He never misses” (1880) “A Working Woman” (1882-93) “All I have” (1902) from Songs from Letters Libby Larsen (b 1950)

LIFE & DEATH “25 Years“ Joseph Rubinstein (b 1986) “When You Read These”

“The Real War will Never Get in The Book” from War Scenes Ned Rorem (b 1923)

SINS: PRIDE LUST, ANGER “Amor” William Bolcom (b 1938) “The Pocketbook” Tom Cipullo (b 1956) “Another Reason I dont’ Keep a Gun in the House”

HOUSE & HOME “Opera Scene” from Craigslistlieder Gabriel Kahane (b 1981) “Kale Chips” Gity Razaz (b 1986)

ROMANTIC “I’ll Know” from Guys & Dolls Frank Loesser (1910-69) “Marriage Tango” from I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change Joe DiPiertro (b 1961) and Jimmy Roberts (b 1955) “They Were You” from The Fantasticks Tom Jones (b 1928) & Harvey Schmidt (b 1929)

Anne-Carolyn Bird, soprano Matthew Burns, bass-baritone Keun-A Lee, piano

Piano generously provided by Steinway & Sons.

These performances are made possible in part through funds from the Spoleto Festival USA Endowment, generously supported by BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America. INTERMEZZI 77

ARTISTS STEPHEN BRENNAN’S (speaker) theater credits include Pride and Prejudice, The Threepenny Opera, Bedroom Farce, A GRACE AN (cello) is currently in the New Woman of No Importance, The Speckled World Symphony in Miami Beach under People, Hay Fever (transferred to Spoleto the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. She Festival USA 2012), Jane Eyre, Death of a has appeared on stage at Carnegie Hall, Salesman, Present Laughter (transferred Lincoln Center, BargeMusic, Sydney to Spoleto Festival USA 2010), The Real Opera House, and Tokyo’s Suntory Thing, Private Lives, Waiting for Godot Hall. An has collaborated as a chamber (national tour and worldwide), Old Times, musician with distinguished artists Landscape, (Lincoln Center Festival, New York), Pygmalion, including Emanuel Ax, eighth blackbird, Jane Eyre, Art, Tartuffe, and Cyrano de Bergerac (Gate Theatre). and the St. Lawrence String Quartet. He appeared in several musicals before becoming a member Festival appearances include the Verbier Festival, Tanglewood of the Abbey Theatre in 1975, playing a wide variety of roles in Music Center, Pacific Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and The Banff Centre. An has participated in master classes with productions such as She Stoops To Conquer, Philadelphia, Here Yo-Yo Ma, Aldo Parisot, George Neikrug, Gary Hoffman, and I Come!, A Life, Da, and Hamlet. Brennan’s film and television the Juilliard and Takacs quartets. A passionate advocate for arts credits include The Tudors, Eat the Peach, The General, The education and community engagement, An was a teaching artist Boys from Clare, A Piece of Monologue, and Waiting for Godot at the Harlem Children’s Zone and performed in schools across for Beckett on Film. New York. She is actively involved in New World Symphony’s community and global outreach programs, serving as a mentor LYDIA BROWN (piano) was praised and coach in their partnership with Academia Filarmónica by The New York Times as “intensely de Medellín, Colombia. An began her musical training at The expressive” and has performed Colburn School in Los Angeles, and completed degrees at extensively throughout the world. A Stanford University, Eastman School of Music, and Manhattan graduate of the Metropolitan Opera School of Music. This is her fifth season with the Spoleto Lindemann Young Artist Development Festival USA Orchestra. Program, she currently serves as assistant conductor at the Met and San ERIC ANDERSON (clarinet) is currently Francisco Opera. Recital appearances pursuing a master of music degree at the include the Salle Cortot, the Théâtre des Yale School of Music; he also holds music Champs-Élysées, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, The and English literature degrees from Metropolitan Museum of Art, Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Oberlin College and Conservatory. His Y, the Caramoor Center for Music and The Arts, The Phillips primary teachers include David Shifrin, Collection, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Miller Theatre lunchtime Richard Hawkins, and Bonnie Campbell. concerts, and Steinway Hall, among others. She completed As an orchestral musician, Anderson has concert tours with vocalists and instrumentalists sponsored by performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, Young Concert Artists, Concert Artists Guild, Joy in Singing, the New World Symphony, and Canton Marilyn Horne Foundation, Sing for Hope, and the Pro Musicis Symphony Orchestra. In past summers, he has also performed Foundation. Brown won second prize in the 1996 New Orleans at the Aspen Music Festival and School as a New Horizons International Piano Competition and holds degrees from The Fellow, and at the International Festival at Round Top. An active Juilliard School, Yale University, and the Eastman School of chamber musician, Anderson has performed at New York City’s Music. Symphony Space and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall. In 2013, his performance of Krzysztof Penderecki’s Clarinet Quartet MATTHEW BURNS (bass-baritone) is was broadcast by WQXR New York. As a member of the new a singer known for his multi-faceted music sextet Amusia, he was a Young Artist in Residence for portrayals of opera’s most acclaimed the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings during the 2011-2012 bass baritone roles and was described season. This is his second season with the Spoleto Festival USA as “having a beautiful bass-baritone Orchestra. voice” by The New York Times. This season, Burns performs Bartolo in Il ANNE-CAROLYN BIRD (soprano) returns Barbiere di Siviglia with the Orlando to Spoleto Festival USA this season after Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as previous engagements including Camille Basilio in the same opera with Sarasota in Louise in 2009, and Soprano 1 in Kepler Opera, and Don Magnifico in La Cenerentola with Green in 2012. Also in the 2013-14 season, she Mountain Opera Festival, and Sparafucile in Verdi’s Rigoletto reprised the role of Giannetta in the with the Crested Butte Music Festival; Messiah with the Rhode Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Island Philharmonic Orchestra; and Mozart’s Requiem with L’elisir d’amore, as well as appeared in the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. He will also be featured productions of The Nose, Die Frau ohne in American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice series Schatten, and The Enchanted Island. Bird throughout the season as well as make his Austin Lyric Opera is universally renowned for her interpretation of Susanna in Le debut in 2015. Burns is featured on the commercial recordings nozze di Figaro, a role she has sung with Virginia Opera, Opera of Die Gezeichneten from LA Opera as well as the American Carolina, Nashville Opera, Opera Columbus, and Opera Grand Symphony Orchestra’s Haggadah shel Pesach. Burns is a two- Rapids. A well-established contemporary musician, she recently time recipient of the Richard F. Gold Career Grant. performed Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire at Spoleto Festival USA, Beatrice in John Musto’s The Inspector at Wolf Trap Opera; Cunegonde in Candide with the National Symphony Orchestra, Evan Chamber’s oratorio The Old Burying Ground at Carnegie Hall, and performed on the Grammy-winning recording of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar. 78 INTERMEZZI

ANNA CZERNIAK (violin) is currently a master’s student KEVIN KÜNKEL (cello) is a native of the at the New England Conservatory in Boston studying with Chicago area and started his musical Malcolm Lowe. Czerniak is from Houston, Texas and grew up studies at the age of 10. Künkel received studying with renowned violinist Fredell Lack. She completed a bachelor’s degree and performance her undergraduate degree at the Colburn School with Robert diploma from Indiana University studying Lipsett. Czerniak also completed the Young Artist Program at with Eric Kim. At IU, he annually served the Cleveland Institute of Music with Linda Cerone. She has as principal cellist and was a member of participated in several prestigious music festivals including the the scholarship Kuttner Quartet. He has Aspen Music Festival and School, The International Holland performed throughout the US and Europe Music Sessions, Lakes Area Music Festival, and Spoleto with the New York String Orchestra Festival USA. She has also soloed with several orchestras in Seminar and for four years with the Schleswig-Holstein Musik the Houston and Cleveland areas. Festival. Künkel recently finished his second season as a fellow with the New World Symphony where he has the privilege SIDNEY HOPSON (percussion) is an of working with some of the world’s finest conductors and orchestral and studio percussionist from soloists. He is excited to be back at Spoleto Festival USA for Los Angeles. He performs frequently the fourth time. with the Jacaranda Chamber Ensemble, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Opera KEUN-A LEE (piano) has been on the Santa Barbara, Southeast Symphony, music staffs of New York City Opera, West LA Symphony, and musicians North Carolina Opera, Spoleto Festival of the LA Phil, LA Opera, and London USA, Gotham Chamber Opera, The Symphony Orchestras. He has premiered Juilliard School, and Manhattan School chamber works of John Williams, Philip of Music. She has been invited in Glass, John Corigliano, Steve Reich, Peter Eötvös, and Kaija Internationale Meistersinger Akademie, Saariaho. Hopson currently serves as director of percussion at Merola Opera Progam, the Ravinia the California State Summer School for the Arts, hosted by the Festival, the Rockport Music festival, California Institute of the Arts. He is also on faculty at the Young Cape Cod Chamber Music festival as Musicians Foundation in Los Angeles, CA. Since 2009, Hopson the Samuel Sander’s Awardee, and the Music Academy of the has served as a freelance cultural policy analyst. As such, he West. As an active performer, recent engagements include has consulted hundreds of artists and institutions nationwide New York Philharmonic chamber music series, recitals for the on progressive methods of financial, social, and infrastructural Marilyn Horne Foundation, and recitals with the winners of capital development. In 2013, he accepted the post of vice Young Concert Artists and Concert Artist Guild. Lee received president of cultural development for Gigantic Worx Centers. both artist diploma and master’s degree in collaborative piano This is his third season with the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra. from The Juilliard School. She also holds a professional studies certificate in vocal accompanying from the Manhattan School JENNISE HWANG (violin) is currently a of Music. She recently finished her term with the Lindemann violin fellow at the New World Symphony. Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. She received her master’s degree at New England Conservatory under Nick KAYLA MOFFETT (violin) is a versatile Kitchen and her bachelor’s degree of musician who enjoys playing many music at Northwestern University with different styles of music, specializing Almita and Roland Vamos. During her in the very old and the very new. She studies in Boston, she was a member has performed as a recitalist, chamber of the Boston Philharmonic and musician, and as a member of several Discovery Ensemble. She interned festival and professional orchestras for a semester with the chamber group A Far Cry. She was throughout the United States and a soloist and collaborator in Ran Blake’s Shadow of a Doubt Europe. She spent the 2013-14 season concert. At Northwestern, she was a soloist at the Kennedy as a fellow at the New World Symphony Center’s Millennium Stage Conservatory Project. She won the and is looking forward to joining the Saint Paul Chamber concerto competition and was concertmaster of Northwestern Orchestra violin section for a season in the fall. Moffett studied University Chamber Orchestra. She is an award recipient of baroque violin with Juilliard415’s Robert Mealy and won first WAMSO Young Artist Competition and North Shore Musicians Club Competition. She has spent her previous summers at place in the University of Southern California’s annual solo Tanglewood Music Center, Pacific Music Festival, Strings Music Bach competition. She has also premiered the works of many Festival, and the Chautauqua Music School Festival. prominent American composers from Philip Glass to John Luther Adams. Moffett is a recent graduate of the Yale School of Music, where she received her master‘s degree studying under Syoko Aki. Moffett plays on a J.B. Vuillaume on generous loan from the Colburn Foundation. This is her third season with the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra. INTERMEZZI 79

JOCELIN PAN (viola) is passionate about sharing the work of living and recent composers through her solo, chamber, and orchestral performances. A recent recipient of a master’s degree from The Juilliard School, Pan has collaborated with many living composers on their chamber works including Nina C. Young, Steven Mackey, Conrad Winslow, and Samuel Zyman, to name a few. In September 2012, Pan gave the US premiere of Andrew Ford’s viola concerto titled The Unquiet Grave with the New Juilliard Ensemble, with “ravishing strength” (ConcertoNet.com) and “played the solo part with great sensitivity to texture” (The New York Times). In October 2013, she won the Juilliard concerto competition with Joan Tower’s Purple Rhapsody and subsequently led the Juilliard Chamber Orchestra in an un- conducted performance of the work. In the summer of 2013, Pan was a New Fromm Player at the Tanglewood Music Center, a group of TMC alumni who have distinguished themselves in the performance of new music. She plays on a viola made by Joseph Grubaugh and Sigrun Seifert, on generous loan from the Virtu Foundation. This is her fourth season with the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra.

AIK KHAI PUNG (conductor), music director of North American New Opera Workshop, has performed and premiered contemporary opera by young composers. Pung was the guest director of Café MoMus, a contemporary music ensemble at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM); Music Director of UC Symphony Orchestra and Earlham College Symphony Orchestra; and has served as the assistant conductor of Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Luminato Festival in Canada, CCM Spoleto in Italy, Cincinnati Symphony Youth Orchestra, and CCM Orchestras. As a doctoral candidate in orchestral conducting, Pung was the Special Award winner for Conducting Chinese Music at the Hong Kong International Conducting Competition in 2011. He has served as the artistic director of Chinesische Musikgruppe Ji Yue Tian in Munich, and conducting fellow at Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, where he worked under Paavo Järvi. At Spoleto Festival USA, Pung served as conductor for a concert on the 2013 Intermezzi series and assistant conductor for the operas Matsukaze (2013) and Feng Yi Ting (2012).

RENATE ROHLFING (musical preparation) has quickly established herself as a highly sought-after and versatile collaborative pianist. She has performed with some of the world’s leading artists, including James Conlon, Anna Netrebko, Alan Gilbert, and John Adams. Rohlfing began her 2013/14 season at the Ravinia Festival, where she performed with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under James Conlon and returns this summer for her fourth season as a resident staff pianist. She embarks on a recital tour with Young Concert Artist winner, soprano Julia Bullock. This season brought operatic credits at LA Opera and a debut at Cincinnati in May Festival. Rohlfing is currently a member of the vocal coaching staff at Bard College. Equally active as a chamber musician, Rohlfing co-founded the piano trio LONGLEASH, with concerts this year in San Francisco, Graz (Austria), and a residency at Ohio University. Rohlfing is a native of Honolulu, Hawaii, and a graduate of The Juilliard School. renaterohlfing.com