THE 2018–19 CONCERT SEASON at PEABODY Vadim Gluzman and Friends Friday, April 12, 2019
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THE 2018–19 CONCERT SEASON AT PEABODY Vadim Gluzman and Friends Friday, April 12, 2019 VADIM GLUZMAN VIOLIN WITH ANGELA YOFFE PIANO and Students and Faculty of the Peabody Conservatory Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34, for Clarinet, String Quartet, and Piano Chadwick Thomas, clarinet Vadim Gluzman, violin Orest Smovzh, violin Josef Fischer, viola Marcella Kolacki, violoncello Angela Yoe, piano Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Sonata in F major, Op. 24, for Violin and Piano, “Spring” I. Allegro II. Adagio molto espressivo 12, 2019 April Friday, III. Scherzo. Allegro molto IV. Rondo. Allegro ma non troppo Vadim Gluzman, violin Angela Yoe, piano INTERMISSION Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) String Sextet in d minor, Op. 70, “Souvenir de Florence” I. Allegro con spirito | II. Adagio cantabile e con moto 7:30 pm III. Allegretto moderato IV. Allegro vivace Vadim Gluzman, violin | Mei Zhan, violin VADIM Alaina Rea, viola Hall Concert A. Friedberg Miriam Josef Fischer, viola Michael Kannen, violoncello Ismael Guerrero Bombut, violoncello GLUZMAN AND FRIENDS Please disable all electronic devices including phones and tablets during performances. The use of cameras and sound recorders during performances without the express prior written permission of Peabody is strictly prohibited. For your own safety, look for your nearest exit. In case of emergency, walk, do not run to that exit. ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Ismael Guerrero Bombut Violoncello Ismael Guerrero Bombut is a cellist from Havana, Cuba. He began his cello studies at the age of 8. While in Cuba he won several competitions and participated in master classes from renowned cellists such as Carlos Prieto, Clemen Hagens, and Leidi Litschauer. He is now in the third year of his undergraduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory, which he attends on full scholarship, studying with Amit Peled. He has performed with Heifetz On Tour in Exton, Pa., and Staunton, Va., after attending the Heifetz International Music Institute in 2017 on full scholarship. Last summer, he attended Keshet Eilon in Israel, where he won the concerto competition which allowed him to perform as a soloist with the Tel Aviv Soloists Ensemble in The Opera House of the Tel Aviv Performing Arts Center. He has also performed in Mexico, Cape Cod, North Carolina, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. He has been invited on several occasions to join the Peabody Cello Gang and the Mount Vernon Virtuosi. Josef Fischer Viola Violist Josef Fischer is currently a Graduate Performance Diploma student at the Peabody Conservatory studying with Victoria Chiang. He has previously worked with Erika Eckert and Geraldine Walther of the Takács Quartet. Fischer has served as principal violist of a number of ensembles including the Peabody Symphony, Aspen Music Festival Opera, the CU Symphony Opera, Hot Springs Symphony, and Colorado All State Symphony orchestras. He has performed in several festivals including New York String Orchestra Seminar, Florentia Consort (Florence, Italy), the Alba Music Festival, Orford Musique, and the Bowdoin International Music Festival at Aspen Music Festival and School. This summer he will be serving as a viola fellow with the Aspen Music Festival and School. Vadim Gluzman Violin Universally recognized among today’s top performing artists, Vadim Gluzman brings to life the glorious violinistic tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries. Gluzman’s wide repertoire embraces new music, and his performances are heard around the world through live broadcasts and a striking catalog of award-winning recordings exclusively for the BIS label. Since 2018, Gluzman has served as Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. The Israeli violinist appears regularly with major orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and the Royal Concertgebouw. He collaborates with leading conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohnányi, Tugan Sokhiev, Sir Andrew Davis, Neeme Järvi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Semyon Bychkov, and Hannu Lintu. Festival appearances include performances at Lockenhaus, Ravinia, Tanglewood and the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Chicago, founded by Gluzman and pianist Angela Yo¥e, his wife and recital partner. Highlights of his 2018–19 season include performances with the Chicago Symphony and Cleveland Orchestra, concerts with the Sydney, Melbourne, and West Australian Symphony Orchestras, and with the Bamberger Symphoniker, Bergen Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, NHK Symphony Orchestra, 2 3 the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, and Seattle Symphony. He leads performances with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Columbus, Ohio, where he serves as creative partner and principal guest artist. Gluzman celebrates the 100th anniversary of violinist Henryk Szeryng with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Hamburg NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de México, and Warsaw Philharmonic. This season, Gluzman gives the U.S. premiere of Lera Auerbach’s The Infant Minstrel and His Peculiar Menagerie with the Louisiana Philharmonic under Carlos Miguel Prieto. He has given premieres of other works by Auerbach, as well as by Michael Daugherty, Sofia Gubaidulina, Giya Kancheli, Elena Firsova, and Pēteris Vasks. Gluzman performs on the legendary 1690 ‘ex-Leopold Auer’ Stradivari on extended loan to him through the generosity of the Stradivari Society of Chicago. Michael Kannen Violoncello Cellist Michael Kannen has distinguished himself as a musician and educator of uncommon accomplishment who is comfortable in widely diverse musical situations and venues. He was a founding member of the Brentano String Quartet and for seven years performed with that group on concert stages around the world, on radio and television, and on recordings. During those years, the Brentano Quartet was awarded the first Cleveland Quartet Award, the Naumburg Chamber Music Award, a Royal Philharmonic Award, and was the first participant in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center II program. Kannen has performed in such places as Carnegie Hall, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Sidney Opera House. He continues to perform chamber music around the country as a member of the Cooperstown Quartet, on period instruments with the Houston-based group Context, and at major music festivals such as Yellow Barn, Chamber Music Northwest, Portland Chamber Music Festival, and the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England. Kannen has collaborated with such artists as Jessye Norman, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Itzhak Perlman, Sergiu Luca, Daniel Phillips, Donald Weilerstein, Pamela Frank, Leon Fleisher, Mitsuko Uchida, Peter Frankl, Paula Robison, David Krakauer, Jörg Widmann, Steven Isserlis, and with jazz artists Michael Formanek and Uri Caine. His activities range from performances on period instruments to premieres of the music of our time. He has recorded for the CRI and Azica labels. Kannen has served on the faculties of Dartmouth College and the Purchase College Conservatory, and he is currently the director of chamber music at the Peabody Conservatory, where he holds the Sidney Friedberg Chair in Chamber Music. Marcella Kolacki Violoncello Originally from Phoenix, Arizona, cellist Marcie Kolacki has established herself as an intuitive and dedicated performer. Since beginning her studies at the age of 8, Kolacki’s technical proficiency and musicality have led her to professional solo, chamber, and orchestral performances and recitals throughout the United States. She made her solo debut in 2009 and accepted her first principal position with an orchestra at the age of 16. Recently, she has served as principal cellist of the Peabody Concert and Symphony orchestras, as well as the Immanuel and Helen Olshan Texas Music Festival Orchestra. Kolacki is currently studying at the Peabody Conservatory with Alan Stepansky, earning her bachelor’s degree in cello performance. She would like to thank Daniel and Jephta Drachman for establishing the Gregor Piatigorsky Scholarship and Mary Louise Kates for establishing the Stephen Kates Memorial Endowed Scholarship at Peabody. 2 3 Alaina Rea Viola Violist Alaina Rea is currently a first-year GPD student at Peabody, studying with Victoria Chiang and Choong-Jin Chang. She completed her undergraduate degree at the Juilliard School as a student of Heidi Castleman and Steven Tenenbom. Rea is a substitute for the New World Symphony and has performed as principal violist with the Juilliard Orchestra, Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, and the Chicago Youth Symphony. She has attended the Heifetz Institute, Aspen Music Festival, and will be a second-year fellow at Tanglewood this summer. Orest Smovzh Violin Born in Lviv, Ukraine, Orest Smovzh started to play the violin under the guidance of his mother and Nadiya Varyanko. For the past few years he has studied with Midori Gotō and is a student at the Peabody Conservatory. Smovzh also studied with Mariya Futorska, Yaroslava Rivnyak, Dmytro Tkachenko, and Qian Zhou at Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine in Kyiv, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore, and USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles. He collaborated in chamber performances with members of Orchestre des Champs-Élysées and Suntory Hall Chamber Music Academy; pianists Thomas Hoppe and Albert Tiu; cellist Michael Kannen; and also worked on a diverse chamber repertoire with Bernard Lanskey and Je¥rey Kahane. As