The Juilliard School presents ChamberFest 2020 Tuesday, January 14, 2020, 4:30pm Paul Hall MENDELSSOHN String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat Major, Op. 87 Kevin Zhu Kevin Zhu has performed as a soloist worldwide since he began studying violin at age 3, winning the Paganini and Menuhin violin competitions along the way. Recent performances include concerto appearances with the Moscow Virtuosi Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and Sichuan Philharmonic Orchestra; solo recitals in London, New York, Guangzhou, and Italy; and chamber music at the Moritzburg Festival in Germany. Zhu’s upcoming engagements include concerto appearances in Russia and Poland as well as solo recitals in Italy, China, and Greece. At Juilliard he studies with Itzhak Perlman and Li Lin. He performs on the c1722 "Lord Wandsworth" Antonio Stradivari violin, on loan from the Ryuji Ueno Foundation and Rare Violins in Consortium, Artists and Benefactors Collaborative. • Kovner Fellowship Coco Mi Coco Mi started the violin at age 5. She has won grand or first prizes in numerous competitions such as the Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra, Bravura Philharmonic, and Sinfonietta Nova concerto competitions. She attended Manhattan School of Music Pre-College from 2014 to 2018. She has also been selected to participate in music festivals such as the Music Academy of the West, Heifetz International Music Institute, and Aspen Music Festival and School. Mi has performed in master classes and worked with violinists such as Aaron Rosand, Glenn Dicterow, Ray Chen, and Stefan Jackiw. She is a second-year undergraduate under the tutelage of Li Lin at Juilliard. • Jean Doyle Loomis Scholarship, C.V. Starr Scholarship Sam Rosenthal Cleveland native Sam Rosenthal is a second-year undergraduate at Juilliard, where he studies with Heidi Castleman and Hsin-Yun Huang. He began his musical studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Since summer 2016, he has attended the Perlman Music Program. He also participated in travel residencies with the Perlman Music Program in Tel Aviv and Sarasota. He was third prize winner in the 2018 Johansen International Competition for Strings in Washington, D.C., and was a member of the Razumovsky Quartet, which received the silver medal in the junior division of the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. • Kovner Fellowship Yong Ha Jung Violist Yong Ha Jung is an undergraduate at Juilliard under Roger Tapping. Born in South Korea, Jung began playing viola at age 9 with Ronald Houston. He has appeared on NPR’s From the Top and attended the Pyeongchang Music Festival, where he studied with violists such as Hung-Wei Huang, Kazuhide Isomura, and Hanna Lee. He has also performed in Carnegie Hall with the National Youth Orchestra in 2018 and toured Asia under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. Last summer, he attended the Kneisel Hall Music Festival, studying under Laurie Smukler and Joel Krosnick. • Satterthwaite Scholarship, Alma Williamson Moreton Scholarship 1 Julia Lee Julia Lee, who started playing cello at age 6, studies at Juilliard with Darrett Adkins. She previously studied with Wendy Warner and also Frans Helmerson, Timothy Eddy, Emmanuel Feldman, Hans Jensen, Richard Aaron, and Alan Stepansky at the Heifetz International Music Institute, National Arts Center Music Institute, Aspen Music Festival and School, and Music Academy of the West. In 2016 Lee won first prize at the senior concerto competition at the FFMC in 2018. She won first prize at the American Protégé International Concerto Competition, AADGT International Young Musicians Festival, and Junior Division Winner of the Young Artist Competition, for which she performed with the Ocala Symphony Orchestra. • Hanna Rubens Scholarship, Elsie and Walter W. Naumburg Scholarship LERDAHL Waltzes David Bernat David Bernat, a master’s student at Juilliard studying with Joseph Lin and Laurie Smukler, is a graduate of the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Soovin Kim. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, and Tanglewood, and has been featured on the BBC Radio 3 program In Tune and WQXR’s At the Greene Space. Last summer Bernat was a fellow at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and he has attended Tanglewood Music Center, where he was concertmaster of the TMC Orchestra; Music Mountain Chamber Music Master Classes; and Moritzburg Festival Academy. • Carl Cloe and Rhea Cloe Scholarship, Herbert and Evelyn Axelrod Scholarship, Barnett M. Breeskin and Gertrude Breeskin Kartzmer Scholarship Jeremy Klein Boston native Jeremy Klein is a sophomore at Juilliard as a bachelor of music student under Misha Amory. He has received important mentorship from Victoria Chiang, James Dunham, Mark Lakirovich, Lisa Suslowicz, and Phillip Ying. He frequently performs at Juilliard and elsewhere, including festivals such as the Aspen Music Festival and Bowdoin International Music Festival. Klein has performed solo, chamber, and orchestral music in the Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, Italy, and Ukraine. Noah Koh Noah Koh, a cellist and chamber musician from Queens, is pursuing his master’s at Juilliard under Natasha Brofsky. Koh performs with local orchestras and chamber groups for private events, teaches private lessons, and enjoys practicing yoga and playing soccer with his friends. He loves to share music with audiences, hoping to bring them through the progression of masterpieces from the first note to the silence at the end. • Cara and Hiram Lewine Scholarship, Bernard A. Diamant Scholarship Nina Bernat Nina Bernat is the first-prize winner at the 2019 International Society of Bassists Solo Competition. As a recipient of the 2019 Keston MAX Fellowship, she performed with the London Symphony Orchestra on a subscription series concert at the Barbican Centre and in a chamber music concert. Bernat began studying with her father and former member of the Israel Philharmonic, Mark Bernat, and has continued her studies with Tim Cobb at Juilliard. She has participated in the Verbier Festival Orchestra, Music Academy of the West, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Yellowbarn Young Artists Program, and New York String Orchestra Seminar, and has worked with conductors Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev, Fabio Luisi, and Christoph Eschenbach. • Kovner Fellowship 2 SCHUBERT Octet in F Major, D. 803 Nikki Pet Nikki Pet, of Glastonbury, Connecticut, began playing clarinet at age 10, and studies with Alan Kay through the Columbia-Juilliard Exchange. She has attended chamber music festivals such as Kneisel Hall and Greenwood Music Camp and also participates in various chamber groups during the academic year. Last spring, she directed and produced a full staging of Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat (complete with musicians, dancers, actors, and narrator) at Columbia University. Ensembles she has performed in include the New Juilliard Ensemble, New York Youth Symphony, Boston Youth Symphony, Juilliard Pre-College Symphony, and Boston University Tanglewood Institute Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. She has received various solo and chamber competition prizes, including first place (winds) in the 2016 Hartford Music Club High School Competition, top prize in the 2015 International Grande Music Competition, and first prize in the 2015 Korean Radio Broadcast Competition. She will graduate from Columbia in 2020 with a major in computer science. Morgan Davison Colorado-born bassoonist Morgan Davison attended the Interlochen Arts Academy, where her devotion to the instrument developed. She recently graduated with her Bachelor of Music from Manhattan School of Music. She was among 10 semifinalists in the Meg Quigley Vivaldi Competition, a global competition for female bassoonists. She recently won the Fuchs Chamber Competition at Manhattan School of Music. Davison has attended numerous summer festivals such as Tanglewood Music Center, Aspen Music Festival, and Sarasota Music Festival. She loves to venture outdoors, and go hiking, biking, and kayaking; but most of all, she cherishes spending time with her twin brother, Cameron, and her dog, Max. • Juilliard Scholarship Lee Cyphers Hailing from Plattsburgh, New York, Lee Cyphers is a fourth-year undergraduate at Juilliard, studying with Erik Ralske. Cyphers has attended summer chamber festivals in Wisconsin, Maine, and Norway, and he recently cofounded a Wagner tuba quintet called the LGBTQ+++, whose mission includes pushing musical and societal boundaries through performance and protest. He was a Gluck Community Service Fellow, giving interactive performances of solo and chamber music at health care facilities and other institutions around the city. He hopes to continue this type of work. • Albany/Schenectady League Van Olinda Scholarship, Ruth and Alan Broder Scholarship Fanny Fheodoroff Austrian violinist Fanny Fheodoroff studied with Dora Schwarzberg at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, with David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London, and with Tanja Becker-Bender at the Academy of Music and Theatre Hamburg. Additional studies include master classes with Julia Fischer, Zakhar Bron, and Nora Chastain, among others. Fheodoroff has performed with members of the Artemis Quartet and Vogler Quartet, and appeared as a soloist and chamber musician at venues like the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Hall, and Beethoven-Haus Bonn. She is a scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship