The Classical Recording Foundation SEVENTH ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY TUESDAY, NOVEMEBER 25, 2008 WEILL RECITAL HALL AT CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK CITY The Classical Recording Foundation SEVENTH ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 8:00 PM 2008 FOUNDATION AWARDS 2008 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Paula Robison 2008 Composer of the Year Award Paul Chihara 2008 Young Artist Award Mikhail Simonyan 2008 Foundation Award Anne-Marie McDermott CONCERT AND PRESENTATION OF 2008 AWARD WINNERS PROGRAM Places of the Spirit: The Holy Land.........................Traditional I. Shall We Gather at the River (American Hymn, arr. Frederic Hand) Opening Remarks II. The King of Love (American Hymn, arr. Frederic Hand) Adam Abeshouse, President, Classical Recording Foundation III. Raisins and Almonds (Traditional Jewish Melody, arr. Frederic Hand) IV. Blue (by Bruce Stark) V. Yadin’s Song (by Ariel Silber, arr. Paula Robison and Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80 .....................Sergei Prokofiev Frederick Hand) III. Andante VI. Western Wall (Traditional Jewish Prayer, arr. by Paula Robison and Adam Abeshouse) Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a...................Sergei Prokofiev VII. Jacob's Ladder (arr. Frederic Hand) IV. Allegro con brio Paula Robison, flute Adam Abeshouse, violin Mikhail Simonyan, violin Alexei Podkorytov, piano Steven Beck, piano Frederic Hand, guitar Presentation of the Young Artist Award to Presentation of the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award to Mikhail Simonyan Paula Robison Honorable Sergey V. Garmonin Sophie Sanders Consul-General of the Russian Federation in New York Daughter of Samuel Sanders Ain’t No Sunshine .................................................. Paul Chihara Preludes for Piano ......................................... George Gershwin I. Con Fantasia - Allegro Furioso I. Allegro Ben Ritmato E Deciso II. Moderato cantabile II. Andante Con Moto E Poco Rubato III. Allegro vivace III. Allegro Ben Ritmato E Deciso The Claremont Trio Anne-Marie McDermott, piano Emily Bruskin, violin Julia Bruskin, cello Donna Kwong, piano Presentation of the Foundation Award to Anne-Marie McDermott Presentation of the Composer of the Year Award to Charles Wadsworth Paul Chihara Artistic Director for Chamber Music at Spoleto Festival USA Daniel Druckman Founder and Former Artistic Director, Chamber Music Society of Associate Principal Percussionist, New York Philharmonic Lincoln Center Closing Remarks — INTERMISSION — Adam Abeshouse 2 3 CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS 2008 MIKHAIL SIMONYAN Siberian violinist Mikhail Simonyan is in Vienna, the Württembergische Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Cincinnati recognized as one of the most celebrated Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, and Vancouver talents of his generation. The New York Times Symphony Orchestra; and at Germany’s Mecklenburg-Vorpommern praised his, “breadth, lyricism and fleet Musikfestival and Moritzburg Festival Dresden. Mr. Simonyan’s much- technique,” and the Miami Herald declared, anticipated debut recording of the Prokofiev Sonatas for Violin and Piano , “Mikhail Simonyan . played with the poise, recorded with Grammy Award-winning producer Adam Abeshouse, will be perfection and inner burning fire of a master released in January 2009. Mr. Simonyan continues to work with Victor like David Oistrakh – in his prime on a good Danchenko and lives in Philadelphia. He is managed worldwide by Tanja night.” Mr. Simonyan began studying the Dorn at IMG Artists. violin at the age of five in his hometown of Novosibirsk, Russia. In 1999, at 13, he made his acclaimed New York debut at Lincoln Center with the American Russian Young Artists Orchestra (ARYO) and THE YOUNG ARTIST AWARD his debut in St. Petersburg, Russia at the Mariinsky (Kirov) Theatre, performing the Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 1. Mr. Simonyan has Mikhail Simonyan receives this award for his debut recording of the performed with, among others, the Russian National Orchestra, Kirov Prokofiev Sonatas for Violin and Piano , with pianist Alexei Podkorytov. Orchestra, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Novosibirsk Philharmonic, and Performing and recording both Prokofiev Violin Sonatas is an undertaking Moscow Virtuosi. He has worked with conductors including Valery near and dear to Mr. Simonyan’s heart. He worked intensely on this Gergiev, Mikhail Pletnev, Constantine Orbelian, Vladimir Spivakov, repertoire with his mentor, violinist Victor Danchenko, a student of the Arnold Katz, Kristjan Järvi, Leon Botstein, and the late Yehudi Menuhin. great David Oistrakh for whom both sonatas were written. Delos will Performance highlights for Mr. Simonyan include a solo appearance with release the disc in January 2009. Of the disc, The Strad raves, “Simonyan’s Leonard Slatkin at the Kennedy Center's 35th Anniversary Gala in 2001, tonal and intonational purity, coupled with a ravishing range of expressive after which he made his official debut with Maestro Slatkin and the colurs, illuminates this extraordinary work with laser-beam accuracy.” National Symphony Orchestra in 2002. Later that same year, he performed Please visit www.DelosMus.com for more information. at the Davos World Economic Summit. Other performance highlights of Mr. Simonyan’s past seasons include a tour of the United States with the Kirov Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre under Maestro Valery Gergiev, concerts with Maestro Kristjan Järvi and the Russian National Orchestra, his debut at the Prague Spring Festival under Maestro Pletnev, and recitals in Europe, Asia and the United States. After his debut with the Russian National Orchestra, the Moscow Times wrote, “… he seems destined to be ranked on the same Superstar level as fellow Novosibirsk natives Maxim Vengerov and Vadim Repin.” Highlights of current and upcoming concert seasons include debuts with the Tonkünstler Orchestra at the Musikverein 4 5 CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS 2008 ANNE-MARIE MCDERMOTT A luminous, boldly emotive pianist, Anne-Marie McDermott was the winner of the Young Concert Artists Anne-Marie McDermott is widely Auditions, and has been the recipient of the Avery Fisher Career celebrated for her performances on Development Award, the Andrew Wolf Memorial Chamber Music Award, the world’s most illustrious stages. the Joseph Kalichstein Piano Prize, the Paul A. Fish Memorial Prize, the Ms. McDermott made her debut with Bruce Hungerford Memorial Prize, and the Mortimer Levitt Career the New York Philharmonic in 1997 Development Award for Women Artists. Ms. McDermott began playing the under Christian Thielemann and has piano at age 5. By 12 she had performed the Mendelssohn Concerto in G since appeared with the orchestras of minor with the National Orchestral Association at Carnegie Hall. She Atlanta, Baltimore, Dallas, Hong studied at the Manhattan School of Music as a scholarship student with Kong, Houston, Minnesota, Dalmo Carra, Constance Keene and John Browning, and participated in Pittsburgh, Seattle, St. Louis, Tucson, master classes with Leon Fleisher, Menahem Pressler, Abbey Simon, the LA Chamber Orchestra, the Rosalyn Tureck, Michael Tilson Thomas and Mstislav Rostropovich. Mostly Mozart Orchestra, and the National Symphony, and has toured extensively with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Moscow THE FOUNDATION AWARD Virtuosi. Recital engagements have included New York’s 92nd Street Y, Pianist Anne-Marie McDermott receives the CRF Foundation Award for Town Hall and Alice Tully Hall, the her recent release, George Gershwin: Complete Music for Piano & Kennedy Center and San Francisco’s Herbst Theatre and the Schubert Club. Orchestra , a collaboration with conductor Justin Brown and the Dallas She has participated in such festivals as Mostly Mozart, Ravinia, Aspen, Symphony Orchestra. David Patrick Stearns of The Philadelphia Inquirer Bravo Vail Valley, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Chamber Music Northwest, Newport, writes that in the recording, “McDermott finds little worlds of meaning in the Dubrovnik Festival, and the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico. A passionate every phrase,” while All Music Guide notes that “McDermott is simply champion of the music of Prokofiev, Anne-Marie McDermott has awesome,” and that the album is “outstanding in every respect.” The disc performed the complete cycle of sonatas to great acclaim at the Lincoln was chosen as an Editor’s Choice by Gramophone , and in an October 2008 Center Festival, the University of Arizona, Chamber Music Northwest in review, the magazine noted that the performances “fly off the page with Portland, and at UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall. She has also recorded the verve and confidence, rhythmic precision and real style.” Bridge Records complete cycle of Prokofiev sonatas and chamber works for Arabesque released the disc in March 2008. Please visit www.BridgeRecords.com for Recordings. Since 1998, Ms. McDermott and violinist Nadja Salerno- more information. Sonnenberg have performed together as a duo, and in the same year, Ms. McDermott, Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom and Peter Wiley formed the piano quartet, Opus One. Ms. McDermott is the Artistic Director of the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival in Key Largo, Florida, and the Festival Curacao@Avila Beach. 6 7 CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS 2008 Grammy Nominated in 2003 and Grammy Winner in 1999, for Classical Producer of the Year, Adam Abeshouse has produced and engineered recordings for a multitude of high-profile labels. As a violinist, he has many years of performance PAULA