Composers in the Loft

Ricardo Lorenz (b. 1961) 1 Bachangó (1984) (5:05)* Producer: James Ginsburg Marta Aznavoorian, piano Engineer: Bill Maylone Carter Pann (b. 1972) Graphic Design: Melanie Germond Differences for cello and piano (1998) (13:43)* Cover Photo: Home of ’s Music in the Loft concert series (photo by Barrett Cooke) with sheet music from Stacy 2 3 4 Garrop’s String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels. I. Strand (2:02) II. Air (3:41) III. Country Dance (3:04) 5 IV. Blues (2:59) 6 V. Song (1:44) Recorded October 9-10, 2006 (Garrop); October 23, 2006 (Pann); December 5, 2006 (Fung); January 23, 2007 (Jalbert); and January 25, 2007 (Lorenz) at WFMT, Chicago David Ying, cello Elinor Freer, piano Steinway Piano / Charles Terr, technician Pierre Jalbert (b. 1967) Publishers: Trio for violin, cello, and piano (1998) (16:34) 7 8 Lorenz - MMB Music, Inc. ©1984 I. Life Cycle (8:32) II. Agnus Dei (7:57) Pann - Theodore Presser ©1998 Lincoln Trio Jalbert - Pierre Jalbert ©1998 Stacy Garrop (b. 1969) Garrop - Inkjar Publishing Co. ©2005 String Quartet No. 2: Demons and Angels (2005) (30:25)* Fung - Vivian Fung ©2005 9 I. Demonic Spirits (7:55) bk II. Song of the Angels (3:54) bl III. Inner Demons (7:35) bm IV. Broken Spirit (10:50) Funded in part through a grant from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Inc. Biava Quartet

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CDR 90000 100 P&C 2007 Cedille Records *World Premiere Recording Trademark of The Chicago Classical Recording Foundation. All Rights Reserved. TT: (78:30) 24 RICARDO LORENZ (b. 1961) Foundation Humanities Fellowship, Orga- CARTER PANN (b. 1972) commissioned for Richard Stoltzman, was 1 Bachangó (1984) nization of American States (OAS), Concert Differences for cello and piano (1998) recorded by the Seattle Symphony under Artists Guild, Meet-the-Composer Mid- 2 I. Strand Gerard Schwarz. Love Letters (String Quar- Ricardo Lorenz’s compositions have re- west, Barlow Endowment for Music Com- 3 II. Air tet No. 1) was commissioned by the Ying ceived praise for their fiery orchestrations, position, Newhouse Foundation, Illinois 4 III. Country Dance Quartet for its Life Music commissioning harmonic sophistication, and rhythmic vi- Community College Trustees Association, 5 IV. Blues project through a grant from the American tality. His works have been performed at and ASCAP. Lorenz is currently Associate 6 V. Song Music Institute. Slalom (for orchestra) has prestigious international festivals including Professor of Composition at Michigan State been widely performed throughout the Carnegie Hall’s Sonidos de las Americas, University. His compositions are published Carter Pann is one of the most versatile United States and Europe (and showcased the Ravinia Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Mu- by MMB Music and Boosey & Hawkes, and composers of his generation. His music on NPR’s Performance Today). Anthems in sic Festival, France’s Berlioz Festival, Spain’s have been released on Arabesque Record- has been performed around the world by Waves was commissioned by the Haddon- Festival Internacional de Musica Contem- ings, Albany Records, Indiana University’s ensembles and soloists including the Lon- field Symphony through a grant from the poranea de Alicante, Mexico’s Festival Cer- LAMC Series, Doublemoon Records (Tur- don, City of Birmingham, Seattle, Vancou- National Endowment for the Arts. Recent vantino, and Turkey’s Uluslararasi Summer key), Urtex Digital Classics (Mexico), and ver, Ireland National, and New York Youth works include Nicky’s Trio (Piano Trio No. 1), Festival, among others. Lorenz’s orchestral SOMM Recordings (UK). Symphonies; the Radio Symphonies of Ber- commissioned by Music in the Loft for the

About the Composers & Program compositions have been performed by the lin, Stockholm, and Finland; the National Amelia Trio; American Child, written for a Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Anto- Composed in 1984, Bachangó is a brief, ka- Repertory Orchestra; Richard Stoltzman; consortium of 10 university wind ensem- nio, Billings, Youngstown, New World, and leidoscopic look at Afro-Cuban music. The the Ying Quartet; Barry Snyder; and the bles; and Anatares (for piano, violin, cello, Minneapolis Chamber Symphonies; and title derives from three terms related to this Antares ensemble. Honors include the K. and clarinet) for the Antares ensemble. the Chicago Sinfonietta, Dayton Philhar- sphere: Batá, Charanga, and Guaguancó. Serocki Competition for his Piano Concerto Carter Pann is currently on the composi- monic, American Composers Orchestra, Elements belonging to these genres are (premiered by the Polish Radio Symphony tion faculty of the University of Colorado and premier orchestras in Germany, Spain, weaved together in order to create a fast in Lutoslawski Hall, Warsaw 1998), a Charles at Boulder. Sweden, the Czech Republic, Mexico, and changing, fantasy-type work. The lyrical Ives Scholarship from the Academy of Arts . The Venezuelan-born compos- quality of the Charanga is complimented and Letters, and five ASCAP composer Differences was composed in February er has served as Composer-in-Residence of by the rhythmic rigidity of the Guanguancó, awards. The Czech State Philharmonic of 1998 for cellist Derek Snyder. The work is the Armonia Musicians Residency Program while the patterns of the religious Batá Brno recorded four of his orchestral works comprised of five short movements, very of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and drums enwrap the piece in an atmosphere under José Serebrier for a disc in Naxos’s much like a Baroque suite or partita. The Composer-in-Residence of the Billings Sym- of mystery. It was through Bachangó that American Classics series (Carter Pann: Piano individual pieces, however, are radically phony, Montana, and Chicago’s Music in the Music in the Loft’s Fredda Hyman first be- Concerto/Dance Partita). The Piano Con- different from each other in style and con- Loft chamber music series. Ricardo Lorenz came acquainted with my music. certo was nominated for a 2001 Grammy tent. Originally, my plan was to transcribe has received distinctions and awards from as “Best Classical Contemporary Composi- an earlier chamber work, Dance Partita, in the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Rockefeller tion.” His Clarinet Concerto, Rags to Richard, its entirety for cello and piano (resulting

4 5 in seven or eight movements). Instead, PIERRE JALBERT (b. 1967) Music Ensemble, Zeitgeist, and Network for sents the sacred, and is mysterious and lyri- the project grew into its own as my work Trio for violin, cello, and piano (1998) New Music; and the Ying, Maia, Enso, and cal in character. The structure of the move- on it progressed. The only movements 7 I. Life Cycle 8 II. Agnus Dei Chiara Quartets, among others. He has also ment is modeled after the 3-part form of taken from the chamber piece are “Air” and served as Composer-in-Residence with the the Agnus Dei prayer: “Country Dance.” Pierre Jalbert served as composer-in-resi- Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the dence with Music in the Loft in 2003. He is California Symphony. Pierre is a member Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. “Strand” is a kind of pop tune where the currently Associate Professor of Composi- of Musiqa, a Houston new music group. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis. cello has the vocal line. The piano supplies tion and Theory at Rice University’s Shep- His music is published by Theodore Presser Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem. the harmonies and rhythms against which herd School of Music in Houston. He has Company . the cello sings. Differing from an actual pop received numerous awards for his compo- Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, tune, the rhythms are a bit more complex sitions, including the Rome Prize, BBC Mas- Current projects include a new work for the have mercy on us. and sometimes jarring. terprize, a Guggenheim fellowship, BMI and Maia Quartet and an orchestral work com- Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, ASCAP Awards, a Society of Composer’s missioned through Meet the Composer’s have mercy on us. “Air” takes its language from the Baroque. Award, and the Chamber Music Society of Magnum Opus Project for three California Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world, The title refers to the Baroque “canto” style Lincoln Center’s 2007 Stoeger Award for orchestras that will perform the piece over grant us peace.

About the Composers & Program of long legato vocal lines over a slow, undu- chamber music. the next three years: the Santa Rosa, Oak- lating accompaniment. land East Bay, and Marin Symphonies. It opens with a violin melody, full of pitch Jalbert’s compositions have been per- bends, played over a cello drone. This mel- “Country Dance” is a peasant tune. The formed throughout the United States and Trio for violin, cello, and piano ody is then passed on to the cello, finally middle section is very pastoral, including abroad, including four Carnegie Hall per- This work is in two movements of extremely cadencing with all three instruments. This church bells; one might imagine the drone formances of his orchestral works, among contrasting character. The first movement, material is then repeated (much like the rep- of bagpipes over the countryside. them the Houston Symphony’s premiere of “Life Cycle,” consists of four sections, each etition of the first line of the prayer), but at a big sky in January 2006. The London Sym- based upon the pulse of a quickly beating different pitch level. The music then moves Very different from the preceding move- phony Orchestra performed his In Aeternam heart. The music changes considerably on to a more developmental section, still ment, “Blues” offers a chance for the per- at the Barbican Centre in London as part of from section to section, but the basic pulse containing the original tune, but ultimately formers to show a little soul. the BBC’s Masterprize Competition in 2001, or beat remains constant. I heard my son’s ends up in a different place (much like the in which he received first prize. He has also heartbeat for the first time a few months last line of the prayer). As with “Strand,” “Song” is a pop tune. This received commissions and performances into my wife’s pregnancy and was very sur- one is a bit more direct in its tone and more from violinist Midori; the Chamber Music So- prised at how rapid it was. This rapid pulse While I was working on this movement, instantly memorable as it draws its lan- ciety of Lincoln Center; the Seattle, Albany, became the basis for the first movement. Mother Teresa passed away. I therefore guage from the late 1970s and early 80s. Vermont, Fort Worth, and Santa Rosa Sym- chose to dedicate this movement to her life phonies; the Fischer Duo, Pittsburgh New The second movement, “Agnus Dei,” repre- and works.

6 7 STACY GARROP (b. 1969) Cruz Symphonies; the Civic Orchestra of Music in the Loft commissioned the first whose material was created by blending String Quartet No. 2: Chicago, Minnesota Orchestra, Minnesota two movements of String Quartet No. 2: elements of the first movement’s themes, Demons and Angels (2005) Youth Orchestra, National Repertory Or- Demons and Angels for performance by thus representing how evil and good can 9 I. Demonic Spirits chestra, New England Philharmonic, and the Biava Quartet on its 2004/2005 con- spring from the same roots. bk II. Song of the Angels the Women’s Philharmonic. Dr. Garrop’s cert series. The Loft subsequently commis- bl III. Inner Demons solo and chamber music compositions sioned the rest of the piece, premiered in its III. “Inner Demons” depicts the man as he bm IV. Broken Spirit have been performed by the Artaria, Biava, entirety by the Biava Quartet at Yale Univer- loses his mind. This movement contains and Enso Quartets, and the Lincoln Trio, Cal- sity in November 2005. The work received four themes: a tarantella, a demented waltz, Stacy Garrop has received numerous awards listo Ensemble, International Contemporary its Chicago premiere at Music in the Loft in a scherzo, and the Appalachian folk hymn and grants including the Detroit Symphony Ensemble (ICE), New EAR, Orion Ensemble, October 2006. “The Wayfaring Stranger.” The themes are Orchestra’s 2006/2007 Elaine Lebenbom Seattle New Music Ensemble, Society for stated quite briskly until arriving at the Memorial Award, the Pittsburgh New Music New Music, Third Angle, mezzo-soprano Disguised demons, forgiving angels, tor- hymn. This theme consumes the man; it Ensemble’s 2006/2007 Harvey Gaul Com- Buffy Baggott, and pianists Amy Briggs Dis- tured human souls. String Quartet No. 2: destroys his mind and he melts down. As petition, the 2005 Raymond and Beverly sanayake and Kuang-Hao Huang. Her cho- Demons and Angels tells the story of a man his mind is slowly rebuilt, his thoughts be- Sackler Music Composition Prize, 2005 and ral music has been sung by Chicago a Cap- who thought his actions were guided by come increasingly chaotic, until elements

About the Composers & Program 2001 Barlow Endowment commissions, the pella, the Princeton Singers, the Peninsula the forces of good, only to discover that of all four themes are heard simultaneously. Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 1999-2000 Women’s Chorus, Volti, and Vox Caelestis, he has lost his mind and wreaked havoc on Finally, the hymn asserts itself above all, and First Hearing Composition Competition, and her music has been danced to by the earth by murdering five people. we hear the man commit the five murders the Omaha Symphony Guild’s 2000 Inter- a-ha! dance theatre of Kansas City. She has that opened the first movement. national New Music Competition, and the attended residences at the Aspen Music The first two movements explore the man’s New England Philharmonic’s 2000 Call for Festival, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Banff personality. I. “Demonic Spirits” addresses The piece concludes with IV. “Broken Spirit.” Scores Competition. She was selected to Centre for the Arts, MacDowell Colony, Mil- his dark persona. The movement begins This movement explores his devastation at participate in reading session programs lay Colony, Oxford Summer Institute, Round with a jolting chord played five times, one what he has done. The man is caught and sponsored by the American Composers Top Music Festival, Wellesley Composers for each murder. These chords return at confined to life in prison. With a repetitive Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and Dale Conference, and Yaddo. Theodore Presser poignant moments throughout the piece. four note boxlike motive, the man paces Warland Singers. Company and Hildegard Publishing Com- This movement contains two main themes: in his cell while his thoughts alternate be- pany publish many of her works. Dr. Garrop the first theme is very militaristic and sharp, tween extreme violence and pleading Dr. Garrop served as composer-in-residence is an Associate Professor in Composition at while the second theme is impishly sinister. hope that, by confessing his crimes, he can for Chicago’s Music in the Loft chamber the Chicago College of Performing Arts at be saved by the grace of an angel. music series in 2004-2005. Her orchestral Roosevelt University. For more information, II. “Song of the Angels” remembers the works have been performed by the Ama- please visit her website: www.garrop.com. goodness in him before his personal- rillo, Charleston, Illinois, Omaha, and Santa ity transformed. The cello has a long solo

8 9 VIVIAN FUNG (b. 1975) Vivian was born in Edmonton, Canada, in training have largely been Western- me. I immediately decided to use that Miniatures for Clarinet and String Quartet (2005) 1975 and began her composition studies influenced. However, in my work as a song as the basis for my clarinet quin- bn I. Floating with Canadian composer Violet Archer. composer, I have become increasingly tet, which I called Miniatures because bo Other early influences include her mentors II. Light and Playful interested in incorporating my Asian each of the movements is short and bp III. Improvisation-like , Narcis Bonet, and Robert bq IV. A Piacere Beaser, all of whom gave her a strong sense identity into my music. Lately, many offers a little glimpse into the different of craft and discipline. Since earning her of my works have been inspired by moods of the folk song. Vivian Fung began her professional com- doctorate from The in 2002, the folk music of the minority regions position career at age nineteen, when she Vivian has increasingly embraced non-Clas- of China and the gamelan orchestras Miniatures is in four movements, each received her first commission from Gerard sical influences, including jazz and non- of Indonesia. When Music in the Loft of which develops material from the Schwarz and the New York Chamber Sym- Western sources such as folksongs from the approached me to write a new piece folk song “Love for Homeland.” It is phony. A New York Times review of the result- minority regions of China and Indonesian for clarinet and string quartet, I turned a sort of theme and variations, with ing work described Vivian as “prodigiously gamelan music. gifted . . . a composer to watch.” Since then, to the traditional music of the Uighur each of the movements essentially Vivian has built up an impressive body of Vivian currently serves on the Literature people of China’s Xinjiang province being one variation. However, only in

About the Composers & Program compositions commissioned and performed and Materials of Music faculty at The Juil- for inspiration. Occupying a central the last movement do I have direct by ensembles including the Seattle Sympho- liard School and organizes the music series, location on the Silk Road, Xinjiang quotations from the folk song. The fi- ny, San José Chamber Orchestra, members of World Music at Juilliard. has been influenced by many differ- nal movement begins with a clarinet the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, Pittsburgh ent cultures, resulting in a fascinating solo evoking the cries of a folksinger New Music Ensemble, Edmonton Symphony For more information, please visit Vivian’s blend of Han Chinese, Muslim, Uzbek, from the Chinese countryside, with Orchestra, New England Philharmonic, Amer- website: www.vivianfung.net. ican String Quartet, Avalon String Quartet, Kazakh, and Russian influences. plucked strings creating the guitar- like accompaniment. The first three Vancouver New Music, Music From China, and Music in the Loft commissioned Miniatures After listening to many recordings of movements bring out different sides American Opera Projects. Vivian has served as as a memorial to the life of Chicago journal- composer-in-residence for Chicago’s Music ist Ted Shen, a close friend of the series. The Uighur music, I happened upon a re- of the folk song. The first is ethereal as in the Loft, the San José Chamber Orchestra, composer writes: cording of a folk song entitled “Love the melody floats in and out of the at- Music Teachers’ Association of California, and for Homeland” (Chinese: Gùxiang zhi mospheric environment. The second Billings Symphony, and has received numer- Although born to Chinese parents, liàn). That recording featured a mel- movement is very playful and light. ous awards and grants from ASCAP, BMI, the American Music Center, American Compos- I grew up in Canada and have lived ancholic folksinger, accompanied by a The third movement features an ex- ers’ Forum, Meet the Composer, and the in New York for the last dozen years, guitar-like instrument. The soulfulness otic scale and the twirling motion of Canada Council for the Arts. and my life surroundings and musical of the folksinger’s voice enchanted dancers spinning.

10 11 “For performers and audiences alike, Music The list of young artists who have per- the residence of Chicago entrepreneur Jerry of the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Reader. in the Loft is an unforgettable experience. formed at Music in the Loft at the start of Kleiner. This became the first in a series of The work was premiered in 2005 by the Maia The intimacy, acoustics, impressive setting, their careers reads like a “Who’s Who of Kleiner Concerts. For this retrospective, Mu- Quartet and clarinetist John Bruce Yeh. and consistently high artistic standards all Chamber Music Today”: Naumburg Cham- sic in the Loft commissioned four composers, highlight the features of chamber music ber Music Award winners the Corigliano, including Ricardo Lorenz, to write what it In recent seasons, Music in the Loft has com- at its very best.” (The Ying Quartet) Pacifica, and Biava Quartets; the Avalon called “postcards for the next millennium.” missioned new works from its composers in Quartet, winners of the Fischoff, Coleman, residence including a piece by Pierre Jalbert Music in the Loft came into being in spring and Carmel competitions; and the Amelia For the 2002–2003 season, Music in the Loft for harpist Nuiko Wadden and a new quintet 1992 with a single series of five Sunday after- Trio, who perform with Yo-Yo Ma in his Silk chose Carter Pann as composer-in-resi- by Ricardo Lorenz for the Pacifica Quartet noon concerts. Featured on the first season Road Project, to name just a few. dence, and five of his works were performed and guitarist Rami Vamos. was a young string quartet whose members throughout the season, including a world About Music in the Loft had only recently completed their schooling In its fifteen years of existence, Music in the premiere commissioned by Music in the Loft It is very satisfying to note that these com- and who were attempting to establish them- Loft has doubled its number of annual con- for the Amelia Trio. missioned works have gained a life outside selves professionally. They called themselves certs, and tripled its audience. of Music in the Loft and are being played at the Ying Quartet. Then, relatively few had The 2003–2004 composer-in-residence was other venues. The Biava Quartet has added heard of them. Today, they are a household In 1998, Music in the Loft added a second- Pierre Jalbert. Music in the Loft commissioned Stacy Garrop’s second quartet to its touring name in classical music circles. Winners of ary mission to its core goal of presenting a piece for narrator, saxophone, and piano repertoire, the Pacifica Quartet has contin- such prestigious chamber music awards as the best in young chamber music perform- set to former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins’s ued to perform Ricardo Lorenz’s quintet, the Naumburg and Coleman Chamber Mu- ers: that of spotlighting outstanding young “The Invention of the Saxophone.” and Pierre Jalbert’s saxophone piece was sic Awards, the Ying Quartet now performs composers, giving them opportunities to recently performed in Houston. around the world on five continents. They have their works performed, as well as com- For 2004–2005 Stacy Garrop was composer- have been profiled in , ap- missioning new works. in-residence. The Enso Quartet performed Music in the Loft and Cedille Records will col- peared on television’s most prestigious cul- her first string quartet. Pianist Anthony Pa- laborate on another project, titled the Billy tural programs, participated in the country’s As its first composer-in-residence, Music in dilla performed her Teeny Tango; the Lincoln Collins Suite. Music in the Loft commissioned major music festivals, and now serve on the the Loft chose Ricardo Lorenz. Three of his Trio and clarinetist Wagner Campos per- four composers to write works set to Billy faculty at the Eastman School of Music. Their works were performed during the 1998– formed Little Bits, and Music in the Loft com- Collins poems to add to Pierre Jalbert’s “The story exemplifies the mission of Music in the 1999 season along with a new work Music in missioned a second string quartet, which Invention of the Saxophone,” the product of Loft: to discover the most gifted of today’s the Loft commissioned for the Pacifica Quar- was performed by the Biava Quartet. a previous Music in the Loft commission. The young musicians, on the brink of major ca- tet and percussionist Yousif Sheronick. Un- Billy Collins Suite will be presented in con- reers, and provide them with performance der close consultation with Ricardo Lorenz, In 2005–2006, Music in the Loft chose Vivian cert at the Loft’s May 2008 benefit concert, opportunities in a major city in an intimate, Music in the Loft organized a retrospective Fung and commissioned her to write a piece with recording sessions over the following nurturing, acoustically superior setting. of 20th-Century music in December 1999 at in memory of Ted Shen, former music critic days and weeks. 12 13 MARTA AZNAVOORIAN piano laborative performances with top artists in- bins, Ardyth Alton, Paul Katz, Steven Doane, and prizewinner in such competitions as the 1 Bachangó by Ricardo Lorenz cluding the Pacifica Quartet, Julian Rachlin, and Robert Sylvester. A dedicated and active Joanna Hodges International Competition Robert Chen, Colin Carr, Stefan Milenkovich, teacher himself, Mr. Ying has taught at Interlo- and the American Pianists Association, and “A pianist of exceptionally finished technique and Jennifer Frautschi. Ms. Aznavoorian has chen, the Brevard Music Center, Bowdoin In- has held piano fellowships at the Tanglewood and purity of musical impulse.” (Boston Globe) previously recorded violin and piano music ternational Music Festival, and Northwestern Music Center and the Ravinia Festival’s Steans of Stravinsky and Ravel with violinist Jennifer University. He is on the chamber music and Institute. She holds degrees with honors from A Chicago native, pianist Marta Aznavoorian Frautschi for the ARTEK label. cello faculty of the Eastman School of Music the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Univer- the Performers has performed in Chicago’s most prestigious in Rochester, NY. With the Ying Quartet, he is sity of Southern California, and was awarded a venues and concertized throughout the also currently Blodgett artist-in-residence at Performer’s Diploma from the Hogeschool United States and abroad. She has soloed DAVID YING cello Harvard University. voor de Kunsten Utrecht in the Netherlands. About with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 2–6 Differences by Carter Pann Ms. Freer serves on the faculty of the Eastman Sydney Symphony, New World Symphony, School of Music in Rochester, New York, and Aspen Concert Orchestra, San Angelo David Ying is best known to audiences as ELINOR FREER piano is also Co-Artistic Director of the Skaneateles Symphony, and San Diego Symphony. She cellist of the Ying Quartet. Winners of a 2005 2–6 Differences by Carter Pann Festival in Central New York. has worked with renowned conductors in- Grammy award, the quartet was also award- cluding Sir Georg Solti, Lukas Foss, and Mi- ed the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and Pianist Elinor Freer has built a versatile career chael Tilson Thomas. Her solo recitals have has established an international reputation for as soloist and chamber musician, performing LINCOLN TRIO included performances at the Kennedy excellence in performance with appearances across the United States, Europe, and China. 7–8 Trio for violin, cello, and piano Center in Washington D.C., Sydney Opera in virtually every major American city. They In Europe, Ms. Freer has given multiple perfor- by Pierre Jalbert House, Steinway Hall, Weill Hall, Caramoor have also appeared at numerous festivals in- mances at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam Festival, Tanglewood Festival, Music in the cluding Tanglewood, Aspen, Caramoor, and and appeared at the Valery Gergiev Festival in Formed in 2002, the Lincoln Trio, ensemble Loft, Dame Myra Hess Series, and Green San Miguel, and in Europe, Canada, Mexico, Rotterdam. Other highlights include record- in residence at the Music Institute of Chica- Lake Music Festival. Australia, Japan, and Taiwan. In addition, Mr. ings for Dutch radio, performances at the In- go, has emerged as one of Chicago’s most Ying performs with pianist Elinor Freer, with ternational Musicians’ Seminar in Prussia Cove, celebrated chamber groups. Their crafted She has won first prize in numerous national whom he is co-artistic director of the Ska- England, and concerts at Moscow’s Gnessin balance of repertoire and presentation has and local competitions, including the Sev- neateles Festival in Central New York. As a Institute. Ms. Freer has been featured as solo- allowed them to win over sophisticated enteen/General Motors National Competi- solo cellist, Mr. Ying has won prizes at the Na- ist with numerous orchestras and at festivals audiences, younger admirers of the Trio’s tion, Aspen Music Festival Competition, at umburg International Cello Competition and including Summer Music in Harrisburg, PA, the contemporary programs, and students dis- the Union League Civic and Arts Founda- the Washington International Competition. Festival de Música de Cámera in Mexico, the covering chamber music for the first time. tion, and by the National Foundation for He holds degrees from the Juilliard School Bowdoin Music Festival, the Lake Winnipesau- Advancement in the Arts, which made her and Eastman School of Music, where his kee Music Festival, and Music in the Vineyards The Lincoln Trio is a frequent guest of Chica- a Presidential Scholar. She has enjoyed col- teachers were Leonard Rose, Channing Rob- in Napa Valley. Ms. Freer has been a laureate go’s Music in the Loft series and WFMT Radio.

14 15 The Trio has performed throughout the U.S., BIAVA QUARTET Dedicated to the performance of the classi- JOHN BRUCE YEH clarinet most recently as guest artists of the - 9–bm String Quartet No. 2: cal repertoire, the Biava Quartet also main- bn–bq Miniatures by Vivian Fung napolis Symphony Orchestra’s Beethoven Demons and Angels tains a strong commitment to the commis- Chamber Music Series. A champion of new by Stacy Garrop sioning and performance of contemporary The son of music-loving scientists in Los music, the Lincoln Trio has performed nu- works. The Quartet has championed the Angeles, John Bruce Yeh defines himself merous compositions written especially for Founded in 1998 at the Cleveland Institute of music of American composers Mason as a musical explorer. He pursued pre- them including premieres of seven works Music, the Biava Quartet — Austin Hartman Bates, William Bolcom, Stacy Garrop, John medical studies at UCLA, where he won the Performers by members of the Chicago Composers and Hyunsu Ko, violins; Mary Persin, viola; Harbison, and Ezra Laderman. the Frank Sinatra Musical Performance Consortium and “Moon Jig,” by former Jacob Braun, cello — is recognized as one Award and performed as Principal Clari- Chicago Symphony Orchestra composer- of today’s most exciting young American The members of the Biava Quartet hold the net of the un- About in-residence, Augusta Read Thomas. A tour quartets. Winner of the Naumburg Chamber Lisa Arnhold Quartet Residency at the Juil- der Mehli Mehta. He entered the Juilliard of the U.S., Europe, and Japan featuring per- Music Award and top prizes at the Premio liard School, serving as graduate quartet in School of Music in 1975 and also studied formances of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto is Paolo Borciani and London International residence and teaching assistants to the at Aspen, Marlboro, and Tanglewood. In planned for the 2008-2009 season. Competitions, the Quartet has established Juilliard Quartet. The Quartet previously 1977, when Yeh was 19, Sir Georg Solti in- an enthusiastic following in the United States held the same position with the Tokyo vited him to join the Chicago Symphony Each member of the Trio is a musician of and abroad, impressing audiences with its Quartet at Yale University. The Biava mu- Orchestra as solo Bass Clarinetist. Two international renown. Violinist Desiree sensitive artistry and communicative power. sicians have advanced degrees from the years later, Yeh became Assistant Princi- Ruhstrat has performed throughout the The Quartet takes its name from Maestro Luis New England Conservatory of Music, Uni- pal Clarinetist of the orchestra, a post in U.S. and Europe, appearing at the White Biava, who has been a mentor and inspiration versity of Southern California, Yale Univer- which he continues to serve. He has per- House and performing on a live broadcast to the Quartet since its inception. sity, and the Juilliard School. formed concertos by Stravinsky, Nielsen, heard around the world with the Berlin and Elliott Carter with the Chicago Sym- Radio Symphony Orchestra. Cellist David The Biava Quartet has performed to ac- The Biava Quartet has previously recorded phony and has soloed with other orches- Cunliffe has performed with the BBC and claim in major concert halls throughout on the Naxos label and has been heard tras in locations around the world includ- Royal Scottish Orchestras as well as touring North America, Europe, and Asia, including on London’s BBC Radio 3 and numerous ing at the National Concert Hall in Taipei, around the world as a member of the Bala- Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Library of national radio broadcasts. The Quartet Taiwan and in the Great Philharmonic nescu Quartet. Pianist Marta Aznavoorian Congress, London’s Wigmore Hall, and the has also been featured in Strings and Strad Hall in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Yeh also has appeared with the Chicago Symphony Baroque Art Hall in Seoul. Other highlights magazines and is the subject of an upcom- appears as a guest artist on chamber mu- and performed at the Kennedy Center and from recent seasons include appearances ing PBS documentary film. sic series and at music festivals around the Sydney Opera House. at the Mostly Mozart and Aspen Music Fes- the world. His many solo and chamber tivals, Chautauqua Institution, and Pacific To learn more about the Biava Quartet, music recordings have earned wide criti- To learn more about the Lincoln Trio, Music Festival in Japan. visit www.biavaquartet.com cal acclaim. Constantly striving to find visit www.lincolntrio.com new types of expression in music, Yeh or-

16 17 ganized the Chicago Pro Musica in 1979, D.C.’s Kennedy Center; Beijing’s Forbid- assistants. They have held summer fel- which won a Grammy award as Best New den City Concert Hall; and the Aspen Mu- lowships at the Norfolk Chamber Music Classical Artist in 1986. sic Festival’s Harris Hall. Collaborations Festival and Aspen Center for Advanced with leading chamber musicians have Quartet Studies, where they worked with Together with his wife, clarinetist Teresa included performances with Joel Kros- the American, Cleveland, Emerson, and Reilly, erhu virtuoso Wang Guowei, and nick, Andre-Michel Schub, and Cynthia Tokyo String Quartets. pipa virtuoso Yang Wei, Yeh recently Phelps. The Maia Quartet’s commitment the Performers formed Birds and Phoenix, an innovative to the work of living composers has led To learn more about the Maia Quartet, quartet dedicated to musical exploration to premieres of compositions by Pierre visit www.maiaquartet.com by bridging eastern and western musical Jalbert, Dan Coleman, Vivian Fung, and About cultures. In their highly acclaimed Sep- Ronn Yedidia. tember 2006 debut performance, the group presented works by Victoria Bond, Currently the faculty Quartet-in-Resi- Pamela Chen, Lu Pei, and Bright Sheng, dence at the University of Iowa, in Iowa all commissioned for them by Fontana City, the Quartet previously served as Chamber Arts in Kalamazoo, Michigan. faculty at the Peabody Conservatory. The Quartet’s summer teaching engage- ments have included residencies at Great MAIA QUARTET Wall International Music Academy in Bei- bn–bq Miniatures by Vivian Fung jing, China, Interlochen Arts Camp, Austin Chamber Music Festival, and Thurnauer Since its formation in 1990, the Maia Chamber Music Camp in Tenafly, NJ. Quartet — Tricia Park and Zoran Jakovcic, violins; Elizabeth Oakes, viola; Hannah The Maia Quartet was formed at the Holman, cello — has established itself Cleveland Institute of Music and subse- nationally as an ensemble of innovation quently received a fellowship to attend and versatility. Praised by music critics for the Peabody Conservatory and work its “sparkling musical intelligence,” the with Earl Carlyss. They were the recipi- Quartet has appeared in major concert ents of the Lisa Arnhold Fellowship at halls throughout the U.S. and abroad, the Juilliard School, where they worked including New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Mer- with the members of the Juilliard String kin Hall, and 92nd Street Y; Washington Quartet and served as their teaching

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