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The Classical Recording Foundation TENTH ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY MONDAY, NOVEMER 21, 2011 WEILL RECITAL HALL AT CARNEGIE HALL NEW YORK CITY The Classical Recording Foundation TENTH ANNUAL AWARDS CEREMONY Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall Monday, November 21, 2011, 8:00 PM 2011 FOUNDATION AWARDS 2011 Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award Kalichstein Laredo Robinson Trio 2011 Composer of the Year Award Robert Paterson 2011 Composer of the Year Award Arlene Sierra 2011 Young Artist Award Susanna Phillips CONCERT AND PRESENTATION OF 2011 AWARD WINNERS Opening Remarks — INTERMISSION — Adam Abeshouse, President of The Classical Recording Foundation Of Risk and Memory (1997) ............................................ Arlene Sierra New York Premiere Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat, Op. 99, D.898 .............................. Schubert Quattro Mani I. Allegro moderato Alice Rybak, piano and Susan Grace, piano The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Presentation of the Composer of the Year Award to Joseph Kalichstein, piano, Jaime Laredo, violin, Arlene Sierra and Sharon Robinson, cello David Starobin, Director of Artists & Repertoire, Bridge Records Presentation of the Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award to The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Joel Revzen Principle Conductor, Arizona Opera and Ariettes oubliées ...................................................................... Debussy Artistic Director, Lake Tahoe Summerfest 1. C’est l’extase 2. Il pleure dans mon coeur 3. L’ombre des arbres Book of Goddesses (2010)........................ .................. Robert Paterson 4. Chevaus de bois 5. Green III. Aphrodite 6. Spleen VI. Xochiquetzal VII. Oya Susanna Phillips, soprano and Myra Huang, piano IX. The Muses Presentation of the Young Artist Award to MAYA Susanna Phillips John Hadfield, percussion, Bridget Kibbey, harp, and Cynthia Hoffmann, Sato Moughalian, flute Vocal Faculty, The Juilliard School Presentation of the Composer of the Year Award to Robert Paterson Closing Remarks Christopher Rouse, Adam Abeshouse Composition Faculty, The Juilliard School 2 3 CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS 2011 THE KALICHSTEIN-LAREDO-ROBINSON TRIO THE SAMUEL SANDERS COLLABORATIVE ARTIST AWARD After thirty-five years of success the The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio represents the highest form of world over, including many award- collaborative artistry. The Trio had been touring with the Schubert trios and winning recordings and newly by was able to make this recording during that tour. The outcome of this commissioned works, the Kalichstein- process was a landmark recording representing a performance that sets the Laredo-Robinson Trio continues to benchmark for these Schubert trios. This is the second Samuel Sanders dazzle audiences and critics alike with award that the Foundation is bestowing to this Trio, the first given for a their performances. Since making recording of the Beethoven trios at the Foundation’s First Annual Awards their debut at the White House for Ceremony. The Schubert disc was released on the Bridge Records label in President Carter’s Inauguration in November 2011. Please visit www.bridgerecords.com for more January 1977, pianist Joseph information. Kalichstein, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson have set the standard for performance of the piano ABOUT THIS AWARD trio literature. As one of the only chamber ensembles with all its original The Samuel Sanders Collaborative Artist Award commemorates members, the Kalichstein-Laredo- Samuel Sanders, a consummate chamber musician and beloved teacher. Robinson Trio balances the careers of three internationally-acclaimed Mr. Sanders was the recital partner of choice to many instrumentalists and soloists while making annual appearances at many of the world’s major singers including Itzhak Perlman, Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert White, and concert halls, commissioning spectacular new works, and maintaining an Paula Robison. active recording agenda. Mr. Sanders had always preferred the term collaborator to During the 2011-12 season the Trio celebrates its three-and-a-half accompanist, and so embodied the essence of chamber music in all of his decades together by debuting three new commissions devoted to the performances. He helped each artist find his or her voice, always achieving anniversary and touring extensively. the right balance between leading and following, anticipation and support. The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio has enjoyed a steady stream of His range of tonal color was inspiring, without demanding the spotlight and honors and tributes over the years. They have served as Chamber always in service to the music. The Foundation has established this award Ensemble-in-Residence at the Kennedy Center since the 2003-04 season in his honor and consequently it is reserved for chamber music of the and in 2003, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit established the highest caliber. Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award (KLRITA) in honor of the Trio’s contribution to chamber music. Each Trio member also maintains an active solo performance and teaching career. Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson joined the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2005, while Joseph Kalichstein continues as a long-revered teacher at the Juilliard School of Music. 4 5 CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS 2011 ROBERT PATERSON THE COMPOSER OF THE YEAR AWARD The son of visual artists, Robert Robert Paterson’s work in founding the American Modern Ensemble has Paterson’s music is inspired by nature, yielded impressive results: an organization and a concert series that support visual art, machines and American icons, composers and advances the art. His inspiration for The Book of Goddesses and he was recently described in Fanfare is the lavishly illustrated book of the same name by Kris Waldherr, a magazine as “a very important composer Brooklyn based author. MAYA commissioned this work with funding working in the scene today in America.” provided by the New York State Council on The Arts. Working together Paterson has received performances in the with MAYA, Robert Paterson was able to showcase the ensemble’s United States and internationally by many incredible breadth of expression. This disc will be released on the outstanding ensembles, including the American Modern Recordings label in late 2011. Please visit Amazon.com Louisville Orchestra, Russian Chamber for more information. Orchestra, Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, New York New Music PERFORMING TONIGHT Ensemble, Da Capo Chamber Players, California EAR Unit and Ensemble MAYA, a trio of percussion, harp and flute, was Aleph. Paterson’s awards include the founded in 2005 and performs new music, music Copland Award, Brian Israel Prize, and of different world cultures, and incorporates winning the Louisville Orchestra improvisations into its performances. MAYA Composition Competition. He has received grants and awards from the actively commissions music from a broad variety American Composers Forum, ASCAP and the American Music Center and of composers with a special emphasis on fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Aspen Music Festival and emerging composers, receiving grants and Atlantic Center for the Arts. He received degrees from Cornell University awards from American Composers (DMA), Indiana University (MM) and the Eastman School of Music (BM). Forum, Argosy Foundation, Jerome Foundation, From 2009-12, Paterson is Music Alive Composer in Residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the New Vermont Youth Orchestra, sponsored by Meet the Composer and the York State Council on the Arts, the Spanish League of American Orchestras. Current projects include an opera with Ministry of Culture, and Jarvis and Constance librettist David Cote, a new commission for the Vermont Symphony and Doctorow and the Samuel I. Newhouse Jaime Laredo and two choral works for the Chamber Choir of Europe. Foundations. MAYA In The Spirit (Perspectives Recordings) was released in Paterson is the founder and Artistic Director of the American Modern December 2007. Of the trio’s second recording featuring music of Neil Ensemble and resides in New York City with his wife Victoria and their son Rolnick on his album The Economic Engine (Innova), The New York Dylan. Please visit www.robpaterson.com for more information. Times said: “The brightly spirited ‘Uptown Jump’ (2006), a study in rich, tactile textures and inventive variation, juxtaposes jazz moves with ragalike percussion patterns. MAYA, a trio of flute, harp and percussion, plays it with grace and energy.” A third CD, including Robert Paterson’s The Book of Goddesses will be released by American Modern Recordings. MAYA has toured nationally and performs regularly in New York City. 6 7 CLASSICAL RECORDING FOUNDATION AWARD WINNERS 2011 ARLENE SIERRA THE COMPOSER OF THE YEAR AWARD An American composer based in London, Arlene Sierra’s debut CD is the first of a series of CDs focused on her work, Arlene Sierra is acclaimed for vivid, darkly produced with major funding from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the energetic works that take their impetus from Ditson Fund at Columbia University, and the Classical Recording rich sources including military strategy, Foundation. Featuring works from Sierra’s Miller Portrait, performers on Darwinian evolution, and game theory. The the disc include soprano Susan Narucki, the Daedalus Quartet, pianist Guardian writes, “her work has its own Vassily Primakov, and the International Contemporary