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September 17, 2015
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra Launches 2015–2016 Season on October 4 with Benefit Concert Featuring Cellist Robert deMaine
The October 4 event will include the announcement of Kaleidoscope’s full season of concerts
Conductorless ensemble Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra will kickoff its 2015–2016 season at a benefit concert on Sunday, October 4 at the Colburn School’s Zipper Hall in downtown Los Angeles, featuring Los Angeles Philharmonic principal cellist Robert deMaine. The program will include works by Prokofiev and Dvořák, and a West Coast premiere by Adam Schoenberg.
The orchestra’s full slate of programming will be announced at the event, which includes 4 additional series of orchestra concerts in Santa Monica, Pasadena, and downtown Los Angeles. A reception with beverages and light fare will follow, giving guests the opportunity to meet and greet the orchestra.
Kaleidoscope was formed in 2014 to foster a sense of musical community, and forge a greater connection between players and their audience. Programming choices include works traditionally thought beyond the scope of a conductorless orchestra – such as symphonies by Mahler and Tchaikovsky – and the 2015–2016 season will include full orchestral works by Ives, Brahms, Mozart, Arnold Schoenberg, Messiaen, John Adams, and Beethoven, as well premieres by Jonathan Russell, Adam Schoenberg, and Alyssa Weinberg .
Kaleidoscope Founder Benjamin Mitchell said: "It is a thrill to kickoff our second season with such a venerable musician as Robert deMaine, as well as feature a west coast premiere by Adam Schoenberg, one of the most promising young composers active today. This opening program serves as a veracious expression of Kaleidoscope's overarching programming principles – incorporating works with long lasting legacies, and those shaping the future of orchestral music – and our goal of sharing with our audience an intimate music making experience."
All proceeds support the programming and operations of Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra. Visit kco.la for more information about Kaleidoscope, and to view a video with KUSC host Rich Capparela about the season launch event.
Sunday, October 4, 2015, 5 pm Zipper Hall, Colburn School 200 South Grand Ave Los Angeles, CA 90012
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra Robert deMaine, cello
PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical” ADAM SCHOENBERG Canto (West Coast premiere) DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto in B minor
In their second season, Kaleidoscope will put programming emphasis on community engagement throughout Los Angeles, with many additional free concerts at schools, hospitals, prisons, and other underserved parts of the community. On Saturday, October 3 at 4 pm, the orchestra will perform its first concert at Salvation Army Bell Center, a homeless shelter in the south Los Angeles area. The event is not advertised to the general public, but press passes are available for interested media.
Saturday, October 3, 2015, 4 pm Salvation Army Bell Center 5600 Rickenbacker Road, Bldg. 2A/B Bell, CA 90201
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra PROKOFIEV Symphony No. 1, “Classical” ADAM SCHOENBERG Canto (West Coast premiere)
Launched in 2014, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra is a conductorless ensemble based in Los Angeles dedicated to creating concert experiences at the highest level of artistic excellence and bringing together a musician’s collective and community. Kaleidoscope seeks to live the artistic vision of all ensemble members and build a viable presence in the Los Angeles community and beyond through education and audience outreach, commissioning new music, and connection.
Robert deMaine is an American virtuoso cellist who has been hailed by The New York Times as "an artist who makes one hang on every note”. He has distinguished himself as one of the finest and most versatile instrumentalists of his generation, performing to critical acclaim as soloist, recitalist, orchestral principal, recording artist, and chamber musician. In 2012 he was invited to join the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal Cello.
DeMaine has appeared on the stages of Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Teatro Colón, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, and Moscow's Tchaikovsky Hall, among others. He was the first cellist ever to win San Francisco's prestigious Irving M. Klein International Competition for Strings. The recipient of a career grant from the Helen M. Saunders Foundation, deMaine's distinctions have included first prizes and awards from numerous competitions. His principal teachers include Leonard Rose, Stephen Kates, Steven Doane, Paul Katz, Ronald Leonard, and Aldo Parisot, among others. Master classes and additional studies were undertaken with Bernard Greenhouse, János Starker, Boris Pergamenschikow, Felix Galimir, and Jerome Lowenthal.
Robert deMaine’s frequent musical collaborators include such distinguished colleagues as violinists James Ehnes, Hilary Hahn, Gil Shaham, Pamela Frank, Ani and Ida Kavafian, Joseph Silverstein, and Felix Galimir, pianists Emanuel Ax, Andre Watts, Jeffrey Kahane, Anton Kuerti, AnneMarie McDermott, MarcAndré Hamelin, Jeremy Denk, Orion Weiss, Valentina Lisitsa, and Yefim Bronfman, conductors Gustavo Dudamel, John Williams, Neeme Järvi, Leonard Slatkin, Dennis Russell Davies, Peter Oundjian, Andrew Litton, Thomas Wilkins, Nicholas McGegan, Julian Kuerti, JoAnn Falletta, and James Gaffigan, among many others. As a chamber musician deMaine has been performed at the world’s leading music festivals, including Aspen, Heidelberg, Montréal, Chautauqua, Bargemusic, Skaneateles, Napa's Music in the Vineyards, Cabrillo, Breckenridge, Meadowmount, and the Marlboro Music Festival, also performing with Music from Marlboro in New York and Washington, D.C. He has collaborated with the legendary Beaux Arts Trio as well as the Emerson, Juilliard, Kronos, Cleveland, American, Mendelssohn, Parisii, Chiara, Amernet, and Pacifica string quartets. DeMaine is also a member of the Ehnes Quartet (with violinists James Ehnes, Amy Schwartz Moretti, and violist Richard O'Neill) and the DicterowdeMaineBiegel Trio.
A passionately committed teacher, deMaine has given master classes and has taught at schools and universities throughout North and South America and Europe. His pupils are laureates of major solo and chamber music competitions and can also be found in chamber ensembles and symphony orchestras throughout the world.
Robert deMaine has recorded for Naxos, Chandos, Dorian/Sono Luminus, Onyx, CBC, Elysium, and Capstone and has been featured on the BBC, PBS, NPR's Performance Today, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, France Musique, and RAI, among others.
As a composer deMaine has written several works for the cello, including a set of twelve ÉtudesCaprices. Among the many works specially composed for him are Summer Verses for Violin and Cello by Christopher Theofanidis. Other composers whose works have either been dedicated to or premiered by Robert deMaine include Kenneth Fuchs, Jeffrey Mumford, and Joel Eric Suben.
A fourthgeneration string player, Robert deMaine was introduced to the cello at the age of four by his mother and sister, both accomplished cellists. At a young age deMaine came to the attention of famed cellists Pierre Fournier and Leonard Rose, both of whom encouraged his continued studies. Sponsorship allowed him to study with Rose in the precollege division of The Juilliard School, after which he attended Meadowmount, the Eastman School of Music, the Piatigorsky Seminar in Los Angeles, Music Academy of the West, the Marlboro School and Festival, and Yale University on fulltuition fellowships. Additional studies were undertaken at the University of Southern California and the Kronberg Academy in Germany.
Before joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic as Principal Cello in 2012, deMaine served as the James C. Gordon Principal Cello of the Detroit Symphony for over a decade. He has previously served as principal cello of the Hartford Symphony, New York String Orchestra, and Connecticut Opera and has been guest principal cello of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, and the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway.
Robert makes his home in Southern California with his wife, Elizabeth, and two children, Paul, and Annette. He is a ThomastikInfeld Artist and performs on an immaculately preserved Venetian cello made in 1748 by Domenico Busan. A knowledgeable and enthusiastic collector of cellos, deMaine’s other instruments include cellos by Stradivari, Gagliano, and Gragnani, as well as a Vuillaume (courtesy of the Cecilia Benner Trust) and a Guarneri (on loan from the LA Philharmonic). In August 2014, deMaine made his Los Angeles Philharmonic concerto debut in a performance of Brahms’ Double Concerto alongside violinist Alina Pogostkina. His recording of the John Williams Cello Concerto (Detroit Symphony, Leonard Slatkin conducting) was released by Naxos in July 2015.
Robert deMaine is represented by Serious Music Media and McAlister Arts LLC. Learn more at robertdemaine.com
Adam Schoenberg has quickly become one of the best known and most frequently performed American composers of his generation. Full of “mystery and sensuality” (The New York Times), Schoenberg’s music embraces both warm tonality and gentle chromaticism and has been heralded as “open, bold, and optimistic” (Atlanta JournalConstitution).
An improviser at heart, Schoenberg’s engaging musical vocabulary has found resonance with audiences throughout the world. 201516 highlights include performances and premieres at the Library of Congress, Kennedy Center, New York Philharmonic, and the firstever concerto for PROJECT Trio.
Schoenberg has received commissions from several major American orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (Up! and La Luna Azul), the Kansas City Symphony (American Symphony and Picture Studies), and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Aspen Music Festival and School (Bounce). Other recent commissions include works for the New West Symphony, Soprano Alyson Cambridge and the Washington Performing Arts.
Beginning in the 201516 season, Schoenberg will serve as the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra’s composerinresidence. Other upcoming projects include collaborations with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Iris Orchestra, Charleston, Amarillo, and Phoenix symphonies, and the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra. Upcoming album releases include a recording of Schoenberg’s orchestral works by the Kansas City Symphony for Reference Recordings, and arrangement of When You Wish Upon A Star for Anne Akiko Meyers and the London Symphony Orchestra. A recording of his keyboard works by pianist Nadia Shpachenko was released last season.
Schoenberg earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at The Juilliard School as a student of John Corigliano and Robert Beaser. He also received his Master of Music degree from Juilliard and his Bachelor of Music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Schoenberg was a 2009 and 2010 MacDowell Fellow, and also won the first prize for best brass quintet at the 2008 International Brass Chamber Music Festival. Other accolades include ASCAP’s Morton Gould Young Composer Award, the Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Juilliard’s PalmerDixon Prize for Most Outstanding Composition, and a Meet The Composer award.
A committed educator, Schoenberg is Assistant Professor of Composition at Occidental College where he runs the composition and film scoring program. He has given lectures and master classes for the Young Presidents’ Organization, Atlanta Symphony, The Juilliard School, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Blair School of Music, and the Aspen Music Festival and School, among others. An accomplished and versatile film composer, Schoenberg has scored two featurelength films and several shorts. Highlights include, Graceland, cowritten with his father, Steven Schoenberg, which premiered at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival and received its nationwide theatrical release in the spring of 2013.
In 2012 Adam Schoenberg became the first American composer of classical music to sign with Ricordi London, part of the Universal Music Publishing Classical Group. He is currently represented by Opus 3 Artists. Schoenberg makes his home in Los Angeles with his wife, screenwriter and filmmaker Janine Salinas Schoenberg, and their two sons, Luca and Leo.
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