MUSIC

BANK OF AMERICA

Dock Street Theatre May 25 at 1:00pm May 26–June 10 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

SPONSORED BY BANK OF AMERICA

ARTISTS Geoff Nuttall The Charles E. and Andrea L. Volpe Director for Chamber Music Inon Barnatan piano Jennifer Frautschi violin Hooshyar Khayam composer Peter Kolkay bassoon Anthony Manzo double bass Pedja Muzijevic piano, harpsichord Tara Helen O’Connor flute Todd Palmer clarinet Daniel Phillips violin, Stephen Prutsman piano, harmonium Eric Ruske horn St. Lawrence String Quartet Geoff Nuttall violin Scott St. John violin Lesley Robertson viola Christopher Costanza cello James Austin Smith oboe Livia Sohn violin Alisa Weilerstein cello

Additional support provided by Bob and Janice McNair/Palmetto Partners, LTD. The St. Lawrence String Quartet is the Arthur and Holly Magill Quartet in Residence. The Chamber Music curtain in the Dock Street Theatre was designed and painted by Christian Thee.

PROGRAM I May 25 at 1:00pm; May 26 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

“Quinten” String Quartet, Op.76, No. 2 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) St. Lawrence String Quartet

Great Train Race Ian Clarke (b. 1964) Tara Helen O’Connor, flute

Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet in D major, Op. 21 Ernest Chausson (1855–99) Livia Sohn, violin; Inon Barnatan, piano; St. Lawrence String Quartet

PROGRAM II May 27 at 11:00am and 1:00pm; May 28 at 11:00am

A Night Piece Arthur Foote (1853–1937) Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; St. Lawrence String Quartet

Symphony No. 101 (“The Clock”), H 1/101 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809), arr. Salomon Inon Barnatan, piano; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; St. Lawrence String Quartet

Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67 Amy Beach (1867–1944) Pedja Muzijevic, piano; St. Lawrence String Quartet

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PROGRAM III May 28 at 1:00pm; May 29 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

Dornbacher Ländler, Op. 9 Joseph Lanner (1801–43) Geoff Nuttall, Livia Sohn, and Jennifer Frautschi, violins; Anthony Manzo, double bass

Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat, Op. 16 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) Pedja Muzijevic, piano; James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Eric Ruske, horn

Trio Sonata No. 1 in G major Domenico Gallo (1730–68), attrib. Giovanni Pergolesi (1710–36) Livia Sohn and Geoff Nuttall, violins; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord

Suite Italienne (1882–1971) Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano

PROGRAM IV May 30 at 11:00am and 1:00pm; May 31 at 11:00am

Till Eulenspiegel Richard Strauss (1864–1949), arr. Hasenöhrl Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Eric Ruske, horn; Anthony Manzo, double bass

String Quartet in D minor, K 421 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91) St. Lawrence String Quartet

“Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus” from Quatuor pour la fin du temps Olivier Messiaen (1908–92) Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano

Sextet for Piano and Winds in C major, Op. 100 Francis Poulenc (1899–1963) Inon Barnatan, piano; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Eric Ruske, horn

PROGRAM V May 31 at 1:00pm; June 1 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

Trio Sonata No. 3 in B-flat major Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679–1745) Jennifer Frautschi, violin; James Austin Smith, oboe; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord

String Quartet (2011) Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960) St. Lawrence String Quartet

Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano in A minor, Op. 114 Johannes Brahms (1833–97) Todd Palmer, clarinet; Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano

PROGRAM VI June 2 at 11:00am and 1:00pm; June 3 at 11:00am

Sextet for Piano and Winds in B-flat major, Op. 6 Ludwig Thuille (1861–1907) Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Eric Ruske, horn

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Étude-caprice, Op. 18, No. 5 Henryk Wieniawski (1835–80) Livia Sohn and Geoff Nuttall, violins

Piano Trio in A minor Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Alisa Weilerstein, cello; Inon Barnatan, piano

PROGRAM VII June 3 at 1:00pm; June 4 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

Sonata for Violin and Piano Leoš Janáček (1854–1928) Jennifer Frautschi, violin; Stephen Prutsman, piano

Csárdás Vittorio Monti (1868–1922), transcribed by Eric Ruske Eric Ruske, horn; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

String Quintet No. 2 in G major, Op. 77 Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904) St. Lawrence String Quartet; Anthony Manzo, double bass

PROGRAM VIII June 5 at 11:00am and 1:00pm; June 6 at 11:00am

Tarantella for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano in A minor, Op. 6 Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Todd Palmer, clarinet; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C minor, BWV 1060 Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) James Austin Smith, oboe; Daniel Phillips, violin solo; St. Lawrence String Quartet; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord

Rhapsody for Clarinet and Piano Hooshyar Khayam (b. 1978) WORLD PREMIERE Todd Palmer, clarinet; Stephen Prutsman, piano

Piano Quintet in E major, Op. 15 Erich Korngold (1897–1957) Stephen Prutsman, piano; St. Lawrence String Quartet

PROGRAM IX June 6 at 1:00pm; June 7 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

From Galloway James MacMillan (b. 1959) Todd Palmer, clarinet

Trio in D major, Op. 38, No. 6 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Daniel Phillips, violin; Christopher Costanza, cello

Lucy and the Count (Love Dreams from Transylvania) Jon Deak (b. 1943) St. Lawrence String Quartet; Anthony Manzo, double bass

Harmonia Artificioso-Ariosa, Partita V for Two Violins, Continuo, and Harpsichord Heinrich Franz von Biber (1644–1704) Geoff Nuttall and Livia Sohn, violins; Christopher Costanza, cello; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord

Duo in A major, D574 Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Livia Sohn, violin; Stephen Prutsman, piano

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PROGRAM X June 8 at 11:00am and 1:00pm; June 9 at 11:00am

Quartet in C minor, Op. 18, No. 4 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) St. Lawrence String Quartet

Four Pieces for Oboe and Piano Ernst Křenek (1900–91) James Austin Smith, oboe; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Livia Sohn, violin; Daniel Phillips, viola; Christopher Costanza, cello

PROGRAM XI June 9 at 1:00pm; June 10 at 11:00am and 1:00pm

Prelude to “The Afternoon of a Faun” Claude Debussy (1862–1918), arr. Schoenberg Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Todd Palmer, clarinet; James Austin Smith, oboe; Geoff Nuttall and Livia Sohn, violins; Daniel Phillips, viola; Christopher Costanza, cello; Anthony Manzo, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, piano; Stephen Prutsman, harmonium; TBA, cymbals

Schlaflos! Frage und Antwort Franz Liszt (1811–86) Intermission 1 Morton Feldman (1926–87) Bagatelle sans tonalité Franz Liszt (1811–86) Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Piano Quintet No. 2 in E-flat major Ludwig Thuille (1861–1907) Stephen Prutsman, piano; St. Lawrence String Quartet

GEOFF NUTTALL (The Charles E. and HOOSHYAR KHAYAM (composer) Andrea L. Volpe Director for Chamber Music) is considered one of the most versatile began playing the violin at the age of eight musicians among the new generation of after moving to Ontario from Texas. He spent composer-performers in his native Iran. most of his musical studies under the tutelage His compositions include music for solo of Lorand Fenyves at The Banff Centre, piano, symphonic works, vocal music, scores the University of Western Ontario, and the for film and theater, and arrangements University of Toronto, where he received his and revisions of traditional Iranian music. bachelor’s degree. In 1989 Nuttall co-founded Khayam’s albums include Tatari (Hermes the St. Lawrence String Quartet. As a member of this world- Records, 2007), Thousand Acacias (Hermes Records, 2010), All renowned foursome, he has played over 2,000 concerts throughout of You (with Amir Eslami, 2010), String (his Cello Concerto and North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Nuttall’s other string music, Hermes Records, 2012), and Prayers (with other notable engagements include a newly commissioned work Dusan Bogdanovic, Doberman Records, 2012). Khayam is the by Chris Paul Harman for the 2006 In Your Ear Too Festival; Arvo first-prize winner of the 2011 Franz Schubert and Modern Music Pärt’s Tabula Rasa concerto for two violins, performed with Barry International Composition Competition. His piano work Ravi-e Shiffman and the Philharmonic as part of the Minimalist Khyal was premiered at Lincoln Center in November 2011, and Jukebox Festival; and performances with soprano Dawn Upshaw in his Rhapsody for Clarinet and Piano receives its world premiere Peter Sellars’ staging of Gyorgy Kurtag’s Kafka Fragments in New this season at Spoleto Festival USA in Program VIII of the Bank of York, Los Angeles, Berkeley, , Brussels, and Rome. With the America Chamber Music series. St. Lawrence String Quartet, Nuttall served as graduate ensemble in residence at The Juilliard School, Yale University, and Hartt School of Music, acting as teaching assistants to the Juilliard, Tokyo, and Emerson string quartets, respectively. He is now on faculty at Stanford University, where the St. Lawrence String Quartet has been ensemble in residence since 1999, and makes his home in the Bay Area with his wife Livia Sohn, and their five-year-old son Jack and newborn Ellis. This is Nuttall’s third season as the Charles E. and Andrea L. Volpe Director for Chamber Music.

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INON BARNATAN (piano) is rapidly PETER KOLKAY (bassoon) has been gaining recognition for his communicative awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant performances and engaging programming. and First Prize at the Concert Artists His new CD, Darknesse Visible, was released Guild International Competition, the only by Avie Records in April and features wide- artist on his instrument to be so honored. ranging but thematically-related works by He is an Artist of The Chamber Music Ravel, Debussy, Thomas Adès, and Ronald Society of Lincoln Center for the 2011–12 Stevenson. By linking the works, all inspired season and a former member of that by other works of art, Barnatan examines organization’s CMS Two program. Kolkay how different characteristics of darkness are represented in has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician across the music. Following Spoleto Festival USA, he will perform chamber United States, Latin America, and Canada. He is a member music at the Berlin Philharmonie, Gershwin’s of the IRIS Orchestra and the South Carolina Philharmonic. in F at the opening concert of the Aspen Music Festival, and Kolkay’s first solo record, BassoonMusic, was released last two concerts at the Vail Festival, and will take part in chamber summer by CAG Records. A native of Naperville, Illinois, he music festivals in Santa Fe, Seattle, Menlo, and Ravinia. He will holds degrees from Yale University, Eastman School of Music, also perform at the Hollywood Bowl in September with the Los and Lawrence University. In August, Kolkay will join the faculty Angeles Philharmonic. In 2009 Barnatan was awarded Lincoln of the Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University. Center’s prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. ANTHONY MANZO (double bass) is CHRISTOPHER COSTANZA (cello) has a sought-after chamber musician who enjoyed a varied career as a soloist, chamber performs regularly with Bay Chamber musician, and teacher for over two decades. Concerts in Maine and at the Garth A winner of the Young Concert Artists Newel Music Center in Virginia. Manzo International Auditions and a recipient of is also solo bassist of San Francisco’s the NEA’s prestigious Solo Recitalists Grant, New Century Chamber Orchestra, and a Costanza has performed in nearly every regular guest with the National Symphony state in the U.S., and throughout Europe, in Washington, DC, and with Camerata Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. He is a in Austria. His recent highlights include appearances strong proponent of contemporary music, working regularly as soloist in Mozart’s “Per questa bella mano” with bass- with such notable composers as John Adams, Osvaldo Golijov, baritone Thomas Quasthoff in , Salzburg, and Vienna, as , William Bolcom, John Corigliano, and Bright Sheng. well as chamber performances with the St. Lawrence Quartet, Costanza’s discography includes recordings on the EMI/Angel, and with Menachem Pressler and the Auryn Quartet. He is Nonesuch, Naxos, Albany, and ArtistShare labels. In 2006 he also an active performer on period instruments with groups received a Grammy nomination for his recording of Mozart’s including The Handel & Haydn Society of Boston, and Opera major chamber works for winds and strings. Costanza plays an Lafayette in Washington, DC. Manzo performs on a double bass early 18th-century Venetian cello made by Francesco Gobetti and made around 1890 by Jérôme Thibouville-Lamy in Paris, which Joseph Guarneri. A graduate of the New England Conservatory of now has a removable neck for travel! Music, he joined the St. Lawrence String Quartet in 2003. PEDJA MUZIJEVIC (piano) has JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI (violin), an Avery performed with the Atlanta Symphony, Fisher Career Grant recipient, has appeared Residentie Orkest in The Hague, St. Paul as soloist in recent seasons with Pierre Boulez Chamber Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, and the , and with Dresden Philharmonic, Shinsei Nihon Christoph Eschenbach and the Chicago Orchestra in Tokyo, and Orquesta Sinfonica Symphony Orchestra. Her 2011–12 highlights in Montevideo, among others. He has played include performances as soloist with the solo recitals at such venues as Alice Tully Hall Minnesota Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony, in New York, Casals Hall in Tokyo, and Teatro and Orchestra of the Teatro di San Carlo in Municipal in Santiago de Chile. His Carnegie Hall concerto debut Naples, Italy. As a chamber musician, she performed with The playing Mozart’s Concerto K. 503 with the Oberlin Symphony Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Boston Chamber and Robert Spano was recorded live and has been released on Music Society, and this summer will appear at Chamber Music the Oberlin Music label. Muzijevic’s 2011–12 season includes Northwest, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and Moab Music a solo recital at the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in Festival. Frautschi’s discography includes several discs on Naxos, Kalamazoo, return engagements with the Zagreb Radio Symphony among them the Stravinsky and Grammy-nominated Orchestra and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and a Schubert recordings with the Fred Sherry Quartet of Schoenberg’s String program on a copy of an 1820s fortepiano for Da Camera of Quartet No. 3 and Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra. She Houston, as well as concerts at Stanford Lively Arts and The Broad plays a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the “ex-Cadiz.” Stage in Santa Monica. This is Frautschi’s first Spoleto Festival USA appearance.

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TARA HELEN O’CONNOR (flute) returns STEPHEN PRUTSMAN (piano, for her 17th season with Spoleto Festival harmonium), a native of Los Angeles, began USA. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career his music career as the keyboard player for Grant, she is an Artist Member of The several art rock ensembles, also working as Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. a jazz pianist and the music arranger for a O’Connor is also a member of the woodwind nationally syndicated televangelist program. group Windscape, flute soloist of the Bach Prutsman now moves easily from classical Aria Group, and a founding member of the to jazz to world music as pianist, composer, Naumburg Award–winning New Millennium conductor, and curator, continuing to seek Ensemble. She also appears regularly with the Brandenburg common ground in music of all cultures. In the ’90s he was a medal Ensemble and at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Chamber winner at the Tchaikovsky and Queen Elisabeth piano competitions, Music Northwest, and Music from Angel Fire. A Grammy nominee and has since performed as a soloist with many of the world’s for Osvaldo Golijov’s Yiddishbbuk, O’Connor’s other recordings major orchestras. From 2004 to 2007 Prutsman was Artistic Partner include Marc Neikrug’s Through Roses with Pinchas Zukerman with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and from 2009 to 2012 he and actor John Rubinstein, and a collection of contemporary was Artistic Director of the Cartagena International Music Festival, pieces written for her and pianist Margaret Kampmeier. She is South America’s largest festival of its kind. He has written and a faculty member at the Bard College Conservatory, Manhattan arranged over 40 works for the Kronos Quartet and other leading School of Music, and Purchase College Conservatory of Music. classical and popular artists. Prutsman’s other passions include causes benefiting children with autism and their families. TODD PALMER (clarinet) happily returns for his 18th consecutive Spoleto season. He LESLEY ROBERTSON (viola), a native of has appeared worldwide as a soloist with Canada, discovered the viola, her instrumental many symphony and chamber orchestras, and soul mate, as a teenager after a 12-year base of as a recitalist, chamber musician, educator, musical instruction in violin. After completing arranger, and presenter. A three-time Grammy degrees at the Curtis Institute, The Juilliard nominee, Palmer has collaborated with School, and the University of British Columbia such world-class string ensembles as the St. (where she worked with her mentor, Gerald Lawrence, Brentano, Borromeo, Daedalus, and Stanick), and summers at The Banff Centre and Pacifica quartets, and has shared the stage with sopranos Kathleen Marlboro Festival, Robertson heeded the siren Battle, Renée Fleming, Elizabeth Futral, Heidi Grant Murphy, and call and in 1989 co-founded the St. Lawrence String Quartet with Dawn Upshaw. This season’s highlights include performances with three similarly intoxicated Canadians. Happily ensconced at Stanford the Lar Lubovitch and Mark Morris dance companies, Mozart’s University, she now enjoys a rich career of performing, teaching, Clarinet Concerto on the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center, a and directing—piloting both the SLSQ’s Emerging String Quartet recording with the Lark Quartet of ’s Light Refracted, program and the annual SLSQ Chamber Music Seminar at Stanford and performances with Gotham Chamber Opera, DiCapo Opera, and University. She has served on the juries of several competitions, Long Beach Opera. In May, Palmer had the European premiere in including the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the London of his chamber arrangement of André Messager’s ballet The Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and survived Two Pigeons. His summer activities include the Portland Chamber mostly unscathed. Away from the concert stage, Robertson delights Music Festival and teaching at the Banff Centre in Alberta, Canada. in exploring the world with her ebullient five-year-old daughter Kira.

DANIEL PHILLIPS (violin, viola) participated ERIC RUSKE (horn) was named Associate in the very first season of Spoleto Festival USA Principal Horn of The Cleveland Orchestra at in Charleston. He began violin at age four the age of 20, and also toured and recorded with his father, a violinist in the Pittsburgh extensively during his six-year tenure as Symphony. He studied with Ivan Galamian hornist of the Empire Brass Quintet. An and Sally Thomas at Juilliard, and later with active chamber musician, he has appeared Sándor Végh and George Neikrug. Phillips won with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln the Young Concert Artists Auditions in 1976. Center, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, He is a founding member of the 25-year-old Evian Festival, Boston Chamber Music Orion String Quartet, in residence at The Chamber Music Society of Society, and the Festival Pablo Casals, both in Puerto Rico and Lincoln Center. The Orion has released recordings of the complete in France. Ruske’s numerous arrangements and transcriptions, quartets of Beethoven and the four quartets of American composer including a complete edition of the Mozart horn concerti, are Leon Kirchner. This season they played a week of concerts devoted to now available from Cimarron Music. His discography includes Brahms at the new King Place Concert Hall in London, and next season five releases on the Albany Records label and a recording of the they will perform at Esterháza in Hungary, where Haydn wrote most complete Mozart horn concerti for Telarc. Professor of Horn at of his string quartets. Phillips teaches at the Aaron Copland School Boston University since 1990, Ruske directs the Horn Seminar of Music at Queens College, CUNY. He lives with his wife, flutist Tara at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. This is his third Helen O’Connor, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Spoleto Festival USA appearance.

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SCOTT ST. JOHN (violin) made his Carnegie LIVIA SOHN (violin) performs widely on debut in 1988 after winning first prize in the the international stage as a concerto soloist, Alexander Schneider Competition. He went recitalist, and festival guest in Europe, North on to win the 1989 Young Concert Artists America, South America, Asia, Africa, and Award, and has since played an enormous New Zealand. This past season saw her variety of concerts across North America, performing concerto repertoire ranging including solo appearances with the from Tchaikovsky and Bruch to Britten and Boston Pops, Utah Symphony, and Toronto Rorem, with orchestras in North America Symphony. From 1999 to 2006, St. John and Europe. Upcoming concerts take Sohn held a prestigious position as Associate Professor of Violin at the to Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, and Berlin. In 2007 she University of Toronto. He has a long association with the Marlboro premiered “Jiyeh,” a concerto by Israeli-American composer Music Festival, including summers in Vermont and national tours Jonathan Berger, to be released this year along with the Britten with Musicians from Marlboro. St. John’s solo recordings include Violin Concerto on the Eloquentia label. Sohn gave her first an all-Dvořák CD and two volumes of Paganini works for violin and public performance at age eight and won First Prize in the Yehudi guitar. A recent recording of Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Menuhin International Violin Competition at age 12. She attended his sister, fellow violinist Lara St. John, won a Juno Award. St. John the Juilliard Pre-College Division and The Juilliard School, where joined the St. Lawrence String Quartet in 2006. she studied with Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, and the legendary Felix Galamir. Sohn plays a J.B. Guadagnini violin crafted in 1770 ST. LAWRENCE STRING and a Samuel Zygmuntowicz made in 2006. She has been on the QUARTET returns for its 16th music faculty of Stanford University since 2005. season as the Festival’s quartet in residence. Since winning both ALISA WEILERSTEIN (cello) has the Banff International String attracted widespread attention worldwide Quartet Competition and Young for playing that combines a natural virtuosic Concert Artists International command and technical precision with Auditions in 1992, the quartet impassioned musicianship. In 2011 she has delighted audiences with received the prestigious honor of being its spontaneous, passionate, and dynamic performances. SLSQ made a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and is proud to make its home at Stanford University, but also plays in 2010 she became an exclusive recording more than 100 concerts each year on tour. Recent seasons have artist for Decca Classics, the first cellist to be included engagements throughout the U.S. and Canada, and two signed by the label in over 30 years. Later this year she will release trips to Europe, with concerts in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Finland, her first CD of cello concerti by Edward Elgar and Elliot Carter, and Estonia. SLSQ is committed to performing and expanding the recorded with conductor Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle works of living composers. They have premiered major works Berlin. Weilerstein has appeared with all of the leading orchestras by John Adams, Ezekiel Viñao, and Osvaldo Golijov, including a throughout the United States and Europe and has also performed recent Golijov premiere co-commissioned by Stanford Lively Arts at major music festivals throughout the world as a soloist, and Carnegie Hall. This season they also toured Australia in April recitalist, and chamber musician. In 2009 she participated in a and premiered Absolute Jest, a concerto for string quartet and high-profile classical music event at the White House. This is her orchestra by John Adams, with the San Francisco Symphony. ninth season at Spoleto Festival USA.

JAMES AUSTIN SMITH (oboe), praised CBS News journalist Martha Teichner hosts a “Conversation by The New York Times for his “brilliant” With Alisa Weilerstein” following the 1:00pm performance on performances, is an active performer of and May 30 at the Dock Street Theatre. advocate for chamber and new music. Smith is an artist of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Talea, The Declassified, and a regular guest of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. In the fall of 2012 he will become the first oboist on the roster of CMS Two at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and will join the faculty of SUNY Purchase. Smith’s festival appearances include Marlboro, Lucerne, Chamber Music Northwest, Schleswig- Holstein, and Schwetzingen. He holds bachelor’s degrees in music and political science from Northwestern University and a master’s degree from the Yale School of Music, and was a Fulbright Scholar in Leipzig, Germany. Smith has previously performed at the Festival as a member of the 2007 Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra and in last season’s chamber music series.

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