2017-18 THE BROAD STAGE ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE CALDER QUARTET SUN / FEB 25 / 4:00 PM Benjamin Jacobson, violin Andrew Bulbrook, violin Jonathan Moerschel, viola Eric Byers, cello The Calder Quartet Residency at The Broad Stage has been made possible in part through a generous grant from the Colburn Foundation. Calder Quartet is represented worldwide by Intermusica. There will be one 15-minute intermission. 34 PROGRAM Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) String Quartet No. 2, Op. 13 Adagio – Allegro vivace Adagio non lento Intermezzo. Allegretto con moto – Allegro di molto Presto – Adagio non lento György Kurtág (b. 1926) 6 Moments Musicaux for string quartet, Op.44 Invocatio Footfalls Capriccio In memoriam György Sebök [étude pour les harmoniques] Les adieux (in Janáčeks Manier) Intermission Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) String Quartet No. 15, Op. 132 Allegro Allegro ma non tanto Molto Adagio. Andante Alla marcia, assai vivace Allegro appassionato. Presto BIO today’s best emerging composers. The group continues to work and collaborate The CALDER QUARTET performs a broad with artists across musical genres, range of repertoire at an exceptional level, spanning the ranges of the classical and always striving to channel and fulfill the contemporary music world, as well as composer’s vision. Already the choice of rock and film/tv soundtracks, and in many leading composers to perform their venues ranging from museums to Carnegie works, the group’s distinctive approach is and the Hollywood Bowl. Inspired by exemplified by a musical curiosity brought innovative American artist Alexander to everything they perform. Calder, the Calder Quartet’s desire to Winners of the prestigious 2014 Avery bring immediacy and context to the works Fisher Career Grant, they are widely they perform creates an artfully crafted known for the discovery, commissioning, musical experience. recording and mentoring of some of VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 35 Highlights include Lincoln Center, receiving the Artist Diploma in Chamber Metropolitan Museum of Art, multiple Music Studies as the Juilliard Graduate performances at Wigmore Hall, Barbican, Resident String Quartet. The quartet Salzburg Festival, Donaueschingen regularly conducts master classes and has Festival, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Tonhalle taught at the Colburn School, the Oberlin Zurich, IRCAM Paris, Hamburg’s School, the Juilliard School, Cleveland Elbphilharmonie, Centro Nacional de Institute of Music, University of Cincinnati Difusión Musical Madrid, a residency at College Conservatory and USC Thornton the Perth International Arts Festival, School of Music. residency and Beethoven cycle at Santa Monica’s Broad Stage, and a return to Los Angeles’ Disney Hall. Their long list ARTIST BIOS of collaborators includes the Cleveland BENJAMIN JACOBSON, violin, made his Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, Thomas Adès, solo debut at age 13 with the San Diego Peter Eötvös, Anders Hillborg, Daniel Symphony. A graduate of the University Bjarnasson, Andrew Norman, Audrey Luna, of Southern California and the Colburn Johannes Moser, Joshua Bell and Edgar Conservatory, Jacobson studied primarily Meyer. In 2017, the Calder Quartet signed under Robert Lipsett. Career highlights an exclusive, multi-disc record deal with include performances with the Colburn Pentatone with their debut recording Orchestra as well as chamber and recital featuring Beethoven scheduled for release appearances at Chamber Music Sedona in Fall 2018. in Sedona, Arizona. He has also appeared The quartet has been featured in as a soloist with the Culver City Chamber extremely popular TV shows such as Orchestra, the Zipper Orchestra and The Late Show with David Letterman, the USC Thornton Symphony. Jacobson The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, KCRW’s currently resides in New York. He Morning Becomes Eclectic, The Tonight performs on a Joseph Antonius Rocca Show with Conan O’Brien, Late Night with violin c. 1837, on loan from the Mandell Jimmy Kimmel, and The Late Late Show Collection. with Craig Ferguson. ANDREW BULBROOK, violin, enjoys a In 2011, the Calder Quartet launched a diverse and exciting musical career. A non-profit dedicated to furthering its Massachusetts native, Andrew began violin efforts in commissioning, presenting, lessons at age 6 and made his solo debut recording and education, in collaboration with orchestra at age 15. As a soloist and with the Getty Museum, Segerstrom recitalist he has appeared with ensembles Center for the Arts and the Barbican such as the Boston Classical Orchestra, Centre in London. The Calder Quartet the Colburn Orchestra and the American formed at the University of Southern Youth Symphony in venues from Boston’s California’s Thornton School of Music landmark Jordan Hall to Royce Hall in Los and continued studies at the Colburn Angeles. Intrigued by the role of classical Conservatory of Music with Ronald music in today’s society, Andrew has Leonard, and at the Juilliard School, been a commentator on classical radio 36 FEB 2018 stations throughout the United States. Gasparo da Salo made in the late 16th Andrew is an alumnus of the University of century on generous loan from the Southern California, where he received Stradivari Society. his B.A in economics with highest honors and was named a USC Renaissance ERIC BYERS, cello, has been called Scholar. His principal teachers are Robert “ideally eloquent” by the Los Angeles Lipsett, Michele Kim and Zinaida Gilels. Times, and is active as a chamber He performs on a violin by Francesco musician, soloist and composer. Ruggieri, c. 1673 (ex-Ernst, ex-Persinger). Recognized with top prizes at the Aspen Music Festival Concerto Competition, JONATHAN MOERSCHEL, viola, was born USC Concerto Competition, Pasadena in Boston, Massachusetts, into a musical Showcase Instrumental Competition family. His mother, a pianist, and his and National American String Teachers father, a cellist in the Boston Symphony, Association Competition, he has fostered his early studies both in piano concertized in North, Central and and violin. At the age of 16, he began South America, Europe and Australia. studying the viola with John Ziarko in At 18, Byers made his solo debut with Boston and chamber music with the the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra as violist from the Kolisch Quartet, Eugene winner of the Cincinnati Symphony Youth Lehner. Moerschel made his Boston Orchestra Competition. After studies with Symphony Hall solo debut with the Boston Alan Harris and Richard Aaron, he worked Pops Orchestra under Keith Lockhart in with cellist Ron Leonard at USC Thornton 1997 after taking first prize in the Boston School of Music, where he earned his Symphony Orchestra Competition. He Bachelor of Music. He continued his received his Bachelor’s and Master’s studies at the Colburn Conservatory degrees in viola performance from the and received an Artist Diploma from The University of Southern California, studying Juilliard School. under Donald McInnes and Ralph Fielding. Moerschel was a longtime member of the USC Early Music Ensemble, playing the baroque tenor viola, and the USC Contemporary Music Ensemble, with which he appeared on the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series. He recently appeared on the Chamber Music Sedona series in Sedona, Arizona, performing with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Moerschel is an alumnus of Kneisel Hall, Bowdoin Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival and the Music Academy of the West, where he received the viola fellowship. He plays on the “ex-Adam” FEB 2018 VISIT THEBROADSTAGE.ORG 37.