9th INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC competition for Young Professionals SATURDAY | APRIL 10 | 2021 PROGRAM Dior Quartet Joseph Haydn—Quartet Op. 76 No. 3 “Emperor” IV. Finale: Presto Welcome to Chesapeake Music’s 9th International Caroline Shaw—Blueprint Christos Hatzis—Quartet No. 2 “The Gathering” Chamber Music Competition and while the world-wide III. Nadir health crisis makes it necessary to hold this event virtually, I Anton Dvorak—Quartet No. 13 in G Major, Op. 106 am confident you will be rewarded with a day of outstanding II. Adagio ma non troppo performances highlighted by musical skill and youthful Dmitri Shostakovich—Quartet No. 9, Op. 117 enthusiasm. V. Allegro This biennial event began nineteen years ago when a group of local music lovers resolved to create a way to encourage and AYA Piano Trio support young musicians in their efforts to build careers. This Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Piano Trio in C Major K. 54 vision has been fulfilled as many of the ensembles have become I. Allegro well known in the concert world and all of the participants gain Felix Mendelssohn—Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 66 valuable insights from our judges. I. Allegro energico e con fuaco I am amazed and enormously grateful for the effort put Maurice Ravel—Piano Trio in A minor forth by our Competition Committee. Every other year these I. Modéré volunteers take on the challenge of producing this major II. Pantoum, Assez vif musical competition and then last year the event was cancelled Dimitri Shostakovich—Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor just days before it was to go on. Starting from scratch, the IV. Allegretto Committee created the virtual format you will see today. It was an enormously complex task to arrange for performances in four Soma Quartet different locations and to have the judges located remotely from Felix Mendelssohn—String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 one another. Arranged: Ting-Hua (Arthur) Liang I. Allegro vivace assai On behalf of the Board of Directors I thank each and every II. Allegro assai one of our Committee and our judges for their dedication that III. Adagio sustains the Competition. You are in for a wonderful treat today. IV. Finale: Allegro molto I know you will enjoy it. In Memoriam (2014) – Joel Love (b. 1982) Barry Koh Zelter String Quartet President Chesapeake Music Franz Joseph Haydn—String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2 I. Moderato II. Capriccio – Adagio Ludwig van Beethoven—String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2 I. Allegro II. Molto Adagio, “Si tratta questo pezzo con molto di sentimento” Maurice Ravel—String Quartet in F Major I. Allegro moderato, très doux 2 Welcome 3 AYA PIANO TRIO DIOR QUARTET SOMA QUARTET ZELTER STRING QUARTET Based in Philadelphia, AYA was Hailing from Israel, Canada, Brazil, and Based in Bloomington, Soma was Praised by LA Opus for their formed in 2013 by three students at the U.S., the members of Dior formed formed at the Indiana University Jacobs “seemingly effortless precision and the Curtis Institute of Music. The trio their ensemble at Indiana University in School of Music under the guidance of blend”, the Zelter String Quartet formed has performed extensively across fall 2018. Otis Murphy. in Los Angeles in 2018. the United States, and in 2018 they were semifinalists in both the M Prize Within eight months of their formation, In addition to being the grand prize The quartet is comprised of violinists Chamber Arts Competition and the they won the Bronze Medal at the 2019 winners at the 2019 Plowman Chamber Kyle Gilner and Gallia Kastner, violist Fischoff Competition. Fischoff National Chamber Competition Music Competition, they were first Nao Kubota, and cellist Allan Hon. (Senior Division). They have also won runner-up in the 2018 Classic Alive In 2019 they were awarded a full They were winners of the 2018 Young first prize at the 9th Plowman Chamber Young Artist Competition, first prize scholarship to participate in the Chamber Musicians Competition Music Competition (Senior Strings), winners in the 2017 Chicago Woodwind St. Lawrence String Quartet Chamber in North Carolina, where they were first prize at the 2019 Kuttner Quartet Ensemble Competition, and finalists in Music Seminar, where they worked invited for a residency of recordings Competition, and runner-up at the the 2018 North American Saxophone with members of the St. Lawrence and and concerts. They have performed at Beethoven-Haus Competition at the Alliance Quartet Competition. Danish String Quartets, culminating in the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival Jacobs School of Music. Last summer, a performance at the Campbell Recital and the Norfolk Chamber Music they attended the St. Lawrence String Since their formation in 2016, they have Hall at Stanford University. Festival, and they made their New York Quartet Seminar at Stanford University performed at a wide variety of venues, City debut in 2019 at the Mannes New and were selected to perform in the including the International Navy Band The quartet has collaborated with School Concert Series. International Showcase at Stanford’s Symposium, the inaugural American Single the Verona String Quartet, Mixtape Bing Concert Hall. Reed Summit, and the North American Series, tenor Drake Dantzler, and has Performances in 2020 include Saxophone Alliance region five conference. future collaborations set with pianist a Concerts International Series They held the 2019 Fellowship String The ensemble is committed to performing Lucinda Carver. appearance in Memphis and a Quartet at Wintergreen Summer Music new works to expand quartet repertoire Beethoven Triple concerto with the Festival in Virginia and participated and has collaborated with several In addition, they were recently invited Waterbury Symphony Orchestra in the McGill International String composers from Indiana University. to participate in the Juilliard String in Connecticut. AYA Piano Trio is Quartet Academy. They are currently Quartet Seminar, and in August 2021, the represented by Jean Schreiber the new Kuttner Quartet, the student Soma also has a passion for traditional quartet is scheduled to participate in Management. string quartet-in-residence at Indiana repertoire and transcriptions and has the Rencontres Franco-Américaines de University Jacobs School of Music. performed numerous outreach concerts Musique de Chambre, as winners of the in venues ranging from retirement centers USC Ofiesh Chamber Music Competition. to coffee shops to the Bloomington Transit Center, all in hopes of bringing saxophone to a wider audience. 4 Finalists 5 Behind every music performance is a strategy for success Every great music program has a well-designed plan to succeed. At RBC Wealth At Chesapeake Music we have always believed that Management, we take the same approach to helping you meet your financial needs and goals. our biennial Chesapeake International Chamber Music But in this year of the Global Pandemic, We are proud to support the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition. Competition is like no other. our experience has been like no other we have had. The Edgell – Fritzsche Team Alex N. Fritzsche, First Vice President – Financial Advisor After postponing the Competition in April, 2020, we looked forward to Jennifer N. Edgell, AWM, Vice President – Financial Advisor hosting it in April 2021. As you all know well, we cannot yet hold live Karen D. Kruse, Branch Service Manager performances and so we have gone virtual. Thankfully we have had some experience with this new concert mode. The annual Chamber Music Festival 30 Goldsborough Street, Suite 200 | Easton, MD 21601 Phone: (410) 822-2676 was one of the earliest in the country to be entirely virtual and we hosted two additional virtual concerts during the year. So here we are trying to put on an entire day of music for all of you. Investment and insurance products: • Not insured by the FDIC or any other federal government agency • Not a deposit of, or guaranteed by, the bank or an affiliate of the bank • May lose value There have been challenges for the musicians, judges and our hard-working © 2020 RBC Wealth Management, a division of RBC Capital Markets, LLC, Member NYSE/FINRA/SIPC. 01560 (03/20) committee. Our young musicians were challenged. Many found themselves in distant places for much of the year and struggled to gather to record their performance. Sadly, one group, the Colores Trio of Zurich, Switzerland, was not able to compete due to travel restrictions within the European Union. We will hope they can join us next year. The judges were equally challenged. They will view the day’s performances from their home bases which stretch from Baltimore to Bend, Oregon. And then, the deliberations will take place on the ever-present Zoom! The committee of volunteers was challenged to think of each element of the program in a new way. I believe we are all proudest of being able to devise a way to hold the Audience Choice Award at the end of the day. Our designer and our webmaster have pushed themselves to new heights with Beautiful music brightens our lives, a virtual stage employed for all our virtual events. It does indeed take a village to make this work and we have been fortunate to have a wonderful and you make it happen! group of willing explorers to join in the effort. Thank You! Please see the list of all those people in this program book. We hope you enjoy these wonderful young ensembles and we look forward to Anna returning to a live Competition in 2022 at our new home in the Ebenezer Theater in Easton. Anna C Larkin Anne Moran Office: 410-770-9255 [email protected] Cell: 410-829-3549 Competition Chair Benson and Mangold • 24 N. Washington St. • Easton, MD 6 7 CHESAPEAKE MUSIC AND ITS Celebrating COMPETITION FIND NEW HOME AT 30 Years THE EBENEZER THEATER Tracy Cohee Hodges This past winter, Chesapeake Music Vice President Area Manager took up long-term residency at the newly renovated and elegant Eastern Shore Lending Ebenezer Theater in historic 111 N.