FACULTY RECITAL Violin X 4 CHO-LIANG LIN, violin PAUL KANTOR, violin KATHLEEN WINKLER, violin KENNETH GOLDSMITH, violin IVO-JAN VAN DER WERFF, viola DESMOND HOEBIG, cello NORMAN FISCHER, cello TIMOTHY PITTS, double bass Wednesday, November 6, 2013 8:00 p.m. Lillian H. Duncan Recital Hall PROGRAM Concertante for Four Violins, Op. 55 Ludwig Maurer Allegro (1859-1927) Andante Allegro Cho-Liang Lin, solo violin Yi Zhao, solo violin SoJin Kim, solo violin Andy Liang, solo violin Philip Marten, violin Zoe Miller, violin Leah Gastler, viola Coleman Itzkoff, cello Last Round (1996) Osvaldo Golijov Movido, urgente (b. 1960) Muertes Del Angel Quartet I Cho-Liang Lin, violin Lijia Phang, violin Ivo-Jan van der Werff, viola Desmond Hoebig, cello Quartet II SoJin Kim, violin Janny Joo, violin Leah Gastler, viola Norman Fischer , cello Timothy Pitts, double bass INTERMISSION Concerto in B Minor for Four Violins, Antonio Vivaldi Op. 3, No. 10 (1678-1741) Allegro Largo-Larghetto The reverberative acoustics of Duncan Recital Hall magnify the slightest sound made by the audience. Your care and courtesy will be appreciated. The taking of photographs and use of recording equipment are prohibited. Allegro Kathleen Winkler, solo violin Cho-Liang Lin, solo violin Paul Kantor, solo violin Kenneth Goldsmith, solo violin Ivo-Jan van der Werff, viola Leah Gastler, viola Coleman Itzkoff, cello Timothy Pitts, double bass Richard Marshall, harpsichord BIOGRAPHIES The New York Times hailed EVELYN CHEN as “a pianist to watch,” praising her “brilliant technique, warm, clear tone, and exacting musical intelligence.” Ms. Chen’s recent engagements have included performances on five continents at venues including Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, the Dorothy Chan- dler Pavilion, Wolf Trap, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, the Central Conservatory Concert Hall in Beijing, the Cul- tural Center of Hong Kong, and the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow. A Steinway Artist, Ms. Chen has performed with numerous orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra (upon Mstislav Rostropovich’s recommenda- tion), the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, the New Zealand Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, the State Symphony Orches- tra of Mexico, and the San Diego Symphony, and has collaborated with renowned conductors including Riccardo Muti, Leonard Slatkin, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Zdeněk Mácal, Joseph Silverstein, Henry Mazer, Alberto Bolet, Enrique Bátiz, and JoAnn Falletta. Ms. Chen’s recent recordings have received critical acclaim inter- nationally, and her recording of Rachmaninoff’s piano concertos with Leonard Slatkin and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London on BMG was among the top ten best-selling classical recordings in England. Ms. Chen has been featured on the CBS Evening News, and her performances have been broadcast by National Public Radio affiliates WGBH (Boston), WQXR (New York), WNYC (New York), WNCN (New York), WFMT (Chicago), and WGTS (Washington, D.C.), as well as throughout Taiwan and Great Brit- ain (Classic FM). Ms. Chen has performed before prominent dignitaries including the Princess of Thailand and the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Ms. Chen has been a winner of several international competitions, including First Prize in the 1981 Bach International Competition in Wash- ington, D.C. Ms. Chen is the recipient of the 1994 Petschek Award at the Juilliard School, where she received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree. Having received a Bachelor of Arts degree in composition from Harvard University, Ms. Chen is currently currently Associate Professor of Piano at Teachers College, Columbia University. Violist JAMES DUNHAM is active as a recitalist, guest artist and teacher. He has collaborated with such renowned artists as Emmanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Cho-Liang Lin and members of the American, Cassatt, Guarneri, Juilliard, Takács, Tokyo and Ying Quartets. An advocate of new music, he recently premiered and recorded two works by Libby Larsen: her Viola Sonata (2001) and “Sifting Through the Ruins” (2005) for viola, mezzo soprano (Susanne Mentzer) and piano, due for release by Naxos. Summers are spent at festivals including Sarasota, Amelia Island (FL), Aspen and le Domaine Forget (Quebec), with past participation in the La Jolla Chamber Music Festi- val, Festival der Zukunft (Ernen, Switzerland), the San Diego Mainly Mozart Festival and three summers at the Marlboro Music Festival. This season features concerts and classes throughout the U.S. with a special appearance at the Lübeck Hochschule für Musik in Germany and the Smithson- ian Institute performing quartets on a set of Nicolò Amati instruments. High- lights of recent seasons included a pair of concerts with the Takács Quartet in Carnegie Hall, concerts in Reykjavik, Iceland, returns to San Diego, San Fran- cisco, New York, Vermont and regular engagements with Houston Friends of Chamber Music and Da Camera Society of Houston. Other recording projects have included Glyph by Judith Shatin for solo viola with string quartet and pia- no, the Bach Sonatas for Viola da Gamba with harpsichordist John Gibbons and the 2008 Grammy nominated Telarc recording of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence with the Ying Quartet and ‘cellist Paul Katz. Violist of the 1996 Gram- my Award winning Cleveland Quartet for eight years, he performed throughout North America, Europe, the Far East and the Soviet Union. Founding violist of the Naumburg Award winning Sequoia String Quartet, Mr. Dunham formerly taught at California Institute of the Arts, the Eastman School of Music and the New England Conservatory, where he also chaired the String Department and received the Louis & Adrienne Krasner Teaching Excel- lence Award. Mr. Dunham is Professor of Viola and Chamber Music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music where he directs the Master of Music in String Quartet program. His recordings can be found on labels including Te- larc, Nonesuch, Delos, Naxos and Crystal. Mr. Dunham performs on a Gaspar da Salo viola, ca. 1585. FRANK HUANG began his tenure as concertmaster of the Houston Sym- phony in September, 2010. First Prize Winner of the 2003 Walter W. Naumburg Foundation’s Violin Competition and the 2000 Hannover International Violin Competition, Huang has established a major career as a violin virtuoso. At age 11, he performed with the Houston Symphony in a nationally broadcast concert and has since performed with orchestras throughout the world. He has performed on NPR’s Performance Today, Good Morning America and CNN’s American Morning with Paula Zahn. Huang’s first commercial recording, comprised of Fantasies by Schubert, Ernst, Schoenberg and Waxman, was released on Naxos in 2003. Recently, Huang held the position of first violinist of the Grammy Award-winning Ying quartet and was a faculty member at the Eastman School of Music. He is con- certmaster of the Sejong Soloists, a conductor-less chamber orchestra based in New York. Huang has taken top prizes in the Premio Paganini International Vi- olin Competition, the Indianapolis International Violin Competition, the Kings- ville International Competition, the Irving M. Klein International Competition and the D’Angelo International Competition. Recent concerts include debuts in Wigmore Hall (London), Salle Cortot (Paris), Kennedy Center (Washington), Herbst Theatre (San Francisco) and a second recital in Alice Tully Hall (New York), which featured the world pre- miere of Donald Martino’s Sonata for Solo Violin. His commitment to chamber music, has taken him to the Marlboro Music Festival, Ravinia’s Steans Institute, The Seattle Chamber Music Festival and the Caramoor Festival. He frequently participates in Musicians from Marlboro tours. He was selected by the Cham- ber Music Society of Lincoln Center to be a member of the prestigious Cham ber Music II program. Huang is part of a trio with Thomas Kaines and Reiko Uchida. Huang studied with Robert Mann at The Juilliard School, Donald Wei- lerstein at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Fredell Lack in Houston. Mr. Huang is Artist Teacher of Violin at The Shepherd School. LING LING HUANG started violin lessons at the age of four with her mother, Lilan Z. Huang. She gave her first performance that same year begin- ning what would be a long career as a Houston Young Artist. After perform- ing Bruch's third violin concerto with orchestra at the age of eight, she went on to win the GHYO concerto competition three years in succession, as well as the concerto competitions of the Woodlands and Clearlake Symphonies. She studied with Fredell Lack from the age of 10 until her admission into the undergraduate program at the Cleveland Institute of Music at the age of 15. There she won the concerto competition and performed the Stravinsky Violin Concerto with the C.I.M. Orchestra. An active chamber musician, Ling Ling won the Milhaud Prize with her trio and participated in the Intensive Quartet Seminar at the Cleveland Institute of Music as a member of the Ariadne String Quartet. The Ariadne String Quartet won the 2012 bronze medal at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the Barstowe String Prize at the Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition. Most recently, they attended the Perlman Music Program in 2012 and were one of two ensembles in the Aspen Advanced Quartet Studies program at the Aspen Music Festival and School in the summer of 2013. She is currently studying with Paul Kantor at Rice Uni- versity and has enjoyed going to music festivals such as the Encore School for Strings in Hudson, Ohio, the Bowdoin International Music Festival in Bruns- wick, Maine, and the Aspen Music Festival and School in Aspen, Colorado where she has studied with David and Linda Cerone, Victor Danchenko, and Paul Kantor. PAUL KANTOR was appointed in 2012 to the Sallie Shepherd Perkins Professor of Violin following ten years at the Cleveland Institute of Music.