CAL PERFORMANCES PRESENTS PROGRAM Sunday, October 31, 2010, 3pm Zellerbach Hall Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Kremerata Baltica Op. 131 (1825–1826) Gidon Kremer, artistic leader & soloist Version for string orchestra by Gidon Kremer and Victor Kissine Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo PROGRAM Allegro molto vivace Allegro moderato — Adagio Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile — De Profundis Più mosso — Andante moderato e lusinghiero — Adagio — Allegretto — Adagio ma non troppo e semplice — Allegretto Raminta Šerkšnytė (b. 1975) De Profundis for String Orchestra (1998) Presto Adagio quasi un poco andante Franz Schubert (1797–1828) Minuet in D minor, from Five Minuets and Allegro Six Trios for String Orchestra, D. 89 (1813) Played without pause. Gidon Kremer, violin Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) Passacaglia for Violin, String Orchestra and * Dedicated to Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica. Vibraphone (2003, 2007)* † Program change. Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer (b. 1963) Variations on a Theme of J. S. Bach “( Lasset uns den nicht Zerteilen“) for Violin and Strings (2005)*† Gidon Kremer, violin ENCORES Ástor Piazzolla (1921–1992) Melodia en La menor† Piazzolla Michelangelo 70 Gidon Kremer, violin Ernst Toch (1887–1964) Geographical Fugue, for speaking chorus (1930) Lena Auerbach (b. 1974) Sogno di Stabat Mater (After Pergolesi) for Violin, Viola, Vibraphone and String Orchestra (2005, 2009)* Gidon Kremer, violin Ula Ulijona, viola This performance is made possible, in part, by Patron Sponsors Roger and Silvija Hoag. Andrei Pushkarev, vibraphone Cal Performances’ 2010–2011 season is sponsored by Wells Fargo. INTERMISSION 32 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 33 ORCHESTRA ROSTER ABOUT THE ARTISTS KREMERATA BALTICA Gidon Kremer, artistic director & soloist VIOLIN CELLO Eva Bindere Eriks Kirsfelds Dzeraldas Bidva Marta Sudraba Dainius Peseckas Giedre Dirvanauskaite Ruta Lipinaityte Peteris Cirksis Rasa Vosyliute Jana Ozolina DOUBLE BASS Sanita Zarina Danielis Rubinas Migle Diksaitiene Indrek Sarrap Andrejs Golikovs Andrei Valigura PERCUSSION Ieva Paukstyte Andrei Pushkarev Agne Doveikaite Migle Serapinaite ADMINISTRATION Ingrida Zemzare, Managing Director VIOLA Inga Jurjevica, Administration Daniil Grishin Indrek Sarrap, Orchestra & Tour Manager Ula Ulijona Zebriunaite Ruta Lipinaityte, Tour Manager Vidas Vekerotas Zita Zemovica N 1997, Austria’s legendary Lockenhaus cham- in more than 600 cities and given approximately I ber music festival was witness to a small revolu- 1,000 concerts in more than 50 countries, includ- tion when, beside many distinguished musicians, ing Japan, Australia, the United States, Latin the violinist Gidon Kremer presented a brand America, Russia and all around Europe. new orchestra: Kremerata Baltica. Composed The orchestra is supported by the govern- of 24 young players from Latvia, Lithuania and ments of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. Its mem- Estonia, the group conquered the discerning bers, all outstanding individual musical personal- audience, injecting new blood into the festival ities, are selected through a rigorous auditioning with their exuberance, energy and joy in playing. process and perform as a stable ensemble. Among Kremerata Baltica, an educational project with a the celebrated soloists with whom Kremerata long-term vision, was Mr. Kremer’s 50th birthday Baltica has played are soprano Jessye Norman; pi- present to himself—a way of passing on his wis- anists Mikhail Pletnev, Yevgeny Kissin and Oleg dom to young colleagues from the Baltic states Maisenberg; violinists Thomas Zehetmair and while making no compromises on artistic stan- Vadim Repin; and cellists Boris Pergamenshikov dards as he nurtured and inspired musical life in and Yo-Yo Ma. Their conductors have included the region. Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christoph This talented group of musicians soon de- Eschenbach, Kent Nagano, Heinz Holliger and veloped into a world-class professional ensemble Vladimir Ashkenazy. Each of these artists has and has cemented its international reputation in contributed to shaping the chamber orchestra. major concert venues around the world. Over the Essential to Kremerata Baltica’s artistic per- last 13 years, Kremerata Baltica has performed sonality is its creative approach to programming, 34 CAL PERFORMANCES CAL PERFORMANCES 35 ABOUT THE ARTISTS ABOUT THE ARTISTS which often looks beyond the mainstream and has Bernstein, Herbert von Karajan, Christoph Grammophon. From 2002–2006, Mr. Kremer label. It was subsequently hailed by the Deutsche given rise to numerous world premieres of works by Eschenbach, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Lorin was the artistic leader of Les Muséiques, a new Schallplattenkritik Bestenliste as one of the best composers such as Kancheli, Vasks, Desyatnikov Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, James festival in Basel, Switzerland. discoveries of the year. and Raskatov. The orchestra’s wide-ranging and Levine, Valery Gergiev, Claudio Abbado and Sir Mr. Kremer is also a gifted writer. He is the Mr. Pushkarev has performed with such carefully chosen repertoire is showcased in its nu- Neville Marriner. author of four books in German that reflect his distinguished musicians as Yo-Yo Ma, Yuri merous and much-praised Nonesuch recordings, Mr. Kremer’s repertoire is unusually exten- artistic philosophy: Oase Lockenhaus: 15 Jahre Bashmet, Martha Argerich, Gabriela Montero, including Eight Seasons, a pairing of Vivaldi’s set sive, encompassing all of the standard classical Kammermusikfest Kremerata Musica 1981–1996 Michel Portal, Peter Sadlo, Katia Skanavi, Mario of concertos with Piazzolla’s Cuatro estaciones and romantic violin works, as well as music by (1996), Kindheitssplitter (1997), Obertöne (1997) Brunello, Maxim Rysanov and Gabor Boldoszki, porteñas (“The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires”); such 20th-century masters as Henze, Berg and and Zwischen Welten: Mit 25 Abbildungen (2004). and conductors Yuri Temirkanov, Voldemar Silencio, compositions by contemporary compos- Stockhausen. He also championed the works of Kindheitssplitter has been translated in Russian, Nelsson and Roman Kofman. With Mr. Kremer ers: Pärt, Glass and Martynov; and After Mozart, living Russian and Eastern European composers Latvian, French and Japanese. and Kremerata Baltica, he has performed in con- a 21st-century take on the composer, which won and has performed many important new compo- Gidon Kremer plays a Nicola Amati violin cert halls around the world, including in Carnegie a Grammy Award. Kremerata Baltica’s recordings sitions, several of them dedicated to him. He has dating from 1641. Hall in New York, the Royal Albert Hall in of the five Mozart violin concertos, recorded live become associated with such diverse composers as London, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in at the Salzburg Festival in 2006, the composer’s Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Giya Kancheli, Sofia Born in Kiev into a family of musicians, Andrei Vienna and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. 200th anniversary year, were released in 2009. In Gubaidulina, Valentin Silvestrov, Luigi Nono, Pushkarev (percussion) began his musical studies conjunction with the orchestra’s fall 2010 U.S. Aribert Reimann, Peteris Vasks, John Adams and on the piano at age five. By age 14, he had concen- Ula Ulijona (viola) was born in Vilnius, tour, Nonesuch has recently released their next Astor Piazzolla, bringing their music to audiences trated his studies on percussion instruments. Lithuania, in 1974 and performs regularly both recording, entitled De Profundis. in a way that respects tradition yet remains con- In 1992, Mr. Pushkarev entered the Kiev with Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica and Kremerata Baltica may be heard exclusively temporary. It would be fair to say that no other Tchaikovsky National Conservatory, where he as the principal violist of the RAI National on Nonesuch Records. For more information, soloist of his international stature has done as studied under Alexander Blinov. While at the Symphony Orchestra in Turin, Italy. Her stud- please visit www.kremerata-baltica.com. much for contemporary composers in the past Conservatory, Mr. Pushkarev also began com- ies include degrees from the Musikhochschule 30 years. posing works for solo vibraphone. In 1995, he Hanns Eisler (Berlin), Musikakademie (Basel), Of the world’s leading violin- An exceptionally prolific recording artist, was awarded First Prize in the newly established and Academy of Music and Theater (Vilnius). ists, Gidon Kremer (artistic Mr. Kremer has made more than 100 albums, New Names of Ukraine competition, where he In addition to her solo work with Kremerata leader & soloist) has perhaps many of which brought him prestigious inter- performed his own musical compositions. Baltica, she has also appeared with the Moscow had the most unconventional national awards and prizes in recognition of Mr. Pushkarev has performed as solo vibra- Soloists, Boston Symphony Orchestra, London career. Born in Riga, Latvia, his exceptional interpretative powers. These phonist throughout Ukraine, and in 1996, at age Philharmonic, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, he began studying the violin include the Grand Prix du Disque, Deutscher 22, was awarded position of principal timpanist Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Niederland, and at age four with his father and Schallplattenpreis, the Ernst-von-Siemens with the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra, making Winterthur Symphony. In 2001, Ms. Ulijona grandfather, who were both Michael Benabib Musikpreis, the Bundesverdienstkreuz, the