ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE Richard Yongjae O’Neill and Friends LA Masters SUN / MAY 26 / 2:00 PM Richard Yongjae O’Neill VIOLA Molly Morkoski, Orion Weiss PIANO Jennifer Frautschi, Jesse Mills VIOLIN Fred Sherry CELLO PROGRAM Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30 i. Moderato ii. Adagio iii. Intermezzo. Allegro moderato iv. Rondo. Molto moderato (Frantschi, Mills, O’Neill, Sherry) John Harbison (b. 1938) Viola Sonata (2018) i. Resolution ii. Passage iii. Night Piece iv. Certainties, Uncertainties v. Questions vi. Answers (O’Neill, Morkowski) Intermission Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) Concertino for String Quartet (Mills, Frantschi, O’Neill, Sherry) Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Piano Quintet, Op. 34 i. Allegro non troppo ii. Andante, un poco Adagio iii. Scherzo. Allegro iv. Finale. Poco sostenuto – Allegro non troppo (Weiss, Mills, Frantschi, O’Neill, Sherry) PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 10 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Violist RICHARD YONGJAE O’NEILL, Gilbert Kalish. Molly lives in New York Two-time GRAMMY®-nominated EMMY® Award winner, two-time City and is an Associate Professor at violinist JESSE MILLS enjoys GRAMMY® nominee and Avery Fisher Lehman College in the Bronx. performing music of many genres, Career Grant recipient, has appeared from classical to contemporary, as as soloist with the London, One of the most sought-after soloists well as composed and improvised Los Angeles and Seoul Philharmonics; in his generation of young American music of his own invention. He BBC, KBS and Hiroshima Symphony musicians, pianist ORION WEISS has graduated with a Bachelor of Music Orchestra; and the Wurttemburg, performed with the major American degree from The Juilliard School in Vienna and Kremerata Baltica orchestras, including the Chicago 2001. He studied with Dorothy DeLay, Chamber Orchestras. Highlights Symphony, Boston Symphony, Los Robert Mann and Itzhak Perlman. of this season include premiering Angeles Philharmonic and New York Mr. Mills lives in New York City, and John Harbison’s Viola Sonata written Philharmonic. His deeply felt and he is on the faculty at Longy School for him and Molly Morkowski, exceptionally crafted performances of Music of Bard College and at New serving as Artist-In-Residence at go far beyond his technical mastery York University. In 2010 the Third The Broad Stage in Santa Monica and have won him worldwide acclaim. Street Music School Settlement in and celebrating his fifteen-year A native of Lyndhurst, OH, Weiss NYC honored him with the ‘Rising Star anniversary of concerts in Korea attended the Cleveland Institute Award’ for musical achievement. with a special appearance of the of Music, where he studied with Ehnes Quartet at Seoul Arts Center. Paul Schenly, Daniel Shapiro, Sergei A pioneer and a visionary in the A recording artist with UNIVERSAL/ Babayan, Kathryn Brown and Edith music world, cellist FRED SHERRY Deutsche Grammophon, he has made Reed. In February of 1999, Weiss has introduced audiences on five nine solo albums that have sold over made his Cleveland Orchestra debut continents and all fifty United States 200,000 copies. He is a member performing Liszt’s Piano Concerto to the music of our time for over of the Chamber Music Society of No. 1. In March 1999, with less than five decades. He was a founding Lincoln Center, Camerata Pacifica 24 hours’ notice, Weiss stepped member of TASHI and Speculum and the Ehnes Quartet. Composers in to replace André Watts for a Musicae, a member of the Group Lera Auerbach, Elliott Carter, John performance of Shostakovich’s for Contemporary Music, Luciano Harbison, Huang Ruo and Paul Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Berio's Juilliard Ensemble and the Chihara have written and dedicated Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. He Galimir String Quartet. A member worksABOUT to him. His THE chamber ARTISTS music was immediately invited to return to of the cello faculty of The Juilliard project DITTO has introduced tens of the Orchestra for a performance of School, the Mannes College of Music thousands to chamber music in South the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto in and the Manhattan School of Music, Korea and Japan. The first violist to October 1999. In 2004, he graduated Fred Sherry is also the Director of the receive the Artist Diploma from The from the Juilliard School, where he Contemporary Performance Institute Juilliard School, he was honored with studied with Emanuel Ax. at the Composers Conference. He a Proclamation from the New York has served on international juries City Council. He serves as Goodwill Two-time GRAMMY® nominee and including the Premio Paolo Borciani Ambassador for the Korean Red Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient String Quartet Competition in Italy, Cross, CARE and UNICEF, and he runs JENNIFER FRAUTSCHI has garnered OSM Standard Life Competition marathons for charity. worldwide acclaim as an adventurous in Montréal and Young Concert musician with a remarkably wide- Artists in New York. Sherry’s book Pianist MOLLY MORKOSKI has ranging repertoire. As the Chicago 25 Bach Duets from the Cantatas performed as soloist and Tribune noted, “violinist Jennifer was published by Boosey & Hawkes collaborative artist throughout Frautschi is molding a career with in 2011. In 2018 C.F. Peters released the U.S., Europe, the Caribbean smart interpretations of both his treatise on contemporary and Japan. Her playing has been warhorses and rarities.” Born in string playing, A Grand Tour of Cello recognized by The New York Times Pasadena, California, Ms. Frautschi Technique. as “strong, profiled, nuanced… began the violin at age three. She was beautifully etched…an energetic a student of Robert Lipsett at the Classical Music Series at and focused player…with flexibility Colburn School for the Performing The Broad Stage made possible and warmth…” and The Boston Globe Arts in Los Angeles. She also in part by the generous support called her “outstanding.” She earned attended Harvard, the New England of the Colburn Foundation. her Bachelor of Music from the Conservatory of Music and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Juilliard School, where she studied Hill, where she studied with Michael with Robert Mann. She performs on Zenge, her Master’s degree from a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin Indiana University in Bloomington, known as the “ex-Cadiz,” on generous studying with Leonard Hokanson and loan to her from a private American her Doctorate degree from SUNY foundation. Stony Brook, where her teacher was PERFORMANCES MAGAZINE 11.