Saturday, November 2 | 5:00 pm | MATCH Saturday, November 2 5:00pm • MATCH Scott St. John, violin • Min-Jeong Koh, violin Matthew Dane, viola • Richard Belcher, cello Franz Joseph Haydn (HIGH-dun) String Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 76, No. 4 “Sunrise” (1797) I. Allegro con spirito ------8 minutes------ Paul Hindemith (HEN-de-mit) String Quartet No. 4, op. 22 (1921) I. Fugato. Slow Quarter Note. • II. Fast Eighth Note. Very Energetic. ------10 minutes------ Adolf Busch Serenade for String Quartet, op.14 (1919) I. Allegro moderato, ma con spirito ------7 minutes------ Anton Webern (VAY-burn) Five Movements for String Quartet, op. 5 (1909) I. Heftig bewegt - Etwas ruhiger • II. Sehr Langsam • III. Sehr bewegt ------7 minutes------ Antonin Dvorak (De-VOR-Zhahk) String Quartet No. 9 in D Minor, op. 34 (1877) II. Alla Polka ------7 minutes------ Q&A WITH THE MUSICIANS Robert Maggio “thirty-two summers” ROCO WORLD PREMIERE COMMISSION ------7 minutes------ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (MOTE-zart) String Quartet in C Major K. 465 “Dissonant” (1785) IV. Allegro molto ------6 minutes------ FeaturedArtists FeaturedArtists Scott St. John, violin Min-Jeong Koh, violin Concertmaster Consortium: Musicians Consortium: Sarah & Doug McMurrey, Barbara Burger, Sharon Ley & Bob Lietzow, Jennifer & David Strauss, Lisa & Rex Wooldrige Jo Dee & Cliff Wright Praised for her “extreme versatility” and “simply unbeatable beauty of tone” (Berliner Violinist Scott St. John is the Zeitung), Min-Jeong Koh maintains a busy Director of Chamber Music schedule as concert violinist, violist, and educator. As first violinist of the Cecilia String at The Colburn School in Los Quartet, Ms. Koh won First Prize at the Banff Angeles. He leads the chamber International String Quartet Competition, music programs in the Colburn 2nd Prize at the Osaka International Music School’s Conservatory of Music Competition, and the Prix de la Sacem at the Bordeaux String Quartet and pre-college Music Academy. Competition. Their latest recording was chosen as Gramophone Magazine’s Scott is concertmaster of the “Editor’s Choice” and was nominated for a JUNO Award for Best Classical innovative ensemble ROCO in Album. With the ensemble, Ms. Koh has performed across Europe, Asia, Houston, Texas, and a frequent and North America at such celebrated stages as London’s Wigmore Hall, participant at the Marlboro Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Berlin Konzerthaus, Beethoven-haus, Music Festival in Vermont. Born in London Canada, early violin success gave Prague’s Rudolfinum, Library of Congress, La Jolla Music Society, Stanford Scott a path to the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and the chance to work with Live, Music Toronto, and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, David Cerone, Arnold Steinhardt and Felix Galimir. After winning the Alexander among others. Ms. Koh’s performances and recordings can be heard on Schneider Competition and playing a Carnegie Hall debut, NYC pulled Scott BBC Radio 3, Bayerischer Rundfunk, DeutschlandRadio, New York City’s WQXR, Public Radio International throughout the United States, and the into its orbit, where Young Concert Artists gave him fabulous opportunities for Canadian Broadcasting Company. performance. In addition to a magical year of working at the Disney Store in Times Square, Scott has been Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, In addition, she is passionate about the entrepreneurial ways music and Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University as part of the St. Lawrence String can serve communities and those in need. Among her projects, she is Quartet. He has received an Avery Fisher Career Grant and won a Juno Award co-founder of Xenia Concerts, a series dedicated to presenting concerts designed specifically for children on the autism spectrum, and Hanvoice for recording Mozart with his sister Lara St. John. He has founded two chamber Concerts, a series of performances to benefit North Korean refugees. She music awards for students: the Felix Galimir Award at University of Toronto and also performed at the San Francisco Women’s Jail, California School for the the Ida Levin Award at the Colburn School. Scott loves chamber music, Dvorak, Blind, Monarch School for Homeless Youths, and Reflections Community new music, music by lesser-known composers, and a great espresso. He has School for at-risk youth. been to all the Canadian provinces, 49 of the United States, and would prefer A passionate educator, she is currently Associate Professor of Violin at The to travel by train when practical. He is married to violist Sharon Wei and they University of Oklahoma’s School of Music. have a spirited daughter named Julia. FeaturedArtists FeaturedArtists Matthew Dane, Richard Belcher, viola cello Susanne & Randall Evans Chair Denman/Newman Foundation Chair Matthew Dane serves as Principal New Zealand cellist Richard Belcher Violist of ROCO in Houston and joined the SPCO in 2019 after a Opera Colorado and is also a twenty year career as founding cellist member of the Boulder Piano Quartet of the Grammy-nominated Enso String and the Baroque Chamber Orchestra Quartet. With the quartet he earned of Colorado. Chamber music festival highly critical accolades from recording appearances include OK Mozart, and concertizing in many of the world’s Portland (Maine), Chamber Music major concert halls such as Carnegie Quad Cities (Iowa), Ruby Mountains Hall, Lincoln Center, and Kennedy (Nevada), Land’s End (Calgary), Snake River (CO), and Tanglewood. With Center in the United States, as well as abroad in Europe, South America, the Boulder Piano Quartet and Jon Manasse he recorded quintets of Lowell Liebermann for Koch Records. Matt has appeared as soloist with the Oklahoma Australia and New Zealand. Richard is the Artistic Director of Music on the City Philharmonic, BCOC, ROCO, and the St. Martin’s Chamber Choir among Hill in Mankato, Minnesota, and since 2008 has been Principal Cellist of others; his chamber performances have been broadcast on NPR’s Performance ROCO in Houston, Texas. He has taught and performed at many festivals Today and BBC’s Channel 3. Dane co-founded the Brightmusic Ensemble in including St. Bart’s, Festival d’Aix en Provence, Prussia Cove, Madeline Oklahoma City. Summers Matt teaches at Greenwood Music Camp in Cummington, Island, Campos do Jordao International Winter Festival, SummerFest La Massachusetts as well as his own well-received Boulder Violist Session. Past Jolla, and the San Miguel de Allende International Chamber Music Festival. faculty appointments include Metro State University of Denver, and the University In demand as a teacher and chamber music coach, Richard has previously of Oklahoma, where he earned tenure. He actively maintains a private teaching served as Adjunct Faculty at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music studio in Boulder and coaches chamber music at the University of Colorado. His and has given numerous masterclasses around the world. Richard moved Doctoral Document, which examines the teaching influence of pedagogue Karen to the United States in 1998 to study with Aldo Parisot at Yale University, and Tuttle, circulates widely among amateur and professional violists nationwide. Also it was while there that he founded the Enso String Quartet. Richard’s other an avid violist d’amore, Matt has worked with composers to create several new principal teachers include Norman Fischer, Marc Johnson, and Alexander works for the unusual instrument. He served the viola community as Editor of Ivashkin. He plays an N.F. Vuillaume cello made in 1856, and is married to the Journal of the American Viola Society 2004-2008 as a Viola Society Board Cecilia Belcher, Assistant Principal 2nd Violin of the Minnesota Orchestra. member at both the local and national levels. www.daneviola.com. FeaturedArtists Robert Maggio, composer Robert Maggio is an American composer and music educator. He has written music for orchestra, symphonic band, chorus, vocalists, instrumental soloists and chamber ensembles. He has also written musicals, incidental music for plays, and scores for ballet and modern dance. He is a Professor of Music at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Maggio’s concert music performances include the Boston Pops, Atlanta Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Long Beach Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, New York Festival of Song, Daedalus Quartet, Randall Scarlata, Sanford Sylvan, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Network for New Music, Orchestra 2001, and The Crossing. A long-time member of the BMI Musical Theatre Workshop in New York City, Maggio is currently collaborating on several new musicals, including projects with writers Michael Hollinger, Bruce Graham, Kristin Maloney, and Justin Warner. His musical, TouchTones (with playwright Michael Hollinger) was produced by the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia in 2017. ANIARA: fragments of time and space—a choral theatre work created in collaboration with The Crossing (Donald Nally, music director), and Finland’s Klockriketeatern (Dan Henriksson, artistic director and librettist)—was produced in 2019 in Philadelphia, at the Koorbiennale in Haarlem, and at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki. Maggio is the recipient of grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, the American Composers Forum, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, ASCAP, BMI, New Music USA, and Meet the Composer. Published