EMERSON STRING QUARTET - HOLTSCHNEIDER PERFORMANCE CENTER CHAMBER SERIES FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2022 8:00 PM - DEPAUL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC
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Friday, February 25, 2022 • 8:00 PM Emerson String Quartet Holtschneider Performance Center Chamber Series Mary Patricia Gannon Concert Hall 2330 North Halsted Street • Chicago
Emerson String Quartet • February 25, 2022 Welcome Dear Friends, Welcome to the HPC Chamber Series opening concert for the 2021-22 academic year. It was almost two years ago when we closed our doors, and I am so pleased to be welcoming you into the Holtschneider Performance Center tonight. We are honored to welcome the legendary Emerson String Quartet to our stage tonight. Formed in the late 1970s at The Juilliard School, they quickly rose to international fame with their own unique, insightful voice. I had the privilege of working with them in the mid-1980s when they commissioned and premiered my second string quartet with Chamber Music America. Bringing world-class professional ensembles to the School of Music is an essential part of our work. Having our students hear professional ensembles in performance and interact with the members through conversations and masterclasses all add to the educational component that is a part of every ensemble’s visit to our campus. We are especially fortunate to have the Emerson String Quartet with us tonight as their remarkable 47-year run is coming to an end in summer 2023. While they will continue to make music individually, this is their final tour as a group as they make this last stop in Chicago. Please plan on joining us for our next concert in the HPC Chamber series when the dynamic quintet, Imani Winds, comes to the School of Music on May 7. Thank you for attending tonight and returning to Holtschneider Performance Center. I look forward to sharing many more performances with you. Ronald Caltabiano, DMA Dean, DePaul University School of Music
Friday, February 25, 2022 • 8:00 PM
Gannon Concert Hall
Emerson String Quartet
Eugene Drucker, violin
Philip Setzer, violin
Lawrence Dutton, viola
Paul Watkins, cello
Program
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
String Quartet No. 1 in E-Flat, Op. 12 (1829)
I. Adagio non troppo - Allegro non tardante
II. Canzonetta. Allegretto
III. Andante espressivo
IV. Molto allregro e vivace
Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)
String Quartet No. 9 in E-Flat Major, Op. 117 (1964)
I. Moderato con moto
II. Adagio
III. Allegretto
IV. Adagio
V. Allegro
- Intermission -
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132 (1825)
I. Assai sostenuto - Allegro
II. Allegro ma non tanto
III. Molto adagio - Andante
IV. Alla marcia, assai vivace
V. Allegro appassionato
*Eugene Drucker, violin I on Mendelssohn
Philip Setzer, violin I on Shostakovich & Beethoven
Masks must be worn at all times. As a courtesy to those around you, please silence all cell
phones and other electronic devices. Flash photography is not permitted. Thank you.Emerson String Quartet • February 25, 2022 Biographies The Emerson String Quartet has maintained its status as one of the world’s premier chamber music ensembles for more than four decades. “With musicians like this,” wrote a reviewer for The Times (London), “there must be some hope for humanity.” The Quartet has made more than 30 acclaimed recordings, and has been honored with nine GRAMMYs® (including two for Best Classical Album), three Gramophone Awards, the Avery Fisher Prize, and Musical America’s “Ensemble of the Year” award. The Quartet collaborates with some of today’s most esteemed composers to premiere new works, keeping the string quartet form alive and relevant. The group has partnered in performance with such stellar soloists as Renée Fleming, Barbara Hannigan, Evgeny Kissin, Emanuel Ax, and Yefim Bronfman, to name a few. In the 2021-2022 season, the Quartet will give the New York premiere of André Previn’s Penelope at Carnegie Hall, alongside soprano Renée Fleming, actress Uma Thurman, and pianist Simone Dinnerstein, before reprising the program in a concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In addition to touring major American venues extensively, the Quartet returns to Chamber Music Society of Louisville, where they will complete the second half of a Beethoven cycle they began in spring 2020. Finally, the Quartet embarks on a six-city tour of Europe, with stops in Athens, Madrid, Pisa, Florence, Milan, and London’s Southbank Centre where they will present the Emerson in a complete Shostakovich cycle, one of the staples in their repertoire. The Quartet’s extensive discography includes the complete string quartets of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Bartok, Webern, and Shostakovich, as well as multi-CD sets of the major works of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Dvorak. In 2018, Deutsche Grammophon issued a box of the Emerson Complete Recordings on the label. In October 2020, the group released a recording of Schumann’s three string quartets for the Pentatone label. In the preceding year, the Quartet joined forces with GRAMMY®-winning pianist Evgeny Kissin to release their debut collaborative album for Deutsche Grammophon, recorded live at a sold-out Carnegie Hall concert in 2018. Formed in 1976 and based in New York City, the Emerson String Quartet was one of the first quartets to have its violinists alternate in the first chair position. The Quartet, which takes its name from the American poet and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, balances busy performing careers with a commitment to teaching, and serves as Quartet-in-Residence at Stony Brook University. In 2013, cellist Paul Watkins—a distinguished soloist, award-wining conductor, and devoted chamber musician—joined the original members of the Quartet to form today’s group. In the spring of 2016, the State University of New York awarded full-time Stony Brook faculty members Philip Setzer and Lawrence Dutton the status of Distinguished Professor, and conferred the title of Honorary Distinguished Professor on part-time faculty members Eugene Drucker and Paul Watkins. The Quartet’s members also hold honorary doctorates from Middlebury College, the College of Wooster, Bard College, and the University of Hartford. In January of 2015, the Quartet received the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award, Chamber Music America’s highest honor, in recognition of its significant and lasting contribution to the chamber music field. The Emerson String Quartet enthusiastically endorses Thomastik strings.
Emerson String Quartet • February 25, 2022
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Sidney Kleinman Nancy PetrilloEmerson String Quartet • February 25, 2022 Annual Spring Gala PLEASE SAVE THE DATE FOR THE DePaul University School of Music Annual Spring Gala THE EVENING OF Saturday, May 21, 2022 FEATURING DePaul Symphony Orchestra, Cliff Colnot, Conductor DePaul Jazz Workshop, Dana Hall, Director AND THE PRESENTATION OF THE 2022 DePaul Pro Musica Award to Mary Patricia Gannon Join us for this festive evening – the School’s only fundraiser – celebrating the talents of our students and our 2022 Pro Musica Awardee. We look forward to welcoming you to this celebratory evening with all of the proceeds benefitting the students of the DePaul University School of Music. For more information about the evening, please contact: music@depaul.edu
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Upcoming Events
DePaul University School of Music
Ronald Caltabiano, DMA, Dean
Ensembles In Residence HPC Chamber Series
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Allen Recital Hall Gannon Concert Hall
Chamber Music Chicago Imani Winds
April 30 • 4:00 p.m.
Gannon Concert Hall
Oistrakh Symphony of Chicago
June 10 • 7:00 p.m.
Allen Recital Hall
Ensemble Dal Niente
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Gannon Concert Hall Gannon Concert Hall
DePaul Chamber and George Vatchnadze, piano
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Gannon Concert Hall Brad Robin, composition
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