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9 th
INTERNATIONAL
CHAMBER MUSIC
competition
for Young Professionals
SATURDAY | APRIL 10 | 2021
PROGRAM
Dior Quartet
Joseph Haydn—Quartet Op. 76 No. 3 “Emperor”
IV. Finale: Presto
Welcome to Chesapeake Music’s 9th International Caroline Shaw—Blueprint
Christos Hatzis—Quartet No. 2 “The Gathering”
Chamber Music Competition and while the world-wide
III. Nadir
health crisis makes it necessary to hold this event virtually, I
Anton Dvorak—Quartet No. 13 in G Major, Op. 106
am confident you will be rewarded with a day of outstanding
II. Adagio ma non troppo
performances highlighted by musical skill and youthful
Dmitri Shostakovich—Quartet No. 9, Op. 117
enthusiasm.
V. Allegro
This biennial event began nineteen years ago when a group of
local music lovers resolved to create a way to encourage and AYA Piano Trio
support young musicians in their efforts to build careers. This
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart—Piano Trio in C Major K. 54
vision has been fulfilled as many of the ensembles have become
I. Allegro
well known in the concert world and all of the participants gain
Felix Mendelssohn—Piano Trio in C Major, Op. 66
valuable insights from our judges.
I. Allegro energico e con fuaco
I am amazed and enormously grateful for the effort put Maurice Ravel—Piano Trio in A minor
forth by our Competition Committee. Every other year these I. Modéré
volunteers take on the challenge of producing this major II. Pantoum, Assez vif
musical competition and then last year the event was cancelled Dimitri Shostakovich—Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor
just days before it was to go on. Starting from scratch, the IV. Allegretto
Committee created the virtual format you will see today. It was
an enormously complex task to arrange for performances in four Soma Quartet
different locations and to have the judges located remotely from Felix Mendelssohn—String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80
one another. Arranged: Ting-Hua (Arthur) Liang
I. Allegro vivace assai
On behalf of the Board of Directors I thank each and every
II. Allegro assai
one of our Committee and our judges for their dedication that
III. Adagio
sustains the Competition. You are in for a wonderful treat today.
IV. Finale: Allegro molto
I know you will enjoy it.
In Memoriam (2014) – Joel Love (b. 1982)
Barry Koh Zelter String Quartet
Welcome
President Chesapeake Music
Franz Joseph Haydn—String Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2
I. Moderato
II. Capriccio – Adagio
Ludwig van Beethoven—String Quartet No. 8 in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2
I. Allegro
II. Molto Adagio, “Si tratta questo pezzo con molto di sentimento”
Maurice Ravel—String Quartet in F Major
I. Allegro moderato, très doux
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AYA PIANO TRIO DIOR QUARTET SOMA QUARTET ZELTER STRING QUARTET
Based in Philadelphia, AYA was Hailing from Israel, Canada, Brazil, and Based in Bloomington, Soma was Praised by LA Opus for their
formed in 2013 by three students at the U.S., the members of Dior formed formed at the Indiana University Jacobs “seemingly effortless precision and
the Curtis Institute of Music. The trio their ensemble at Indiana University in School of Music under the guidance of blend”, the Zelter String Quartet formed
has performed extensively across fall 2018. Otis Murphy. in Los Angeles in 2018.
the United States, and in 2018 they
were semifinalists in both the M Prize Within eight months of their formation, In addition to being the grand prize The quartet is comprised of violinists
Chamber Arts Competition and the they won the Bronze Medal at the 2019 winners at the 2019 Plowman Chamber Kyle Gilner and Gallia Kastner, violist
Fischoff Competition. Fischoff National Chamber Competition Music Competition, they were first Nao Kubota, and cellist Allan Hon.
(Senior Division). They have also won runner-up in the 2018 Classic Alive In 2019 they were awarded a full
They were winners of the 2018 Young first prize at the 9th Plowman Chamber Young Artist Competition, first prize scholarship to participate in the
Chamber Musicians Competition Music Competition (Senior Strings), winners in the 2017 Chicago Woodwind St. Lawrence String Quartet Chamber
in North Carolina, where they were first prize at the 2019 Kuttner Quartet Ensemble Competition, and finalists in Music Seminar, where they worked
invited for a residency of recordings Competition, and runner-up at the the 2018 North American Saxophone with members of the St. Lawrence and
and concerts. They have performed at Beethoven-Haus Competition at the Alliance Quartet Competition. Danish String Quartets, culminating in
the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival Jacobs School of Music. Last summer, a performance at the Campbell Recital
and the Norfolk Chamber Music they attended the St. Lawrence String Since their formation in 2016, they have Hall at Stanford University.
Festival, and they made their New York Quartet Seminar at Stanford University performed at a wide variety of venues,
City debut in 2019 at the Mannes New and were selected to perform in the including the International Navy Band The quartet has collaborated with
School Concert Series. International Showcase at Stanford’s Symposium, the inaugural American Single the Verona String Quartet, Mixtape
Bing Concert Hall. Reed Summit, and the North American Series, tenor Drake Dantzler, and has
Performances in 2020 include Saxophone Alliance region five conference. future collaborations set with pianist
a Concerts International Series They held the 2019 Fellowship String The ensemble is committed to performing Lucinda Carver.
appearance in Memphis and a Quartet at Wintergreen Summer Music new works to expand quartet repertoire
Beethoven Triple concerto with the Festival in Virginia and participated and has collaborated with several In addition, they were recently invited
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Finalists
Waterbury Symphony Orchestra
in Connecticut. AYA Piano Trio is
represented by Jean Schreiber
Management.
in the McGill International String
Quartet Academy. They are currently
the new Kuttner Quartet, the student
string quartet-in-residence at Indiana
University Jacobs School of Music.
composers from Indiana University.
Soma also has a passion for traditional
repertoire and transcriptions and has
performed numerous outreach concerts
in venues ranging from retirement centers
to coffee shops to the Bloomington
Transit Center, all in hopes of bringing
saxophone to a wider audience.
to participate in the Juilliard String
Quartet Seminar, and in August 2021, the
quartet is scheduled to participate in
the Rencontres Franco-Américaines de
Musique de Chambre, as winners of the
USC Ofiesh Chamber Music Competition.
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Behind every music performance
is a strategy for success
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Management, we take the same approach to helping you meet your financial
needs and goals. our biennial Chesapeake International Chamber Music
Competition is like no other. But in this year of the Global Pandemic,
We are proud to support the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition.
our experience has been like no other we have had.
The Edgell – Fritzsche Team
Alex N. Fritzsche, First Vice President – Financial Advisor After postponing the Competition in April, 2020, we looked forward to
Jennifer N. Edgell, AWM, Vice President – Financial Advisor hosting it in April 2021. As you all know well, we cannot yet hold live
Karen D. Kruse, Branch Service Manager performances and so we have gone virtual. Thankfully we have had some
experience with this new concert mode. The annual Chamber Music Festival
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two additional virtual concerts during the year. So here we are trying to put
on an entire day of music for all of you.
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in distant places for much of the year and struggled to gather to record
their performance. Sadly, one group, the Colores Trio of Zurich, Switzerland,
was not able to compete due to travel restrictions within the European
Union. We will hope they can join us next year. The judges were equally
challenged. They will view the day’s performances from their home bases
which stretch from Baltimore to Bend, Oregon. And then, the deliberations
will take place on the ever-present Zoom!
The committee of volunteers was challenged to think of each element of
the program in a new way. I believe we are all proudest of being able to
devise a way to hold the Audience Choice Award at the end of the day. Our
designer and our webmaster have pushed themselves to new heights with
a virtual stage employed for all our virtual events. It does indeed take a
Beautiful music brightens our lives,
village to make this work and we have been fortunate to have a wonderful
and you make it happen! group of willing explorers to join in the effort.
Thank You! Please see the list of all those people in this program book. We hope
you enjoy these wonderful young ensembles and we look forward to
Anna returning to a live Competition in 2022 at our new home in the Ebenezer
Theater in Easton.
Anna C Larkin
Anne Moran
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CHESAPEAKE MUSIC AND ITS
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presentations with the most up-to-date acoustical enhancements and
recording and streaming capacity. Additionally, Chesapeake Music purchased
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perfect venue for our award winning ensembles. Be assured, however, that
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COMPETITION JUDGES
A versatile player, J. LAWRIE BLOOM has been Lithuanian pianist IEVA JOKUBAVICIUTE's
heard in chamber, orchestral and concerto performances have earned her critical acclaim
appearances on soprano clarinet, basset throughout the U.S. and Europe. Her ability to
clarinet and bass clarinet. He began studying communicate the essential substance of a work
piano at four and switched to the clarinet at has led critics to describe her as possessing “razor-
nine. He continued studies at the Columbus sharp intelligence and wit” (The Washington Post)
Boychoir School, with whom he toured the U.S., and as “an artist of commanding technique, refined
Canada and Japan, singing and playing the temperament and persuasive insight” (The New York
Judge: J. Lawrie Bloom clarinet. At that same time on clarinet he came Judge: Ieva Jokubaviciute Times). In 2006, she was honored as a recipient of a
under the guidance of Roger W. McKinney, later Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship.
studying with Anthony M. Gigliotti. Ieva’s Alban Berg Tribute CD was released to critical acclaim in 2010. The
Lawrie is a founding member of the Civitas Ensemble in Chicago, with New York Times described her as “an authoritative and compelling guide
whom he plays clarinet, and acts as an Artistic Co-Director. He founded throughout this fascinating disc." Her piano trio, Trio Cavatina, won the 2009
the Chesapeake Music Festival, and served as clarinetist and Artistic Naumburg International Chamber Music Competition and made its Carnegie
Co-Director for 34 years. He has performed at the Ambler, Grand Teton, Hall debut in 2010. A much sought-after chamber musician and collaborator,
Ravinia, Skaneateles and Spoleto festivals, and the Mostly Mozart Festival notably with violinist Midori, Ieva has appeared on major stages, such as
in New York. Lawrie toured with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and has Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and London’s Wigmore Hall. She regularly
collaborated with the Chester, Chicago Symphony, and Mendelssohn String appears at music festivals, including Marlboro, Ravinia, Bard, Caramoor,
Quartets, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and members of the Ridge, Chesapeake Music, and Prussia Cove (England). A graduate of the Curtis
Orion and Vermeer string quartets. He has been heard many times in live Institute of Music and the Mannes College of Music, she is currently Assistant
concerts over the airwaves of WFMT in Chicago, and in live recital for the Professor, Piano at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia.
Australian Broadcast Company.
In September of 1980 Sir Georg Solti invited Lawrie to join the Chicago Cellist MICHAEL KANNEN has distinguished
Symphony Orchestra, in the position of Clarinet and Solo Bass Clarinet. In himself as a musician and educator of uncommon
that position he has toured the world, with some 2 dozen trips to Europe, accomplishment who is comfortable in widely
5 times to Asia, and appearances in Australia, and India. He can be heard diverse musical situations and venues. He was a
on CSO recordings of a vast repertoire. Previous to joining the CSO Lawrie founding member of the Brentano String Quartet
held similar appointments with the Phoenix Symphony, the orchestra of and for seven years performed with that group
the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Vancouver Symphony, and the Cincinnati on concert stages around the world, on radio and
Symphony. He stepped down from his CSO appointment in June of 2020. television, and on recordings.
Lawrie was a Senior Lecturer in Clarinet at Northwestern University for 28 Judge: Michael Kannen During those years, the Brentano Quartet was
years. He has presented master classes all over the world, and is an Artist awarded the first Cleveland Quartet Award, the
Performer for Buffet Crampon USA and D’Addario Musical Instruments, as Naumburg Chamber Music Award, a Royal Philharmonic Award and was the
a Reed Design Consultant. first participant in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center II program.
Mr. Kannen continues to perform chamber music around the country as a
member of the Apollo Trio, on period instruments with the Houston-based
group Context, and at major music festivals such as Yellow Barn, Chamber
Music Northwest, Portland Chamber Music Festival and the International
Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England. Mr. Kannen has served on the
faculties of Dartmouth College and the Purchase College Conservatory and
he is currently the Director of Chamber Music at the Peabody Conservatory of
Music, where he holds the Sidney Friedberg Chair in Chamber Music.
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PRELIMINARY ROUND JUDGES Chesapeake Music Founding Sponsors
Board of Directors A.T. and Mary Blades Foundation
Co-Artistic Directors, Marcy Rosen Ella and Michael Bracy
We wish to honor our preliminary judges: extraordinary artists who have
and Catherine Cho Mary and James Campbell
performed as soloists and key members of outstanding chamber music
ensembles all over the world. They have been artistic directors of Festivals, Executive Director, Donald Buxton Sonia and Joseph Herson
have served as educators at our leading institutions and all are known as Barry Koh, President Zena and Arnold Lerman
chamber musicians of excellence. Robert Amdur Jean and Michael McHale
Ross Benincasa Isabel and David Mahalick Foundation
Catherine Cho, violin, viola James Carder Carolyn and Robert Miller
Adrian Morejon, bassoon Courtney Kane Ann and Rush Moody, Jr
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute Susan Koh Penelope and Sergio Proserpi, M.D.
Todd Phillips, violin Elizabeth Koprowski Phoebe and Robert Reynolds
Diane Walsh, piano Marianna Lesher Audrey and James Rooney
Trish Malin Alice Ryan
Each has a stunning musical biography to which one could not give justice
here. We are fortunate to have had them as preliminary jurors in the first Anne Moran Lori and Jonathan Sallet
two rounds of the Competition under the leadership of Co-Artistic Director Edgar Smith Barbara and Michael Smilow
Marcy Rosen, cello. Anna Snow Carolyn and Charles Thornton
John Waterston Irmy and Philip Webster
Margaret and Richard Welch
Competition Committee Audio: Skillman Music, Wei Wang, Competition Advisory Panel
and Mid South Audio
Patrons
Anne Moran, Chair Steve Balderston
Print Publicity: Amy Steward J. Lawrie Bloom Norma and Don Berlin
Anna Larkin, Chair Emeritus
Data Base: Nancy Larson Natasha Brofsky Michael and Ella Bracy
Donald Buxton, Executive Director
Catherine Cho Bob and Karen Burger
Graphics: Joanne Shipley
Glenn Dicterow Lin and Steve Clineburg
Ross Benincasa Webmaster: Kyle Spear
Karen Dreyfus Tom and Debra Crouch
Scott Clausen
Miriam Fried George and Jocelyn Eysymontt
William Geoghegan Technical Support to Ara Gregorian MaryAnn Schindler and M. Hughes
Courtney Kane our Finalists Michael Kannen Susan and Barry Koh
Elizabeth Koprowski
AYA Piano Trio: Wei Wang Maria Lambros Elizabeth Koprowski
Nancy Larson
Dior Quartet: Konrad Strauss Michael Maccaferri Anna and Tim Larkin
Penny Proserpi
Soma Quartet: First United Church, Katherine Murdoch Arnold Lerman
Carolyn Thornton
Bloomington, Indiana, and Tara Helen O’Connor Marion Lewin
Matthew Champagne Peggy Pearson Anne Moran
Special Thanks Chloe and David Pitard
Zelter String Quartet: Louis Ng and Danny Phillips
Finalists Coordinator: Anne Moran Stuart Denenberg Todd Phillips Penelope Proserpi
Program Editors: Debra Crouch and Marcy Rosen Charles and Carolyn Thornton
Carolyn Thornton Advertisers David Shifrin Lily and John Waterston
Print Ads: Debra Crouch Scott St. John Phil and Irmy Webster
Eastern Shore Lending/Tracy Cohee Kathy Wise and Doug Ridley
On-line Voting: Ross Benincasa and Roger Tapping
Hodges Hanna and Peter Woicke
Courtney Kane Diane Walsh
Parker Counts LLC
Robert Yekovitch Isabel/David Mahalick Foundation
On-line Publicity: The Violin Channel Benson & Mangold/Anna Larkin
St. John Foundation
Audience Analytics: Scott Clausen and Benson & Mangold/Chuck Mangold, Jr.
Ross Benincasa
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