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Chesapeake Music presents CHAMBER MUSIC F E S T I VA L 2021 at the Ebenezer Theater new home of Chesapeake Music JUNE 4–12 Experience the Extraordinary
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throughout. The historic Bradbury & Bradbury “Jeffrey”
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6TABLE OF CONTENTS
President’s Welcome......................................................................................................................... 9
Chamber Music Artistic Director Profiles..............................................................................10–11
Artist Profiles............................................................................................................................. 13–25
Festival Opening Extravaganza!: June 4.................................................................................... 27
Program Notes for June 4 Concert............................................................................................... 29
Dynamic Duos: June 5.................................................................................................................. 31
Program Notes for June 5 Concert......................................................................................... 33–35
Summer Nights: June 6................................................................................................................. 36
Program Notes for June 6 Concert............................................................................................... 37
Masterworks: June 10.................................................................................................................... 39
Program Notes for June 10 Concert............................................................................................. 41
Piano Spotlight: June 11............................................................................................................... 42
Program Notes for June 11 Concert............................................................................................. 43
Festival Finale: June 12................................................................................................................. 45
Program Notes for June 12 Concert............................................................................................. 47
Board of Directors and Thank You’s...................................................................................... 48–49
List of Advertisers........................................................................................................................... 50
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8Welcome to the 36th Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival. We are delighted
that you chose to attend and promise you a superb musical experience.
Our Co-Artistic Directors, Marcy Rosen and Catherine Cho, have put together a
program of six concerts. You will hear masterworks of the classical chamber music
repertoire by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann, among others,
and a concert of solely duo performances that features a group of diverse composers:
Joseph Bologne, William Grant Still, William Bolcom, and Amy Beach. Other concerts
will spotlight Chesapeake Music’s Steinway & Sons concert grand piano. You can
be sure that Marcy and Cathy have selected music that will be pleasing to you, the
audience, and interesting to the musicians.
Many of the musicians are old friends, who have graced us with their talents over and
over again but, as always, there will be performers who are new to the Festival. This
year we will have the pleasure of hearing Molly Carr, a young violist, who was featured
as part of the Carr/Petrova Duo at our online Rising Stars Concert this past February.
We will also welcome Timothy Eddy, a founding member of the Orion String Quartet
and we are particularly pleased that for the first time, the Quartet will play here as a
group, performing the Beethoven C Major String Quartet, Opus 59 No. 3. We are indeed
fortunate that our Artistic Directors assembled this marvelous group of performers who
are internationally recognized and the recipients of many awards and prizes.
Of course, there will be several striking differences in our Festival this year. All of
the performances will be at the newly renovated and named Ebenezer Theater, the
permanent home of Chesapeake Music. The theater houses our recently acquired
Steinway & Sons concert grand piano, the gift of a group of generous music
supporters. Use of the theater for our concerts and the location of our administrative
office are the gifts of Paul and Joanne Prager. The other major difference will be the
need to limit our live audience and supplement it with live-streaming.
Finally, I want to thank our Executive Director, Don Buxton, his assistant, Leslie
Hamburger, our Festival Co-Chairs, their volunteers and our host families. The
Festival would not be possible without their hard work. I am particularly grateful to
our Sponsors and contributors for their support of the Festival and Chesapeake Music.
So, sit back, whether in the Theater or your living room, and enjoy the
extraordinary experience.
Barry Koh
President, Board of Directors
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9Marcy Rosen
Cello, Founder and Artistic Director
Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival
MARCY ROSEN has established herself as Stern, among others, and with the Juilliard,
one of the most important and respected Johannes, Emerson, Daedelus and Orion
artists of our day. Los Angeles Times music Quartets. She is a founding member of La
critic Herbert Glass has called her “one Fenice as well as the Mendelssohn String
of the intimate art’s abiding treasures” Quartet. With the Mendelssohn she was
and The New Yorker Magazine calls her “a Artist-in-Residence at the North Carolina
New York legend of the cello.” She has School of the Arts and for nine years
performed in recital and with orchestra served as Blodgett-Artist-in-Residence at
throughout Canada, England, France, Italy, Harvard University. Since first attending
Japan, the Netherlands, South America, the Marlboro Festival in 1975, she
Switzerland, and all fifty of the United has taken part in 25 “Musicians from
States. Sought after for her riveting and Marlboro” tours and has performed in
informative Master Classes, she has been concerts celebrating the 40th, 50th, and 60th
a guest of the Curtis Institute of Music, anniversaries of the festival.
the New England Conservatory, the
San Francisco Conservatory, the Central Since 1986, Ms. Rosen has been Artistic
Conservatory in Beijing, China, the Seoul Director of Chesapeake Chamber Music in
Arts Center in Korea and the Cartagena Maryland and she is an artist member of
International Music Festival in Colombia. Music for Food, a musician-led initiative to
fight hunger in our local communities.
2018 saw the release of two new recordings
from Bridge Records: The Complete Works A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music,
for Cello and Piano by Felix Mendelssohn Ms. Rosen is currently professor of cello
with the pianist Lydia Artymiw, and the at the Aaron Copland School of Music at
Sonatas of Richard Strauss and Edvard Queens College, also serving as Artistic
Grieg with pianist Susan Walters. Director of the Chamber Music Live concert
series. She also serves on the faculty at the
Ms. Rosen has collaborated with the Mannes College of Music in New York City.
world’s finest musicians, including Leon
Fleisher, Richard Goode, Andras Schiff, The Michael and Ella Bracy Cello Chair
Mitsuko Uchida, Jonathan Biss, Peter is held by Marcy Rosen, Founding Artistic
Serkin, Marc-Andre Hamelin and Isaac Director
10Catherine Cho
Violin, Viola, and Artistic Director
Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival
Praised by the New York Times for her Hannover, and Queen Elizabeth
“sublime tone,” CATHERINE CHO has International Violin Competitions. She has
appeared worldwide as a soloist with many judged international competitions and
orchestras, including the National, Detroit, taught master classes worldwide. She holds
Buffalo, Montreal, Ottawa, Edmonton, and a Master’s Degree from The Juilliard
Aspen Chamber Orchestras. School, and she is a member of their violin
As a recitalist and chamber musician, she and chamber music faculty as well as their
has performed at New York’s Lincoln Community Engagement Seminar. She has
Center, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Casals taught at numerous Workshops and
Hall in Tokyo, the Seoul Arts Center, the symposia, and she is also on the faculty of
Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the the Perlman Music Program. Devoted to
Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York the cause of promoting peace through
92nd Street Y, the Gardner Museum in music, Ms. Cho was V.P. of
Boston and at Ravinia in Chicago. With the Board of Musicians for Harmony for
pianist Mia Chung, she has performed the several years.
complete cycle of Beethoven’s violin She is an artist member of Music for Food, a
sonatas in the United States and Asia. musician-led initiative to fight hunger in
Ms. Cho has appeared at the Aspen, our local communities. Ms. Cho resides in
Marlboro, Chamber Music Northwest, and Brooklyn with her husband, Todd Phillips,
Santa Fe festivals, among others. She has their son, Brandon, and their three cats,
also appeared regularly at the Chesapeake Orso, Livie, and Ella. She is the stepmom of
Chamber Music Festival since 1998. Lia, Eliza, and Jason, and “Halmoni”
She is a founding member of the ensemble (Korean grandma) to Baby Theo.
La Fenice and a former member of the When she is not performing or teaching,
Johannes String Quartet. she enjoys baking, practicing yoga, catching
A winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, up with her booklist, gardening, and
Ms. Cho won top prizes at the Montreal, knitting!
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C L A R I N E T, F O U N D E R VIOLA
CHESAPEAKE CHAMBER MUSIC
F E ST I VA L MOLLY CARR is the violist of the award-
winning Carr-Petrova Duo, featured in
J. LAWRIE BLOOM is guessing that we can Chesapeake Music’s inaugural Rising Stars
all agree that 2020 was a very strange year. (virtual) concert in February, and the Iris Trio.
Planning to retire on June 30, 2020, he was Praised for her ”intoxicating” (NYT) and
honored with a commission by Riccardo Muti “ravishing” (STRAD) performances of “silken
and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and finesse with gritty vibrancy” (Gramophone),
performed “Ophelia’s Tears” by Nicolas Bacri she enjoys a diverse musical career as recitalist,
February 20–23, 2020, Riccardo Muti conducting. chamber musician, educator, and artistic director.
Those turned out to be his last concerts with She has received numerous international prizes,
the CSO, ending a 40 year tenure when the including the Primrose International Viola
orchestra shut down due to the pandemic. Competition. In October 2018, Ms. Carr was
honored at the United Nations for her work with
Lawrie founded the Chesapeake Chamber refugees around the globe through the Carr-
Music Festival and served as clarinetist and Petrova Duo’s Novel Voices Refugee Aid Project.
Artistic Co-Director for 34 years. He is also Ms. Carr has appeared as both performer and
a founding member of the Civitas Ensemble guest faculty in major festivals, from Music@
in Chicago. In addition Lawrie is an Artist Menlo to Malboro and Prussia Cove (England).
Performer for Buffet Crampon USA, and She has collaborated with such renowned artists
a Reed Design Consultant for D’Addario as Itzhak Perlman, Ida Kavafian, Donald and
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Lawrie has presented master classes all over Orion and American Quartets.
the world and was a Senior Lecturer in Clarinet The Carr-Petrova debut album “Novel Voices”
at Northwestern University for 28 years. He has was released in 2019 to critical acclaim.
taught for Digital Clarinet Academy this year, “Magical” (Fanfare Magazine). In 2020, the
Iris Trio released “Hommage and Inspiration”
trying like everyone to figure out how to best
with works by Schumann, Mozart, Kurtag and
utilize Zoom to help young clarinet players.
Weiss. “Superb […] a five-star stand-out release”
In 1980 Sir Georg Solti invited Lawrie to join (Fanfare). Next will be a multi-album with
the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, in the Enescu Competition Grand Prize Winner, Josu
position of Clarinet and Solo Bass Clarinet. de Solaun, featuring the complete piano and
In that position he has toured the world, string chamber music of George Enescu on the
with more than 2 dozen trips to Europe, 5 NAXOS label.
to Asia, and appearances in Australia, and Ms. Carr is also the founder and artistic director
India. He can be heard on CSO recordings of of the award-winning nonprofit Project: Music
a vast repertoire. Previously, he held similar Heals Us, which exists to bring the Arts to
appointments with, notably, the Orchestra marginalized communities. Ms. Carr serves
of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Phoenix, on the Viola Faculties of the Bard College
Vancouver and Cincinnati Symphonies. Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School’s
Precollege Program, and Musical Arts Madrid
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Francesca
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VIOLIN CELLO
Described by critics as “scintillating” and Cellist TIMOTHY EDDY is a founding member
celebrated for her “rich, expressive playing” of the Orion String Quartet, whose critically
(MusicalAmerica), violinist FRANCESCA acclaimed recordings of the Beethoven string
dePASQUALE is the First Prize winner quartets are available on the Koch label. He has
of the 2010 Irving M. Klein International earned distinction as a recitalist, soloist with
String Competition and recipient of the orchestra, chamber musician, recording artist,
prestigious 2014-2016 career grant from the and teacher of cello and chamber music. He has
Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the performed as soloist with the Dallas, Colorado,
Performing and Visual Arts. Earning her the Jacksonville, North Carolina, and Stamford
2015 Classical Recording Foundation Young symphonies, and has appeared at the Mostly
Artist Award, her self-titled debut album and Mozart, Ravinia, Aspen, Santa Fe, Marlboro,
accompanying recital tour was praised for Lockenhaus, Spoleto, and Sarasota music
“sincerity, intensity” and “individual voice” festivals. He has also won prizes in numerous
(Philadelphia Inquirer) and “immaculate and national and international competitions,
discreet phrasing” (Strad Magazine). including the 1975 Gaspar Cassado International
Ms. dePasquale is a member of the violin Violoncello Competition in Italy.
faculty at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and A former member of the Galimir Quartet, the
the Juilliard School Pre-College Program. New York Philomusica, and the Bach Aria
Additionally, she is a member of the violin Group, Mr. Eddy collaborates regularly in
faculty at the Heifetz International Music recital with pianist Gilbert Kalish. A frequent
Institute, where she also serves as Director of performer of the works of Bach, he has
their Program for the Exceptionally Gifted. As presented the complete cello suites of Bach at
soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, she Colorado’s Boulder Bach Festival and Vermont’s
appears for festivals and series internationally. Brattleboro Music Center. He has recorded a
Ms. dePasquale is the violinist of the wide range of repertoire from Baroque to avant-
Aletheia Piano Trio, a member of the artist garde for the Angel, Arabesque, Columbia, CRI,
roster for Manhattan Chamber Players and Delos, Musical Heritage, New World, Nonesuch,
Noree Chamber Soloists, and performs with Vanguard, Vox, and SONY Classical labels
Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Marinus Ensemble, Mr. Eddy is currently professor of cello and
and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. chamber music at The Juilliard School and, until
recently, New York’s Mannes College of Music.
He is also Professor Emeritus at SUNY Stony
Brook and was a frequent faculty member at
the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops at
Carnegie Hall. He holds BM and MM degrees
from the Manhattan School of Music, where he
studied with Bernard Greenhouse.
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powerfully and intricately crafted performances extensively as a soloist and chamber musician
have earned her critical acclaim throughout throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and
the United States and Europe. Her ability to South America. He has appeared with major
communicate the essential substance of a work orchestras in the United States and was the
has led critics to describe her as possessing recital partner for many years to Isaac Stern and
“razor-sharp intelligence and wit” (Washington other distinguished instrumentalists.
Post) and as “an artist of commanding technique, He has participated in the Marlboro, Casals
refined temperament and persuasive insight” and Lucerne festivals, the Chamber Music
(New York Times). In 2006, she was honored as a Society of Lincoln Center, and has broadcasted
recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. for BBC Television worldwide. He has
Ieva’s Alban Berg Tribute CD was released to appeared with the Takács, Vermeer, Juilliard,
critical acclaim in 2010. The New York Times Brentano, Borromeo, American, Shanghai, and
described her as “an authoritative and compelling St. Lawrence string quartets as well as with
guide throughout this fascinating disc.” Her Musicians from Marlboro.
2014 album Returning Paths: Solo Piano Works by His discography includes recordings for Sony
Janáček and Suk was equally well received. She Classical, Bridge, Vox, Musical Heritage Society,
regularly gives solo recitals in New York, Chicago, ASV, and CRI. Mr. McDonald’s prizes include
Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC. the gold medal at the Busoni International Piano
She made her orchestral debut with the Chicago Competition, the top prize at the William Kapell
Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival and International Competition and the Deutsche
has since performed with orchestras in Rio de Schallplatten Critics Award.
Janeiro, Montevideo, and Washington, DC. Her
piano trio, Trio Cavatina, won the 2009 Naumburg He has studied with Theodore Rehl, Seymour
International Chamber Music Competition and Lipkin, Rudolf Serkin, Mieczyslaw Horszowski,
made its Carnegie Hall debut in 2010. Beveridge Webster, and Gary Graffman. He
holds degrees from Lawrence University, the
A much sought-after chamber musician and Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School,
collaborator, notably with violinist Midori, Ieva and the Manhattan School of Music which
has appeared on major stages around the world, recently awarded him an honorary doctoral
such as Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, degree in Musical Arts. A member of the piano
the Kennedy Center, and London’s Wigmore faculty at The Juilliard School since 1999,
Hall. She regularly appears at music festivals Mr. McDonald joined the faculty of the Curtis
including Marlboro, Ravinia, Bard, Caramoor, Institute of Music in 2007, where he holds the
Chesapeake Music, and Prussia Cove (England). Penelope P. Watkins Chair in Piano Studies.
She has also appeared in festivals in Finland,
Germany, and Spain. A graduate of the Curtis During the summer, he is the artistic director of
Institute of Music and the Mannes College of the Taos School of Music and Chamber Music
Music, Ieva is currently Associate Professor Festival in New Mexico.
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FLUTE OBOE
TARA HELEN O’CONNOR is a charismatic Oboist PEGGY PEARSON is a winner of the
performer noted for her artistic depth, brilliant Pope Foundation Award for Outstanding
technique and colorful tone spanning every Accomplishment in Music. Lloyd Schwartz,
musical era. Recipient of an Avery Fisher Career who received the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for
Grant, a two-time Grammy nominee and the first Criticism, called her “my favorite living oboist.”
wind player chosen to participate in the Bowers Peggy has performed solo, chamber and
Program, she is now a Season Artist of the orchestral music throughout the United States
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. A Wm. and abroad. She is principal oboist with the
S. Haynes flute artist, Tara is a regular participant Boston Philharmonic and solo oboist with the
at music festivals, including Santa Fe Chamber Boston-based Emmanuel Chamber Orchestra,
Music, Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Festival an organization that has performed all of the
of the Bluegrass, Spoleto USA, Chamber Music cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. She is also a
Northwest, Mainly Mozart, Rockport Music, member of the Bach Aria Group. According to
Manchester Music, Great Mountains (Korea), Richard Dyer of the Boston Globe, “Peggy
Bravo Vail Valley! and Chesapeake Music. Pearson has probably played more Bach than
Along with her husband Daniel Phillips, she is any other oboist of her generation; this is
the newly appointed Co-Artistic Director of the music she plays in a state of eloquent grace.”
Music from Angel Fire Festival in New Mexico. Ms. Pearson was the founding director of, and is
oboist with, Winsor Music, Inc., and a founding
Tara is a member of the woodwind quintet member of the ensemble La Fenice.
Windscape, the legendary Bach Aria Group,
and is a founding member of the Naumburg She has toured internationally and recorded
Award-winning New Millennium Ensemble. extensively with the Orpheus Chamber
She has premiered hundreds of new works and Orchestra, and has appeared with the Boston
has collaborated with the Orion String Quartet, Symphony Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber
St. Lawrence Quartet and Emerson Quartet. She Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s as
has appeared on A&E’s Breakfast for the Arts, principal oboist, the Chamber Music Society of
Live from Lincoln Center and has recorded for Lincoln Center, and Music from Marlboro. In
Deutsche Grammophon, EMI Classics, Koch addition to her freelance and chamber music
International, CMS Studio Recordings with the activities, Peggy Pearson has been an active
exponent of contemporary music. She was a
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and
fellow of the Radcliffe Institute in contemporary
Bridge Records.
music, and has premiered numerous works,
Tara is Associate Professor of Flute, Head of the many of which were written specifically for her.
Wind Department and Coordinator of Classical
Peggy Pearson has been on the faculties at the
Music Studies at Purchase College. She is also on
Bach Institute (a collaboration between Winsor
the faculty of Bard College, the Contemporary
Music, Emmanuel Music and Oberlin College),
Performance Program at Manhattan School of Songfest, the Tanglewood Music Center,
Music and is a visiting artist, teacher and coach Boston Conservatory, MIT, U. of Cincinnati
at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. Conservatory of Music, Wellesley College, the
She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Composers Conference at Wellesley College,
violinist Daniel Phillips, and their two miniature and the Longy School of Music of Bard College.
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VIOLIN VIOLIN
Violinist DANIEL PHILLIPS enjoys a versatile TODD PHILLIPS is the violinist and founding
career as an established chamber musician, solo member of the highly acclaimed Orion String
artist, and teacher. A graduate of Juilliard, his Quartet. He made his solo debut with the
major teachers were his father, Eugene Phillips, Pittsburgh Symphony at the age of 13. He has
Ivan Galamian, Sally Thomas, Nathan Milstein, since performed as guest soloist with leading
Sandor Vegh, and George Neikrug. He is a orchestras throughout North America, Europe
founding member of the 34-year-old Orion String and Japan including the Orpheus Chamber
Quartet, which is in residence at New York’s Orchestra, of which he has been a member
Mannes College of Music and performs regularly since 1983 and with whom he made a critically
at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. acclaimed recording of Mozart’s Sinfonia
Available on recording are the complete quartets
Concertante for Deutsche Grammophon.
of Beethoven and Leon Kirchner.
Since winning the 1976 Young Concert Artists Mr. Phillips has appeared at the Mostly Mozart,
Competition, he has performed as a soloist Ravinia, Santa Fe, Marlboro and Spoleto
with many orchestras, including the Pittsburgh, Festivals, and with the Chamber Music Society
Houston, New Jersey, Phoenix, San Antonio, and of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music at the 92nd
Yakima symphonies. He appears regularly at the St Y and New York Philomusica. His experience
Spoleto USA Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music as a frequent leader of the Orpheus Chamber
Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Chesapeake Orchestra has led to guest appearances as
Chamber Music Festival, and has participated in conductor/leader with chamber orchestras
the International Musicians Seminar in Cornwall, worldwide. He has collaborated with such
England since its inception and recently returned renowned artists as Rudolf Serkin, Jaime Laredo,
to the Marlboro Music Festival. Along with his Peter Serkin and Pinchas Zukerman and has
wife Tara Helen O’Connor, he is the newly- participated in eighteen “Musicians from
appointed Co-Artistic Director of Music From Marlboro” tours.
Angel Fire. He also serves on the summer faculty Mr. Phillips has recorded for the Arabesque,
of the Heifetz Institute and the St. Lawrence Delos, Deutsche Grammophon, Finlandia, Koch
String Quartet Seminar at Stanford. He was a International, Marlboro Recording Society, New
member of the renowned Bach Aria Group and York Philomusica, RCA Red Seal and Sony
has toured and recorded in a string quartet for
Classical labels. He serves on the violin and
SONY with Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian,
chamber music faculties of New York’s Mannes
and Yo-Yo Ma.
College of Music, Rutgers University, Manhattan
A judge in the 2018 Seoul International Violin School of Music, Bard College Conservatory of
Competition, he is a professor at the Aaron Music and Cleveland Institute of Music. He lives
Copland School of Music at Queens College and in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, violinist
on the faculties of the Mannes College of Music, Catherine Cho, and is the father of Lia, Eliza,
Bard College Conservatory, and The Juilliard Jason and Brandon, and grandfather of Theo.
School. He lives with his wife, flutist Tara Helen
O’Connor, on Manhattan’s upper west side. Mr. Phillips plays a violin made by Samuel
Zygmuntowicz in 2004.
Mr. Phillips will play a violin made by Samuel
Zygmuntowicz in 2017.
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42Steven
Peter Stumpf Tenenbom
CELLO VIOLA
PETER STUMPF is Professor of Cello at the Violist STEVEN TENENBOM is the violist
Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Prior and founding member of the highly acclaimed
to this appointment, he was principal cellist of Orion String Quartet. He has established a
the Los Angeles Philharmonic. distinguished career as a chamber musician,
Mr. Stumpf’s tenure in Los Angeles followed soloist, recitalist and teacher. He has worked
twelve years as associate principal cellist of with composer Lukas Foss and jazz artist
the Philadelphia Orchestra. His professional Chick Corea and appeared as guest artist with
orchestral career began at age sixteen when he such eminent ensembles as the Guarneri and
joined the cello section of the Hartford Symphony Emerson String Quartets, the Beaux Arts and
Orchestra. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trios, and the
of Music and the New England Conservatory. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
A dedicated chamber musician, he is a member He has performed as soloist with the Utah
of the Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio and has Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and
appeared at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, and toured
and in Amsterdam, Tokyo, and Cologne. He has with the Brandenburg Ensemble throughout
performed with the chamber music societies the United States and Japan. His festival
of Boston and Philadelphia, and at numerous credits include Mostly Mozart, Aspen,
festivals, including the Casals Festival in Puerto Ravinia, Marlboro, June Music Festival,
Rico, Marlboro, Santa Fe, Bridgehampton, Chamber Music Northwest, Music from Angel
Spoleto, and Aspen. He has toured with Music Fire, and Bravo! Colorado.
from Marlboro, and with pianist Mitsuko Uchida
in performances of the complete Mozart Piano A recipient of the prestigious Coleman
Trios. As a member of the Johannes Quartet he Chamber Music award and a former member
collaborated with the Guarneri String Quartet on of the Galimir Quartet, he is currently a
a tour including premieres of works by Bolcom member of the renowned group TASHI and
and Salonen. the piano quartet OPUS ONE. Mr. Tenenbom
is on the faculties of The Curtis Institute of
Concerto appearances have been with the Boston
Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Music, The Juilliard School, and The Bard
Los Angeles and Boston Philharmonics among College Conservatory of Music. He has
others. As a recitalist, he has performed at the recorded on RCA Records with TASHI and the
Universities of Hartford, Syracuse and Delaware, Guarneri String Quartet, and can also be heard
at Jordan Hall in Boston, and at the Phillips on the Arabesque, Delos, ECM, Marlboro
and Corcoran Galleries in Washington, DC. His Recording Society and Sony Classical labels.
awards include first prize in the Washington Mr Tenenbom plays a viola made by Wendy &
International Competition, the Graham-Stahl Peter Moes in 2015.
and the Aspen Concerto Competitions. As a
teacher, he has conducted master classes at the He lives in Connecticut with his wife, violist
Hong Kong Academy of the Performing Arts, Ida Kavafian, where they breed, raise, train,
Manhattan and Mannes Schools of Music, Royal and show champion Vizsla purebred dogs.
Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Seoul National
University and several U.S. universities.
23Orpheus and St. Luke’s ensembles, and soloed
with orchestras in Germany, Russia, China, the
Netherlands, Czechia, and Brazil.
In 2009 she was the onstage pianist in the
Broadway production of Moises Kaufman’s
Diane Walsh award-winning play 33 Variations (starring
PIANO Jane Fonda), during which she performed
Beethoven’s Variations on a Waltz of
The award-winning Steinway Artist DIANE Diabelli. She was also featured in three other
WALSH has given solo and chamber music productions of the play at Washington’s
concerts throughout the United States, Canada, Arena Stage, the La Jolla Playhouse and the
South America, Europe, Russia, China and Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, for a total
New Zealand. Highlights include recitals at of over 200 performances.
Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Concert Diane has been happily coming to Chesapeake
Hall, Kaufmann Auditorium and Miller Music since the festival’s second season. Other
Theater in New York, the Kennedy Center summer chamber music festivals where she has
in Washington, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, performed include Marlboro, Bard, Portland,
Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw Santa Fe and Skaneateles; she also led the
in Amsterdam, the Philharmonia Great Hall in Skaneateles Festival as artistic director. To
St. Petersburg, and Dvorak Hall in Prague. date she has released eighteen recordings of
Diane has appeared with the San Francisco, repertoire spanning four centuries. She taught
Indianapolis, Austin, Rochester, Delaware, at Mannes College of Music in New York City
Syracuse, Springfield, New Bedford, American, for 32 years, and now lives in Maine with her
and Portland symphonies, toured with husband, the writer Richard Pollak.
24In the summer of 2019, the
Orion String Quartet returned
to the Santa Fe Chamber Music
Festival, with which it has
enjoyed a long association,
to perform three programs
that included music by
Schubert, Mozart and Kreisler.
In the 2019-20 season, the
Quartet appeared with the
Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center in October
with a program of Haydn
and Mozart. The Quartet also
performed with Chamber
Music Pittsburgh (Currier’s
ORION STRING QUARTET Etudes and Lullabies along
with music by Haydn,
Kreisler and Beethoven) and
The ORION STRING QUARTET is one of the at the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
leading chamber music ensembles on the (including Dvořák’s String Sextet in A Major,
classical music scene today. Admired for the Op. 48 along with violist Kim Kashkashian
diverse nature of programming that and cellist Marcy Rosen).
juxtaposes masterworks of quartet literature During the Quartet’s 30th-anniversary
with key works of the 20th and 21st season in 2017-2018, the group celebrated at
centuries, the Orion remains on the cutting principal chamber music series throughout
edge of programming through commissions North America. They held the position of
from composers ranging from Chick Corea to Quartet-in-Residence for 27 years at Mannes
Wynton Marsalis and a creative partnership School of Music.
with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance
Company. The members of the Orion String The Orion String Quartet was established
Quartet—violinists Daniel Phillips and Todd in 1987 and takes its name from the
Phillips, brothers who share the first violin Orion constellation as a metaphor for the
chair equally, violist Steven Tenenbom, and personality each musician brings to the
cellist Timothy Eddy—have worked closely group in its collective pursuit of the highest
with illustrious musicians, such as Pablo musical ideals.
Casals, Sir András Schiff, Rudolf Serkin, “The persuasive power of [their] performance
Isaac Stern, Pinchas Zukerman, Peter Serkin, came from the exquisiteness and eloquence
members of the ensemble TASHI, and the the four players brought their lines...but
Beaux Arts Trio, as well as the Budapest, it also came from how all of them phrased
Végh, Galimir, and Guarneri String Quartets. together—and, it seemed, breathed together.
The Orion String Quartet are Artist The Orion Quartet is a configuration of
Members of the Chamber Music Society of particular sensitivity and bravado.”
Lincoln Center. —The New York Times
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Trio in G Major, K. 496
(1756–1791) Allegro
Andante
Allegretto
Ieva Jokubaviciute, Catherine Cho,
Marcy Rosen
Anton Webern Langsamer Satz
(1883–1945) Langsam, mit bewegtem Ausdruck
(Slowly with feeling)
Peggy Pearson, Catherine Cho,
Francesca dePasquale, Molly Carr,
Peter Stumpf
INTERMISSION
Antonín Dvořák Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major,
(1841–1904) Opus 87
Allegro con fuoco
Lento
Allegro moderato grazioso
Finale: Allegro ma non troppo
Diane Walsh, Francesca dePasquale,
Molly Carr, Peter Stumpf
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was highly resistant to this technique, which,
Piano Trio No. 2 in G Major, K. 496 to the early 20th century ear, was generally
unwelcome. Despite that initial resistance,
1786 was an important year for Mozart: his the tonal emancipation of serialism still
Marriage of Figaro premiered in May; in reverberates today.
March, two great piano concertos, K 488 in A Webern eventually became very influential
major and K 491 in C minor appeared; in July, in the world of music theory, but many years
the piano Trio in G major was completed. before that occurred the composer went hiking
Around that time piano trios became hugely in the mountains with his adored cousin
popular in Vienna, probably due to the Wilhelmine. Smitten, he began composing this
growing success of the pianoforte, a new rapturous piece, which was to have been part
feature in households of both the upper and of a quartet. The quartet advanced no further
middle classes. Enterprising editors than its initial Slow Movement, now a concert
published innumerable trios destined to be favorite in its own right.
played by amateurs. The genre had its rules:
the piano part, not too difficult; the violin Antonín Dvořák
should carry the melody, the cello the bass Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, Opus 87
line. Predictably, Mozart expanded this form,
giving the pianoforte a more serious role A number of letters from Dvořák’s publisher,
while warming up its relationship with the Simrock, state that fourteen years have
accompanying strings. Mozart soon acquired passed since he wrote his last piano quartet.
his own pianoforte and the mechanics of the “You promised me this a long time ago,” the
new instrument allowed the keyboard parts publisher grumbled. “Well! How is it faring?”
he wrote for his piano trios to be more Thus admonished, the composer went to
demanding. They were, most likely, intended work and soon the quartet was practically
to display—at his Vienna concerts —the composing itself. “My head is full of it. If only
composer’s own exceptional abilities. one could write it immediately! It’s going
unexpectedly easily and melodies are coming
Anton Webern to me in droves!” Once begun, the Piano
Langsamer Satz Quartet was completed in the weeks between
July and August 1889.
Webern’s name will always be associated
with that of Arnold Schoenberg, his teacher Dvořák, by this time, was a mature and
and mentor. Along with Alban Berg and innovative composer with an exceptional
others who constituted the core of the ability to introduce originality into the
2nd Viennese School, Webern followed classical form, his access to stunning
Schoenberg into new paths of tonal structure, melodies and compelling rhythmic structures
an approach using tone rows ensuring that embedded in technical assurance.
all 12 notes in the chromatic scale get equal The Piano Quartet, Opus 87, an immediate
time within a given piece of music, thus success, was his last work for this
avoiding any specific key. The musical world instrumental ensemble.
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SATURDAY, JUNE 5 AT 7:30 PM
Dynamic Duos
Q
Joseph Bologne, Sonata No. 3 in A Major for two violins
Chevalier de Saint-Georges Francesca dePasquale and Catherine Cho
(1745–1799)
William Grant Still ‘’Mother and Child’’ from the Suite for
(1895–1978) violin and piano
Catherine Cho and Diane Walsh
William Bolcom Graceful Ghost Rag
(b. 1938) Peggy Pearson and Ieva Jokubaviciute
Amy Beach Romance for violin and piano, Opus 23
(1867–1944) Catherine Cho and Diane Walsh
INTERMISSION
Robert Schumann Six Studies in Canon Form, Opus 56 for
(1810–1856) one piano, four hands (trans. Georges Bizet)
Nicht zu schnell
Mit innigem Ausdruck
Andantino
Innig
Nicht zu schnell
Adagio
Robert Schumann Bilder aus Osten (‘’Pictures from the East’’),
Opus 66 for one piano, four hands
Lebhaft
Nicht schnell und sehr gesangvoll zu spielen
Im Volkston
Nicht Schnell
Lebhaft
Reuig andächtig
Ieva Jokubaviciute and Diane Walsh
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Mariana and Pete Lesher
Sam and Rosemary Trippe
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Joseph Bologne, Sargent Johnson, the artist chosen for this
middle movement, made a number of
Chevalier de Saint-Georges sculptures designated “Mother and Child.”
Sonata No. 3 in A Major for two violins The clean lines and natural dignity of
The composer was born Joseph, the son Johnson’s work have made their way into
of George Bologne de Saint-Georges, a this warm and melodic composition.
planter in the French colony of Guadeloupe William Grant Still is known as the Dean of
and Anne, (known as ”Nanon”), his wife’s African-American composers. He was first
Senegalese slave. in many things: the first African-American to
A gifted child, he was taken to France when conduct a major symphony orchestra in this
he was seven years old to be educated in country; the first to have an opera produced
a boarding school. By his 17th year, young by a major company in the United States;
Joseph had become a renowned champion and the first to have an opera televised over
in both fencing and horsemanship and a national network. In the 1930s he wrote
on graduating from the Academie Royale the scores for several movies and later for
Polytechnique, he was made a Gendarme du television shows. In all, he wrote over 150
roi and a chevalier. compositions including operas, ballets,
symphonies, chamber works, choral pieces,
During those early years, nurturing a gift and solo vocal works.
that must have been prodigious from the
start, young Joseph developed a remarkable William Bolcom
proficiency on the violin and began to study Graceful Ghost Rag
composition. Soon thereafter, an astonished
Parisian public found the popular young Born in Seattle, Washington, this
fencer appearing as a violinist in an orchestra consummately American composer, pianist,
where he soon became concertmaster/ and teacher has worked in diverse idioms
conductor. He had a sensational debut as and over the years sought to break down
a soloist playing his own first two violin the walls between popular and so-called
concertos. As a composer and performer he “serious” music. He has composed for
went on to have a brilliant career both in the solo instruments, voice, chamber groups,
court of Louis XVI and in the wider public. orchestra, film and stage, and is well known
for his interest in ragtime music. He names
William Grant Still Charles Ives as his greatest influence and
“Mother and Child” from the Suite for in his own operas and works for the stage
violin and piano specializes in pieces about America with
American characters by American authors.
This gentle piece with its slow, rocking
rhythm is the second of three movements As a performer he is noted for his great sense
in a suite inspired by sculpture created in of humor and with his wife, mezzo-soprano
the 1930s by artists associated with the Joan Morris, has made more than
Harlem Renaissance. 20 recordings of American popular songs.
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PROGRAM NOTES FOR JUNE 5, 2021
Bolcom’s poignant Graceful Ghost Rag she was largely self-taught. Still only in her
(1970), dedicated to the memory of his father, early thirties in 1910 when her husband
is one of 22 rags Bolcom wrote between died, she soon resumed her concert career
1967 and 1993. He took his inspiration from and never ceased creating the numerous
African American musicians including Scott distinguished works that are performed all
Joplin and Eubie Blake. over the world.
Amy Beach Robert Schumann
Romance for violin and piano, Opus 23 Bilder aus Osten (“Pictures from the East”)
Opus 66 for one piano, four hands
On July 6, 1893, at the Women’s National
Congress in Chicago, Amy Beach joined Although Schumann was increasingly
her friend and fellow musician violinist engulfed by mental illness, he maintained an
Maud Powell, in the first performance of admirable work ethic. Despite maddening
the Romance. The audience “cheered to the tinnitus, a terror of high places, and phobias
echo” when the piece was finished and called about metal objects such as keys and cutlery,
for a repeat performance. A contemporary he continued to work at his piano conjuring
review states that as Maud was playing the up the luscious harmonies and complex tonal
encore the music slipped off her music stand, structures that make his music a continuing
but having memorized it, “the beautiful source of delight.
thread of melody moved on and on for Miss The “East” evoked in these musical sketches
Powell had made it her own in every sense.” was inspired by a translation from the Arabic
Amy Beach composed the Romance for that by Friedrich Rückert of a book of poetry by
occasion and dedicated it to the violinist. Al-Hariri of Basra. In 1826 this book of fifty
The extraordinary talents of Amy Beach poems—full of clever rhymes and wordplay,
were kept within careful bounds while her a format known as saj’—had become very
husband, a physician considerably older, was popular with German readers.
alive. Although she had been an acclaimed Although Schumann did not set the actual
concert pianist, as a married woman her poetry to music, he invoked the rich
concerts were limited to one per year and she atmosphere that suffused the poems.
was always listed as Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, the He wrote in his preface to Opus 66 that
only title deemed appropriate at that time. he owed its character to Hariri, and he
It is possible that, deprived of a life of concert compared the hero of the poems, Abu Seid,
tours, Amy Beach was able to direct all her to Till Eulenspiegel, the folkloric German
energy into studying composition, in which mischief-maker.
35SUNDAY, JUNE 6 AT 5:30 PM
Summer Nights
Q
Joseph Haydn Trio No. 30 in F Major for oboe, cello, and
(1732–1809) piano Hob. XV:17
Allegro
Finale: Tempo di menuetto
Peggy Pearson, Marcy Rosen, Diane Walsh
Ludwig van Beethoven String Trio in C minor, Opus 9 No. 3
(1770–1827) Allegro con spirito
Adagio con espressione
Scherzo: Allegro molto e vivace
Finale: Allegro ma non troppo
Francesca dePasquale, Molly Carr,
Peter Stumpf
Robert Schumann Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 47
(1810–1856) Sostenuto assai - Allegro ma non troppo
Scherzo: molto vivace - Trio 1 - Trio ll
Andante cantabile
Finale: vivace
Ieva Jokubaviciute, Francesca dePasquale,
Molly Carr, Marcy Rosen
This concert is generously sponsored by
Elizabeth Koprowski
Herbert and Patrice Miller
Anna and Gilbert Snow
Chesapeake Music is grateful for their support.
Artists and program selections are subject to change.
36PROGRAM NOTES FOR JUNE 6, 2021
Joseph Haydn The composer thought very highly of his
Trio in F Major for oboe, cello, and piano three Opus 9 string trios calling them “the
Hob. XV:17 best of my works.” Certainly, this final
venture into the string trio form raised
Marianne Genzinger, the dedicatee of this the genre to new levels of complexity.
piece, was the aristocratic and cultivated wife The composer’s friend, violinist Ignaz
of a physician in Vienna and mother of six Schuppenzigh, who went on to premiere
children. She met Haydn in 1789 and they many of Beethoven’s compositions for string
formed a close friendship. At the Genzinger’s quartet, gave the first performance.
he found a pleasant retreat presided over by
a cultivated woman who took a keen interest Robert Schumann
in each of his new compositions while still Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 47
finding the time to cook his favorite dishes.
At the Haydn residence there was no such For Robert Schumann the year 1842 was the
congeniality, since Frau Haydn cared nothing year of chamber music. Within the space of
for music and appeared to care little for him. a few months Schumann wrote three string
quartets, a piano trio, a piano quintet, and
A number of rare musical sketches written
finally, the Piano Quartet Opus 47.
in Haydn’s own hand suggest that he
may have intended for the initial Allegro Having purchased the quartets of Mozart
of the Trio to have a far more complex and Beethoven, Schumann studied up on
development than the version he eventually theory complaining to his wife Clara of
sent to his publisher. However, the impulse having to ‘work all the time on counterpoint
was restrained and the Trio in F Major, a and fugue.’ Evidently, it was time well spent.
charming and intimate work, retained its Shortly after completing the Piano Quintet
initial simplicity. in E-flat Major, Opus 44, he began work on
the Piano Quartet, Opus 47. Although they
Ludwig van Beethoven share the same year and the same key, the
String Trio in C minor, Opus 9 No. 3 two compositions are very different, Opus
47 being the more traditional with more
The third and final of the Opus 9 trios is both contrapuntal material.
intense and passionate. In the composer’s Although the Quartet is dedicated to
development it could be seen as part of the his patron, the Russian cellist Matthew
preparation for his string quartets, which he Wielhorsky, Schumann always had Clara in
continued to write for the rest of his life. mind, and it was Clara who first performed
Opus 9 is dedicated to Count Johann Georg it in Leipsig on 8 December 1844.
von Browne, a Viennese patron of Irish
descent. During his first years in Vienna
Beethoven dedicated several works to this
patron who once, in a thoughtful gesture,
presented Beethoven with a horse.
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