Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle Announces 65th Concert Season for June 2015

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—The Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle (HVCMC) series at Bard College presents three chamber music concerts in June. The Saturday evening concerts, presented by The Bard Center, begin at 7 p.m. in Olin Hall. A subscription to the three-concert series is $70. Individual tickets are $30; for students, $5. For ticket information, call 845-339-7907 or send an e-mail to [email protected]. Additional information can be found at hvcmc.org.

Saturday, June 13
Concert 1: Jinjoo Cho, violin; and HyunSoo Kim, piano

Clara Schumann (1819–96)

Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22

Andante molto

Allegretto

Leidenschaftlich schell

Robert Schumann (1810–56)

Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 121

Ziemlich langsam–Lebhaft

Sehr lebhaft

Leise, einfach

Bewegt

Joan Tower (b. 1938)

String Force

John Corigliano (b. 1938)

Sonata for Violin and Piano

Franz Waxman (1906–67)

Carmen Fantasie for Violin and Piano

Saturday, June 20

Concert 2: Les Amies: Carol Wincenc, flute; Cynthia Phelps, viola; and Nancy Allen, harp

Jacques Ibert (1890–1962)

Two Interludes for Flute, Viola, and Harp

Andante espressivo

Allegro vivo

Arnold Bax (1883–1953)

Elegiac Trio for Flute, Viola, and Harp

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)

Sonatine en Trio (arranged by Carlos Salzedo)

Modere

Movement de Menuet

Anime

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)

Impromptu for Harp in D-flat Major, Op. 86

François Devienne (1759–1803)

Duo for Flute and Viola in C Minor, Op. 5, No. 1

Allegro

Rondo

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp

Pastorale

Interlude

Final

Saturday, June 27

Concert 3: The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio: Joseph Kalichstein, piano; Jaime Laredo, violin; and Sharon Robinson, cello

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

“Kakadu Variations” for Piano Trio, Op. 121a

Introduzione. Adagio assai

Tema: Allegretto

Variations 1–10

Allegretto

Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)

Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 26

Allegro moderato

Largo

Scherzo. Presto

Finale. Allegro non tanto

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93)

Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50

Pezzo elegiaco. Moderato assai—Allegro giusto

Tema con variazione. Andante con moto

Variazione finale e coda. Allegro risoluto e con fuoco

The Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle was started in 1950 when Helen Huntington Hull joined with two Staatsburg friends—Mrs. Lydig Hoyt and Mrs. Jonas Borak—and enlisted the help of Emil Hauser (then a Bard faculty member and former first violinist of the Budapest Quartet) to bring the best classical musicians of the time to the Hudson Valley to play for appreciative neighbors. The annual summer concert series has been associated with Bard College since 1979. For further information, call 845-339-7907 or send an e-mail to [email protected], or go to hvcmc.org.

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About the Artists

Concert 1, June 13: Jinjoo Cho and HyunSoo Kim

Gold medalist of the Ninth Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, critically acclaimed violinist Jinjoo Cho has established herself as a leading young violinist noted for her vibrant musical personality, warm and engaging tone, and sensual phrasing. Praised by the Times Argus of Montreal as possessing “an undeniable charisma and depth...with an intense lyricism and heartfelt tenderness that sent shivers up the spine,” Cho won both the First Grand Prize and Radio Canada’s People’s Choice Award in the 2006 Montreal International Musical Competition. Ever since, she has been performing worldwide, and has won numerous international awards including the First Prize and Orchestra Award at the Buenos Aires International Violin Competition in 2010, 2nd Laureate at the 2011 Isang Yun International Music Competition, and the First Grand Prize at the Alice Schoenfeld International String Competition.

HyunSoo Kim, piano, is a native of South Korea and began to play piano at the age of eight. He received a bachelor of music in piano performance from the University of Delaware, where he was a recipient of the John D. Martini Award. He has performed as soloist with the University of Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Newark Symphony Orchestra, and numerous community orchestras in the Delaware region. He was recognized as a Delaware Representative in the Young Artist Category by the Music Teachers National Association in 2008. Kim completed his master’s degree in collaborative piano at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2011, where he received the Rosa Lobe Collaborative Piano award. Kim recently completed his artist diploma with Anita Pontremoli at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has served as a staff pianist at Kent State University since 2011. Kim is also active with Classical Revolution–Cleveland, an organization of musicians dedicated to performing in venues not usually associated with classical music performance. In summer 2013 he served as a collaborative pianist at Interlochen Arts Academy. Kim recently joined the CIM collaborative piano staff. 

Concert 2, June 20: Les Amies

An international star of the flute, Grammy nominee Carol Wincenc is the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from the National Flute Association and National Society of Arts and Letters. Highlights of the 2013–14 season included a gala concert commemorating her 25 years of teaching legacy at The Juilliard School, solo concerts in Canada, the United States, and Europe, as well as performances with Les Amies and the New York Woodwind Quintet. A muse to composers for the past 40 years, Wincenc has premiered and recorded works written for her by many of today’s most prominent composers. Grand prize winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Solo Flute competition, she has appeared with the Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Detroit, St. Louis, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Houston, and Seattle Symphonies, among many others, and the Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Spoleto, Caramoor, Music@Menlo, Yale/Norfolk, and Marlboro music festivals. She has performed in all the major New York concert halls, including in Lincoln Center’s “Great Performers” Series for four consecutive seasons.

Wincenc has given acclaimed performances with the London Symphony, the English and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestras, and at numerous international music festivals. In great demand as a chamber musician, Wincenc has collaborated with the Guarneri, Emerson, Tokyo, and Cleveland String Quartets and performed with such distinguished colleagues as Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Jessye Norman, Joshua Bell, Bella Davidovich, Lukas Foss, and Aaron Copland. As a champion of contemporary works, she has premiered and recorded Christopher Rouse’s Flute Concerto with the Detroit Symphony and Henryk Górecki’s Concerto-Cantata with the Warsaw Philharmonic.

Wincenc has recorded on the Decca, Telarc, Naxos, Nonesuch, Deutsche Grammophon, Hannsler, CRI, New World, D’Note, and Musical Heritage/Music Masters record labels, and is professor of flute at The Juilliard School and Stony Brook University. 

Cynthia Phelps enjoys a versatile career as an established chamber musician, solo artist, and principal viola, The Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Rose Chair, of the New York Philharmonic, a position to which she was appointed in 1992. Her concerto appearances with the Philharmonic have taken her to the major concert halls of North America and Europe, including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Kennedy Center, Vienna’s Musikverein, London’s Royal Festival Hall, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. She has also been engaged as soloist with orchestras such as the Minnesota Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Orquestra Sinfonica of Bilbao, and Hong Kong Philharmonic.

Sought after by many chamber music organizations, Phelps regularly appears in New York with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, in Boston with the Boston Chamber Music Society, and as guest artist at 92nd Street Y. She has performed with the Guarneri, American, Brentano, St. Lawrence, and Prague String Quartets, as well as the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. She has appeared in the summer festivals of Marlboro, La Jolla, Santa Fe, Seattle, Mostly Mozart, Bridgehampton, Steamboat Springs, Vail, and Music at Menlo, as well was in Europe in Schleswig-Holstein, Naples, and Cremona. She is a founding member of the chamber group Les Amies, a flute-harp-viola group recently formed with Philharmonic Principal Harp Nancy Allen and flutist Carol Wincenc.

Phelps is a first-prize winner of both the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the Washington International String Competition, and is the recipient of the Pro Musicis International award. Under the auspices of this philanthropic organization, she has appeared as soloist in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Rome, and Paris, as well as in jails, hospitals, and drug rehab centers worldwide. Her most recent recording on Arabesque, Air, for flute, viola, and harp, was nominated for a Grammy Award. Her television and radio credits include Live from Lincoln Center on PBS; St. Paul Sunday Morning on NPR; Radio France; Italy’s RAI; and WGBH in Boston.

Hailed by the New York Times as “a major artist” following her New York recital debut in 1975, Nancy Allen joined the New York Philharmonic in June 1999 as principal harpist. She maintains a busy international concert schedule as well as heading the harp departments of The Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, and Aspen Music Festival and School. In addition, Allen appears regularly with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. In May 2000, Allen was featured in the Philharmonic’s United States premiere of Siegfried Matthus’s Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra, with Music Director Kurt Masur and Principal Flute Robert Langevin.

Allen’s busy performing schedule includes solo appearances at major international festivals, and has featured collaborations with soprano Kathleen Battle, clarinettist Richard Stoltzman, guitarist Manuel Barrueco, and flutist Carol Wincenc. She has appeared on PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center with The Chamber Music Society, as well as with Ms. Battle, and has performed as a recitalist for “Music at the Supreme Court” in Washington, D.C. Allen’s recording of Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro with the Tokyo Quartet, flutist Ransom Wilson, and clarinettist David Shifrin received a Grammy Award nomination; she can also be heard on Sony Classical, Deutsche Grammophon, and CRI.

Concert 3, June 27: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

After 38 years of success the world over, including many award-winning recordings and newly commissioned works, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio continues to dazzle audiences and critics alike with its performances. Since making their debut at the White House for President Carter’s inauguration in January 1977, pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jaime Laredo, and cellist Sharon Robinson have set the standard for performance of the piano trio literature. As one of the only long-lived ensembles with all of its original members, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio balances the careers of three internationally acclaimed soloists while making annual appearances at many of the world’s major concert halls, commissioning spectacular new works, and maintaining an active recording agenda.

On the recording front, the Trio recently released the complete Schubert trios on the BRIDGE label. The Trio’s previous recording project, a four-disc cycle of the complete Brahms trios, was released in fall 2009. Their Arensky & Tchaikovsky disc was released in October 2006 to great acclaim. KOCH also re-released many of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio’s hallmark recordings, including chamber works of Maurice Ravel; A Child’s Reliquary (piano trio) and In the Arms of the Beloved (double concerto) by Richard Danielpour; the complete sonatas and trios of Shostakovich; trios by Pärt, Zwilich, Kirchner, and Silverman, written especially for the group; and their beloved collection of the complete Beethoven trios. Other highlights of their vast discography include a critically acclaimed all-Haydn CD (Dorian), recordings of the complete Mendelssohn and Brahms trios (Vox Cum Laude), as well as Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the English Chamber Orchestra (Chandos).

Musical America named the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio the Ensemble of the Year for 2002. During their past seasons, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio has maintained a heavy touring schedule that has taken them across the globe. In the words of the Washington Post (February 15, 2012), “Among the superstars of the chamber music world, few induce as much open-mouthed rapture as the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio.”

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