Sunday Concert Series at the GARDNER ...#2



Calderwood Hall-Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum



 

 

 

 

January 20, 2013

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is one of eleven constituents of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the largest performing arts complex in the world.

Along with other constituents such as the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera, the Chamber Music Society has its home at Lincoln Center, in Alice Tully Hall. Through its performance, education, and recording/broadcast activities, it draws more people to chamber music than any other organization of its kind.

 

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Sean Lee, violin

Selected from nearly 300 international participants, violinist Sean Lee was recently awarded the 2nd Prize of the 2008 Young Concert Artists, Inc. International Auditions. Also the winner of 3rd Prize at the 52nd “Premio Paganini” International Violin Competition in 2008, Lee has been performing throughout the United States as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. 

Lee holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the Juilliard School in New York City, and is continuing his studies at the Juilliard School for a Master of Music Degree as a recipient of the Dorothy Delay Scholarship and Dorothy Starling Scholarship. He currently studies with the internationally acclaimed Itzhak Perlman, and has studied in the past with renowned violin professor Robert Lipsett and legendary violinist Ruggiero Ricci. Lee has been a student of The Perlman Music Program since 2003.

Lee performs on a 1728 Antonius Stradivarius,

 on loan from The Juilliard School.

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Nicolas Dautricourt, Violin

Nicolas Dautricourt is one of the most brilliant and engaging French violinists of his generation.  Nicolas Dautricourt,  is appreciated for his « sensitivity and passionate manner » he is particularly fond of chamber music and keenly interested in jazz.

Finalist and prize-winner of numerous international violin competitions, such as the Henryk Wieniawski Competition in Poznan, the Jeunesses Musicales Competition in Belgrade, the Rodolfo Lipizer in Gorizia and the Gian-Battista Viotti in Vercelli Competitions, Mr. Dautricourt has studied with Philip Hirschhorn, Miriam Fried, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Gérard Poulet and Jean Mouillère among others, and became in 2007 artistic director of « Les Moments Musicaux de Gerberoy».

He currently plays a magnificent instrument by Sanctus Seraphin (Venice, 1735), on loan from the association Zilber

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ViolaViolist Hsin-Yun Huang,

recognized as one of the leading violists of her generation, came to international prominence in 1993 when she was winner of the top prize of the ARD International Music Competition in Munich and the Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. In 1988, Ms. Huang was the youngest-ever Gold Medalist of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition on the Isle of Man. These and other honors have propelled a career as soloist and chamber musician on stages of major concert halls throughout North America, Europe, and the Far East.

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Ms. Huang has collaborated with many distinguished artists, including Yo-Yo Ma, Jaime Laredo, Joshua Bell, Joseph Suk, and Menahem Pressler, to name a few. Recent collaborations include performances with the Guarneri, the Juilliard, the Orion, the Brentano, and the St. Lawrence String Quartets.

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Hsin-Yun Huang came to England from her native Taiwan at the age of fourteen to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School with David Takeno. She continued her studies at the Curtis Institute with Michael Tree, and at the Juilliard School with Samuel Rhodes. Currently residing in New York City, she is a dedicated teacher, serving on the faculties of The Juilliard School and the Mannes College of Music and has given master classes at Guildhall School in London, the Curtis Institute, the Juilliard School, the McDuffie Center for the Strings the Taipei Normal University, and East Carolina University.

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Daniel Phillips, Viola

 Daniel Phillips enjoys a versatile career as an established chamber musician, solo artist, and teacher. He is a founding member of the 25 year old Orion String Quartet, which is in residence at Mannes College of Music and is a longtime Artist of the Chamber Music Society  Mr. Phillips began violin studies with his father, Eugene Phillips, a composer and former violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony. A graduate of The Juilliard School, he studied with Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas. He is a professor at the Copland School of Music at Queens College and on the faculties of the Mannes College of Music and Bard College Conservatory. 

Mr. Phillips plays on the  Antonius Stradivarius (1702) now known as the "Phillips" Stradivarius, and a violin made for him by Samuel Zygmuntowicz (1993)

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Nicholas Canellakis, Cello …. Nicholas Canellakis has established himself as one of the most sought-after and innovative cellists of his generation, performing throughout the United States and Europe to critical acclaim. In The New York Times his playing was praised as "impassioned" and "soulful," with "the audience seduced by Mr. Canellakis rich, alluring tone.….”

“…Since winning his first concerto competition at the age of 11, Mr. Canellakis has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras and has been the recipient of many honors, including First prize in the Musicatri International Competition in Italy and a top prize in the Johansen International Competition in Washington D.C….”

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Today's Program
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Beethoven, Trio in C Minor for Violin, Viola, & Cello, Op 9.
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Martinu, Duo No. 2 for Violin and Viola

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Mozart, Quintet in G Minor for Two Violins,

Two Violas, & Cello.

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Arriving at the Gardner Museum early we were able to enjoy a short tour of this incredible palace before taking our seats for  the #2 concert in a series of many ! 
The musicians performed magnificently!
Such wonderful artists making for a fantastic musical experience !