chamber music programWendy Sharp, Director

february 212010

music ofBrahmsPiazzolla Shostakovich

Robert Blocker, Dean

VISTAa fresh look at chamber music

L’histoire du tangoBordel, 1900Café, 1930Night Club, 1960

Yun-Chu Candy Chiu, marimbaDariya Nikolenko, flute

Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 67Preludio. Andante, ma vivacePreghiera. Misterioso e tristeBallo eccentrico. Ritmo marcatoEpilogo. Maestoso

Igor Pikayzen, violinKyung Mi Anna Preuss, celloDavid Fung, piano

intermission

astor piazzolla 1921-1992

dmitri shostakovich1906-1975

february 21, 2010 · 4 pmMorse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

VISTAa fresh look at chamber music

As a courtesy to the performers and audience members, turn off cell phones and pagers. Please do not leave the theater during selections. Photography or recording of any kind is not permitted.

Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60Allegro ma non troppoScherzo. AllegroAndanteFinale. Allegro

Anastasia Metla, violinMathilde Geismar Roussel, violaMo Mo, celloJuan Carlos Fernández-Nieto, piano

johannes brahms1833-1897

chamber music programWendy Sharp, Director

special thanks to the coaches who worked with the ensembles: Robert van Sice (Piazzolla), Boris Berman (Shostakovich), and Ettore Causa and Peter Frankl (Brahms).

Taiwanese percussionist Yun-Chu Candy Chiu began studying percussion at the age of eleven. She traveled to the Annie Wright School in Tacoma, Washington in 2001 to study with Michael Crusoe. In 2004, Yun-Chu took first place in the Washington State High School Marimba Competition. She then transferred to the Interlochen Arts Academy and graduated in 2005. Yun-Chu completed her bachelor’s degree in percussion performance at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University in the studio of Robert van Sice. During her under- graduate study at Peabody, Yun-Chu studied Renaissance percussion with Mark Cudek and performed with the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble. She is currently pursuing her master of music degree at the Yale School of Music.

Born in Spain in 1987, pianist Juan Carlos Fernández-Nieto is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma under the guidance of Boris Berman at the Yale School of Music. He previously studied in Spain under Julia Díaz-Yanes and Claudio Martínez-Mehner, and received lessons and coaching from Joaquín Achucarro, Alexander Kandelaki, Antonio Baciero, and Maria João Pires. He made his debut at the age of sixteen with the Granada Symphony Orchestra as the youngest pianist to solo with that orchestra, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor under the baton of Lutz Köhler to critical acclaim. Mr. Fernandez-Nieto also has concertized through- out Spain, Holland, Germany, the United States, and Puerto Rico, performing solo recitals and collaborating with the Bari Symphony Orchestra, the Castilla y Leon Symphony Orchestra, and the Extremadura Symphony Orchestra. He has been the prize winner of many competitions in Spain and the U.S., including the CSMTA Young Artists Competition, Infanta Cristina, Ciudad de Linares, and the National Piano Competition in León, among others.

Praised as “impossibly virtuosic” by the Edinburgh Guide, young Australian pianist David Fung performs with poetry, artistry, and elegance. He has performed with the Israel Philharmonic, Israel Camerata, Los Angeles Chamber, Melbourne Symphony, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Queensland Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He has been invited to give solo recitals at the Aspen Music Festival and the 2006 Edinburgh International Festival Queen’s Hall Series.

In 2008, Mr. Fung was a laureate of the Twelfth Arthur Rubinstein Piano Masters Competition, and garnered prizes for Best Classical Concerto and Best Performance of Chamber Music. He also won second prize and the audience prize in the Third Vlassenko Piano Competition. He is the recipient of the New South Wales Premier’s Award, the Australian Student Prize,and the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award, as well as the 2002 ABC Symphony Australia Young Performer of the Year Award. Mr. Fung has recorded albums for NAXOS, ABC Classics, Symphony Australia, and Yarlung Records.

Violist Mathilde Geismar gave her first solo performance with orchestra at the age of 10. When she was 18, Jesse Levine invited her to study with him at the Yale School of Music, where she is pursuing a Certificate in viola performance. In 2009, she participated in a contemporary music program guided by Kim Kashkashian and played baroque viola with the Yale Collegium on tour in China and Korea. As an orchestra musician, Mathilde Geismar has performed in Carnegie Hall and toured in Asia. In 2009, she received a full fellowship Wilma and Ernst Martens for the Aspen Music Festival, where she studied with David Zinman and the concertmaster David Halen.

artist profiles

Mathilde has taken her academic studies serious- ly, receiving a first prize with high distinction in the Boulogne Conservatory and her scientific baccalaureate with high distinction. She has also studied ballet with teachers from the Paris Opera.

A native of Russia, Anastasia Metla has appeared worldwide at such festivals as Music Academy of the West, Tunisian Music Festival, Cyprus Music Festival, Bowdoin, and Berwaldhallen Festival. As a member of the Grieg Society, Ms. Metla was invited to play on concert series in Norway and Hungary. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Metla has performed throughout Russia, Sweden, Norway, and the U.S. She has collaborated with musicians such as Warren Jones, Richie Hawley, Jilles Apap, Eli Epstein, Jerome Lowenthal, and David Jolley. She received a Chevron, Inc. foundation award and the Irving S. Gilmore Fellowship. Ms. Metla has also won numerous awards from Russian foundations, such as the Homecoming Music Festival Competition Award.

Along with her performance career, Anastasia is involved in educational outreach programs in New Haven. Ms. Metla received degrees from the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Regional Musical College (Russia) and Moscow Conservatory College, where she studied with Elena Demidenko. Currently, she is pursuing a Master of Music degree at the Yale School of Music under the guidance of Syoko Aki.

Mo Mo was born in Beijing, China into a musical family in 1989. He began studying cello with Professor Tao Song at age six. Four years later he entered a middle school connected with the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. During his study in the Central Conservatory of Music, Mr. Mo had won six Excellent Specialty Prize in

Academics and recorded a program with Jian Wang for the China Central TV station in 2002. Also, he had attended many masterclasses some of which are with Bernard Greenhouse, David Greingas, and Andre Emelianoff. Mr. Mo is now studying with Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of Music.

Russian flutist Dariya Nikolenko began her musical studies at age seven and made her first concerto appearance at nine. Dariya has won first prizes in the New Names International Competition (Moscow), the International Competition for Flutists (Yalgava, Latvia), and the Baltimore Music Club Winds and Brass Competition. She has won additional prizes at the Beethoven Competition in Moscow as well as the International Competition of Novosibirsk, and was a semi-finalist of the Frank Bowen Young Artist Competition in New Mexico. Dariya has taken part in the Internationale Meisterkurse with Marina Piccinini (Zürich) and the Moritzburg Festival Academy (Germany), and has performed in master classes for Jeffrey Khaner, Emmanuel Pahud, and Jim Walker. She graduated with honors from both the Moscow Academic College of the Moscow Conservatory, where she studied with Uriy N. Dolzhikov, and the Peabody Conservatory, where she studied with Marina Piccinini. She currently studies with Ransom Wilson at the Yale School of Music.

“A violinist possessing tremendous facility and impeccable technique,” Igor Pikayzen was born to a musical family in Moscow. He began his violin studies at age five with his grandfather, Viktor Pikayzen, and made his debut at age 8 with the Ankara Philharmonic. While studying at the Manhattan School of Music and Juilliard pre-college divisions, competition wins resulted

in appearances at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Moscow’s Minor Hall and Tchaikovsky Hall, Royal Conservatory Hall in Brussels, and President’s Hall in Istanbul. He has appeared as soloist with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Taipei Symphony Orchestra, Hudson Valley Sinfonietta, and the Manhattan, Ridgefield, and Eastern Festival Symphonies.

Mr. Pikayzen has won first prize in the Wronski Competition and awards at the Kloster-Schontal and Lipizer International Violin Competitions. He completed his bachelor’s degree at Juilliard and is now a master’s degree candidate at the Yale School of Music, studying with Syoko Aki.

Born into one of Korea’s the most respected family of musicians and academics, cellist Kyung Mi Anna Preuss started playing cello at age 12 with her late grandfather, Bong-Cho Jeon. At the Sun-Hwa Music and Arts School, she won the Concerto Competition and the Seoul Symphony Young Artist Competition. At age 16, Mrs. Preuss claimed top prizes in the Dallas Symphonic Festival Competition and the Texas Juanita Miller Artist Competition. She was a special guest artist with the Dallas Fine Arts Chamber Players and the Chamber Music International Concert Series.

Mrs. Preuss earned her BM degree at New England Conservatory under Laurence Lesser. She is currently studying for her MM degree at the Yale School of Music under Aldo Parisot. She regularly performs as a soloist, as a chamber group member, and with ensembles such as the NEC Alumni Cello Ensemble both in Korea and U.S. Mrs. Preuss plays a Carlo Ferdinando Landolfi made in 1776.

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Student Chamber Music at Yale

The Yale School of Music is unique in that all performance faculty coach chamber music, and all students are involved in chamber music for their entire tenure at the School. Ensembles come together each semester and receive weekly coachings from distinguished faculty and guest artists. Chamber groups often perform in the Lunchtime Chamber Music concerts, which take place at both Morse Recital Hall and the Center for British Art. Students also take part in the annual chamber music competition, whose winners are featured in an annual Chamber Music Society concert.

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Vista: A Fresh Look At Chamber Music

Every semester, the Vista series features selected student ensembles from the Yale School of Music performing and discussing a broad variety of chamber works. For this concert, visiting lecturer Mitchell Korn worked with the stu- dents on their spoken presentations. Korn, the vice president of community engagement of the Nashville Symphony and a senior lecturer in music and community at Vanderbilt University, also led one of the School of Music’s new think tanks, working with students on how to prepare their own community engagement events.

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February 23orion quartet & peter serkin

Morse Recital Hall, Tue, 8 pm The Orion Quartet plays string quartets by Bach, Beethoven, and Kirchner and joins with renowned pianist Peter Serkin in Brahm’s piano quintet. Tickets $27-34 / Students $14

February 26 & 27yale philharmonia

Morse Recital Hall, Fri & Sat, 8 pm Music for Chamber Orchestra. Stravinsky: Dumbarton Oaks, Concerto in D; Nielsen: Clarinet Concerto (with Woolsey Competi-tion Winner Paul Won Jin Cho); Copland: Appalachian Spring (original version).Free, but tickets required.wshu 91.1 fm • media sponsor

February 28linda skernick, harpsichord

Collection of Musical Instruments, Sun, 3 pm Music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E-flat major; Partita No. 6 in E minor; Four Duets, bwv 802-805; French Suite No. 5 in G major. Tickets $27-34 / Students $14

Robert Blocker, Dean