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MUSIC@MENLO’S INAUGURAL WINTER SERIES CONCLUDES MAY 8 WITH A PROGRAM OF PIANO QUARTETS
Performed by renowned chamber musicians,
Jeffrey Kahane, piano; Arnaud Sussmann, violin; Paul Neubauer, viola;
and Christopher Costanza, cello
Music@Menlo, the Bay Area’s premier chamber music festival, concludes its first-ever Winter Series on May 8, 2011, with a program entitled “Great Piano Quartets” (4:00 p.m., The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton).
Tickets are $50/$45 for adults and $25/$20 for students. A limited number of tickets are available and can be purchased online at www.musicatmenlo.org or by phone at 650-331-0202.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Winner of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, violinist Arnaud Sussmann is a multifaceted and compelling artist who has performed as soloist throughout the United States, Central America, Europe, and Asia and at such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Louvre. He has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, Monaco Chamber Orchestra, Nice Orchestra, Orchestre des Pays de la Loire, El Salvador National Symphony Orchestra, and Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. His 2010–11 season includes a tour of Israel, an appearance at the Cartagena Music Festival, and a performance with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on PBS’s Live from Lincoln Center.
He has performed with many of today’s leading artists: Itzhak Perlman, Menahem Pressler, Paul Neubauer, Fred Sherry, and Gary Hoffman.
Violist Paul Neubauer’s musical endeavors are consistently creative in his roles as soloist, chamber musician, and music director. Last season, he gave the world premiere of Glière’s Two Concert Pieces for Viola and Strings with Camerata Ireland and presented the New York premiere of Tower’s Purple Rhapsody with the Orchestra of the League of Composers. He appeared as recitalist in such venues as the National Gallery and as chamber musician in the United States and Europe with the Emerson String Quartet (with whom he recorded for Deutsche Grammophon) and performed in Carnegie Hall with the Iranian tenor Shahram Nazeri. He has appeared with over one hundred orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, including the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki philharmonics, the National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, and San Francisco symphonies, and the Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle orchestras. Chamber Music Director of the OK Mozart Festival, he gave the world premiere of the revised Bartók Viola Concerto as well as concertos by Tower, Penderecki, Picker, Jacob, Lazarof, Suter, Müller-Siemens, Ott, and Friedman.
For over two decades, cellist Christopher Costanza has enjoyed a varied and exciting career as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. His summer festival appearances include the Marlboro, Yellow Barn, Santa Fe, Taos, Chamber Music Northwest, Seattle, Bay Chamber Concerts, Ottawa, and Bravo! Vail Valley festivals. Costanza is a graduate of New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he studied cello with Laurence Lesser, David Wells, and Bernard Greenhouse. He joined the St. Lawrence String Quartet in 2003 and tours extensively with that ensemble. As a member of the St. Lawrence, he is an Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University, where he teaches cello and chamber music.
Equally at home at the keyboard or on the podium, pianist Jeffrey Kahane has established an international reputation as a truly versatile artist, recognized by audiences around the world for his mastery of a diverse repertoire. Kahane has given recitals in many of the nation’s major music centers, including New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. He appears as soloist with major orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, and Leipzig Gewandhaus and is also a popular figure at summer festivals including Aspen, Ravinia, Blossom, Caramoor, Mostly Mozart, Oregon Bach, and the Hollywood Bowl. Currently in his fourteenth season as Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, he concluded his tenure as Music Director of the Colorado Symphony in June 2010 and was Music Director of the Santa Rosa Symphony for ten seasons.
CALENDAR EDITORS:
Sunday, May 8, 2011
GREAT PIANO QUARTETS
Featuring Jeffrey Kahane, Arnaud Sussmann, Paul Neubauer, and Christopher Costanza
4:00 p.m., The Center for Performing Arts at Menlo-Atherton
Tickets: $50/$45 adult; $25/$20 student
PROGRAM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Piano Quartet in g minor, K. 478 (1785)
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): String Trio in D Major, op. 9, no. 2 (1798)
Robert Schumann (1810–1856): Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 47 (1842)
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