June 3, 2011
Event: The Castleman Quartet Program
Dates: July 3-31
Description: An intensive, four-week, summer chamber music program which
brings together some of the most gifted young performers from
around the world.
Location: Chamber Hall (C-199), Imig Music Building, CU-Boulder Campus
Admission: Suggested donation at the door
$5 for student recitals, $15 for guest/faculty recitals
Public Contact: 303-492-6801, paulamajer@yahoo.com or www.quartetprogram.com
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CU-Boulder College of Music Hosts Annual Castleman Quartet Program
Following three successful summers, The Castleman Quartet Program will be in residence for a fourth year at the University of Colorado at Boulder, College of Music, July 3-31.
The Castleman Quartet Program, now in its 42nd anniversary year, is an intensive summer chamber music program which brings together some of the most highly gifted young performers from around the world and forms them into eight quartets. Most professional American chamber groups and orchestras today boast one or more Quartet Program alumnus. Each quartet rehearses six hours per day and receives concentrated coachings from world-famous faculty. During the program, participants perform both sonata and quartet repertoire in venues throughout the community.
Charles Castleman, renowned program director and violinist, will play a solo recital on Saturday, July 9. Formal Quartet Concerts will take place July 21, 22, and 23 and Sonata Concerts will be July 27, 28, 29 and 30. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. in the Chamber Hall (C199) in the Imig Music Building on CU-Boulder's main campus. Admission is a recommended contribution of $5 for student recitals and $15 for guest and faculty recitals. |
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College of Music Sponsored Concerts
The following Castleman Quartet Programs are hosted by the CU-Boulder College of Music. All of these events take place in the Chamber Hall (C-199) with a suggested donation at the door of $5 (students recitals) or $15 (faculty/guest recitals).
Charles Castleman Violin Recital
 Saturday, July 9, 7:30 p.m.
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 4
SCHUMANN Sonata No. 2
SZYMANOWSKI Notturno & Tarantella
IVES Sonata No. 2
FRANCK Sonata
Quartet Concerts
Thursday, July 21, 7:30 p.m.
MOZART K.387
BARBER Quartet
DVOŘÁK Quartet No. 11
Friday, July 22, 7:30 p.m.
SCHUBERT "Death and the Maiden"
DVOŘÁK Quintet Op. 97
Saturday, July 23, 7:30 p.m.
MENDELSSOHN Quartet No.4
BEETHOVEN Quartet Op. 95
BRAHMS Quartet No. 2
Sonata Concerts
Wednesday, July 27, 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, July 28, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, July 29, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, July 30, 7:30 p.m.
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Off-Campus Performances
Barnes & Noble
2999 Pearl Street, Boulder
July 15 and 16, 7:00 p.m.
Colorado Music Festival pre-concert talk "Under the Tent"
900 Baseline Rd., Chautauqua Park, Boulder
July 15, 6:15 p.m.
Frasier Meadows Retirement Home
350 Ponca Place
July 18 and 26 at 7:30 p.m.
Boulder Public Library Concert Series 1001 Arapahoe Ave.
July 19, 12:00 p.m.
Academy Retirement Home
970 Aurora, Boulder
July 20, 24, 25 at 7:30 p.m.
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The Castleman Quartet Program
Founded by director Charles Castleman in 1970, the Castleman Quartet Program will be at two locations in its 42nd anniversary year: seven weeks in Fredonia, NY and four weeks in Boulder, CO.
In the words of Yo-Yo Ma, "The Quartet Program is the best program of its kind that I know. Every young person not only learns many of the great works written for this genre, but they must also learn how to work with each other and to communicate the most personal thoughts to their colleagues. No one emerges from the program without great love of music and better knowledge of interpersonal relationships. I view this program as a training ground for lifemanship." In fact, most American professional chamber music groups and orchestras today boast one or more Castleman Quartet Program alumnus.
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Charles Castleman, violin
 Charles Castleman is founder/director of The Castleman Quartet Program. Perhaps the world's most active performer/pedagogue on the violin, he has been soloist with the orchestras of Philadelphia, Boston, Brisbane, Chicago, Hong Kong, Moscow, Mexico City, New York, San Francisco, Seoul and Shanghai. Medalist at Tchaikovsky and Brussels, his Jongen Concerto is included in a Cypres CD set of the 17 best prize-winning performances of the Brussels Concours' 50-year history.
Mr. Castleman's solo CDs include Ysaye's six Solo Sonatas (made at the time of his unique performance at Tully Hall in NYC), eight Hubay Csardases for Violin and Orchestra, and ten Sarasate virtuoso cameos on Music and Arts, Gershwin and Antheil on MusicMasters, and contemporary violin and harpsichord music for Albany. As one of sixteen Ford Foundation Concert Artists he commissioned the David Amram Concerto, premiering it with Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony, recording it for Newport Classic. He is dedicatee of "Lares Hercii" by Pulitzer winner Christopher Rouse.
He has performed at such international festivals as Marlboro, Grant Park, Newport, Sarasota, AFCM (Australia), Budapest, Fuefukigawa, Montreux, Shanghai, Sheffield, and the Vienna Festwoche. He regularly participates in the Las Vegas, Park City, Round Top and Sitka festivals in the U.S. His recitals have been broadcast on NPR, BBC, in Berlin and in Paris. Chair of Eastman's String Department, Mr. Castleman has conducted master classes in London, Vienna, Helsinki, Kiev, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul, Tokyo, and all major cities in Australia, Canada and New Zealand. His students have been winners at Brussels, Munich, Naumburg and Szeryng, are in 30 professionally active chamber groups and are 1st desk players in 11 major orchestras.
Mr. Castleman earned degrees from Harvard, Curtis, and University of Pennsylvania. His teachers were Emanuel Ondricek (teaching assistant of Sevcik, Ysaye student) and Ivan Galamian, his most influential coaches David Oistrakh, Szeryng, and Gingold. He plays the "Marquis de Champeaux" Stradivarius from 1708, and chooses from 80 bows.
Charles Castleman's Website
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About the College of Music
Since
its founding in 1920, the University of Colorado at Boulder College of Music has earned a reputation not only for
preparing students for successful careers in music, but also for
providing them with an outstanding college education. The College of Music offers seven degree plans and over
23 fields of study, and its programs cover virtually all areas of music.
The members of the College of Music's faculty are respected performers,
composers, educators, and scholars who take a deep and lasting interest
in the students of the College of Music. Internationally renowned
artists such as Christopher Parkening, James Galway, and Wynton
Marsalis perform and teach master classes on campus.
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College of Music Media Contact
Laima Haley
Marketing and Public Relations Manager
laima.haley@colorado.edu
Phone: (303) 492-4247
Fax: (303) 492-1131
302 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0302
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Public and Media Contact
Paula Majerfeld
Quartet Program
paulamajer@yahoo.com
Phone: (303) 492-6801
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