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Sun., October 17, 2010 / 6:30 PM
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Program:
Alberto Ginastera: String Quartet No. 1
Gabriela Lena Frank: Milagros (NY premiere)
Chou Wen-Chung: Clouds
This concert is the first of the innovative Chiara Quartet's year-long Creator/Curator series. For this series, the Chiara has commissioned four stellar young composers to write a new work and to curate the concert on which the new work is to be performed, choosing music that illustrates their influences, inspiration, and heritage. The inaugural Creator/Curator is Gabriela Lena Frank. The program she has chosen to accompany her new string quartet Milagros (Miracles) includes Chou Wen-Chung’s Streams and Alberto Ginastera’s String Quartet No. 1.
Identity has always been at the center of Ms. Frank's music. Born in Berkeley, California, to a mother of mixed Peruvian/Chinese ancestry and a father of Lithuanian/Jewish descent, Frank explores her multicultural heritage most ardently through her compositions. Milagros is inspired by the sounds and personalities of Andean lands, and is a celebration of the 10 years of mutual growth that Ms. Frank and the Chiara Quartet have enjoyed together.
Described by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as "vastly talented, vastly resourceful, and vastly committed to the music of their time," the Chiara (which is celebrating its 10th anniversary season this year) has commissioned and premiered new music for string quartet since its inception. This is the third piece that the ensemble has commissioned from Gabriela Lena Frank. The first, Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, was premiered in 2001 and released on the Chiara’s New Voice Singles label in 2007. The second, Ghosts in the Dream Machine, was written for the Chiara and pianist Simone Dinnerstein in 2005.
Other young composers commissioned this year as part of Creator/Curator include Nico Muhly, Huang Ruo, and Daniel Ott.
This is a general admission, seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.
Alberto Ginastera: String Quartet No. 1
Gabriela Lena Frank: Milagros (NY premiere)
Chou Wen-Chung: Clouds
This concert is the first of the innovative Chiara Quartet's year-long Creator/Curator series. For this series, the Chiara has commissioned four stellar young composers to write a new work and to curate the concert on which the new work is to be performed, choosing music that illustrates their influences, inspiration, and heritage. The inaugural Creator/Curator is Gabriela Lena Frank. The program she has chosen to accompany her new string quartet Milagros (Miracles) includes Chou Wen-Chung’s Streams and Alberto Ginastera’s String Quartet No. 1.
Identity has always been at the center of Ms. Frank's music. Born in Berkeley, California, to a mother of mixed Peruvian/Chinese ancestry and a father of Lithuanian/Jewish descent, Frank explores her multicultural heritage most ardently through her compositions. Milagros is inspired by the sounds and personalities of Andean lands, and is a celebration of the 10 years of mutual growth that Ms. Frank and the Chiara Quartet have enjoyed together.
Described by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as "vastly talented, vastly resourceful, and vastly committed to the music of their time," the Chiara (which is celebrating its 10th anniversary season this year) has commissioned and premiered new music for string quartet since its inception. This is the third piece that the ensemble has commissioned from Gabriela Lena Frank. The first, Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, was premiered in 2001 and released on the Chiara’s New Voice Singles label in 2007. The second, Ghosts in the Dream Machine, was written for the Chiara and pianist Simone Dinnerstein in 2005.
Other young composers commissioned this year as part of Creator/Curator include Nico Muhly, Huang Ruo, and Daniel Ott.
This is a general admission, seated event. Seating is limited and not guaranteed; please arrive early.
Artists
Chiara Quartet
Renowned for bringing fresh excitement to traditional string quartet repertoire as well as for creating thoroughly insightful interpretations of new music, the Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Julie Hye-Yung Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; Gregory Beaver, cello) captivates and enthralls its audiences throughout the country. During 2010-2011, the Chiara is celebrating its tenth anniversary season. Over its first decade, the Chiara has established itself as among America’s most respected ensembles, lauded for its "highly virtuosic, edge-of-the-seat playing" (The Boston Globe).
The Chiara String Quartet serves as Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University, where it is currently performing the complete cycle of Beethoven's string quartets. The Chiara's honors include a top prize at the Paolo Borciani International Competition, winning the Astral Artistic Services National Audition, and winning First Prize at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. Awarded the Guarneri Quartet Residency Award for artistic excellence by Chamber Music America, the Chiara Quartet has also been the recipient of grants from Meet The Composer and the Amphion Foundation.
The Chiara discography includes the Mozart and Brahms clarinet quintets with Håkan Rosengren for SMS Classical, and the world premiere recordings of Robert Sirota's Triptych and Gabriela Lena Frank's Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout for the Quartet's own New Voice Singles label. The Chiara is also featured on Nadia Sirota's debut recording for New Amsterdam Records, first things first, which was included on "Best of" lists in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, and many more. Other recent collaborators of the quartet include Joel Krosnick, Todd Palmer, Simone Dinnerstein, Norman Fischer, and Paul Katz, as well as members of the Orion, Ying, Cavani, and Pacifica Quartets.
The Chiara String Quartet serves as Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University, where it is currently performing the complete cycle of Beethoven's string quartets. The Chiara's honors include a top prize at the Paolo Borciani International Competition, winning the Astral Artistic Services National Audition, and winning First Prize at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. Awarded the Guarneri Quartet Residency Award for artistic excellence by Chamber Music America, the Chiara Quartet has also been the recipient of grants from Meet The Composer and the Amphion Foundation.
The Chiara discography includes the Mozart and Brahms clarinet quintets with Håkan Rosengren for SMS Classical, and the world premiere recordings of Robert Sirota's Triptych and Gabriela Lena Frank's Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout for the Quartet's own New Voice Singles label. The Chiara is also featured on Nadia Sirota's debut recording for New Amsterdam Records, first things first, which was included on "Best of" lists in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, and many more. Other recent collaborators of the quartet include Joel Krosnick, Todd Palmer, Simone Dinnerstein, Norman Fischer, and Paul Katz, as well as members of the Orion, Ying, Cavani, and Pacifica Quartets.
music of Alberto Ginastera, Gabriela Lena Frank and Chou Wen-Chung