UCLA Camarades 2011 - 1. Igor Stravinsky, Double Canon for String Quartet (Raoul Dufy in Memoriam) UCLA Camarades 2011 - 1. Igor Stravinsky, Double Canon for String Quartet (Raoul Dufy in Memoriam) UCLA Camarades 2011 - 2. Igor Stravinsky, 3 pieces for String Quartet UCLA Camarades 2011 - 3. Roger Bourland, Three Arias for Viola and Piano UCLA Camarades 2011 - 4. Arnold Schoenberg, String Trio Op.45 UCLA Camarades 2011 - 5. Lou Silver Harrison, Rhymes With Silver UCLA Camarades 2011 - 6. Eric Zeisl, Suite for String Orchestra UCLA Camarades 2011 - 7. Ernst Toch, Geographical Fugue, for speaking chorus

Only in Los Angeles Article by Walter Arlen

 

UCLA Camarades Ensemble: LA Composers Festival

 

April 21, 2011

 

Pre-concert lecture

 

By Eva Soltes and Larry Schoenberg

 

7:00 PM, Popper Theatre

 

Featuring excerpts from Lou Harrison Documentary Project (Los Angels Premiere) and My Evolution (Arnold Schoenberg documentary based on A. Schoenberg’s 1949 UCLA lecture)

 

 

 

8:00 PM, Schoenberg Hall

 

 

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) – Double Canon for String Quartet (1959)

(Raoul Dufy in Memoriam)

 

Three Pieces for String Quartet (1914, rev. 1918)

I. Dance
II. Eccentric
III. Canticle

 

Guillaume Sutre and Boryana Popova, violins, Paula Karolak, viola, Christopher Ahn, cello

 

Roger Bourland (b. 1952) - Three Arias for Viola and Piano (1989)

 

I. Cl'airea

II. Mount Shasta

III. In Paris

 

Richard O’Neill, viola, James Lent, piano

 

Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) – String Trio, Op. 45

 

Movses Pogossian, violin, Ben Bartelt, viola, Jonathan Thomson, cello

 

 

Intermission

 

 

Lou Silver Harrison (1917-2003) - Rhymes With Silver (1997)

(Six Small Dances for violin, viola, cello, piano, and percussion)

 

Gigue with Musette

Romantic Waltz

FoxTrot

Threnody

In Honor of Prince Kantemir

Round Dance

 

Ambroise Aubrun, violin, Alison Spieth, viola, Antonio Lysy, cello, Young Ah Ha, piano, Lorry Black, percussion

 

Eric Zeisl (1905-1959) - Suite*

1. Scherzo (from Scherzo and Fugue (1936-37)

2. Andante (from String Quartet no. 2 (1953)

3. Finale: Cadenza - Furioso (from Variations on a Slovakian Folksong (1936-37)

*The Suite is an amalgamation of movements from three different works by Eric Zeisl, approved by the Zeisl family.

UCLA Camarades Ensemble

 

Ernst Toch (1887-1964) – Geographical Fugue, for speaking chorus (1930)

UCLA Camarades Ensemble

 

 

 

UCLA Camarades Ensemble

A versatile ensemble ranging from duos to a full string orchestra composed of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music's acclaimed string faculty and its most gifted students, the Camarades Ensemble is constituted for campus and off campus concerts, granting the privilege to learn via on-stage performance at the highest echelons, and to share the joy of making chamber music. Since its inception two years ago, the Camarades have performed at numerous chamber music series and venues of Los Angeles including LACMA's "Sundays Live", Trinity Lutheran Church in Manhattan Beach, Dilijan Series, Music Guild, and as featured guests at the Los Angeles Philanthropic Committee for the Arts' annual gala at the Chandler Pavillion. Future plans include national and international touring, and a debut CD. For more information about the UCLA string program, please visit www.uclastrings.com

 

 

Violin 1

Movses Pogossian

Boryana Popova

Ambroise Aubrun

Rhea Fowler

Leila Nassar-Fredell

Eriko Tsuji

 

Violin 2

Guillaume Sutre

Ji Young An

Luke Santonastaso

Annamarie Arai

Richard Silvers

 

Viola

Richard O’Neill

Alison Spieth

Paula Karolak

Ben Bartelt

Danny Sheu

 

Cello

Antonio Lysy

Jasmine Lau

Chloe Knudsen-Robbins

Suji Kang

Phoebe Ping

 

Double Bass

Ben Pendergrass

 

 

GUILLAUME SUTRE was only 18 years old when he won first prize in the International Violin Competition, A. Curci, in Napoli; the International Piano-Trio ARD Competition in Munich; and the International Chamber Music Competition in South Bend, Indiana. Very early he was attracted to chamber music and at 16 founded the Wanderer Piano Trio, he's now the Primarius of the Ysaye String Quartet since 15 years. His appearances include Stresa Festival, la Roque d'Anthéron, Wigmore Hall, Teatro San Carlo in Napoli, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Musikverein, Hong-Kong Festival, Beijing Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, but also some more unusual destinations such as Addis Ababa Conservatory, Ethiopia, Opéra of Manaus, Brazil, le Grand Théatre d'Hanoï, Vietnam, and Fondation Bolipata, Philippines. His vast repertoire, over 400 works performed, featured all the chamber music works of Beethoven, Brahms, Schumann, Ravel, and all 68 Haydn quartets. His recordings for Sony Classical, Decca, Harmonia Mundi, Naïve, Aeon, and Ysaÿe Records received the highest distinctions in France and internationally. Since 1995, he has been a professor of violin, specializing in the practice of the string quartet, at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris. As a visiting professor at the Academies of Villecroze, Nice, Flaine, Aldeburgh, Eastern Music Festival, University of Southern California, and in Sao Paulo, Brazil, he has given master classes in both chamber music as well as solo violin.

Guillaume Sutre began his studies in Douai, North of France; he entered the  Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique at age 14 to study with Gérard Poulet and Jean-Claude Pennetier. A few years later he attended Indiana University at Bloomington to study with Josef Gingold, Franco Gulli, Menahem Pressler, and Janos Starker, then studied in Cologne with the Amadeus Quartet.In 1994, the SACEM awarded him the prestigious George Enesco prize. In 1999 he was named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and the Letters. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife, harpist Kyung-Hee Kim and their daughter.

 

Violist RICHARD O’NEILL is one of very few violists ever to receive an Avery Fisher Career Grant as well as a two Grammy Award Nominations (Best Soloist with Orchestra, and Best Chamber Music Recording). Concerto appearances include the London, Los Angeles and Seoul Philharmonic, the KBS and Korean Symphony Orchestras, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Alte Musik Köln and Sejong. Highlights of this season include return performances with the London Philharmonic with conductors Vassily Sinaisky and Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Royal Festival Hall at London’s South Bank Centre, as well as on tour to Seoul Arts Center and the National Concert Hall of Madrid, a sold-out Kennedy Center debut with pianist Warren Jones, his fourth season as Artistic Director of DITTO, his South Korean chamber music initiative, and his 5^th solo recording for Deutsche Grammophon. He has made solo debuts at Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Halls, Avery Fisher Hall, The Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Salle Cortot, and Seoul Arts Center. A UNIVERSAL Classics Recording Artist, he has made five solo albums that have sold over 100,000 copies. His two most recent albums, Winter Journey for Deutsche Grammophon and Mysterioso for ARCHIV Produktion, have both earned him Platinum Disc Awards. His 2^nd album, Lachrymae for UNIVERSAL Korea was the best selling Classical as well as International Pop Recording of 2006. Much in demand as a chamber musician, he is an Artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and resident violist of Camerata Pacifica. A popular figure in South Korea, he was the subject of a two-part, five-hour documentary for the Korean Broadcasting System that was viewed by 15 million people, and has been featured on all of Korea’s major television networks, radio, newspapers and magazines. His chamber music project, DITTO, was the most popular classical music presentation of 2008, and has introduced over 40,000 people to chamber music. A commercial model, Special Representative to UNICEF, marathon runner and author, he has also written a best selling classical music appreciation guide. In the United States, he has appeared on PBS Live from Lincoln Center and CNN, and has served as Young Artist-in-Residence for National Public Radio in Washington D.C. The first violist to receive the Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, he has studied with Paul Neubauer and Donald McInnes. Residing in New York City and Los Angeles, he was recently honored with a Proclamation from the New York City Council for his achievement and contribution to the Arts.

 

 

 

 

Cellist ANTONIO LYSY is an artist of international stature. He has performed as soloist worldwide, in major concert halls including the Royal Festival Hall, the Concertgebouw, the Tonhalle,Salle Pleyel, Wigmore Hall, Sala Verdi, Berlin Philharmonie and Teatro Colon and has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as  the Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras of London, Camerata Academica of Salzburg, Camerata Lysy Gstaad, Zurich Tonhalle, the Zagreb Soloists. He has collaborated with distinguished conductors such as Yuri Temirkanov, Charles Dutoit, Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Sandor Vegh and Kees Bakels.

A recent cello extravaganza project with Les Violons du Roi in their new and fabulous hall in the heart of Quebec City led ‘Le Soleil’ to remark: 'Antonio Lysy shone and enchanted his audience in an arrangement for cello and strings of Schubert’s Arpeggione…'

His love and commitment to chamber music is demonstrated by his musical directorship and founding in 1989 of the annual Incontri in Terra di Siena Chamber Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy. 2008 will mark its twentieth anniversary. Distinguished artists from around the globe take part in this idyllic summer retreat, which is crowned by performances of chamber music masterpieces in medieval fortresses, palazzi and churches in this Southern Tuscan region. For more information visit - itslafoce.org -

Mr. Lysy has recorded extensively for CBC Radio, BBC Radio, Classic FM and other European radio networks. In addition, he has recorded for the Claves, Dinemec Classics, Fonè, and Pelléas labels. His live recording of solo cello repertoire by Bach, Berio, Henze and Walton was released on the Pelléas label to high critical acclaim ("...some of the most beautiful Bach ever heard" – La Presse, Montréal).

In addition to his concert career, Antonio Lysy was, for a number of years, professor at McGill University in Montreal, and visiting professor at the International Menuhin Music Academy in Switzerland. In the summer of 2003 he accepted the position of Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) where he now resides.

 

Violinist MOVSES POGOSSIAN made his acclaimed American debut performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall in 1990. He has since performed with orchestras such as the Brandenburger Symphoniker and the Halle Philharmonic in Germany, the Sudety Philharmonic in Poland, the Tucson Symphony, the Scandinavian Chamber Orchestra of New York, and the Toronto Sinfonia. He is a Prizewinner of the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Competition, and the youngest-ever First Prize winner of the 1985 USSR National Violin Competition, previous winners of which included David Oistrakh and Gidon Kremer. An active chamber musician, Mr. Pogossian has performed with members of the Tokyo, Kronos, and Brentano string quartets, and with such artists as Kim Kashkashian, Jeremy Denk, Ani and Ida Kavafian, and Rohan de Saram. A committed propagate of new music, Movses Pogossian has premiered over 40 works, and works closely with composers such as G. Kurtag, A. R. Thomas, T. Mansurian, V. Sharafyan, and A. Avanesov. His newly formed Duo with Japanese percussionist Kuniko Kato has commissioned several works for this unusual medium. In Los Angeles, Movses Pogossian frequently performs on Monday Evening Concerts, as well as with new music group XTET. In July of 2008, he made his debut at the Darmstadt Festival in Germany. His latest releases include a solo violin CD of World Premiere recordings and “Thoughts and Dreams” with the Baird Trio, both on Albany label, as well as 2009 release of G. Kurtag’s “Kafka Fragments” for soprano and violin on Bridge label, which includes a unique video documentary on the work with the composer, as well as a DVD of an unedited live performance. In his review of the recording, Paul Griffiths writes: “…remarkable is Pogossian’s contribution, which is always beautiful, across a great range of colors and gestures, and always seems on the edge of speaking—or beyond.” Upcoming releases include an all-Schoenberg CD/DVD for Bridge Records, solo violin CD of World Premiere recordings of works by Kurtag, Mansurian, and Avanesov (Albany Records), and a violin/cello duo CD with Rohan de Saram. Since earning his advanced degrees from the Komitas Conservatory in Armenia and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory of Music in Moscow, Mr. Pogossian has held teaching positions at Duquesne, Bowling Green, Wayne State, and SUNY Buffalo Universities. His principal teachers were L. Zorian, V. Mokatsian, V. Klimov, and legendary Louis Krasner. Deeply committed to musical education, Movses Pogossian is currently Professor of Violin and Chair of Strings at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

 

 

Boryana Popova began playing the violin at age six, and soon after attended the State Music School in Varna, Bulgaria. Upon graduation from the Music School, she was accepted to the Music Academy in Sofia. There she completed her Bachelor and Master of Music Degrees in Violin Performance with honors. While in Sofia Boryana had many opportunities to perform as a soloist, in numerous chamber music ensembles and for several orchestras. She was selected as a violinist for the Italian Music Festival Pergine Spettacolo Aperto for three consequent years. She also has international master class experience with teachers such as Frederic Pellasy from France, Evelio Tieles from Cuba, Alberto Martini from Italy. Since her arrival at UCLA Boryana has been actively pursuing her musical development and have been participating in orchestral and chamber music concerts, as well as intensely working on her solo repertoire with Professors Movses Pogossian and Guillaume Sutre. She also participated in several Master classes with musicians  such as Stuart Canin, Ani Kavafian, Anne-Akiko Mayers,Boromeo Quartet and others. Boryana is a member of a string quartet sponsored by the Gluck Foundation, which is dedicated to promoting music and education in the community. In November of 2007 Boryana Popova was awarded the Mimi Feldman Scholarship and in 2008 she was awarded the Mo Ostin Scholarship at UCLA. In 2009 Boryana completed the Masters program at UCLA and is now in her final year of their Doctoral program.  Boryana plays on an instrument and bow provided by the Maestro Foundation.

 

Violist Paula Karolak has been performing music since the age of three. She is currently a student at UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music where she has studied with Paul Coletti and is currently a student of Richard O'Neill. While at UCLA Paula has collaborated with many composers and performers, working directly with Paul Chihara, David Lefkowitz, Bright Sheng, John Adams, and Tigran Mansurian and has performed publicaly with Guillaume Sutre, Movses Pogissian, Antonio Lysy, Stanislaw Deja, Jerzey Kosmala and Lou Anne Neil. In 2006 she was the winner of the MTNA Young Artist String Compeition and in 2007 as a winner of the Atwater Kent competition she performed the Walton Concerto with UCLA's Philharmonia. Other appearances includes a solo performance with the UCLA Women's Choir  to premier two works by Paul Chihara.

 

An avid proponent of new music, Paula is one of the original members of Contempo Flux, a new music ensemble led by Gloria Cheng and is a recipient of a MVP award from the UCLA composition faculty. She is also currently working as a freelance musician in Los Angeles where she has been seen performing with Marco Antonio Solis, Hauschka and John Cale.

 

 

A native of Los Angeles, Christopher Ahn has recently performed solo recitals at UCLA, California State University, Dominguez Hills, and Santa Monica College, chamber music on the Chapman University faculty concert series, live radio broadcasts on the Sundays Live recital series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and concerts with the UCLA Virtuosi on the Dilijan and Music Guild concert series in Los Angeles.  Chris has had the opportunity to attend summer programs at the Aspen Music Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Banff Centre Masterclasses, Meadowmount School, and Rencontres Musicales Camerata Lysy, and has performed in masterclasses for such distinguished musicians as Anner Bylsma, Ralph Kirshbaum, Lynn Harrell, Rohan de Saram, Paul Katz, and members of the Takacs, Cleveland and Borodin quartets.  Chris received his Bachelor of Arts with Honors from UCLA and Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan, with additional graduate work at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Currently, he is working towards the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at UCLA. His principal teachers have included Antonio Lysy, Richard Aaron, Stephen Geber, and Colin Carr.

 

 

Pianist Dr. James Lent received the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance from Yale University, and is currently on the staff at UCLA as a collaborative pianist for the instrumental music department and pianist-coach for the opera program. He will be performing "Blood on the Dining Floor" by Jonathan Sheffer in May for the National Classical Singers Convention and at UCLA with the UCLA opera. He frequently performs throughout Southern California, and recently in venues including LA Live, the Ritz Carlton Hotel, the Universal Citywalk Hilton, and Hollywood's Boulevard 3, and regularly on Friday nights at the Other Side piano and cabaret in Silverlake.  He also served 8 years on the summer collaborative piano faculty at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, CA. As a concerto soloist, Mr. Lent made his Alabama Symphony debut performing Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 to critical acclaim on 24 hours' notice to replace Andre Watts. James' numerous piano awards include prizes in the New York Concert Artists Guild International Competition, the National Chopin Competition, the Washington International Piano Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., the Olga Koussevitsky Piano Competition in New York, the Houston Symphony Ima Hogg National Young Artist Competition, and the title of Top Instrumentalist in the World Championships for the Performing Arts in Burbank, CA. Mr. Lent's other orchestral appearances include the Vancouver Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Shanghai Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Utah Symphony and the Florida West Coast Symphony. His solo recital appearances include performances at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lubeck, Germany; for the National Chopin Foundation in Miami, a Boston recital debut at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and at the Cleveland Museum of Art, where he gave the world premiere of a new work written for him by noted contemporary American composer Frederic Rzewski. His performances have been heard on New York's WQXR and National Public Radio's Performance Today. Mr. Lent was a fellowship recipient at the Aspen Music Festival, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, the Sarasota Music Festival, and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, where he studied with Jerome Lowenthal. At the Yale School of Music he studied prinipally with Boris Berman and also with Claude Frank and Peter Frankl.

 

Pianist YoungAh Ha studied at the Mannes College of Music in New York City for her Master’s degree in piano performance. Currently, she is a candidate of Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance at UCLA, where she is also working as a collaborative pianist. Her major teachers included Younwha Lee, Daejin Kim, Jerome Rose, Jennifer Snow, and Vitaly Margulis.

Alison Spieth is currently working towards her DMA at UCLA, where she has studied viola with Paul Coletti and Richard O'Neill.  She is a currently freelance performer and teacher in Los Angeles.  Alison has recently performed in the Dilijan Chamber Music Series at Zipper, Sundays Live at LACMA, and as a member of the American Youth Symphony at Royce Hall.

Ambroise Aubrun is currently a full scholarship Masters student of Professor Guillaume Sutre at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).  While studying in France Ambroise obtained the “First Prize Summa cum Laude” at the Nice National Conservatory with Professor Daniel Lagarde, the First Prize in Chamber Music as well as in Baroque-music, and received the “Diplôme de Formation Supérieur.”  He has also studied at the Paris National Conservatory (CNR) as a student of Roland Daugareil.

 

 

 

Jonathan Thomson, cello, earned a Bachelor of Music from Central Washington University where he is also a graduate of the William O. Douglas Honors College. He holds a Masters of Music and Artist Certificate from Azusa Pacific University. Jonathan’s playing has been influenced by numerous teachers with contrasting performing styles. For example, he has played in master classes at the Banff Centre under Aldo Parisot and Shauna Rolston as well as in the classes of Raphael Wallfisch, Nathaniel Rosen, and Pieter Wiespelwey elsewhere. He won the American String Teachers solo competition for Washington State and has performed internationally in England, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, South Korea, and China. Currently, Jonathan teaches at Azusa Pacific University and has teaching experience with Education Through Music--LA, South Pasadena String Program, SOMA Music Academy, and Diamond Bar high school. As a chamber musician, Jonathan founded a successful string quartet and piano trio which participated in the Fischoff and Coleman chamber music competitions. While in these groups, he received instruction from the Icicle Creek Piano Trio and the Kronos, St. Lawrence, Brentano, Lafayette, and Penderecki quartets. Jonathan is currently working on his DMA degree at UCLA, studying under Antonio Lysy. Outside of music, Jonathan enjoys traveling, classic literature, and distance running.

 

 

An avid chamber musician and orchestral player, violist Ben Bartelt has performed in concert halls spanning four continents, at venues including Disney Hall, Carnegie Hall, the Sydney Opera House, and the Musikverein in Vienna. He has been a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada, where he was co-principal violist in 2008 and 2010, as well as the Young Musicans Foundation Debut Orchestra, where he has served as associate principal and acting principal violist. He is also currently a member of the American Youth Symphony. He has participated in masterclasses with Bright Sheng, Ida Kavafian, Christophe Horak, Stanley Ritchie, Levon Chilingirian, and Mark O'Connor, among others. Ben is currently working towards a B.A. in music performance at UCLA, where he studies under the direction of Richard O'Neill. In his free time, Ben enjoys playing sports, running, reading, and hiking. Ben plays on a Muller viola which is generously on loan from the Maestro Foundation.