Schedule Of Events

June 30, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm: Ying Quartet With Derek Bermel

Join us for the opening of our 61st season.

Robin Scott, Janet Ying, violin, Phillip Ying, viola, David Ying, cello

FRANZ SCHUBERT
String Quartet No. 12 in C Minor, D. 703, “Quartettsatz”

DEREK BERMEL
A Short History of the Universe
Derek Bermel, clarinet

FRANZ SCHUBERT
String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden”

About the Ying Quartet

The Grammy Award-winning Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music realm, combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today’s world. Now in its third decade, the Quartet has established itself as an ensemble of the highest musical qualifications. The Quartet’s performances regularly take place in many of the world’s most important concert halls; at the same time, the Ying’s belief that concert music can also be a meaningful part of everyday life has drawn the foursome to perform in settings as diverse as the workplace, schools, juvenile prisons, and the White House.

The Ying Quartet first came to professional prominence in the early 1990s as the first recipient of an NEA Rural Residence Grant which led to it serving as the resident quartet of Jesup, Iowa, a farm town of 2,000 people. Playing before audiences of six to six hundred in homes, schools, churches, and banks, the Quartet had its first opportunities to use music and creative endeavor to help build community and authentic human connection. The Quartet considers its time in Jesup the foundation of its present musical life and goals. The Quartet’s upcoming 2024-25 season features performances for the Tuckamore Music Festival, Chamber Music in Oklahoma, and the Kaufman Music Center. The Ying’s ongoing LifeMusic commissioning project, created in response to its commitment to expanding the rich string quartet repertoire, has already achieved an impressive history. Supported by the Institute for American Music, the Ying Quartet commissions both established and emerging composers to create music that reflects contemporary American life. 

Recent works include Billy Childs’ Awakening; Lera Auerbach’s Sylvia’s Diary; Lowell Liebermann’s String Quartet No. 3, To the Victims of War; Sebastian Currier’s Next Atlantis; and John Novacek’s Three Rags for String Quartet. In August 2016, the Ying Quartet released a new Schumann/Beethoven recording on Sono Luminus with renowned cellist Zuill Bailey, and in that season the five toured with the Schumann Cello Concerto transcribed for cello and string quartet along with Beethoven’s “Kreutzer Sonata,” also reimagined for cello quintet. The Ying Quartet’s numerous other recordings reflect many of the group’s wide-ranging musical interests and have generated consistent, enthusiastic acclaim. The group’s CD “American Anthem” (Sono Luminus), heralding the music of Randall Thompson, Samuel Barber, and Howard Hanson, was released in 2013 to rave reviews; its 2007 Telarc release of the three Tchaikovsky Quartets and the Souvenir de Florence (with James Dunham and Paul Katz) was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Chamber Music Performance category.

As longtime quartet-in-residence at the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, the Ying Quartet teaches in the string department and leads a rigorous, sequentially designed chamber music program. One cornerstone of chamber music activity at Eastman is the noted “Music for All” program, in which all students curate opportunities to perform in community settings beyond the concert hall. The Quartet is also the ensemble-in-residence at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and from 2001-2008, the members of the Ying Quartet were the Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University. The Ying Quartet are Robin Scott and Janet Ying, violins, Phillip Ying, viola and David Ying, cello.

July 2, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Mozart, Shaw, and Stravinsky

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor, K. 478                                             

Robin Scott, violin, Melissa Reardon, viola, Ahrim Kim, cello, Julian Martin, piano

CAROLINE SHAW

Boris Kerner

cello, Luke Rinderknecht, percussion

IGOR STRAVINSKY

The Rite of Spring                                                  

Soyeon Kate Lee, Ran Dank, piano

July 4, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Stravinsky, Prestini, and Schumann  

IGOR STRAVINSKY

Suite Italienne                                                                           

Ian Swensen, violin, Weicong Zhang, piano

PAOLA PRESTINI

The Six Seasons of Trees

Linda Chesis, flute, Jeffrey Zeigler, cello, Luke Rinderknecht, percussion

ROBERT SCHUMANN

Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 63

Itamar Zorman, violin, Ahrim Kim, cello, Soyeon Kate Lee, piano

July 7, 2025

Jasper String Quartet

J Freivogel, Karen Kim, violin • Andrew Gonzalez, viola • Rachel Henderson Freivogel, cello

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Three Divertimenti

GABRIELA LENA FRANK

Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout

ANTONÍN DVO?ÁK

String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51, “Slavonic”

July 9, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Beethoven, Ishizaki, and Brahms

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Sonata for Piano and Cello No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2

Amir Eldan, cello, Pei-Shan Lee, piano

HANNAH ISHIZAKI

Obon Uta (World Premiere)

Jeffrey Zeigler, cello

JOHANNES BRAHMS

Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34

Itamar Zorman, Janet Ying, violin, Melissa Reardon, viola, Keiko Ying, cello, Ran Dank, piano

July 11, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Poulenc, Pinto Correia, and Vaughan Williams

FRANCIS POULENC

Sonata for Violin and Piano, FP 119
Ani Schnarch, violin, Tao Lin, piano

ANDREIA PINTO CORREIA

Cântico
Itamar Zorman, violin 

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Piano Quintet in C Minor
Renée Jolles, violin, Melissa Reardon, viola, Amir Eldan, cello, Tracy Rowell, bass, Liza Stepanova, piano

July 13, 2025

2:00pm to 3:30pm : Hub New Music

This concert is part of the Festival’s Subscription Series and Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music. The Gamper Festival represents a sustained commitment to nurturing and promoting the music of our time.

Michael Avitabile, flutes, Gleb Kanasevich, clarinets, Magnolia Rohrer, violin/viola, Jesse Christeson, cello

ANGÉLICA NEGRÓN

Pedazos intermitentes de un lugar ya fragmentado

TYSHAWN SOREY

For Alvin Singleton

DONNACHA DENNEHY

Concertina

DAI WEI

How the Stars Vanish

DANIEL THOMAS DAVIS

What If We’re Beautiful

About Hub New Music

Called “contemporary chamber trailblazers” by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a “prime mover of piping hot 21st century repertoire” (Washington Post). Founded in 2013, the Detroit-based ensemble has commissioned dozens of new works for its distinctive ensemble of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello. Hub’s “nimble quartet of winds and strings” (NPR) actively collaborates with today’s most celebrated composers on projects that traverse today’s rich musical landscape.

Recent and upcoming performances include concerts presented by the Kennedy Center, Seattle Symphony, Morgan Library, Suntory Hall (Tokyo), the Williams Center for the Arts, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center, King’s Place (London), Soka Performing Arts Center, Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, and the Celebrity Series of Boston.

Hub continues its 10th Anniversary Commission Project in 2023-24 with new works by Andrew Norman, Tyshawn Sorey, Angélica Negrón, Marcos Balter, Donnacha Dennehy, Nico Muhly, and Jessica Meyer. As part of the project, Hub also launched a fellowship in collaboration with the Luna Lab, awarded to recent alumna Sage Shurman. The coming season also brings continued performances of Gala Flagello’s concerto The Bird-While and Carlos Simon’s Requiem for the Enslaved. Upcoming commissions include Nina C. Young’s to hear the things we cannot see, and major new works from Christopher Cerrone.

Hub New Music’s recordings have garnered consistent acclaim. In 2022, Hub recorded Carlos Simon’s Requiem for the Enslaved (Decca Classics), which was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Classical Composition. This season, Hub releases its fourth album, a distance, intertwined with Silkroad’s Kojiro Umezaki (shakuhachi) and the Asia-America New Music Institute on In a Circle Records. Hub’s debut album, Soul House, released on New Amsterdam Records, was called “ingenious and unequivocally gorgeous” (Boston Globe) and “intensely poignant.” (Textura)

As educators, Hub is dedicated to empowering future generations of artists. The ensemble was recently in residence with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Nancy and Barry Sanders Composer Fellowship program, working  with 10 outstanding high school aged composers. Hub has been guests at leading institutions such as Princeton, University of Michigan, University of Texas, CCM, University of Southern California, and Indiana University.

Hub New Music is Michael Avitabile (flutes), Gleb Kanasevich (clarinets), Magnolia Rohrer (violin/viola), and Jesse Christeson (cello). Currently based in Detroit, the ensemble’s name is inspired by its founding city of Boston’s reputation as a hub of  innovation. Hub New Music is exclusively represented by Unfinished Side

July 14, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Attacca Quartet

Amy Schroeder, Domenic Salerni, violin • Nathan Schram, viola • Andrew Yee, cello

CAROLINE SHAW

Entr'acte

PAUL WIANCKO

Benkei's Standing Death
Part I: The Thousandth Encounter

RADIOHEAD [ARR. NATHAN SCHRAM]

2+2=5

CAROLINE SHAW

Three Essays
Second Essay: Echo

MAURICE RAVEL

String Quartet in F Major
I. Allegro moderato - Très doux

CAROLINE SHAW

The Evergreen
I. Root

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, Op. 131

About the Attacca Quartet

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Attacca Quartet is recognized and acclaimed as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment, a true quartet for modern times. Gliding through traditional classical repertoire to electronica, video game music, and contemporary collaborations, they are one of the world’s most innovative and respected ensembles.

In 2021, the quartet released two albums that embody their redefinition of what a string quartet can be. The first Album, Real Life, featuring guest artists such as TokiMONSTA, Daedalus, and Anne Müller, was followed up by Of all Joys, which features works by Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, and music of the Renaissance period. Passionate advocates of contemporary repertoire, the quartet is dedicated to presenting and recording new works. Their 2019 release Orange, in collaboration with Caroline Shaw, saw them win the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, with their follow-up album Evergreen winning the 2023 award in the same category. The quartet continues to perform in the world’s best venues and festivals.

Recent highlights include Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival and Miller Theatre, Carnegie Hall, Phillips Collection, Chamber Music Detroit, Chamber Music Austin and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston as well as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall, Ojai Festival, BRIC Arts and Big Ears Festival. Outside of the US, performances include Kings Place and in Oslo at the Vertavo Haydn Festival as well as performances at Gothenburg Konserthuset, MITO Settembre Festival in Italy, Sociedad Filarmónica de Bilbao, Strijkkwartet Biennale Amsterdam, Strings of Autumn Festival Prague, Thüringer Bachwochen, Sala São Paulo in Brazil, Fundación Beethoven in Chile, National Theatre of Panamá, and Teatro Mayor in Bogota. They have also soloed with the Nagoya Philharmonic in Japan, the National Orchestra of Catalunya at the Palau in Barcelona, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and the Colombian National Orchestra in Bogota.

In addition to the quartet’s traditional concert stage work, they were the first to collaborate with Billie Eilish and FINNEAS on their recent album and also performed with the duo on Saturday Night Live. As featured Artists, the Attacca Quartet can be heard on the soundtrack of the upcoming Ken Burns Documentary Leonardo da Vinci (soundtrack by Caroline Shaw) and the soundtrack for the film We Grown Now (directed by Minhal Baig and soundtrack by Jay Wadley).

In their 2024-25 season, the Attacca Quartet performs for Carnegie Hall, Nashville’s Chamber Music City, and Richmond’s Belvedere Series, and will lead a residency at Montclair State University. Outside of the US, performances include Vancouver’s Music in the Morning, the Winnipeg Symphony, Norwegian National Opera & Ballet, and La Biennale Di Venezia. The upcoming season also includes commissions by David Lang and Gabriella Ortiz.

The founding members of the Attacca Quartet met while all studying at The Juilliard School in the early 2000s and they made their professional debut at Carnegie Hall in 2003. Other accolades include First Prize at the 7th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition, the Top Prize and Listeners’ Choice award winners for the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition, and Grand Prize Winners of the 60th annual Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition.

The Attacca Quartet has engaged in extensive educational and community engagement projects, serving as guest artists and teaching fellows at the Lincoln Center Institute, University of Texas, Juilliard School, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and Bravo! Vail among others. They are expert programmers and communicators, and beautifully mix existing works with those by living composers.

July 16, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Zhou, Ysaye, and Dvorak

ZHOU LONG

Illusion                 

Todd Palmer, clarinet, Renée Jolles, violin, Jeffrey Zeigler, cello, Tao Lin, piano

EUGENE YSAYE

Sonata for Two Violins in A Minor, Op. posth.

Itamar Zorman, Robin Scott, violin

ANTONIN DVORAK

Piano Trio No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 65

Ian Swensen, violin, David Ying, cello, Pei-Shan Lee, piano

July 18, 2025 

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Simone porter plays Bruch

ZHOU LONG

Poems from Tang
Festival Fellows

ANDRÉ MESSAGER [ARR. TODD PALMER]

Suite from the ballet “Les Deux Pigeons”
Festival Fellows, Todd Palmer, clarinet, June Han, harp, Phillip Ying, viola, Tracy Rowell, bass

MAX BRUCH

Scottish Fantasy, Op. 46
Simone Porter, violin, Peter Bay, conductor, Festival Orchestra

About Simone Porter

Violinist Simone Porter has been recognized as an emerging artist of impassioned energy, interpretive integrity, and vibrant communication. She has debuted with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Seattle and Pittsburgh Symphonies and with a number of renowned conductors, including Stéphane Denève, Gustavo Dudamel, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Nicholas McGegan, Ludovic Morlot, Donald Runnicles, David Robertson, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Manfred Honeck, Louis Langrée and David Danzmayr. Simone made her professional solo debut at age 10 with the Seattle Symphony and her international debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in London at age 13. In March 2015, Simone was named a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

Porter’s recent seasons include extensive US touring with debuts and return visits to orchestras such as Colorado, North Carolina, St. Louis, Oregon, Hawaii, Grand Rapids, Omaha, Quebec, Jacksonville symphonies, Erie Philharmonic, Florida Orchestra and many more. In 24/25 season Porter will return to Nashville and Baltimore symphonies, as well as Santa Rosa, Monterey and Westchester symphonies with a debut with Arkansas Symphony performing Glass’ 1st violin concerto and a visit to Johnson City Symphony in TN. Internationally, Simone has performed with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra with  Gustavo Dudamel; the Orquestra Sinfônica Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro; the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica; the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong; the Royal Northern Sinfonia; the Milton Keynes City Orchestra in the United Kingdom; Orquesta Clasica Santa Cecilia de la Fundacion Excelentia in Madrid; the Opera de Marseille and at the Edinburgh Festival performing Barber under the direction of Stéphane Denève,

Recent recital highlights include a tour in Spain with pianist Pallavi Mahidhara and debuts at Celebrity Series in Boston and NY92, both of which featured the newly commissioned piece by composer Reena Esmail. She will return to FL in recital in January of 2025. An avid chamber musician, Porter can be heard at La Jolla Summerfest in August of 2024, followed by projects with Bay Chamber Music, Moab Music Festival and Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival. Together with her colleagues violinist Blake Pouliot and pianist Hsin-I Huang, Porter will present a program at Cliburn Foundation in Fort Worth, TX and Broad Stage in Santa Monica, CA in spring of 2025.

At the invitation of Esa-Pekka Salonen, Simone performed his work ‘Lachen verlernt’ (‘Laughing Unlearnt’), at the New York Philharmonic’s “Foreign Bodies,” a multi-sensory celebration of the work of the composer and conductor. Simone made her Carnegie Zankel Hall debut on the Emmy Award-winning TV show From the Top: Live from Carnegie Hall followed in November 2016 by her debut in Stern Auditorium. She will return to Carnegie in December of 2024 together with cellist Joshua Roman as a part of their Well-Being Concert. In June 2016, her featured performance of music from Schindler’s List with Maestro Gustavo Dudamel and members of the American Youth Symphony was broadcast nationally on the TNT Network as part of the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award: A Tribute to John Williams. 

Raised in Seattle, Washington, Simone studied with Margaret Pressley as a recipient of the Dorothy Richard Starling Scholarship, and was then admitted into the studio of the renowned pedagogue Robert Lipsett, with whom she studied at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. Summer studies have included many years at the Aspen Music Festival, Indiana University’s Summer String Academy, and the Schlern International Music Festival in Italy. Simone Porter performs on a 1740 Carlo Bergonzi violin made in Cremona Italy on generous loan from The Master’s University, Santa Clarita, California.

July 21, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Jupiter and Ying Quartets

The Jupiter and Ying Quartets reunite for a joint concert alongside bassist Anthony Manzo.

RICHARD STRAUSS

Sextet from "Capriccio," Op. 85
Nelson Lee, Meg Freivogel, violin, Liz Freivogel, Phillip Ying, viola, Daniel McDonough, David Ying, cello  

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4
Nelson Lee, Meg Freivogel, violin, Liz Freivogel, Phillip Ying, viola, Daniel McDonough, David Ying, cello

ANTONIN DVORAK

String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 77
Robin Scott, Janet Ying, violin, Phillip Ying, viola, David Ying, cello, Anthony Manzo, bass

July 23, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Cuong, Rachmaninoff, and Beethoven

VIET CUONG

Windmill                                                                

Festival Fellows, Luke Rinderknecht, vibraphone

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19

David Ying, cello, Jon Nakamatsu, piano

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 97, "Archduke"  

Robin Scott, violin, Daniel McDonough, cello, HieYon Choi, piano

July 25, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Piazzolla, Thompson, and Shostakovich

ASTOR PIAZZOLLA

L'Histoire du Tango   
YooJin Jang, violin, June Han, harp

CHRIS P. THOMPSON

Launch Party  
Festival Fellows, Luke Rinderknecht, marimba/vibraphone

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH

Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57
Mikhail Kopelman, Meg Freivogel, violin, Liz Freivogel, viola, Daniel McDonough, cello, Elinor Freer, piano

July 28, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Takacs Quartet

Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes, violin, Richard O’Neill, viola, András Fejér, cello

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN
String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 74, No. 3, “The Rider”   

NOKUTHULA NGWENYAMA
Flow

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
String Quartet No. 9 in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3     

About the Takács Quartet

The world-renowned Takács Quartet is now entering its fiftieth anniversary season. Edward Dusinberre, Harumi Rhodes (violins), Richard O’Neill (viola) and András Fejér (cello) are excited about projects including a new concerto for them and the Colorado Music Festival orchestra by Gabriela Lena Frank. In November the group will release its latest Hyperion project, ‘Flow’ by Nokuthula Ngwenyama. A new album with pianist Marc Andre Hamelin will be released in the spring featuring works by Florence Price and Antonín Dvo?ák.

The Takács maintains a busy international touring schedule. In 2025 the ensemble will perform in South Korea, Japan and Australia. The Australian tour is centered around a new piece by Kathy Milliken for quartet and narrator. As Associate Artists at London’s Wigmore Hall, the group will present four concerts featuring works by Haydn, Britten, Ngwenyama, Beethoven, Janá?ek and two performances of Schubert’s cello quintet with Adrian Brendel. During the season the ensemble will play at other prestigious European venues including Barcelona, Budapest, Milan, Basel, Bath Mozartfest and Bern. The group’s North American engagements include concerts in New York, Vancouver, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Lajolla, Berkeley, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Tucson, Portland and Princeton, and collaborations with pianists Stephen Hough and Jeremy Denk. The members of the Takács Quartet are Christoffersen Fellows and Artists in Residence at the University of Colorado, Boulder. During the summer months the Takács join the faculty at the Music Academy of the West, running an intensive quartet seminar.

The Takács has recorded for Hyperion since 2005. Their most recent album includes Schubert’s final quartet D887. This and all their other recordings are available to stream at https://www.hyperion-streaming.co.uk In 2021 the Takács won a Presto Music Recording of the Year Award for their recordings of string quartets by Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, and a Gramophone Award with pianist Garrick Ohlsson for piano quintets by Amy Beach and Elgar. Other releases for Hyperion feature works by Haydn, Schubert, Janá?ek, Smetana, Debussy and Britten, as well as piano quintets by César Franck and Shostakovich (with Marc-André Hamelin), and viola quintets by Brahms and Dvorák (with Lawrence Power). For their CDs on the Decca/London label, the Quartet has won three Gramophone Awards, a Grammy Award, three Japanese Record Academy Awards, Disc of the Year at the inaugural BBC Music Magazine Awards, and Ensemble Album of the Year at the Classical Brits. Full details of all recordings can be found in the Recordings section of the Quartet’s website.

The Takács Quartet is known for its innovative programming. In 2021-22 the ensemble partnered with bandoneon virtuoso Julien Labro to premiere new works by Clarice Assad and Bryce Dessner, commissioned by Music Accord. In 2014 the Takács performed a program inspired by Philip Roth’s novel Everyman with Meryl Streep at Princeton, and again with her at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto in 2015. They first performed Everyman at Carnegie Hall in 2007 with Philip Seymour Hoffman. They have toured 14 cities with the poet Robert Pinsky, and played regularly with the Hungarian Folk group Muzsikas.

In 2014 the Takács became the first string quartet to be awarded the Wigmore Hall Medal. In 2012, Gramophone announced that the Takács was the first string quartet to be inducted into its Hall of Fame. The ensemble also won the 2011 Award for Chamber Music and Song presented by the Royal Philharmonic Society in London.

The Takács Quartet was formed in 1975 at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest by Gabor Takács-Nagy, Károly Schranz, Gabor Ormai and András Fejér, while all four were students. The group received international attention in 1977, winning First Prize and the Critics’ Prize at the International String Quartet Competition in Evian, France. The Quartet also won the Gold Medal at the 1978 Portsmouth and Bordeaux Competitions and First Prizes at the Budapest International String Quartet Competition in 1978 and the Bratislava Competition in 1981. The Quartet made its North American debut tour in 1982. Members of the Takács Quartet are the grateful beneficiaries of an instrument loan by the Drake Foundation. We are grateful to be Thomastik-Infeld Artists.

July 30, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Beethoven, Smetana, and Mozart

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Piano Trio No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 1, No. 1   
YooJin Jang, violin, Denise Djokic, cello, Tao Lin, piano

BED?ICH SMETANA
From My Homeland
Sergiu Schwartz, violin, Jeewon Park, piano

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
String Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K. 515
Ayano Ninomiya, Meg Freivogel, violin, Atar Arad, Ivo-Jan van der Werff, viola, Denise Djokic, cello

August 1, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Mendelssohn, Yun, and Brahms

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2 in D Major, Op. 58
Edward Arron, cello , Jeewon Park, piano

ISANG YUN

Duo for Cello and Harp
Denise Djokic, cello , June Han, harp

JOHANNES BRAHMS

Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60, “Werther”
Mikhail Kopelman, violin , Phillip Ying, viola , Edward Arron, cello , Pei-Shan Lee, piano

August 3, 2025

2:00pm to 3:30pm : Orion Weiss

The first half of this concert will feature a solo recital by pianist Orion Weiss. For the second half, he will be joined by Festival faculty for a chamber collaboration.

One of the most sought-after soloists and chamber music collaborators of his generation, Orion Weiss is a “brilliant pianist” (The New York Times) with “powerful technique and exceptional insight” (The Washington Post). He has dazzled audiences worldwide with his “head-spinning range of colors” (Chicago Tribune) and has performed with all the major orchestras of North America, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston SymphonyOrchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic and New York Philharmonic.

In 2024, Weiss will release Arc III, the final album in his Arc recital trilogy, on First Hand Records. His live performance schedule includes engagements with violinist James Ehnes, who joins Weiss for his return to London’s Wigmore Hall as well as for performances in Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Seattle, Bloomington, Indiana and Bergen, Norway. Among numerous engagements with U.S. orchestras, Weiss makes his David Geffen Hall debut with the American Symphony Orchestra. He is featured in recitals at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Italy’s Teatro Marrucino Biglietteria and Washington University in St. Louis, as well as on a tour with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and an appearance at LaMusica Chamber Music Festival in Sarasota, Florida. Over the last year, he made his return to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, led by Michael Tilson Thomas; debuted with the National Symphony; gave multiple performances with violinist Augustin Hadelich in North America and Asia; and appeared at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center and Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall.

Known for his affinity for chamber music, Weiss performs regularly with violinists Augustin Hadelich, William Hagen and James Ehnes; pianists Michael Brown and Shai Wosner; and the Ariel, Parker and Pacifica Quartets. He has appeared across the United States at venues and festivals including the Ravinia Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, The Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg), The Edinburgh International Festival, Seattle and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festivals and more.

Weiss can be heard on the Naxos, Telos, Bridge, First Hand, Yarlung and Artek labels. His discography includes a recording of Christopher Rouse’s Seeing; the two previous installments in his Arc trilogy; a recording of Korngold’s Left Hand concerto, plus other works with The Orchestra Now; and recordings of Gershwin’s complete works for piano and orchestra with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and JoAnn Falletta. He is also featured in recordings such as The Piano Protagonists with The Orchestra Now led by Leon Botstein; Scarlatti’s Complete Keyboard Sonatas; a solo recital disc of Bartók, Dvorák, and Prokofiev; Brahms Sonatas with violinist Arnaud Sussmann; a solo album of J.S. Bach, Scriabin, Mozart, and Carter; and a recital disc with cellist Julie Albers.

His career honors include the Classical Recording Foundation’s Young Artist of the Year, Gilmore Young Artist Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Gina Bachauer Scholarship at The Juilliard School and the Mieczyslaw Munz Scholarship.

A native of Ohio, Weiss attended the Cleveland Institute of Music and made his Cleveland Orchestra debut performing Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in 1999. The next month, with less than 24 hours’ notice, Weiss stepped in to replace André Watts for a performance of Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and was immediately invited to return later that year. In 2000, he graduated from the Young Artist Highschool program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where he studied with Paul Schenly, Daniel Shapiro and Sergei Babayan. In 2004, he graduated from the Juilliard School, where he studied with Emanuel Ax and Jerome Lowenthal. In 2005, he toured Israel with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Itzhak Perlman. That same year, he made his New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall, and his European debut in a recital at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

August 3, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Jupiter Quartet with Jon Nakamatsu

Jupiter String Quartet

Nelson Lee, Meg Freivogel, violin • Liz Freivogel, viola • Daniel McDonough, cello

JOHANNES BRAHMS
String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1    

CARLOS SIMON
Warmth from Other Suns

CÉSAR FRANCK
Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 14
Jon Nakamatsu, piano

About the Jupiter String Quartet

The Jupiter String Quartet is a particularly intimate group, consisting of violinists Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel (Meg’s older sister), and cellist Daniel McDonough (Meg’s husband, Liz’s brother-in-law). Founded in 2001, this tight-knit ensemble is firmly established as an important voice in the world of chamber music, and exudes an energy that is at once friendly, knowledgeable, and adventurous. The New Yorker states, “The Jupiter String Quartet, an ensemble of eloquent intensity, has matured into one of the mainstays of the American chamber-music scene.”

The quartet has performed across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Americas in some of the world’s finest halls, including New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes, Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, Austria’s Esterhazy Palace, and Seoul’s Sejong Chamber Hall. Their major music festival appearances include the Aspen Music Festival and School, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, Rockport Music Festival, the Banff Centre, Virginia Arts Festival, Music at Menlo, Maverick Concerts, Caramoor International Music Festival, Lanaudiere Festival, West Cork (Ireland) Chamber Music Festival, Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival, Skaneateles Festival, Madeline Island Music Festival, Yellow Barn Festival, Encore Chamber Music Festival, the inaugural Chamber Music Athens, and the Seoul Spring Festival, among others.

Their chamber music honors and awards include the grand prizes in the Banff International String Quartet Competition and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition in 2004. In 2005, they won the Young Concert Artists International auditions in New York City, which quickly led to a busy touring schedule. They received the Cleveland Quartet Award from Chamber Music America in 2007, followed by an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2008. From 2007-2010, they were in residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Two and, in 2009, they received a grant from the Fromm Foundation to commission a new quartet from Dan Visconti for a CMSLC performance at Alice Tully Hall. In 2012, the Jupiter Quartet members were appointed as artists-in-residence and faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where they continue to perform regularly in the beautiful Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, maintain private studios, and direct the chamber music program.

The Jupiter String Quartet feels a strong connection to the core string quartet repertoire; they have presented the complete Bartok string quartets at the University of Illinois and the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets at the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Lanaudiere Festival in Quebec. Also deeply committed to new music, they have commissioned string quartets from Nathan Shields, Stephen Andrew Taylor, Michi Wiancko, Syd Hodkinson, Hannah Lash, Dan Visconti, and Kati Agócs; a quintet with baritone voice by Mark Adamo; and a piano quintet by Pierre Jalbert. They are also part of a commission for chamber choir and string quartet, with music by Su Lian Tan and words by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

The Jupiters place a strong emphasis on developing relationships with future audiences through educational performances in schools and other community centers. They believe that, because of the intensity of its interplay and communication, chamber music is one of the most effective ways of spreading an enthusiasm for “classical” music to new audiences. The quartet has also held numerous masterclasses for young musicians, including most recently at Northwestern University, Eastman School of Music, the Aspen Music Festival, Encore Chamber Festival, Madeline Island Music Festival, and Peabody Conservatory.

The quartet’s latest album is a collaboration with the Jasper String Quartet (Marquis Classics, 2021), produced by Grammy-winner Judith Sherman. This collaborative album features the world premiere recording of Dan Visconti’s Eternal Breath, Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet in E-flat, Op. 20, and Osvaldo Golijov’s Last Round. The Arts Fuse acclaimed, “This joint album from the Jupiter String Quartet and Jasper String Quartet is striking for its backstory but really memorable for its smart program and fine execution.” The quartet’s discography also includes numerous recordings on labels including Azica Records and Deutsche Grammophon.

Recent and upcoming highlights include residencies at Taos School of Music Summer Festival, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the University of Idaho, as well as performances presented by the Library of Congress, Bay Chamber Concerts, Calgary Pro Musica, San Antonio Chamber Music Society, Buffalo Chamber Music Society, and many more. As artists-in-residence at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana, they also perform a series of concerts at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

Early exposure to chamber music brought these four musicians together. Meg and Liz grew up playing string quartets with their two brothers and they came to love chamber music during weekly coachings with cellist Oliver Edel, who taught generations of students in the Washington, D.C. area. Nelson’s parents are pianists (his father also conducts) and his twin sisters, Alicia and Andrea, are both musicians. Although Daniel originally wanted to be a violinist, he chose the cello because the organizers of his first string program declared that he had “better hands for the cello,” and is happy that he ended up where he did. 

The quartet chose its name because Jupiter was the most prominent planet in the night sky at the time of its formation and the astrological symbol for Jupiter resembles the number four. They are also proud to list among their accomplishments in recent years the addition of seven quartet children: Pablo, Lillian, Clara, Dominic, Felix, Oliver, and Joelle. You may spot some of these smaller Jupiters in the audience or tagging along to rehearsals.

August 6, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Prokofiev, Williams, and Faure

SERGEI PROKOFIEV

Sonata for Violin and Piano in D Major, Op. 94a
Ayano Ninomiya, violin , Pei-Shan Lee, piano

AMY WILLIAMS

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Festival Fellows , Luke Rinderknecht, percussion

AMY WILLIAMS

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Festival Fellows, piano

GABRIEL FAURÉ

Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15
Sergiu Schwartz, violin , Ivo-Jan van der Werff, viola , Edward Arron, cello , Jeewon Park, piano

August 8, 2025

7:30pm to 9:00pm : Richard Goode Plays Mozart

This concert features renowned pianist Richard Goode performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto K. 503 with the Festival Orchestra under the baton of Peter Bay.

PAQUITO D’RIVERA

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Festival Fellows , Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe

ERNST VON DOHNÁNYI

Sextet in C Major, Op. 37
Festival Fellows , YooJin Jang, violin , Liz Freivogel, viola , Denise Djokic, cello , Jon Nakamatsu, piano

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503
Richard Goode, piano , Peter Bay, conductor , Festival Orchestra

About Richard Goode

Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, and has been acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic music. In regular performances with the major orchestras, recitals in the world’s music capitals, and through his extensive and acclaimed Nonesuch recordings, he has won a large and devoted following. Gramophone magazine recently captured the essence of what makes Richard Goode such an original and compelling artist: “Every time we hear him, he impresses us as better than we remembered, surprising us, surpassing our expectations and communicating perceptions that stay in the mind.”

One of today’s most revered recitalists, Richard Goode is a favorite of audiences in Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Houston, Portland and Chicago and numerous colleges and universities around the country. In Europe, appearances at Wigmore Hall, the Edinburgh Festival, Berlin, and throughout Germany, Italy, Switzerland, and the UK are always highlights. His masterclasses, in person or online, continue to be hailed as truly memorable events.

In 2022-2023, thirty years after his historic complete Beethoven Sonata Cycle at the 92nd Street Y and his Grammy-nominated recording on Nonesuch Records, Richard Goode felt ready to tackle Beethoven’s daunting Diabelli Variations. His fascinating interpretation has been heard at the 92nd Street Y, his annual concerts at Wigmore Hall in London and for the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and, in 2023-24, for such other regular Richard Goode presenters as Tippet Rise, in Detroit, Toronto and St. Paul. Mr. Goode returned to the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra in May 2024 for performances of Mozart Piano Concertos and was immediately re-engaged as Artistic Partner for the 2025-26 season. The current season brings return visits to Wigmore Hall, Chipping Campden Music Festival, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Shriver Hall, 92nd Street Y, and Gilmore Piano Festival (with Sarah Shafer, soprano), among others.

Richard Goode appeared as soloist with Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in a program filmed as part of a documentary celebrating the 50th anniversary of one of the country’s most popular summer musical events. He also toured in the US with one of the world’s most admired orchestras and his recording partner, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer. Their recording of the five Beethoven piano concertos has won worldwide acclaim; Goode performed concertos No. 2 and No. 4 on the tour, which included performances at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Lincoln Center, and for the Chicago Symphony, the University Musical Society in Ann Arbor, and Celebrity Series of Boston. Other orchestral appearances include the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and in Europe with the London Philharmonic, Oslo Philharmonic, and BBC Philharmonic.

Among other highlights of recent seasons have been the recitals in which, for the first time in his career, Mr. Goode performed the last three Beethoven sonatas in one program, drawing capacity audiences and raves in such cities as New York, London, and Berlin. The New York Times, in reviewing his Carnegie Hall performance, hailed his interpretations as “majestic, profound readings… Mr. Goode’s playing throughout was organic and inspired, the noble, introspective themes unfolding with a simplicity that rendered them all the more moving.” He was also heard as soloist with Andris Nelsons in his first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and at Carnegie Hall, where Goode was featured in a season-long Artist Perspective that included a Main Hall recital, two chamber music concerts with young artists from the Marlboro Music Festival, and a master class on Debussy.

An exclusive Nonesuch recording artist, Goode has made more than two dozen recordings over the years, ranging from solo and chamber works to lieder and concertos. His recording of the five Beethoven concertos with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer was released in 2009 to exceptional critical acclaim, described as “a landmark recording” by the Financial Times and nominated for a Grammy award. His 10-CD set of the complete Beethoven sonatas cycle, the first-ever by an American-born pianist, was nominated for a Grammy and has been ranked among the most distinguished recordings of this repertoire. To mark the 25th anniversary in 2018-19 of the release of these historic recordings, Nonesuch Records re-released them to great acclaim. Other recording highlights include a series of Bach partitas, a duo recording with Dawn Upshaw, and Mozart piano concertos with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

A native of New York, Richard Goode studied with Elvira Szigeti and Claude Frank, with Nadia Reisenberg at the Mannes College of Music, and with Rudolf Serkin at the Curtis Institute. His numerous prizes over the years include the Young Concert Artists Award, first prize in the Clara Haskil Competition, the Avery Fisher Prize, and a Grammy award for his recording of the Brahms sonatas with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman. His first public performances of the complete cycle of Beethoven sonatas at Kansas City’s Folly Theater and New York’s 92Y in 1987-88 earned him a Grammy nomination and brought him to international attention being hailed by The New York Times as “among the season’s most important and memorable events.” It was later performed with great success at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall in 1994 and 1995.

Mr. Goode served, together with Mitsuko Uchida, as co-artistic director of the Marlboro Music School and Festival in Marlboro in Vermont from 1999 through 2013. Participating initially at the age of 14, at what The New Yorker magazine recently described as “the classical world’s most coveted retreat,” he made a notable contribution to this unique community over the 28 summers he spent there. In fall 2021, Mr. Goode joined the Peabody Conservatory as Distinguished Artist Faculty. He is married to the violinist Marcia Weinfeld, and, when the Goodes are not on tour, they and their collection of some 5,000 volumes live in New York City.

Date : June 30 - August 8, 2025

Location :

Crooker Theater, 116 Maquoit Road, Brunswick, ME 04011

Studzinski Recital Hall, 12 Campus Road South, Brunswick, ME 04011

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