Peter Winograd, Violin
Laurie Carney, Violin
Daniel Avshalomov, Viola
Margo Drakos, Cello

Internationally recognized as one of the world's finest quartets, the American String Quartet is celebrating its 30th anniversary during 2005-2006. Formed in 1974, when its original members were students at The Juilliard School, the American String Quartet was launched by winning both the Coleman Competition and the Naumburg Award in the same year. In three decades of touring, the Quartet has performed in all fifty states and appeared in virtually every important concert hall throughout the world. Their presentations of the complete quartets of Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Bartok and Mozart have won widespread critical acclaim. The 1998 MusicMasters Complete Mozart String Quartets performed on a matched quartet set of instruments by Stradivarius are widely considered to have set the standard for this repertoire.

Resident quartet at the Aspen Music Festival since 1974 and the Manhattan School of Music in New York since 1984, the American also has served as resident quartet at the Taos School of Music (1979 to 1998), the Peabody Conservatory, and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The Quartet's diverse activities also have included numerous international radio and television broadcasts, tours of Asia, and performances with the New York City Ballet, the Montreal Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Their extensive discography can be heard on the Albany, CRI, MusicMasters, Musical Heritage Society, Nonesuch and RCA labels. The Quartet is popular with national radio audiences and has been featured on Minnesota Public Radios St. Paul Sunday Morning, National Public Radios All Things Considered and live broadcasts on WFMT.

Individually, the members devote additional time outside the quartets active performance and teaching schedule to solo appearances, recitals and master classes.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

String Quartet in F Major, K. 590 ("Prussian")

Dmitri Shostakovitch

String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110

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Maurice Ravel

String Quartet in F Major

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Reservation lottery submission deadline: October 10
Admission: $20 per person

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November 19 (Saturday), 2:00 p.m.
and
November 20 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.

— Chamber Music at the Clark — 

Paris Piano Trio

Les Musiciens
Régis Pasquier, violin
Roland Pidoux, cello
Jean-Claude Pennetier, piano

These three great French soloists have been connected by their love of chamber music since they were students together at the National Conservatory of Music in Paris. In fact, they made their first tour together when Régis Pasquier was just 13 years old. Each graduated with top honors from the Conservatory (where they all are now professors) and rapidly established a major solo career.

In all the years since, they have consistently made time to tour together on the continent, in England and in Canada. At the peak of their individual careers, they are making an increased commitment to the Trio, where they have the opportunity to express simultaneously their musical individuality and their total musical rapport. The Trio's first major tour of the United States, in January 1998, won superlatives from critics and presenters across the country, and it has since been re-engaged in major cities from Washington to Los Angeles. A very successful debut tour of Latin America in June 2000 also has been followed by several return visits.

The Trio's recordings include Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich on the Lyrinx label in 1998, the trios of Schubert and Brahms, and the chamber music of Chausson on the Harmonia Mundi label, all released under the name "Les Musiciens," by which they are known in Europe.

Saturday, November 19, 2005, 2:00 p.m. at the Clark Library

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Ludwig van Beethoven
The Complete Trios for violin, cello and piano

Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 1, No. 1

Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11

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Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3

Trio in D Major, Op.70, No. 1 (“Ghost”)

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Sunday, November 20, 2005, 2:00 p.m. at the Clark Library

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Ludwig van Beethoven
The Complete Trios for violin, cello and piano

Trio in G Major, Op. 1, No. 2

Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 70, No. 2

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Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97 (“The Archduke”)

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These concerts are made possible by the generosity of donors who wish to remain anonymous.

Reservation lottery submission deadline: October 17
Admission: $20 per person, per concert date

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December 4 (Sunday), 2:00 p.m.

— Chamber Music at the Clark — 

A Special Fundraising Event to Support the Clark Library Chamber Music Endowment Fund.
This concert is made possible by the generous support of Catherine and Ralph Benkaim.

The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

St. Petersburg String Quartet

Alia Aranovskaya and David Chernyavsky, violins
Boris Vayner, viola
Leonid Shukayev, cello

One of the world's leading string quartets, the St. Petersburg was founded as the Leningrad Quartet by Alla Aranovskaya and Leonid Shukayev, both graduates of the Leningrad Conservatory. The Quartet blazed a trail through international chamber music competitions, winning First Prize at the All-Soviet Union String Quartet Competition, the Silver Medal and a Special Prize at the Tokyo International Competition of Chamber Ensembles, First Prize and both Special Prizes at the Vittorio Gui International Competition for Chamber Ensembles in Florence, Italy, and First Prize and the "Grand Prix Musica Viva" at the International Competition for Chamber Ensembles in Melbourne, Australia.

When the city of Leningrad resumed its historic name, the Quartet changed its name to the St. Petersburg String Quartet. The Quartet has continued its ascendancy, building a reputation of worldwide proportions including a Grammy nomination, “Best Record” honors in both Stereo Review and Gramophone Magazines, and the Chamber Music America/WQXR Prize for Best CD of 2001. The Quartet held the respected position of Quartet-in-Residence at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music for five years.

Audiences from Toronto to Tokyo, from Lithuania to London and in concert halls across the United States give the St. Petersburg Quartet standing ovations. No classical CD collection is complete without recordings by the acclaimed group, which include the two Borodin Quartets on the Dorian label, the complete Shostakovich cycle on Hyperion, a disc of Prokofiev’s two Quartets and Nadarejshvili’s String Quartet No. 1 and Glazunov’s Quartet No. 5 and Novelettes on Delos.

The St. Petersburg String Quartet appears by arrangement with Lisa Sapinkopf Artists.

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Alexander Borodin
Quartet No. 2 in D Major

Dmitri Shostakovich
Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp Minor, Op. 108

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Pyotr Il’ych Tchaikovsky
Quartet No. 1, Op. 11 in D Major

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Reservation lottery submission deadline: November 21
Admission: $75 per person, $60 of which is tax-deductible

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February 5 (Sunday), 2006, 2:00 p.m.

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Artemis Quartet

Natalia Prischepenko and Heime Müller, violins
Volker Jacobsen, viola
Eckart Runge, cello

The Artemis Quartet was formed at the Musikhochschule in Lübeck, Germany, and quickly became renowned throughout Europe. They have won numerous awards, including the 1995 German Music Competition, the Munich Competition in 1996, and the Borciani Competition in 1997. The Artemis has appeared in such major venues as the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Salzburg Festival, the Beethovenhaus in Bonn and Wigmore Hall in London. In 2001, the Quartet was honored with the Rheingau Music Award, and was the first quartet ever to be awarded the Music Prize of the Association of German critics. On its fourth North American tour, in the spring of 2002, the Artemis Quartet confirmed its preeminence among the world’s young string quartets, winning extraordinary praise from critics and the public across the continent from Boston to Los Angeles. The New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini declared that “the Berlin-based Artemis Quartet increasingly seems the most impressive quartet among the new generation.”

This group focuses constantly on the quality of its musicianship, enlarging and deepening their repertoire and musical knowledge during various residences. In 1999, they accepted an invitation from the Berlin Science Academy to live and work intensively for three months with luminaries from other fields such as physics, literature, art, history and mathematics. During this time, the Artemis scheduled no concerts in order to concentrate on its residency experience.

The Artemis Quartet records on the Ars Musici label, and several of their recordings have been awarded a Diapason d’Or and the magazine named the Quartet “Artists of the Year 2002.” The Quartet is featured in Bruno Monsaingeon’s 2001 film Strings Attached, and on the sound track of the movie Death and the Maiden.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quartet in B-flat Major, K. 589

Béla Bartók
Quartet No. 4

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Franz Schubert
Quartet in A Minor, D. 804

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This concert is made possible by the generous support of The Ahmanson Foundation of Los Angeles.

The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Reservation lottery submission deadline: January 9, 2006
Admission: $20 per person

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April 2 (Sunday), 2006, 2:00 p.m.

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Pavel Haas Quartet

Veronika Jaruskova, violin
Katerina Gemrotova, violin
Pavel Nikl, viola
Peter Jarusek, cello

The Prague-based Pavel Haas Quartet captured the attention of the music world in 2005 with first prize wins in the string quartet competitions of the Prague Spring Festival and the International Borciani String Quartet Competition.  As Borciani winner, the Quartet will present 40 concerts on tours of Europe, Japan and North America during the 2005-2006 season, performing in such cities as Brussels, Vienna, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Rome, Milan, Tokyo, Washington and Los Angeles.  The Quartet has recently appeared at Wigmore Hall in London with the Skampa Quartet and at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence.

The Pavel Haas Quartet has studied with some of the most important figures of the string quartet world, beginning at the prestigious Accademia di Musica della Quartetto in Florence, where they were taught by such eminent musicians as Piero Farulli (Quartetto Italiano), Norbert Brainin (Amadeus Quartet), Hatto Beyerle (Alban Berg Quartet), Valentin Berlinski (Borodin Quartet) and Christophe Coin (Quatuor Mosaiques). Currently, the Quartet studies with Professor Milan Skampa, violist of the renowned Smetana Quartet, and with Walter Levin (LaSalle Quartet) in Basel.

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Bedřich Smetana
Quartet No. 2 in D Minor

Pavel Haas
Quartet No. 2, Op. 7, "from the Monkey Mountains"

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Leoš Janáček
Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"

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The series Chamber Music at the Clark is sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

Reservation lottery submission deadline: March 6, 2006
Admission: $20 per person

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The Henry J. Bruman
Summer Chamber Music Festival

July 17, 20, 24, 27, 31, and August 3, 2006

1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m.

Korn Convocation Hall,

UCLA Anderson

———— admission is free     •     no tickets are required ————

 

———— Monday, July 17 ————

Tamara Chernyak & Stacy Wetzel, violins

Minor L. Wetzel, viola

Barry Gold, cello

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quartet in D Major, K. 575 (“Prussian”)

Ludwig Van Beethoven, String Quartet No. 10, in E-Flat Major, Op. 74

 

———— Thursday, July 20 ————

Armadillo String Quartet

Barry Socher & Steve Scharf, violins

Raymond Tischer, viola

Armen Ksajikian, cello

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Divertimento in D Major, K. 136

Alexander Taneyev, String Quartet in D Minor

Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 7 in F Major, Op. 108

 

———— Monday, July 24 ————

Mládí

Pamela Vliek, flute, Rong-Huey Liu, oboe, Maria Casale, harp

Donald T. Foster, clarinet, Valentin Martchev, bassoon

Teag Reaves, french horn, Alma Fernandez, viola

Irving Fine, Partita for Wind Quintet

Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasileiras No. 6 for Flute and Bassoon

Claude Debussy, Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp

Jacques Ibert, Trois pièces brèves

 

———— Thursday, July 27 ————

I Palpiti Soloists

Presented by Young Artists International

Nora Hapca, Robert Kowalski, Peter Rainer & Julia Sakharova, violins

Jason Calloway & Jelena Ochich, cello

Rumen Cvetkova, viola, Tibi Cziger, clarinet

And featuring guest musicians Marcia Dickstein, harp, and Adrian Spence, flute

Bohuslav Martinu, Three Madrigals for Violin and Viola

Zoltán Kodály, Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7

Maurice Ravel, Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet

 

———— Monday, July 31 ————

Calder Quartet

Andrew Bulbrook& Benjamin Jacobson, violins

Jonathan Moerschel, viola

Eric Byers, cello

Belá Bartók, String Quartet No. 6

Johannes Brahms, String Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 51, No. 1

 

———— Thursday, August 3 ————

La Camerata

Philip Vaiman, violin

Andrew Shulman, cello

Jim Foschia, clarinet

Johann Sebastian Bach, Chaconne from the Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV1004

Reinhold Gliere, Duette for violin and cello, Op.39

Ingolf Dahl, Concerto a Tre

 

Korn Convocation Hall is in the Anderson complex of UCLA’s north campus. Parking is available for $8 in Lot 4. Enter the campus at Westwood Plaza (off Sunset Boulevard) and inquire at the kiosk. For additional inquiries, please call 310-206-5078.

This festival is made possible by the Henry J. Bruman Trust with the support of the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies.

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