2021 - 2022 CONCERT SEASON
ULYSSES STRING QUARTET
Christina Bouey, violin; Rhiannon
Banerdt, violin; Colin Brookes, viola; Grace Ho, cello
Sunday, October 3, 2021
4:00 - 5:30pm
The Ulysses Quartet is one of the
most exciting young ensembles in the chamber music world.
Founded in the summer of 2015, the group won the grand prize
and gold medal in the senior string division of the 2016
Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and first prize
in the 2018 Schoenfeld International String Competition.
They were winners of the Vietnam International Music
Competition in 2019, and in the fall of 2019, the Ulysses
Quartet were named as Lisa Arnhold Fellows of the Juilliard
School, an appointment that has been extended through May
2022. The group’s name pays homage to Homer’s hero
Odysseus and his 10-year voyage home.
Program
Schubert: String Quartet
in C minor “Quartettsatz” D. 703
Janáček: Quartet No. 2
“Intimate Letters”
*Intermission*
Ravel:
String Quartet in F major
ESCHER QUARTET
Adam Barnett-Hart, violin;
Brendan Speltz, violin; Pierre LaPointe, viola; Brook
Speltz, cello
Sunday, November 14,
2021
4:00 - 5:30pm
Within months of its inception in
2005 the Escher Quartet came to the attention of key musical
figures worldwide. Championed by the Emerson Quartet, the
Escher was invited by both Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak
Perlman to be Quartet in Residence at each artist’s summer
festival. A former BBC New Generation Artist, the quartet
has performed at the BBC Proms at Cadogan Hall and is a
regular guest at Wigmore Hall. The ensemble is currently
String Quartet in Residence at Southern Methodist University
in Dallas, Texas. They also serve as Season Artists of the
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The Quartet takes
its name from the Dutch graphic artist M.C. Escher, inspired
by Escher’s method of interplay among individual components
working together to form a whole.
Program
Haydn: Quartet in B flat Major, Op.76, No.4 "Sunrise”
Eugene Drucker: Suite for String Quartet “Series of Twelve”
*Intermission*
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 12 in E-Flat Major, Op.127
George Walker: “Lyric for Strings”
WALSH-DRUCKER-COOPER
TRIODiane Walsh, piano; Eugene Drucker, violin; Roberta Cooper, cello
Sunday, December 12, 2021
4:00 - 5:30pm
The Westchester Chamber Music Society is excited to welcome
this amazing trio of artists to our exceptional space in
Rye. Eugene Drucker, founder and member of the world-famous
Emerson Quartet, formed this trio with the cellist
Roberta Cooper, and the pianist Diane Walsh–and what a
wonderful constellation! Walsh, Drucker and Cooper
first performed together at the Skaneateles Festival in the
Finger Lakes region of New York in August 2001. Since that
time, the Trio has been praised by critics and celebrated by
chamber-music audiences as one of the world’s finest
ensembles.
Program
Mozart: Piano Trio in G Major, K. 564
Schumann: Six
Pieces in Canonic Form, Op. 56
*Intermission*
Brahms: Trio No. 2 in C Major for Violin, Cello, and Piano,
Op. 87
THE
AMERIGO TRIOGlenn Dicterow, violin; Karen Dreyfus, Viola, Inbal Segev, cello
Sunday, March 13, 2022
4:00 - 5:30pm
The Amerigo Trio is one of the most recent major string
trios to emerge in the world of chamber music. The former
New York Philharmonic Concertmaster Glenn Dicterow formed
the Amerigo with the violist Karen Dreyfus and the cellist
Inbal Segev after their successful collaboration at the
Bowdoin International Chamber Music Festival. In the short
time since the group’s founding in the summer of 2009, they
have been invited to play at some of the most prestigious
concert series in the United States. The Amerigo Trio is
named after Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer. The
trio is committed to the exploration of the riches of the
string-trio repertoire, both new and old.
Bach: Goldberg Variations (arranged for string trio by
Dmitry Sitkovsky (selected movements)
Jean Cras: String
Trio for violin, viola and violoncello
*Intermission*
Beethoven: String Trio in G Major, Op. 9, No. 1
AMERICAN
BRASS QUINTETKevin Cobb, trumpet; Louis Hanzlik, trumpet; Eric Reed, horn; Michael Powell, trombone; John D. Rojak, bass trombone
Sunday, April 3, 2022
4:00 - 5:30pm
The American Brass Quintet (ABQ) has been internationally
recognized as the most distinguished of all the brass
quintets. As 2013 recipient of Chamber Music America’s
highest honor, the Richard J. Bogomolny National Service
Award for significant and lasting contributions to the
field, ABQ’s rich history includes performances in Asia,
Australia, Central and South America, Europe, the Middle
East, and all fifty of the United States; a discography of
nearly sixty recordings; and the premieres of over
150 contemporary brass works. This is the premiere performance
of ABQ for the Westchester Chamber Music Society.
Program
To be announced
