2021 - 2022 CONCERT SEASON
Francesca dePasquale, violin; Caeli Smith, viola; Michael Katz, cello; Melissa Baker, flute
Program Change: The Amerigo Trio will, unfortunately, be unable to perform in New York on March 13th, as originally scheduled. The Manhattan Chamber Players will instead be featured on this date.
Tribute to Dr. Caroline Bauman
After many decades of inspiring leadership, Dr. Caroline Bauman has been named President Emerita of WCMS. This performance will be celebrated as a Tribute to Dr. Bauman.
4:00 - 5:30pm
The Manhattan Chamber Players is a chamber music collective of New York-based musicians who share the common aim of performing the greatest works in the chamber repertoire at the highest level. Formed by Founding Artistic Director Luke Fleming, MCP is comprised of an impressive roster of musicians who all come from the tradition of great music making at the Marlboro Music Festival, Steans Institute at Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festivals and Perlman Music Program, and are former students of the Curtis Institute, Juilliard School, Colburn School, New England Conservatory, and Yale School of Music.
Program
Mozart: Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285
Beethoven: String Trio in C Minor, Op. 9, No. 3
*Tribute & Intermission*
Beethoven: Serenade for Flute, Violin, and Viola, Op. 25
ALEXANDER
STRING QUARTET
Sunday, April 3, 2022, 4:00 PM
The Alexander String Quartet (ASQ), formed in 1981 in New York, has performed in the major music capitals of five continents, securing its standing among the world's premier ensembles, and is a major artistic presence in its current home base of San Francisco. ASQ's recordings have won international critical acclaim. Their 2019 release of Dvořák's "American" was selected by MusicWeb International as a featured recording of the year.
Program
Haydn: Quartet in C Major, Op. 54, No.2
Jessie Montgomery: Strum for String Quartet
George Walker: Molto adagio from String Quartet No. 1
Dvořák: Quartet in F Major, Op. 96, "American"
Previous Concerts This Season...
ULYSSES STRING QUARTET
Christina Bouey, violin; Rhiannon Banerdt, violin; Colin Brookes, viola; Grace Ho, cello
October 2021
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
November 2021
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
December 2021
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
