Issued by: Beth Stafford
414-229-4800
bstaff@uwm.edu
Date: March 15, 2002
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Issued by: Beth Stafford Date: March 15, 2002 |
MILWAUKEE -The Fine Arts Quartet, artists-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Peck School of the Arts, presents its warm-weather series of chamber music concerts this year on Sunday, June 2; Wednesday, June 5; Sunday, June 9; and Sunday, June 16.
The Summer Evenings of Music Series concerts all take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd. Quartet members include Ralph Evans, violin; Efim Boico, violin; Yuri Gandelsman, viol; and Wolfgang Laufer, cello. Guest artist Ralf Gothóni, piano, joins the Fine Arts Quartet for the first two concerts, and pianist Marian Hahn will play at the June 9 concert.
The program schedule is as follows:
June 2
Bernard Herrmann: Echoes for String Quartet (1965)
Janacek: Violin Sonata (1921)
Dvorak: Piano Quintet, Op. 81
with Ralf Gothóni, guest pianist
June 5
Beethoven: Quartet Op. 18, No. 3
Janacek: solo piano work TBA
Schnittke: Piano Quintet (1976)
with Ralf Gothóni, guest pianist
June 9
Turina: La Oracion del Torero, Op. 34 (1926)
Beethoven: Grosse Fugue, Op. 133
Shostakovitch: Piano Quintet, Op. 57 (1940)
with Marian Hahn, guest pianist
June 16
Schubert: Quartettsatz
Prokofiev: Quartet No. 1, Op. 50 (1931)
Tchaikovsky: Quartet No. 2
Summer Evenings of Music
Tickets are available by phone, mail or in person through the UWM Peck School of the Arts Box Office, 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., 414-229-4308. Prices are $16/general public and $9/students. Season tickets for only $54 (a $10 savings over individual ticket prices) also are available. Season ticket orders are requested by May 10.
The Box Office is open for phone and walk-up business between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and one hour prior to performances. Because the box office will be relocating from the lobby of the Theatre Building to the Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts this spring, the public is advised to call ahead for further information before coming in person to purchase tickets. Parking is free on Sundays in the UWM Union Parking Garage, l2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
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Founded in Chicago in 1946, the Fine Arts Quartet is one of the most distinguished ensembles in chamber music today, with an illustrious history of performing success, an extensive recording legacy, and an astonishing durability. The quartet's members are artists-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The Fine Arts Quartet is among the elite few to have toured internationally since the end of World War II, passing the milestone of a half-century of uninterrupted existence with remarkably few changes in personnel. Beginning in the 1970s, the original quartet members were gradually succeeded upon their retirement by brilliant new artists: Ralph Evans, a prize winner in the International Tchaikovsky Competition; Efim Boico, former concertmaster of the Orchestre de Paris and member of the Tel Aviv Quartet; Wolfgang Laufer, former principal cellist of the Hamburg Philharmonic and Jerusalem Radio Orchestra; and newest member of the quartet, Yuri Gandelsman, the former principal violist of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ralf Gothóni, a true polymath, is a pianist, composer, conductor, chamber musician, a teacher, an essayist and the principal conductor of the distinguished English Chamber Orchestra. Gothóni created a reputation around the world in the 1970s as an accomplished Lied pianist, appearing with singers such as Martti Talvela, Jorma Hynninen and Anne Sophie von Otter. He soon built a career as a soloist and a chamber musician, too, appearing at the Salzburg, Berlin and Edinburgh festivals, and performing as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and many other leading ensembles. He recorded over 80 discs between 1989 and 1998, mainly for the Finnish Ondine label.
In 1994, Gothóni won the Gilmore Prize, the world's largest music prize, bringing him numerous new engagements, particularly in the United States. Prior to his appointment with the ECO, he was chief conductor of the Finlandia Sinfonietta (1989-94) and principal guest conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra (1995-2000). He has also been artistic director of the famous Savonlinna Opera Festival (1984-87) and the Forbidden City Music Festival in Beijing. He has been a professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki since 1992 and was also a professor at the Hochschule für Musik in Hamburg (1986-96) and at the Hanns Eisler Hochschule in Berlin (1996-2000). His output as a composer includes three chamber operas, the chamber cantata The Ox and its Sephard (recorded for Ondine), and a concerto grosso version of this piece for violin, piano and strings.
Marian Hahn's solo career was launched in 1976 when she became a winner in the International Leventritt Competition. She made her Carnegie Recital Hall debut as a Concert Artists Guild winner and subsequently appeared in New York recitals at the Metropolitan Museum and Merkin Concert Hall. She has also been a top prizewinner in the Busoni, University of Maryland, and Kosciuszko competitions. Nationwide tours have included recitals on prestigious series in Washington D.C., Boston, Chicago and Minneapolis, on college campuses, and in community concerts. As a soloist with orchestras, she has appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Pops, and five times with the Jacksonville Symphony. Critically acclaimed European tours have taken her to cities in England, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Germany.
An avid chamber musician, Hahn has participated in the Marlboro, Sedona, Grand Canyon, and Newport festivals, and tours extensively with the Amadeus Trio. She also is a founding member of the Amabile Piano Quartet. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Oberlin College, she received her MM degree from the Juilliard School; her teachers have included John Perry, Leon Fleisher and Benjamin Kaplan. Hahn is a member of the piano and chamber music faculty at the Peabody Conservatory, and formerly taught at the North Carolina School of the Arts. She is also on the faculty of the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival in Maine. Her recordings with the Amabile Quartet and Amadeus Trio appear on the Summit and Helicon labels, respectively.
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