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Fauré Quartett

Tucson Convention Center

Festival – Day 5

And what has now become a new tradition, the Festival Celebration at the Leo Rich Theater gives patrons the rare opportunity to meet, mingle, and dine with all of the Festival artists after a concert in the hall.

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Steven Banks, saxophone & Xak Bjerken, piano

Juilliard String Quartet

Berger Performing Arts Center

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Argus Quartet

Chooi Brothers, violins

Isidore String Quartet

Michael Stephen Brown, piano

Alexander Malofeev, piano

Jerusalem Quartet

With members drawn from principal chairs in the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra, Accordo is a chamber ensemble celebrating its fifteenth season. Our long-awaited Tucson concert features the Arizona premiere of George Tsontakis’s Portraits of El Greco, Book II, co-commissioned by the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music. Accordo’s flexible formation will allow our Friends to hear music in duo (Debussy, Premiere Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano), quartet (Mozart, Piano Quartet in E flat, K. 493), and quintet (Tsontakis).

Accordo Special Concert

Alexander Tentser began studying piano with his father at the age of four in Kiev, Ukraine. After a highly acclaimed performance of the Grieg’s Piano Concerto at age twelve, he was recommended for studies at the Gnessin Music College in Moscow, Russia, the oldest music college in the country. He continued his piano education at the Gnessin Russian Music Academy with Professor Theodor Gutmann, a student and assistant of Heinrich Neuhaus, who taught in the celebrated Russian piano tradition. Alexander received a full scholarship for doctoral studies with Professor Nohema Fernandez at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Alexander Tentser, piano

University of Arizona

The celebrated Dolce Suono Trio will perform a dazzling program featuring beloved works by Maurice Ravel and Joaquín Turina, in their own arrangements, commissioned works by Pulitzer Prize and 3-time Grammy Award winner Jennifer Higdon and the trio’s own pianist Charles Abramovic, Leonard Bernstein’s beloved Overture to “Candide,” as you’ve never heard it before, and Brazilian choros, showcasing the group’s specialty in Latin music. Dolce Suono Trio is comprised of internationally acclaimed artists flutist Mimi Stillman, founding Artistic Director of Dolce Suono Ensemble, cellist Gabriel Cabezas, and pianist Charles Abramovic.

Dolce Suono Trio

Xavier Foley, Double-Bass & Kelly Lin, Piano

Festival Day 5

This fundraising event features the opportunity to mingle with the Festival musicians in a relaxed and festive atmosphere. Masks are strongly recommended in the lobby and theater.
Includes a special live concert, delicious food by James Beard award-winning chef Janos Wilder, and open bar.
Advance reservation required. Please purchase your ticket no later than March 10th.

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Cuarteto Casals

The world premiere of Angélica Negrón’s Pedazos intermitentes de un lugar ya fragmentado is sponsored by Boyer Rickel.

Hub New Music

All works on the program feature composers thinking about home.  Britten composed his first quartet in California in the summer of 1941. During that time an article by E.M. Forster about Aldeburgh and the poetry of George Crabbe prompted him to decide to return to England and make his home there.  In August 1939 Bartok began his sixth quartet in idyllic Alpine scenery in Switzerland but hurried home to Budapest following the outbreak of World War 11. He finished the piece in November and shortly afterwards decided to leave Hungary for good. In exile in America he heard the first performance of his sixth quartet given in New York in January 1941.  Dvorak’s opus 106, by contrast celebrates a homecoming. In May 1895 Dvorak returned to Bohemia from New York.  He composed opus 106 later that year.

Takács Quartet

Alexander String Quartet

Few ensembles in history have had the sustained artistry and success that the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio had for 45 years.  Jaime Laredo and Sharon Robinson are joined on this program by violist and composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama and pianist Anna Polonsky and will give the Arizona premiere of Elegy, an AFCM co-commission with several other presenters around the U.S. This concert will honor pianist Joseph Kalichstein, who passed away in March of 2022.

Concert Honoring Joseph Kalichstein

Ioana Cristina Goicea is one of the outstanding violinists of her generation. She won First Prize at the 2017 Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand, with critics praising her passionate performance and describing her as “a new star in the musical firmament.
Pianist Chih-Yi Chen’s versatile qualities as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborative pianist have distinguished her as a rarity amongst pianists. Her work with the talented young violinists of the Indiana University Violin Virtuosi directed by Mimi Zweig garnered her recognition as a specialist in violin repertoire, and she has since become a sought-after collaborative pianist.

Goicea/Chih-Yi Chen

With unparalleled artistry and enduring vigor, the Juilliard String Quartet (JSQ) continues to inspire audiences around the world. Founded in 1946 and hailed by The Boston Globe as “the most important American quartet in history,” the ensemble draws on a deep and vital engagement to the classics, while embracing the mission of championing new works, a vibrant combination of the familiar and the daring. Each performance of the Juilliard String Quartet is a unique experience, bringing together the four members’ profound understanding, total commitment, and unceasing curiosity in sharing the wonders of the string quartet literature.

Andrew Hsu (徐鴻) is a Chinese American composer and pianist based in New York City. The range and versatility of his musical pursuits range from the classical canon to modern masterworks and contemporary experimentalism. His music probes the imagination, searching for a distinct sense of color and timelessness within a delicate sonic palette.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Daniel Hsu made his concerto debut with the Fremont Symphony Orchestra at age 8, and his recital debut at the Steinway Society of the Bay Area at age 9, before being accepted into the Curtis Institute of Music at the age of 10, along with his two older siblings. 

Andrew & Daniel Hsu

Winner of first prize and several other awards at the International Music Competition of the ARD in 2008, the Apollon Musagète Quartet has rapidly become an established feature of the European musical scene, captivating public and press alike. The quartet studied with Johannes Meissl at the European Chamber Music Academy and was inspired by the musicians of the Alban Berg Quartet at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Following nomination by ECHO Rising Stars 2010, the quartet gave highly successful performances at prestigious European venues, and it was also named BBC New Generation Artist in 2012, leading to extensive tours in the UK and a number of recordings for the BBC. In 2014, the musicians received the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.

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