PHILLIPS MUSIC2016 / 2017 Season

WELCOME

Dorothy KosinskiDIRECTOR

MUSIC STAFF Caroline Mousset | Director of Music

Roberto Alcaraz | Music Operations AssistantEdward J. Kelly | Recording Engineer

Kathryn Rogge | Manager of Academic Programs and Phillips Music

Richard Goode, March 27, 2016

Caitlin Meredith | Phillips Music Assistant

CONTENTS

5 SUNDAY CONCERTS24 LEADING INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS29 THURSDAY MUSIC31 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CONCERTS33 SUPPORTING PHILLIPS MUSIC37 PHILLIPS MUSIC 2016/2017 CALENDAR

Museum founder Duncan Phillips believed that the experiences of art and music were complementary, and The Phillips Collection has embodied that vision through Phillips Music’s renowned concert series. As music provides people with “spiritual nourishment and exultation,” he thought that “paintings . . . seek only to speak to their souls in the same musical way.” These beliefs resonate through the curation of Phillips Music’s 2016/2017 season.

This season Phillips Music builds on its long history by promoting an astonishing number of debuts and premieres beside celebrated classics. This imaginative programming alongside the exciting innovations of Leading International Composers and collaborations with the University of Maryland present the best of a historic repertoire while exploring new possibilities. Phillips Music is especially grateful for the generous support of our valued Music Endowment donors, Season Sponsors, and Phillips Chamber Society subscribers, who ensure the lasting success of our concerts. All of us—audience, donors, and staff alike—are guardians of a rich and illustrious tradition. Through listening, participating, and creating, we guarantee its continued vitality.

Julia Shannon | Music Intern

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CELEBRATING PHILLIPS MUSIC

All music lends us the opportunity for celebration, reflection, and inspiration. Phillips Music celebrates its 76th season this year with diverse and invigorating performers from across the globe. No season is bound to a strict theme, as not to limit our musicians’ creative sensibilities; however, this season’s musicians, exhibitions, and programs share a thematic resonance of discovery and movement.

“The seasons of chamber music concerts must be carried on. They have been in complete accord with my policy for the paintings, adding the

contemporary to the classic, and the regional to what has proved to be universal and for all times.”–Duncan Phillips,1965

Caroline MoussetDIRECTOR OF MUSIC

Building on the extraordinary success of our 75th anniversary season, the Phillips has planned myriad events this season to celebrate the past, present, and future of Phillips Music:

In conjunction with our upcoming exhibition People on the Move: Beauty and Struggle in Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and the University of Maryland School of Music, we will be featuring music inspired by and related to the African American experience. On December 2, UMD music ensembles will perform at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in tribute to Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series, which shines a bright light on the post-Civil War diaspora of Black America.

Leading International Composers returns for its eighth season, and we are proud to feature our first composer from East Asia, Zhou Long of China. We also welcome Anders Hillborg of Sweden. Both concerts are planned in close collaboration with their respective national embassies to ensure an abundance of cultural representation.

This holiday season, we invite Stewart Goodyear to return to play his arrangement of The Nutcracker, following his successful performance last season of Glenn Gould’s US debut program which took place at the Phillips in 1955.

It was Duncan Phillips’s personal assistant Elmira Bier who spearheaded Phillips Music from 1941–1972. Bier put into practice the same principles that guided Duncan Phillips: to take risks, encourage emerging artists, and seek unusual pairings in works of art. Phillips Music continues to celebrate these principles in developing a program that embraces all genres of music for audiences of all ages.

Leading International Composers: Arvo Pärt, May 29, 2014

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF PHILLIPS MUSIC

Duncan Phillips was always fascinated by the relationship between music and the visual arts. In 1915 he wrote that while music provides people with “spiritual nourishment and exultation . . . paintings seek to speak to their souls in the same musical way.” When the museum opened in 1921, music quickly became an important part of its activities, with concerts held in the oak-paneled Music Room. The Washington Chamber Music Society put on concerts regularly, including a series given by candlelight; the Society Editor of The Washington Post wrote in 1937: “Dusk yesterday at the Phillips Memorial Gallery found the famous paintings in the main room illuminated, all other lights dimmed, and a representative group gathered for the season’s first Candlelight Concert.”

Given the success of these concerts, it was an obvious step for the Phillips Memorial Gallery (as it was then known) to put on its own concert series. This began in 1941, running through the years of World War II and providing the solace of music during these dark times; the combination of music and art provided a potent source of hope.

The Sunday Concerts at the Phillips are now the longest continuously running series in Washington, DC. In the early years, concerts explored the classics of the chamber music repertoire while other performances were devoted to living composers, including a tribute to

Amy Beach on her 75th birthday in 1942. Offering a platform to the most promising young musicians was always an important aspect of the concerts. The most celebrated of these was the sensational US debut of Glenn Gould. Paul Hume wrote in The Washington Post on January 3, 1955: “January 2 is early for predictions, but it is unlikely that the year 1955 will bring us a finer piano recital than that played yesterday afternoon in the Phillips Gallery. We shall be lucky if it brings others of equal beauty and significance . . . Glenn Gould is a pianist with rare gifts for the world . . . We know of no pianist anything like him of any age.” Others at or near the start of their careers soon followed, including Gary Graffman, Emanuel Ax, and Jessye Norman.

From 1942 until 1972, the Director of Music was Elmira Bier—originally Duncan Phillips’s personal assistant—and her aim was always to encourage artists, whether young or established, to present unusual and challenging programs. Sometimes she arranged themed series of concerts by composer, including Mozart for the 15th anniversary year in 1956, and a rare chance to hear a cycle of Haydn’s piano trios a year later. Bier was followed by Charles Crowder, who continued the Phillips’s combination of innovative programing, imaginative choice of artists, and the best possible presentation of the classics. He retired in 1997, after 25 years in the post, and was succeeded by Mark Carrington, formerly a Washington Post music critic. Building on the work of his predecessors, Carrington began to commission new works, which has since inspired new works from a number of composers, including Bright Sheng and Frederic Rzewski. In 2009, Caroline Mousset became the fourth Director of Music. Renewing the traditions of her forebears with ideas inspired by Phillips’s vision for introducing new artists and new composers to Washington audiences, Mousset pioneered the Leading European Composers series and expanded it last season to become Leading International Composers. These events—in which composers choose their own works—take place alongside the long-established Sunday afternoon concerts. Further innovation came in the 2012/2013 season with the establishment of the Phillips Camerata, a chamber orchestra made up of some of the finest players in the Washington area.

This extraordinary concert series celebrated its 75th anniversary last season, and as it heads confidently toward its centenary, its freshness remains undimmed, always remaining faithful to Elmira Bier’s concept for the concerts—as true now as it was in 1951 when she wrote: “The byline of the Gallery is ‘A Gallery of Modern Art and Its Sources.’ This is as exciting in music as it is in painting.”

–Nigel Simeone, 2016

United States Navy Band Sea Chanters, May 14, 2016

SUNDAY CONCERTS

Performances begin promptly at 4 pm unless otherwise noted. General admission seating is first-come, first-served beginning 45 minutes prior to concert start time. Tickets are $40, $20 for members and students with ID; museum admission for that day is included. Advance reservations are strongly recommended.

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OCTOBER 2 l Niklas Walentin, violin, Christina Bjørkøe, piano, Jean Thorel, conductor & Sō Percussion

In addition to his long and successful international solo career, Ralph Kirshbaum is also a highly-regarded teacher. He has played with orchestras all over the world, and his recordings include acclaimed concertos, sonatas, and chamber music. For many years he taught at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, before taking up the Gregor Piatigorsky Chair in Violoncello at the University of Southern California. Shai Wosner studied piano with Emanuel Ax, and his performances as a soloist and as a chamber musician are particularly renowned. These two outstanding artists present a program of Beethoven’s music for cello and piano, spanning the composer’s creative life.

OCTOBER 9 l Ralph Kirshbaum, cello & Shai Wosner, pianoSEPTEMBER 25 l Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano & Laura Ward, piano

Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves is a native of Washington, DC. She graduated from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in 1981, going on to study at Oberlin Conservatory and New England Conservatory before embarking on her professional career at the Wolf Trap Opera Company. She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1995 as Carmen—a role she has sung there more than 40 times. Her other roles at the Met have included Maddalena in Verdi’s Rigoletto, Federica in Luisa Miller, and Dalila in Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila, in which she sang opposite Plácido Domingo. She currently sits on the voice faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore.

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Though still in his early twenties, Danish-Swiss violinist Niklas Walentin is already a widely traveled soloist

and chamber musician, with a passion for performing rarely-heard works alongside more familiar music. His

Carnegie Hall recital in June 2015 coincided with the release of a CD of Carl Nielsen’s music for violin and

piano, including the Sonata Op. 9, which features in this concert. Additionally, Walentin, joined by Sō Percussion

under conductor Jean Thorel, will perform Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Violin and Percussion Orchestra. One of

the most remarkable features of Harrison’s music is its embracing of other traditions, especially gamelan. In his

concerto, Harrison also uses “junk” percussion, including brake drums, washtubs, clock coils, and flower pots.

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Denis Kozhukhin is a Russian pianist with an unusually international background. After childhood lessons in Russia, he studied at the Queen Sofia Conservatory in Madrid

and subsequently at the International Piano Academy at Lake Como, where his teachers included Menahem Pressler, Charles Rosen, Andreas Staier, Peter Frankl, and Boris Berman. He was a prizewinner at the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2006, and in 2010 he won the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. He has given recitals and concerto performances all over Europe and the Americas, and his solo recordings include music by Prokofiev and Haydn.

OCTOBER 16 l Denis Kozhukhin, piano DC DEBUT

SUNDAY CONCERTS

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Czech pianist Lukáš Vondráček had already appeared as a soloist with leading orchestras in the USA and Europe before winning the renowned Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2016—previous winners included Emil Gilels, Leon Fleisher, and Vladimir Ashkenazy. Vondráček made his debut with the Czech Philharmonic in 2002 at age 15, with Ashkenazy conducting. In this recital, he presents sonatas by Mozart and Brahms alongside Liszt’s Ricordanza (memorably described by Busoni as “a bundle of faded love-letters”) and a group of Smetana’s Czech Dances, music that is imbued with the spirit of Vondráček’s homeland.

NOVEMBER 6 l Lukáš Vondráček, piano

Rahim AlHaj is a virtuoso on the oud, one of the oldest of all string instruments. Related to the lute but without frets, the oud features in traditional music throughout the Middle East. The earliest image of an oud is found on a seal in Mesopotamia dating back 5,000 years. Born in Baghdad, AlHaj studied under notable oud player Munir Bashir. Forced to leave Iraq due to his activism against the regime of Saddam Hussein, AlHaj worked in Syria and Jordan before settling in New Mexico in 2000. Widely traveled and recorded, he was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2015.

OCTOBER 23 l Rahim AlHaj, oud

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OCTOBER 30 l Heath Quartet

The British Heath Quartet was the winner of the first Young Artists

Award from the Royal Philharmonic Society in 2013. Their concerts

cover the whole range of quartet repertoire, with a particular interest in

contemporary music. In this concert they present string quartets from

three centuries and three countries. One of their first recordings was of Sir

Michael Tippett’s cycle of five string quartets, made live at Wigmore Hall in London. Here they perform one of Tippett’s last works alongside Haydn

at his most innovative, plus one of the pair of quartets that marked Dvořák’s

farewell to chamber music.

NOVEMBER 13 l Vadym Kholodenko, piano DC DEBUT

Born in Ukraine and following studies in Russia, Vadym Kholodenko first came to international prominence when he won the Van Cliburn Piano Competition in 2013. Since then his combination of spectacular technique and intelligent musicianship has attracted praise all over the world, not only in solo repertoire but also in chamber music. In this concert, Kholodenko frames music by Schumann—notably Kreisleriana, dedicated to Chopin and described by Schumann himself as his “favorite piece”—with the delectable restraint of Ravel’s Sonatine and Tombeau de Couperin along with two of Rachmaninoff’s mighty Études-tableaux.

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Violist Nadia Sirota’s energetic advocacy of new music has led to a reputation as “a one-woman contemporary-classical commissioning machine.” A graduate of the Juilliard School, she has collaborated on new works with composers such as Nico Muhly, Judd Greenstein, and Missy Mazzoli. Liam Byrne is a celebrated viol player and was a member of the Fretwork Consort of Viols. While much of his work is in music from the 17th century, he has been involved in several projects with 21st-century musicians, including Damon Albarn. The program will include the Washington premiere of Donnacha Dennehy’s Tessellatum, an innovative piece using viola, viols, and electronics, conceived on a large scale.

Pianist Aristo Sham won the 2016 New York International Piano Competition at age 20. Born in Hong Kong and educated at Harrow School in England, he is currently completing his studies at Harvard University and New England Conservatory. He has already given concerts in China, Singapore, England, and the US, and his competition success in New York is only the most recent of such esteemed prizes. His programs range from music by Bach to contemporary composers, with a particular focus on repertoire from Chopin to Rachmaninoff.

NOVEMBER 20 l Nadia Sirota, viola & Liam Byrne, viol

NOVEMBER 27 l Aristo Sham, piano

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DECEMBER 4 l Carter Brey, cello & Benjamin Pasternack, piano

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Alexander Sitkovetsky and Wu Qian are both highly distinguished soloists. Sitkovetsky, a student of Yehudi Menuhin, comes from a musical family—his father played in the pioneering Russian rock band Autograph and his uncle is violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky. He has worked regularly with Wu Qian for many years—they were fellow students at the Menuhin School and won the Trio di Trieste Duo Competition in 2011. Two magnificent sonatas for violin and piano—Schumann’s d minor and Grieg’s Sonata in c minor, famously recorded by Kreisler and Rachmaninoff—accompany de Falla’s vibrant arrangements of popular Spanish songs alongside Schnittke’s pastiche Suite in the Old Style, derived from the composer’s film scores.

DECEMBER 11 l Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin & Wu Qian, piano

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Carter Brey has been principal cellist of the New York Philharmonic since 1996. In 1981 he was a prizewinner in the Rostropovich International Cello Competition, and he has appeared as a soloist with most of America’s leading orchestras. He has also performed with the Emerson and Tokyo string quartets and given recitals with celebrated pianists. Benjamin Pasternack, a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music who now sits on the piano faculty at Peabody Conservatory, regularly performs with symphonies and chamber musicians on multiple continents. Brey and Pasternack share a special affinity for American music, reflected in this concert with major works by Elliott Carter and Leon Kirchner as well as Pasternack’s own Bernstein arrangement alongside Romantic masterpieces by Schumann and Chopin.

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Lise de la Salle gave her first broadcast concert at age nine, and since then this gifted French pianist, still in her twenties, has gone on to build an impressive career in solo and concerto repertoire. In this recital she opens with Schumann—notably the glorious Fantasy Op. 17—before turning to transcriptions: the “Love-Death” from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde arranged by his father-in-law Franz Liszt, and Prokofiev’s own brilliant transcriptions of dances from his most famous ballet, Romeo and Juliet.

JANUARY 15 l Lise de la Salle, piano

Canadian pianist Stewart Goodyear returns to The Phillips Collection after his noteworthy re-creation of Glenn Gould’s iconic 1955 recital last season. This year, he brings the perfect musical Christmas concert with his own arrangement of Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. This is some of the first music he ever heard: in an interview with The Huffington Post, Goodyear recalled that “I listened to it over and over. I was enchanted by what I heard and couldn’t get enough,” adding, “for me, The Nutcracker has always represented December.”

DECEMBER 18 l Stewart Goodyear, piano

JANUARY 8 l Stephen Kovacevich, piano

Born in 1940, Stephen Kovacevich, whose performances are often revelatory, is

one of the most insightful pianists of his generation. As a chamber musician he has

worked with many other musical greats such as Martha Argerich, Jacqueline du Pré,

and Lynn Harrell, and he has also conducted concerto performances from the keyboard.

A pupil of Dame Myra Hess, his core repertory includes the late sonatas of

Beethoven and Schubert—some of which are included in this concert. Kovacevich will also

perform Berg’s Piano Sonata and music by Bach, which were included in his sensational

London debut at Wigmore Hall in 1961.

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German violinist Isabelle Faust won the Paganini Competition in 1993 and since then

has established herself as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful violinists of her

generation. Her career has been marked by a ceaseless curiosity for unusual repertoire

and for fresh approaches to performing the classics, influenced by period instrument

specialists. In a 2013 interview, she described the combination of “clarity and intimacy” that

gives Bach’s music for unaccompanied violin such a unique character. Along with Bach’s

Partita in E Major and the Sonata in C Major, this concert ends with the Partita in d minor,

concluding with the monumental Chaconne.

JANUARY 22 l Isabelle Faust, violin PHILLIPS DEBUT

SUNDAY CONCERTS

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Since its founding in 1994, the Signum Quartet has established a reputation for energetic performances and imaginative programs. As enthusiastic advocates of new music and unusual repertoire, they develop in this concert the idea of the fugue in string quartets, from Mozart’s arrangements of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier and his own “Hunt” Quartet to the astonishing fugal finale of Beethoven’s Op. 59 No. 3. The concert also includes a much more recent “Hunt” Quartet (2003) by German composer Jörg Widmann, which uses Schumann’s Papillons as its starting point. Also featured on this concert are some of Signum’s signature quartweets, or various composers’ Twitter-submitted quartets of 140 notes or less.

FEBRUARY 12 l Signum Quartet

FEBRUARY 19 l Morgenstern Trio

Jean-Guihen Queyras is a French cellist with a vast repertoire stretching from Bach to Kurtág and Ligeti. As well as performing as a soloist, he is also a regular chamber music partner, often in a piano trio with Alexander Melnikov and Isabelle Faust. This concert is a precious opportunity to hear all six of Bach’s Cello Suites, performed by a cellist whose recording of these works was welcomed with tremendous enthusiasm on its first release and is notable for the vitality and inventiveness of his interpretations.

JANUARY 29 l Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello

FEBRUARY 5 l Trilogy, violin trio

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Named for German poet Christian Morgenstern, this trio was founded

while all three players were students at the Folkwang Conservatory in Essen. They quickly attracted critical praise

for the bravura and polish of their performances and their championing

of rarities such as Germaine Tailleferre’s Piano Trio and Lili Boulanger’s D’un

matin de printemps. American composer Pierre Jalbert wrote his Piano Trio

No. 2, premiered in 2014 and featured on this performance, specifically for the

Morgenstern Trio. This concert ends with Ravel’s great Piano Trio, composed

just before the outbreak of World War I.

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Founded in 2011, Trilogy is made up of violinists Hrachya Avanesyan, Lorenzo Gatto, and Yossif Ivanov, each a soloist in his own right. As Trilogy, their aim is to present new and exciting arrangements for three violins that range from the classics to recent popular music. In this program, Trilogy will play unique versions of music from the 18th to the 21st centuries—from Vivaldi to Daft Punk.

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A talented actor as well as a pianist, Teo Gheorghiu starred in the film Vitus in 2004 when he was 12 years old, the same age at which he made his concert debut. A pupil at the Purcell School in England, he continued his studies at the Curtis Institute with Gary Graffman. In addition to his concerto appearances and solo recitals all over the world, he also plays chamber music, particularly with the Carmina Quartet. Three great pillars of Russian virtuoso piano music make up this recital: the descriptive genius of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, Rachmaninoff’s stirring Études-tableaux Op. 33, and Balakirev’s dazzling “oriental fantasy” Islamey.

MARCH 12 l Teo Gheorghiu, piano

MARCH 19 l Andrei Ioniţă, cello & Yekwon Sunwoo, piano

Marc Bouchkov, born in 1991, is a French violinist who had already made a striking impression even before winning First Prize with Special Distinction at the Paris Conservatoire in 2010. Since then, he has embarked on a busy concert career, performing a repertoire ranging from the classics to recent works such as the Violin Concerto by Pēteris Vasks. Pianist Katia Skanavi was born in Moscow and has made a number of very well-received recordings of Chopin, Schumann, and Rachmaninoff. The combination of these two artists on this concert with pieces by Mozart, Prokofiev, and Schumann promises to be exciting, as does Bouchkov’s performance of one of Ysaÿe’s remarkable unaccompanied violin sonatas.

MARCH 5 l Marc Bouchkov, violin & Katia Skanavi, piano

Dennis Russell Davies has had a distinguished career as both a pianist and a conductor in the US and in Europe. Founder of the American Composers Orchestra, he has also held esteemed positions with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Bruckner Orchester Linz, and the Stuttgart Opera. His partnership with Maki Namekawa began in 2003, and together they have performed all over the world in programs that often include music by Philip Glass. Maki Namekawa, a renowned piano soloist, has the distinct honor of recording Glass’s complete piano études. This concert, celebrating Philip Glass’s 80th birthday, features Glass’s Four Movements for Two Pianos alongside works by Kurt Schwertsik and the tour de force that is Stravinsky’s four-hand arrangement of The Rite of Spring.

FEBRUARY 26 l Dennis Russell Davies, piano & Maki Namekawa, piano

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Romanian cellist Andrei Ioniţă won first prize in the cello section of the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, confirming his status as one of the leading cellists of his generation. He has appeared in many important European concert venues in recitals and has recently made debuts with the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester in Berlin and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. He is joined by South Korean pianist Yekwon Sunwoo, an established soloist and chamber musician. This recital includes five major works for cello and piano, including one of Beethoven’s late cello sonatas, Schubert’s sonata originally composed for the arpeggione, and contrasting masterpieces by Brahms and Debussy, ending with a welcome rarity: Martinů’s Variations on a Theme by Rossini.

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Lukas Geniušas, born in 1990, won the silver medal in the 2015 International Tchaikovsky Competition, having already embarked on a solo career as a pianist. His programs often include works that deserve to be heard more often, and this concert is no exception. Schumann’s ebullient Faschingsschwank aus Wien is followed by a group of Chopin mazurkas, which are among the most perfect reinventions of a traditional dance form. Bartók’s Burlesques and Prokofiev’s Piano Sonata No. 2 both count among the most boldly inventive of their early works.

APRIL 16 l Lukas Geniušas, pianoBritish violinist Anthony Marwood is a versatile musician, working regularly as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, recording extensively—particularly as a member of the Florestan Trio. He plays a large repertoire, including works composed for him by Thomas Adès and Sally Beamish. For this recital he is joined by Serbian pianist Aleksandar Madžar, a distinguished soloist who came to prominence after winning third prize at the 1996 Leeds Piano Competition and who has worked extensively as a chamber musician in collaborations with Marwood and the Irish Chamber Orchestra. Their program frames Beethoven and Ravel with two 20th-century classics: the passionate and intense sonata by Janáček and Prokofiev’s joyous Sonata No. 2, originally for flute but reworked by the composer for David Oistrakh.

The Gould Piano Trio celebrates its 25th anniversary together in 2017. This British ensemble has long been recognized as one of the most outstanding piano trios (The Washington Post likened it to the Beaux Arts Trio), and these musicians have a close artistic relationship with celebrated clarinetist Robert Plane. Widely praised for its enterprising rediscovery of neglected repertoire, the trio has also recorded complete cycles of Beethoven and Brahms. This program includes Bartók’s Contrasts, originally written for the composer himself to play with Benny Goodman and Joseph Szigeti, and the most resplendent of Brahms’s piano trios.

APRIL 2 l Anthony Marwood, violin & Aleksandar Madžar, piano

APRIL 9 l Gould Piano Trio & Robert Plane, clarinet

Formed in 2001, the Jupiter Quartet first came to prominence as the winner of the Banff International String Quartet Competition and through its subsequent residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The quartet has played all over the world and has commissioned several new works. The Jupiter Quartet is currently the Quartet in Residence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This program includes the first of Mozart’s great set of quartets dedicated to Haydn, the most daring and experimental of Bartók’s quartets, and the most ardent and lyrical of the quartets by Schumann, dedicated to his friend Mendelssohn.

MARCH 26 l Jupiter Quartet PHILLIPS DEBUT

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TRIO’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY, ROBERT PLANE’S DC DEBUT

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Formed in 1991, the Quatuor Danel has been acclaimed for its fresh and exciting interpretations of the classics, its dedication to new music, and its passionate advocacy of two great Russian composers: Shostakovich and his friend Mieczysław Weinberg, including complete recorded cycles of both composers’ string quartets. While Shostakovich’s quartets are well known, this concert provides a rare opportunity to hear Weinberg’s Quartet No. 3, a work of magnificent concentration and intensity composed in 1944.

APRIL 30 l Quatuor Danel

MAY 7 l Kyung Wha Chung, violin PHILLIPS DEBUT

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A native of San Diego, California, and a graduate of Indiana University (where she was taught by Josef Gingold) and Juilliard (where her teachers included the legendary Felix Galimir and Dorothy DeLay), Anne Akiko-Meyers is one of the most successful violinists of her generation. A passionate proponent of new works for her instrument—including, among many others, pieces by Jennifer Higdon, Arvo Pärt, and Einojuhani Rautavaara—she has also made a series of acclaimed recordings of core violin repertoire, from Vivaldi to Samuel Barber. This concert features the world premiere of Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium, written for Akiko-Meyers.

APRIL 23 l Anne Akiko-Meyers, violin

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A legendary figure in classical music, Korean violinist Kyung Wha Chung comes from an exceptionally musical family (her younger brother is conductor Muyng-Whun Chung). She made her debut on the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Seoul Philharmonic at age nine and subsequently moved to the United States, studying with Ivan Galamian at Juilliard. In 1967, Chung was the joint winner (with Pinchas Zukerman) of the Leventritt Competition, launching her concert career with America’s greatest orchestras. Her large discography includes some particularly successful collaborations with André Previn and Sir Georg Solti, as well as chamber music recordings with her brother and sister as the Chung Trio, and with pianists such as Radu Lupu and Krystian Zimerman.

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In 2009, European embassies in Washington, DC, and The Phillips Collection joined forces to create an unprecedented concert series: Leading European Composers. Presenting some of the greatest living composers of our time, this series is unique in that the featured composer designs a program of their works with performers they select. Last season, Phillips Music broadened its scope to create Leading International Composers, infusing the series with comprehensive views on the state of new music beyond geographical borders. This season welcomes Chinese composer Zhou Long and Swedish composer Anders Hillborg.

PREVIOUSLY FEATURED LEADING INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS

Leading International Composers: Arvo Pärt, May 29, 2014

Hans Abrahamsen (Denmark)Dušan Bavdek (Slovakia)Avner Dorman (Israel)José Luis Greco (Spain)Olli Kortekangas (Finland)Tristan Murail (France)Arvo Pärt (Estonia)

Matthias Pintscher (Germany)Kaija Saariaho (Finland)Miroslav Srnka (Czechoslovakia)Anna Thorvaldsdottir (Iceland)Erkki-Sven Tüür (Estonia)Michel van der Aa (The Netherlands)Pēteris Vasks (Latvia)

CODA SESSIONSConcerts are held in The Phillips Collection’s 150-seat Music Room, followed by Coda Sessions, giving audience members a chance to ask questions and converse with these important voices in contemporary music.

ACADEMIC COMPONENT Beginning in 2016 each composer will spend a day with students and faculty of the University of Maryland’s School of Music at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in College Park to give fresh insight into their work or hold master classes.

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Performances begin promptly at 6 pm unless otherwise noted. General admission seating is first-come, first-served beginning 45 minutes prior to concert start time. Tickets are $40, $20 for members and students with ID; museum admission for that day is included. Advance reservations are strongly recommended.

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Zhou Long is a composer whose music brings together the aesthetic concepts and musical elements of East and West. Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for his first opera, Madame White Snake, Dr. Zhou has been a two-time recipient of commissions from the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. In 2015, Zhou Long was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Born in 1953 in Beijing, Zhou Long began his studies at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing in 1977. In 1983 he was appointed composer-in-residence with the China Broadcasting Symphony. He traveled to the United States in 1985 to attend Columbia University, where he studied with Chou Wen-chung, Mario Davidovsky, and George Edwards, receiving his doctorate in 1993. He was director of Music From China, a group founded in 1984 with the aim of presenting concerts of traditional Chinese music in the United States. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance.

Recent works include his Tsingtao Overture, Beijing Rhyme: A Symphonic Suite (commissioned by the Beijing Symphony Orchestra), a string quartet commissioned by Wigmore Hall and Lincoln Center, and Postures, a piano concerto commissioned by the BBC Proms and the Singapore Symphony. His epic symphonic work Nine Odes (2013), which set poems by Qu Yuan for four solo voices and orchestra, was commissioned by the Beijing Music Festival.

Zhou Long’s music embraces elements of traditional Chinese music and of American symphonic music. Newsweek described him as a composer who is “creating striking works that fuse memories and music from the East with Western-style compositions, drawing on Chinese folk songs, literature, poetry, and history.”

This performance features musicians from the ensemble Music From China, performing on traditional Chinese instruments.  

In partnership with the Embassy of the People's Republic of China

DECEMBER 8 l Zhou Long, China

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Anders Hillborg was born in 1954. He studied counterpoint, composition, and electronic music at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm between 1976 and 1982. His teachers included Gunnar Bucht, Lars-Erik Rosell, Arne Mellnäs, and Pär Lindgren. Brian Ferneyhough, who was a guest lecturer on several occasions, was also an important inspiration. Since graduation, Hillborg has worked as a full-time composer, with a significant output for orchestra (with and without soloists) and chamber music, as well as his early choral work Mouyayoum.

Hillborg is a regular collaborator with conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen, who has described Hillborg’s music as exploring tensions and contrasts: “the static and the hyperactive, the mechanical and the human, the nobly beautiful and the banally brutal, the comic and the moving. Almost never sentimental, but surreal in a way—like Dalí’s melting watches. And when something familiar does return, it is . . . distorted so far from its original guise that it becomes something quite different.”

Hillborg’s major works include a Violin Concerto, Dreaming River for orchestra, Cold Heat—first performed by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by David Zinman—and the vocal/orchestral work Sirens, dedicated to Salonen and first performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Master Chorale with soloists including Anne Sofie von Otter. At Carnegie Hall in 2013, Renée Fleming gave the premiere of Hillborg’s song-cycle The Strand Settings, based on poems by Mark Strand, with the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert. Anthony Tommasini wrote in The New York Times that the music was “at once atmospheric, elegiac, and unsettling,” adding that this was music that “keeps its secrets to itself and makes you want to hear it again to figure out more.”

Performers for this concert include the Calder Quartet, clarinetist Magnus Holmander, and Axiom Brass.

In partnership with the Embassy of Sweden

MARCH 9 l Anders Hillborg, Sweden

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Born in Daegu, South Korea, in 1983, So-Mang Jeagal gave his first recital at age 11. He won the Grand Prize at the 2014 Washington International Piano Competition and first prize at the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition in the same year. A pianist with a wide repertoire and a particular sympathy for music in the grand Romantic tradition, Jeagal’s program at the Phillips includes Rachmaninoff’s formidable Second Sonata—a work championed by Vladimir Horowitz—plus a set of four scherzi by Chopin.

JANUARY 19 l So-Mang Jeagal, piano

A multimedia event from New York-based French artist Pascal Blondeau, this performance is a tribute to his mentor Ultra Violet, who was the studio assistant and muse of Salvador Dalí in the 1950s and a member of Andy Warhol’s Factory in the 1960s. Ultra Violet also exhibited throughout the world works that focus on energy, light, and humor.

OCTOBER 27 l Ultra Violet & The Factory Tribute

Performances begin promptly at 6 pm unless otherwise noted. General admission seating is first-come, first-served beginning 45 minutes prior to concert start time. Tickets are $20, $8 for members and students with ID; museum admission for that day is included. Advance reservations are strongly recommended.

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THURSDAY MUSIC

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In fall 2015, The Phillips Collection and the University of Maryland launched a bold partnership with a shared vision to dramatically transform scholarship and innovation in the arts. Through this partnership, the Phillips will expand its education programs, reach new and diverse audiences, and pursue key initiatives that align with the museum’s strategic mission as an “experiment station” and institution for learning. At the same time, UMD will grow its established scholarship and academic programs within the arts, provide unparalleled research and education opportunities for UMD faculty and students, and expand its footprint in the nation’s capital.

The University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge at The Phillips Collection (the expansion of the Center for the Study of Modern Art) is the museum’s nexus for academic work, scholarly exchange, and innovative interdisciplinary collaborations. Key collaborations under the newly named Center include joint programs with UMD. Two concerts this season feature UMD School of Music performers, and students have the opportunity to attend other Phillips Music concerts and participate in master classes related to the Leading International Composers series.

Standing at the intersection of tonality, modality, and serialism, Henri Dutilleux (1916–2013) came of age in France during the Second World War. He absorbed and mastered all the dominant strands of the European musical tradition and garnered an esteemed reputation as a composer. Dutilleux created a new musical language of beauty, exoticism, and passion from the wreckage of postwar Europe. In celebration of Dutilleux’s centenary, the UMD School of Music offers an engaging cross-disciplinary retrospective highlighting some of the composer’s most important works, presented with works by Debussy and Ravel.

Tickets are $20, $8 for members and students with ID; museum admission for that day is included. Advance reservations are strongly recommended.

A second performance of this program will also take place at The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland on Sunday, October 16, at 3 pm.

OCTOBER 13, 6 PM l University of Maryland Chamber Concert Henri at 100: Mystery and Memory

The UMD School of Music Symphony Orchestra performs Derek Bermel’s Migration Series, joined onstage by UMD’s Jazz Band, Chamber Singers, and Wind Orchestra. The performance is inspired by paintings from The Phillips Collection’s Migration Series by Jacob Lawrence, depicting the mass movement of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North between the World Wars. Duke Ellington’s Harlem, depicting the Harlem Renaissance, and John Harbison’s Flight into Egypt will also be performed in accordance with the migration theme. 

Tickets are $25, $20 for The Clarice NextLEVEL subscribers, $10 for students. Proceeds support School of Music undergraduate scholarships. Visit theclarice.umd.edu for tickets.

DECEMBER 2, 8 PM l University of Maryland and Derek Bermel at Dekelboum Concert Hall

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CONCERTS

Visitors viewing Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series (1940-41)

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The success of our 75th anniversary season, made possible by our dedicated friends and supporters, serves as an ambitious road map for our future. Ticket income alone does not cover the cost of a season; your generosity to Phillips Music will help sustain the programs in place while enabling us to build new initiatives.

We invite you to join us in celebrating the 2016/2017 concert season by making a gift in support of Phillips Music:

SEASON SPONSORSHIPSponsorship opportunities begin at $5,000. Sponsors receive recognition in promotional materials for the 2016/2017 season and enjoy benefits including reserved seating at all Sunday Concerts, Leading International Composers performances, and Thursday Music, as well as opportunities to meet Phillips Music artists and invitations to exclusive Phillips Music events.($3,500 tax-deductible)

MUSIC ENDOWMENT FUNDA current or legacy gift to endow Phillips Music allows the Phillips to expand its impact, engage still more diverse communities, build creative conversations with partners around the globe, and interact with a broader community of artists. Endowment gifts are fully tax-deductible.

For more information on supporting Phillips Music, contact the Development Department at 202.387.2151 x250.

PHILLIPS CHAMBER SOCIETYConsider adding a $1,500 season subscription to any category of museum membership. Benefits include: two guaranteed tickets to all Sunday Concerts, Leading International Composers performances, and Thursday Music; priority access to seating; advance e-mail notification of concert programming; and acknowledgment in concert programs. This subscription is not tax-deductible.

To join, contact membership@phillipscollection.org or 202.387.3036.

JOIN THE CELEBRATIONPHILLIPS MUSIC SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

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PHILLIPS CHAMBER SOCIETY

Betty Bullock and John SiltonMs. Sandra Cummins-Haid and Mr. Allen HaidMr. Justin M. DempseyDr. Florence D. FasanelliMr. Bernardo FrydmanMs. Nancy Hirshbein and Mr. Robert RocheJoseph and Lynne HorningDeborah HoulihanJohn and Kathleen McNamaraMr. John O’DonnellAndrew OliverMs. Sandra C. PollenCarol RidkerRoberta Ong RoumelAl and Nadia TaranDr. Philip Posner and Dr. Carol Van HartesveldtDr. Bension VaronMr. Warren C. Zwicky

THANK YOU

MUSIC ENDOWMENT FUND

Mary BlakeIn memory of Sylvia C. Winkelman by Ann and Donald BrownIn memory of Esther Silver Burstein and Louise Bernheimer Ehrman by the Silver-Burstein FoundationThomas CarothersIn honor of Elisabeth Wisner Chisholm by the Chisholm FoundationClark-Winchcole FoundationIn memory of its founder, Dallas Morse Coors by The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing ArtsThe Cosmos Club FoundationHelen and Charles CrowderJames and Donna DevallIn memory of Tamara Dmitrieff by her friendsThe Max and Victoria Dreyfus FoundationFlorence FasanelliMr. and Mrs. Carl M. FreemanThe Friday Morning Music Club and FoundationThe Ann and Gordon Getty FoundationJoseph and Alma GildenhornIn memory of Elmira Bier by Virginia GloverIn honor of John D. Graubert by his wifeGilbert GreenwayRichard A. HermanLynne and Joseph HorningPaul HumeJames JohnstonDavid Lloyd KreegerIn memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Andrew Pollard by Rebecca Pollard LoganGeneviève Guérin Mason

Phillips Music is made possible by generous contributions from individuals, as well as corporate and foundation grants. Thank you for helping to ensure that the world's finest musicians, together with promising emerging performers, continue to appear at The Phillips Collection.

The Phillips Collection gratefully acknowledges support from the following partners:

Official Hotel SponsorsOfficial Supporter of our International Artists

Cosponsor of Leading International Composers

Official Broadcast Sponsor

AS OF JULY 2016

In memory of Harry McClureWilliam and Inna MetlerAlice and Arthur NagleThe Edward John Noble FoundationGerson Nordlinger, Jr.To honor our nation's great composers by F. Warren O‘ReillyIn memory of Nancy Hanks by Mr. and Mrs. Laurance S. Rockefeller

For information about how to support Phillips Music, please contact development@phillipscollection.org or 202.387.2151 x250.

In honor of Joyce B. Cowin by Patricia Bennett SagonIn memory of H. Theodore ShoreIn memory of Colonel C. Haskell Small and Ruth B. Small by their familyIn memory of Alice T. Strong by the Hattie M. Strong Foundation

PHOTO CREDITS: Denyce Graves: Devon Cass; Niklas Walentin: Thorbjørn Fessel; Ralph Kirshbaum: Daniel Anderson/USC; Shai Wosner: Marco Borggreve; Denis Kozhukhin: deniskozhukhin.com; Rahim AlHaj: Douglas Kent Hall; Heath Quartet: Kaupo Kikkas; Lukáš Vondráček: Susan Wilson; Vadym Kholodenko: Ellen Appel; Nadia Sirota: Samantha West; Liam Byrne: liambyrne.net; Aristo Sham: aristosham.net; Carter Brey: Chris Lee; Alexander Sitkovetsky: dianesaldick.com; Wu Qian: wuqianpiano.com; Stewart Goodyear: Anita Zvonar; Stephen Kovacevich: Amy T. Zielinski; Lise de la Salle: Stephane Gallois for Vanity Fair; Isabelle Faust: Marco Borggreve; Jean-Guihen Queyras: Yoshinori Mido; Trilogy: Gaetan Nerincx; Signum Quartet: Irène Zandel; Morgenstern Trio: Irène Zandel; Dennis Russell Davies: Reinhard Winkler; Maki Namekawa: Wolfgang Winkler; Marc Bouchkov: Nikolaj Lund; Teo Gheorghiu: Roshan Adhihetty; Andrei Ioniţă: Daniel Delang; Jupiter Quartet: Brian Stauffer; Anthony Marwood: Sussie Ahlberg; Aleksandar Madžar: Keith Saunders; Gould Piano Trio: Jake Morley; Robert Plane: robertplane.com; Lukas Geniušas: Irina Polyarnaya; Anne Akiko-Meyers: Nico Nordström; Quatuor Danel: Ant Clausen; Kyung Wha Chung: Kang Taewook; Zhou Long: Southern Illinois University; Music From China: Man Asura; Anders Hillborg: Mats Lundqvist; Calder Quartet: Autumn de Wilde; Magnus Holmander: harmonien.no; Axiom Brass: Dario Acosta; Ultra Violet & Warhol: Corbis; So-Mang Jeagal: Village Concerts; Arvo Pärt concert: Sardari Group; Richard Goode and Calidore Quartet concerts: Joshua Navarro; The Migration Series: Max Hirshfeld

SEASON SPONSORS

Ms. Louise R. de la Fuente and Mr. Mace RosensteinSusan and Christopher DeMuthMs. Martha R. Johnston and Mr. Robert CoonrodGary and Phoebe MallardEileen and Michael TannerLeslie Whipkey and Lee Hoffman

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PHILLIPS MUSIC 2016/2017 CALENDAR

Visit PhillipsCollection.org/music to reserve tickets and view up-to-date concert details.

Select performances are broadcast on Front Row Washington on Classical WETA 90.9 FM on Monday evenings at 9 pm. All artists and programs are subject to change.

SEPTEMBER25 | Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano & Laura Ward, piano

OCTOBER2 | Niklas Walentin, violin, Christina Bjørkøe, piano, Jean Thorel, conductor & Sō Percussion9 | Ralph Kirshbaum, cello & Shai Wosner, piano13 | UMD Chamber Concert, 6 pm16 | Denis Kozhukhin, piano23 | Rahim AlHaj, oud27 | Ultra Violet & The Factory Tribute30 | Heath Quartet

NOVEMBER6 | Lukáš Vondráček, piano13 | Vadym Kholodenko, piano20 | Nadia Sirota, viola & Liam Byrne, viol27 | Aristo Sham, piano

DECEMBER2 | UMD & Derek Bermel at Dekelboum Concert Hall, 8 pm4 | Carter Brey, cello & Benjamin Pasternack, piano8 | Leading International Composers: Zhou Long, China1 1 | Alexander Sitkovetsky, violin & Wu Qian, piano18 | Stewart Goodyear, piano

JANUARY8 | Stephen Kovacevich, piano15 | Lise de la Salle, piano19 | So-Mang Jeagal, piano22 | Isabelle Faust, violin29 | Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello

FEBRUARY5 | Trilogy, violin trio12 | Signum Quartet19 | Morgenstern Trio26 | Dennis Russell Davies, piano & Maki Namekawa, piano

MARCH5 | Marc Bouchkov, violin & Katia Skanavi, piano9 | Leading International Composers: Anders Hillborg, Sweden12 | Teo Gheorghiu, piano19 | Andrei Ioniţă, cello & Yekwon Sunwoo, piano26 | Jupiter Quartet

APRIL2 | Anthony Marwood, violin & Aleksandar Madžar, piano9 | Gould Piano Trio & Robert Plane, clarinet16 | Lukas Geniušas, piano23 | Anne Akiko-Meyers, violin30 | Quatuor Danel

MAY7 | Kyung Wha Chung, violin

SUNDAY CONCERTS, 4 pm, $40/$20 members and studentsLEADING INTERNATIONAL COMPOSERS, 6 pm, $40/$20 members and studentsTHURSDAY MUSIC, 6 pm, $20/$8 members and studentsUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CONCERTS

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