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Gloria Chien, Artistic Director

David Finckel & Wu Han, Artistic Advisors

S P E C I A L B E N E F I T C O N C E R T F O R S T R I N G T H E O R Y

S P E C I A L T H A N K S

4.13.2011 David Shifr in, James Ehnes , Andres Díaz , Gloria Chien, Patrick Cast i l lo

3.23.2011 David Finckel & Wu Han

Paul and Darl ia Conn, David Finckel and Wu Han, Music@Menlo, Norman and Ling-Yu Chien, Erica Leung, Aimee Roberts ,Lavinia Johnston, Corinne Al len, Sharon Mil l s , Candy Krues i ,Gary Chazen, Robert and Nora Bernhardt .

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Tucker Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Summerfield K. Johnston, Jr.

Ms. Sharon Mills Ms. Gloria Chien

Chazen Family Foundation Ms. Sherry Brown Keller Ms. Karen Diamond Ms. Nancy Jolley Ms. Candy Kruesi Mr. Todd S. Moreland Mr. Paul L. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Gary and Sally Chazen

Dr. and Mrs. Wade and Teresa Chien Dr. and Mrs. Paul and Darlia Conn Mr. and Mrs. Sam and Ann McReynolds Mr. and Mrs. Phil and Ellen Whitaker

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Ms. Corinne Allen Ms. Claire Binder Mr. H. Franklin Chancey Ms. Patricia Huang Ms. Ruth Lott Mr. Harold “Buddy” Shirk Ms. Bobbie Henry Steffner Mr. Harvey Weiss

Mr. and Mrs. James and Catherine Bailiff Mr. and Mrs. Samual and Anne Feehrer Dr. and Mrs. Jerome and Vanessa Hammond Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and Pauline Whitsitt

U P C O M I N G C O N C E R T S

Pianist Gloria Chien has been picked by the Bos-ton Globe as one of the Superior Pianists of the year, “… who appears to excel in everything.” Richard Dyer praises her for “a wondrously rich palette of colors, which she mixes with dashing bravado and with an uncanny precision of cali-bration…Chien’s performance had it all, and it was fabulous.” Gloria made her orchestral debut at the age of 16 with the Boston Symphony Or-chestra. Since then, she has appeared as a solo-

ist under the batons of Sergiu Comissiona, Keith Lockhart, Thomas Dausgaard, Irwin Hoffmann, and Benjamin Zander. Gloria has per-formed in such festivals as Verbier Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Bay Chamber Concerts, and Music@Menlo, where was re-cently appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute by Artistic Directors David Finckel and Wu Han.An avid chamber musician, Gloria has been the resident pianist with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston since 2000. Her recent per-formances include collaborations with the St. Lawrence, Borromeo, Daedalus and Jupiter String Quartets, David Shifrin, Wu Han, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Ani Kafavian, Ida Kafavian, James Ehnes, Marc Johnson, Paul Neubauer, Andrés Díaz, Bion Tsang, Anthony McGill, Soovin Kim, Carolin Widmann, and Edward Arron. Her Beethoven Violin Sonatas Cycle with violinist, James Buswell has been featured live on Boston’s WGBH. Gloria can be heard on Chandos Records.In fall of 2009, Gloria launched String Theory at the Hunter, a cham-ber music series at the Hunter Museum of American Art in downtown Chattanooga, as its founder and artistic director. An Associate Profes-sor at Lee University in Cleveland, TN, Gloria is a Steinway Artist.

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Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music. (Psalm 98:4)

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ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTETGeoff Nuttall, violin Scott St. John, violin

Lesley Robertson, viola Christopher Costanza, cello

String Quartet in c minor, Op.18, No.4 Beethoven (1770-1827) Allegro ma non tanto Scherzo (Andante scherzoso quasi Allegretto) Menuetto (Allegretto) Allegro-Prestissimo Scott St. John, violin Geoff Nuttall, violin Lesley Robertson, viola Christopher Costanza, cello

Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op.44 Schumann (1810-1856) Allegro brillante In modo d’una Marcia. Un poco largamente Scherzo (Molto vivace) Allegro, ma non troppo Geoff Nuttall, violin Scott St. John, violin Lesley Robertson, viola Christopher Costanza, cello Gloria Chien, piano

The St. Lawrence String Quartet appears by arrangement with David Rowe Artists www.davidroweartists.comSt. Lawrence String recordings can be heard on EMI Classics and ArtistShare (www.artistshare.com)The St. Lawrence String Quartet is Ensemble-in-Residence at Stanford University www.slsq.com

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Rebroadcast of this concert has been made available by the generosity of WSMC 90.5 FM on Wednesday, March 16th at 7pm

Cover Artwork:Karen LaMonte (b. 1967), Reclining Dress Impression with Drapery, 2006

cast glass, 1/319 x 61 x 23 inches

Collection of the Hunter Museum of American Art, Museum purchase, 2008.1

“Celebrating 20 years, this group has matured and deepened without losing its freshness and edge.”–The Globe and Mail, April 2009

The St. Lawrence String Quartet (SLSQ) has established itself among the world-class chamber ensembles of its generation. Its mission: bring every piece of music to the audience in vivid color, with pronounced communication and teamwork, and great respect to the composer. Since winning both the Banff International String Quartet Competi-tion and Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 1992, the quartet has delighted audiences with its spontaneous, passionate, and dynamic performances. Alex Ross of The New Yorker magazine writes, “the St. Lawrence are remarkable not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the act of connection.”

Whether playing Haydn or premiering a new work, the SLSQ has a rare ability to bring audiences to rapt attention. They reveal surprising nuances in familiar repertoire and illuminate the works of some of to-day’s most celebrated composers, often all in the course of one evening. John Adams was inspired to write works expressly for the quartet after hearing them in concert. His “String Quartet,” written for the SLSQ, was premiered by the quartet in January 2009. In 2012, the quartet will join forces with the San Francisco Symphony to premiere yet an-other work Adams is composing with the SLSQ in mind.

In spring 2011, they will premiere a new work by Osvaldo Golijov, also composed for them. This forthcoming work (co-commissioned by Stanford Lively Arts and Carnegie Hall) is expected to build on the success of their previous collaboration, which culminated in the twice-Grammy-nominated SLSQ recording of the composer’s Yiddishbbuk (EMI) in 2002.

SLSQ maintains a busy touring schedule. The 2010/11 season includes two trips to Europe with concerts in Germany, Belgium, Italy, Finland

and Estonia. In North America, SLSQ returns to Vancouver, Winni-peg, Toronto, New York and Philadelphia in addition to concerts in North Carolina, Georgia, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, Florida, Alabama, Texas and Oklahoma. During the summer season SLSQ is proud to continue its long association with the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC and Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockport, Maine.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the quartet’s founding in Canada, SLSQ in 2009 commissioned five Canadian composers and performed their work across the country. They also have active working relation-ships with numerous other composers, including R. Murray Schafer, Christos Hatzis, Ezequiel Viñao, Jonathan Berger, Ka Nin Chan, Ro-berto Sierra, and Mark Applebaum. s

Since 1998 the SLSQ has held the position of Ensemble in Residence at Stanford University. This residency includes working with music students as well as extensive collaborations with other faculty and de-partments using music to explore a myriad of topics. Recent collabo-rations have involved the School of Medicine, School of Education, and the Law School. In addition to their appointment at Stanford, the SLSQ are visiting artists at the University of Toronto. The foursome’s passion for opening up musical arenas to players and listeners alike is evident in their annual summer chamber music seminar at Stanford and their many forays into the depths of musical meaning with preemi-nent music educator Robert Kapilow.

Violist Lesley Robertson is a founding member of the group, and hails from Edmonton Alberta. Cellist Christopher Costanza is from Utica, NY and joined the quartet in 2003. Violinists Geoff Nuttall and Scott St. John both grew up in London Ontario; Geoff is a founding mem-ber and Scott joined in 2006. Depending on concert repertoire, the two alternate the role of first violin. All four members of the quartet live and teach at Stanford, in the Bay Area of California.

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