GRAND OPENING WEEK OF THE SHALIN LIU PERFORMANCE CENTER JUNE 10-13, 2010

We invite you to a celebratory gathering in our Reception Hall following each concert during Grand Opening Week.

Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday at the
Shalin Liu Performance Center

Also this week:

Friday, June 11 : 6 pm Shalin Liu Performance Center Reception Hall
Prelude Supper Lecture Series
Mia Chung, Concert pianist and Artist-in-Residence at Gordon College
Lecture Topic: The piano music of Chopin
$30 per person includes gourmet boxed dinner,
lecture and Q&A.

OPENING NIGHT

Thursday June 10 : 7:30pm
SOLD OUT

Paula Robison, flute
John Ferrillo, oboe
William and Catherine Hudgins, clarinets
Eric Ruske and Laura Carter, horns
Richard Svoboda, bassoon
Borromeo String Quartet
Edwin Barker, bass
Bayla Keyes, violin
Michael Reynolds, cello
David Deveau, piano

Wagner: Siegfried Idyll (original version)

SCOTT WHEELER: Piano Trio No. 4 Granite Coast World Premiere commissioned by Rockport Music for the opening of the Shalin Liu Performance Center

Copland: Appalachian Spring (original version)

Friday, June 11 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

Garrick Ohlsson, piano
All-Chopin recital in honor of the composer’s
200th birthday

Impromptu No. 2 in F-sharp minor, Op. 36
Ballade No. 3 in A-flat, Op. 47
Barcarolle in F-sharp, Op. 60
Two Nocturnes, Op. 27
Scherzo No. 3 in C-sharp minor, Op. 39
24 Preludes, Op. 28

Saturday, June 12 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

Borromeo Quartet with Gilles Vonsattel, piano

Beethoven: String Quartet Op. 18, No. 2
Mark Kilstofte: String Quartet (2009)
Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34

Sunday, June 13 : 5pm
SOLD OUT

Parthenia, Consort of Viols, with
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek, mezzo-soprano,
and Paul Hecht, actor

“When Music and Sweet Poetry Agree”
Based on works of Shakespeare and Donne, interspersed with music for viols from the
16th and 17th centuries

Support provided by The Ira Fieldsteel
Early Music Fund

Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday at the
Shalin Liu Performance Center

Also this week:

Wednesday, June 16 : 7 pmShalin Liu Performance Center
MASTER CLASS WITH ANDRÉS CÁRDENES, VIOLINIST $20 (youths 18 and under attend for free)

Mr. Cárdenes was the silver medal winner of the 1982 Tchaikovsky International Violin Competition in Moscow, and is a Grammy nominated solo violinist with over 20 recordings to his credit. Concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 1988, he is also one of the world’s leading violin teachers, following in the footsteps of his own teacher, the legendary Josef Gingold. Don’t miss the chance to see this master violinist work with aspiring young music students.

Friday, June 18 : 6 pmShalin Liu Performance Center Reception Hall
Prelude Supper Lecture Series
Elizabeth Seitz, Author, Musicologist, Boston Conservatory faculty member
Lecture Topic: Listening to the music of the 20th and 21st centuries
$30 per person includes gourmet boxed dinner,
lecture and Q&A.

Saturday, June 19 : 10 amFREE FAMILY CONCERT
Manguito: Music Tour of the Caribbean
Five internationally known Latin American musicians take the audience on an interactive musical tour of the Caribbean as they play the rhythms of Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic on a variety of musical instruments.

Thursday June 17 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

The Boston Trio
Irina Muresanu, violin
Allison Eldredge, cello
Heng-Jin Park, piano

Mozart: Piano Trio in C, K. 548
Ives: Piano Trio
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66

Friday, June 18 : 8pm

Boston Musica Viva, Richard Pittman, conductor, with Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano

Michael Gandolfi: Grooved Surfaces
John Cage: Credo in Us
Charles Ives: Five Street Songs
Gunther Schuller: Four Vignettes
Steven Stucky: Boston Fancies

Saturday, June 19 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

Jupiter String Quartet with Andrés Cárdenes, and Joana Genova violins Ariel Rudiakov viola
Anne Martindale Williams cello

Haydn: Quartet Op. 76, No. 4 Sunrise
Dvorak: Quartet in F, Op. 96 American
Enescu: Octet for Strings in C, Op. 7 (1900)

Sunday June 20 : 5pm
SOLD OUT

Charles J. Deveau Memorial Concert

Randall Hodgkinson and Leslie Amper, piano duet
Andres Cardenes and Joana Genova, violins, Katherine Murdock and Ari Rudiakov, violas, Anne Martindale Williams, cello, David Deveau, piano

Faure: Dolly Suite for Piano four-hands
Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32
Brahms: String Quintet in G, Op. 111

Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday at the Shalin Liu Performance Center

Also this week:

Thursday, June 24 : 2 pmOpen Rehearsal with the Biava String Quartet
Observe how a superb string quartet puts the finishing touches on works to be performed at their concerts during the Rockport Chamber Music Festival.
Free and Open to the Public

Friday, June 25 : 6 pmPrelude Supper Lecture Series
Elena Ruehr, Composer and MIT Lecturer in Music
Laura Harrington, Playwright, lyricist and librettist
The composer and the librettist of Song of the Silkie (commissioned by Rockport Chamber Music Festival, 1999) will discuss the collaborative process of composition.
$30 per person includes gourmet boxed dinner,
lecture and Q&A.

Saturday, June 26 : 10 amFREE FAMILY CONCERT
Alpin Hong, pianist
Classically trained – by Mendelssohn, Movies, and Games!
Familiar themes from movies and video games allow people of any age or experience to learn about classical repertoire, performance and composition from J.S. Bach to John Williams, and to Super Mario.

Thursday June 24 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

Biava Quartet
Mozart: Quartet in B-flat, K. 458 The Hunt
Tansman: Quartet No. 5 (1940)
Brahms: Quartet in C minor, Op. 51, No. 1

Friday, June 25 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

Biava Quartet with Stephen Salters, baritone

Milhaud: Quartet No. 7
Elena Ruehr: Song of the Silkie (Rockport Music commission, 2000)
Schoenberg: Quartet in D (1897)

Saturday, June 26 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

Alpin Hong, piano

Mendelssohn: Variations Serieuses, Op. 54
Mozart: Sonata in A, K. 331 Turkish
Mozart: Twelve variations on Twinkle, Twinkle, K. 265
Chopin: Variations on La ci darem la mano from Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Brahms: Variations on a Theme of Paganini,
Book I, Op. 35
Liszt: Totentanz

Sunday June 27 : 5pm
SOLD OUT

Imani Winds

Karel Husa: Five Poems
Marquez: Danza de Mediodia
Carter: Woodwind Quintet (1948)
Aquila: Woodwind Quintet No. 2

Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday at the Shalin Liu Performance Center

Also this week:

Friday, July 9 : 6 pmShalin Liu Performance Center Reception Hall
Prelude Supper Lecture Series
Michael Weinstein, Swiss-born French horn player, composer, and faculty member at Berklee College, New England Conservatory, and The Cambridge School of Weston
Lecture Topic: Mr. Weinstein will give an overview of the music for brass from this evening’s concert.
$30 per person includes gourmet boxed dinner, lecture and Q&A.

Saturday, July 10 : 10 amFREE LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION
Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037
DVD screening & panel discussion

Featuring famed pianists such as Harry Connick, Jr., and Lang Lang, Note By Note follows the year-long, hand-crafted creation of a Steinway concert grand piano from forest floor to concert hall.

Followed by a discussion with Ben Niles, film director; David Deveau, Artistic Director for Rockport Music; and Christine Lovgren, Certified Piano Technician and faculty member at the North Bennet Street School, including an account of the selection process for the new Steinway concert grand piano purchased for the Shalin Liu Performance Center.

Following the lecture, chat with speakers in the
Reception Hall
Box lunch available, $20, reserve in advance

Thursday July 8 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

Cantus,
An a cappella men’s choir
Works for chamber vocal ensemble by Gibson, Kodaly, Schubert, Khatelishvili, Lerner and Loewe, spirituals and more

Friday, July 9 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

Boston Brass

Mozart: Overture from The Marriage of Figaro
Ginastera: Danza Final from Estancia
Piazzolla: Tango Apasionado
works of Dizzy Gillespie, and others

Saturday, July 10 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

Virtuoso String Ensemble including members of the Orion String Quartet, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Musicians from Marlboro and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Todd Phillips and Carmit Zori, violins
Catherine Cho, viola
Julia Lichten, cello
Timothy Cobb, bass

Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins in C, Op. 56
Fritz Kreisler: String Quartet in A minor

Dvorak: Quintet in G, Op. 77 for two violins, viola, cello, and bass

Sunday, July 11 : 5pm
SOLD OUT

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Berg: Sonata, Op. 1 (1907-08)
Liszt: Sonata in B minor
Debussy: Préludes. Book 2 (excerpts)
Les fées sont d’exquises danseuses
Les tierces alternées
Feux d’artifice
M.A. Hamelin: Twelve Etudes in all the Minor Keys (excerpts)

Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday at the Shalin Liu Performance Center

Also this week:

Wednesday, July 14: 7:30 pmFREE LECTURE
Shalin Liu Performance Center
Chopin and Schumann at 200
Charles Shadle, composer and senior lecturer in music at MIT, and pianist Judith Gordon

Mr. Shadle will discuss and demonstrate the contrasts and similarities between these two iconic Romantics. Ms. Gordon will provide musical examples at the piano.

Friday, July 16 : 6 pmShalin Liu Performance Center Reception Hall
Prelude Supper Lecture Series
Nicholas Kitchen, Violinist, Borromeo String Quartet.
Lecture Topic: Mr. Kitchen will speak about the music of
Schubert and Schumann being played during the evening’s concert.
$30 per person includes gourmet boxed dinner, lecture and Q&A.

Thursday July 15 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

Brentano String Quartet

Haydn: Quartet in F, Op. 77, No. 2
Hartke: Night Songs for a New Flower (2009)
Beethoven: Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

Friday, July 16 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

Brentano String Quartet with David Deveau, piano

Schubert: Quartet No. 15 in G, D. 887
Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44

Saturday, July 17 : 8pm
SOLD OUT

Midori, violin
Ozgur Aydin, piano

Beethoven: Sonata in A minor, Op. 23
Bloch: Sonata No. 2
Szymanowski: Myths
Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108

Sunday, July 18 : 5pm
SOLD OUT

Richard Stoltzman, clarinet, Mika Yoshida, marimba, Peter John Stoltzman, jazz piano,
David Deveau, piano

Lukas Foss: Three American Pieces
Brahms: Sonata in E-flat for clarinet and piano,
Op. 120, No. 2
Steve Reich: New York Counterpoint