Auditorium, APS Conference Center, Argonne National Laboratory
Saturday March 15, 2003 at 8:00 p.m.
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| Beethoven -- | String Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 ("Serioso") |
| Schumann -- | String Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3 |
| Shostakovich -- | Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 |
This program is partially supported by the University of Chicago and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency
Currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, the New York-based Colorado Quartet appears regularly in major halls around the globe. Highlights of recent years were a Beethoven cycle in Berlin, Germany (the first by an all-female quartet in Europe), tours of more than 20 countries, New York concerts at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival (including 20 Haydn quartets over two seasons) and Great Performance Series, in Carnegie Hall's “Quartet Plus” Weill Recital Hall, at Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center and at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, as well as performances at festivals in Scandinavia, the Czech Republic, and at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. Other appearances include performances at the Library of Congress, in Los Angeles, Seattle, Toronto, Philadelphia, Vancouver, Phoenix, and the North Shore (Chicago). The Quartet has been featured on radio and television worldwide, with numerous radio broadcasts in America, England and Canada, as well as television programs in The Netherlands, Japan, Norway, Puerto Rico, Peru and Mexico.
In 1997, the Colorado Qaurtet released a CD of Brahms Quartets (Op. 51, Nos. 1 and 2) on Parnassus Records and an album of contemporary compositions on Albany Records that have received great critical acclaim. In 1999, a CD of works of Henry Cowell on Mode was a Critics' Choice in Gramophone Magazine, and Jan Krzywicki's String Quartet was released on Albany Records. Past recordings include CDs of Beethoven and Mozart on Fidelio records. Their most recent release is Schubert's Death and the Maiden and Mendelssohn's Quartet Op. 80 on Parnassus, which won a 2001 CMA/WQXR Recording Award. To celebrate their 20th anniversary, the Colorado Quartet is about to release the Opus 59 and Opus 74 quartets of Beethoven on Parnassus.
In a ten-day period in 1983, the Colorado Quartet made history by winning two of the music world's highest honors: the Naumburg Chamber Music Award and First Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition. Since that time it has been praised on four continents as one of the finest quartets of our time, cited for its musical integrity, impassioned playing and lyrical finesse.
The Colorado Quartet is equally at home performing standard literature or newer works, and has premiered compositions by leading composers such as Ezra Laderman and Karel Husa, as well as composers of the younger generation. It has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Fund, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.
The members of the Colorado Quartet are inspiring and well respected teachers who have held residencies at the Oberlin College-Conservatory, Swarthmore and Skidmore Colleges, Philadelphia's New School of Music, and Amherst College in Massachusetts. They are founders and Artistic Directors of the Soundfest Chamber Music Festival and Institute of String Quartets in Falmouth, Massachusetts, which celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2001. The Colorado Quartet is currently Quartet-in-Residence at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.
Individual Biographies: Members of the COLORADO QUARTET
JULIE ROSENFELD, violin:
A native of Los Angeles, Ms. Rosenfeld received her training at the Curtis Institute, the University of Southern California and Yale University; her teachers have included Szymon Goldberg, Nathan Milstein and Yukiko Kamei. Ms. Rosenfeld has appeared as recitalist and soloist with orchestras throughout the United States and Europe and has recorded two albums of French chamber music with André Previn. A member of the Colorado Quartet since 1982, she performs often with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at the Santa Fe and La Jolla Music Festivals. In 1992 she became the first female judge at the Banff International String Quartet competition, and in 1996 she was artist-in-residence at both the Marlboro Music Festival and the International Mozart Festival in Poland.
DEBORAH REDDING, violin:
Born in New York City, Ms. Redding grew up in Colorado, founding the Quartet while a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree from that institution, where she studied with Oswald Lehnert, and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where she was a student of Szymon Goldberg. A serious marathoner, she has so far run races in three countries, and has recently been running ultra-marathons at distances of 50 to 100 miles. Ms. Redding raises scholarship money for the Soundfest Institute of String Quartets with pledges for her marathon running.
MARKA GUSTAVSSON, viola:
Ms. Gustavsson holds degrees from Indiana University, the Mannes College of Music, and is a Doctoral Candidate at City University of New York. She has studied with Mimi Zweig, Joseph Gingold, Felix Galimir, and Daniel Phillips. A guest artist with Da Capo Chamber Players, Sequitur, Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society.s .Meet the Music., and on Robert Sherman.s WQXR Young Artists. Programs, she has performed internationally in many chamber music events including the Festival Presence at Radio-France, and the Pundaquit Festival in the Philippines. Ms. Gustavsson has served on the faculties of Hofstra University and the Kinhaven Music Festival.
DIANE CHAPLIN, cello:
A native of Los Angeles, Ms. Chaplin holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, where she was a student of Cesare Pascarella, and a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Harvey Shapiro. She received a Special Prize from the International Cello Competition in Viña del Mar, Chile, and a Certificate from the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, and has concertized throughout the United States and Europe. Ms. Chaplin has a large class of private students and is Administrative Director of the Soundfest Chamber Music Festival and Institute of String Quartets. She has been a member of the Quartet since 1988.
The audience is invited to join the artists at a reception following the performance.
The concert will be presented in the Auditorium of the APS Conference Center (Bldg. 402) at Argonne. It is open to the public. For US citizens, photo identification is required to enter the laboratory site. Non-US citizens need to register prior to the event by calling 630-252-3751 during regular working hours.
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Admission to the concert is $20. Call (630) 252-3751 to order your tickets now, VISA and MasterCard accepted; or use the ticket request form to order your tickets by mail.
Remaining tickets will be sold in the lobby of the Argonne Cafeteria (Bldg. 213) during the week of March 10 between noon and 1:00 p.m. The Auditorium Box Office will be open on the day of the performance at 7:30 p.m.
A special dinner (menu) prepared by Chef Chris Kaminsky will be served in the Argonne Guest House. Dinner hours from 5:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. $24.50 per person. Reservations requested (630-739-6000).
