Seventh Annual Juilliard Chamberfest takes place Monday, January 14 through Saturday, January 19, 2008 at Juilliard

The Juilliard School’s seventh annual ChamberFest from Monday, January 14 - Saturday, January 19, 2008 features six days of ensemble music-making by more than 80 Juilliard musicians, coached by Juilliard faculty members in intensive sessions during the winter break. This year’s participants range from bachelor through doctoral level, and for the first time, ChamberFest welcomes its first Pre-College Division ensemble on Saturday, January 19 at 3 PM; they will perform Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat, Op. 74.

All ChamberFest concerts are FREE; no tickets are required. The Juilliard Box Office will close at 6 PM on Friday, December 21 for the holidays and reopen at 11 AM on Wednesday, January 2. To get to the Box Office, located at 60 Lincoln Center Plaza, walk west on 65th Street and use the escalator/elevator near Amsterdam Avenue to reach plaza level. Box office hours are Mondays through Fridays from 11 AM – 6 PM. For further information, call (212) 769-7406 or visit Juilliard’s Web site at www.juilliard.edu.

ChamberFest opens on Monday, January 14 at 8 PM in Paul Hall with a program featuring César Franck’s Piano Quintet in F Minor and Schubert’s Octet in F, D. 803.
       
On Tuesday, January 15 at 8 PM in Paul Hall, the program includes Ives’ Piano Trio; Jean Françaix’s Trio pour Clarinet, Viola, and Piano; and Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26. 
      
ChamberFest continues with two performances on Wednesday, January 16 in The Peter Jay Sharp Theater: at 1 PM, the program features Haydn’s String Quartet in E-flat, Op. 64, No. 6 and Brahms’ Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8; and at 8 PM in Paul Hall, the program includes Smetana’s String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor and Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60.

On Thursday, January 17 at 8 PM in Paul Hall, the ensembles perform Ravel’s String Quartet in F and Messiaen’s Quatuor pour la fin du temps.

The closing weekend of ChamberFest features Mozart’s String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421; Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3; and Faure’s Piano Quartet No 1 in C Minor, Op. 15; and on Friday, January 18 at 8 PM in The Peter Jay Sharp Theater; on Saturday, January 19 at 3 PM in Paul Hall, the ensembles perform Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28; Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat, Op 74 (featuring Juilliard’s Pre-College Division students); and Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 44; and on Saturday, January 19 at 8 PM in The Peter Jay Sharp Theater, the ensembles perform Bartók’s String Quartet No. 1 in B-flat, Sz. 40 (Op. 7); Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67; and Brahm’s Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano in E-flat, Op. 40.
       
Among this year’s stellar participants are winners of major competitions, including the Geneva International Competition, the 2007 Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Gold Medal at the National Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Prix de la Musique de Chambre from the Conservatoire Américain de Fontainebleau. There are also two Jack Kent Cooke Scholars and a 2008 Gilmore Young Artist participating in ChamberFest. These young musicians have also participated in festivals around the world, including: Internationale Sommerakademie Mozarteum, Beijing International Festival, Verbier Festival, Music Academy of the West, Luzerne Festival, Académie Internationale d’Été Nice, Perlman Music Program, workshops with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, and the Aspen Music Festival, among others. This year’s group also has a wide range of interests with a few members holding degrees in comparative literature, molecular biology and biochemistry; they are now pursuing their graduate degrees in music at Juilliard. Prior to coming to Juilliard, they have studied at institutions as far away as the University of South Africa and the Shanghai Conservatory to places nearby, such as Yale School of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music. At least five participants have appeared on NPR’s From the Top, which features America’s best young classical musicians.
       
Participants in this year’s ChamberFest have appeared as soloists with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the State Orchestra of Ukraine, Geneva Chamber Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Quebec Symphony Orchestra, Nashville Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Incheon Philharmonic Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, among others. 
       
The Pre-College Division students in this year’s ChamberFest are juniors in high school. Violinist Chun-Wen Huang is native of Taiwan and studies with Hyo Kang. Violinist IhnSeon Park is a native of South Korea and is a student of Itzhak Perlman and Cathy Cho. Violist Isabel Hagen is from New York City and is a student of Kenji Bunch. Cellist Madeline Fayette is from Long Island and studies with André Emelianoff. 
      
ChamberFest alumni have gone on to perform in their own groups, most notably, The Claremont Trio, the Attaca Quartet, and the Ebony Strings Quartet.

Chamber Music at Juilliard

Chamber music holds a prominent and active place in the Juilliard curriculum and performance schedule. More than 100 participating student ensembles receive personalized coachings from leading chamber music performers on the School’s faculty, including members of the School’s ensembles-in-residence: the Juilliard String Quartet, American Brass Quintet, and New York Woodwind Quintet. Pianist Joseph Kalichstein holds the Edwin S. and Nancy A. Marks Endowed Chair in Chamber Music Studies. ChamberFest offers Juilliard students a special opportunity to work without interruption, in-depth, on repertoire they have selected and in groups that they have formed on their own. The unlimited rehearsal time and daily coaching support ChamberFest provides yields extraordinarily rich artistic and educational results. Faculty coaches for this year’s festival include: Darrett Adkins, Misha Amory, Toby Appel, Baruch Arnon, Stephen Clapp, Timothy Cobb, Andre Emelianoff, Joseph Kalichstein, Curtis Macomber, Nicholas Mann, Robert Mann, Charles Neidich, Sylvia Rosenberg, Joel Sachs, Fred Sherry, and David Soyer.
 
Juilliard presents free lunchtime concerts (no tickets required) every Wednesday throughout the academic year at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, while Alice Tully Hall is undergoing renovation. Wednesdays at One performances are at 1:00 PM and last for about an hour. Doors open at 12:30 PM. In addition, Juilliard regularly presents nighttime concerts entitled An Evening of Chamber Music at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, featuring chamber music by a variety of student ensembles. Juilliard’s chamber music concerts are not limited to the Lincoln Center area. Student ensembles have performed at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage as part of The Conservatory Project in each of the past three years. Also, student chamber music groups perform eight to ten community partnership concerts annually, known as the Chamber Music from Juilliard series, at unique venues throughout New York City, including the Williams Residence assisted living facility, the New York State Supreme Courthouse, and Columbia University’s Faculty House and St. Paul’s Chapel. 

The members of the Juilliard String Quartet serve as coaches to Juilliard’s graduate resident string quartet, a quartet residency funded through the generosity of the Arnhold family. The Biava Quartet is Juilliard’s graduate resident string quartet, beginning in fall 2007.

 7th ANNUAL JUILLIARD CHAMBERFEST
 MONDAY, JANUARY 14 – SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 2008
              
Monday, January 14, 8:00 PM
Paul Hall, 144 West 66th Street
Free; no tickets required

CÉSAR FRANCK Piano Quintet in F Minor
Eunkyung Yoon, piano; Danbee Park and Quan Ge, violins; Geoffrey Hamlyn, viola; Niall Adams, cello

SCHUBERT Octet in F, D. 803
Vasko Dukovski, clarinet; Benjamin Moermond, bassoon; David Feldman, horn; Stanichka Dimitrova and
Nicole Jeong, violins; Katerina Istomin, viola; Marvin Brown, cello; Eric Shetzen, bass

Tuesday, January 15, 8:00 PM
Paul Hall
Free; no tickets required.

IVES Piano Trio
Avigail Bushakevitz, violin; Ju-young Lee, cello; Victor Ngo, piano

JEAN FRANÇAIX Trio pour Clarinet, Viola and Piano
Jessica Chow, piano; Uriel Vanchestein, clarinet; Kim Mai Nguyen, violin

BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26
Hui Wu, Piano; Nicole Leon, violin; Ming-Hsin Lu, viola; Kai-Wen Liu, cello

Wednesday, January 16, 1:00 PM
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 155 West 65th Street
Free; no tickets Required

HAYDN String Quartet, Op. 64, No. 6 in E-flat
Clara Lyon and Emily Smith, violins; Elzbieta Weyman, viola; Hugh LeSure, cello

BRAHMS Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8
Areta Zhulla, violin; Gretchen Claassen, cello; Peter Dugan, piano

Wednesday, January 16, 8:00 PM
Paul Hall
Free; no tickets required,

SMETANA String Quartet No. 1 in E Minor
Clara Lee and Hanah Stuart, violins; Hari Bernstein, viola; Kristen Wojcik, cello

BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60
Henry Kramer, piano; Elly Suh, violin; Molly Carr, viola; Elizabeth Chung, cello

Thursday, January 17, 8:00 PM
Paul Hall
Free; no tickets required.

RAVEL String Quartet in F
Wanzhen Li and Alexandra Osborne, violins; Ari Isaacman-Beck, viola; Justina Sullivan, cello

MESSIAEN, Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Maja Pawelke, clarinet; Sornitza Baharova, violin; Audrey Nadeau, cello, Iejin Rhee, piano

Friday, January 18, 8:00 PM
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Free; no tickets required.
Available beginning 1/5 at the Juilliard Box Office.

MOZART String Quartet in D Minor, K. 421
Hyo-Jung Yoo and Michelle Ross, violins; Sun Young Lim, viola; Deborah Pae, cello

BARTÓK String Quartet No. 3
Tae-hee Im and Heidi Schaul-Yoder, violins; Andrea Hemmenway, viola; Min-Jeong Kang, cello

FAURÉ Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15
Irene Wong, piano; Hong Ji Kim, violin; Esme Allen-Creighton, viola; Christopher Hopkins, cello

Saturday, January 19, 3:00 PM
Paul Hall
Free; no tickets required.

RICHARD STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Arr. By Franz Hasenöhrl
Jerry Chiu, violin; Robert Walker-Lacomba, clarinet; Helena Kranjc, bassoon; Kolio Pachkov, horn;
Andrew Trombley, bass

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat, Op. 74
Pre-College ensemble: Chun-Wen Huang, violin; IhnSeon Park, violin; Isabel Hagen, viola; Madeline Fayette, cello

ROBERT SCHUMANN Piano Quintet in E-flat, Op. 4
Stephanie Chen, piano; Christel Lee and Hye Jin Koh, violins; Daniel Arocha, viola; Alina Lim, cello

Saturday, January 19, 8:00 PM
Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Free; no tickets required.

BARTÓK String Quartet No. 1 in B-flat, Sz. 40/Op. 7
Ilana Setapen and Arthur Moeller, violins; Clio Tilton, viola; Elizabeth Lara, cello

SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67
Lydia Hong, violin; Adelle Akiko-Kearns, cello; Akimi Fukuhara, piano

BRAHMS Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano in E-flat, Op. 40
Pala Garcia, violin; Sydney Braunfeld, horn; Naomi Kudo, piano