Violinist Joseph Lin and Fortepianist Robert Levin Perform Works by Beethoven and Schubert on Thursday, April 25, 2019, at 7:30pm in Juilliard's Paul Hall

Presented as Part of Juilliard’s Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series

NEW YORK –– Violinist Joseph Lin and fortepianist Robert Levin will perform works by Beethoven and Schubert on period instruments on Thursday, April 25, 2019, at 7:30pm in Paul Hall, as part of Juilliard’s Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital series. The program features Beethoven’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96 and Schubert’s Rondo in B Minor, D. 895 and Fantasy in C Major, D. 934.

Robert Levin will be performing on Juilliard’s fortepiano, built by instrument-maker R.J. Regier of Freeport, Maine. It was modeled after instruments of Viennese builder Conrad Graf (1782-1851). Joseph Lin will be using the same instrument that he’s been playing for years, a J.B. Rogeri (ca. 1705), and to explore the sound world of the early 19th century, he’ll be using gut strings and an early model Tourte bow (ca. 1785).

Tickets at $20 ($10 for full-time students) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.

About Joseph Lin

Joseph Lin was first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet from 2011 to 2018 before stepping down to devote more time to his family. He is a member of the faculty of Juilliard, where he teaches violin and chamber music. He has led several initiatives in chamber music and collaborates with Juilliard students and colleagues. His 2019 projects include a Musicians From Marlboro tour on violin and viola, Chamberfest collaborations with Juilliard students, and performances of Bartók's Violin Concerto No. 2.

From 2007 to 2011, Lin was an assistant professor at Cornell University, where he organized the inaugural Chinese Musicians Residency in 2009. The following year, he led a project with Cornell composers to study the violin sonatas and partitas of Bach and to create new music inspired by Bach, which culminated in a series of concerts premiering the new works alongside Bach’s. In 2018 Lin returned to Bach with a performance of the complete sonatas and partitas at Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo.

He was a founding member of the Formosa Quartet, which won the 2006 London International String Quartet Competition. In 1996, he was awarded first prize at the Concert Artists Guild International Competition and was named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts. In 1999, he was selected for the Pro Musicis International Award, and in 2001, he won first prize at the inaugural Michael Hill International Violin Competition in New Zealand. His recordings include the music of Korngold and Busoni with pianist Benjamin Loeb, an album of Debussy, Franck, and Milhaud with piano alumnus Orion Weiss, and the complete unaccompanied works of Bach and Ysaÿe. His recording of Mozart’s A Major Violin Concerto with original cadenzas was released in 2017. With the JSQ, Lin recorded Elliot Carter’s fifth quartet, as well as its most recent album of Beethoven, Davidovsky, and Bartók.

Lin’s violin teachers have included Mary Canberg, Shirley Givens, and Lynn Chang. A Juilliard Pre-College alumnus, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2000. In 2002, he began an extended exploration of China, spending 2004 studying Chinese music in Beijing as a Fulbright Scholar.

About Robert Levin

Pianist Robert Levin has performed with the orchestras of Berlin, Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Montreal, Tokyo, and Vienna with conductors Bernard Haitink, Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. On fortepiano he has appeared with the Academy of Ancient Music, Handel and Haydn Society, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique with John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, Charles Mackerras, Nicholas McGegan, and Roger Norrington.

His recordings for DG Archiv, CRI, Decca/Oiseau-Lyre, Deutsche Grammophon Yellow Label, ECM, New York Philomusica, Nonesuch, Philips, and SONY Classical include the complete Bach concertos with Helmuth Rilling and the English Suites and The Well-Tempered Clavier for Hänssler’s 172-CD Edition Bach-Akademie. The complete Beethoven cello and piano works for Hyperion with Steven Isserlis was named Gramophone’s recording of the month in 2014. Levin studied piano with Louis Martin and composition with Stefan Wolpe in New York.

After graduating from Harvard, he was invited by Rudolf Serkin to head the theory department of the Curtis Institute of Music; he left after five years to become a professor at the School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase. In 1979 he became resident director of the Conservatoire Américain in Fontainebleau, France, at the request of Nadia Boulanger, teaching there until 1983. From 1986 to 1993 he was professor of piano at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. The president of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has also been Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard. In 2016 he was inducted as honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was the inaugural Hogwood Fellow of the Academy of Ancient Music in 2017 and 2018.

A noted theorist and Mozart scholar, he is the author of many articles and essays on Mozart. His completions of Mozart fragments are published by Bärenreiter, Breitkopf & Härtel, Hänssler, and Peters, and they have been recorded and performed throughout the world. His cadenzas to the Mozart violin concertos have been recorded by Gidon Kremer with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Vienna Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon and published by Universal Edition. A Carnegie Hall commission to complete Mozart’s Mass in C Minor was premiered in 2005. He continues his collaboration with Steven Isserlis performing the complete Beethoven cello and piano music.

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Program Listing:

Thursday, April 25, 2019, 7:30pm, Paul Hall

Joseph Lin, Violin

Robert Levin, Fortepiano

Presented as part of Juilliard’s Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series

 

BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96

SCHUBERT Rondo in B Minor, D. 895

SCHUBERT Fantasy in C Major, D. 934

 

Tickets at $20 ($10 for full-time students) are available at juilliard.edu/calendar.