FACULTY RECITAL. Wednesday, March 7, The Madrigalist (2017) World Premiere. Élégie, Op. 24

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1 8pm Mixon Hall FACULTY RECITAL Wednesday, March 7, 2018 Jinjoo Cho, violin Jaime Laredo, violin Cameron Alan-Lee, violin, student artist Eric Wong, viola Serena Hsu, viola, student artist Patrick Miller, viola, student artist Si-Yan Darren Li, cello Sharon Robinson, cello Wei-An Hung, cello, student artist Yun Song Tay, conductor, student artist LOCACELLI, student artists William Cayanan (b. 1996) The Madrigalist (2017) World Premiere Gabriel Fauré ( ) Élégie, Op. 24 LOCACELLI Sharon Robinson, Wei-An Hung, Eva Roebuck, Sarah Miller, Cheuk Yan Vincent Leung, William Cayanan, Chad Polk & Paul Maxwell, cello Yun Song Tay, conductor (continued) Live broadcast on WCLV FM and wclv.org with support from Audio-Technica

2 Felix Mendelssohn ( ) String Quintet No. 1 in A Major, Op. 18 Allegro con moto Intermezzo: Andante sostenuto Scherzo: Allegro di molto Allegro vivace Jinjoo Cho, violin Cameron Alan-Lee, violin Serena Hsu, viola Eric Wong, viola Si-Yan Darren Li, cello Intermission Johannes Brahms ( ) String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op. 18 Allegro ma non troppo Andante, ma moderato Scherzo: Allegro molto Rondo: Poco Allegretto e grazioso Jaime Laredo, violin Jinjoo Cho, violin Eric Wong, viola Patrick Miller, viola Sharon Robinson, cello Wei-An Hung, cello

3 ABOUT THE ARTISTS CAMERON ALAN-LEE is from Los Angeles, California and is in his second year of undergraduate violin studies with Jinjoo Cho. He plays on a 1997 Stephanie Voss violin and bow generously on loan by the Maestro Foundation and has performed both chamber and solo works in many countries. WILLIAM CAYANAN, cello, is an undergraduate student from San Leandro, California, and studies with Melissa Kraut. Critically acclaimed violinist JINJOO CHO won the gold medal at the 2014 Ninth Quadrennial International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and made her first appearance on the international music scene when she garnered the First Grand Prize and Radio Canada s People s Choice Award at the 2006 Montreal International Musical Competition at age 17. Since then, she has won numerous international awards including First Prize and Orchestra Award at the Buenos Aires International Violin Competition in 2010, Second Laureate at the 2011 Isang Yun International Music Competition, First Grand Prize at the Alice Schoenfeld International String Competition and the Dorothy DeLay Award at Aspen Music Festival. Cho has concertized throughout North and South America, Asia and Europe, performing as a soloist with such prestigious orchestras as The Cleveland Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Orchestre symphonique de Québec, Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (Argentina), among many others. She has been privileged to perform with renowned artists Kent Nagano, Peter Oundjian, Michael Stern, Yoel Levi, James Gaffigan, Robert McDuffie, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Paul Neubauer, Roger Tapping and Anton Nel. Cho s biggest passion is arts education and audience engagement. She is the founder of ENCORE Chamber Music, a chamber music program for high school and college students in Cleveland. Additionally, she is faculty at CIM and the Oberlin Conservatory. Born in Seoul, Korea, Cho moved to Cleveland at the age of 14 to study at CIM in the Young Artist Program. She completed a Bachelor of Music degree both at the Curtis Institute of Music and CIM, studying

4 with Joseph Silverstein, Pamela Frank and Paul Kantor. She also earned a Master of Music degree and Professional Studies certificate from CIM, studying with Jaime Laredo. SERENA HSU, viola, is an undergraduate student from Dublin, Ohio, and studies with Jeffrey Irvine. WEI-AN HUNG is a 21-year-old cellist from Changhua, Taiwan. She is now pursuing both bachelor s and master s degrees at CIM under the guidance of Sharon Robinson. She uses a fine modern cello and a bow from the generosity of the Maestro Foundation. Performing for over five decades, JAIME LAREDO has excelled in the multiple roles of soloist, conductor, recitalist, pedagogue and chamber musician. Since his stunning orchestral debut at the age of 11 with the San Francisco Symphony, he has won the admiration and respect of audiences, critics and fellow musicians with his passionate and polished performances. His education and development were greatly influenced by his teachers Josef Gingold and Ivan Galamian, as well as by private coaching with Pablo Casals and George Szell. At the age of 17, Laredo won the prestigious Queen Elisabeth of Belgium Competition, launching his rise to international prominence. Laredo has conducted and performed with the Chicago Symphony, Boston Symphony, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra and Philadelphia Orchestra, among many others. Abroad, Laredo has performed with the London Symphony, BBC Symphony, English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin-in-the- Fields, Royal Philharmonic and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, which he led on two American tours and in their Hong Kong Festival debut. As violinist of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, Laredo performs regularly at Carnegie Hall, 92nd Street Y in New York and Kennedy Center, where the trio is ensemble in residence. Founded by Laredo, cellist Sharon Robinson and pianist Joseph Kalichstein in 1976, the trio has toured internationally and was named Musical America s Ensemble of the Year For fifteen years, Laredo was violist of the piano quartet consisting of pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Isaac Stern and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The

5 quartet recorded nearly the entire piano quartet repertoire on the SONY Classical label, including the works of Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Fauré and Brahms, for which they won a Grammy Award. Laredo has recorded close to one hundred discs, received the Deutsche Schallplatten Prize and has been awarded seven Grammy nominations. Recognized internationally as a sought after teacher, Laredo has fostered the education of violinists that include Leila Josefowitz, Hillary Hahn, Jennifer Koh, Ivan Chan, Soovin Kim, Pamela Frank and Bella Hristova. After 35 years of teaching at the Curtis Institute of Music and 7 years at Indiana University s Jacob School of Music, Laredo teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Music. Additionally, Laredo is celebrating his 20th year as the conductor of the New York String Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, which brings young musicians from around the world to the stage every December. Born in Bolivia, Laredo resides in Guilford, Vermont, and Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife cellist Sharon Robinson. CHEUK YAN VINCENT LEUNG, cello, is a master s student from Hong Kong, and studies with Sharon Robinson. Cellist SI-YAN DARREN LI made his professional debut at the age of 9 and has gone on to an active career as recitalist, chamber musician and teacher. He has appeared at Carnegie Hall s Stern Auditorium, Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Kennedy Center, Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore, Izumi Hall in Osaka, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, National Concert Hall in Taipei and the Basilica de San Lorenzo in Florence. Li has received top prizes in numerous prestigious competitions, including the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow and the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York. He was also a recipient of the American Masterpieces grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Li has appeared in solo and chamber music performances in many renowned music festivals, including the Ravinia Festival, Kronberg Academy Cello Festival and Verbier Festival. An active chamber musician, he has collaborated with such esteemed artists as Emanuel

6 Ax, Alexander Toradze, Thomas Quasthoff, Cho-Liang Lin, Miriam Fried, Paul Katz and Carter Brey. At the age of 9, Li was accepted to the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music. After moving to the US in his early teens, he continued his cello studies with Orlando Cole in Philadelphia. He holds a Bachelor of Music from The Juilliard School and a Master of Music and Artist Diploma from the Peabody Institute. In addition to Orlando Cole, his principal teachers include Fred Sherry, Harvey Shapiro, Alan Stepansky and David Hardy. Li s other mentors include Frans Helmerson, Gary Hoffman, Ralph Kirshbaum and Tsutsumi Tsuyoshi. From , he served as principal cello of the New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas. In 2009, Li joined the award-winning Euclid Quartet, a position he held for seven years. As a member of the quartet, his recording of the Bartók String Quartets was highly praised by Gramophone magazine and the American Recording Guide. Having previously taught at Indiana University-South Bend and the University of Central Florida, Li joined the award-winning Cavani Quartet and the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music in Li plays a 1773 cello by G. B. Guadagnini, generously on loan from the private collection of Mr. and Mrs. Rin Kei-Mei. PAUL MAXWELL, cello, is an undergraduate student from Vista, California, and studies with Sharon Robinson. PATRICK MILLER, viola, is a master s student from Herndon, Virginia, and studies with Robert Vernon. SARAH MILLER is a junior studying with Dr. Melissa Kraut. She was selected as a semifinalist in the 2018 Ann and Charles Eisemann International Young Artists Competition and won first place in the Tennessee Cello Workshop Competition. Miller also won prizes in the New York Music Competition, Cleveland Cello Society Competition and received the Long Island Arts Alliance Scholar Artist Award. She is pursuing a minor in Suzuki Pedagogy, as she hopes to teach as well as perform in her future.

7 CHAD POLK is a freshman at CIM, studying with Sharon Robinson. Chad began playing cello at the age of 6 as a member of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra s Intensive Community Program, which provides children from underrepresented communities lessons, instruments and mentorship until they graduate high school. Winner of the Avery Fisher Recital Award, Piatigorsky Memorial Award, Pro Musicis Award and a GRAMMY Nominee, cellist SHARON ROBINSON is recognized worldwide as a consummate artist. Whether as a recitalist, soloist with orchestra or member of the world-famous Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, critics, audiences and fellow musicians respond to what the Indianapolis Star has called a cellist who has simply been given the soul of Caruso. Her guest appearances with orchestras include the Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras; Los Angeles Philharmonic; Boston, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dallas, Houston, National, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and San Francisco Symphonies; and in Europe, the London Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Zürich s Tonhalle Orchestra and the English, Scottish and Franz Lizst Chamber Orchestras. Recipient of the 2012 Governor s Award for Excellence in the Arts (Vermont), Robinson divides her time between teaching, solo engagements, performing with her husband, Jaime Laredo, and touring with the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio. In 2012, she started teaching on the renowned faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music. She taught at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University from Highly sought after for her dynamic master classes, she brings insight to her teaching from the rare combination of her lifetime experiences as a member of the Houston Symphony, Ciompi String Quartet of Duke University, Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, plus countless solo recitals and concerto performances. Committed to the music of our time, Robinson works closely with many of today s leading composers, including Ned Rorem, Leon Kirchner, Arvo Pärt, Stanley Silverman, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Joan Tower, David Ludwig, Katherine Hoover, Richard Danielpour and André Previn. She is admired for consortium building, putting together multiple presenters as co-commissioners of both chamber music and concertos with orchestra. In 2015, Robinson established the Cleveland chapter of MUSIC FOR FOOD, which has raised funds to provide more than 3,000 meals for area residents.

8 EVA ROEBUCK, cello, is a master s student from Merriam, Kansas, and studies with Sharon Robinson. YUN SONG TAY graduated with a bachelor s in conducting at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in He is currently pursuing a master s degree in orchestral conducting at CIM. His conducting mentors include Carl Topilow and Danny Oosterman. He has also participated in master classes with Leonid Korchmar, Lutz Kohler, Brett Mitchell, Jahja Ling, JoAnn Falletta and Colin Metters. Celebrated for a tone like toasted caramel. Amazing. (Musical Toronto), ERIC WONG is the violist of the Cavani String Quartet, ensemble-in-residence at CIM. He was also a member of the JUNOnominated Afiara Quartet and the Linden String Quartet, first prize winners of the Fischoff, Coleman and Concert Artist Guild competitions. His list of collaborators runs the gamut from Itzhak Perlman and Richard Stoltzman to hip-hop artists Skratch Bastid and Kid Koala. Performances have brought him everywhere from Carnegie s Weill Recital Hall to the San Francisco Jazz Festival to a Danish maximumsecurity prison. He has been artist-in-residence at Yale University and Toronto s Royal Conservatory of Music and, in addition to performing and educating around the globe, Wong is an active collaborator with several exciting new chamber music festivals including Encore Chamber Music, Geneva Music Festival, and the humanitarian initiative Music Feeds Us. He received both Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from CIM, studying violin with Paul Kantor and viola with Kirsten Docter and Lynne Ramsey. He subsequently earned an artist diploma from the Yale School of Music where he worked with Kazuhide Isomura. Other influential coaches and mentors have included Peter Salaff and the Cavani and Tokyo Quartets. Off the clock, Wong enjoys cooking and classic television.