LATE NIGHT ROSE THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 2017 AT 9:00 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio 3,651st Concert

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1 LATE NIGHT ROSE THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 2017 AT 9:00 Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio 3,651st Concert PATRICK CASTILLO, host WU QIAN, piano KEITH ROBINSON, cello TOMMASO LONQUICH, clarinet DAVID SHIFRIN, clarinet

2 The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, 10th Floor New York, NY This concert is made possible, in part, by The Florence Gould Foundation, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, and the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation. The Chamber Music Society is deeply grateful to Board member Paul Gridley for his very generous gift of the Hamburg Steinway & Sons model D concert grand piano we are privileged to hear this evening. Thanks to Millbrook Vineyards & Winery, official wine sponsor of Late Night Rose.

3 LATE NIGHT ROSE THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 2017 AT 9:00 3,651ST CONCERT Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio PATRICK CASTILLO, host WU QIAN, piano KEITH ROBINSON, cello TOMMASO LONQUICH, clarinet DAVID SHIFRIN, clarinet NINO ROTA ( ) Trio for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano (1973) Allegro Andante Allegrissimo LONQUICH, ROBINSON, WU QIAN FRANCIS POULENC ( ) Sonata for Two Clarinets (1918, rev. 1945) Presto Andante Vif SHIFRIN, LONQUICH ALEXANDER ZEMLINSKY ( ) Trio in D minor for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 3 (1896) Allegro ma non troppo Andante Allegro SHIFRIN, ROBINSON, WU QIAN PLEASE TURN OFF CELL PHONES AND OTHER ELECTRONIC DEVICES. This evening s event is being streamed live at Photographing, sound recording, or videotaping this event is prohibited.

4 ABOUT THE ARTISTS PATRICK CASTILLO Patrick Castillo leads a multifaceted career as a composer, performer, writer, and educator. His music has been described as restrained and reflective but brimming with a variety of texture and sound that draws you into its world (I Care If You Listen) and has been presented at festivals and venues throughout the United States and internationally. He is variously active as an explicator of music to a wide range of listeners. He has provided program and liner notes for numerous concert series and recording companies and been a guest lecturer at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Fordham University, the University of Georgia, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass, String Theory at the Hunter, and ChamberFest Cleveland. From 2010 to 2013, he served as senior director of artistic planning of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. He is founding composer and managing director of Third Sound; in 2016, he was appointed executive director of Hotel Elefant. The Quality of Mercy, an album of his vocal chamber music featuring mezzo-soprano Abigail Fischer, has been praised as affecting and sensitively orchestrated [a] gorgeous, masterfully crafted canvas (Cleveland Classical), and is available on Innova Recordings. TOMMASO LONQUICH Italian clarinetist Tommaso Lonquich enjoys a distinguished international career, having performed on prestigious stages in four continents and at major festivals. He is solo clarinetist with Ensemble MidtVest, an acclaimed chamber ensemble based in Denmark. As a chamber musician, he has partnered with Pekka Kuusisto, Carolin Widmann, Ani Kavafian, Klaus Thunemann, Sergio Azzolini, Charles Neidich, Christoph Richter, Umberto Clerici, Gilbert Kalish, Alexander Lonquich, Jeffrey Swann, and the Allegri and Danish string quartets. He performs regularly as solo clarinetist with the Leonore Orchestra in Italy and has collaborated with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Fabio Luisi, and Leonard Slatkin. He has conceived several collaborative performances with dancers, actors, and visual artists. With Ensemble MidtVest, he has been particularly active in improvisation, leading workshops at The Juilliard School. He is co-artistic director of KantorAtelier, a vibrant cultural space based in Florence dedicated to the exploration of music, theatre, art, and psychoanalysis. He can be heard on a number of CD releases for DaCapo, CPO, and Col Legno, as well as on broadcasts for Performance Today, BBC, and other radio programs around the world. He graduated from the University of Maryland under the tutelage of Loren Kitt, furthering his studies with Alessandro Carbonare and Michel Arrignon at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofía in Madrid. In 2009 the Queen of Spain awarded him the Escuela s prestigious annual prize. He is a member of Chamber Music Society Two.

5 KEITH ROBINSON Cellist Keith Robinson is a founding member of the Miami String Quartet and has been active as a chamber musician, recitalist, and soloist since his graduation from the Curtis Institute of Music. He has had numerous solo appearances with orchestras including the New World Symphony, The American Sinfonietta, and the Miami Chamber Symphony, and in 1989 won the P.A.C.E. "Classical Artist of the Year" Award. His most recent recording released on Blue Griffin Records features the complete works of Mendelssohn for cello and piano with his colleague Donna Lee. In 1992, the Miami String Quartet became the first string quartet in a decade to win First Prize of the Concert Artists Guild New York Competition. The quartet has also received the prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award, won the Grand Prize at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and was a member of Chamber Music Society Two. Mr. Robinson regularly attends festivals across the United States, including the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Kent Blossom Music, Mostly Mozart, Bravo! Vail, Savannah Music Festival, and the Virginia Arts Festival. Highlights of recent seasons include international appearances in Bern, Cologne, Istanbul, Lausanne, Montreal, Rio de Janeiro, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Paris. Mr. Robinson hails from a musical family and his siblings include Sharon Robinson of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, and Hal Robinson, principal bass of the Philadelphia Orchestra. He plays a cello made by Carlo Tononi in Venice in DAVID SHIFRIN A Yale University faculty member since 1987, clarinetist David Shifrin is artistic director of Yale's Chamber Music Society series and Yale in New York, a concert series at Carnegie Hall. He has performed with the Chamber Music Society since 1982 and served as its artistic director from 1992 to 2004, inaugurating the CMS Two program and the annual Brandenburg Concerto concerts. He continues as artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, OR, a post he has held since He has collaborated with the Guarneri, Tokyo, and Emerson quartets, and frequently performs with pianist André Watts. Winner of the Avery Fisher Prize, he is also the recipient of a Solo Recitalist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A top prize winner in competitions throughout the world, including Munich, Geneva, and San Francisco, he has held principal clarinet positions in The Cleveland Orchestra and the American Symphony under Leopold Stokowski. His recordings have received three Grammy nominations and his performance of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra was named Record of the Year by Stereo Review. He has also released two CDs of Lalo Schifrin's compositions, one of which was nominated for a Latin Grammy. New Delos recording releases in 2017 will include Carl Nielsen's clarinet concert in a chamber version by Rene Orth and a volume of quintets for clarinet and strings with the Miró, Dover, and Jasper quartets of music by Peter Schickele, Richard Danielpour, and Aaron J. Kernis. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

6 WU QIAN Winner of a 2016 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, as well as classical music s bright young star award for 2007 by The Independent, pianist Wu Qian has maintained a busy international career for over a decade. She has appeared as soloist in many international venues including the Wigmore, Royal Festival, and Bridgewater halls in the UK, City Hall in Hong Kong, Amsterdam s Concertgebouw, and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. As a soloist she has appeared with the Konzerthaus Orchester in Berlin, the Brussels Philharmonic, the London Mozart Players, I Virtuosi Italiani, the European Union Chamber Orchestra, and the Munich Symphoniker. She won first prize in the Trio di Trieste Duo Competition and the Kommerzbank Piano Trio competition in Frankfurt, and has received numerous other awards. Appearances this season include performances in the UK, Germany, USA, Korea, Australia, Spain, and The Netherlands and collaborations with Alexander Sitkovetsky, Leticia Moreno, Cho-Liang Lin, Clive Greensmith, and Wu Han. Her debut recording of Schumann, Liszt, and Alexander Prior was met with universal critical acclaim. She is a founding member of the Sitkovetsky Piano Trio with which, in addition to performing in major concert halls and series around the world, she has released two recordings on the BIS label and also a disc of Brahms and Schubert on the Wigmore Live Label. Wu Qian is a member of Chamber Music Society Two.

7 UPCOMING EVENTS AT CMS MASTER CLASS WITH ANTHONY McGILL TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 11:00 AM DANIEL & JOANNA S. ROSE STUDIO Clarinetist Anthony McGill leads a master class with talented young musicians. This event will be streamed live at CLARINET TRIOS TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 7:30 PM ALICE TULLY HALL Three dynamic artists, Inon Barnatan, Alisa Weilerstein, and Anthony McGill, offer an irresistible program featuring Beethoven, Brahms, and a New York premiere by composer Joseph Hallman. NEW MUSIC THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 6:30 PM & 9:00 PM DANIEL & JOANNA S. ROSE STUDIO Enjoy a program of works by composers Alejandro Viñao, Luciano Berio, Michael Brown, and Steve Reich. The 9:00 PM program will be streamed live at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

8 WINTER FESTIVAL THE SPIRIT OF MENDELSSOHN featuring Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, and Schumann February 10-26, 2017 q In the middle of this season's Grand Tour, we pause to celebrate our journey's protagonist: Felix Mendelssohn. CMS's Winter Festival presents three portraits of Mendelssohn in the company of composers who were his idols, his friends, and his inspirations. For tickets and program information, visit or call JOIN THE CONVERSATION WITH #CMSLC Facebook Twitter