Our Season Brochure, Season 55

CHAMBER MUSIC CORVALLIS
Introduction to the 2013-2014 Season
Welcome to the 55th season of Chamber Music Corvallis. For over half a century, CMC has brought world-class
chamber music to Corvallis. Our motto is “Music Up Close,” which we believe emphasizes the unique personal
experience of chamber music. The only way to get closer to music than chamber music is to play it yourself.
Our six concerts will present four string quartets, a piano trio, and a reed quintet. Four of our ensembles – the Jasper
Quartet, the Atos Piano Trio, the Ebene Quartet, and the Ariel Quartet – will perform here for the first time. Our
ensembles come from the U.S., Germany, France, and the netherlands. you will hear six pieces for the first time in
the history of CMC, including the great Quartet no. 2 by Benjamin Britten, a new work for string quartet by the jazz
composer Billy Childs, and, for something completely different, arrangements of works by popular composers ranging
from Harold Arlen, to Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Lennon and McCartney, and Bruce Springsteen. The Ebene
Quartet sings, too!
This season continues the commitment of CMC to combine a variety of ensembles with a combination of core
repertoire and modern and contemporary works. My watchwords are ‘not too conservative, and not too edgy.’ It
would be easy to ask all of our ensembles to play Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms, but if we did that, we
would neglect superb music written by modern and contemporary composers. Our ensembles want to play it, and you
should have a chance to hear it.
Walt Whitman said, “Great art needs a great audience.” CMC has a great audience. A classical music series is
always somewhat fragile, and CMC is no exception, but you keep it going. Thanks for supporting CMC, and thanks for
listening.
– Chris Rochester, Program Director
JASPER QUARTET: Young Masters of Old and New
Music Up
Close
and personal!
World of
Chamber Music Corvallis
2866 NW Angelica Drive
Corvallis, OR 97330
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
55th Season | 2013 - 2014
Six Concerts at
LaSells Stewart Center 7:30 PM
CALEFAX REED QUINTET: Orchestra of Five Players
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Josef Haydn: Quartet in D, Op. 76, No. 5
Aaron Jay Kernis: Sarabande from Quartet No. 2, “Musica
Instrumentalis”
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in C# minor, Op. 131
Felix Mendelssohn: Overture The Hebrides
Leos Janacek: On an Overgrown Path
Wolfgang A. Mozart: Serenade in C minor, K.388
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Winner of the 2012 Cleveland Quartet Award
Silver Medal at Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition
First Recipient of the Yale School of Music Horatio Parker Memorial Prize
Winners of the Philip Morris Arts Prize
“Technically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad)
“Unadulterated virtuosity” (New York Times)
“Unbelievable. Almost everything that Calefax touches turns to
gold” (CD Review)
2013-2014
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ATOS PIANO TRIO: Genius of Bohemia
EBENE QUARTET: Mozart Meets Lennon and McCartney
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Thursday, March 6, 2014
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Josef Suk: Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 2
Bedrich Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15
Antonin Dvorak: Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65
Winner of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award
First Prize Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition
BBC New Generation Artists
“World-class level playing” (Ruhr Nachrichten)
“Following the retirement of the Beaux Arts Trio, the Atos Trio may
take over as the premier piano trio of today” (New York critic)
Wolfgang A. Mozart: Quartet in E-flat, K. 428
Bela Bartok: Quartet 4
Arrangements of Jazz and Popular Songs by Arlen, Shorter,
Corea, Springsteen, Lennon-McCartney and others
Winners of the Gramophone Record of the Year and Echo Klassik
Best Chamber Music Recording for their 2009 recording of Faure,
Debussy, and Ravel
Winner of the ARD (Germany) International Competition
BBC New Generation Artists
“They play with a rare degree of expressive subtlety and electrifying
joy” (London Times)
YING QUARTET: Music for Healing
ARIEL QUARTET: From Israel to America
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
By Mail: Season tickets for 6, 5, or 4 concerts
at $22 per ticket may be purchased using the
accompanying order form. Each SIX-ticket season
subscription ($132) includes two $10 ticket
vouchers redeemable at the door, whereas each
FIVE- and FOUR-ticket subscription ($110 and $88,
respectively) includes one $10 discount voucher.
Buying in advance saves you $5 per ticket over the
door price.
Multiple Nominees and Winners of Grammy Awards
Quartet in Residence at the Eastman School of Music
Grand Prize Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition
First Prize International Competition Graz, Austria
Szekely Prize Banff International String Quartet Competition
“ Sustained quietude, peacefulness, and serenity” (New York Times)
“A tour de force” (Frankfurter Allgemeine)
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1. SEASON SUBSCRIPTIONS - Note: Any ticket may be used for any concert
SIX-ticket subscription FIVE-ticket subscription FOUR-ticket subscription Holders of Oregon Trails Card: Individual tickets
are $5.
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$110
$ 88
Please consider a contribution at one of these levels:
On line, via credit card: Individual $27 tickets
may be purchased on CMC’s website, www.
chambermusiccorvallis.org.
Special $10 admissions: Available only at the door
at all concerts for selected groups:
- Our special-price vouchers included with
season subscriptions
- Spouses of OSU students
- Students from other colleges, with student ID
- Parents accompanying one or more 5-12 year-
olds
- Music teachers
(incl. 2 discount vouchers) (incl. 1 discount voucher) (incl. 1 Discount voucher)
2. CONTRIBUTIONS - CMC encourages 100% GIVING; any and all donations help to cover the performance costs not covered by ticket revenues.
Via Will Call: Tickets are $24 if bought before
noon the day of the concert. Please contact Carol
Williams by e-mail at [email protected] or by phone
at 541 757-0902. Tickets will be at the front door
desk.
Free tickets are available at all concerts for OSU
students and K-12 students
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in A, Op. 18, No. 5
Benjamin Britten: Quartet No. 2 in C major, Op. 36
Claude Debussy: Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
City/State/Zip
At Grass Roots Books in Corvallis: Individual
$24 tickets may be purchased prior to a concert.
At the door: Individual tickets are $27.
Samuel Barber: Quartet Op. 11 (original version of Adagio for
Strings/Agnus Dei)
Randall Thompson: Alleluia
Billy Childs: Awakening
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in A minor, Op. 132
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Corvallis, OR 97333
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