program - Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden

PROGRAM
January 9 –18, 2015
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Welcome to
Presented by
Welcome to the third annual GardenMusic Festival. The mission of Fairchild’s
GardenMusic Festival is to bring the highest quality and most exciting chamber music
to South Florida; to create a powerfully immersive experience for visitors to Fairchild
that will connect music with the garden space and other artistic disciplines; to foster the
collaborative and creative spirit between musicians and artists in other genres; and to
provide engaging and stimulating educational opportunities for young people at Fairchild.
Through GardenMusic, visitors to Fairchild will be exposed to chamber music through
open, outdoor rehearsals and short, surprise concerts that will bring the joy of chamber
music directly into the community. All visitors will have the opportunity to meet and
engage with the musicians, experiencing music on an intimate and personal level. The
subscription concerts will allow for a more traditional chamber music experience in an
incomparable setting.
Artistic Directors
The Sixth Floor Trio
Teddy Abrams, Harrison Hollingsworth and Johnny Teyssier
Educational Director
Gabriel Globus-Hoenich
Composer in Residence
Sebastian Chang
Artist in Residence
Agustina Woodgate
Managing Director
Margaret Bushko
Concert Dates:
Friday, January 9, 7:00 p.m.
Opening Night Concert
Saturday, January 10, 10:30 a.m.
Children’s Concert
Sunday, January 11, 7:00 p.m. The Sacred, Profane and Spiritual
Saturday, January 17, 10:30 a.m. Children’s Concert
Saturday, January 17, 7:00 p.m. Experimentation: Making New From the Old
Sunday, January 18, 7:00 p.m. A Gozar! featuring Tiempo Libre
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9| I. OPENING NIGHT CONCERT
Visceral Teddy Abrams
Sixth Floor Trio, Gabriel Globus-Hoenich, GardenMusic Ensemble
Piano Quintet, Op. 81, Mvt. 1
Antonín Dvořăk Lily Francis, Johannes Dickbauer, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Nicholas Finch, Julio Elizalde
Piano Quintet, “Trout,” D 667, Mvt. 4
Franz Schubert
Lily Francis, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Nicholas Finch, Nathan Farrington, Julio Elizalde
Spain Chick Corea
GardenMusic Ensemble
ActualityTeddy Abrams
Sixth Floor Trio, Gabriel Globus-Hoenich, GardenMusic Ensemble
“Future of Folk” featuring Aoife O’Donovan and Jeremy Kittel
Aoife O’Donovan, Jeremy Kittel, Nathaniel Smith, GardenMusic Ensemble
New Work
GardenMusic Ensemble
Big Fiddle
GardenMusic Ensemble
Program subject to change.
Sebastian Chang
Jeremy Kittel SUNDAY,
JANUARY
11|11|
II. THE
SACRED,TOLD
PROFANE
AND SPIRITUAL
SATURDAY,
JANUARY
II. STORIES
THROUGH
MUSIC
Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, Prelude and Mvt. 1
Osvaldo Golijov
Johnny Teyssier, Lily Francis, Johannes Dickbauer, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Nicholas Finch
Mephisto Waltz, No. 2 Julio Elizalde, Sebastian Chang
Franz Liszt
Unser Leben ist ein Schatten
Johann Bach
GardenMusic Ensemble
Symphonie Fantastique, Mvt. 5
GardenMusic Ensemble
Hector Berlioz
Folk Music from World Traditions
GardenMusic Ensemble
Dreams and prayers of Isaac the Blind, Postlude Osvaldo Golijov Johnny Teyssier, Lily Francis, Johannes Dickbauer, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Nicholas Finch
Unser Leben ist ein Schatten
GardenMusic Ensemble
Johann Bach
Symphonie Fantastique, Mvt. 5
GardenMusic Ensemble
Hector Berlioz
Folk Music from World Traditions
GardenMusic Ensemble
Dreams and prayers of Isaac the Blind, Postlude Osvaldo Bolijov
Johnny Teyssier, Lily Francis, Johannes Dickbauer, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Nicholas Finch
Program subject to change.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17 | III. EXPERIMENTATION: MAKING NEW
FROM THE OLD
Swedish Folk Tune Förra året - De dödade oss
Teddy Abrams
GardenMusic Ensemble, led by Ali Luthmers
Divertissement
Jean Françaix
Lily Francis, Johannes Dickbauer, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Grace An, Nathan Farrington,
Harrison Hollingsworth
Sunrise Sebastian Chang
Lily Francis, Johannes Dickbauer, Sebastian Chang
Concert Duo
Edgar Meyer
Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Nathan Farrington
Rite of Spring (selections) Igor Stravinsky
Teddy Abrams, Julio Elizalde, Gabriel Globus-Hoenich
Red River
Mason Bates
Johnny Teyssier, Ali Luthmers, Grace An, Julio Elizalde, Sebastian Chang
Spontaneous
Augustina Woodgate, GardenMusic Ensemble and audience
SUNDAY, JANUARY 18| IV. A GOZAR! FEATURING TIEMPO LIBRE
HyfroHarrison Hollingsworth
RotationTeddy Abrams
Selections by Tiempo Libre
New Jazz WorkJohannes Dickbauer
New Jazz WorkSebastian Chang
For Your AdornSebastian Chang
Selections by Tiempo Libre with GardenMusic Artists
Program subject to change.
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BIOGRAPHIES
SIXTH FLOOR TRIO
The Sixth Floor Trio is a chamber group dedicated to the
creation and performance of music that connects different
musical styles, communities, and artistic disciplines. Formed
by graduates of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2008, the Trio
has performed extensively throughout the United States in
venues ranging from traditional concert halls to grunge bars and
experimental spaces.
The Trio’s debut performance took place in August 2009, when the group opened for (and
collaborated with) Marvin Hamlisch in Western North Carolina. Following this very successful
beginning, the Trio performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center in 2010 (with two return
engagements in 2011 and 2012), the Kravis Center (Palm Beach) in 2011, World Cafe Live in
Philadelphia, the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, the FUZE! Series at the Akron Art
Museum, the Living Room in New York City, and numerous other locations during the Trio’s
annual Summer, Fall and Winter residencies.
In addition to presenting performances, the Sixth Floor Trio has created and directed several
exciting projects inspired by the Trio’s mission to bring music to the widest audiences and to
connect with artists from many different genres. The Trio received a substantial grant in 2011
from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to present “Random Acts of Culture” across
the United States. These “Random Acts” led the Trio to collaborate with organizations such as
the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Stanford University, the Akron Public Library, Philadelphia’s
National Museum of American Jewish History, Greyhound, and the Ferry Terminal Marketplace
in San Francisco in addition to showcasing the Trio at numerous malls, markets, transit centers,
and airports around the country.
The Trio also serves as Artistic Directors of GardenMusic. The inaugural season of GardenMusic
took place in the spring of 2012, and included a week of both casual and evening performances,
educational presentations reaching numerous local schools, Random Acts of Culture,
and collaborations with some of Miami’s most exciting artists in many genres. The Trio’s
programming for the first season ranged from Medieval to Classical to world premieres, dance
commissions, video installations, and theater works.
One of the Trio’s other major projects is a film series called “Music Of The People.” Sponsored
by the Knight Foundation, the video project explores folk music from around the world by
following the Sixth Floor Trio as they try to learn new musical styles and understand the folkculture of different regions. Each episode ends in a friendly “challenge” of a local folk group to
test the Trio’s ability to absorb new types of music. The pilot episode featured Bluegrass from the
High Country of North Carolina.
Educational and community engagement work has also been a very significant part of the Sixth
Floor Trio’s activities. The group has presented numerous concerts for Astral Artist’s community
programs, has performed at (and worked with) schools around the country, and worked with the
music education program Play On Philly! in Philadelphia.
The Sixth Floor Trio’s vision places all musical traditions from around the world and across time
on one continuum as part of the same great musical language, and the Trio’s mission is to make
connections between these varied musical styles in its repertoire. From Bluegrass to Klezmer,
Classical to Jazz, Ancient Music to Contemporary Rock – the group explores it all and brings the
music’s energy to the world. In addition, the Trio strives to share its artistic passion and musicmaking with diverse audiences everywhere, from traditional concertgoers to those with acute
needs or in remote places.
TEDDY ABRAMS
An unusually versatile musician, Teddy Abrams is a widely
acclaimed conductor, as well as an established pianist,
clarinetist, and composer. He has been named Music Director
Designate of the Louisville Orchestra, and assumes the title of
Music Director in September 2014. Recently appointed Music
Director and Conductor of the Britt Classical Festival, 2014
marks his first season in that role. Simultaneously, Teddy
concludes his tenure as Assistant Conductor of the Detroit
Symphony with the 2013-14 season. Additional appointments include a tenure as Resident
Conductor of the MAV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest.
Active as a guest conductor, Abrams’ recent and upcoming performances include returns
to The Florida Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony,
where he conducted the orchestra’s summer classical series in July 2013. Recent debuts have
included the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, and the Sun Valley Summer
Symphony. From 2008 to 2011 Abrams was the Conducting Fellow and Assistant Conductor of
the New World Symphony (NWS) and conducted many performances, including subscription
concerts and numerous other full and chamber orchestra events. Abrams has conducted the
NWS in Miami Beach, Washington, D.C. and at Carnegie Hall, and has worked with many
other orchestras around the country.
An accomplished pianist and clarinetist, Abrams has appeared as a soloist with a number of
orchestras - including playing and conducting the Ravel Piano Concerto with the Jacksonville
Symphony in fall 2013 - and has performed chamber music with the St. Petersburg String
Quartet, Menahem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, Time for Three and John Adams in addition to annual
appearances at the Olympic Music Festival. Dedicated to exploring new and engaging ways
to communicate with a diverse range of audiences, Abrams co-founded the Sixth Floor Trio in
2008. The Trio has performed around the country, establishing residencies in communities in
North Carolina, Philadelphia, New York and South Florida. Abrams collaborated (as an arranger
and pianist) with Cleveland Orchestra principal trombonist Massimo La Rosa for La Rosa’s debut
CD, released in October 2010.
Abrams studied conducting with Michael Tilson Thomas, Otto-Werner Mueller and Ford
Lallerstedt at the Curtis Institute of Music, and with David Zinman at the Aspen Music Festival;
he was the youngest conducting student ever accepted at both institutions. Abrams is also
an award-winning composer and a passionate educator - he has taught at numerous schools
throughout the United States. His 2009 Education Concerts with the New World Symphony
(featuring the world premiere of one of Abrams’ own orchestral works) were webcast to
hundreds of schools throughout South Florida.
Abrams performed as a keyboardist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, won the 2007 Aspen
Composition Contest, and was the Assistant Conductor of the YouTube Symphony at Carnegie
Hall in 2009. He has held residencies at the La Mortella music festival in Ischia, Italy and at
the American Academy in Berlin. Teddy was a proud member of the San Francisco Symphony
Youth Orchestra for seven seasons, and graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of
Music with a Bachelor of Music, having studied piano with Paul Hersh.
HARRISON HOLLINGSWORTH
Heralded a “bold, emergent, personality” by the Philadelphia
Inquirer, bassoonist Harrison Hollingsworth is widely regarded as
one of the premier wind players of his generation, and holds the
principal bassoon chair of the New York City Ballet at Lincoln
Center. Originally from Kingwood, TX, Harrison is a graduate of
The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA where he held
the Sheldon Bonovitz Fellowship and studied with both Bernard
Garfield and Daniel Matsukawa, the retired and current principal
bassoonists of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Harrison is also a conductor. He has guest conducted on multiple subscription concerts for
the NYCB Orchestra, and he holds the David Alan Miller Conducting Fellowship for the New
York Youth Symphony, where he serves as Assistant Conductor. He is also a graduate of The
Mannes College for Music, where he received his Master’s in Orchestral Conducting under
David Hayes. Under a grant from The Williamson Foundation for Music, Harrison has also
studied orchestral conducting with Michael Jinbo at the Pierre Monteux School.
In addition to serving as principal bassoon for the New York City Ballet, Harrison formerly
held the Eileen McManimen principal bassoon chair for Symphony in C (formerly Haddonfield
Symphony), where he has also served as program annotator and first violinist. An advocate for
new music both on the podium and in the recital hall, Harrison has premiered multiple new
works for bassoon, including Teddy Abrams’ Bassoon Sonata, of which he is the dedicatee.
Also an enthusiastic chamber musician, he has performed at the Kingston Music Festival
and the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, and is a founding bassoonist of Reed5
and founding bassoonist/violinist of the Sixth Floor Trio, which inaugurated its own annual
GardenMusic Festival in partnership with Fairchild Garden in Miami in March 2012, and were
the recipients of a substantial grant from the Knight Foundation to perform Random Acts of
Culture across the United States in 2011-2012.
As a soloist, Harrison is on the roster of Astral Artists, which sponsored his professional recital
debut in 2009. He has played concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Symphony in C, the
Clear Lake Symphony, and many other orchestras. He has also been featured in recital on WHYY
ARTS television series – “On Stage at Curtis,” NPR’s syndicated radio show “From the Top,”
and WHYY 91 FM Radio’s “Showcase,” which broadcast the radio premier of his brass choir
composition “Fanfare and Contrapunctus.” His bassoon playing can also be heard on Arturo
Ripstein’s new film Las Razones del Corazon.
Now based in New York, Harrison pursues many activities. He is an original member of the
Mimesis Ensemble (with whom he made his Kennedy Center conducting debut). He works as a
freelance conductor in NYC, conducting recording sessions at Avatar Studios as well as serving
as a clinician for various orchestras (most recently, the Westchester Area All-State Orchestra),
and has played as principal bassoonist with the Long Island Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St.
Luke’s, the Phantom of the Opera Orchestra, Gotham Chamber Opera, and the Chautauqua
Symphony Orchestra, and has taught bassoon and chamber music for the Chautauqua Music
Festival. Also an avid fiddler, Harrison plays with the Brooklyn roots string band Union Street
Preservation Society, which released its debut album in July 2011.
JOHNNY TEYSSIER
French-American clarinetist Johnny Teyssier is laureate of the
Juventus organization, which recognizes the most talented
young soloists in Europe; he is the third clarinetist to join the
Juventus roster since the organization’s inception in 1991.
He is also winner of the Ico Ardán Award, given by the Irish
Chamber Orchestra to young emerging international soloists.
His performances have appeared regularly on American
Pubic Media’s nationally broadcast Performance Today, as
well as the BBC Radio 3 and Ireland’s RTÉ Lyric.
Johnny has appeared as soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Irish Chamber
Orchestra, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and the
Colburn Orchestra. He has performed recitals throughout the United States and Europe
in venues such as the Kennedy Center, the Kravis Center, La Mortella in Ischia, Italy and
the American Academy in Berlin. He was a featured artist at the 2007 MBNA Shannon
International Music Festival in Limerick, Ireland, and has also attended the Music from Angel
Fire Festival, the Juventus Festival, the Yellow Barn Music Festival and the International Young
Artist Music Festival in Hilton Head, NC.
Johnny is a founding member of the Sixth Floor Trio, a chamber ensemble that explores
diverse musical styles including Klezmer, bluegrass, rock and ancient music through original
arrangements and improvisation. Apart from traditional concerts in such venues as the Kravis
Center, World Cafe Live, and the Living Room, the trio is spearheading a variety of cuttingedge musical projects. In partnership with Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, the trio created
GardenMusic, a chamber music festival in Miami. Additionally, the trio received a grant in 2011
from the Knight Foundation to be the resident ensemble for the Random Acts of Culture project.
The trio is dedicated to community outreach, and regularly brings their love of music into
classrooms around the country.
An equally committed orchestral player, Johnny was recently appointed principal clarinet
of the Malmö Symphony in Sweden, and he currently serves as principal clarinet in the
Minnesota Opera Orchestra. He has also played as a guest principal clarinet with the
Rotterdam Philharmonic, and has performed with the Colburn Orchestra, the Curtis Symphony,
and Symphony in C.
Born in 1987, Johnny was raised in a French family in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He started the
clarinet at the age of ten, studying with Dwayne VanWyhe and Burt Hara. He attended high
school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan as a student of Nathan Williams. At the age
of 17, he was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Donald Montanaro,
Pamela Frank and Ford Lallerstedt. In 2011, he received an Artist Diploma from the Colburn
School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied with Yehuda Gilad.
JEREMY KITTEL
Jeremy Kittel is at the forefront of a new breed of fiddlers and
violinists who easily navigate between a multitude of musical
styles and traditions. Fluidly mastering this rich musical
heritage, he also breaks exciting new ground while helping to
redefine the role of his instrument.
Currently touring internationally with his name-sake group,
the Jeremy Kittel Band, he leads audiences into exciting newacoustic music territory. He also maintains an active schedule of collaborations with some of
today’s most innovative and influential artists, from genres diverse as folk, jazz, classical, and
pop music. Recently completing a five-year position as a full-time member of the Grammywinning Turtle Island Quartet, he has also toured and recorded with such musical giants as
Mark O’Connor, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Paquito D’Rivera, the Assad Brothers,
Stefon Harris, My Morning Jacket, Jars of Clay, Abigail Washburn, and Ben Sollee. He has
appeared on the NPR radio show A Prairie Home Companion, has been a guest performer with
multiple symphony orchestras, and has performed at venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, the
Kennedy Center, Bonnaroo, and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
His most recent solo recording, Chasing Sparks (Compass Records), clearly establishes Jeremy
as a formidable composer and arranger as well as a violinist of the highest technical and
musical sensibilities. This comes as no surprise given that his three previously released CDs
span the musical spectrum from jazz to celtic, with a strong dose of originality and technical
mastery.
One of the leading improvising violinists of his generation, Jeremy has a master’s degree in
jazz violin from the Manhattan School of Music, and he is the recipient of the 2010 Emerging
Artist Award from his alma mater, the University of Michigan. He is also a National US Scottish
Fiddle champion as well as a multiple winner of Detroit Music Awards and ASTA Alternative
Style awards.
As a lover of song, and as a singer himself, Kittel enjoys collaborating with singers and lyricists
from any genre. Most recently, he has arranged and recorded orchestral-style strings for several
major-label releases: Abigail Washburn’s “City of Refuge,” My Morning Jacket’s “Circuital,” and
an upcoming release by the Platinum-selling, Grammy-winning band Jars of Clay.
Kittel currently resides in beautiful Brooklyn, NY. When he’s not on tour, he often enjoys
Monkey Conditioning and Ecstatic Dance.
GABRIEL GLOBUS-HOENICH
Montreal native Gabriel Globus-Hoenich’s career reflects a
deep diversity of talent, with extensive forays in the worlds
of jazz, classical music, and world music as a drummer,
percussionist, composer, and teaching artist. As a busy jazz
drummer, Gabriel has performed with a multitude of jazz
greats, including John Swana, Tim Warfield, Pat Bianchi,
Orrin Evans, Joe Magnarelli, and Larry McKenna. Gabriel
has been featured on drum-set with the Philly Pops, Detroit
Symphony, Illinois Symphony, Curtis Institute Symphony among other orchestras. In addition,
Gabriel frequently performs chamber music and as a member of Philadelphia’s premier
ensemble Dolce Suono has performed premiers of the works of Theo Bleckmann, Steve
Mackey, Steven Stuckey, Stratis Minakakis, and David Ludwig.
Gabriel is also one of the founders of Drumming for Social Change, an organization dedicated
to researching and developing percussion based educational programming. Gabriel recently
spent over five weeks studying Brazilian percussion in Salvador da Bahia, Brasil and
researching how percussion and folkloric music can be used as conduit for social change.
Gabriel also leads the 12 piece timba band GGH and The People of Earth for whom he
composes, arranges, and plays percussion.
A dedicated educator, Gabriel works in Philadelphia schools as a teaching artist for the
Philadelphia Orchestra’s School Partnership Program as well as El-Sistema-inspired Play
on Philly. In 2013, Gabriel was musician in residence at the Please Touch Museum in
Philadelphia where he presented daily workshops to children aged 0-7. Gabriel has also
coached percussion at Haverford College and maintains a private studio.
A 2008 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Gabriel has studied with some of the premier
percussion teachers in the world, including Kenny Washington, Rodney Green, Don Liuzzi,
Robert Van Sice, and Alan Abel.
For more information, visit www.gghdrums.com
LILY FRANCIS
Lily Francis is quickly establishing herself as one of the
leading violinist/violists today. Recently one of the top
prizewinners at the 2009 ARD Music Competition (Violin)
in Munich, she has performed with several of the leading
orchestras in Germany, including the Bavarian Radio
Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and
the Munich Radio Orchestra. She made her Weill Recital
Hall debut in New York in May 2008 on the Distinctive
Debuts series, and plays both violin and viola regularly in the USA, and throughout Europe.
A consummate chamber musician, Ms. Francis was a member of the Chamber Music Society
of Lincoln Center CMS Two program from 2006-2009, which presented her in concerts
in Alice Tully Hall and other notable New York venues. She has toured the USA with the
Chamber Society, as well as several Musicians From Marlboro programs. As the newest
member of the critically-acclaimed Aronowitz Ensemble, she performs throughout the UK,
including appearances at Wigmore Hall and Aldeburgh. This season sees her performing as
a concermaster of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, as a member of the Chamber Orchestra of
Europe, teaching students at Mit Musik Miteinander in Kronberg, Germany, and guest-leading
the Munich Chamber Orchestra. Recent festival appearances have included the Lockenhaus
Festival, Ittinger Pfingstkonzerte, Marlboro Music, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Kronberg,
Hatfield House, and International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove.
Ms. Francis has collaborated with many of the leading musicians of our time, including
Mitsuko Uchida, Andras Schiff, Gidon Kremer, Arnold Steinhardt, Kim Kashkashian, and Peter
Wiley, as well as several artists of other disciplines. As the violist of the Vertigo String Quartet,
she recorded the score to Michael Hollinger’s award-winning play Opus, which began in
Philadelphia, played in New York, and is currently touring the USA. Ms. Francis’ violin-playing
hands were featured in Doug Aitken’s art-film Sleepwalkers, which was projected onto an outer
wall of MoMA in New York City. She has also collaborated with the Boston Ballet School and
the Rock School of Dance on choreographed pieces about Bach.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute and New England Conservatory, Ms. Francis studied with
Joseph Silverstein and Miriam Fried. Other teachers have included Philip Setzer, Brian Lewis,
Teri Einfeldt, Steve Tenenbom, and Gerhard Schulz. She plays an 1846 Pierre Silvestre violin
and a 2004 Marco Coppiardi viola.
JOHANNES DICKBAUER
Hailed by Die Presse as “the secret highpoint of the evening,”
violinist Johannes Dickbauer is renowned for his incredible
versatility. Classically trained at the Curtis Institute in
Philadelphia, he finds himself equally at home as a soloist,
chamber musician, jazzer, folk musician, composer or
arranger. A top prize winner and winner of the Public’s Prize
at the 2007 Concours International de Violon Sion, Johannes
has made appearances with several European orchestras,
including the Wiener Kammerphilharmonie, the Dohnanyi Budafolk Orchestra under Shlomo
Mintz, and the Wiener Kammerorchester, under the baton of the celebrated violinist Sir Yehudi
Menuhin.
Johannes has twice won the Musica Juventutis Competition in Vienna, the first time, earning
him his classical debut in the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the second, as part of the duo
Cardboard Heroes, with bassist Manuel Mayer. Cardboard Heroes makes its debut at the
Konzerthaus in the spring of 2011, with a program of all original compositions.
Johannes always has several projects in the works; his duo-collaboration with pianist Roman
Rabinovich, prizewinner at the 2008 Rubinstein Competition, has yielded Red Blanket, a
composed/free-improvisation work which brings listeners on an epic journey. As a violinist of
the radio.string.quartet.vienna, he has released his fourth CD on the ACT label, with Swedish
singer Rigmor Gustafsson. The quartet’s 2006 album, Celebrating the Mahavishnu Orchestra, was
awarded the “German Recordlabel Critics” prize and the “Pasticcio” Prize from radio-station Ö1.
At the Traumzeit Festival in Duisburg, Germany, the quartet performed on the same program as
guitar-legend John McLaughlin; a live DVD of their concert commemorates the experience. The
quartet has carved a niche for itself in the European jazz scene, and can be seen performing at
many of the major jazz festivals worldwide, such as Paris Jazz Festival, Jazzfest Berlin, Jazzfestival
Basel, Swedish Jazz Celebration 2010, and at the Musikverein in Vienna.
Johannes received his B.M. ‘07 from the Curtis Institute, where he was a student of Pamela
Frank. Currently, he has lessons with Ernst Kovacic, and previous teachers have included
Benjamin Schmid and Gerhard Schulz. He has participated in masterclasses with Dave
Douglas, the Guarneri String Quartet, Uri Caine, Shmuel Ashkenasi and Claude Frank.
JULIO ELIZALDE
Praised as a musician of “compelling artistry and power” by the
Seattle Times, the gifted American pianist Julio Elizalde is one of
the most sought-after and multi-faceted artists of his generation.
He has performed in many of the major music centers
throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America
to popular and critical acclaim. After three seasons as jhene aiko
interview co-Artistic Director of the Olympic Music Festival near
Seattle, Washington, the summer of 2015 marks Dr. Elizalde’s
debut season as Artistic Director of the 32-year-old arts organization.
Dr. Elizalde has appeared with many of the leading artists of our time. He tours internationally
with world-renowned violinists Sarah Chang and Ray Chen and has performed alongside
conductors Itzhak Perlman, Teddy Abrams, and Anne Manson. He has collaborated with artists
such as violinist Pamela Frank, composers Osvaldo Golijov and Stephen Hough, baritone
William Sharp, and members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, Kronos, and Brentano string quartets.
Dr. Elizalde is a founding member of the New Trio, winner of both the Fischoff and Coleman
National Chamber Music Competitions and is the recipient of the Harvard Musical Association’s
prestigious Arthur W. Foote Prize.
Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Dr. Elizalde is a graduate of the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School, where he earned a doctor of musical arts
degree in 2011. His teachers include Paul Hersh, Jerome Lowenthal, Joseph Kalichstein, and
Robert McDonald.
Dr. Elizalde regularly performs with the assistance of an Apple iPad Air using forScore music
reading software. Page turns are executed by a wireless foot pedal by AirTurn.
Twitter & Instagram: @JulioThePianist
SEBASTIAN CHANG
Sebastian Chang is a composer and pianist born and raised in
Southern California. He received his B.M. in Composition from
the Curtis Institute of Music, studying under Jennifer Higdon
and Richard Danielpour, and his M.M. in Composition from
the University of Southern California, studying under Donald
Crockett. In his pre-collegiate years, he studied under Suzanne
Wong-Abe, Mark Sullivan, Bruce Miller, Michael Martin, and
Richard Derby.
The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Tokyo Symphony have performed his original compositions.
He received three BMI Student Composer Awards and five ASCAP Morton Gould Young
Composers Awards. He performed as a piano soloist with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the
California Symphony, and the Reno Philharmonic.
He is self-published under Sebastian Press and is additionally published by Alpha Major, based
out of Houston, Texas. His new orchestral composition “Walking” was premiered by the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra in November 2013.
TIEMPO LIBRE
Classically trained at Cuba’s premier conservatories, the
members of three-time Grammy-nominated Tiempo Libre
are true modern heirs to the rich musical tradition of their
native Cuba. The Miami-based group is celebrated for its
sophisticated performances of timba music, an irresistible,
dance-inducing mix of r&b, pop, jazz, and Cuban son.
Tiempo Libre has introduced Cuban music to new audiences
through appearances on shows such as the Tonight Show,
Live from Lincoln Center and Dancing With the Stars and concerts worldwide including
performances at Tanglewood, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, The Playboy Jazz Festival
at the Hollywood Bowl, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Hong Kong’s Kwai Tsing Theatre and Tuscan
Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy. Tiempo Libre collaborated on “Para Ti” with violinist Joshua Bell
for his At Home with Friends album and frequently plays with leading orchestras. The band
recently released My Secret Radio on Sony Masterworks, previous albums Bach in Havana
(Sony Masterworks), Arroz Con Mango (Shanachie) and Lo Que Esperabas (Shanachie) were
nominated for Grammys®.
AOIFE O’DONOVAN
Boston born Aoife O’Donovan is known for her ethereal
vocals and substantive songwriting. After graduating from
New England Conservatory, O’Donovan hit the road as the
lead singer and principal songwriter/song-finder of Crooked
Still, which grew into one of the world’s most acclaimed
progressive string groups over the ensuing decade. The
stunning versatility and appeal of her voice brought her to
the attention of some of the most eminent names in music
and led to collaborations across a wide variety of genres with everyone from Alison Krauss to
Dave Douglas and regular appearances on A Prairie Home Companion, along with a role as
vocalist on the Grammy-winning Goat Rodeo Sessions alongside Chris Thile, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar
Meyer and Stuart Duncan. In 2012, the now Brooklyn-based musician went to Portland, OR to
fulfill her dream of recording an album with celebrated producer Tucker Martine (My Morning
Jacket, The Decemberists). Rich in tender vocals and unexpected textures, the resulting solo
debut album, Fossils, bears the remarkable fruits of their creative partnership.
CINDY WU
Violinist Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu enjoys a versatile international
career as an orchestral soloist, a recitalist and a chamber
musician. She has been featured with the National Symphony
Orchestra of Taiwan and the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in
her native country, as well as with such European orchestras
as the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra and the Russian State
Symphony Orchestra.
As solo recitalist and chamber musician, Wu performs regularly in Asia, Europe and North
America, at such prominent venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, among many
others. Artists with whom she has collaborated include Gary Graffman, Kim Kashkashian, Ani
Kavafian, Ida Kavafian, Midori, Ralph Kirshbaum, William Preucil, Thomas Quasthoff, Fred
Sherry, and members of the Alban Berg, Brentano, Guarneri, Miró, Tokyo and Ying quartets.
Wu has appeared as guest violist—her second instrument—with the Orion String Quartet and
the Dover Quartet. She is currently the Artist in Residence of the Da Camera Society of Los
Angeles since 2013.
Wu’s festival collaborations include the Marlboro Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music
Festival, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Mainly Mozart, La Jolla Music Society
SummerFest, Music@Menlo, Verbier Festival and Academy, Olympic Music Festival, and she
has served as a chamber music coach at the ENCORE School for Strings, the Hotchkiss Summer
Portals, and Wildwood Academy of Music and the Arts.
Wu’s media appearances feature performances on NPR’s “From the Top,” on WHYY TV and
Radio in Philadelphia, as well as numerous on-air interviews with Philharmonic Radio Taipei
and IC Broadcasting of Taiwan. She has been spotlighted on Taiwan’s TVBS Television and in
the September 2004 issue of Marie Claire Taiwan.
Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu received her bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in
2008, which awarded her the Milka Violin Artist Fellowship. In 2010 she graduated from the
USC Thornton School of Music, with awards for excellence in both solo string instrument
performance and chamber music. Wu’s teachers include Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Ida
Kavafian, Victor Danchenko, Steven Tenenbom, and Midori Goto. She joined the Thornton
School faculty in 2011 as an Adjunct Instructor of Violin and Chamber Music.
Among Wu’s many honors and awards are the Gold Medal in the 2003 Stulberg International
String Competition and third prize in the Odessa International David Oistrakh Violin
Competition. She has been praised by Taiwan’s Liberty Times for “capturing the spirit of the
music astonishingly.”
Wu performs on a 1734 Domenico Montagnana violin.
NATHAN FARRINGTON
Bassist Nathan Farrington has appeared as soloist with the
Philadelphia Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony, the Aspen
Music Festival Conducting Orchestra, and the Minnesota
Sinfonia, and appears regularly in the bass sections of the
Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore
Symphony, Columbus Symphony, and the East Coast
Chamber Orchestra. An avid chamber musician, Farrington
has completed three summers at the Marlboro Music Festival.
He has preformed on numerous occasions on NPR s A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison
Keillor. Mr. Farrington graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music studying with the Philadelphia
Orchestra’s principal bassist, Hal Robinson, as well as with soloist Edgar Meyer.
NATHANIEL SMITH
Nathaniel Smith has transported the cello into multiple genres
and styles by transcending traditional cello technique and
transforming the role of the cello. Born in Brandon, Mississippi,
Nathaniel studied classical cello and enriched his approach
to playing through local jam sessions and attending musical
gatherings around the country.
Living in Nashville, TN, Nathaniel’s cello tracks can be heard
on many albums, including Sarah Jarosz, Laura Viers, Abigail Washburn, Jars of Clay, and Camera
Obscura. Nathaniel has performed nationally and internationally with various artists including
Mark O’Connor, Natalie MacMaster, Abigail Washburn, Bela Fleck, Darol Anger, Steve Martin,
and Jeremy Kittel. He has toured extensively for the past five years with Sarah Jarosz performing
on Austin City Limits, The Conan O’Brien Show, The Craig Ferguson Show, as well as National
Public Radio and A Prairie Home Companion.
www.nathanielsmithcello.com
NICHOLAS FINCH
Since his debut as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra
at the age of 18, cellist Nicholas Finch has established himself
as an artist of great depth and diversity, performing a wide
variety of repertoire both within and beyond the classical
genre. Finch was recently appointed Principal Cellist of the
Louisville Orchestra during the 2013-2014 season by their new
music director Teddy Abrams. During the same season he also
appeared numerous time with the elite Boston-based chamber
orchestra ‘A Far Cry,’ appearing in two new recorded albums and touring Maine, Vermont, New
Hampshire, and Illinois. One of these albums, “Dreams and Prayers,” was recently nominated for
a Grammy Award, while the other album, “The Law of Mosaics”, was listed by Alex Ross of The
New Yorker as one of his recommended new CDs of the year. During the 2014-2015 season, in
addition to his duties in Louisville, Finch will perform Dvořăk’s Cello Concerto in B Minor with
the Melrose Symphony Orchestra in Boston, along with performances with Trio Caesura and
appearances at the Las Vegas Wine and Music Festival and the Lake George Music Festival.
Finch has collaborated with some of the most prominent artists of today, including cellist Yo-Yo
Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble, violinist Sarah Chang, pianist Joyce Yang, conductor Keith
Lockhart, the Argento New Music Ensemble, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble
2021, and composers Gabriela Lena Frank, Osvaldo Golijov, Andrew Norman, Bright Sheng, and
many more. Performances have taken him to the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall,
Boston’s Symphony Hall, Spectrum in New York City, and Alice Tully Hall. He has made concerto
appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Civic Orchestra, the Melrose
Symphony Orchestra, and the Quincy Symphony Orchestra.
A native of Boston, Finch began his cello studies at the age of 12 with Joan Esch and Andrew
Mark of the Boston Conservatory. He attended Harvard, Juilliard, the University of Michigan, and
the Mannes College of Music, studying with Harvey Shapiro, David Soyer, Richard Aaron, and
Marcy Rosen.
AGUSTINA WOODGATE
Woodgate’s interventions, objects, and collaborative events
respond to our constructed structures and explores their impact
in the surrounding landscapes. Her work considers behavior
patterns and organizational systems across times and invites
people to interact with them in regenerative ways. She reflects
on civic politics and the use of space and place, often with a
ludic and regenerative approach. Inspired by thermodynamics
and the perpetual motion of things, her process-oriented practice
considers everything, discards nothing, and turns everything into something else.
Agustina Woodgate was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1981. She received her BFA from
the Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte, Buenos Aires. She has received honors and awards
including the Florida Prize, South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, National Association of
Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC); Art Matters Grant and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.
Solo exhibitions include GPS/Geometria Poetica Social, Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires (2014);
Rugs, Hollywood Art Center (2014); Woodgate’s solo project New Landscapes was presented
at Art Positions during Art Basel Miami Beach in 2012. Voicing Responsibility, KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin (2012); Collectivism, Spinello Projects, Miami (2011); Growing Up,
Miami-Dade Public Library (2010); and in 2010 she funded Radio Espacio Estacion, an ongoing
online nomadic bilingual radio station.
Her public art projects include: Hopscotch commissioned by PlayPublik, Krakow, Poland
(2014), Daylight Saving, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC (2014);
Hopscotch, Temporary Contemporary, The Bass Museum, Miami (2013); Kulturpark, an initiative
set in an abandoned amusement park in East Berlin (2012); 1111, Highway Billboards & Bus
Shelter Posters, Locust Projects, Miami (2011).
Woodgate has been included in group exhibitions at the Orlando Art Museum (2014); Denver
Art Museum (2013); White Box, NY (2012); Gallery Nosco, London (2011); Good Children, New
Orleans (2011); Naples Museum of Art, FL (2011); North Carolina Museum (2011); Montreal
Biennale, Canada (2009); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2007).
Woodgate’s work has been featured in publications including TIME magazine, The Guardian,
The New York Times, The New York Foundation for the Arts, BBC Mundo, The Miami Herald, Art
Papers, Arte al Dia and Artinfo.
Key Biscayne Community Foundation
is proud to support the GardenMusic
Festival at Fairchild.
Congratulations,
GardenMusic Artists!
Don’t miss Fairchild’s
most decadent Festival!!
9 Annual International
th
Friday, Saturday and Sunday
January 23, 24 and 25, 2015
9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Three days of chocolate,
education and fun!
Artisan chocolate,
Plant sales,
Cooking demonstrations,
ChocoWalk,
The ChocoKids area,
Informative lectures,
and more!
fairchild tropical botanic garden
HE’S BACK.
CHIHULY
AT FAIRCHILD
A brand new
exhibition
through
5.31.15
#ChihulyAtFairchild
Dale Chihuly.
Scarlet and Yellow Icicle Tower (detail), 2013.
Photo by Terry Rishel.
ur mission is to save tropical plant diversity by exploring, explaining and conserving the world of tropical plants;
fundamental to this task is inspiring a greater knowledge and
love for plants and gardening so that all can enjoy the beauty
and bounty of the tropical world.
A S S O C I A T I O N
A S S O C I A T I O N
A S S O C I A T I O N
A S S O C I A T I O N
Accredited by the American Association of Museums, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is supported
by contributions from members and friends, and in part by the State of Florida, Department of State,
Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library
Services, the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council, the Miami-Dade County Department
of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County
Commissioners, and with the support of the City of Coral Gables.