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Chamber music for clarinet, piano, and strings on August 12 Chestnut Hill concert
Quartet of musicians includes Canadian clarinetist
Romie deGuise-Langlois making her Chestnut Hill Concerts debut
July 22, 2011 | For Immediate Release
n its forty-second year of presenting world-class chamber music on the Connecticut Shoreline, Chestnut Hill Concerts, under the artistic direction of Ronald Thomas, will present its second concert of the 2011 season on Friday, August 12 at 8:00 p.m. at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center (“The Kate”), 300 Main Street, in Old Saybrook. One of the four musicians who will perform is the young Canadian clarinetist Romie de Guise Langlois, who will make her Chestnut Hill Concerts debut. Joining her on the program are artists who have performed with great acclaim in previous seasons: violinist Jennifer Frautschi, cellist Julie Alberts, and pianist Mihae Lee.
The program includes two pieces for solo instruments: Stravinsky’s “Three pieces for Clarinet,” written in 1918, and J.S. Bach’s "Chaconne" from Partita in D minor for Solo Violin. Ms. de Guise Langlois and Ms. Frautschi will then join pianist Mihae Lee for Bartók’s “Contrasts.” This work was commissioned by Benny Goodman, who premiered the work with Joseph Szigeti on violin and the composer on piano in 1938. The concert concludes with Antonín Dvorák’s popular “Dumky” Piano Trio.
Single tickets are $30 for orchestra seats and $25 for the balcony. Children and teens are admitted free of charge when accompanied by an adult. To purchase tickets, contact the Kate box office at 877-503-1286 (locally 860-510-0473), or visit www.thekate.org. The remaining concerts in the 2011 season of Chestnut Hill Concerts are on 19 and 26.
The concert on August 12 is sponsored by Guilford Savings Bank. The Kids and Teens Come Free! program is sponsored by Judith Fisher. The Media sponsor is WSHU Public Radio. Chestnut Hill Concerts is supported by a generous grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism.
For further information about the programs and artists, visit the Chestnut Hill Concert web site, www.chestnuthillconcerts.org.
About the performers
Cellist Julie Albers made her major orchestral debut with the Cleveland Orchestra in 1998, and thereafter has performed in recital and with orchestras in the U.S., Europe, Korea, Taiwan and New Zealand. In 2001 she won Second Prize in Munich’s Internationalen Musikwettbewerbes der ARD, at which time she was also awarded the Wilhelm-Weichsler-Musikpreis der Stadt Osnabruch 2001. While in Germany, she recorded solo and chamber music of Kodaly for the Bavarian Radio, performances that have been heard throughout Europe. In November 2003, Miss Albers was named the first Gold Medal Laureate of South Korea’s Gyeongnam International Music Competition, winning the Grand Prize. Her current and upcoming engagements include performances with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Utah Symphony, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Moritzburg Festival in Germany, the Colorado Symphony, the Chautauqua Festival, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Charlotte Symphony, the Arkansas Symphony, the Spokane Symphony, the Syracuse Symphony, the Reno Philharmonic, and the Grand Rapids Symphony. In the fall of 2006 she began a three-year residency with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Two. She is currently active with the Albers String Trio and the cello quartet, CELLO. Miss Albers is also on the faculty of Kean University as a member of the Concert Artist program.
Praised as “…extraordinary...” and “…a formidable clarinetist...” by the New York Times, Romie de Guise-Langlois has appeared as soloist and chamber musician on major concert stages throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Ms. de Guise-Langlois performed as soloist with the Houston Symphony, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Ensemble ACJW, the Yale Philharmonia, McGill University Symphony Orchestra, at Music@Menlo and at Banff Center for the Arts. She was recently a winner of the 2011 Astral Artists’ National Audition and was awarded the First Prize in the 2009 Houston Symphony Ima Hogg; she was additionally a First Prize winner of the Woolsey Hall Competition at Yale University, the McGill University Classical Concerto Competition, the Canadian Music Competition, and was the recipient of the Canadian Broadcasting Company award. Ms. de Guise-Langlois toured with Musicians from Marlboro, and has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Chamber Music Northwest, among many others. She has performed as principal clarinetist for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the New Haven and Stamford Symphony Orchestras and she is a member of The Knights. A native of Montreal, Ms. de Guise-Langlois earned her B.M. degree from McGill University and her M.M. and Artist Diploma from the Yale School of Music, where she studied under David Shifrin. Ms. de Guise-Langlois completed her fellowship at The Academy-A Program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and The Weill Music Institute, and was recently appointed Adjunct Professor of clarinet and Concert Artist at The Kean University Conservatory of Music.
Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient violinist Jennifer Frautschi has won acclaim as an adventurous performer with a wide-ranging repertoire. Equally at home in the classic and contemporary repertoire, she has appeared as soloist with Pierre Boulez and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach the Chicago Symphony and Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival. Selected by Carnegie Hall for its Distinctive Debuts series, she made her New York recital debut in 2004. As part of the European Concert Hall Organization's Rising Stars series, she also made debuts that year at ten European concert venues, including London's Wigmore Hall, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, and La Cité de la Musique in Paris. She has been heard in recital at the Ravinia Festival, La Jolla Chamber Music Society, Washington's Phillips Collection, Boston's Gardner Museum, Beijing's Imperial Garden, Theatre de la Monnaie in Brussels, La Chaux des Fonds in Switzerland, and San Miguel de Allende Festival in Mexico. As a chamber artist, she has been heard world-wide, while her growing discography presently offers the Prokofiev concerti, Stravinsky Concerto, the music of Ravel and Stravinsky, and two GRAMMY-nominated recordings of Schoenberg. Ms. Frautschi attended Harvard University, the New England Conservatory of Music, and The Juilliard School. She performs on a 1722 Antonio Stradivarius violin known as the "ex-Cadiz.
Praised by Boston Globe as “simply dazzling,” Korean-born pianist Mihae Lee has been captivating audiences throughout North America, Europe, and Asia in solo recitals and chamber music concerts with her poetic lyricism and scintillating virtuosity. She has performed in such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Academia Nationale de Santa Cecilia in Rome, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, and Taipei National Hall. An active chamber musician, Ms. Lee is an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and is a founding member of the Triton Horn Trio with violinist Ani Kavafian and hornist William Purvis. She has appeared frequently at numerous international chamber music festivals including Dubrovnik, Amsterdam, Groningen, Great Woods, Seattle, OK Mozart, Mainly Mozart, Music from Angel Fire, Chamber Music Northwest, Mostly Music, Rockport, Sebago-Long Lake, Bard, Norfolk, Music Mountain, and Chestnut Hill Concerts. She has been a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Bargemusic, and Speculum Musicae; has collaborated with the Muir, Cassatt, and Manhattan string quartets; and has premiered and recorded works by such composers as Gunther Schuller, Ned Rorem, Paul Lansky, Henri Lazarof, Michael Daugherty, and Ezra Laderman. A first-prize winner of the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Competition, Ms. Lee received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School and her artist diploma from the New England Conservatory, studying with Martin Canin and Russell Sherman. She is the Artistic Director of the Essex Winter Series in Connecticut and has released compact discs on the Bridge, Etcetera, EDI, Northeastern, and BCM labels.
About Chestnut Hill Concerts
Chestnut Hill Concerts was founded in 1969 by Dr. Elsa Redlich in Killingworth, Connecticut. The concerts evolved from informal performances that were associated with Dr. Redlich’s summer program, the Chestnut Hill Creative Arts Center for Children. Many of the performers, who also served as faculty at the camp, were drawn from the Yale School of Music. From the beginning, the concerts sought to involve young people in experiencing fine classical music. That goal has persisted throughout Chestnut Hill’s history.
The present Artistic Director, Ronald Thomas, has led the series since 1989. He has brought musicians and programs of both musical excellence and broad appeal. As Artistic Director and co-founder of the Boston Chamber Music Society he has succeeded in enhancing Chestnut Hill’s growth, support and acclaim.
FOR CALENDAR EDITORS
Friday, August12, 2011 at 8:00 pm
The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main St., Old Saybrook.
Chestnut Hill Concerts
Ronald Thomas, Artistic Director
Music by Bach, Stravinsky, Bartok, and Dvorák. Clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois, violinist Jennifer Frautschi, cellist Julie Albers, and pianist Mihae Lee.
Tickets: $30 and $25; Children and teenagers admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Box office: 877-503-1286, www.thekate.org. Information: www.chestnuthillconcerts.org
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