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SUMMARY:PARKER QUARTET AND FLEUR BARRON\, MEZZO SOPRANO
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETSInternationally recognized for their “fearless\, yet probingly beautiful” (The Strad) performances\, the GRAMMY® Award-winning Parker Quartet has distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation\, dedicated purely to the sound and depth of their music. Hailed as “a knockout performer” by The Times\, Singaporean-British mezzo Fleur Barron is a passionate interpreter of opera\, symphonic works and chamber music. \nThe concert is followed by a reception where you can meet the artists.\nAll are encouraged to attend. \nProgram\nPhilip Glass (b. 1937)\nQuartet Satz \nFranz Schubert (1797-1828) (arr. by Ken Hamao)\n“Ständchen” from Schwanengesang\, D. 957 for mezzo-soprano and string quartet \nAnthony Cheung (b. 1982)\nthe field remembers\nOracle-Bone Script\nWhite Morning/The Wild Geese\nReturning to Fields and Gardens (I) (Tao Qian\, tr. Sze)/Green Fields\nFar Along in the Story/Some Last Questions\nFarolitos\nFor a Coming Extinction \nINTERMISSION \nFranz Schubert (1797-1828)\nString Quartet in G major\, D. 887\nAllegro molto moderato\nAndante un poco moto\nScherzo. Allegro vivace\nAllegro assai \nProgram Notes\nThe program notes will be provided closer to the concert date. \nAbout the Artist\nParker Quartet\nDaniel Chong\, violin | Ken Hamao\, violin | Jessica Bodner\, viola | Kee-Hyun Kim\, cello \nInternationally recognized for their “fearless\, yet probingly beautiful” (The Strad) performances\, the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation\, dedicated purely to the sound and depth of their music. They are renowned for their fresh and unique approach to the great classics while being passionate ambassadors for music of our time. Inspired performances and exceptional musicianship are hallmarks of the Quartet\, having appeared at the world’s most illustrious venues since its founding in 2002. \nRecent seasons have included performances around North America and Europe\, including Wigmore Hall\, Konzerthaus Berlin\, Music Toronto\, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society\, Strathmore\, San Antonio Chamber Music Society\, University of Chicago\, the Schubert Club\, 92nd Street Y\, Da Camera of Houston\, UCLA’s Clark Library\, and Kansas City’s Friends of Chamber Music. Recent festival appearances include Big Ears\, Norfolk\, Lake Champlain\, Bridgehampton\, Skaneateles\, San Miguel de Allende\, and at the Banff Centre. \nThe Quartet’s 2024-25 season includes concerts at Carnegie Hall and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Additionally\, the Quartet will work with and record works by Paola Prestini\, as well as curate a project which includes a newly commissioned quintet by Anthony Cheung for the Quartet and mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron. This project centers on themes of nature and heritage while weaving poetry and music throughout the program. \nThroughout the 2022-23 season the quartet celebrated their 20th anniversary with The Beethoven Project\, a multi-faceted initiative which included performances of the complete cycle of Beethoven’s string quartets; the commissioning of six composers to write encores inspired by Beethoven’s quartets; the creation of a new video library spotlighting each Beethoven quartet; and bringing Beethoven’s music to non-traditional venues around the Quartet’s home base of Boston\, including homeless shelters and youth programs. \nThe Quartet is committed to working with composers of today — recent commissions include works by Augusta Read Thomas\, Felipe Lara\, Jaehyuck Choi\, Zosha di Castri\, Paul Wiancko\, Anthony Cheung\, Wang Lu\, Michi Wiancko\, Sky Macklay\, and Jeremy Gill. Celebrating the process of creation\, the Quartet recorded three new commissions by Kate Soper\, Oscar Bettison\, and Vijay Iyer as part of Miller Theatre’s Mission: Commission podcast. \nThe Quartet regularly collaborates with a diverse range of artists\, which have included pianists Menahem Pressler\, Anne-Marie McDermott\, Orion Weiss\, Shai Wosner\, Billy Childs\, and Vijay Iyer; clarinetist and composer Jörg Widmann; clarinetists Anthony McGill and Charles Neidich; flutist Claire Chase; and violist Kim Kashkashian\, featured on their recent Dvořák recording. The Quartet also continues to be a strong supporter of Kashkashian’s project Music for Food\, participating in concerts throughout the United States for the benefit of various food banks and shelters. \nRecording projects continue to be an important facet of the Quartet’s artistic output. Described by Gramophone Magazine as a ”string quartet defined by virtuosity so agile that it’s indistinguishable from the process of emotional expression\,” their newest release for ECM Records features Dvořák’s Viola Quintet as well as György Kurtág’s Six Moments Musicaux and Officium breve in memoriam. The Strad also declared the album as “nothing short of astonishing.” Under the auspices of the Monte Carlo Festival Printemps des Arts\, they recorded a disc of three Beethoven quartets\, of which Diapason “admired the group’s fearlessness\, exceptional control\, and attention to detail.” The Quartet can also be heard playing Mendelssohn on Nimbus Records\, Bartók on Zig-Zag Territoires\, and the complete Ligeti Quartets on Naxos\, for which they won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance. \nThe members of the Parker Quartet serve as Professors of the Practice and Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at Harvard University’s Department of Music. The Quartet also holds visiting residencies at the University of South Carolina and Walnut Hill School for the Arts. \nFounded and currently based in Boston\, the Parker Quartet’s numerous honors include winning the Concert Artists Guild Competition\, the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at France’s Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition\, and Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award. \nhttps://parkerquartet.com/ \nFleur Barron\nHailed as “a knockout performer” by The Times\, Singaporean-British mezzo Fleur Barron is a 2025 GRAMMY Award winner for her performance of the title role in Kaija Saariaho’s opera “Adriana Mater” with the San Francisco Symphony Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Fleur is a passionate interpreter of opera\, chamber music\, and concert works ranging from the baroque to the contemporary. She is currently Artistic Partner of the Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias in Oviedo\, for which she will curate/perform multiple projects across several seasons. Fleur is mentored by Barbara Hannigan. \n​The 2024-2025 season sees Fleur emerge as an exciting\, leading voice in Mahlerian repertoire across a series of important symphonic debuts: Das Lied von der Erde with Daniel Harding and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra on tour across Germany\, with Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Stockholm and on tour to Spain\, with Kent Nagano and the Hamburg Staatsorchester at the Elbphilharmonie\, and at the Oregon Bach Festival; Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Nathalie Stutzmann and the Atlanta Symphony; Mahler Symphony no.2 with the Orquesta de Valencia\, the Rückert Lieder with PhilZuid\, and the Kindertotenlieder at Het Concertgebouw’s Mahler Festival with Julius Drake. Other orchestral engagements include the Season Opening concert of the Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Berlin (RSB) under Vladimir Jurowski at the Berlin Philharmonie in Schönberg’s atonal song cycle “Four Orchestral Songs op.22”; Lieberson’s Neruda Songs with the Hawaii Symphony; Saariaho’s Adriana Songs with the Turku Philharmonic\, and orchestrated Schubert songs with the Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias. Fleur takes on three new opera roles: Concepcion in Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole with the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra under Ludovic Morlot\, as well as a studio recording; Comrade Chin/Shu Fang in Huang Ruo’s M. Butterfly at the Barbican\, directed by Jim Robinson\, and Galatea in Handel’s Aci\, Galatea e Polifemo with La Nuova Musica at Wigmore Hall. 24/25 sees the release of Fleur’s debut orchestral disc with the Barcelona Symphony and Ludvoic Morlot\, featuring Ravel’s Schéhérazade and Trois Poèmes de Mallarmé. A celebrated recitalist\, this season Fleur undertakes a 6-city U.S. recital tour with pianist Kunal Lahiry\, including her Carnegie Hall debut\, as well as a U.S. recital tour with the Parker Quartet. She also joins regular collaborator Julius Drake for concerts at Wigmore Hall\, Amsterdam\, Stuttgart\, Madrid\, Manchester and Oviedo. Fleur also teachers a series of masterclasses at institutions such as Harvard\, Sibelius Academy Helsinki\, Royal Northern College of Music\, Boston University\, Manhattan School of Music\, among others. \nFleur began her 2023-2024 season with a return to the London Symphony Orchestra\, where she received critical acclaim in their Season Opening Concerts at the Barbican in works by Vivier and Stravinsky under the baton of Barbara Hannigan. The autumn of 2023 saw the release on Pentatone Records of her performance in the title role in Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with La Nuova Musica\, and she joined the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ludovic Morlot for performances of Shéhérazade and Montsalvatge’s Cinco Canciones Negras at L’Auditori Barcelona and on tour to Hamburg and Stockholm. Further orchestral engagements included Mahler’s Symphony no.3 with the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov\, both Das Lied von der Erde and Mahler Symphony no.2 with Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias\, and Freya Waley-Cohen’s Spell Book with the Manchester Collective at the Barbican. In 23/24 Fleur also debuted two opera roles: Penelope in Monteverdi’s Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria on tour with baroque ensemble I Gemelli; and multiple roles in George Benjamin’s two-person opera Into the Little Hill with the Staatsoper Berlin at the Boulez Saal. On the recital platform\, Fleur teamed up with regular partner Julius Drake for a series of concerts in the U.S. and Europe\, returned to the 92 Street Y with Myra Huang\, and made multiple appearances at Wigmore Hall with string ensembles O/Modernt and 12 Ensemble. Fleur was also the curator of OSPA’s East-West Fest in April 2024\, featuring symphonic programs\, chamber music\, late-night concerts and community engagement over two weekends in Oviedo and Gijon. \n​Highlights of recent seasons include the title role of Kaija Saariaho’s opera Adriana Mater with the San Francisco Symphony\, Ottavia in L’Incoronazione di Poppea at the Aix-en-Provence Festival\, la Zelatrice in Suor Angelica with the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko\, Tchaikovsky’s Olga and Paulina\, at Garsington Opera and Opera de Toulon\, and her debut in the title role of Carmen for Arizona Opera; concerts with the Munich Philharmonic under Barbara Hannigan\, the BBCSO\, Chicago Symphony Orchestra\, the Malaysian Philharmonic\, Orchestre de Paris\, the Göteborgs Symfoniker\, the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie\, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra\, the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble\, the Slovenian Philharmonic and the Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias as well as opera roles with the Aix-en-Provence Festival\, Opéra de Monte-Carlo\, La Monnaie/de Munt\, Garsington Opera\, Opéra National de Montpellier\, Opéra National du Rhin and Cape Town Opera.  \nFleur is committed to exploring the many ways music can facilitate cross-cultural dialogue and healing. She is passionate about curating inclusive chamber music programming that amplifies the voices of diverse communities. An active mentor and educator\, Fleur has led vocal masterclasses and seminars at Manhattan School of Music\, Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia\, Royal Academy of Music\, the Malaysian Philharmonic\, Temple University\, and King’s College London\, and has also mentored young musicians privately. Born to a British father and Singaporean mother in Northern Ireland\, Fleur grew up in the Far East and has also spent considerable time in New York and the U.K. She is currently based in London. \n​Fleur holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature with highest honours from Columbia University and a Masters in Vocal Performance from Manhattan School of Music.  \nhttps://www.fleurbarron.com/
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SUMMARY:BRANDON PATRICK GEORGE\, FLUTE ANDPLÍNIO FERNANDES\, GUITAR
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETSBrandon Patrick George is a GRAMMY®-winning flutist who performed at the Howland last season as part of Imani WInds. Plínio Fernandes fuses the tradition of classical guitar with Brazilian folk music. He was named on Forbes Brazil’s Under 30 list\, a Rising Star by Classic FM\, and recently received the Revelação Award at the 30th Annual Prêmio da Música Brasileira. \nThe concert is followed by a reception where you can meet the artists.\nAll are encouraged to attend. \nThis project is made possible with funds from the New York\nState Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson. \nProgram\nJ. S. Bach: Sonata in E Major\, BWV 1035\nI. Adagio ma non tanto\nII. Allegro\nIII. Siciliano\nIV. Allegro assai \nTōru Takemitsu: Toward the Sea\nI. The Night\nII. Moby Dick\nIII. Cape Cod \nAstor Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango\nI. Bordell 1900\nII. Café 1930\nIII. Night Club 1960\nIV. Concert d’aujourd-hui \nI N T E R M I S S I O N \nOsvaldo Golijov: Fish Tale \nHeitor Villa-Lobos: Distribuição de flores \nHeitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 \nManuel de Falla: Siete Canciones\nI. El paño moruno\nII. Seguidilla murciana\nIII. Asturiana\nIV. Jota\nV. Nana\nVI. Canción\nVII. Polo \nProgram Notes\nThe program notes will be provided closer to the concert date. \nAbout the Artist\nBrandon Patrick George\nBrandon Patrick George is a GRAMMY-winning flutist whose repertoire extends from the Baroque era to today. He is the flutist of Imani Winds and has appeared as a soloist with the Atlanta\, Baltimore\, and Albany symphonies\, American Composers Orchestra\, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s\, among others. He has been praised as “elegant” by The New York Times\, as a “virtuoso” by The Washington Post\, and as a “knockout musician with a gorgeous sound” by The Philadelphia Inquirer. \nBrandon has performed at the Elbphilharmonie\, the Kennedy Center\, the Dresden Music Festival\, and the Prague Spring Festival. In addition to his work with Imani Winds\, Brandon’s solo performances include appearances at Lincoln Center\, the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, 92nd Street Y\, Tippet Rise\, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival\, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. In 2021\, Brandon was part of the inaugural class of WQXR’s Artist Propulsion Lab\, a program designed to advance the careers of early and mid-career artists and support the future of classical music. During his yearlong residency at WQXR\, Brandon guest hosted Evening Music\, interviewed Ford Foundation president Darren Walker about diversity and equity in the performing arts\, and recorded with pianist Aaron Diehl and harpist June Han. \nPrior to his solo career\, Brandon performed as a guest with many of the world’s leading ensembles including the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra\, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra\, and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). He has appeared as guest principal flute with the Los Angels Philharmonic\, performing at Walt Disney Concert Hall and at the Hollywood Bowl with Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. His ensemble work allowed him to work closely with some of the foremost composers of our time including John Adams\, Louis Andriessen\, Tania León\, Steve Reich\, and George Lewis. \nBrandon has collaborated with many illustrious musicians and composers in chamber settings\, including with the Escher Quartet\, pianists Aaron Diehl and Lowell Liebermann\, harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani\, harpist Bridget Kibbey\, and composers Valerie Coleman and Sullivan Fortner. \nIn September 2023\, Brandon’s latest album\, Twofold\, was released on In a Circle Records. Twofold\, Brandon’s second solo album\, explores musical dialogues that transcend space\, time\, and identity by pairing canonical works for solo flute with new compositions. The recording features music by C.P.E. Bach\, Claude Debussy\, Reena Esmail\, Saad Haddad\, Shawn E. Okpebholo\, Ruth Crawford Seeger\, and Toru Takemitsu. BBC Music Magazine gave Twofold a four-star rating for both the performance and recording\, calling the album “a superb collection.” Twofold follows the success of Brandon Patrick George’s debut solo album\, which includes music by Kalevi Aho\, J.S. Bach\, Pierre Boulez\, and Sergei Prokofiev\, and was released in 2020 on Haenssler Classics. Brandon was profiled in The New York Times around the album’s release\, in an article titled “A Flutist Steps into the Solo Spotlight\,” which described the album as “a program that showcases the flute in all its wit\, warmth and brilliance.” \nBrandon Patrick George regularly serves on panels about diversity in classical music\, being repeatedly asked what institutions can do to support and reflect the communities they serve. The many conversations\, and desire to use his platform for change\, inspired him to create his latest commissioning initiative\, BPG: The Community Concerto Project. Brandon proposes a new concerto which features students that he will mentor during his collaboration in the community. Having a new commission which tells the story of that community\, while also representing the community on stage\, encompasses Brandon’s vision of helping orchestras deepen their connections with their audiences\, inspire young musicians of color\, and expand the repertoire with programming that reflects the community in which they serve. In June 2024\, the Albany Symphony presented BPG: The Community Concerto Project in a new concerto performed by Brandon and the Albany High School Choir composed by Michael Gilbertson. Brandon will continue to work with symphonies and students across the country in future seasons\, helping to build connections between various communities and orchestral institutions. \nRaised by a single mother in Dayton\, OH\, Brandon is the proud product of public arts education. He draws on his personal experiences in his commitment to educating the next generation\, performing countless outreach concerts for schoolchildren every year\, and mentoring young conservatory musicians of color embarking on performance careers. Brandon trained at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music with Michel Debost\, in Paris with Sophie Cherrier\, and received a Master of Music from the Manhattan School of Music\, studying with Marya Martin. He continued his studies under the guidance of Lorna McGhee\, now principal flutist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. \nBrandon serves on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music since 2021 and was appointed to the flute faculty at the Mannes School of Music in January 2025. He has spent many summers on the faculty of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Canada. In 2024\, he was appointed as the Music Consultant at The Morgan Library & Museum\, where he oversees the development and implementation of its music program. \nhttps://www.brandonpatrickgeorge.com/ \nPlínio Fernandes\nBorn and raised in São Paulo\, Plínio Fernandes fuses the tradition of classical guitar with Brazilian folk music. An exclusive Decca Gold recording artist\, Plínio released his debut album Saudade in 2022\, which hit Number One on the Billboard Traditional Classical Albums Chart. His second album in the recording partnership\, Bacheando\, was released in September 2023. Plínio was named on Forbes Brazil’s Under 30 list\, a Rising Star by Classic FM\, and recently received the Revelação Award at the 30th Annual Prêmio da Música Brasileira. Recent highlights include a UK tour with Sheku Kanneh-Mason\, including a sold-out performance at London’s Wigmore Hall\, a sold-out UK tour with Braimah Kanneh-Mason\, and performances with Lang Lang. \nhttps://www.pliniofernandesmusic.com/
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SUMMARY:ISATA KANNEH-MASON\, PIANO*Piano Festival
DESCRIPTION:GET TICKETSBritish pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason is in high demand from concert halls and orchestras worldwide. She has received many awards\, including the coveted Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and an Opus Klassik award for best young artist. \nThe concert is followed by a reception where you can meet the artists.\nAll are encouraged to attend. \nThis concert is generously sponsored by Howard and Celestine Campbell \nThis project is made possible with funds from the New York\nState Legislature and administered by Arts Mid-Hudson. \nProgram\nL. van Beethoven\nPiano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor\, Op. 27 No. 2 “Moonlight” \nMaurice Ravel\nGaspard de la nuit \nI N T E R M I S S I O N \nDobrinka Tabakova\nNocturne \nDobrinka Tabakova\nHalo \nL. van Beethoven\nPiano Sonata No. 21 in C major\, Op. 53 “Waldstein” \nProgram Notes\nThe program notes will be provided closer to the concert date. \nAbout the Artist\nPianist Isata offers eclectic and interesting recital programmes with repertoire encompassing Haydn and Mozart\, Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann\, Chopin and Brahms to Gershwin and beyond. In concerto\, she is equally at home in Felix Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann as in Prokofiev and Dohnányi. \nIsata is in high demand from concert halls and orchestras worldwide. Following her phenomenally successful concerto debut at the BBC Proms in 2023\, she was invited to open the festival in July 2024 with the BBC Symphony and conductor Elim Chan\, a performance which resulted in stellar reviews in the mainstream press. Isata appears as concerto soloist with the European Union Youth Orchestra and Iván Fischer in summer 2024 performing Dohnányi’s Variations on a Nursery Tune at Carnegie Hall\, New York\, the Grafenegg Festival\, and Bolzano Festival Bozen. \nHighlights of the 2024/25 season include Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto at the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie’s FREISPIEL festival and at the Ulster Orchestra’s season opening concert; and Prokofiev’s Third Concerto with the Chineke! Orchestra on tour at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie\, the Konzerthaus Berlin\, Brussels’s BOZAR and London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall. Solo recital appearances include the Lucerne Festival\, Piano aux Jacobins Toulouse\, the Schumann-Haus Düsseldorf\, PHIL Haarlem\, and on tour across the USA. In concerto performance\, Isata appears with the London\, Bergen\, Bremen\, and Duisburg philharmonics\, the North Carolina Symphony\, and on tour with the Staatskapelle Weimar\, and the Residentie Orkest. \nIsata continues her longstanding duo collaboration with her cellist brother\, Sheku\, with performances in the UK and on tour across Europe\, the USA\, and Canada. She will also give performances with bass-baritone Gerald Finley in the Czech Republic and Germany. \nIn 2023/24\, Isata gave performances with the Philadelphia Orchestra\, National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa\, NCPA Orchestra Beijing\, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on tour in the USA and Germany\, Cleveland Orchestra\, Toronto Symphony\, and Stockholm Philharmonic among others. She appeared in solo recital at the Beethoven Bonn and Rheingau festivals\, and venues around the globe such as London’s Wigmore Hall\, New York’s Carnegie Hall\, Boston’s Jordan Hall and the Konzerthaus Dortmund. \nIsata is a Decca Classics artist and has recorded four solo albums for the label – Romance (2019)\, Summertime (2021)\, Childhood Tales (2023)\, and Mendelssohn (2024). Her latest release presents music from two Mendelssohn siblings\, including the glittering First Piano Concerto by Felix and the long-lost ‘Easter Sonata’ by his exceptionally talented but overlooked elder sister Fanny\, alongside transcriptions of some of Felix’s most famous music by Rachmaninoff and Liszt. \nIsata has received many awards\, including the coveted Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig-Holstein Festival and an Opus Klassik award for best young artist. She also enjoys composing and arranging and released two albums of her favourite works for intermediate and advanced piano students through ABRSM Publishing in 2023. \nhttps://www.isatakannehmason.com/
URL:https://howlandmusic.org/events/isata-kanneh-mason-pianopiano-festival/
LOCATION:Howland Cultural Center\, 477 Main Street\, Beacon\, NY\, 12508
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