Program:

JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833 - 1897)
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano in E-flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2

Allegro amabile
Allegro appassionato
Andante con moto - Allegro

MAX BRUCH (1838 - 1920)
Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 83:

No. 2: Allegro con moto
No. 3: Andante con moto
No. 5: Rumänische Melodie (Romanian Melody)
No. 6: Nachtgesang (Night Song)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1756 - 1791)
Trio in E-flat major 'Kegelstatt', K.498

Andante
Menuetto
Rondeaux: Allegretto

About:

Max Tan | VIOLA

Praised as “eloquent” by the New York Times and “warmly rhapsodic” by the Boston Globe, Taiwanese American violinist Max Tan has appeared on stages across the United States, Europe, and Asia, forging a varied career as performer and educator. A founding member of the diplomacy-centered Versoi Ensemble, a tenured member of the Sarasota Orchestra, and an alumnus of the Perlman Music Program, Mr. Tan is committed to community-building through the arts. His recent projects involve connecting musicians to isolated audiences and recovering Covid-19 patients during the pandemic, producing a monthly livestream concert series, and organizing chamber music residencies. He curates the new Listen Hear music salon series at the Sarasota Art Museum and is the founder of Soundbox Ventures.

Mr. Tan is the recipient of the Richard F. French Award, the Sylff Fellowship, the Kovner Fellowship from The Juilliard School, and the Arthur Foote Prize from the Harvard Musical Association. He was a semifinalist at the 2019 Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition. Recent performances include recitals and chamber music in Taipei, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago on WFMT’s live broadcast of the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts, and New York at the Chelsea Music Festival where he gave the North American premiere of Phylogenie by Japanese composer Misato Mochizuki. Committed to the music of our time, Mr. Tan works with young composers at Juilliard and Sunset Chamberfest (Los Angeles) in performance, writing, and public speaking. He has performed works by notable composers including Sarah Gibson, Sang Tong, Virgil Thomson, Stefano Gervasoni, and Jean-Frédéric Neuberger. A Harvard graduate with a major in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology and a minor in Music, Mr. Tan is pursuing his doctorate at Juilliard, where he also received his Master’s and Artist Diploma degrees. His mentors include Catherine Cho, Donald Weilerstein, Itzhak Perlman, Lynn Chang, and Albert Markov. Mr. Tan is assistant faculty of violin and chamber music at The Juilliard School Pre-College.

Sam Boutris | CLARINET

2019 Chamber Music Northwest International Clarinet Competition, Sam Boutris regularly performs as a concerto soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. In addition to recordings, his concerts have been featured on ClassicFM and broadcasted on The Violin Channel. Recent performances include the Mozart Clarinet Quintet (Rolston String Quartet) and Clarinet Concerto at Chamber Music Northwest, a featured recital on the award-winning Crypt Sessions series in New York City, a live broadcast solo recital on WQXR’s Midday Masterpieces Series at the Greene Space, solo recitals at Dame Myra Hess (Chicago), Lincoln Centers’ Paul Hall and Wilson Theater, the Harvard Club of New York, La Maison Française at New York University, and a featured recital of the Mozart and Brahms Clarinet Quintets with the Attacca Quartet on the Rockefeller Noon Series. Mr. Boutris has also appeared in concerto performances with the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra and the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra. As an orchestral musician, Mr. Boutris has performed as guest principal clarinet with the Louisville Symphony Orchestra and ‘Symphony in C.’ He has also appeared as guest clarinet with the New Haven and Princeton symphonies. Mr. Boutris is an alumnus of the Curtis Institute of Music, Yale University, and The Juilliard School.

Chelsea Wang | PIANO

Praised by the New York Times as an “excellent young pianist”, Chelsea Wang has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, Europe and Asia in venues including Kennedy Center, Merkin Hall, Konzerthaus Berlin, Chamber Hall of Warsaw Philharmonic, Taipei National Concert Hall, and Seoul Arts Center. She is a prizewinner and finalist of many national and international piano competitions including the Seoul International Piano Competition, Washington International Piano Competition, and New York International Piano Competition.

After making her orchestral debut at the age of six, Ms. Wang has performed with many orchestras including the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, among others. She has collaborated alongside Ida Kavafian, Ani Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom, Peter Wiley, Roberto Diaz, Anne-Marie McDermott, Anton Nel, Randall Scarlata, Dmitri Murrath, and other inspirational mentors. Festival appearances include Music@ Menlo, Ravinia Steans Institute, Bravo!Vail, Music Academy of the West, Fontainebleau, Music from Angel Fire, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.

A native of West Des Moines, Iowa, Ms. Wang is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she studied with Meng-Chieh Liu and Ignat Solzhenitsyn and was awarded the prestigious Sergei Rachmaninoff Award upon graduation. She received her Master of Music degree and Graduate Performance Diploma at the Peabody Conservatory under the tutelage of Leon Fleisher and Yong-Hi Moon. Ms. Wang is currently pursuing her Doctor of Musical Arts at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music with James Giles.

Textures and Timbres with Max Tan, Sam Boutris & Chelsea Wang