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Krzysztof Penderecki
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Robert Blocker and
Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Penderecki
Since 1990 he has held the Grand Cross for Ettore Causa was appointed Associate Professor
Distinguished Services of the Order of Merit of (adjunct) of viola at the Yale School of Music
the Federal Republic of Germany and Chevalier in 2009. He studied at the International
de Saint Georges. In 1995, he became a member Menuhin Music Academy with Alberto Lysy,
of the Royal Academy of Music in Dublin and Sir Yehudi Menuhin, and Johannes Eskar, and
in 1998 a member of the American Academy of with Michael Tree at the Manhattan School of
Arts and Letters and the Bavarian Academy of Music. He has been first solo viola of the Carl
Fine Arts in Munich. In 2006, he was made Nielsen Philharmonic (Denmark) and leader of
Commander of the Three Star Order in Riga, the Copenhagen Chamber Soloists. In 2000,
Latvia and is a member of the Order of the White he won the Peter Schidlof Prize and the John
Eagle in Poland. Penderecki is an honorary Barbirolli Prize at the Lionel Tertis International
doctor and honorary professor of numerous Viola Competition. He has since made solo and
international universities. recital appearances around the world, performing
in such halls as Victoria Hall (Geneva), Zurich
Penderecki has enjoyed a longstanding relation- Tonhalle, Madrid National Auditorium, Barcelona
ship with Yale, beginning with his years on the Auditorium, Salle Cortot (Paris), Teatro Coln
faculty of the School of Music. He has made a (Buenos Aires), Tokyo and Osaka Symphony
number of memorable appearances conducting Hall, and MSM Auditorium (New York). He has
his music with the Philharmonia Orchestra of played at major festivals including the Menuhin,
Yale. His 1977 New York conducting debut Festival de Estoril, Salzburg, Festival del Pontino,
featured the Yale Philharmonia in a Carnegie Tivoli (Copenhagen), Perth, Prussia Cove
Hall program that included The Awakening of (England), Savonlinna, and Lanaudiere (Canada).
Jacob, the Capriccio for Violin and Orchestra, He is a member of the Aria Quartet and is
and the North American premiere of Magnificat. regularly invited to play with colleagues such
as Pascal Rog, Thomas Ads, Jeremy Menuhin,
Ani Kavafian, and others. In 2001 Ettore Causa
was appointed professor of viola and chamber
music at the International Menuhin Music
Academy. He is regularly invited to give master
classes in Europe and Argentina. His first
recording, for Claves, was crowned with the 5
Diapason. A new recording (also on Claves)
has already been highly praised by critics world-
wide. Ettore plays on a viola made for him by
Frederic Chaudiere in 2003.
about the performers
paul won jin cho Music Competition, Mr. Choi has won first
clarinet prize at the Pasadena Showcase Instrumental
Competition, Kingsville International String
Paul Won Jin Cho received his bachelors degree Competition (junior division), the Canadian
from Korean National University of Arts and National Music Festival, and the Montreal
his masters degree from Seoul National Symphony Orchestra Competition, among
University. He finished his Graduate Certificate others. In 2008, he received the grand prize at
in University of Southern California under the International Stepping Stone Competition.
Yehuda Gilad. Mr. Cho has won awards in He has soloed with the Calgary Philharmonic,
numerous competitions, including first place in Montreal and Quebec Symphony Orchestras,
the Donga Competition in Korea. The recipient Edmonton Symphony, Shanghai Opera House
of the 2006 Leni Fe Bland Music Scholarship Orchestra, Schleswig-Holstein Orchestra, and
Award, recently he won the Woolsey Hall others. At age 14, he was invited to give a solo
Competition and received a Koussevitzky Young recital tour of Mexico. Mr. Choi is a founding
Artists Award. He has been invited to solo with member of the Janaki String Trio, which received
Busan Philharmonic Orchestra, Suwon the Grand Prize at the 2005 Coleman Chamber
Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Torrance Music Competition and the 2006 Concert
Symphony Orchestra, and recently performed Artists Guild International Competition. The
the Nielsen clarinet concerto with the Yale Janaki Trio released its debut album on Yarlung
Philharmonia. As an orchestra member, Mr. Records to great acclaim and released its second
Cho has played at Tanglewood, Youth Orchestra album on Naxos. Mr. Choi received his bachelors
of the Americas, American Youth Symphony, degree from the Colburn Conservatory and now
and Asian Youth Orchestra under conductors studies with Aldo Parisot at the Yale School of
including Rafael Frhbeck de Burgos, Sergiu Music. He plays a Carlo Tononi 1725 (Venice)
Commissiona, Myung-Hun Chung, Placido cello, on loan from an anonymous donor.
Domingo, James Levine, and Carlos Miguel
Prieto. Mr. Cho currently studies with David
Shifrin at the Yale School of Music, pursuing jasper string quartet
his artist diploma, and will continue his musical
activity in New York City with The Academy. The Jasper String Quartet is the winner of the
Grand Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2008
Plowman Chamber Music Competition, the
arnold choi Grand Prize at the 2008 Coleman Competition,
cello First Prize at Chamber Music Yellow Springs
2008, and the Silver Medal at the 2008 and
Born in 1985, cellist Arnold Choi has already 2009 Fischoff Chamber Music Competitions.
performed to great acclaim throughout North They are currently the graduate quartet-in-
America, Europe, and Asia. A prizewinner at residence at the Yale School of Music, studying
Koreas Gyeongnam (Isang Yun) International with the Tokyo String Quartet. In 2010 they
joined the roster of Astral Artists as a winner of jerome stover
their national auditions. The Jaspers are the tuba
2009-10 Ernst C. Stiefel String Quartet-in-
Residence at the Caramoor Center for Music A native of Columbia, South Carolina, tubist
and Arts and were the first ensemble to win the Jerome Stover holds degrees in music perfor-
Yale School of Musics Horatio Parker Memorial mance from Indiana University and DePaul
Prize, an award established in 1945 and selected Univeristy, and is currently pursuing an Artist
by the faculty for best fulfilling lofty musical
Diploma at the Yale School of Music. He has
ideals. Originally formed at Oberlin Conserva- performed with many of the finest ensembles
tory, the Jaspers began pursuing a professional throughout North America, Europe, and Japan.
career when they became Rice Universitys He has played with the Chicago, Oregon,
graduate quartet-in-residence in 2006. J and Alabama, New Mexico, and New World
Rachel are married, and all four members are Symphonies and was the principal tubist of
close friends, living within a block of each other
the Civic Orchestra of Chicago from 1999 to
in New Haven, Conn. The quartet is named 2000. Stover also held the post of principal
for Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. tubist of the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra
from 2001-2003, where he appeared as soloist
www.jasperquartet.com of the Vaughan Williams Tuba Concerto. He
can be heard on recordings with the Chicago
and Honolulu Symphonies as well as the DePaul
sunhee jeon Wind Ensemble. He has also served on the fa-
cello culties of the University of Hawaii and Rochester
College of Michigan. Stover has been a principal
Prize-winning cellist Sunhee Jeon has performed musician of the Tanglewood Music Center,
throughout the United States, Finland, France, Cascades Music Festival, and the Sun River
Germany, Italy, Russia, Sweden, and her native Music Festival. From 2005 to 2008, he was a
South Korea. Following her initial musical Senior Banker at Quicken Loans Inc., one of
studies on the piano at the age of four, she the nations largest mortgage firms.
started playing the cello at the age of eleven.
Within several years she had gained public
recognition as a cellist by winning several com- amy yang
petitions. At the age of eighteen she moved to piano
Europe to further her musical endeavors, study-
ing with Ventin Erben at the University of Music Hailed by Harris Goldsmith of New York Concert
in Vienna and with Arto Noras at the Sibelius Review as a magnificent artist and poet: every-
Academy in Helsinki. She is currently an Artist thing she touches turns to gold, pianist Amy
Diploma student of Aldo Parisot at the Yale Jiaqi Yang has appeared at the White House,
School of Music. Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Philadelphias
Academy of Music, the New School, Rockefeller
University, Columbia University, and on the number of awards in the Fourth Central
Rising Star Series of Ravinia Festival. Guest Conservatory of Music Cello Competition and
artist at the OK Mozart Festival and Music from the Fifth National Cello Competition.
Angel Fire, she has also participated in the
Verbier Academy, Music Academy of the West, In June 2008, she recorded the cello version of
Ravinia Festival (where she was chosen to the Olympic theme song, You and Me, for the
participate in its 2008 U.S. tour), and Marlboro Olympic Games. Currently she is a student at
Music Festival. the Yale School of Music, studying under Aldo
Parisot.
A devoted chamber musician, Ms. Yang has col-
laborated with David Soyer, Arnold Steinhardt,
Peter Wiley, Ani and Ida Kavafian, Miriam Fried,
Paul Neubauer, and Anne-Marie McDermott,
among others. She is in a professional duo with
violinist and Yale alumnus Adrian Anantawan.
In 2002, she made her debut with the Houston
Symphony. Ms. Yang holds degrees from the
Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School.
Her teachers include Timothy Hester, Claude
Frank, Robert McDonald, and Peter Frankl.
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