The Program

Beethoven:  Variations on Ich bin der Schneider Kakadu, Op. 121
Dvorák:  Piano Trio in G Minor, Op. 26
Fauré:  Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 15

Pre-concert Lecture at 6:45 pm by Lydia Artymiw

The Artists

As winner of the Young Concert Artists International Competition, Hiroko Yajima has concertized extensively throughout the United States and has also played in London’s Wigmore Hall and Purcell Hall and has performed as soloist with orchestra at Carnegie Hall, with the late Alexander Schneider conducting.  She has participated in many summer festivals, including Marlboro, Aspen, Bravo! Colorado and Mostly Mozart and has been a guest at The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  She has been a part of many Musicians from Marlboro concert tours. Ms. Yajima was a member of the Galimir String Quartet.  She is a founding member of the Mannes Trio, ensemble-in-residence at the Mannes College of Music, which won the 1986 Walter W. Naumburg International Chamber Music Award.  A native of Tokyo, Ms. Yajima attended the Toho School and won a Fulbright Fellowship to study at The Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy Delay. She is on the faculty at the Mannes College of Music and has been the Chair of the String Department since 1998.

A New York native, violist Samuel Rhodes is a longtime member of the Juilliard String Quartet.  He also appears in recitals and as orchestral soloist in addition to his activities as a composer and teacher.  A faculty member and chair of viola at the Juilliard School, he is also associated with the Marlboro Festival and Tanglewood.  Mr. Rhodes' solo appearances have included recitals at the Library of Congress, Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall, the Juilliard School, and Columbia University's Miller Theater.  He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Queens College and an MFA from Princeton University where he studied composition with Roger Sessions and Earl Kim. Other teachers include Sydney Beck and Walter Trampler.

Marcy Rosen has established herself as one of the most important and respected artists of our day. Los Angeles Times music critic Herbert Glass has called her “one of the intimate art’s abiding treasures.” She has performed in recital and with orchestra throughout Canada, England, France, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, and all fifty of the United States. She made her concerto debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of eighteen and has since appeared with many notable orchestras and as a collaborator with the world’s finest musicians, including Leon Fleisher, Richard Goode, Andras Schiff, Mitsuko Uchida, Isaac Stern, Robert Mann, Kim Kashkashian, Lucy Shelton, Charles Neidich and the Juilliard, Emerson, and Orion Quartets.  She is a founding member of the ensemble La Fenice, a group comprised of Oboe, Piano and String Trio, as well as a founding member of the world renowned Mendelssohn String Quartet.  she was Artist-in-Residence at the North Carolina School of the Arts and for nine years served as Blodgett-Artist-in Residence at Harvard University.  Marcy Rosen was born in Phoenix, Arizona and her teachers have included Gordon Epperson, Orlando Cole, Marcus Adeney, Felix Galimir, Karen Tuttle and Sandor Vegh. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music. Ms. Rosen is currently Associate Professor of Cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and on the Faculty at the Mannes College of Music in New York City.  For more information on Marcy Rosen visit www.marcyrosen.com.

Philadelphia-born pianist Lydia Artymiw has been hailed by The New York Times as "a compelling musical personality with the unusual ability to reach out and touch her listeners."  She began her piano studies at the age of four in her native Philadelphia and performed at age eight (as a student of Freda Pastor Berkowitz) with the Philadelphia Orchestra.  She has appeared with over one hundred orchestras worldwide, including those of Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Los Angeles and has also gained international recognition through solo recitals and extensive chamber music performances.  She is a member of the Steinhardt-Artymiw-Eskin Trio and has participated in nearly all the major festivals, including Marlboro Music, Aspen, Caramoor, Mostly Mozart and the Hollywood Bowl.  For more information on Lydia Artymiw visit lydiaartymiw.com.