Amy Galluzzo, violin
Praised
for her “stunning rendition [of Danses sacrés et profanes]” (WGBH
Boston) and her “incredible speed and energy” (Sarasota Herald Tribune),
Amy Galluzzo enjoys an active career as both a chamber musician and
soloist. As a member of the Carpe Diem String Quartet, she tours around
the United States, performing a wide range of repertoire. Amy has
performed at several prestigious summer festivals, including the
Tanglewood Music Festival, Chelsea Music Festival, Taos, and Sarasota
Music Festival, and has collaborated with artists such as Masuko Ushioda,
Carol Rodland, James Buswell and members of the Boston Symphony
Orchestra. More unusual collaborations include Yihan Chen, pipa, Scott
McConnell, steel pan, and Dariush Saghafi, santoor.
Recent highlights include Carpe Diem’s Carnegie Hall debut in 2017 and
the release of Amy’s first several recordings: The Art of Calligraphy
(Albany Records), featuring the music of one of NPR’s 10 Favorites,
Iranian-born Reza Vali, and Volumes 4 and 5 of the complete String
Quartets of Sergei Taneyev (Naxos Records). Current recording projects
include the complete string quartets of D.C.-based composer Jonathan
Leshnoff (both on Naxos Records) and more music by Reza Vali. Carpe Diem
String Quartet has been the recipient of many grants and awards,
including the 2015 Chamber Music America Commissioning Grant, five PNC
ArtsAlive Grants.
A finalist in the Naftzger Competition and the New England Conservatory
Concerto Competition, and recipient of the Jules C. Reiner Prize for
violin, Amy has been heard in recital and concert across Europe and
America and has served as concertmaster under the batons of conductors
such as Kurt Masur, Raphael Frühbeck de Burgos and Christoph von
Dohnányi.
Amy Galluzzo began her violin studies in Great Britain and went on to
study with Dona Lee Croft, a professor at the Royal College of Music,
London. Amy received her Bachelor of Music and Master of Music with
Honors, and a Graduate Diploma from the New England Conservatory in
Boston, where she studied with Marylou Speaker Churchill and James
Buswell. She has studied with members of the Borromeo, Brentano,
Shanghai, American and Concord Quartets.
Amy teaches through the New England Conservatory Preparatory School and
Continuing Education department. She has given masterclasses and
workshops at University of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University,
Florida State University, Palm Beach University, Eastern Arizona College
and numerous music programs for students of all ages and has taught at
the Bennington Chamber Music Conference since 2015.
Victor Rosenbaum, piano
Pianist
Victor Rosenbaum, former chair of the NEC piano department for more than
ten years, has performed widely as soloist and chamber music performer
in the United States, Europe, Asia, Israel, and Russia, in such
prestigious halls as Alice Tully Hall in New York and the Hermitage in
St. Petersburg, Russia. He has collaborated with such artists as Leonard
Rose, Arnold Steinhardt, Robert Mann, and the Cleveland and Brentano
String Quartets, among others. Festival appearances have included
Tanglewood, Rockport, Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall, Kfar Blum (Israel) and
Musicorda, where he is on the faculty. He has been soloist with the
Indianapolis and Atlanta symphonies and the Boston Pops. Also an
accomplished composer and conductor, Rosenbaum gives masterclasses and
lectures on pedagogy issues and interpretive analysis worldwide. His
highly praised recording of Schubert is on Bridge Records.
B.A., cum laude,
Brandeis University; M.F.A., Princeton University. Piano with Leonard
Shure, Rosina Lhevinne; theory and composition with Martin Boykan,
Edward T. Cone, Earl Kim, Roger Sessions. Former faculty of Eastman
School of Music and Brandeis University. Former chair of piano at the
Eastern Music Festival. Former Director/President of the Longy School of
Music.
http://necmusic.edu/faculty/victor-rosenbaum?lid=1&sid=3
Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin,
flutist
Sue-Ellen
Hershman-Tcherepnin first appeared with the Boston Symphony Orchestra as
flute soloist at the age of 16, and has subsequently performed
throughout Europe, Latin America, South America, Russia, and the United
States as both soloist and recitalist. With pianist David Witten, she
performs as a member of Dúo Clásico. Since 1986 the Duo has represented
the US on State Department-sponsored foreign tours, and has gained a
reputation for expanding knowledge of Latin-American composers to
audiences around the globe.
Hershman-Tcherepnin is both founding member and flutist of Pro Arte
Chamber Orchestra of Boston. Other local activities include performances
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra,
Boston Lyric Opera Company, New England Ragtime Ensemble, Portland
(Maine) and Springfield (Mass.) Symphonies, and Broadway productions in
the musical theaters of Boston.
Deeply committed to new music, Sue-Ellen has given many world premieres,
including California composer Tom Flaherty’s Flute Concerto and a
concerto by Massachusetts composer William Eldridge, written for her in
memory of her late husband, Ivan Tcherepnin. Since 1985 she has been
flutist with Dinosaur Annex Contemporary Music Ensemble, and has served
as Co-Artistic Director since 2002.
Sue-Ellen was raised in Norwood, Massachusetts (USA). She received her
Bachelor of Music degree from Boston University and Master of Music
degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her
principal teachers were Phillip Kaplan, Jean-Pierre Rampal and Samuel
Baron. She has taught at Tufts University since 1989, and at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1991. From 1995-1999
Hershman-Tcherepnin also served as President of the 1800-member American
Federation of Musicians’ Local 9-535 (Boston).
Pi-Hsien Chen
陳必先
,
piano
Pi-hsien
Chen
was born in Taipei in 1950. When she was nine, she left Taiwan
and one year later entered the University of Music in Cologne,
Germany. She grew up in the home of her teacher, Hans-Otto
Schmidt-Neuhaus, who was also the teacher of Karlheinz
Stockhausen, Christoph Eschenbach, and Péter Eötvös. She later
studied with Hans Leygraf and also with Wilhelm Kempff, Claudio
Arrau, Geza Anda, and Tatjana Nikolajewa.
In 1972, her
carrier as pianist began when she won the First Prize at the
International ARD Competition in Munich. Her special interest in
Schoenberg and Bach also enabled her to win the Arnold
Schoenberg Competition in Rotterdam and the Bach Competition in
Washington, D.C.
She has
performed in most of the major concert halls and with many of
the world’s major orchestras, particularly almost every
orchestra within the German radio system. Among the orchestras
with whom she has appeared are the Royal Philharmonic, the
London Symphony, the BBC Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber
Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, the Zurich
Chamber Orchestra and Tonhalle Orchestra, as well as the NHK
Orchestra in Tokyo. She has also been a partner in the Asko
Ensemble in Amsterdam, Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, and
Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris.
She has
appeared in the festivals in Lucerne, Schwetzingen, Hong Kong,
and Osaka, as well as the Berliner Festspiele, the
Wien Modern festival, the Festival d’Autumne
in Paris, the Strasbourg Festival, the South Bank Festival in
London, the Huddersfield Festival, the BBC Proms, the Ruhr Piano
Festival, and the festival in Roque d'Antéron. She represented
German music at EXPO 2000 in Hanover, appearing with Alfons
Kontarsky. She has been a frequent guest at the Donaueschingen
Festival, and was one of six piano soloists in the world
premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas's limited approximations
in 2010.
Her
dedication to new piano music evolved out of her collaboration
with composers such as John Cage, Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez,
Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Kurtág, John Patrick Thomas, and
Péter Eötvös, to whom she was married. An IRCAM documentary film
by Walter Schels shows Boulez assisting Pi-hsien Chen as she
prepares for the world premiere of his Douze Notations.
In "Black and White", a documentary film about Elliott Carter,
Pi-hsien Chen is the pianist in his Double Concerto for
Harpsichord & Piano and Two Chamber Orchestras.
She was a
professor specializing in contemporary piano music at the
Universities of Music in Cologne and Freiburg. She has taught
and performed at the "International Summer Courses” in
Darmstadt, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and the Chinese
Foundation for Performing Arts Summer Music Festival in Boston.
The documentary film "Himmel voller Geigen" (shown on the
German/French arts channel ARTE in 2014) examines Pi-hsien
Chen’s role as a pioneer in Taiwan's musical life.
Her
recordings include:
J.S.Bach |
Goldberg Variations (Naxos), Six Partitas |
(JazzWerkstatt) |
|
"The
Art of the Fugue" |
(Feldgen) |
Jean
Barraqué |
Sonata |
(Telos) |
John
Patrick Thomas |
"Lost
Landscapes" |
(Emrick
Music) |
W.A.
Mozart |
Complete Sonatas and other Variations and Piano Pieces
|
(6 CDs
for Sunrise) |
A.
Schoenberg |
Complete Piano Music |
(Hat[now]Art) |
O.
Messiaen |
"Harawi"
with Sigune von Osten, soprano |
(JazzWerkstatt) |
Pierre
Boulez |
Complete Sonatas and Notations |
(Hat[now]Art) |
Pierre
Boulez
John Cage |
Structures I & II and
"Music For Piano" with Ian Pace |
(Hat[now]Art) |
John
Cage
Domenico Scarlatti |
"Music
of Changes" and
Nine Sonatas of Scarlatti |
(Hat[now]Art) |
Stockhausen
Beethoven |
Klavierstücke I-Vl and
Sonatas Op. 101 and Op. 111 |
(Hat[now]Art) |
Xiaoyong Chen |
"Invisible Landscapes" |
(Radio
Bremen) |
York
Hoeller |
Piano
Works |
(EDA) |
Lei
Liang |
"Tremors of a Memory Chord" |
(Naxos) |
A
newly released box set with live recordings of five
recitals in Cologne’s Kolumba Museum (February-July 2017) |
(Telos) |
Reviews:
"Chen
creates a masterful "Art of the Fugue". (Richard Buell, Boston
Globe)
"...Ms
Chen's recording of Jean Barraqué's Sonata is remarkable. She
takes a sparkling, crystalline view of the music in a way that
brings it near the music of Barraqué's principal French
contemporary, Pierre Boulez...." (Paul Griffiths, The New York
Times)
"...Pi-hsien
Chen's opening to Beethoven's Bagatelles announced that the
audience would be treated to musical universes that were clear
and clean, contained and carefully considered and phrased…. In
the carefully curated and bigger-scope-than-normal Scarlatti
sonatas, Chen wielded a rich palette while expressing an
enlightening variety of characters, lines, and moods within each
sonata (which makes me think her Mozart might be special)...."
www.classical-scene.com,
2004
"...Pi-hsien
Chen interleaves the four books of the Music of Changes
with nine Scarlatti keyboard sonatas.... The juxtaposition works
wonderfully with the irregular multilayered sound masses of
Cage's pieces. What links them here, though, is the sense of
buoyancy and alertness that
characterises
all of
Chen's playing... " (Andrew
Clements,
The Guardian, U.K.)
“Pi-hsien
Chen's playing was strikingly colorful and exciting, and the duo
with Nicholas Kitchen played Mozart's Sonata with real Mozartian
elegance....”
www.classical-scene.com
2016
“...
Beethoven’s late works, with their startling degree of
subjectivity, form a fascinating contrast to Stockhausen’s
impersonal, coolly constructed world. One reason this functions
without problem is because Pi-hsien Chen possesses a remarkable
ability to inhabit both of these worlds. Unexpected contrasts
take place; above all, the transition from Op. 101 to
Klavierstück V is sensational. Everything fits, even better than
in Pollini’s version….” (Max Nyffeler, NMZ, Schott Phono)
Jean Chu-Chun Huang*
黃竹君
,
violin
*Festival Teaching Assistant
Huang is passionate about teaching. Since 2006, she has served
as a teaching assistant at the Walnut Hill Summer Music Festival
held by the Chinese Performing Arts Foundation. She has also had
the privilege to work as James Buswell’s teaching assistant at
NEC, where she works with undergraduate violinists. Huang also
teaches private violin lessons on a regular basis, with students
ranging from seven years old to adults. Wishing to share her
broad depth of scholarly knowledge, she also works as a teaching
assistant in the music history and music theory departments at
NEC. Starting from September 2017, she serves as the newest
faculty at the New England Conservatory Continuing Education
division, where she teaches violin lessons and coach chamber
music ensembles.
Sam Ou
歐維聖
, cello
Praised
for his "impassioned performance" (Boston Globe) and playing "with
remarkable ease and clarity, while maintaining a graceful—if
vociferous—line that fit well into the narrative" (The Boston Musical
Intelligencer), cellist Sam Ou enjoys an active musical life in the
Greater Boston area. A recipient of the Rosemary Scales Prize for best
cello concerto performance at the Kingsville International Young
Performers Competition, Mr. Ou has performed at several prestigious
summer venues including Tanglewood, Sarasota, Musicorda, Santa Fe, and
La Jolla music festivals. In 2012, he gave the world premiere
performance of Larry Bell’s Cello Concerto entitled The Triumph of
Lightness with the Boston Civic Symphony at New England Conservatory’s
Jordan Hall (NEC). An avid chamber musician, Mr. Ou has collaborated and
performed with the Borromeo String Quartet, James Buswell, Hung-Kuan
Chen, Pi-Hsien Chen, James Dunham, Thomas Hill, Patricia McCarty, Paul
Neubauer, Heiichiro Ohyama, Lois Shapiro, and Marcus Thompson. He
performed Yehudi Wyner's Tanz and Maissele with violinist Lucy Chapman,
clarinetist Bruce Creditor, and the Pulitzer prize-winning composer at
the piano at The Center for Jewish History in New York.
Mr. Ou came to the United States from Taiwan at age 4, and began his
cello studies at age 9. He has been a pupil of several renowned cello
teachers, including Gretchen Geber, Eleanore Schoenfeld, and Aldo
Parisot. After completing his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Music
degrees in New York from Columbia University and The Juilliard School in
their double degree program, Mr. Ou moved to Boston to study with
Laurence Lesser at NEC, where he graduated with a Doctorate of Musical
Arts. His dissertation was entitled "In Felix's Footsteps: An
Examination of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel's Approach to Her Chamber
Music."
While a student at NEC, Mr. Ou founded the NEC String Trio, which won
the NEC Honors Ensemble Competition, was featured on Boston’s WGBH radio
station, and was the resident chamber ensemble at the Musicorda Music
Festival. As a former member of the Huntington Piano Trio, he performed
extensively throughout New England and traveled to Poland, giving
concerts in Poznan and Zakopane. He has studied with several inspiring
chamber music coaches including Toby Appel, Emanuel Ax, Neil Black,
James Buswell, Earl Carlyss, Lucy Chapman, Norman Fischer, Felix Galimir,
Christoph Henkel, Lewis Kaplan, and Emma Tahmisian.
In addition to being a prize recipient at the Kingsville International
Young Performers Competition, Mr. Ou has also been awarded the Rome
Festival Concerto Soloist Award, the Chi-Mei Music Scholarship from
Taiwan, the ARTS Level II Award from the National Foundation for the
Advancement in the Arts, and the Joseph Schuster Memorial Cello
Scholarship from the Young Musicians' Foundation.
Mr. Ou has been a visiting lecturer, performer, and cello teacher at
Fu-Jen University in Taiwan, where he conducted solo and chamber music
masterclasses and performed with Fu-Jen faculty musicians. As a
participant of Fu-Jen’s 18th Century Piano Literature Symposium and the
International Strings Literature Symposium, he presented papers on the
chamber music of Beethoven and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. Mr. Ou has also
coached undergraduate chamber ensembles and orchestral cello sectionals
at Tufts University. Most recently, he was invited to México City to
conduct masterclasses and give a solo recital at the National University
of México's School of Music as part of the School's "5th National Cello
Encounter" Conference.
A faculty member and assistant string chairperson at NEC’s Preparatory
School and School of Continuing Education, Mr. Ou also teaches at Powers
Music School and maintains a private teaching studio. In the summer, he
has taught at Music on the Hill in Belmont, MA, the Vianden
International Music Festival in Luxembourg, the Walnut Hill Music
Festival in Natick, MA, and Point Counterpoint in Leicester, VT. Mr. Ou
released a CD entitled With String & Pipe, in which he collaborated with
the late organist Harry Lyn Huff. He was also featured in Larry Bell’s
CDs entitled In a Garden of Dreamers, where he collaborated with
recorder player Aldo Abreu and harpsichordist Paul Cienniwa.
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