The 22nd Annual Music
Festival at Walnut Hill
胡桃山音樂營
July 25
to August 17, 2013
Concerts
and Master Classes
Admission free.
Suggested Donation $5 at door
Friday, August 9, 2013, 3:00 PM
at Keiter
Center
Mr. Laurence Lesser, Cello Master Class
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Program |
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Edward Elgar Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
IV. Allegro — Moderato — Allegro, ma non troppo — Poco più lento
— Adagio
Amber Yi-Wen Ho, cello
Yinfei Wang, piano
Camille Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 33
I.
Allegro non troppo
Kyle Yee, cello
Yinfei Wang, piano
Johannes Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
I. Allegro
Jeff Kuan-Fu Chen, violin
Melody Cheng, viola
Amber Yi-Wen Ho, cello
Yinfei Wang, piano
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Steinway piano provided
by M. Steinert & Sons
Meet The Artists |
Laurence Lesser
President Emeritus; Walter W. Naumburg Chair in Music; Violoncello;
Chamber Music; Artistic Director, "First Monday at Jordan Hall"
 A member of the New
England Conservatory faculty since 1974, and president of the school
from 1983 through 1996 (following a year as artistic director), Laurence
Lesser teaches College and Preparatory cello students and brings unique
value to the chamber music experience at NEC and in Boston through his
artistic direction of the First Monday at Jordan Hall concert series
since 1985.
In
2010, Bridge records issued Lesser's recording with pianist HaeSun Paik
of Beethoven's complete music for cello and piano. The comprehensive
documentation embraced by this three-disc collection includes two audio
CDs as well as the DVD Behind the Beethoven Project with biographical
material, a discussion of this repertoire, and clips from concerts held
in Korea immediately following the recording sessions in NEC's Jordan
Hall.
Laurence Lesser was a top prize winner in the 1966 Tchaikovsky
Competition in Moscow and a guest performer in the historic
Heifetz-Piatigorsky concerts and recordings. In 1976 he gave the
premiere of Menotti’s Fantasia (written for him under a Ford Foundation
grant) with the New Japan Philharmonic under Seiji Ozawa; in 1991, he
performed the New England premiere with the NEC Symphony conducted by
Mstislav Rostropovich. He has been a soloist with the BSO, the London
Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and other major orchestras.
He has appeared at the Casals, Spoleto, Marlboro, Charleston, and Santa
Fe festivals as well as London’s South Bank Summer Music Festival.
 In 2005, Lesser was named a "Chevalier du Violoncelle" by the Eva Janzer
Memorial Cello Center at Indiana University, awarded for distinguished
achievements and contributions to the world of cello playing and
teaching.
Laurence Lesser occupies a teaching chair endowed by the estate of
Walter W. Naumburg.
A.B., cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Harvard College. Studies with Gregor
Piatigorsky at the University of Southern California. Fulbright Scholar
with Gaspar Cassadó in Köln, Germany. Recordings on Columbia, RCA,
Melodiya, Desto. Former faculty of Peabody Institute, University of
Southern California, Banff Centre for the Arts, Toho Gakuen School of
Music.
Photo by Andrew Hurlbut
2010-06-24 |
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Thank you
for your generous contribution to
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
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中華表演藝術基金會
Foundation for Chinese Performing Arts
Lincoln, Massachusetts
updated 2013 |
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