Fullerton Friends Of Music 2003/2004 Concerts

45th Year

CONCERT SERIES

2003 - 2004

NEW HOLLYWOOD STRING QUARTET & FRIENDS

October 12, 2003

New Hollywood String Quartet Members; Violinists Clayton Haslop & Rafael Rishik, Violist David Walther and Cellist, Paul Cohen

The New Hollywood String Quartet, Clayton Haslop and Rafael Rishik, Violins, David Walther, Viola, and Paul Cohen, Cello, will be joined by three other virtuosos. The Los Angeles Times has called Pianist, Robert Thies, a performer of "unerring, warm-toned refinement, revealing judicious glimmers of power. The Times lauded Gary Gary for his "stylish eloquence and technical dazzle." Richard Todd, a French Horn virtuoso who grew up in Fullerton, is renowned for performances that are "simply startling in their dexterity."

"On the quartet's debut performance: "It was an auspicious and happy occasion... The four players produce music both beautiful and immaculate, technically impeccable and artistically well considered."

Los Angeles Times

Pianist Robert Thies will perform in the Dohnanyi C Major Sextet

Richard Todd, whose appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Long Beach Symphony Orchestras, will perform on French Horn in the Dohnanyi C Major Sextet

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Principal Clarinetist, Gary Gray, returns to Fullerton Friends of Music and will be featured in the Opus 115 Brahms Clarinet Quintet.

MENDELSSOHN	Selections From 4 Pieces For String Quartet, Op. 81
BRAHMS	Clarinet Quintet In B Minor, Op. 115
DOHNANYI	String Sextet In C Major

JACQUES THIBAUD TRIO

October 26, 2003

We welcome back this trio of young men from Berlin who have been winning acclaim here and abroad. Burkhard Maiss, violinist, Philip Douvier, violist, and Uwe Hirth-Schmidt, cellist, have been hailed for their youthful exuberance and astounding virtuosity. The program will include Jean Francaix's Sting Trio. The Los Angeles Times described the piece as "utterly charming, engaging and lighthearted.... (it) reiterates the irrepressibility and urbanity of the era of its composition."

"This ensemble has already turned quit a few heads ... they do something that is essentially unheard of in the world of chamber music; they play from memory, without a score or music stand in sight."

New Yorker Magazine

FFM welcomes back Jacques Thibaud Trio members, Philip Douvier, Burkhard Maiss and Uwe Hirth-Schmidt as they perform String Trios by Beethoven and Jean Francaix on October 26, 2003

BEETHOVEN	String Trio No. 1 In E Flat, Op. 3
MOZART/BACH	Two Adagios And Fugues
SCHUBERT	Movement, D. 471
FRANCAIX	Trio

GALANTERIE

January 4, 2003

Galanterie specializes in the wonderfully rich and seldom heard 18th Century repertoire for Lute and Strings. The group performs music by students of the great Silvius Leopold Weiss and showcases the Viennese masters Franz Joseph Haydn and Karl Kohaut. This unique, beautiful, and sometimes quirky literature has one foot in the Baroque Period and the other in the Classical Period. Led by lutenist/guitarist John Schneiderman, the ensemble features one of North America's foremost Baroque violinist, Elizabeth Blumenstock, and Baroque cellist, William Skeen, a rising young star in the early music scene.

"The lute playing is outstanding. Mr. Schneiderman gives these sonatas virtuosic treatment. It's hard to imagine how it could be better."

American Records Guide's review of the Falckenhagen Sonatas.

KOHAUT	Trio In B Flat Major
HAYDN	Cassation In C Major
FALCKENHAGEN	Concerto No. 5 In G Minor, Op. 4
KROPFFGANSS	Concerto In C Minor

DAEDALUS STRING QUARTET

February 8, 2004

The Daedalus String Quartet launched its meteoric flight in the summer of 2000 at the Marlboro Music Festival. They concluded their inaugural year by winning the Grand Prize at the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition and sweeping all the special awards. Brother and sister Kyu-Young Kim and Min-Young Kim alternate playing first violin. Cellist Raman Ramadishnan from Long Island and violist Jessica Thompson, a Minneapolis native, complete the foursome.

"(The Beethoven Quartet was) brought freshly and profoundly to life... its marvels caught us unaware and touched us to the quick yet again. The entrancement was complete... For me the measure of this concert was how often and how deeply it moved me by the magnificence of the music and by the powerful perceptions brought to it by the Daedalus Quartet."

Globe and Mail, Toronto

Daedalus String Quartet Violinists, Kyu-Young and Min-Young Kim, Violist, Jessica Thompson and Cellist, Raman Ramakrishnan perform the Opus 20 No. 2 Quartet of Haydn and the Opus 135 Quartet of Beethoven on February 8, 2004

PURCELL	Fantasias
HAYDN	String Quartet No. 32 In C Major, Op. 20, No. 2
KURTAG	Officum Breve In Memoriam Andrae Szervansky, Op. 28
BEETHOVEN	String Quartet No. 16 In F Major, Op. 135

JAKUB OMSKY & KEVIN KENNER

March 7, 2004

Cellist Jackub Omsky performs at the March 7th Fullerton Friends Of Music concert featuring works by Beethoven and Chopin.

1990 Chopin International Competiton Winner Kevin Kenner is featured in works by Schumann, Beethoven and Chopin at out March 7th concert.

Cellist Jakub Omsky teams with pianist Kevin Kenner to bring us our season finale. Both performers are notably associated with Chopin. Mr. Kenner won the top prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in 1990. Mr. Omsky, born in Warsaw, Poland, was the youngest student in the history of the Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy. Both gentlemen have been featured soloists with world-class orchestras.

"Kevin Kenner is a major talent. His recital revealed an artist whose intellect, imagination and pianism speak powerfully and eloquently."

Washington Post

"(Omsky is an) extraordinarily talented and dedicated musician."

Yo Yo Ma

SCHUMANN	Three Fantasie Stucke, Op. 30
BEETHOVEN	Sonata No. 3 For Cello and Piano In A Major, Op. 69
CHOPIN	Sonata For Cello And Piano In G Minor, Op. 65
CHOPIN	Introduction And Polonaise In C Major, Op. 3

ALL CONCERTS START AT 3:30 P.M.

Last Revised: January 2, 2004