CONCERTS

Sunday, September 27th, 2020

Special Garden Concert

Join us for a glorious musical event outdoors under the maple trees. We will observe Covid-19 regulations, spatially distanced seating, and masks for a limited audience. Wander in the Garden during Intermission, and there will be our usual Champagne reception after the concert.

PROGRAM

Charles Ives | Largo
Johannes Brahms | Sonata in E-Flat Major, Op.120 No.2
Franz Liszt | Legend No. 2 “Saint Francis of Paola walking on the waves”
William Grant Still | Suite
Béla Bartók | Contrasts

Artists

William Hudgins, clarinet
Lucia Lin, violin
Vivian Choi, piano

William R. Hudgins, clarinet (Boston Symphony Orchestra Principal Clarinet)

William R. Hudgins was appointed principal clarinetist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra by Seiji Ozawa in 1994, occupying the Ann S.M. Banks chair, having joined the orchestra two years earlier. He has been heard as a soloist with the BSO on numerous occasions, including performances of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, Copland's Clarinet Concerto, Bruch's Double Concerto for Clarinet and Viola, Frank Martin's Concerto for Seven Winds, Timpani, Percussion, and String Orchestra, and, for the opening of the BSO's 2014-15 season, Mozart's Sinfonia concertante in E-flat, K.297b.

As a member of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, he can be heard on their BSO Classics CDs of Brahms and Dvořák serenades (the ensemble's most recent release); the Grammy-nominated "Profanes et Sacrées: 20th-Century French Chamber Music"; "Plain Song, Fantastic Dances" (in music of Gandolfi, Foss, and Golijov), and the Grammy-nominated "Mozart Chamber Music for Strings and Winds" (in Mozart's Quintet for Clarinet and Strings, K.581), as well as a Grammy-nominated Arabesque recording of Hindemith's Quartet for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano. Recent appearances outside of the Boston Symphony Orchestra include orchestral performances and recordings with the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Matsumoto, Japan, and the Mito Chamber Orchestra in Mito, Japan, both under the direction of Seiji Ozawa; chamber music at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, and recitals and master classes at various universities and around the United States.

Before joining the BSO, Mr. Hudgins served as principal clarinetist and soloist with the Orquesta Sinfonica Municipal in Caracas, Venezuela, and the Charleston Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina. He was heard for six seasons as a member of both the Spoleto Festival Orchestra in Charleston, South Carolina, and Il Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. He also participated as a Fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center, where he won the C.D. Jackson Award for outstanding performance. Mr. Hudgins received his bachelor's degree from the Boston University School for the Arts, studying with former BSO principal clarinetist Harold Wright.

Lucia Lin, violin (Boston Symphony Orchestra First Violins)

Lucia Lin made her debut performing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of 11. Since then, she has been a prizewinner of numerous competitions, including the 1990 International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. She has performed in solo recitals throughout the U.S., making her New York debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in March 1991, and has appeared with the Boston Pops Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria. A frequent collaborator in chamber music, Ms. Lin is a member of the Muir String Quartet, the quartet in residence at Boston University. She is also a founding member of the Boston Trio and the chamber group Innuendo. She has performed in the Sapporo Music Festival, Taos Festival, Da Camera Society in Houston, St. Barts Music Festival, and Barbican Hall Chamber Series in London. She has also recorded for Nonesuch Records as a guest of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, New World Records on a disc featuring the works of Bright Sheng, and most recently on a recording featuring the works of Gabriela Lena Frank.

A native of Champaign, Illinois, Ms. Lin received her bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois and her master's degree at Rice University in Houston. Important musical influences include Sergiu Luca, Paul Rolland, Josef Gingold, Dorothy DeLay, and Louis Krasner. Ms. Lin joined the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1985 and served as assistant concertmaster from 1988 to 1991 and 1996 to 98. During the 1991-92 season, she was acting concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and during the 1994 to 1996 seasons, she served as joint concertmaster of the London Symphony Orchestra.

Vivian Choi, piano

Acclaimed by Fanfare as “an exemplar of the modern global pianist”, Vivian Choi has toured extensively throughout Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North America and Asia. The recipient of several prestigious honors, Ms. Choi has recently been nominated as a finalist for the 2020 APRA AMCOS Art Music Award’s Work of the Year for her world premiere performance of Kate Moore’s Piano Concerto ‘‘Beatrice”. She has also been awarded the Australian Guild of Music and Speech Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Australian Council of Arts Project Grant. For her contribution to the arts, she was awarded the title 2003 Achiever of the Year by the Australian-Korean Cultural Council, and honored with the Dame Joan Sutherland Award from the American Australian Association.

Vivian Choi made her concerto debut as the winner of the New South Wales Secondary Schools Concerto Competition in Australia, launching her career as a concerto soloist that has taken her around the globe. Highlights of Ms. Choi's recent concerto appearances include the world premiere of Kate Moore’s Piano Concerto Beatrice in Australia and the US premiere of Huang Ruo's Piano Concerto with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Her recital debut occurred at the Sydney Opera House, a performance that was broadcast nationally. In recent seasons she has appeared as a recitalist at the Glazunov Hall, Rimski-Korsakov Museum and Anna Akhmatova Museum in Russia; at the November Music Festival, Groningen Sounds of Music Festival and De Link Tilburg in the Netherlands; the Lido di Venezia Festival in Italy; and at the Bozeman Symphony Series, Stony Brook International Piano Festival, Monadnock Music Festival and Nantucket Music Festival in the US, as well as tours in New Zealand, The People's Republic of China, Slovenia and Croatia. An avid chamber musician, she has performed at the Rockport Chamber Music Festival and Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music Society in the US, the Muziekgebouw and the Korzo in the Netherlands. She is a resident pianist with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston and a member of Herz Ensemble Amsterdam.

Born in Seoul, Korea, Vivian Choi grew up in Sydney, Australia, where she received her earliest musical education. She continued her training at Russia’s Saint Petersburg State Conservatory, graduating summa cum laude, and holds graduate degrees from the New England Conservatory and Carnegie Mellon University.

Vivian Choi received her initial international recognition at the age of thirteen when she won, as the youngest contestant, Second Prize from the IX Concorso Pianistico Internazionale Città di Marsala. Since then she has won top prizes in international competitions in Italy, the Netherlands, Bulgaria and Russia, including the First Prize from the Marina Yudina International Piano Competition.

Vivian Choi's album with the Grammy Award-winning Boston Modern Orchestra Project on BMOP/Sound was released last month to critical acclaim. Her debut album comprising works of Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Godowsky was released on the Northern Flowers label in 2010 and has been frequently broadcast on WQXR, WWFM and WQED. She makes her home in New York City.

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OISEAUX

ARTISTS

Gary Gorczyca, clarinet
Robyn Bollinger, violin
Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello
Vivian Choi, piano

PROGRAM

Johannes Brahms: Sonata in E-flat Major, Op.120 No.2 for clarinet and piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G minor, Op.19 for cello and piano
Maurice Ravel: Sonata No.2 in G Major for violin and Piano
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