Joshua Bell with Sam Haywood

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Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano in A Minor, Op. 23 Ludwig van Beethoven Presto (1770-1827) Andante scherzoso, pìu allegretto Allegro molto

Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a SERGEI PROKOFIEV Moderato (1891-1953) Scherzo -Presto Andante Allegro con brio

— Intermission —

Violin Sonata No. 2 in G Major, Op. 13 EDVARD GRIEG Lento-Allegro vivace (1843-1907) Allegretto tranquillo Allegro animato

Additional works to be announced from the stage*Program is Subject to Change*

YAMAHA Grand piano generously provided by . . . . . Keyboard Connection Pianos & Organs

JOSHUA BELL, violinSAM HAYWOOD, piano

Joshua Bell records exclusively for Sony Classical – a MASTERWORKS Label

www.joshuabell.comMr. Bell appears by arrangement with

Park Avenue Artists and Primo Artists.www.parkavenueartists.com

www.primoartists.com

For more information on Sam Haywood, visit: www.samhaywood.com

2ABOUT THE AR TISTS

JOSHUA BELL

With a career spanning more than 30 years as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, conductor, and music education advocate, Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated violinists today. A Sony Classical artist, Bell has recorded more than 40 albums garnering Grammy, Mercury, Gramophone, and Echo Klassik awards. Named the Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in 2011, he is the only person to hold this post since Sir Neville Marriner formed the orchestra in 1958. 

Fall 2018 performances include the season-openings of the National Symphony Orchestra with Gianandrea Noseda and Cincinnati Symphony with Louis Langrée, performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic under Jaap van Zweden, Baltimore Symphony with Cristian Măcelaru, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, and Stockholm Philharmonic. A highlight is the live film concert with the New York Philharmonic of the Academy Award-winning film score for The Red Violin in commemoration of the film’s 20th anniversary.In Spring 2019, Bell tours worldwide with the Academy and his North American and European recital tours with pianist Sam Haywood. Another highlight will be a first-ever tour with friends pianist Jeremy Denk and cellist Steven Isserlis to 10 cities in North America, including New York. He also appears with the Czech Philharmonic under Christoph Eschenbach, Israel Philharmonic under Gianandrea Noseda, Camerata Salzburg with Andrew Manze, Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck, the Munich Philharmonic, Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Seattle Symphony – including The Man with the Violin children’s film concert – and a play/conduct with the Houston Symphony.Bell’s recording with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields of Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy and G Minor Concerto was released in June 2018. Previous CDs include an album featuring Nicholas Maw’s Violin Concerto, for which Bell received a Grammy® award.Convinced of the value of music as a diplomatic and educational tool, Bell participated in President Obama’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities’ first cultural mission to Cuba. He is also involved in Turnaround Arts, another project implemented by the Committee and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which provides arts education to low-performing elementary and middle schools. Bell performs on the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin.

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SAM HAYWOOD

Sam Haywood has performed to critical acclaim in many of the world’s major concert halls. The Washington Post hailed his ‘dazzling, evocative playing’ and ‘lyrical sensitivity’ and the New York Times his ‘passionate flair and sparkling clarity’. He embraces a wide spectrum of the piano repertoire and is equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician or with accompanying Lieder. He has had a regular duo partnership with Joshua Bell since 2010 and often performs with cellist Steven Isserlis.

He has recorded two solo albums for Hyperion, one featuring the piano music of Julius Isserlis (grandfather of Steven Isserlis) and the other Charles Villiers Stanford’s preludes. His enthusiasm for period instruments led to a recording on Chopin’s own Pleyel piano.In 2013 Haywood co-founded Solent Music Festival in UK. The annual Lymington-based festival features highly varied programmes by internationally-renowned artists with projects in the local community. Artists have included the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Alina Ibragimova, Mark Padmore and the Endellion Quartet.He was mentored by David Hartigan, Paul Badura-Skoda and Maria Curcio. Following his early success in the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition, the Royal Philharmonic Society awarded him the Julius Isserlis Scholarship. He studied both at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, of which he is an Associate (ARAM).Haywood has written a children’s opera and is regularly involved in family concerts, workshops and master classes. He is on the roster of Musical Orbit, the online teaching website and his invention ‘memorystars®’ can significantly reduce the time needed to memorise a music score.His other passions include literature, physics, natural history, technology, magic, fountain pens and table tennis.

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)Sonata No. 4 for Violin and Piano in A minor, Op.23“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.”

— Ludwig van BeethovenThe genius of Beethoven’s compositions is said to have possessed an “inexplicable ability to know what the next note had to be” according to composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Beethoven, the complex individual and composer, allowed his romantic and gentle nature as well as his angry and darker qualities to be reflected in his music. His happiness inspired by his walks in the forest or time spent gazing at the stars reveals a much different composer than the one who is known for his tumultuous temper tantrums and tortured love affairs. The Sonata in A minor, Op. 23 was composed between 1800 and 1801. It is dedicated to one of his generous patrons Count Moritz von Fries, a nobleman and banker. Opus 23 and Opus 24 his Spring Sonata were originally to be paired as Opus 23, Numbers 1 and 2. An engraver’s mistake made it impossible to bind the two together as the Sonata No. 5 in F major was printed using an oblong format rather than the tall format for Sonata No. 4. Thus it was less expensive to assign them separate opus numbers rather than re-engraving.By the age of 32 Beethoven had composed ten violin sonatas. Although he was renowned in Vienna as a pianist, he was also well acquainted with the violin. As a youth he studied in Bonn and later continued his violin studies in Vienna with Ignacio Schuppanzigh. During Beethoven’s lifetime violins were undergoing con-structional changes. Their range and the volume of tone were increasing due to the longer neck, fingerboard and strings; higher bridge; greater tension on the strings. Steadily Beethoven made growing technical demands on the violin and the piano. In the original eighteenth-century scores the music for the “violin sonatas” identify them as being “for the fortepiano and a violin.” Beethoven’s creative genius creat-ed a more equal partnership between the two instruments. In the ten sonatas he explores combining two voices of unequal sound mass into a dramatic partnership and coherent unity, “A colloquy of reciprocal enrichment” according to music critic and author Louis Biancolli. Violinist and former chair of Eastman School of Music’s string department and professor of chamber music Abram Loft assessed the A mi-nor sonata: “In no other Beethoven sonata will the duo find a greater challenge to its sense of drama, of timing, of musical repartee...It is one of the most exciting pieces that amateur or professionals can play.”

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Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)Violin Sonata No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94a

“I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.”

— Sergei Prokofiev

Called “the Pride of Soviet Music,” Sergei Prokofiev was born on April 27, 1891 in Sontsovka, in the Ukraine. His musical talent was apparent by age six and he entered the St. Petersburg Conservatory at age 13. His public debut as a composer and pianist was on New Year’s Eve 1908 and already he was known for an avant-garde, astringent style which some described as “shocking.” Words describing the young composer ranged from stubborn to obstinate, intelligent, and genius. Perhaps best known for his work Peter and the Wolf, a musical story where the characters are portrayed by different orchestral instruments, Prokofiev also composed 7 symphonies, 5 piano concertos, 2 violin concertos, 3 operas, and 8 ballets as well as some film scores. Fleeing the Russian Revolution Prokofiev emigrated to the United States in 1917. Known for his sensational piano skills, he was also commissioned by the Chicago Opera. His The Love for Three Oranges composed in 1919 is based on a play taken from Giambattista Basile’s fairy tale achieved international success. In 1922 the composer moved to Paris and in 1936 lured by numerous Russian commissions, he returned to Russia. This proved to be a most inopportune time for Prokofiev as the Soviet authorities were beginning to interfere in artistic matters.In 1942 while working on the film score for Ivan the Terrible, Prokofiev sketched out a sonata for flute and piano inspired by memories the famous French flutist Georges Barrére. Completed in Moscow, the sonata drew unfavorable reviews. In Perm in the Ural Mountains at a remote WWII shelter for Soviet artists, Violinist David Oistrakh suggested that it be arranged for violin and piano. With Oistrakh’s assistance Prokofiev created the 2nd Violin Sonata, Op 94a.According to author Simon Morrison Prokofiev invited Oistrakh and his accom-panist, Lev Oborin to the dacha, a country cottage, so that they could acquaint themselves with the composer’s rough draft. Prokofiev described the character and structure of each of the four movements and proceeded to play them -with-out pause- at the piano. “His technique had slipped but the effect produced by the hesitant, nervous performance was profound.” Oistrakh and Oborin premiered the Violin Sonata at the Moscow Conservatory on October 23, 1946. Prokofiev was in the audience on October 25th along with members of the Stalin Prize Commit-tee. Praise was high. Gavrill Popov said: “I don’t like prescribing overdoses but the sonata is truly brilliant!” The composer himself was not as pleased. He described Oistrakh and Oborin’s performance as dispassionate. He said the second and fourth movements sounded as if “2 old professors” were performing. Prokofiev was so

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greatly troubled that he invited the two for a coaching session on November 18 at the Moscow apartment and he revised the score by adding more accents and dynamic markings to prevent others from standardizing their performance. He considered rewriting the second movement and the work on this Violin Sonata took a physical toll on the composer. In the fall of 1946 a spike in Prokofiev’s blood pres-sure prevented him from traveling and delayed the world premiere of his opera the Duenna. The Op.94a score would not be published until 1951. Sadly, in two years on March 5, 1953 Prokofiev died of a brain hemorrhage. Oistrakh performed the first and third movements of the Violin Sonata in D at the composer’s funeral.

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)Violin Sonata No. 2 in G major, Op. 13

“I am sure my music has a taste of codfish in it.” — Edvard GriegAs quoted in Grieg’s Diaries, Articles, and Speeches Edvard Grieg was called “the most national among the national composers, the true Messiah of Norwegian mu-sic.” His music is rooted in the soil of his native land, linking it to the landscapes of Norway and his Norwegian way of life. His Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 13 is the middle of his three violin sonatas. It is here that Grieg’s strong influence of Norwe-gian folk music is most clear. The Danish composer Neils W. Gade told Grieg “not to make the next Sonata as Norwegian.” Grieg’s response was: “On the contrary, Professor, the next one will be even more so.” He desired these three sonatas to be performed as much as possible and the composer frequently performed the piano part himself. He wrote in a letter to the Norwegian poet Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in January 1900: “Last week I had the pleasure of performing my three violin sonatas with Lady Neruda-Hallé before a discerning Danish audience and receiving a very warm response. I can assure you that we did very well and it had special significance for me, because these three works are among my very best and represent different states in my development: the first, naïve and rich in ideals; the second, nationalis-tic; and the third with a wider outlook.”The Sonata No. 2 in G major was composed during his honeymoon in Kristian-ia (Oslo) during the summer of 1867. Grieg married his cousin Nina Hagerup, a talented soprano, after a three year engagement. Her parents strongly disapproved of the relationship with her mother saying: “He is nothing and he has nothing and he writes music that nobody wants to hear.” But it was the incorporation of his Norwegian folk music set in a classical guise that made his compositions acceptable in the concert hall. He became more than “just a national composer” according to Professor Harald Herresthal at the Norwegian State Academy of Music in Oslo. “Edvard Grieg’s goal was to create a national form of music which could give the Norwegian people an identity, and in this respect he was an inspiration to other composers. But the greatness of his works lies not just in this, but in the fact that he

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also succeeded in expressing his thoughts and emotions which could be recognized everywhere, music which people could identify with. Grieg’s music transcended national boundaries.”Aimer Gronvold, Grieg’s biographer, describes a summer day in the 1880’s where he watched the barely five foot tall composer walk along the fjord at Lofthus making his way to a small wooden cabin. This small one room sanctuary containing only a piano and a writing desk provided the peace, inspiration, and tranquility required by Grieg. The upright piano, an anniversary gift from Nina, was of normal size. However, to properly reach the keys the diminutive composer placed a copy of Bee-thoven’s 32 sonatas in his chair. Biographer Gronvold described the “hut” as being in the midst of “the exquisite beauty of Ullensvang with the deep, dark fjord below and the glittering ridge of the Folgefonna glacier on the other side of the water...In the heart of this matchless amphitheater of nature, surrounded by the most sublime and majestic scenery in Norway [Grieg] sat, like an Orpheus reborn, and played in his mountain fastness among the wild animals and the rocks. His music came from the depths of rural Norway where the quick and resonant tones of the Hardanger fiddle met his ear, and the Hardanger fjord’s shifting moods enchanted the eye.” — Emma Mills Bledsoe, 2019

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CHAMBER MUSIC: A PRIMER

Chamber music, which originated in Europe in the 16th century, involves a group of 10 or fewer musicians performing as an ensemble, usually in a small indoor setting (the chamber of a nobleman in old parlance) or even outdoors. The ensemble typically consists of strings and can include some combination of woodwinds and piano or the instrument’s predecessor, the harpsichord.

The Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival presents traditional classical chamber music performed by internationally recognized musicians. Our programs typically include works by such giants as Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Schubert, and the musical styles vary from Baroque to Romantic. However, chamber music continues to be composed today, and we present Modern and even Post-Modern genres.

At the time of its inception, chamber music often was performed by amateurs, who played together in what might be called jam sessions! Remember, what we consider today as classical was the popular music at that time. And history repeats itself as amateurs today jam in small groups to rock, jazz, country or folk.

You will hear traditional classical chamber music at the Festival, but you will also experience classically-trained artists performing modern variations on classical themes and exciting renditions of contemporary music, as well as artists from other genres such as jazz, bluegrass, country, western and folk music. We hope you also will find these eclectic additions to our traditional chamber music repertoire appealing and entertaining.

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Corporate SponsorsAmelia Island Tourist Development

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of Dr. Robert Joyce

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Newdome Fellowship Artists ConcertMartha Yohe

VOLUNTEERS

Barbara Alleva GantJoan AverettMike and Kathy BaxterBill and Susie BirdsongEmma BledsoePam and Steve BoazAndy BogartJon and Marilyn BosworthSam and Barbara BoydSue BraddockCharlene and Mitch BrattonElizabeth CantwellPeter CarterJean ConnerLinda CooleyKen and Carol CopithorneStan CottleKathleen DevlinJim Ekstrom and Rosalind CowieBobbie FostMark and Susan Foutz Jacqui GalbreathAlaina GiltzPam Green Glenda Guthrie Anne Taylor HensleyPam HeltonDot HoukPeter and Ruth IgoeLinda Janca Marsha JoynerRuss and Judy KahoeMark and Donna Paz KaufmanStan and Claudia KavanJoy Kemp Nick and Lis KrawieckiRob and Amy LaidlawRobert and Karen Lavine

Allen and Sharon LennonChris London Donna LottKaren LotzSylvia MadiolKyril and Susan MaggPeter and Jackie MartinJudy MarzilliGail McCamyDon and Sally McCarronJeannine McKeownBruce and Jackie ModahlEileen Shannon IraBruce and Deb Billings-MorrisonRuthellen MuhlbergPat MurrayEllen MyersJeanette NicholsJudy OgdenDavid OlsonRalph and Anne OmanMarilyn PerkinsNancy PhilipsStewart PikulaDorothy RobbBob and Janet RossEric and Gail SakuraiIrene SanchezTapha SearsFrances Shea.Susan SinorEd StanleyKay StephensKaren SuttonRosemary SyczygielBryan and Karen TablerSusanna TheoLou and Joyce Tonti

Jerry and Mary Lynn TorchiaSteven TraverTom and Lynn UnkenholzBetty WaasLisa Webber

HOUSING PAR TNERSWe thank the many organizations and individuals for their hospitality in housing

the Festival’s guest artists.Jim and Jane FlynnLouis and Susan Goldman Pat and Hugh HaydenAnne Taylor Hensley Bill Hensley Peter and Leslie HowellJack and Beverly Keigwin Steve and Jackie KennardKate LigarePaul and Christine MeehanBob and Jane QuinbySusan WalshChristopher Rex and Dr. Martha Wilkins

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Jack and Karen WeberJoyce WellsNorman and Marilyn WesleyCatherine West Tom and Vicki Whittemore

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SPECIAL THANKSDickie Anderson, The PorchKtimene Axetell, Young Patrons groupDeb Billings-Morrison, ticket sales

managementEmma Mills Bledsoe, Strings Program

piano teacherCaroline Blochlinger, website developerBob Bolan, governance consultantMike Brooks, marketingDick Cinquina, marketing and publicityClub 14 Fitness, 3-month membership

C-Note prizeConcours d’Elegance, car show tickets

C-Note prizeFoy Maloy, Fernandina Beach News LeaderLea Gallardo, photographyGallo WineryRussell Glasheen, Trips in the VilllagePam Green, FacebookAnne Taylor Hensley, low country boil

C-Note prizeWill Howery, luthier servicesStewart and Eileen Shannon Ira,

sunset cruise C-Note prizeBill Ivins, graphic design

Phil Kelly, Amelia Islander MagazineSteve Leimberg, photographyKurt Marasco, IT consultantJack Melvin, Keyboard ConnectionOmni Amelia Island PlantationOmni Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, GAOmni Bedford Springs Resort, Bedford, PAPenny Reid, Mouth of AmeliaLynne Radcliffe, master class supportChristopher Rex, original painting

C-Note prizeJeff Ringhoffer, graphic designRitz-Carlton Amelia IslandSue Sinor, grant writerSummer House Realty, James and

Jenny Schaffer, ownersLauren Templeton, Young Patrons group

and InstagramShelby Trevor, Strings Program

violin teacherUPS Store, Fernandina BeachThe Violin Shop, instrument

appraisal servicesCatherine West, grant writer

CONCER T SPONSORSThe support from the organizations and individuals listed below has made this concert possible. The Board of Directors and all of us at the Festival are most

appreciative and very thankful for their commitment to bringing musical excellence to Amelia Island and its environs.

Henry Berghoef and Leslie Lauer Berghoef Sue Braddock, in memory of Steve Braddock

Bill Hensley and Anne Taylor Hensley

StaffGeneral & Artistic Director - Christopher RexExecutive Director - Dr. Joseph A. Marasco, Jr.

Office Manager - Donna Hinton

About the AICMFCelebrating its eighteenth anniversary season, The Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival

is nationally recognized as one of the foremost music events of its kind. The Festival is a not-for-profit, tax-exempt organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

BOARD OF DIRECTORSSue Braddock, President

Anne Taylor Hensley, Vice President Allen Lennon, SecretaryEric Sakurai, Treasurer

Emma Mills Bledsoe Barbara Alleva Gant

Marsha JoynerJ. Peter Martin

Tom Pippin

Christopher Rex Irene Sanchez Lisa Webber

Vicki Whittemore

All venues for Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival concerts are handicap accessible.

MISSION STATEMENT

The Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival’s threefold mission is to:1. Present the world’s greatest musical artists in chamber music concerts of

classical and alternative genres for diverse audiences;2. Offer music education to concert attendees, students, and aspiring young

musicians; and3. Promote local businesses and tourism by attracting music lovers from

Nassau County, Northeast Florida, and beyond.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

February 24 Dover Quartet 3 p.m. - Historic Nassau County Courthouse, 416 Centre St., FB ($60)

March 3 Balsam Range Bluegrass Band 5 p.m. - Omni Amelia Island Plantation ($60)

March 22 Emanuel Ax 7:30 p.m. - Amelia Plantation Chapel, 36 Bowman Road, AI ($85)

March 31 Christiania Piano Quartet 5 p.m. - Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, 2600 Atlantic Ave., FB ($50)

April 6 Dover Quartet 5 p.m. - Amelia Baptist Church, 961167 Buccaneer Trail, FB ($60)

April 26 Season Finale Celebration: Anne Akiko Meyers with Jason Vieaux 7:30 p.m. - Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island, 4750 Amelia Island Pkwy, FB, ($65) (Includes a Dessert Buffet)

FREE CONCERTSFebruary 23 Dover Quartet Master Class 2 p.m. - Amelia Baptist Church, 961167 Buccaneer Trail, FB (Free and open to the public)

March 11 Philip Pan and his Viper Violin 3 p.m. - Robert’s Learning and Achievement Center, Boys & Girls Club, 1175 Lime Street, FB (Free Family Concert)

Tickets: aicmf.com or call 904-261-1779

Young Patrons: The Young Patrons are a group of young adults with a love of music and a desire to mingle with other like-minded young adults.

The program had a successful debut with a special pre-party before last week’s Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis concert.

The next event: The Dover Quartet, at the Courthouse, followed by a reception at Art on Centre, is set for February 24.

www.aicmf.com for info & tickets.