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SEASON SIX // FALL 2021 EDITION SEATTLE | OLYMPIA
Emerald City Music
The beacon for the casual classical music, with
performances occurring in Seattle and Olympia, WA.
Say hello, and find information at:
www.emeraldcitymusic.org
(206) 250-5510
WHAT’S NEW 06°
FALL EVENTS 07°
THE CONCERTS 08°
WHAT YOU ARE TO ME 09°
CASTALIAN QUARTET 10°
SEVEN PILLARS 14°
EMERALD TV 18°
TICKETS 20°
Exclusive Season 06 Letter from Artistic Director Kristin Lee 04°
INSIDES
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES 22°
After twenty months sharing chamber music on the digital platform, Emerald City Music returns home to our stages in Seattle and Olympia.
A brand-new season of concerts is now here, made more exciting by the fact that we now have a permanent home at our Seatle venue, 415 Westlake. This means more music, more conversations, and more chances to dive deep into this art form that we all love.
Welcome back, and welcome home.
-W E L C O M E B A C K ,W E L C O M E H O M E .-
DONATE 21°
OUR THANKS 28°
STAFF AND BOARD 30°
-A L E T T E R
F R O MK R I S T I N L E E
-Dear Friends of Emerald City Music,
I cannot express enough how delighted I am to be sharing with you
our Sixth Season at Emerald City Music. The last year and a half
of perseverance and patience brought us here today with much
excitement and anticipation for live performances. Thank you for
being there with us through these uncertain times and demonstrating
the power and beauty of community, especially through our favorite
art form: music.
Our Sixth Season, Welcome Back. Welcome Home, gets its title from
one of the most exciting news we have for you this year - we are
permanently moving into our Seattle venue, 415 Westlake! This
means that you will be greeted by our new Managing Director,
Andrew Jones, any day of the week for a cup of coffee, experience
even more of your favorite ECM concerts, and have opportunities to
meet fellow music-lovers and build on ECM community at our new
series we are calling, JAVA concerts. JAVA concerts will feature in-
person Wine Down Mondays - our signature Monday night series with
your favorite artists while having a drink in hand - and a new segment
we are calling Listen & Chat - a FREE “book club” style gathering to
discuss music with no judgement and no boundaries. EMERALDCITYMUSIC.ORG
On our mainstage concerts, we are excited to welcome back pianist
Gloria Chien, who was with us at our very first concert in Season 01,
cellist Dmitri Atapine and pianist Hyeyeon Park, who have generously
provided their beautiful music to us through our virtual season. We
are also thrilled to welcome back Sandbox Percussion with composer
Andy Akiho, who will be bringing a monumental work that will make
its world premiere on ECM stage.
Making their Emerald City Music debuts will be violinist Sean Lee,
composer Patrick Castillo, and The Castalian Quartet from the UK,
who is also making their Seattle debut on ECM’s stage.
Lastly, we are thrilled to be launching our own digital channel, Emerald
TV! As a subscriber, you will access previous Wine Down Mondays
and performances from this past season, as well as experience
concerts from this season at the comfort of your own home. With the
uncertainty of the pandemic, we felt it was important to provide the
opportunity for our audience to enjoy ECM’s performances digitally,
and we are excited to be sharing this with you.
From year one, Emerald City Music’s mission was to create a space
for music-lovers, no matter what age, what gender, what race, what
status you may be. We have been working tirelessly to change the
face of classical music to be more inclusive and open-minded. After
six years, we are passionate about this mission more than ever and
strongly believe that the impact has been, and will continue to be,
profound in our beloved Pacific Northwest.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for taking on this journey
with us to create a community where you can shed light, appreciate
beauty, and come together through music.
We can’t wait to see you at our home soon!
Fondly,
Kristin Lee
Artistic Director
OUR SEATTLE VENUE, 415 WESTLAKE, IS OUR NEW PERMANENT HOME
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September 30 (6:00 PM):
Welcome Back, Welcome Home Fundraiser
October 22 (8pm & 10pm): What You Are To Me (Page 8)
October 23 (5:30 & 7:30pm):
What You Are To Me (Page 8)
October 25 (7:00 PM): Wine Down Monday (Page 6)
November 1 (7:00 PM):
Listen & Chat with Jones (Page 6)
November 12 (8pm & 10pm): The Castalian Quartet (Page 10)
November 13 (5:30 & 7:30pm): The Castalian Quartet (Page 10)
November 22 (7:00 PM): Wine Down Monday, (Page 6)
December 3 (8pm & 10:30pm): Seven Pillars (Page 14)
December 4 (5pm & 7:30pm): Seven Pillars (Page 14)
December 6 (7:00 PM): Listen & Chat with Jones (Page 6)
December 20 (7:00 PM): Wine Down Monday (Page 6)
Join us on Monday evenings after a long day of work to un-wine with Emerald City Music! Whether it’s online or in-person, be with your fellow music lovers to have these conversational, music-filled Monday nights with a drink in hand and the chance to meet your favorite artists. FREE to join virtually!
FALL EVENTS
W I N E D O W N M O N D A Y S
COST: $70 PER IN-PERSON TICKETS / LIMITED CAPACITY ONLINE VIEWING REMAINS FREE AND OPEN TO ALL
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Join ECM’s Managing Director, Andrew Jones, every first Monday of the month to chat about Music of the Month. This “Book Club” style gathering provides a judgment-free space to listen and chat about various handpicked chamber music pieces. FREE to sign up!
L I S T E N & C H A T W I T H J O N E S
COST: FREE, IN-PERSON WITH RSVP / LIMITED CAPACITY
WHAT’S NEW
“It has been an unexpected reward of the pandemic to have chamber music come into our home. The informed friendly discussion and playing of music is a winning combination.” – ECM Audience Member
E M E R A L D T V
EMERALD CITY MUSIC LAUNCHES A NEW DIGITAL CHANNELSEE PAGE 18 FOR MORE INFORMATION.
-W H A T Y O U A R E T O M E-
Emerald City Music kicks off Season 06 with a
program titled What You Are To Me, featuring
Erich Korngold’s Suite for Two Violins, Cello,
and Left Hand Piano that was written for Paul
Wittgenstein - a virtuoso pianist who lost his
right arm during WWI. This work embodies the
perseverance of the arts, similar to what we’ve
dealt with this past year and coming back with
LIVE concerts. The program also features the
Seattle premiere of Patrick Castillo’s Winter Light,
co-commissioned by Emerald City Music.
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B. MARTINU: VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF ROSSINI, H.290 (1942)
P. CASTILLO: WINTER LIGHT, Seattle Commissioned Premiere (2020)
E. KORNGOLD: SUITE FOR TWO VIOLINS, CELLO, and LEFT HAND PIANO, OP. 23 (1930)
I. Präludium und Fuge: Kräftig und bestimmt
II. Walzer: Nicht schnell, anmutig
III. Groteske: Möglichst rasch
IV. Lied: Schlicht und innig. Nicht zu langsam
V. Rondo-Finale (Variationen): Schnell, heftig
37 minutes
THE ARTISTS:See page 22 for artist biographies.
Sean Lee, Kristin Lee (violins)
Dmitri Atapine (cello)
Gloria Chien, Hyeyeon Park (pianos)
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“Winter Light for two violins, cello, and piano, is prompted by Ingmar Bergman’s 1963 film of the same title. Like Bergman’s film, the new work explores themes of existential questioning and spiritual doubt in the face of a fraught sociopolitical climate. The instrumental medium of piano quartet, but with violin in place of viola, lends itself to melodic immediacy and lush textures as much as to sonic austerity; the substitution of a second violin for the conventional viola sacrifices the middle register for high and low frequencies, leaving a void at the center of the ensemble’s spectrum—a textural consideration salient to the work’s expressive intentions.In addition to these intentions, Winter Light is conceived as an homage to each of the individual musicians for whom it is written, and whom the composer has held in the highest artistic and personal esteem for many years.”
INTERVIEW WITH PATRICK CASTILLO
COMPOSER
W.A. MOZART: STRING QUARTET NO. 23 IN F MAJOR, K. 590, “PRUSSIAN”
I. Allegro moderato, in F Major
II. Andante, in C Major
III. Menuetto: Allegretto
IV. Allegro, in F Major
F. MENDELSSOHN: STRING QUARTET NO. 6 IN F MINOR, OP. 80
I. Allegro vivace assai
II. Allegro assai
III. Adagio
IV. Finale: Allegro molto
THE ARTISTS:See page 22 for artist biographies.
THE CASTALIAN QUARTETL Sini Simonen, violin; Daniel Roberts, violin;
Ruth Gibson, viola; Christopher Graves, cello
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EMERALDCITYMUSIC.ORG/SEASON/THE-CASTALIAN-STRING-QUARTET
“… a feisty group, with a real personality
and strong interpretative ideas”
– THE GUARDIAN
For this season’s Quartet-in-Spotlight, Emerald City Music is thrilled to introduce the Castalian String Quartet, all the way from the UK! Recently introduced to audiences in the United States, the Castalian Quartet makes their ECM debut with a program of Mozart’s beloved Prussian Quartet, and the fiery Opus 80 string quartet by Felix Mendelssohn.
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Violinist Daniel Roberts sits down with Artistic Director Kristin Lee
to share excitement around the Castalian Quartet’s Seattle debut.
Hailing from London, UK, the quartet has become an emerging
musical force in the music field, and their debut is a show you won’t
want to miss.
Kristin: Daniel Roberts – welcome! It’s so good to have this time to get
to know you as violinist of the Castalian Quartet! Could you give our
readers a sense of how the quartet first got started?
Daniel: Absolutely, Kristin! We formed a decade ago in London,
where we are still based (though now with a different line-up around
me!). Chris and I met at the Royal College of Music, playing Korngold’s
Sextet (he’s still listed in my cell phone as ‘Chris Korngold’); we
heard Sini performing in Hannover—where the quartet studied for
a few years—and couldn’t believe our luck when she wrote to our
mentor saying she ‘needed’ to play string quartets; Ruth and I played
chamber music together in our undergraduate days—after all these
years it feels wonderful to welcome her into the quartet for the 2021-
22 season!
Kristin: You will be making your debut in Seattle with Emerald City
Music! Have you ever visited the Pacific Northwest in the past? What
are you most excited about coming to Seattle?
Daniel: We have great memories of the Pacific Northwest having
performed in Vancouver a couple of years ago. None of us has been
to Seattle though, and we’re thrilled to have the chance to change
that! As well as the coffee, the culture and the breathtaking scenery
(and maybe a whale or two?), we’re looking forward to seeing some
old friends who live in the area—and of course making new ones.
Kristin: What is it like to travel again after this past year of lockdown?
Daniel: So far, we haven’t travelled all that much after lockdown,
except in the UK. The last time we were abroad as a quartet was in
March 2020, when our Carnegie debut was the first of the hall’s Covid
cancellations! Experiencing the world together is something we thrive
on; new places and their respective audiences undoubtedly stimulate
us and influence our music making. Boarding our flight to North
America this Fall will for sure be a special moment.
Kristin: Tell us about your program.
Daniel: Our Seattle debut pairs two ‘final’ quartets. Mozart’s
third ‘Prussian’ quartet was his last in the genre and brims with
extraordinary invention and virtuosity. We’ve been champing at the
bit to programme it! Mendelssohn’s Op.80 was written in the final
months of the composer’s life, soon after the death of his beloved
sister, Fanny. It is unrelentingly in F minor, with the only respite
coming in the heartbreakingly tender slow movement. One can’t help
but wonder what would have come next had these two towering
geniuses of quartet writing lived beyond their thirties.
THE CASTALIAN QUARTET IN EDINBURGH, UNITED KINGDOM
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A concert with this set of performers would be hard-pressed
not to awe the listener. – I CARE IF YOU LISTEN, reviewing
Andy Akiho’s 2017 debut at Emerald City Music.
Returning to the Emerald City Music stage, Sandbox
Percussion gives the world premiere performance
of Seven Pillars by award-winning composer, Andy
Akiho. This evening-length work consists of eleven
movements—seven quartets and one solo for each
member of Sandbox. This performance features original
staging and lighting design by Michael Joseph McQuilken
that seamlessly integrates with the music. Don’t miss
your opportunity to experience this extremely unique
performance!
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ANDY AKIHO: SEVEN PILLARS, World premiere performance
THE ARTISTS:See page 22 for artist biographies.
SANDBOX PERCUSSION
Ian Rosenbaum
Terry Sweeney
Jonny Allen
Victor Caccese
Michael Joseph McQuilken, stage and lighting designer
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“Seven Pillars is an evening-length work for Sandbox
Percussion in 11 movements. I’ve never taken on a project
this ambitious - it’s nearly 80 minutes of music - but I
was inspired by the collaborative relationship I have with
Sandbox. We’re all close friends, we enjoy making music
together, and there is freedom to experiment in that type
of environment. The instrumentation includes traditional
instruments such as vibraphone, glockenspiel, and marimba,
with some found percussion sounds like glass bottles and
metal pipes. Creatively, I wanted to limit the instrumentation
in order to encourage the opportunity to find unique timbres
and playing techniques on each instrument. When the
pandemic postponed our original in-person world premiere,
we spent the year investing even more time and effort into
creating and recording this piece - and I can’t wait to bring
the world premiere live performance to Emerald City Music!”
– ANDY AKIHO
IN DEPTH WITH AKIHO
CLICK THE VIDEO ABOVE TO EXPERIENCE A TRAILER OF SEVEN PILLARS
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Dmitri Atapine has been described as a cellist with “brilliant technical chops” (Gramophone), whose playing is “highly impressive throughout” (The Strad). He has appeared on some of the world’s foremost stages, including Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, and the National Auditorium of Spain. An avid chamber musician, he frequently performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is an alum of The Bowers Program. He is a habitual guest at leading festivals, including Music@Menlo, La Musica Sarasota, Pacific, Aldeburgh, Aix-en-Provence, and Nevada. His performances have been broadcast nationally in the US, Europe, and Asia. His many awards include First Prize at the Carlos Prieto Cello Competition, as well as top honors at the Premio Vittorio Gui and Plowman chamber competitions. He has collaborated with such distinguished musicians as Cho-Liang Lin, Paul Neubauer, Ani and Ida Kavafian, Wu Han, Bruno Giuranna, and David Shifrin. His recordings, among them a critically acclaimed world premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s complete works for cello and piano, can be found on the Naxos, Albany, MSR, Urtext Digital, Blue Griffin, and Bridge record labels. He holds a doctorate from the Yale School of Music, where he was a student of Aldo Parisot. Professor of Cello and Department of Music Chair at the University of Nevada, Reno, Mr. Atapine is the artistic director of Apex Concerts and Ribadesella Chamber Music Festival.
DMITRI ATAPINECELLO
Recipient of a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, as well as a top prizewinner of the 2012 Walter W. Naumburg Competition and Astral Artists’ 2010 National Auditions, Kristin Lee is a violinist of remarkable versatility and impeccable technique who enjoys a vibrant career as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and educator. She has appeared with top orchestras such as The Philadelphia Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Ural Philharmonic of Russia, the Korean Broadcasting Symphony, and in recital on many of the world’s finest stages including Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, Kennedy Center, Kimmel Center, Phillips Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Louvre Museum, Korea’s Kumho Art Gallery, and the Ravinia Festival. An accomplished chamber musician, she has appeared with Camerata Pacifica, Music@Menlo, La Jolla Festival, Medellín Festicámara of Colombia, the El Sistema Chamber Music festival of Venezuela, and the Sarasota Music Festival. She is the concertmaster of the Metropolis Ensemble, with which she premiered Vivian Fung’s Violin Concerto, written for her, which appears on Fung’s CD Dreamscapes (Naxos) and won the 2013 Juno Award. Born in Seoul, Ms. Lee moved to the US to study under Sonja Foster and soon after entered The Juilliard School’s Pre-College. She holds a master’s degree from The Juilliard School under Itzhak Perlman. An alum of The Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two), she is a member of the faculty of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.
KRISTIN LEEVIOLIN & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Violinist Sean Lee has captured the attention of audiences around the world with his lively performances of the classics. A recipient of a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant, he is one of few violinists who dares to perform Niccolò Paganini’s 24 Caprices in concert, and his YouTube series, Paganini POV, continues to draw praise for its use of technology in sharing unique perspectives and insight into violin playing. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the San Francisco Symphony, Israel Camerata Jerusalem, and Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice; and his recital appearances have taken him to Vienna’s Konzerthaus, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, and Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall. As a season artist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, he continues to perform regularly at Lincoln Center, as well as on tour. Lee’s debut album was released by EMI Classics, and reached the iTunes top 20 classical bestsellers list. In 2018, Lee released his second album, SONGBOOK, featuring songs from all over the world from classical to jazz. Originally from Los Angeles, Mr. Lee studied with Robert Lipsett of the Colburn Conservatory and legendary violinist Ruggiero Ricci before moving at the age of 17 to study at The Juilliard School with his longtime mentor, violinist Itzhak Perlman. He currently teaches at The Juilliard School’s Pre-College Division, as well as the Perlman Music Program. He performs on a violin originally made for violinist Ruggiero Ricci in 1999 by David Bague.
SEAN LEE VIOLIN
Described as “a pianist with power, precision, and tremendous glee” (Gramophone), pianist Hyeyeon Park has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician on major concert stages around the world, performing with orchestras such as the Seoul Philharmonic, KNUA Symphony Orchestra, Incheon Philharmonic, Gangnam Symphony, and Seoul Festival Orchestra, among others. A Seoul Arts Center “Artist of the Year 2012,” she is prizewinner of numerous international competitions, including Oberlin, Ettlingen, Hugo Kauder, Prix Amadèo, and Corpus Christi, and her performances have been broadcast on KBS and EBS television (Korea) and RAI3 (Italy), WQXR (New York), WFMT (Chicago), WBJC (Baltimore), and WETA (Washington DC). An active chamber musician, she has performed at multiple festivals including Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Northwest, Yellow Barn, and Santander (Spain) and has collaborated with such distinguished musicians as David Shifrin, Cho-Liang Lin, and Ani and Ida Kavafian. She released, among others, a critically acclaimed world-premiere recording of Lowell Liebermann’s works for cello and piano with cellist Dmitri Atapine, and her solo CD Klavier 1853 was released in 2017. Ms. Park holds a doctorate from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and degrees from Yale School of Music, and Korea National University of Arts. She is artistic director of Apex Concerts (Nevada) and piano professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.
HYEYEON PARKPIANO
Taiwanese-born pianist Gloria Chien has a diverse musical life as a noted performer, concert presenter, and educator. She was selected by the Boston Globe as one of its Superior Pianists of the year. She made her orchestral debut at the age of 16 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Thomas Dausgaard, and performed again with the BSO with Keith Lockhart. In recent seasons she has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Phillips Collection, the Kissinger Sommer festival, the Dresden Chamber Music Festival, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She performs frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and is an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program. In 2009 she launched String Theory, a chamber music series at the Hunter Museum of American Art in downtown Chattanooga that has become one of Tennessee’s premier classical music presenters. The following year she was appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute at the Music@Menlo festival, a post she held for the next decade. In 2017, she joined her husband, violinist Soovin Kim, as Co-Artistic Director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont. The duo serve as the new Artistic Directors at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, OR. Ms. Chien received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music as a student of Russell Sherman and Wha-Kyung Byun. She is an artist-in-residence at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee and is a Steinway Artist.
GLORIA CHIENPIANO
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The Castalian String Quartet was the recipient of the inaugural Merito String Quartet Award & Valentin Erben Prize and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award in 2018. Over the past year, the Quartet has given its debut North American recitals at The Philips Collection (Washington D.C.), Lincoln Center (N.Y.), Middlebury College (Vermont), Salle Bourgie (Montreal), Vancouver Recital Series and Banff International String Quartet Festival. Other 2018/19 highlights included a return to the Aldeburgh Festival, the complete Haydn Op.76 quartets at Wigmore Hall (recorded for future release on the Wigmore Live label) and recitals at Konzerthaus Vienna, Auditorium du Louvre (Paris), Flagey (Brussels) and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. This season they will perform a Brahms and Schumann chamber music cycle at Wigmore Hall, collaborating with Stephen Hough, Cédric Tiberghien, Michael Collins, Nils Mönkemeyer, Isabel Charisius and Ursula Smith. In 2020 the Castalian String Quartet will give its Carnegie Hall debut and participate in the Simmenauer International Beethoven Quartet series. In addition to return visits to Israel, they will perform across Europe, giving recitals in the Paris Philharmonie, Esterházy Castle (Fertöd) and the Heidelberger-Frühling, Rheingau, Mosel and Dresden Festivals. They have performed widely throughout Europe, with highlights including the Hamburg Chamber Music Series, International Musikfest Goslar, Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker, “Quartetaffairs” in Frankfurt (broadcast by NDR), the Queille Festival and Conques Lumière du Roman in France. UK appearances include the Bath, Cheltenham, East Neuk, North Norfolk,
CASTALIAN STRING QUARTET SINI SIMONEN, VIOLIN; DANIEL ROBERTS, VIOLIN; RUTH GIBSON, VIOLA; CHRISTOPHER GRAVES,
Peasmarsh and Winchester Festivals. They have also been the resident ensemble at the Esbjerg International Chamber Music Festival in Denmark and Festival Musique d’Été à Suzette, near Avignon. Further afield, they have undertaken tours of China and Colombia. The Quartet has collaborated with with Aleksander Madzar, Alasdair Beatson, Simon Rowland-Jones, Daniel Lebhardt and Olivier Stankiewicz, among many others. Formed in 2011, the Castalian String Quartet studied with Oliver Wille (Kuss Quartet) at the Hannover University of Music, Drama and Media, graduating with a Masters degree. Awards include 1st Prize at the 2015 Lyon Chamber Music Competition and 3rd Prize at the 2016 Banff International String Quartet Competition. The Quartet was selected by Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in 2016 and have received further coaching from Simon Rowland-Jones, David Waterman and Isabel Charisius.
Described as “exhilarating” by The New York Times, and “virtuosic and utterly mesmerizing” by The Guardian, Sandbox Percussion has established themselves as a leading proponent of this generation of contemporary percussion chamber music. Brought together by their love of chamber music and the simple joy of playing together, Sandbox Percussion captivates audiences with performances that are both visually and aurally stunning. Through compelling collaborations with composers and performers, Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaum, and Terry Sweeney seek to engage a wider audience for classical music. Sandbox Percussion performs throughout the United States and made their United Kingdom debut in 2019 at the Vale of Glamorgan Festival in Cardiff where they premiered a new work by Benjamin Wallace for percussion quartet and fairground organ. In the 2019-20 season Sandbox Percussion premiered Don’t Look Down, a new work
SANDBOX PERCUSSIONIAN ROSENBAUM, JONATHAN ALLEN, VICTOR CACCESE, TERRY SWEENEY
by Christopher Cerrone, with pianist Conor Hanick, as part of a new live stream concert series at the Caramoor Center for Music. They also presented a performance at Dumbarton Oaks of a new work by Viet Cuong. Sandbox Percussion has presented four separate programs of music by John Luther Adams at Storm King Art Center, Tippet Rise Art Center, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, and the String Theory concert series in Chattanooga, TN. Sandbox performed Viet Cuong’s concerto Re(new)al with the Albany Symphony. Sandbox collaborated with actor and writer Paul Lazar on a portrait concert of music by John Cage at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and gave three sold out performances of Music for Eighteen Musicians with Emerald City Music in Seattle, WA. In addition to maintaining a busy concert schedule, Sandbox plays role of pedagogy and mentorship for today’s young generation of musicians.
In 2016, Sandbox Percussion founded the NYU Sandbox Percussion Seminar – this week-long seminar invites percussion students from across the globe to rehearse and perform some of today’s leading percussion chamber music repertoire at the iconic Brooklyn venue National Sawdust. In 2020, Sandbox Percussion released their debut album And That One Too on Coviello Classics. The album features works by longtime collaborators Andy Akiho, David Crowell, Amy Beth Kirsten, and Thomas Kotcheff.In the 2020-21 season, Sandbox Percussion will launch a group of new virtual initiatives: a concert series live-streamed from their studio in Brooklyn, #sandboxsunday – a live-streamed series of conversations with composers, performers and other close collaborators, and monthly live-readings of new works submitted by composers from around the world.
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Described as “trailblazing” (LA Times) and “an imaginative composer” (NY Times), Andy Akiho is a composer and performer of new music. Recent engagements include commissioned premieres by the New York Philharmonic, National Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony, China Philharmonic, Guangzhou Symphony, Oregon Symphony with Soloist Colin Currie, American Composers Orchestra, Music@Menlo, Chamber Music Northwest, Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, LA Dance Project, and experimental opera company The Industry. Akiho has been recognized with many prestigious awards and organizations including the Rome Prize, Lili Boulanger Memorial Prize, Harvard University Fromm Commission, Barlow Endowment, New Music USA, and Chamber Music America. Additionally, his compositions have been featured on PBS’s “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” and by organizations such as Bang on a Can, American Composers Forum, The Intimacy of Creativity in Hong Kong, and the Heidelberg Festival. Akiho is also an active steel pannist and performs his compositions with various ensembles worldwide. He has performed his works with the Charlotte Symphony, South Carolina Philharmonic, Grand Rapids Symphony, Nu Decco Ensemble, LA Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series, the Berlin Philharmonic’s Scharoun Ensemble, Miyamoto is Black Enough, the International Drum Festival in Taiwan, and has had four concerts featuring his compositions at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Akiho’s recordings No One To Know One (innova Recordings) and The War Below (National Sawdust Tracks) features brilliantly crafted compositions that pose intricate rhythms and exotic timbres inspired by his primary instrument, the steel pan. Akiho was born in 1979 in Columbia, SC, and is currently based in New York City and Portland, OR.
ANDY AKIHOCOMPOSER
Patrick Castillo leads a multifaceted career as a composer, performer, writer, and educator. His music has been described as “restrained and reflective but brimming with a variety of texture and sound that draws you into its world” (I Care If You Listen) and has been presented at festivals and venues throughout the United States and internationally, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Schubert Club, Birdfoot Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, June in Buffalo, the Santa Fe New Music Festival, Queens New Music Festival, Hot Air Music Festival, National Sawdust, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Bavarian Academy of Music (Munich), the Nuremberg Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Havana Contemporary Music Festival.
PATRICK CASTILLOCOMPOSER
Recent season highlights include commissions and premieres by the Jasper String Quartet, Areon Flutes, the Experiential Orchestra, and the Manhattan Choral Ensemble; as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center premiere of Incident for violin and piano, performed by Alexander Sitkovetsky and Wu Qian. In 2017 and 2019, Patrick Castillo appeared as Composer-in-Residence at the Birdfoot Festival (New Orleans, LA). The 2020-21 season features premieres by violinist Jennifer Koh, cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han, the Delphi Trio, flautist Jill Heinke, and others. He is founding composer and managing director of “forward-looking, expert ensemble” Third Sound (The New Yorker) and Executive Director of contemporary music collective Hotel Elefant.
Castillo holds degrees in composition and sociology from Vassar College, where his teachers included Lois V Vierk, Annea Lockwood, and Richard Wilson. He has also participated in master classes with John Harbison, Alvin Lucier, Roger Reynolds, and Charles Wuorinen. While at Vassar, Patrick Castillo served as composer-in-residence for the Mahagonny Ensemble, a collective of performers specializing in twentieth-century music. His Requiem aeternam for mixed chorus and chamber ensemble, composed for the Mahagonny, was awarded the 2001 Jean Slater Edson Prize. He has also been the recipient of the Brian M. Israel Prize, awarded by the Society for New Music for his chamber work Lola. He is the Vice President of Artistic Planning for the New York Philharmonic.
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