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Gloria Chien, Artistic DirectorDavid Finckel & Wu Han, Artistic Advisors

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Paul and Darl ia Conn, David Finckel and Wu Han, Music@Menlo, Norman and Ling-Yu Chien, Erica Leung, Aimee Roberts ,Lavinia Johnston, Corinne Al len, Sharon Mil l s , Candy Krues i ,Gary Chazen, Robert and Nora Bernhardt .

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Tucker Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Summerfield K. Johnston, Jr.

Ms. Sharon Mills Ms. Gloria Chien !e Performing Arts Fund of the Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga

Chazen Family Foundation Ms. Sherry Keller Brown Ms. Karen Diamond Ms. Candy Kruesi Ms. Nancy Jolley Mr. Todd S. Moreland Mr. Paul L. Reynolds Mr. and Mrs. Gary and Sally Chazen

Dr. and Mrs. Wade and Teresa Chien Dr. and Mrs. Paul and Darlia Conn Mr. and Mrs. Sam and Ann McReynolds Mr. and Mrs. Phil and Ellen Whitaker

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Ms. Corinne Allen Ms. Claire Binder Mr. H. Franklin Chancey Ms. Patricia Huang Ms. Ruth Lott Mr. Harold “Buddy” Shirk Ms. Bobbie Henry Ste"ner Mr. Harvey Weiss

Mr. and Mrs. James and Catherine Baili" Mr. and Mrs. Samual and Anne Feehrer Dr. and Mrs. Jerome and Vanessa Hammond Mr. and Mrs. !omas and Pauline Whitsitt

as a soloist under the batons of Sergiu Comissiona, Keith Lockhart, !omas Dausgaard, Irwin Ho"mann, and Benjamin Zander. Gloria has performed in such festivals as Verbier Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Bay Chamber Concerts, and Music@Menlo, where was recently appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute by Artistic Direc-tors David Finckel and Wu Han.An avid chamber musician, Gloria has been the resident pianist with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston since 2000. Her recent performances include collaborations with the St. Lawrence, Borromeo, Daedalus and Jupiter String Quartets, David Shifrin, Wu Han, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Ani Kafavian, Ida Kafavian, James Ehnes, Marc Johnson, Paul Neubauer, Andrés Díaz, Bion Tsang, Anthony McGill, Soovin Kim, Carolin Widmann, Erin Keefe, Arnaud Sussmann, and Edward Arron. Her Beethoven Violin Sonatas Cycle with violinist, James Buswell has been featured live on Boston’s WGBH. Gloria can be heard on Chandos Records.In fall of 2009, Gloria launched String !eory at the Hunter, a chamber music series at the Hunter Museum of American Art in downtown Chattanooga, as its founder and artistic director. An Associate Professor at Lee University in Cleveland, TN, Gloria is a Steinway Artist.

Patrick Castillo leads a multifaceted career as a composer, performer, writer, and educator. His music has been fea-tured at festivals and venues throughout the United States and internationally including Spoleto Festival USA, June in Bu"alo, the Santa Fe New Music Festival, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Berklee College of Music, Tenri Cul-tural Institute, Bavarian Academy of Music (Munich), and Nuremberg Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2009, his arrangements ofMendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte were performed by Emanuel Ax, Itzhak Perlman,

and Yo-Yo Ma at Carnegie Hall. Patrick Castillo is variously active as an explicator of music to a wide range of listen-ers. He has provided program notes for numerous concert series: most prolifically for Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in Silicon Valley for which he also serves as Artistic Administrator. In this latter capacity, he has led a variety of pre-concert discussion events; designed outreach presentations for middle and high school students; and authored, narrated, and produced the widely acclaimed AudioNotes series of listener’s guides to the chamber music literature. His writing credits also include New York City Opera’s musical introduction to Emmanuel Chabrier’s L’Étoile, a live presen-tation for young listeners featuring full orchestra and soloists. Patrick Castillo has been a guest lecturer at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music Fes-tival of the Bluegrass (Kentucky), and Fordham University; he appears this season at String !eory at the Hunter (Chattanooga, TN). In October 2011, he was appointed Director of Artistic Planning of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra.For more information, please visit www.patrickcastillo.com.

Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth, burst into jubilant song with music. (Psalm 98:4)

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Cover Painting:Rockwell KentGlen (Ireland)1926-27Oil on Canvas 37 1/2 x 53 1/2 inchesIn Memory of Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger

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David Shifrin, clarinet James Ehnes, violinAndrés Díaz, cello Gloria Chien, piano

Premiere Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano Debussy (1862-1918) David Shifrin, clarinet Gloria Chien, piano

Sonata for Violin and Cello, Op.7 Ravel (1875-1937) Allegro Très vif Lent Vif, avec entrain James Ehnes, violin Andrés Díaz, cello

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Quartet for The End of Time Messiaen (1908-1992) Liturgie de cristal Vocalise, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps Abîme des oiseaux Intermède Louange à l’Éternité de Jésus Danse de la fureur, pour les sept trompettes Fouillis d’arcs-en-ciel, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps Louange à l’Immortalité de Jésus David Shifrin, clarinet James Ehnes, violin Andrés Díaz, cello Gloria Chien, piano

A Yale University faculty member for two decades, clari-netist David Shifrin last year became full professor of the School of Music and artistic director of Yale’s Chamber Music Society series. He is also director of Yale in New York, an on-going concert series at Carnegie Hall, which on September 26 of this year presents an homage to Beyy Goodman at Zankel Hall with Mr. Shifrin and several of his Yale graduate students and alumni as clarinet soloists. One of two wind players to have been awarded the Av-ery Fisher Prize since its inception, he is recipient of a

Solo Recitalist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Last season he celebrated his 20th year as an Artist of the Chamber Music Society and, from 1992 to 2004, he served as its artistic director, inaugurating the CMS Two program and the an-nual Brandenburg Concerto concerts. Presently in his 30th year as artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest in Portland, he has collaborated with the Guarneri, Tokyo, and Emerson string quartets and is a member of the Kavafian-Schub-Shifrin Trio. His recordings have received three Grammy nominations, and his performance of Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra was named Record of the Year by Stereo Review. He has released two CDs of Lalo Schifrin’s compositions, one of which was nominated for a Latin Grammy. At home with the work of such contem-porary composers as John Adams, Joan Tower, Bruce Adolphe, Ezra Laderman, John Corigliano, and Bright Sheng. Mr. Shifrin commissioned a clarinet concerto from Ellen Taa"e Zwilich that he premiered with the Bu"alo Philharmonic.

Hailed as “the Jascha Heifetz of our day” (Globe and Mail), violinist James Ehnes is widely considered one of the most dynamic and exciting performers in classical mu-sic. He has performed in over 30 countries on five conti-nents, appearing regularly with many of the world’s most well-known orchestras and conductors. He made his or-chestral debut at age 13 with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal. He has won numerous awards, including the first-ever Ivan Galamian Memorial Award, the Canada Council for the Arts’ prestigious Virginia Parker Prize,

and a 2005 Avery Fisher Career Grant. James was honoured by Brandon University with a Doctor of Music degree in 2005, and in 2007 he became the youngest person ever elected as a Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada.Recent performances have included concerts in Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Canada and the United States, with orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin, the Philadel-phia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Seattle, and San Francisco Symphonies. James gave the New York premiere of Aaron Jay Kernis’s Two Movements with Bells at the famed Le Poisson Rouge in a concert celebrating the composer’s 50th birthday. He is also the Associate Artistic Director of the Seattle Chamber Music Society. !e 2010-2011 season features tours to Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia in addition to performances throughout

Canada, the US, and Europe. Ehnes’s extensive discography of over 20 recordings has been honoured with numerous international awards, including a GRAMMY, a GRAM-OPHONE, and 6 JUNO Awards. In January 2006, he celebrated the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth with the release of a recording of Mozart’s complete oeuvre for solo violin and orchestra, features an ensemble of extraordinary musicians which Ehnes gath-ered from around the world and directed himself (CBC Records). James Ehnes plays the “Marsick” Stradivarius of 1715 and gratefully acknowledges its extended loan from the Fulton Collection.

Since winning the First Prize in the 1986 Naumburg In-ternational Cello Competition, Andrés Díaz has exhila-rated both critics and audiences with his intense and char-ismatic performances. He has earned exceptional reviews for his “strongly personal interpretive vision” (!e New York Times) and his “bold and imaginative” playing (!e Boston Globe) and was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant as well as a generous grant from the Susan W. Rose Fund for Music in 1998.Andres Diaz’s numerous orchestral appearances have in-

cluded return engagements with the Atlanta Symphony under the late Robert Shaw; performances with the American Symphony at Carnegie Hall, the Chicago Symphony, and the National Symphony Orchestra. Among the highlights of Mr. Diaz’s recent sea-sons are tours of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, and Canada; appearances in Chile, Venezuela, Argentina, the Dominican Republic; a series of concerts in the Soviet Union; and a tour of New Zealand.Mr. Diaz has given premiers of Gunther Schuller’s Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Frank Bridge’s Oration for cello and orchestra, !omas Oboe Lee’s Cello Concerto (writ-ten for Diaz), and the Boston and Washington, DC premieres of Leon Kirchner’s Music for Cello and Orchestra. Mr. Diaz’s summer festival appearances include the Santa Fe, La Jolla, Music@Menlo, Marlboro, Ravinia, Bravo!, Spoleto, and Tanglewood festivals. As a member of the Diaz String Trio, featuring violinist Andres Cardenes and violist Roberto Diaz, he was invited by the late Isaac Stern to play at Carnegie Hall’s Centennial Celebra-tion. Andrés Díaz was born in Santiago. He served for five years as Associate Professor of Cello at the Boston University and Co-Director of the Tanglewood Institute Quartet Pro-gram. Presently, Mr. Díaz is Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University. Mr. Díaz plays a 1698 Matteo Go"riller Cello and a bow made by his father, Manuel Díaz.

Pianist Gloria Chien has been picked by the Boston Globe as one of the Superior Pianists of the year, “… who appears to excel in everything.” Richard Dyer praises her for “a wondrously rich palette of colors, which she mixes with dashing bravado and with an uncanny precision of calibra-tion…Chien’s performance had it all, and it was fabulous.” Gloria made her orchestral debut at the age of 16 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Since then, she has appeared

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