NEW YORK -- Juilliard presents a chamber music recital with faculty members, violinist Catherine Cho, violist Hsin-Yun Huang, cellist Natasha Brofsky, and pianist Robert McDonald, onThursday, February 2, 2017, at 7:30pm in Juilliard's Paul Hall. The program features Haydn's Piano Trio in E Major, XV:28; late composer and former Juilliard faculty member Steven Stucky'sRain Shadow (2012), a work inspired by British artist Andy Goldsworthy; and Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60. The recital is presented as part of Juilliard's Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series. Tickets are $20 and available at . Tickets are free for Juilliard students; non-Juilliard students with valid ID may purchase tickets for $10. In March 2017, the four faculty members will travel to China to give a series of chamber music master classes as Juilliard continues planning for the opening of The Tianjin Juilliard School in 2019. The PLA Arts Academy in Beijing and the Tianjin Conservatory of Music are among the music conservatories where the Juilliard faculty members will give master classes and informal performances. The classes are intended to deepen Juilliard's relationships with Chinese music conservatories and will be the first of many trips by Juilliard faculty members. Meet the Artists  | | | Natasha Brofsky |
Natasha Brofsky has worked as cellist with the Peabody Trio and performed as a guest artist with numerous ensembles, including the Takács, Prazak, Norwegian, Borromeo, Jupiter, and Parker Quartets. During nearly a decade in Europe, she held principal positions in the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra under Iona Brown. In addition she was a member of the Serapion Ensemble, performing with them in Germany and Austria, and the string trio, Opus 3, which performed throughout Norway. She recorded Olav Anton Thommessen's Concerto for Cello and Winds for Aurora Records and was a regular participant at Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove, England. A sought after teacher, Ms. Brofsky serves on the cello faculties at Juilliard and the New England Conservatory, and since 2001, has been on the faculty at the Yellow Barn Festival in Vermont. She was previously on the faculty of the Barratt-Due Musikk Institutt in Oslo Norway. Ms. Brofsky has given master classes at many colleges and conservatories in the U.S. and abroad, including for El Sistema in Venezuela as well as at Oberlin Conservatory, the Eastman School, and Mannes College. Her recording of the late Beethoven Cello Sonatas, Op. 102, with pianist Seth Knopp, is scheduled for release this spring. | | | Catherine Cho |
Violinist Catherine Cho has performed with the Detroit Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Orchestra, and National Arts Centre Orchestra, Korean Broadcasting Symphony, Daejon Philharmonic, and Seoul Philharmonic, Barcelona Symphony, Orchestra of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, and Aspen Chamber Symphony; and has collaborated with conductors including Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert Spano, Sixten Ehrling, and Franz-Paul Decker. As a recitalist and chamber musician she has performed at Alice Tully Hall with the Chamber Music Society, Salzburg's Mozarteum, Casals Hall in Tokyo as a member of the Casals Hall Ensemble, and Washington's Kennedy Center, among many others. She has taken part in 11 Musicians from Marlboro national tours, is a founding member of the chamber ensemble La Fenice, and was a member of the Johannes String Quartet from 2003 to 2006. A winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Ms. Cho won top prizes at the Montreal, Hanover, and Queen Elizabeth International Violin Competitions. She has served on the jury of numerous violin competitions and taught master classes worldwide. Ms. Cho received her BM and MM at Juilliard and joined the school's Pre-College faculty in 1996 and the college faculty in 1999. | | | Hsin-Yun Huang |
Violist Hsin-Yun Huang has forged a career performing on international concert stages, commissioning and recording new works, and nurturing young musicians. Concerto collaborations included Berlin Radio Orchestra, Bayerischer Rundfunk, London Sinfonia, Zagreb Soloists, Russian State Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, and NSO of Taiwan, to name a few. She is a regular chamber musician in festivals such as Marlboro, Santa Fe, Menlo, Rome, Moritzburg, Spoleto, Chamber Music Northwest, among many others. Highlights of 2016-17 include performances for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the 92nd Street Y, Chamber Music Columbus, and the Seoul Spring Festival. During the 2017-18 season, she will be a soloist under the batons of Osmo Vänskä and Josef Cabelle in Taipei and Bogota; she will also be the first solo violist to be presented in the National Performance Center of the Arts in Beijing. She has commissioned compositions from Steven Mackey, Shih-Hui Chen, and Poul Ruders. Her 2012 recording, titled Viola Viola, for Bridge Records won accolades from Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine.Ms. Huang first came to international attention as the gold medalist in the 1988 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition. In 1993 she was the top prize winner in the ARD International Competition in Munich, and was awarded the highly prestigious Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. A native of Taiwan and an alumna of Young Concert Artists, she received degrees from the Yehudi Menuhin School, The Juilliard School, and the Curtis Institute of Music; she now serves on the faculties of Juilliard and Curtis. | | | Robert McDonald |
Pianist Robert McDonald has toured extensively as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia, and South America. He has performed with major orchestras in the U.S. and was a recital partner with violinist Isaac Stern for many years. He has participated in the Marlboro, Casals, and Lucerne Festivals, performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and for broadcasts over BBC Television. He has also appeared with the Takács, Vermeer, Juilliard, Brentano, Borromeo, American, Shanghai, and St. Lawrence String Quartets as well as with Musicians from Marlboro. Mr. McDonald's prizes include the Gold Medal at the Busoni International Piano Competition, the top prize at the William Kapell International Competition, and the Deutsche Schallplatten Critics Award. His teachers include Theodore Rehl, Seymour Lipkin, Rudolf Serkin, Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Beveridge Webster, and Gary Graffman. He holds degrees from Lawrence University, the Curtis Institute of Music, Juilliard, and the Manhattan School of Music. A member of the faculty at Juilliard since 1999, Mr. McDonald has taught at the Curtis Institute since 2007, where he holds the Penelope P. Watkins Chair in piano studies. During the summer, he is the artistic director of New Mexico's Taos School of Music and Chamber Music Festival.# # # Program Listing: Thursday, February 2, 2017, 7:30pm, Paul Hall Faculty Chamber Music Recital Catherine Cho, violin Hsin-Yun Huang, viola Natasha Brofsky, cello Robert McDonald, piano Presented as part of Juilliard's Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital Series Franz Joseph HAYDN: Piano Trio in E Major, XV:28 Steven STUCKY: Rain Shadow (2012) Johannes BRAHMS: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60 Tickets are $20 and available at . Tickets are free for Juilliard students; non-Juilliard students with valid ID may purchase tickets for $10. |
