September 6, 2012
07:30 PM
Bass Performance Hall
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50th Anniversary Gold Medalist Concert
featuring Ralph Votapek (1962), André-Michel Schub (1981), Alexander Kobrin (2005), and Haochen Zhang (2009)
with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor
This definitive celebration of the Cliburn’s 50th Anniversary will feature four gold medalists together on stage for an extraordinary concert experience. They will join the Fort Worth Symphony under the baton of its much sought-after music director, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, to perform a specially-crafted program of concerti.
Immediately following the concert, Carla Kemp Thompson, Van Cliburn Foundation Chairman of the Board, requests the pleasure of your company at a Celebration at Bass Hall, made possible by the generous support of TCU. All concert goers are invited to attend.
Program:
BACH Concerto for Four Pianos in A minor, BWV 1065
POULENC
Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos and Orchestra
MENDELSSOHN Concerto
No. 2 in A-flat major for Two Pianos and Orchestra
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November 13, 2012
07:30 PM
Bass Performance Hall
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Brentano String Quartet
"The Brentanos are a magnificent string quartet. This was wonderful, selfless music-making." – The Times (London)
Since its inception in 1992, the Brentano String Quartet has appeared throughout the world to popular and critical acclaim. The New York Times extols its "luxuriously warm sound” and “yearning lyricism,” and the Philadelphia Inquirer praises its “seemingly infallible instincts for finding the center of gravity in every phrase and musical gesture.” Welcome them to Fort Worth just six months before they take the Bass Hall stage again to perform with each semifinalist of the Fourteenth Cliburn Competition.
Program:
PURCELL Selected Fantasias
BARTOK String Quartet No. 4, Sz. 91
HAYDN String Quartet No. 35 in D Minor, Op. 42 (Hob. III:43)
BRAHMS String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51, No. 2
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January 19, 2013
02:00 PM
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
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John Bucchino, composer
“John Bucchino doesn’t write songs, he crafts them. His music is
earnest, reflecting the pull of his lyrics and providing a landscape
where his stories take place.” – EDGE New York City
American composer John Bucchino's songs have been performed and recorded by renowned pop, theatre, cabaret, and classical artists, including Liza Minnelli, Judy Collins, Yo-Yo Ma, Art Garfunkel, Patti LuPone, Deborah Voigt, Michael Feinstein, Audra McDonald, The Boston Pops, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in venues, including Carnegie Hall, The Metropolitan Opera, The Hollywood Bowl, The Sydney Opera House, and The White House. The program will feature performances of Mr. Bucchino’s work by Fort Worth Opera’s Studio Artists.
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January 28, 2013
07:30 PM
Bass Performance Hall
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Radu Lupu, piano
“Pianist Radu Lupu may be as close to being the embodiment of pure music as one can get.” – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Radu Lupu is firmly established as one of the most important musicians of his generation and is widely acknowledged as a leading interpreter of the works of Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, and Schubert. Since winning the Second Cliburn Competition in 1966 and the Leeds Piano Competition in 1969, Mr. Lupu has regularly performed as soloist and recitalist in the musical capitals and major festivals of Europe and the United States. A Grammy® Award winner, he has made more than 20 recordings for London/Decca.
Program:
FRANCK Prelude, Chorale and Fugue
SCHUBERT Four Impromptus, Op. 142
DEBUSSY Preludes, Book II
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February 18, 2013
07:30 PM
Bass Performance Hall
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Joshua Bell, violin with Sam Haywood, piano
“The American violinist with movie-star good looks has emerged as one of
the finest musicians of his generation, whose interpretations can be
seriously set beside and favorably compared to players twice his age.
Dead players too.” – The Washington Post
Joshua Bell enchants audiences worldwide with his breathtaking virtuosity and tone of rare beauty, earning him the title “classical music superstar.” An Avery Fisher Prize recipient and Musical America’s 2010 Instrumentalist of the Year, he is the newly named music director for The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Mr. Bell came to national attention at age 14 in his debut with Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra. Today he is equally at home as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestra leader, and composer.
Program:
SCHUBERT Sonatina in A minor D. 385, Op. posth. 137, No. 2
STRAUSS Sonata for Violin and Piano in E-flat Major, Op. 18
PROKOFIEV Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D Major, Op. 94 bis
Additional works to be announced from the stage
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March 12, 2013
07:30 PM
Bass Performance Hall
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Yeol eum Son, piano
“…a consummate virtuosic technician, but also one driven by emotion. She
also possesses the uncanny ability to transform complex, intricate
passages into simple, uncomplicated elegance.” – Metro Pulse (Knoxville)
Yeol eum Son’s graceful interpretations, crystalline touch, and versatile, thrilling performances have caught the attention of audiences worldwide since her 2009 triumph at the Thirteenth Cliburn Competition, where she claimed both the Silver Medal and the Steven De Groote Memorial Award for the Best Performance of Chamber Music. Most recently, she took second prize at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Music Competition in Moscow, where she also received awards for Best Chamber Concerto Performance and Best Performance of a Commissioned Work.
Program:
WEBER-LISZT Overture from the Opera Der Freischutz
SCHUBERT-GODOWSKY Litanei auf das Fest Allerseelen, D. 343; Wiegenlied
MENDELSSOHN-RACHMANINOFF Scherzo from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
STRAUSS-TAUSIG Man lebt nur einmal, Op. 167
BEETHOVEN 33 Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli, Op. 120
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April 6, 2013
02:00 PM
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
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Christopher Theofanidis, composer
“What impresses about Theofanidis is his ability to blend several
musical languages once thought to be mutually exclusive…the results are
enormously attractive.” – The Washington Post
A native of Dallas, Texas, Christopher Theofanidis is one of the most widely-performed American composers today. A Grammy® Award nominee, he writes regularly for a variety of musical genres, from orchestral and chamber music to opera and ballet, and was commissioned in 1998 to write Fanfare Rising for the opening of Bass Performance Hall. His work, Rainbow Body, has been programmed by over 120 orchestras internationally. He has been commissioned to compose a new solo piano work to be performed by each semifinalist in the 2013 Cliburn Competition.
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