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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2012

The Boise Chamber Music Society is pleased to announce the results of the Seventh Annual Young Artists String Quartet Competition, as judged Saturday, Mar. 10, by the members of the Calder Quartet, who performed the night before on the Boise Chamber Music Series.

First place, including the $800 prize, in the Pre-College round was awarded to the "C.H.S. Chamber Players" from Caldwell High School: Heidi Olsen and Mackenzie Herrera, violins; Camille Leavitt, viola; and Tyler Hamilton, cello; coached by Gini Rosandick. This quartet performed works by Schubert and Beethoven. Also performing in the live contest was the Capital High School Quartet: Christa Cole and Schuyler Mickelson, violins; Bailey Clark, viola; and Antonio Perata, cello; coached by Sandy Shoen.

First place in the Collegiate round and a prize of $1000 were awarded to a quartet from Boise State University, with violinists Nicole Oswald and Yonsoo Park, violist Emily Jones, and cellist David Feldman, as coached by three BSU string faculty members, Linda Kline Lamar, Craig Purdy, and Brian Hodges. Also competing were the College of Idaho Quartet of Geoffrey Hill and Margaret Torrey, violins; Aurora Torres, viola; and Kyle True, cello; coached by Langroise Trio violist David Johnson. Two additional quartets from Boise State University also performed: Anna Iyerusalimets and Jessica Valencia, violins; Norah Ashby, viola; and Danika McClure, cello; and Rachael Knapp and Jessie Youngblood, violins; Cruz Torres, viola; and Samaquias Lorta, cello

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Caption: C.H.S. Chamber Players (Caldwell High School) seated; BSU String Quartet standing, with Calder Quartet in center.

photo credit Jan Kelly

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
2/22/12

The 2011-12 Boise Chamber Music Series continues Friday, Mar. 9, at 7:30 with the Calder String Quartet of Los Angeles, performing favorites by Mozart and Beethoven (K. 465 'Dissonance' and Op. 59, no. 2 in E Minor, 'Razumovsky') as well as an amazing two-movement quartet by Dutch "avantpop" composer Jacob ter Veldhuis. "JacobTV," as he is known in the Netherlands, started as a rock musician and studied composition and electronic music at the Groningen Conservatory, where he was awarded the Composition Prize of the Netherlands in 1980. "I pepper my music with sugar," he says. His String Quartet No. 3, "All Along the Watchtower," presents entrancing textures and pulsating ostinatos, under-laid with simple, nostalgic chord changes.

Called "outstanding" and "superb" by the New York Times, Calder Quartet defies boundaries through performing a broad range of repertoire at an exceptional level, always striving to channel the true intention of the work's creator. Benjamin Jacobson, Andrew Bulbrook (violins), Jonathan Moerschel (viola), and Eric Byers (cello) formed the Calder Quartet at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music and continued studies at the Colburn Conservatory of Music with Ronald Leonard, and at the Juilliard School, receiving the Artist Diploma in Chamber Music Studies as the Juilliard Graduate Resident String Quartet.

Known for the discovery, commissioning, recording and mentoring of some of today's best emerging composers (over 25 commissioned works to date), the group continues to work with artists spanning the ranges of the classical and contemporary music world, as well as rock, dance, and visual arts; and in venues from art galleries and rock clubs to Carnegie and Walt Disney concert halls. Inspired by innovative American artist Alexander Calder, the Calder Quartet's desire to bring immediacy and context to the works they perform, creates an artfully crafted musical experience.

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10/14/11

The 2011-12 Boise Chamber Music Series continues Friday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 with "the premier American indie string quartet": Carpe Diem, one of the most versatile quartets of their generation. Carpe Diem has earned critical acclaim with innovative programming, electrifying performances, and a passion for audience engagement. The group's musical passion has led them down the paths of gypsy, tango, folk, pop, rock, and jazz-inspired music, but the quartet is equally at home with the traditional string quartet repertoire. Their Boise performance will feature Mendelssohn's posthumous Quartet in F Minor, new works by jazz pianist/arranger Bradley Sowash and Carpe Diem violist Korine Fugiwara, a Gypsy Czardas arranged from a work by Vitorrio Monti, and Astor Piazzolla's miniature tone poem, "Autumn," from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

This year Carpe Diem is collaborating with Latin Grammy winner Raul Juarena; their busy recording schedule includes recording the nine string quartets of Sergey Taneyev for the Naxos label. The first CD of this series was selected for the 51st Grammy Awards Entry List (2009) in four categories: Best Classical Album, Best Chamber Music Performance, Best New Artist, and Best Engineered Album-Classical. The quartet is the resident ensemble for Columbus Dance Theater, and their joint project The String Machine was aired by WOSU-PBS television through 2007-2008, and nominated for an Emmy award.

Carpe Diem will coach a string quartet master class Saturday morning, Nov. 5, from 10:30 to 11:30 am, in the Morrison Center Recital Hall. Two Boise State student quartets will perform. This educational event is free and open to the public.

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9/16/11

The 2011-12 Boise Chamber Music Series begins Friday, Sept. 30, at 7:30 with the Claremont Trio, widely regarded as the premier piano trio of its generation. The first winners of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award and the only piano trio ever to win the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the Claremonts are consistently lauded for their "aesthetic maturity, interpretive depth, and exuberance."

During the 2011-12 season the Claremont Trio opens the brand new hall at Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum with a series of three concerts. Equally passionate about the standard repertoire and the music of our time, the Claremonts pair three world premiere commissions by Sean Shepherd, Helen Grime and Gabriela Lena Frank with a survey of trios by Mozart and Mendelssohn to celebrate this exciting new venue. For the Boise Chamber Music Series concert, they will perform Mozart’s late Trio, K. 542 in E, Mendelssohn’s monumental Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s heart-wrenching Trio, Op. 67.

Twin sisters Emily Bruskin (violin) and Julia Bruskin (cello) formed the Claremont Trio with Donna Kwong (piano) in 1999 at The Juilliard School. The Bruskins both play old French instruments, Emily’s violin a Lupot from 1795 and Julia’s cello a J.B. Vuillaume from 1849. Donna Kwong is a Steinway Artist. The Claremonts are based in New York City near their namesake: Claremont Avenue.

For single tickets at $25/$20 to the Friday, Sept. 30 concert in the Velma V. Morrison Recital Hall, call 426-1216 or email Season subscriptions may still be available. The events of the Boise Chamber Music Series are supported by the Boise Chamber Music Society and the Boise State Dept. of Music.

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