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Chamber Music of Dvorak and Rachmaninoff
Charles Pikler, viola
Ilya Friedberg, piano
Hyewon Yang, violin
Nathaniel Pierce, cello
Program:
Rachmaninoff
Cello Sonata, Op.19 in G minor
Dvorak
Piano Quartet No.2, Op.87 in E at major
Bios:
Ilya Friedberg, Piano
Ilya feels at home as a soloist and as a chamber musician. As a chamber musician he had an honor to be on the stage with magnificent artist such as Mark Kaplan, Pacifica quartet, St.Petersburg quartet, Tim Noble, Carol Vaness, Arnaud Sussmann, Peter Takacs, Allysa Margulis, Alexander Buzlov.
As a soloist Ilya has performed with conductors Uriel Segal and Eric Stumacher and others. Ilya enjoys performing all music, he has collaborated and promoted music of composers David Baker, Michael Daugherty, Claude Baker, David Canfield, Phillip Sink, Ryan Chase and has recorded and collaborated on editing the score to a printed edition of the Entire piano works by Douglas Hofstadter.
Ilya is a prize winner of multiple awards at International competitions, he has performed in a Small Philharmonic Hall, Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center among others.
He has studied under Luissa Yoffe , Vladimir Ashkenazy, Sedmara Rudstein, Sanford Margolis and Currently Ilya is an Assistant to Menahem Pressler.
Ilya enjoys teaching for Mr.Pressler at Jacobs School of Music and at music festivals, he is faculty at Sonad Chamber Music Festival, Mimi Zweig String Academy Festival, Stellenbosch Chamber Music Festival, and A New Harmony Summer Festival.
A founder of Bloomington Trio, he is a promoter and active musician in Bloomington, a chair of NSAL Instrumental Competition and a founder of Johannes Concert Artist Concert Series.
Hyewon Yang, Violin
Hyewon Yang, violin was born in Seoul, Korea where she started her musical education on piano at 5. She started studying violin at 7 but wanted to be a pianist until she was introduced an ensemble playing. To this day she is a passionate chamber musician. Her recent chamber music performances include David Baker trio Roots II at the Musical Arts Center in Bloomington, Bartok Contrasts in Keene, Maine.
As a growing violinist in Seoul, Korea, she continued her early education in Yewon School, a preparatory secondary school. Hyewon has placed herself among the promising violinists and garnered first prizes in various competitions for young violinists and was invited to perform as a soloist with the Mihail Jora Bacau Philharmonic, Korean Senior Orchestra and among others. In Seoul, she studied with Kyunghee Yoon, A-Rah Shin, and Siyeon Ryu.
Upon moving to the United States in 2009, Hyewon was invited to study with violinist Aaron Rosand, and has been influenced to the great tradition of violin playing as well as participating in his Summer Master Course in Purchase, NY. She was invited to participate in Aurora Chamber Music Festival where she studied violin with Ilya Grubert, and chamber music with Hariolf Schlichtig of the Cherubini Quartet. Recently she gave various programs of duo recitals with pianist Ilya Friedberg as part of Make Music Chicago.
Hyewon received her Bachelor of Music degree and completed Performer Diploma in violin performance at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music under the guidance of violinist Alexander Kerr. While at Indiana University she studied chamber music with Eric Kim, Grigory Kalinovsky, Masumi Per Rostand, and Sibbi Bernhardsson of Pacifica Quartet.
Charles Pikler, Viola
Charles Pikler joined the Chicago Symphony Orchestra as a violinist in 1978 and, in 1986, he was named principal violist.
Pikler studied the piano with his parents and violin with Ben Ornstein, Bronislaw Gimpel at the University of Connecticut and Roman Totenberg at the Tanglewood Young Artist Program at the Berkshire Music Center. He appeared as soloist with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Eastern Connecticut Symphony and Manchester Civic Orchestra, among others. He holds a degree in mathematics with distinct honors from the University of Minnesota.
He launched his career as a violinist with the Minnesota Orchestra in 1971, later becoming a member of the Cleveland Orchestra (1974 to 1976) and the Rotterdam Philharmonic (1976 to 1978).
He has been featured as a soloist with the CSO, as well as with other orchestras in the Chicago area. Additionally, he has also been soloist with the Kingsport Tennessee Symphony, Orchestra of the Pines in Nacogdoches, Texas, National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica and National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra.
Pikler served as concertmaster of the Chicago Chamber Orchestra under Dieter Kober, touring with it and also performing as soloist; the Sinfonia Orchestra of Chicago; the Orchestra of the Apollo Chorus; the Chicago Opera Theater Orchestra; the Northbrook Symphony; and the Symphony of Oak Park and River Forest. He currently serves as principal violist of the Ars Viva Symphony Orchestra.
A chamber music enthusiast, he has performed with several ensembles, including the Chicago Symphony String Quartet. Pikler has been a guest artist with the Daniel String Quartet in Holland, the Vermeer Quartet of De Kalb, and the Louisville String Quartet. In 1990, he performed Frank Beezholds Viola Concerto, which was composed for and dedicated to him, with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago at Orchestra Hall. He also has recorded it in the composers own transcription for piano and viola with Dorothy Shultz.
He has recorded Easley Blackwoods chamber music with the composer for Cedille Records. He was featured as soloist on the Sewanee Symphonys recording of Berliozs Harold in Italy for Solo Viola and Orchestra, with Victor Yampolsky conducting. In 1995 and 1996, he served as guest principal violist for the Boston Symphony under Seiji Ozawa and was a guest violist at the Bay Chamber Concerts in Rockland, Maine. Pikler participates in the Grand Teton Music Festival in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. While on sabbatical from the CSO during the 201415 season, Pikler performed as a substitute section violist at the Lyric Opera of Chicago for two operas.
Pikler is on the faculty of Northwestern University. He coaches the violists of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, as well as other ensembles at the Midwest Young Artists program in Highwood, Illinois. Pikler is the founder and music director of I Solisti, a chamber orchestra which is part of the Midwest Young Artists program.
Pikler and his wife, Ruth, have two sons, David and Andrew, and a daughter, Amy.
Nathaniel Pierce, Cello
Nathaniel Pierce, cellist and tenor, is a highly active chamber musician. He is a Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the Anchorage Chamber Music festival, and Co-Education Director at the Innsbrook Institute. Pierce is a founding member of the Koinonia Piano Trio which has toured in Europe and in the States. They were Excel fellows at the University of Michigan. In 2013, he performed as a soloist at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. He has also been a featured soloist with the Toledo, Dexter, Dearborn, Albany, Ann Arbor and Birmingham-Bloomfield Symphonies, as well as the University of Michigan and Indiana University symphonies.
Nathaniel grew up in a musical family. As a child, he appeared on stage as a member of the childrens choir of the Brandenburg State Theater in Germany, where his parents were engaged as operatic soloists. He started his cello studies with Guenther Grossman, and Anna Zinke at the Cottbus Conservatory in Germany, and has studied with Marianne Jakobovitz, Ulrike Schaeffer of the Peter Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz, Germany, and Erling Bloendal Bengtsson in Ann Arbor, Michigan, among others. He has studied voice with his parents, Alice and John Pierce, George Shirley, Andreas Poulimenos, and Martin Katz.
In 2014, Pierce was a prize-winner in the Matinee Musicale Competition. His quartet won the Kuttner Quartet Competition at Indiana University. As a member of the Bloomington Piano trio, he studied under Menahem Pressler. In 2008, he won the Louis Potter Cello Competition. Pierce has attended music festivals such as Aspen, Music Academy of the West, Kneisel Hall, Madeline Island, Innsbrook Institute, Chautaqua, IMAP, Green Mountain, Indiana String Academy, New Mexico Chamber Music Festival, Three Bridges International Music Festival, and Bowdoin Music festival.
Nathaniel has performed and featured many compositions by renowned University of Michigan faculty composers, William Bolcom, Kristen Kuster, Michael Daugherty, Bright Sheng, and Paul Schoenfield. He has collaborated with Yizhak Schotten, Steven Shipps, Kim Kennedy, Catherine Collier, Martin Katz, Matthew Zalkind, Yehonatan Berick, Paul Schoenfield, Amy Cheng, Matt Albert, Paul Sharpe, and many others.
Pierce received his Bachelor of Music degree in Cello Performance at the University of Michigan under the instruction of Richard Aaron, and completed his Master of Music degree with Brandon Vamos at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He is currently pursuing a DMA degree under the tutelage of Anthony Elliott, cellist, Martin Katz, collaborative pianist, and David Daniels, Professor of Voice, at the University of Michigan.
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