A Beethoven
Celebration: The 10th Violin Sonata,
"Serioso" Quartet, and "Archduke" Trio
From prayerful
meditation and delicate lyricism to passionate
outbursts and playful exuberance, Beethoven's
three consecutive masterpieces - Opus 95, 96 and
97 - offer a rich and fascinating musical
journey that captures a time of transition in
Beethoven's life. For this program of sonata
duo, piano trio, and string quartet, Joseph Lin
is joined by his dear friends Helen Huang, Raman
Ramakrishnan, Hsin-Yun Huang, and Claire Bourg.
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~ Program
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Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96
Allegro
moderato
Adagio espressivo
Scherzo: Allegro - Trio
Poco allegretto
String Quartet No. 11 in F Minor, Op. 95 ("Serioso")
Allegro
con brio
Allegretto ma non troppo
Allegro assai vivace ma serioso
Larghetto espressivo - Allegretto agitato – Allegro
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intermission
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Piano Trio No. 7
in B-flat Major, Op. 97 ("Archduke")
Allegro
moderato
Scherzo: Allegro
Andante cantabile ma però con moto – Poco più adagio
Allegro moderato – Presto
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Joseph Lin,
violin
https://www.juilliard.edu/music/faculty/lin-joseph
A
renowned performer and teacher, Joseph Lin appears regularly
throughout the U.S., Asia, and Europe. He was first violinist of the
Juilliard String Quartet from 2011 to 2018, and he continues to
teach violin and chamber music at the Juilliard School. Lin’s recent
projects include a collaboration with Robert Levin featuring
Beethoven and Schubert on period instruments, performances of
Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto, Beethoven’s late string quartets,
and the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas with Helen Huang at
Juilliard. Marking the 300th year of Bach’s Violin Sonatas and
Partitas in 2020, Lin presented complete cycles in Boston and
Philadelphia. Recent seasons have included baroque and classical
period instrument performances on both viola and violin. In 2025,
Joseph Lin presents a special Beethoven program (Op. 95 “Serioso”
Quartet, Op. 96 Sonata, and Op. 97 “Archduke” Trio) in numerous
cities around the U.S.
From 2007 to 2011, Lin was a professor at Cornell University, where
his projects included the inaugural Chinese Musicians Residency, as
well as a collaboration with Cornell composers to study Bach’s
Sonatas and Partitas and create new works inspired by Bach.
Lin was a founding member of the Formosa Quartet, which won the 2006
London String Quartet Competition. In 1996, he won first prize at
the Concert Artists Guild Competition and was named a Presidential
Scholar in the Arts. In 1999, he was selected for the Pro Musicis
Award and, in 2001, he won first prize at the inaugural Michael Hill
Violin Competition in New Zealand. His recordings include the music
of Korngold and Busoni with pianist Benjamin Loeb; an album of
Debussy, Franck, and Milhaud with pianist Orion Weiss; and the
complete unaccompanied works of Bach and Ysaÿe. His recording of
Mozart’s A Major Violin Concerto with original cadenzas was released
in 2017. With the Juilliard Quartet, he recorded Schubert’s Death
and the Maiden and Elliot Carter’s Fifth Quartet, as well as the
Quartet’s recent album of Beethoven, Davidovsky, and Bartók. During
the summer season, he is a regular artist at the Tanglewood, Ravinia,
and Marlboro festivals.
Joseph Lin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 2000. In 2002,
he began an extended exploration of China, where he studied Chinese
music, including the guqin, as a Fulbright scholar.
Claire Bourg, violin
https://www.clairebourg.com/
"Total
command of music and instrument with an excellent sense of style and
character."
- Maestro Lawrence Rapchak
Violinist
Claire Bourg has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in many
of the world’s leading venues, such as Carnegie Hall, Chicago’s
Orchestra Hall, Kimmel Center, and Jordan Hall. Most recently, she
was a soloist with the Camerata Bern in Hannover, as part of the
Joachim International Violin Competition.
Ms. Bourg was granted the 2021 Luminarts Fellowship, awarded second
prize at the 2020 Barbash J.S. Bach Competition, and winner of the
New England Conservatory Competition. She performs regularly with
Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Music
for Food, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Curtis on Tour and currently
serves as concertmaster of Symphony in C.
A passionate chamber musician, Claire has attended festivals such as
Marlboro, Yellow Barn, Ravinia, Taos, among others. A native of
Chicago, Ms. Bourg’s primary teachers have been Miriam Fried, Pamela
Frank, Arnold Steinhardt, and Joseph Lin at the New England
Conservatory, Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School,
where she held a Kovner Fellowship. She is now pursuing her
Doctorate at the CUNY Graduate Center with Mark Steinberg. Claire
currently performs on a violin by Zosimo Bergonzi of Cremona, c.
1770 on generous loan through Guarneri Hall NFP and Darnton & Hersh
Fine Violins, Chicago.
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola
https://www.hsinyunhuang.com/
“Superb artistry…[Hsin-Yun
Huang] negotiated each phrase with remarkable agility and
expressive acumen.” – Chicago Tribune
Violist
Hsin-Yun Huang has forged a career by performing on
international concert stages, commissioning and recording new
works, and nurturing young musicians. Ms. Huang has appeared as
soloist with leading orchestras in Beijing, Taipei, and Bogota,
amongst others. Inspired by authentic folk elements, the focus
and highlight of Ms. Huang’s 2022-23 season is the program
“Strings of Soul”, in collaboration with composer Lei-Liang and
pipa virtuoso Wu Man. Additional performances this season
include chamber and solo recitals in New York City,
Philadelphia, and more.
She was the first solo violist to be presented in the National
Performance Center of the Arts in Beijing and was featured as a
faculty member alongside Yo-Yo Ma in Guangzhou. She has
commissioned compositions from Steven Mackey, Shih-Hui Chen, and
Poul Ruders. Her 2012 recording for Bridge Records, titled Viola
Viola, won accolades from Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine. Her
most recent release is the complete unaccompanied sonatas and
partitas of J.S. Bach, in partnership with her husband, violist
Misha Amory.
Ms. Huang regularly appears at festivals, including Marlboro,
Spoleto, Ravinia, Santa Fe, and Music@Menlo, among many others.
Huang was the gold medalist in the 1988 Lionel Tertis
International Viola Competition, 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,
she received degrees from the Yehudi Menuhin School, the Curtis
Institute of Music, and The Juilliard School. She now serves on
the faculties of Juilliard and Curtis.
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
https://www.bard.edu/faculty/details/?id=3239
Cellist
Raman Ramakrishnan enjoys performing chamber music, old and new,
around the world. For two decades, as a founding member of the
Horszowski Trio and the Daedalus Quartet, he toured extensively
through North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and recorded
for Bridge Records and Avie Records, including the complete
piano trios of Robert Schumann and the complete string quartets
of Fred Lerdahl. Mr. Ramakrishnan is currently an artist member
of the Boston Chamber Music Society, and is on the faculty of
the Bard College Conservatory of Music.
[Text Wrapping Break]Mr. Ramakrishnan has given solo recitals in
New York, Boston, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., and has
performed at Caramoor, at Bargemusic, with the Chicago Chamber
Musicians, and at the Aspen, Bard, Charlottesville, Four
Seasons, Kingston, Lincolnshire (UK), Marlboro, Mehli Mehta
(India), Oklahoma Mozart, Portland, Skaneateles, and Vail Music
Festivals. He has toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has
performed, as guest principal cellist, with the Saint Paul
Chamber Orchestra. As a guest member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road
Ensemble, he has performed in New Delhi and Agra, India and in
Cairo, Egypt. He has served on the faculties of the Kneisel
Hall, Norfolk, and Taconic Chamber Music Festivals, as well as
in the Music Performance Program of Columbia University.
Mr. Ramakrishnan was born in Athens, Ohio and grew up in East
Patchogue, New York. His father is a molecular biologist and
his mother is the children's book author and illustrator Vera
Rosenberry. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in physics from
Harvard University and a Master’s degree in music from The
Juilliard School. His principal teachers have been Fred Sherry,
Andrés Díaz, and André Emelianoff. He lives in New York City
with his wife, the violist Melissa Reardon, and their son. He
plays a Neapolitan cello made by Vincenzo Jorio in 1837.
Helen Huang,
piano
https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/artist/helen-huang-piano/
Born
in Japan of Taiwanese parents, Helen Huang has enjoyed to date a
multi-faceted career as a soloist and chamber music player and
has appeared with such orchestras as the Cleveland Orchestra,
the National Symphony, the New York Philharmonic, the
Philadelphia Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Pittsburgh
Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the
Colorado Symphony, and the Fort Worth Symphony. Abroad she has
appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Leipzig Gewandhaus
Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the London
Philharmonic, the Israel Philharmonic, the Israel Chamber
Orchestra, and the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. Helen developed a
close relationship with Maestro Kurt Masur upon winning the
Young People's Competition, resulting in engagements with the
New York Philharmonic and a recording contract with the Teldec
record label. Known for immaculate technique and eloquent
sensitivity, Helen is one of the youngest recipients of the
Avery Fisher Career Grant. She especially enjoys chamber music,
and has appeared at the Marlboro Music Festival, La Jolla
SummerFest, and Ravinia's Steans Institute For Young Artists.
She co-founded the Formosa Chamber Music Festival with the
vision of bringing the art of chamber music playing to students
in Taiwan.
Helen has several recordings with Kurt Masur and the New York
Philharmonic, including Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1,
Mozart's Piano Concertos K. 488 and K467, Mendelssohn's Piano
Concerto No. 1 and Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2. She also
recorded an album titled "For Children" of works inspired by the
theme of children. She collaborated with Cho-Liang Lin on a
recording of the works of Georg Tintner released on the Naxos
label as well as a recording of the music of Zhou Long with
Cho-Liang Lin and Hai-Ye Ni, released on the Delos label.
Helen received the Arthur Rubinstein Prize upon graduating from
the Juilliard School in 2004, where she was a student of Yoheved
Kaplinsky. She went on to pursue her Master's degree from Yale,
where she studied with Peter Frankl. A dedicated teacher, she
served on the faculty of the Juilliard PreCollege until 2022.
She currently resides in New Jersey with her husband and two
daughters.
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