1. Art and Diseño

USCB Festival Series Chamber Music Concert
March 8, 2015 ~ 5 pm
USCB Center for the Arts
Adam Neiman, piano
Maria Bachmann, violin
Hsin-Yun Huang, viola
Edward Arron, cello
Adagio and Rondo Concertante in F Major
for Piano Quartet, D. 487
F. Schubert
(1797-1827)
Serenade for Violin and Piano (2013)
Adam Neiman
(b. 1980)
Piano Quartet in B-flat Major, Opus 41
C. Saint-Saëns
(1835-1921)
Allegretto
Andante maestoso ma con moto
Poco allegro più tosto moderato
Allegro
~ Intermission ~
Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Opus 87
Allegro con fuoco
Lento
Allegro moderato, grazioso
Allegro ma non troppo
A. Dvořák
(1841-1904)
ADAM NEIMAN
American pianist Adam Neiman, praised for possessing a rare blend of
power, bravura, imagination, sensitivity, and technical precision, is
hailed as one of the premiere pianists of his generation. With an
established international career and an encyclopedic repertoire that
spans more than sixty concerti, Neiman has performed as soloist with
the symphony orchestras in Europe, Asia and across the United States,
collaborating with many of the world’s celebrated most conductors.
Also a highly-acclaimed chamber musician, Neiman has performed with
ensembles in most major concert halls throughout the United States
and Canada. This season is his second as the newest member of Trio
Solisti, one of America’s most celebrated piano trios, comprised of
violinist Maria Bachmann and Alexis Pia Gerlach.
Neiman also has a wide range of recordings, PBS programs, radio broadcasts and live feeds via
his own YouTube channel. His live performance of the Brahms Rhapsodies, Op. 79, on NPR’s
“Performance Today” was nominated for a Grammy.
Born in 1978, Neiman first captured the attention of audiences and critics alike with his concerto
debut at 11 in Los Angeles’s Royce Hall. Clavier Magazine wrote "Adam Neiman gave a
performance that rivaled those of many artists on the concert stage today...his playing left
listeners shaking their heads in disbelief." In 1995, Neiman became the youngest-ever winner
of the Gilmore Young Artist Award. The following year, he won the Young Concert Artists
International Auditions and went on to make his Washington D.C. and New York recital debuts
at the Kennedy Center and the 92nd Street Y. The Washington Post remarked, “This was
playing of wisdom and light befitting an artist in the autumn of his career.” Young Concert Artists
additionally honored Neiman with the Michaels Award and presented him in a critically
acclaimed solo recital at Lincoln Center.
Two-time winner of Juilliard’s Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition, Neiman received
the Rubinstein Award upon his graduation in 1999, the same year in which he received the
Avery Fisher Career Grant. Neiman is an esteemed member of the piano performance faculty
at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
MARIA BACHMANN
A violinist who combines outstanding musicianship with dazzling technical
command, a tone of exceptional purity, and a magnetic stage presence,
Maria Bachmann has received critical accolades from the beginning of her
career. The New York Times has hailed her as "a violinist of soul and
patrician refinement...warmly lyrical and unexpectedly sensuous."
Ms. Bachmann has made acclaimed debuts with The National Symphony
at The Kennedy Center, The St. Louis Symphony, and the Taipei and
Shanghai Symphonies. In 2010, Ms. Bachmann performed Philip Glass's
Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with the Orchestra of The Hague in
The Netherlands. Since her recital debut at New York’s Town Hall, Maria
has performed recitals in Tokyo, Paris, Rome, The Kennedy Center and
Library of Congress, and Boston's Jordan Hall.
Highlights of the 2014-15 season include performances of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with
the Wisconsin Philharmonic and Maria's most recent CD, released on Naxos, Paul Moravec's
Violin Concerto (2010) with Rossen Milanov conducting Symphony in C. Her recordings
encompassing works from Beethoven to new music can be found on Sony Masterworks,
Sony/RCA Red Seal, Naxos, Endeavour Classics, Orange Mountain Music, and Bridge
Records.
As a chamber musician, Maria Bachmann is the founding violinist of Trio Solisti with pianist
Adam Neiman and cellist Alexis Gerlach, with whom she tours and has made many recordings.
She is also the founding Artistic Director of Telluride Musicfest, an annual chamber music
festival in Telluride, CO, since 2003.
Ms. Bachmann was awarded first prizes at The Fritz Kreisler Competition in Vienna, the Concert
Artists Guild Competition in New York and The Pro Musicis Award. She studied at the Curtis
Institute of Music with Ivan Galamian and Szymon Goldberg, and was awarded Curtis’s Fritz
Kreisler Prize for outstanding graduating violinist. Maria performs on a 1782 violin by Niccolo
Gagliano.
HSIN-YUN HUANG
Violist Hsin-Yun Huang came to international prominence in 1993
when she won the top prize at the ARD International Music
Competition in Munich and the Bunkamura Orchard Hall Award. In
1988, Ms. Huang was the youngest-ever Gold Medalist of the Lionel
Tertis International Viola Competition on the Isle of Man. These and
other honors have propelled her career as soloist and chamber
musician on stages of major concert halls throughout North America,
Europe, and Asia.
Recent highlights include concerto appearances with the City of
London Sinfonia; the Amarillo Symphony; the Naumberg Orchestra in
New York City's Central Park; George Benjamin’s Viola Viola with
violist Misha Amory for Carnegie Halls Making Music series at Zankel
Hall, and a part of Elliot Carter's Celebration of his 100th Birthday at
Zankel Hall. Other solo performances have included concerto appearances with the Bavarian
Radio Orchestra, the Zagreb Soloists in Paris, the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Berlin Radio
Symphony, the Russian State Philharmonic, the National Symphony of Taiwan, the Taipei City
Symphony and the Evergreen Symphony Orchestra.
Hsin-Yun Huang has performed at prominent music festivals throughout the world. In North
America, these include the Spoleto Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, the Marlboro Music
Festival, the Aspen Festival, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the Vancouver Chamber
Music Festival. International festivals have included Prussia Cove (England), Festival de Divonne
(France), Spring Festival (Prague), The Rome Chamber Music Festival and The Cartagena
International Festival (South America).
She collaborated with many distinguished artists, including Yo-Yo Ma, Jaime Laredo, Joshua
Bell, Joseph Suk, and Menahem Pressler. Recent collaborations include performances with the
Guarneri, the Juilliard, the Orion, the Brentano, the Johannes, and the St. Lawrence String
Quartets. She is currently a founding member of the Variation String Trio with violinist Jennifer
Koh and cellist Wilhelmina Smith.
Hsin-Yun Huang came to England at the age of fourteen to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School
with David Takeno. She earned her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute, where
she studied with Michael Tree and her Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School where she
studied with Samuel Rhodes.
EDWARD ARRON
Cellist Edward Arron has garnered recognition worldwide for his elegant
musicianship, impassioned performances, and creative programming. A
native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Arron made his New York recital debut in
2000 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Since that time, he has
appeared in recital, as a soloist with major orchestras, and as a chamber
musician throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
In 2013, Mr. Arron completed a ten-year residency as the artistic director
of the critically acclaimed Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert, a
chamber music series created in 2003 to celebrate the 50th anniversary
of the Museum’s prestigious Concerts and Lectures series. Currently, he
is the artistic director, host, and resident performer of the Musical
Masterworks concert series in Old Lyme, Connecticut, as well as the
Festival Series in Beaufort, South Carolina and Chamber Music on Main at the Columbia
Museum in Columbia, SC. Additionally, Mr. Arron curates a series, “Edward Arron and Friends,”
at the Caramoor International Music Festival, and is the co-artistic director along with his wife,
pianist Jeewon Park, of the new Performing Artists in Residence series at the Clark Art Institute
in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Mr. Arron has performed numerous times at Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Halls, Lincoln Center’s
Alice Tully and Avery Fisher Halls, New York’s Town Hall, and the 92nd Street Y, and is a
frequent performer at Bargemusic. Festival appearances include Ravinia, Salzburg, Mostly
Mozart, BRAVO! Colorado, Tanglewood, Bridgehampton, Spoleto USA, Santa Fe, Seattle
Chamber Music, Great Mountains, Charlottesville, Telluride Musicfest, Seoul Spring, Lake
Champlain Chamber Music, and Bard Music Festival. He has participated in Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk
Road Project as well as Isaac Stern’s Jerusalem Chamber Music Encounters.
Edward Arron began playing the cello at age seven in Cincinnati and continued his studies in
New York with Peter Wiley. He is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where he was a student of
Harvey Shapiro. Mr. Arron has served on the faculty of New York University since 2009.