CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Performance
Sunday, Mar 18, 2012 | 4 PM
Neighborhood Concert: Jennifer Koh, Violin and Reiko Uchida, Piano
Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library
Violinist Jennifer Koh can be summed up like this: daring, vivacious, and brilliant. Collaborating with the most ground-breaking contemporary composers on the scene, Koh traces the threads connecting new music to music of the past. As part of Carnegie Hall’s American Mavericks festival, their program features works by American composers Jennifer Higdon, John Adams, Missy Mazzoli, and Lou Harrison, including a piece written expressly for Koh by Higdon. Koh describes her career as a musician: “I always knew I wanted music in my life, but I never thought of this as a career—I got an English degree at Oberlin. I almost feel as though the career is a side note to the act of studying to be a musician. The work process is what I love most, and performance is just a part of that process.”
Performing solo and chamber music concerts internationally, Reiko Uchida is recognized as one of the finest, most versatile pianists on the music scene. A member of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two, Uchida has collaborated with celebrated artists David Shifrin, Jaime Laredo, and Sharon Robinson, and is a member of the Laurel Trio and the Moebius Ensemble.
This concert is part of American Mavericks, a citywide celebration of the pioneers of the American sound, presented by Carnegie Hall and San Francisco Symphony. Visit carnegiehall.org/mavericks for more information.
Performers
- Jennifer Koh, Violin
- Reiko Uchida, Piano
Program
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JENNIFER HIGDON
String Poetic
·· Jagged Climb
·· Nocturne
·· Blue Hills of Mist
·· Maze Mechanical
·· Climb Jagged
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JOHN ADAMS
Road Movies
·· Relaxed Groove
·· Meditative
·· 40% Swing
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-intermission-
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MISSY MAZZOLI
Dissolve, O my Heart
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HARRISON
Grand Duo
·· Prelude
·· Stampede
·· A Round (Annabel and April's)
·· Air
·· Polka
Audio
"Road Movies: I. Relaxed Groove"
Jennifer Koh
Violin Recital: Koh, Jennifer - Higdon, J. / Harrison, L. / Adams, J. / Ruggles, C. (String Poetic)
In the Artist's Own Words
I am very happy to be part of Carnegie Hall’s American Mavericks
series. Maverick composers are historically the composers that we now
look back on and view as the “great” composers: Bach, Haydn, Mozart,
Beethoven, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartok (the list should continue, but
there is not enough space) were all iconoclastic, maverick composers of
their times.
Program Notes