Ensemble Connect
Ensemble Connect is also performing December 3, February 17, and April 6.
Performers
Ensemble Connect
·· Leo Sussman, Flute
·· Tamara Winston, Oboe
·· Noémi Sallai, Clarinet
·· Yen-Chen Wu, Bassoon
·· Wilden Dannenberg, French Horn
·· Sae Hashimoto, Percussion
·· Mika Sasaki, Piano (Alum)
·· Gergana Haralampieva, Violin
·· Brian Hong, Violin
·· Meagan Turner, Viola
·· Ari Evan, Cello
Program
TANIA LEÓN De Memorias
JENNIFER HIGDON Zaka
BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately 90 minutes, including one 20-minute intermission.Salon Encores
Get together with people who love music after this Weill Recital Hall concert for a free drink and discussion with the evening's musicians.
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Ensemble Connect is a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute in partnership with the New York City Department of Education.
Lead funding has been provided by Marina Kellen French and the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Max H. Gluck Foundation, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Irving Harris Foundation, Hearst Foundations, The Kovner Foundation, Phyllis and Charles Rosenthal, The Edmond de Rothschild Foundations, Beatrice Santo Domingo, and Hope and Robert F. Smith.
Global Ambassadors: Hope and Robert F. Smith, and Maggie and Richard Tsai.
Additional support has been provided by the Arnow Family Fund, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, E.H.A. Foundation, Barbara G. Fleischman, Leslie and Tom Maheras, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Susan and Elihu Rose Foundation, Sarah Billinghurst Solomon and Howard Solomon, and Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Public support is provided by the New York City Department of Education and the New York State Council on the Arts with support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Ensemble Connect is also supported, in part, by endowment grants from The Kovner Foundation.
In honor of the centenary of his birth, Carnegie Hall’s 2019–2020 season is dedicated to the memory of Isaac Stern in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to Carnegie Hall, arts advocacy, and the field of music.
At a Glance
TANIA LEÓN De Memorias
Like much of Tania León’s music, this colorful, highly rhythmic wind quintet is animated by the spirit of the dance. The Cuban-born composer launched her career in the 1960s with a string of works written for the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Although she hasn’t written a full-fledged ballet in almost four decades, the kinetic impulse is fundamental to recent works like Pa’lante, commissioned by Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
JENNIFER HIGDON Zaka
A strong sense of pulse and rhythm is equally central to the music of Jennifer Higdon. Written for the Chicago-based new music ensemble Eighth Blackbird, the freewheeling, nonsensically titled sextet Zaka is supercharged by a shifting “rock ‘n’ roll” beat that Higdon—a late bloomer who composed her first piece as a college student—picked up as a youngster listening to the Beatles, Rolling Stones, and other groups.
BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26
Although the powerful Viennese critic Eduard Hanslick dismissed the A-Major Quartet as “a continual putting together and taking apart, preparation without objective, promise without fulfillment,” Clara Schumann considered it “more beautiful” and “finer altogether” than its companion in G minor.
Bios
Ensemble Connect
On the concert stage and in schools and communities, Ensemble Connect has earned accolades from critics and audiences alike for the quality of the concerts, the fresh and open-minded approach to programming, and the ability to actively engage any audience.
Moving on to the next stage of their careers, Ensemble Connect’s 119 alums are now making an impact on the national and international musical landscape in a wide variety of artistic and educational arenas. Continuing the strong bonds formed through the program, in 2011 alums formed the chamber music collective Decoda, which has been named an affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall.
Exemplary performers, dedicated teachers, and passionate advocates of music throughout the community, the forward-looking musicians of Ensemble Connect are redefining what it means to be a musician in the 21st century.