CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Ensemble Connect
Part of: Ensemble Connect
Ensemble Connect is also performing October 22, December 3, and April 6.
Performers
Ensemble Connect
·· Wilden Dannenberg, French Horn
·· Christopher Goodpasture, Piano
·· Suliman Tekalli, Violin
·· Jennifer Liu, Violin
·· Caeli Smith, Viola
·· Ari Evan, Cello
·· Arlen Hlusko, Cello
·· Ha Young Jung, Bass
Program
MOZART Piano Trio in G Major, K. 496
TJ COLE Silver, Blue (NY Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
FRANCK Piano Quintet in F Minor
Event Duration
The printed program will last approximately two hours, 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.
Learn More
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.
Support for the 125 Commissions Project is provided by members of Carnegie Hall's Composer Club.
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
MOZART Piano Trio in G Major, K. 496
The first of Mozart’s six piano trios, K. 496 belongs to the fruitful period of the mid-1780s that produced such masterpieces as The Marriage of Figaro, the six “Haydn” string quartets, and the “Jupiter” Symphony. Although it was called a piano sonata with string accompaniment, the three instruments are, in fact, fully equal partners.
TJ COLE Silver, Blue
TJ Cole’s Silver, Blue explores sound, time, patterns, and interactions among performers. The composer’s experience of synesthesia, a condition in which different senses are associated with each other, inspired the title. Silver and blue are the predominant colors she associates with the sounds of the composition.
FRANCK Piano Quintet in F Minor
The youthful ardor of Franck’s Piano Quintet—the first of a series of chamber music masterpieces he produced in the last dozen years of his life—belies the fact that the composer was in his mid-50s. At its Paris premiere in 1880, a reviewer for the Revue et gazette musicale characterized it as a “work of grand breadth and high style.”
Bios
Ensemble Connect
Artistry. Education. Advocacy. Entrepreneurship.
Ensemble Connect is a two-year fellowship program for extraordinary young professional classical musicians residing in the US that prepares them for careers that combine musical excellence with teaching, community engagement, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and leadership. It offers top-quality performance opportunities, intensive professional development, and partnerships throughout the fellowship with New York City public schools.
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.