Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
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Cho-Liang Lin
Kenneth Weiss
Daniel Phillips
Yura Lee
Cho-Liang Lin’s concert career launched in 1980 with his debut playing the Mendelssohn Concerto with the New York Philharmonic and Zubin Mehta. He has since performed as soloist with virtually every major orchestra in the world. At age 31 he joined the faculty of the Juilliard School, and in 2006 was appointed professor at Rice University. He was music director of La Jolla SummerFest for 18 years, currently serves as artistic director of the Beare’s Premiere Music Festival in Hong Kong, and recently founded the Taipei Music Academy and Festival. Many of today’s composers have written for him, including John Harbison, Christopher Rouse, Tan Dun, John Williams, Steven Stucky, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Bright Sheng, Paul Schoenfield, Lalo Schifrin, and Joan Tower. Lin performs on Stradivari and Samuel Zygmuntowicz violins. His recordings can be heard on the Sony Classical, Decca, BIS, Delos, and Ondine labels.
Kenneth Weiss, a New York native, is a distinguished musician renowned for his expertise in early keyboard repertoire. A student of the legendary Gustav Leonhardt, he has garnered acclaim for his prize-winning recordings, including Bach’s Art of Fugue, The Well-Tempered Clavier, and Goldberg Variations. With a rich background as both a performer and educator, Kenneth has taught harpsichord at esteemed institutions such as Juilliard and the Haute École de Musique de Geneva. Currently, he serves as a professor of Chamber Music at the Paris Conservatory, where he inspires the next generation of musicians. This season, he will perform with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and participate in Bach festivals in Weimar, Leipzig, Lausanne, and in the Berkshires, showcasing his profound passion for Bach’s masterpieces. Kenneth’s performances continue to resonate with audiences worldwide, reflecting his deep commitment to the art of early music.
Violinist/violist Daniel Phillips enjoys a versatile career as a chamber musician, soloist, and teacher. A graduate of Juilliard, he counts among his teachers his father, Eugene Phillips, Ivan Galamian, Sally Thomas, Nathan Milstein, Sándor Végh, and George Neikrug. He co-founded the Orion String Quartet, which played worldwide for 37 years. Since winning the 1976 Young Concert Artists Competition, he has performed as soloist with many major orchestras. Along with his wife, Tara Helen O’Connor, he is the Co-Artistic Director of Music from Angel Fire. He was a member of the renowned Bach Aria Group and has toured and recorded in a string quartet for Sony with Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian, and Yo-Yo Ma. Phillips is a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and on the faculties of Bard College Conservatory and Juilliard. He plays a violin made by Samuel Zygmuntowicz in 2017 and a 1702 Stradivarius, and a viola made by his grandfather, Benjamin F. Phillips.
Violinist/violist Yura Lee is a multifaceted musician, as a soloist and as a chamber musician, and one of the very few that is equally virtuosic on both violin and viola. She has performed with major orchestras including those of New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. She has given recitals in London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Salzburg’s Mozarteum, the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. At age 12, she became the youngest artist ever to receive the Debut Artist of the Year prize at the Performance Today awards given by National Public Radio. She is the recipient of a 2007 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the first prize winner of the 2013 ARD Competition. She has received numerous other international prizes, including top prizes in the Mozart, Indianapolis, Hannover, Kreisler, Bashmet, and Paganini competitions. Her CD Mozart in Paris, with Reinhard Goebel and the Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie, received the prestigious Diapason d’Or Award. As a chamber musician, she regularly takes part in the festivals of Seattle, Marlboro, Salzburg, Verbier, and Caramoor. Her main teachers included Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Miriam Fried, Paul Biss, Thomas Riebl, Ana Chumachenko, and Nobuko Imai. An alum of CMS's Bowers Program, Lee is on the faculty at the USC Thornton School of Music in Los Angeles. She lives in Los Angeles with her dog Nugget.
Recorded live in Alice Tully Hall on December 19, 2017.
Video produced by Ibis Productions.