Elgar & Vaughan Williams
Thu, Jan 25, 2024, 6:30 & 9:00 pm
Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio at CMS
1 hour, no intermission
Program
Edward Elgar
(1857–1934)Sonata in E minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 82
(1918)Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872–1958)Quintet in C minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, and Double Bass
(1903)
Arnaud Sussmann
Paul Neubauer
Nicholas Canellakis
Blake Hinson
Winner of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Arnaud Sussmann has recently appeared as soloist with the Vancouver Symphony and the New World Symphony. As a chamber musician, he has performed at the Tel Aviv Museum, London’s Wigmore Hall, the Dresden Music Festival, and the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC. He has also given concerts at the Moritzburg, Caramoor, Music@Menlo, La Jolla SummerFest, Mainly Mozart, Seattle Chamber Music, Chamber Music Northwest, and Moab Music festivals. An alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, Sussmann is Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach and Co-Director of Music@Menlo’s International Program, and teaches at Stony Brook University. In September 2022, he was named Founding Artistic Director of the Boscobel Chamber Music Festival. Mr. Sussmann plays a 1731 Stradivarius violin on loan from a private owner.
Violist Paul Neubauer, hailed by the New York Times as a “master musician,” released two new albums in 2025 on First Hand Records, featuring the final works of two great composers: an all-Bartók album including the revised version of the Viola Concerto, and a Shostakovich recording that includes the monumental Viola Sonata. Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at the age of 21, Neubauer has appeared as soloist with the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki Philharmonics; the Chicago, National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth Symphonies; and the Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle Orchestras. He has premiered viola concertos by Bartók (revised version), Friedman, Glière, Jacob, Kernis, Lazarof, Müller-Siemens, Ott, Penderecki, Picker, Suter, and Tower. A two-time Grammy nominee, Neubauer is artistic director of the Mostly Music series in New Jersey and serves on the faculties of the Juilliard School and Mannes College.
Nicholas Canellakis has become one of the most sought-after and innovative cellists of his generation, praised in the New Yorker as a “superb young soloist.” Recent highlights include solo debuts with the Virginia, Albany, Bangor, and Delaware symphony orchestras; concerto appearances with the Erie Philharmonic, the New Haven Symphony, and the American Symphony Orchestra; Europe and Asia tours with CMS; and recitals throughout the US with his longtime duo collaborator, pianist-composer Michael Stephen Brown. An alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, he is a regular guest artist at many of the world’s leading music festivals. Canellakis is the Artistic Director of Chamber Music Sedona in Arizona and is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music (where he was recently appointed to the cello faculty) and New England Conservatory.
Blake Hinson is a New York–based performer and educator. Assistant Principal Bass of the New York Philharmonic since 2016, and a member of the bass section since 2012; he maintains an active career that blends orchestral work, chamber music, and teaching. Beyond the Philharmonic, he has performed with Gerard Schwarz’s All-Star Orchestra in its 2022 and 2023 seasons and has recorded on major film soundtracks, including West Side Story (2021), In the Heights, and Don’t Worry Darling. Previously, he served as Principal Bass of the Grand Rapids Symphony and performed with the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center. An avid chamber musician, Hinson appears frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as well as the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, and on the Philharmonic’s Merkin Hall series. He teaches at the Manhattan School of Music and has held faculty and guest teaching roles at leading institutions.