Tuneful Travels
Sun, Oct 6, 2024, 11:00 am & 1:00 pm
Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio at CMS
1 hour, no intermission
From the gentle sway of slow melodies to the lively rhythm of fast tunes, join us for a magical journey where music becomes a vibrant expression of joy and movement.
Every CMS Kids event offers a Relaxed Performance, fostering an inclusive concert experience free from judgment. This performance is less formal and more supportive of sensory, communication, movement, and learning needs. Learn more about what to expect here.
To ensure adequate safety and capacity, all attendees for this event, regardless of age, need a ticket. This includes children that will be sitting in a guardian's lap during the performance.
Program
Niccolò Paganini
(1782–1840)Duetto concertante in D major for Violin and Bassoon, MS 130, No. 3
(c. 1800)Niccolò Paganini
(1782–1840)Duetto concertante in C minor for Violin and Bassoon, MS 130, No. 2
(c. 1800)Mikhail Glinka
(1804–1857)Trio pathétique in D minor for Clarinet, Bassoon, and Piano
(1832)Maurice Ravel
(1875–1937)Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré for Violin and Piano
(1922)
Rami Vamos
Mika Sasaki
Clara Neubauer
Gina Cuffari
Rami Vamos thinks about music all day long. His alarm clock plays music to wake him up. Then he teaches music to young children in a public school in Pelham, NY. Then he practices his guitar. Then he helps his children (who play the guitar and the violin) practice their instruments. After his children go to sleep, he practices his guitar and plays music that he wrote with his wife, Nurit Pacht. Nurit plays the violin. Before bed he writes musical shows for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. They are mostly about a musical character he invented named Wolfgang Amadeus Schmutzinberry. Schmutzinberry also loves music. After Rami goes to sleep, he dreams all night about music until his alarm clock plays him another song.
Pianist Mika Sasaki is an imaginative and versatile soloist, chamber musician, and educator whose performances have taken her around the world. Her debut album, Obsidian: Mika Sasaki plays Clara Schumann, released on Yarlung Records in 2016, was highly acclaimed by the Online Merker as “illuminat[ing] the artistic inspiration and creative exchange between three Romantic souls,” Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms. Her performances have been broadcasted on WQXR, WFMT, KQAC, and Radio Sweden. She has appeared as concerto soloist with the Sinfonia of Cambridge, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, 92Y Orchestra, and, more recently, with the InterSchool Symphony Orchestra of New York, performing Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto. She is the pianist of Ensemble Mélange and appears regularly with the Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston, Manhattan Chamber Players, Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, and with her duo partners. Her festival appearances include Music@Menlo, Tanglewood, Chigiana, Taos, Yellow Barn, Aspen, Focus!, Icicle Creek, Mannes Beethoven Institute, Caramoor, Shandelee, Weekend of Chamber Music, Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, and many others. An advocate of both old and new repertoire, she can be heard championing works from the Baroque to the present, and has commissioned chamber music and solo works by Max Grafe, Emily Cooley, Andrew Hsu, and Jonathan Dawe. An alumna of the Peabody Conservatory, Ensemble Connect, and the Juilliard School, Sasaki is now a faculty member at Juilliard. Her teachers have included Benjamin Pasternack, Gilbert Kalish, and Joseph Kalichstein.
Praised for her “seductive artistry” and “rare grace” (Classical Voice North America), violinist Clara Neubauer is a recent recipient of the Ana Chumachenco Award from the Kronberg Academy and the Peter Mennin Prize from the Juilliard School. Clara has appeared at festivals including the Ravinia Festival, Taos School of Music, Music@Menlo, Four Seasons, Music from Angel Fire, Olympic Music Festival, and Marlboro Music Festival. This season includes performances with the Mainly Mozart Festival, the Perlman Music Program, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, collaborating with artists including Mitsuko Uchida, Christoph Richter, Ida Kavafian, Alexi Kenney, Peter Wiley, Jennifer Frautschi, and Edward Aaron. Winner and recipient of the silver medal at the National YoungArts competition, Clara has appeared as soloist with the Wu¨rttemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn, the Symphony of Westchester, the National Repertory Orchestra, the New York Concerti Sinfonietta, the Little Orchestra Society, Ensemble 212, and the Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra. She has won prizes at the Adelphi Competition, the Symphony of Westchester Young Artist Competition, Ensemble 212 Young Artist Competition, and the Young Musicians Competition at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Clara was a Musical Ambassador for the Doublestop Foundation as winner of their Artist in You Competition and was featured on WQXR as part of their Young Musicians Showcase. Clara received her bachelor’s degree and is currently pursuing a master’s from the Juilliard School as a proud recipient of the Kovner Fellowship and a student of Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman. Born on 9/11/2001, Clara can be heard as the voice on the audio guide at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum along with Robert De Niro.
Bassoonist Gina Cuffari is a dynamic and versatile musician who performs a variety of roles in the New York City area as an orchestral musician, chamber musician, soloist, new music advocate, arts administrator, and educator. She is an Artistic Director and Co-Principal Bassoonist of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, as well as a member of the Riverside Symphony; she also appears with ensembles such as The Knights, American Composers Orchestra, and Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Inspired by the collaborative spirit of chamber music, she is a member of the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, Sylvan Winds, and Trio Cabrini, a clarinet, bassoon/voice, piano trio. Contemporary music has also been central to Gina's career; as a longtime collaborator with Alarm Will Sound, she has premiered countless works by living composers. She has also commissioned and co-created works with composers Jenni Brandon, Sunny Knable, Gregg August, and Allison Loggins-Hull that combine her two passions—singing and playing the bassoon—into one performing experience. Cuffari is currently on faculty at New York University and the Mostly Modern Music Festival, and is a coach for The Orchestra Now at Bard College. She has given masterclasses and “Singing Through Your Instrument” workshops across the country from the University of Arizona to Ohio University to Yale University. A native of Rochester, NY, she studied with Bill Winstead and Frank Morelli.