Dear Music Lovers,

We’ve missed many of you this season;
thus hope we’ll soon see you at Jupiter,
for there’s good reason.
The music’s, oh, so fantastic,
Played by virtuosos e’er so slick.

So why not rally round—
Come often to West 66
to enjoy our gorgeous sound
and intriguing picks,
Performed honestly without tricks.

Our coffers also need your dollars and cents,
and since we’re oft-told how great Jupiter is—
a gift of bliss,
We seek without pretense
your support to help us out
to make our treasury stout.

Thank you so much.

Monday, February 6, 2pm and 7:30pm 
Classical Gems

Seymour Lipkin piano
Winner of the Rachmaninoff Piano Competition ~ collaborated and toured with many great artists, among them Jascha Heifetz and the Guarneri Quartet ~ artistic director of Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival

Shmuel Ashkenasi violin
Winner of the Merriweather Post and Tchaikovsky competitions, he has been called a “genuine talent and profoundly gifted” by The Vienna Express. As first violinist of the Vermeer Quartet, he received five Grammy Award nominations and has gained a reputation as one of the world’s outstanding chamber musicians.

Bernhard Henrik CRUSELL  Clarinet Quartet No. 2 in C minor Op. 4
    ~ son of a poor bookbinder, Crusell is Finland’s leading Classical composer, its first great master of chamber music and clarinet virtuoso ~ the delightful quartet spins endless lovely melodies

BEETHOVEN  String Quintet in C minor Op. 104
    ~ his arrangement of the 1795 Piano Trio Op. 1 No. 3 shocked his contemporary listeners with a transformation that exploded with color, dynamic contrasts and fiery rhetoric alternating with intense emotions ~ featured in Vikram Seth’s best-selling novel, An Equal Music

MOZART  Piano Quartet No. 2 in E^b Major K 493
    ~ a flawless masterpiece with heavenly melodies

Jupiter Players on this program:

Lisa Shihoten violin
Winner of the Marcia Polayes, Menuhin and Nakamichi competitions

Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt viola
Winner of the 2010 Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition as well as the Fischoff, Tokyo and Sphinx competitions ~ “she should have a great future” Tully Potter ~ Wigmore Hall

Maurycy Banaszek viola
Winner of numerous violin, viola & chamber music awards

David Requiro cello
Winner of the Naumburg, Irving Klein and Washington String competitions ~ “Requiro concocted a nearly irresistible incitement to jump up and dance.” The Naples News

Vadim Lando clarinet
Winner of the CMC Canada, Yale and Stonybrook competitions ~ “consistently distinguished...vibrant, precise, virtuosic playing” The New York Times
 

Monday, February 20, 2pm and 7:30pm 
Virtuosi Veloci

Gilles Vonsattel piano
An artist of uncommon breadth. Winner of a 2008 Avery Fisher Career Grant as well as the Naumburg, Geneva and Honens competitions.

Stefan Jackiw violin
Winner of the 2002 Avery Fisher Career Grant. He is now one of the most significant artists of his generation, capturing audiences with his poetry and purity, combined with an impeccable technique.

Frank Morelli bassoon
One of the most influential bassoonists in the United States today ~ “A joy to behold” Gramophone

Nicolo PAGANINI  Duetto Concertante No. 1 in F Major MS 130
    ~ this finger buster for violin and bassoon is one of three duets written at the age of 17 for an unnamed Swiss bassoonist who complained that he had “too little difficult music to play”

Gioachino ROSSINI  Sonata a quattro No. 3 in F Major
    ~ the opera composer once viewed his 6 quartets for strings (written in three days at age 12) as “dreadful.” Hardly so; his 1808 transcriptions for flute, clarinet, horn and bassoon especially enhance the timbres of their sunny disposition and precocious, enchanting melodies

Luigi BOCCHERINI  Nocturne in E^b Major Op. 38 G. 467
v most likely composed while he was in Spain living on a royal pension ~ for flute, horn, bassoon, violin, viola and double bass

Luigi CHERUBINI  Morceau
    ~ regarded by Beethoven as the greatest of his contemporaries, the little piece is for bassoon and double bass

Giuseppe MARTUCCI  Piano Quintet in C Major Op. 45
    ~ his first masterpiece—graceful and melodically striking—expresses romance, passion and drama ~ championed by Toscanini, Martucci revived Italy’s interest in non-operatic music

NEW YORK CANVAS : The Art of Michael McNamara is a video portrait of the artist who has painted iconic images of New York City for more than a decade, capturing the changing urban landscape of his adopted city. Our Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players provide the music from Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G Minor, underscoring the inspiration the artist has drawn from Jens Nygaard and the musicians. Michael was also our Jupiter volunteer from 2002 to 2010.

To view this excellent documentary, just click on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdmufpEtRmY

To view an extended clip of the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players performance from the documentary, visit our video page

The producer-director, Martin Spinelli, also made the EMMY Award-winning “Life On Jupiter: The Story of Jens Nygaard, Musician.”

Jupiter’s concerts recently reviewed...

“..the group’s efforts proved illuminating ...Mr. Brown played a lovely, subtly virtuosic cadenza for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 by Jens Nygaard, the ensemble’s founder, who died in 2001, but whose fascination with rarities continues to drive its programming”
Allan Kozinn, The New York Times   more...

ConcertoNet
“Mr. Nygaard’s cadenza flowed down Mozart lanes and paths, each with beautiful backgrounds. And at the very end, Mr. Nygaard brought forth that martial major theme, like an unexpected gift.” 
Harry Rolnick, ConcertoNet   more...

Monday, March 5, 2pm and 7:30pm 
Spanish Flavors

Roman Rabinovich piano
Winner of the Rubinstein, Animato and Arjil competitions, the Salon Virtuosi Award and Vendome Prize ~ “I have rarely seen an artist with such individual and communicative charisma.” Peter Cossé ~ Record Geijutsu ~ “He exhibited an ultimate and captivating artistic level.” Hagai Hitron ~ Haaretz

Xiao-Dong Wang violin
Twice winner of the Yehudi Menuhin Violin Competition, and First Prize and special Szymanovski Prize winner of the Wieniawski-Lipinski International Competition

Joaquín TURINA  Piano Trio No. 1 in D Major Op. 35
    ~ sensuous and expansive, the trio by the Spaniard from Seville premiered in London on July 5, 1927 with Turina at the piano

Heitor VILLA-LOBOS  Fantaisie concertainte
    ~ sonorous chordal chromaticism and tricky rhythms define the Brazilian composer’s colorful and spicy trio, while demanding technique from the players of the piano, clarinet and bassoon

Astor PIAZZOLLA  L’histoire du tango
    ~ beginning with the erotic milonga “Bordel 1900,” the tango cycle for flute and guitar by the Argentine then depicts the genteel, languorous “Café 1930,” a jazzy “Nightclub 1960,” and the somewhat abstract “Concert d’aujourd’hui”

Alberto GINASTERA  Impresiones de la Puna
    ~ portrayal of the rocky wasteland of Puna—in the heart of the Incas up in the Andes mountains—and its Amerindian music ~ for flute and string quartet

Enrique GRANADOS  Piano Quintet in G minor Op. 49
    ~ the Catalan composer’s highly expressive, impetuous, virtuosic quintet, with hints of Moorish, gypsy and folkloric elements
 

If you wish to purchase your own copy to remember Jens by, call 1-866-LIFEONJ (1-866-543-3665) or for more information visit www.lifeonjupiter.com