Here are the dates:

September 12 ~ Drew Petersen piano ~ Danbi Um violin
September 19 ~ TBA piano ~ Stella Chen violin
October 3 ~ Maxim Lando piano ~ Asi Matathias violin
October 17 ~ Roman Rabinovich piano ~ Joshua Brown violin
October 31 ~ Janice Carissa piano ~ Julian Rhee violin
November 14 ~ Mark Kaplan violin
November 21 ~ Avery Gagliano piano ~ Lun Li violin
December 5 ~ Albert Cano Smit piano ~ William Hagen violin
December 19 ~ Drew Petersen piano ~ Josef Spacek violin
January 9 ~ William Wolfram piano ~ Dmitri Berlinsky violin

January 23 ~ Albert Cano Smit piano ~ William Hagen violin
February 6 ~ Abigel Kralik violin
February 20 ~ Harmony Zhu piano ~ Nathan Meltzer violin
March 6 ~ Fei Fei piano ~ Stella Chen violin ~ Ettore Causa viola
March 20 ~ Stephen Beus piano ~ Oliver Neubauer violin
April 3 ~ Maxim Lando piano ~ Xiao-Dong Wang violin
April 10 ~ Michael Brown piano ~ Stefan Jackiw violin
April 24 ~ TBA piano ~ Itamar Zorman violin
May 1 ~ TBA piano ~ Jennifer Frautschi violin
May 15 ~ Harmony Zhu piano ~ Hao Zhou violin

Dear Friends and Music Lovers,

   We thank all of you who helped make last season a success—our musicians who played splendidly for appreciative audiences, music lovers who provided the enthusiasm for Jupiter’s music making, and all our supporters from near and afar for their gifts. Our brilliant artistic director Michael Volpert has again created 20 varied and beautiful programs.

   We hope you’re up for the musical journey, but if you come, it’s at your own risk during this pandemic. It continues to be dicey when gathering indoors, but we’ll follow state-city guidelines and we can offer:

♦ Spaced-apart seating
♦ Required wearing of masks by audience and staff
♦ HEPA-filter air purifiers in operation
♦ Hand sanitizers
♦ Doors to open 20 minutes before concert starts
♦ Request distancing when entering and exiting
♦ Suggest minimal, quiet talking

    Since the pandemic is evolving over time, we’ll be vigilant and flexible. For updates regarding concerts and requirements, please visit the website.

   This season there are no subscriptions. Tickets are by reservation only. Please visit our ticket page for details. And, as challenges remain, please consider of gift of $100 or more and become a “Friend,” or please give as much as you can to help keep Jupiter vibrant. Your financial support is truly needed.
   All gifts are tax deductible.
   Thank you so much,

Video Viewing ~ Classical Treats
February 8, 2021 Jupiter Concert

Greetings! Three months ago, our musicians brought warmth and joy with their wonderful music making on a cold, winter’s day with Classical Treats. The viewing is offered for $25, and we hope to cover the costs of production. Thanks so much for viewing the video of this concert, and for supporting Jupiter with gifts as well! MeiYing

View the video for $25

You will be automatically directed to the video page once payment is made. If not, click on the “return to merchant” link after checkout. Please go through the checkout process only once and do not use the back button or reload the page while making the purchase. If there are any problems, contact jupiternews@jupitersymphony.com.

Viewers comments of previous videos:

“Oh I thoroughly enjoyed the concert. Good to see Maxim and his dad. Familiar faces to me. I enjoyed the notes about the players. Till the next time...”

“Great playing and really nice camera work. Probably better than being there!”

“We so enjoyed the concert. The pianist was outstanding as was the musical selection.”

“It was wonderful. Thank you.”

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Musicians

Janice Carissa piano
Young Scholar of the Lang Lang Foundation, recipient of the 2018 Salon de Virtuosi Grant, winner of the 2014 piano competition at the Aspen Festival, and a top prizewinner of the IBLA Foundation’s 2006 piano competition (at age 8)

Oliver Neubauer violin
Recipient of the Gold Award at the 2018 National YoungArts Competition and winner of the 2017 Young Musicians Competition at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Zoë Martin-Doike viola
Member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, top prizewinner of the Primrose and Lenox competitions on viola and violin, respectively and founding violinist of the Aizuri Quartet

Mihai Marica cello
Winner of the Irving Klein, Viña del Mar, Salon de Virtuosi and Dotzauer competitions ~ “Mihai is a brilliant cellist and interpreter of music. His playing is spellbinding.” Mitchell Sardou Klein

Sooyun Kim flute
Winner of the Georg Solti Foundation Career Grant and a top prize at the ARD flute competition, she has been praised for her “vivid tone colors” by the Oregonian and as a “rare virtuoso of the flute” by Libération

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

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Program

HAYDN  Sonata No. 1 in G Major Hob XVI:40 ▪ 1784
  ~ sophisticated and subtly wrought, the Sonata is from a set of 3, arranged for string trio from the original for keyboard and published by Johann André in 1790

The sonatas were written for Princess Marie, the new bride of Prince Nicholas Esterházy, grandson of Haydn’s employer, Prince Nicholas I. Cramer’s Magazin der Musik, in its review in 1785, observed that they were “more difficult to perform than one initially believes. They demand the utmost precision, and much delicacy in performance.” In 2 contrasting movements, the pastoral Allegretto innocente is followed by a gleeful zany romp.

Conradin KREUTZER  Quintet in A Major ▪ between 1810 and 1820
  ~ in the late Classical–early Romantic style, the charming Quintet is written for the unusual combination of piano, flute, clarinet, viola, and cello with the piano as primus inter pares, first among equals—each movement a winner bearing a variety of melodic gifts and revealing a lively feeling for rhythm and color

Born in Messkirch to a respected Swabian burgher, Kreutzer (1780–1849) is considered a minor master of the Biedermeier epoch. He studied law in Freiburg before turning entirely to music after his father died in 1800. In 1804 he went to Vienna, where he met Haydn and probably studied with Albrechtsberger, one of Beethoven’s teachers. His active career included tours in Europe and several posts in Vienna, Stuttgart, Cologne, and other German cities, all the while composing numerous operas. Some of his music is not entirely forgotten—his settings for male chorus to Ludwig Uhland’s poems long remained popular with German and Austrian choirs; Das Nachtlager in Granada used to be revived occasionally in Germany; and his score for Der Verschwender continues to be performed in Austria.

Franz Anton HOFFMEISTER  Duo Concertante No. 1 in G Major ▪ [1790]
flute and viola
1st movement ~ Allegro
  ~ by Mozart’s friend and his principal publisher

MOZART  Piano Quartet No. 2 in E^b Major K. 493 ▪ 1786
  ~ a flawless masterpiece of utmost lightness and charm, with heavenly melodies

Mozart was under contract with the publisher Franz Anton Hoffmeister to write 3 piano quartets, a virtually new genre of his own invention. When the first (K. 478 in G minor) did not sell because of its difficulty for amateurs, Mozart was released from his obligation. Nine months later, which was two months after the completion of Le Nozze di Figaro, the second piano quartet (K. 493 in Eb Major) was published by Artaria. A little easier than the first, Alfred Einstein viewed it as “bright in color, but iridescent, with hints of darker shades.”

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Harry Munz audio engineer
Marc Basch videographer

For more about the musicians: guest artists • players
For further notes on the music: calendar