German Masters
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Op. 73 No. 3, "Emperor"
Musicians
Stas Chernyshev, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, is recently appointed principal clarinetist of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. He is the founder and artistic director of Fort Worth Performances for Autism, and a co-director of Opus Nova Chamber Music Series. Mr. Chernyshev is a prize winner of many international competitions, and has appeared at Carnegie Hall in New York, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., as well as in Switzerland, Spain, Germany, Russia, South Korea, Japan. A devoted chamber musician, Mr. Chernyshev has collaborated with Grammy-winning ensemblesEighth Blackbird and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, commissioned new works for his instrument. He has been featured on WQXR -New York’s classical music station and WHYY’s television program - On Stage at Curtis. Mr. Chernyshev holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music, and a Master’s degree from St. Petersburg Conservatory, Russia. He is an alumnus of Ensemble Connect (formerly Ensemble ACJW), a program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School and the Weill Music Institute, and ArtistYear, a program of the Curtis Institute of Music.
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Ann Hung, born in Taipei, Taiwan, began her musical studies at a young age, starting with piano at age five and clarinet at age nine. Dr. Hung is an active performer in the Dallas and Fort Worth area who regularly performs in the realms of both the orchestral and chamber music. She has shared the stage with the Fort Worth Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the members of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the faculty of the Juilliard School. Dr. Hung is always pushing the boundaries of her repertoire and skills, such as collaborating with jazz musicians and commissioning new composers. As a proponent of new music, she has avidlycommissioned new works including a wind quintet with her quintet Opus Now premiering in Symphony Space in NYC. One of the new works that Dr. Hung commissioned is included in a recently released album “Stained Glass Story” by Eldad Tarmu. Dr. Hung is currently teaching in Lewisville ISD, Burleson ISD as private lesson instructor and often plays with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra. She is the associate director of the Fort Worth Performances for Autism and co- founder of Opus Nova Chamber Music Series.
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Molly Baer joined the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in 2012. Before moving to Texas, Molly was a violin fellow at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach. She graduated from the New England Conservatory in Boston as a student of Miriam Fried, and received her Master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Music, where she studied with Andrés Cárdenes. Molly has participated in the National Orchestral Institute, National Repertory Orchestra, Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, and Music Academy of the West. Molly grew up in a suburb of Baltimore and enjoys returning to spend time with her family.
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Ke Mai (a.k.a. MaiKe), originally from China and began violin study at age four under his father’s influence. Before he joins Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in 2018, he was violinist of Dallas Opera Orchestra, the second violin principal of Des Moines Metro Opera.MaiKe study the art of violin playing with former Concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony, Emanuel Borok and received the Performance Diploma from SMU, Meadows School of Art in 2014. After Maike acquired Violin performing Masters and Bachelor degree in the National Music Academy of Ukraine in 2007,he won the position of the first violin of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine. In 2011, after a global online audition, MaiKe was selected as Principal Second Violinist for the 2011 YouTube Symphony Orchestra in Sydney, Australia,
As an active chamber music musician, Maike is the founding member of Cezanne Quartet, which awarded the Peak chamber music fellowship in Meadows school in SMU in 2014, won the second prize in the Coltman chamber music competition in Austin in 2015. Maike plays a rare fine violin made by Carl Becker in 1919. |
Praised by the Baltimore Sun for her “rich-toned solos,” 2015 Tokyo International Viola Competition semi-finalist Xinyi Xu is passionately engaged as an orchestral, chamber, and solo violist. A regular guest violist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra, she has performed under the batons of Jaap van Zweden, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Andris Nelsons, Ken-David Masur, and Charles Dutoit. She was a Fellowship Artist at the Tanglewood Music Center, and had previously participated in New York String Orchestra Seminar under the direction of Jamie Laredo, performing at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. A prolific chamber musician, Ms. Xu recently toured with violinist Sarah Chang, and has participated in Yellow Barn Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festival, among others. As a member of Cicada Chamber Players, she recorded with musicians from the New York region for the Bridge label. She has worked with renowned artist-teachers including Emmanuel Ax, Donald Weilerstein, Roger Tapping, Pamela Frank, Cho-Liang Lin, Ira Weller, Steve Tenenbom, and members from the Guarneri, Tokyo, Brentano, and Shanghai string quartets. She has performed chamber music with Leon Fleisher, Michael Kannen, Kathy Murdock, and appears regularly in recital with her husband, concert pianist Michael Bukhman. Ms. Xu holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Viola Performance from Bard College Conservatory of Music, a Bachelor of Arts degree in Language and Literature from Bard College, and a Master of Music degree and Artist Diploma from Yale School of Music, where she was the teaching assistant of Prof. Ettore Causa. She has pursued further graduate studies under the tutelage of CJ Chang at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.
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First Prize winner of both the 2013 Astral Artists Auditions and 2013 Sphinx competitions, Christine Lamprea joined the Sphinx Soloists Program, and as such is presented as soloist with orchestras worldwide. She also toured with the Sphinx Virtuosi across the U.S., in such venues as Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. She has appeared as soloist with the Costa Rica National Symphony, and the Houston, New Jersey, and San Antonio symphonies. A Gluck Community Service Fellow at The Juilliard School and the recipient of a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, she recently received a Sphinx MPower Artist Grant, and holds a Master’s degree from the New England Conservatory. She has studied with eminent cellists Bonnie Hampton, Natasha Brofsky and Matt Haimovitz. Ms. Lamprea is Lecturer in Cello at Texas Christian University for the 2018-2019 academic year.
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