Mozart & Brahms

Casual Concert: February 9th, 2020 @ 7:30 PM
Salon Concert: February 10th, 2020 @ 7:30 PM

​Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart brought the status of the clarinet to new heights when he set some of his most profoundly lyrical melodies for the instrument. Carrying the elegant phrase structures of the First Viennese School into the romantic era, Brahms explores the timbre of the instrument in an even richer setting with his powerful yet tender Quintet. Although this program features two unparalleled masters firmly in the classical canon, the unfinished Allegros of Mozart (presented as finished works on this concert) are scarcely performed treasures. 

Program

 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Allegro in B flat major, KV 516c for Clarinet and String Quartet 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Allegro in F major, KV 580b, for Clarinet, Basset Horn, and String Trio
Intermission 
Johannes Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op. 115 for Clarinet and String Quartet 

Listen

Musicians
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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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Eugene Cherkasov has been a member of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra for over 20 years. He was born and trained in Baku, USSR, and started his career after winning a National Competition at the age of eighteen. He first received international acclaim after performing as a soloist and first violinist with the Quartet of Modern Music at the Frankfurt Feste-89 and at Beethovenhaus in Bonn, Germany. At that time he traveled extensively promoting new composers for wide audiences throughout the USSR and abroad. He later served as the concertmaster of several orchestras in Moscow. In 1990 Eugene and his family moved to Mexico, where he performed with the Mexico State Orchestra. Winning the position of first violinist with the Thouvenel String Quartet brought him to the United States in 1991. Eugene has served as concertmaster and appeared as a soloist with numerous orchestras in Texas. He has also performed in  festivals in Michigan, Colorado, Texas, Washington, Vermont, Canada and Germany, was a faculty member of the Wintergreen festival in Virginia. Over the past ten years Eugene has participated in various summer festivals in Italy, including Geminiani and Nei Suoni dei Luoghi, where he performed violin-piano recitals with his wife, Larissa. In 2004 Eugene was a soloist with the renowned Ensemble Archi Della Scala  di Milano,  performing Bach and Haydn concertos in France.  

Eugene graduated with honors from the Baku State Conservatory with a Master’s Degree in Violin Performance and Pedagogy. He also obtains an Artistic Diploma and a Doctorate from the Moscow State Conservatory, where he studied with professor S. Kravchenko. Currently Eugene is the Assistant Concertmaster of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and dedicates much of his time to teaching and performing chamber music.

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Violinist Ordabek Duissen has won several awards at numerous international competitions including 1st prize in the Franz Schubert competition in Italy, 2nd prize in the International Violin Competition in Astana, Kazakhstan, the diploma in the Michelangelo Abbado International Competition in Milan,( Italy), Grand Prize in the National Competition in Kazakhstan. Born into a family of renowned musicians in Almaty,Kazakhstan, he began studying the violin at the age of 7 at K. Baiseitova State Special Music School for gifted children. At the age of 11 he won 1st prize at the International competition in Central Asia and former Soviet Union's republics and had his debut with an orchestra at age of 10.
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He has participated in various international music festivals as a soloist and chamber musician at “Music of Laguna” (Italy), “Ost-West Musicfest” ,“Mozarteum”(Austria), Pacific Music Festival (Japan) and many others. He also had solo appearances in Lincoln Hall, UNESCO. Ordabek has taken master classes with violinists such as Sergei Kravchenko, Eduard Grach (Russia), Takashi Shimizu (Japan), Tuomas Haapanen (Finland), Vadim Gluzman (Israel-USA), Midori, Paul Kantor(USA) and others.
As a soloist and chamber musician he has toured and performed in many countries including the Ukraine, Russia, Italy, France, Austria, Great Britain, South Korea, Mexico and throughout the United States. Ordabek, a virtuoso violinist, in his native country is a remarkably first violinist to ever perform all 24 Caprices for Violin Solo by Niccolo Paganini in the course of one concert, with this program Ordabek played concerts in Kazakhstan.
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After graduation with honors from the Kazakh National Academy of Music in Astana, Kazakhstan, Ordabek received a Meadows full scholarship and Meadows award to continue his study at the Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts in Dallas. Ordabek also plays in a duo with his sister Dina in the "Duissen-Duo". In November 2011 joined the Dallas Opera Orchestra as Assistant Concertmaster. In 2013 Ordabek was awarded "Honored Artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan" title for his contribution in arts and culture of Kazakhstan. In 2014 Ordabek was awarded Youth Government award "Daryn" in classical music nomination in Kazakhstan. Currently, he is a member of Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra section first violin and Concertmaster at AIMS summer festival in Graz, Austria.

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Ukrainian violist Anna Kolotylina was born in 1988. She began to play violin at the age of 5. Her first teacher was her aunt, Valentina Hrysuk. While at school, she performed as a soloist with a Lutsk Philharmonic Orchestra and was part of famous Ukrainian ensemble “Volyniany” which have been concertizing throughout Slovak Republic, Poland, Ausrtia, Luxemburg, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal. In 1999 and 2001 Ms. Kolotylina won a First Prize and Grand Prix at the Regional Competition in Lutsk and participated in  Kiev National Competition getting the diploma “New Name in Ukraine”.

In 2003 she studied at the special music school named after Solomia Krushelnytska in Lviv, Ukraine where she was the soloist with the Lviv Symphony Orchestra. In 2006 Anna entered the National Lviv Music Academy and after one year she participated at the Rencontres Musicales and was very privileged to be accepted to study at the International Menuhin Music Academy, Switzerland. While studying at the Lemberg Conservatory and the Menuhin Academy, Ms. Kolotylina participated at the International Brahms Competition (Pörtschach, Austria) and was awarded a scholarship from the foundation of the competition. Anna was a part of the IMMA Quartet which in 2011 won the First Prize and the Audience Prize at the “Chamonix Mont Blanc” International Competition in France. 

She finished her studies at the Menuhin Academy and received her Master’s Degree at the National Lviv  Music Academy in 2011. During this time she had many concerts with string ensemble “Camerata Menuhin ” in Switzerland, Italy and Portugal. In 2013 Anna Kolotylina completed the Gstaad String Academy Master Class with Ettore Causa, Igor Ozim and Ivan Monighetti. She was accepted to participate at the International ARD Competition 2013. In 2014 Ms. Kolotylina was privileged to be accepted to the final stage at the famous Berliner Philarmonie. Her teachers were Alberto Lysy, Jeremy Menuhin, Franz Helmerson, Gàbor Takàcs, Mihaela Martin, Liviu Prunaru, Martin Beaver,  Nobuko Imai and Ettore Causa. She performed in Victoria Hall (Geneva), Tonhalle (Zurich), Casino (Bern), Tonhalle (Sant-Galen), Casino (Basel), Walt Disney Concert Hall ( Los Angeles). Anna was performing at Zipper Hall, (Los Angeles) with famous Ebene String Quartet and Tokyo String Quartet and with member of Gurneri String Quartet Arnold Steinhardt. Performed in orchestra conducted by Yehuda Gilad, Bramwell Tovey, Neville Merriner, James Conlon, Gustavo Dudamel.

Anna has won a position at The Oregon Symphony in 2015 and worked at the Orchestra for half of the year. She was invited to perform as a soloist at the Los Angeles based festival " Le Salon de Musique" at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion.

Ms. Kolotylina is not only a great performer on violin and viola she is a high knowledge teacher. Anna was privileged to teach at the Lviv National High School for two years and during the Summer 2014 she was invited to teach at the International Idyllwild Summer Festival, USA. She gave two big solo and chamber music recitals and had 14 students to teach. She was a teaching assistant at The Menuhin Academy. Ms. Kolotylina loves teaching and always gives her passion and love to her young students.

She has finished an Artist Diploma at The Colburn School, (Los Angeles) in 2016 studied with a great viola professor Paul Coletti.  

In 2016 Ms. Kolotylina had a teaching position at Lousiana Academy of Performing Arts and was working at Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra as an principal viola assistant and at the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra as an principal solo viola. 

​Currently, Anna won a Principal Viola job at Fort Worth Symphony.

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Allan Steele, principal cellist with the Fort Worth Symphony, is a performer, teacher, and composer. Mr. Steele maintains an active solo career and has performed with the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra, the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, the American Youth Symphony, and others. He has premiered several works in chamber or orchestral settings by composers such as Mark Antony Turnage and Stephen Cohn, as well as performing the world premiere of Henri Lazarof's Fifth Cello Concerto. Mr. Steele has studied with a number of notable pedagogues such as Tanya Carey, Hans Jensen, and Susan Moses. Music festival appearances include Indiana University's Summer String Program, The Meadowmount School of Music, and the Montreal International String Quartet Academy. He is a graduate of the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied with Ronald Leonard. He is a regular in the chamber music scene, performing with musicians such as Edgar Myers, Paul Coletti, Arnold Steinhardt, and Vadym Kholodenko. Steele is a founding member of the classical music group, "MC2" and devotes much of his spare time to composing and arranging. ​