Mozart & Bruch

Live Concert: February 1st, 2021 @ 7:30 PM
Virtual Concert: February 3rd, 2021 @ 7:30 PM

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Ever the pioneer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart broke ground when he composed his substantial Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, K. 498 (nicknamed “Kegelstatt”). Along with his Clarinet Quintet and Clarinet Concerto, this trio further popularized the new woodwind instrument, and highlights its singing qualities with soaring phrases and gorgeous lyricism. The viola too, which was used to an accompanimental role at the time, is offered as much of a soloistic spotlight as the others. A gracious dialogue persists throughout the piece, culminating in a comprehensive Theme and Variations to finish. Along with Robert Schumann, Max Bruch would carry the torch from Mozart with this unique instrumentation into the Romantic era, with his Eight Pieces for Clarinet, Viola and Piano. Autumnal and heartfelt, these personal works can evoke the sentiment of Schumann or Brahms.

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Trio in E-flat major, K.498 "Kegelstatt" for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano
Max Bruch: Eight Pieces, Op. 83 for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano

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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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A soloist, chamber musician and educator, pianist Daniel Anastasio combines an intellectual curiosity with “technical prowess and emotional sensitivity” (Rivard Report). His performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto no. 3, conducted by Leon Fleisher with the Ithaca College Chamber Orchestra, was “the highlight to everyone’s ears, if the full-house of standing ovation were any indication” (ECM reviews). 
Anastasio was a concerto competition finalist at Stony Brook University and Juilliard, where he won the Mieczyslaw Munz Scholarship. He received fellowships to Music Academy of the West, Kneisel Hall, Tanglewood Music Center and Yellow Barn Music Festival. Anastasio is the co-founder and pianist for Unheard-of//Ensemble, a group dedicated to commissioning composers and premiering their works. With his wife, pianist Erika Dohi, he co-directs BLUEPRINTS piano series in Manhattan. Anastasio continues to perform in New York City’s many venues, from Carnegie’s Weill Hall to Roulette Intermedium and National Sawdust in Brooklyn. 
Recently joining the faculty of San Antonio College as a full-time piano instructor, Mr. Anastasio is a member of Agarita, a San Antonio-based chamber ensemble dedicated to making classical music accessible to everyone in San Antonio, reaching the whole of its community including the most underserved populations and geographic areas. He has been a repeat concerto soloist with the Mid-Texas Symphony, and guest with the Olmos Ensemble, and Musical Bridges Around the World.  
Anastasio received a Bachelor of Arts degree in music and philosophy at Cornell University, and a Master of Music degree at Juilliard. He is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts at Stony Brook University, where he is finishing his studies with Gilbert Kalish and Christina Dahl.

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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.