Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival: Brahms, Sheng, Still, Monk
$25 ($10 student)
- Maggie Brady, violin
- Hayley Camp, violin
- Chantel Charis, violin
- Clare Cooney, violin
- Amir Kadamani González, violin
- Veda Hingert-McDonald, violin
- Blaise Magnière, violin
- Anthony Devroye, viola
- Julian Bennett, cello
- Kamila Dotta, cello
- Sarah Ghandour, cello
- Peyton Magalhaes, cello
- David Requiro, cello
- Christina Dahl, piano
- Oksana Ejokina (Ezhokina), piano
- Alex Fang, piano
- Emely Phelps, piano
- Anna Vertypolokh, piano
- Miri Yampolsky, piano
Bright Sheng — Angel Fire Duo (for violin & viola)
William Grant Still — Suite for Violin and Piano
Valentin Silvestrov (Valentyn Sylvestrov) — Three Compositions for Violin and Piano
Meredith Monk — Ellis Island (for 2 pianos)
Meredith Monk — Folkdance (for 2 pianos)
Anne Wilson — Lament for Five Cellos
Samuel Barber — Souvenirs for Piano Four Hands, Op. 28
Franz Schubert — 6 Grandes marches, D. 819 (for piano, four hands; 2 selections TBA)
Icicle Creek Center for the Arts is proud to present the 28th annual Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival with twelve live-streamed and in-person performances from Canyon Wren Recital Hall and Snowy Owl Theater. This year's Festival is dedicated to the memory and legacy of Harriet Bullitt, whose dream of creating an oasis for arts and education in North Central Washington brought Icicle Creek into existence. We honor her immense generosity, passion for the arts, spirit of adventure, and desire to bring people together through creative endeavors. Harriet's mission of bringing transformative artistic experiences to everyone is particularly resonant at this moment in time and we are honored to continue this legacy.
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About Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival
http://icicle.org/performances/icicle-creek-chamber-music-festival
About Hayley Camp, violin
About Chantel Charis, violin
About Anthony Devroye, viola
About Kamila Dotta, cello
About David Requiro, cello
First Prize winner of the 2008 Naumburg International Violoncello Competition, DAVID REQUIRO (pronounced re-KEER-oh) has emerged as one of today’s finest American cellists. After winning First Prize in both the Washington International and Irving M. Klein International String Competitions, he also captured a top prize at the Gaspar Cassadó International Violoncello Competition in Hachioji, Japan, coupled with the prize for the best performances of works by Cassadó.
Mr. Requiro has made concerto appearances with the National Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Tokyo Philharmonic, and several orchestras from California including the Marin, Oakland East Bay, Peninsula, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, and Stockton Symphonies. He also has been featured as soloist with the Ann Arbor, Breckenridge, Canton, Edmonton, Lansing, Olympia, Pine Bluff, and Santa Fe Symphony Orchestras as well as with the Northwest Sinfonietta, Symphony ProMusica, and Naples Philharmonic. His Carnegie Hall debut recital at Weill Hall was followed by a critically acclaimed San Francisco Performances recital at the Herbst Theatre. Soon after making his Kennedy Center debut, Mr. Requiro also completed the cycle of Beethoven’s Sonatas for Piano and Cello at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Actively involved in contemporary music, Mr. Requiro appeared as a guest artist at the 2010 Amsterdam Cello Biennale where he gave the Dutch premiere of Pierre Jalbert’s Sonata for Cello and Piano. He has collaborated with composers such as Krzysztof Penderecki and Bright Sheng, as well as with members of the Aspen Percussion Ensemble, giving the Aspen Music Festival premiere of Tan Dun’s concerto, Elegy: Snow in June, for cello and percussion. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Requiro is a founding member of the Baumer String Quartet and frequently performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Takács String Quartet, Seattle Chamber Music Society, Concertante Chamber Players, ECCO (East Coast Chamber Orchestra), and the Alexander String Quartet. For over seven seasons, he has served as a frequent performing artist of the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players Series in New York City. The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center recently appointed Mr. Requiro to its prestigious Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two) beginning in 2018.
In 2015, Mr. Requiro was appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. He previously served as Artist-in-Residence at the University of Puget Sound as well as Guest Lecturer at the University of Michigan. His artist faculty appointments include the Music@Menlo Festival, Bowdoin International Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival, Giverny Chamber Music Festival, Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival and Institute, Innsbrook Music Festival and Institute, Maui Classical Music Festival, and Olympic Music Festival. Along with duo partner Meta Weiss, he co-founded the Boulder Cello Festival in 2020.
A native of Oakland, California, Mr. Requiro began cello studies at age six and his teachers have included Milly Rosner, Bonnie Hampton, Mark Churchill, Michel Strauss, and Richard Aaron.
https://www.davidrequiro.com/About Christina Dahl, piano
Christina Dahl has established a reputation as one of the leading teachers of her generation, working for nearly twenty years in the Stony Brook University graduate music department, a program that has fostered eclectic pianists whose careers range from Bang On a Can and Yarn/Wire membership to prizewinning in the Cleveland Competition, the Gina Bachauer, the Orleans and other international solo competitions. Since childhood her focus has been on chamber music: Christina can be heard on the Bridge, Albany and Tzadik labels. She has twice been a cultural ambassador for the US State Department, and has toured and taught master classes in Africa, South America, and the United States.
http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/music/aboutus/faculty/dahl_christina.htmlAbout Oksana Ejokina (Ezhokina), piano
Russian-born pianist Oksana Ejokina appears frequently as guest recitalist and chamber musician on concert series across the United States and abroad. Oksana is the pianist of the Volta Piano Trio, whose recordings received accolades in multiple international music magazines, such as The Strad, Gramophone and American Record Guide. A sought-after teacher, Ejokina is Chair of Piano Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University. She has been associated with the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts for nearly fifteen years serving as Artistic Director of several flagship classical music programs.
https://www.plu.edu/music/staff/oksana-ezhokina/About Alex Fang, piano
About Emely Phelps, piano
About Anna Vertypolokh, piano
https://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/music/people/graduate-profiles/performance/anna_vertypolokh.php
About Miri Yampolsky, piano
Pianist Miri Yampolsky made her orchestral debut as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and maestro Zubin Mehta at the age of 16, playing Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No.1. Since then, she has appeared with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and Israel Chamber Orchestra, as well as the Mainz Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica de Valencia, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, National Orchestra of Johannesburg, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra, and Cornell Symphony and Chamber Orchestra. A first prize winner of the Valencia International Piano Competition Prize Iturbi in Valencia, and the ARD International Music Competition in Munich, Ms. Yampolsky is an avid and active chamber musician, with appearances in festivals such as Tanglewood; Ravinia; Davos; Berlin Festwoche; Tucson Winter International Chamber Music Festival; Olympic Music Festival; Icicle Creek Chamber Music Festival; Peninsula Music Festival; Hitzacker Music Days; Schwetzingen Festival; Sessa Musica d'Insieme; Citta di Castelo; Klassikfest Kaisrstuhl; Lucena International Piano Festival and Salzburg's Mozarteum.
Yampolsky's teachers include Hannah Shalgi, Michael Boguslavsky, and Chaim Taub in Israel; Prof. Dmitri Bashkirov and Marta Gulyas at the Escuela Superior De Musica "Reina Sofia" in Madrid; and Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore. Yampolsky was a recipient of AICF grants between 1985-1996, and is on the faculty at Cornell University and is a co-artistic director of Mayfest. She lives with her husband, Xak Bjerken, and three children, Misha, Anna, and Maya.
https://music.cornell.edu/miri-yampolsky