Inside Chamber Music: Farrenc's Quintet in A minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello, & Double Bass, Op. 30

• Sahun Sam Hong, piano
• Danbi Um, violin
• Paul Neubauer, viola
• Nicholas Canellakis, cello
• Lizzie Burns, double bass
• Bruce Adolphe, lecturer

Louise Farrenc was on the piano faculty of the Paris Conservatoire, a scholar of early keyboard music, a renowned performer, and an accomplished composer whose wonderful compositions are finally being rediscovered. Join us for an investigation of her piano quintet in A minor. This Inside Chamber Music lecture features a work from Quintet Odyssey on November 19, 2023.

About Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS)

http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/

About Sahun Sam Hong, piano

Praised as an "artist of enormous prowess" (Verbier Festival Newsletter) with "lots of clarity, confidence, and wisdom" (New York Concert Review), pianist Sahun Sam Hong brings his colorful style and energy to the solo, chamber, and concerto stage. A founding member of ensemble/132, Sam is a prolific arranger of chamber music and orchestral works. Hong was the winner of the 2017 Vendome Prize at Verbier, and received Second Prize at the 2017 International Beethoven Competition Vienna. He was also a recipient of a 2021 American Pianists Award, and finalist in the 2018 International German Piano Award and 2017 American Pianists Awards. Sam won 3rd Prize in the 2023 Naumburg International Piano Competition.

About Danbi Um, violin

https://www.danbium.com/

About Paul Neubauer, viola

http://www.paulneubauer.com/

About Nicholas Canellakis, cello

Nicholas Canellakis has become one of the most sought-after and innovative cellists of his generation, praised as a "superb young soloist" (The New Yorker) and for being "impassioned ... the audience seduced by Mr. Canellakis's rich, alluring tone" (The New York Times). A multifaceted artist, Canellakis has forged a unique voice combining his talents as soloist, chamber musician, curator, filmmaker, and composer/arranger.

About Lizzie Burns, double bass

https://www.lizzieburnsbass.com/

About Bruce Adolphe, lecturer

Resident lecturer and director of family concerts for CMS since 1992, Bruce Adolphe is a composer of international renown, much of whose output addresses science, history, and the struggle for human rights. His works are frequently performed by major artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Fabio Luisi, Joshua Bell, Daniel Hope, Angel Blue, the Brentano String Quartet, the Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the Human Rights Orchestra of Europe, and over 60 orchestras worldwide. Among his most performed works are the violin concerto I Will Not Remain Silent, the violin/piano duo Einstein's Light, and Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto. Also an author and innovative educator, Bruce Adolphe has spent decades helping people to hear and enjoy music in extraordinary ways. He is the author of several books, including The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Performers, Listeners and Composers (3rd ed., 2021) and the chapter on composing in Secrets of Creativity: What Neuroscience, the Arts, and Our Minds Reveal (2019). Widely known for his weekly Piano Puzzler segment on American Public Media’s Performance Today, which has been broadcast since 2002, Mr. Adolphe is also the artistic director of the Off the Hook Arts Festival in Colorado, for which he brings scientists, visual artists, filmmakers, writers, and musicians together. He has been a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, visiting lecturer in the residential colleges at Yale, composer-in-residence and visiting scholar at the Brain and Creativity Institute in Los Angeles, distinguished composer-in-residence at the Mannes College of Music, and on faculty at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and the Juilliard School.