Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Inspector Pulse Changes Hats!

• Mika Sasaki, piano
• Lun Li, violin
• Mihai Marica, cello
• Bruce Adolphe, lecturer

Frédéric Chopin — Prelude in E minor, Op. 28, No. 4
Frédéric Chopin — Prelude in G major Op. 28 No. 3
Bruce Adolphe — Inspector Pulse's Prelude (for piano)
Sergei Prokofiev — Visions fugitives, Op. 22
Béla Bartók — Romanian Folk Dances for piano, Sz. 56, BB 68
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Violin Sonata No. 26 in B-flat major, K. 378
Bruce Adolphe — Einstein's Light (for violin & piano)
Frédéric Chopin — Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65
Felix Mendelssohn — Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49

The world’s greatest and only private ear has a box full of different kinds of hats, and changing hats inspires him to invent variations in music! No one has ever done it before! Or have they?

For children who are curious, they can try out instruments featured in the program at our Instrument Petting Zoo, beginning one hour before the performance and guided by CMS performing artists and teaching artists

About Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS)

http://www.chambermusicsociety.org/

About Mika Sasaki, piano

Praised as a "superb interpreter" (Fanfare) and for her "virtuosity…and sparkling sound" (Times Argus), pianist Mika Sasaki enjoys a versatile career as a soloist, chamber musician, and educator. She has performed across the U.S. and in the U.K., Italy, Japan, and Switzerland, appearing in venues such as the Library of Congress, the Metropolitan Museum, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Tokyo Bunka Kaikan. She has appeared as concerto soloist with the Sinfonia of Cambridge, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, 92Y Orchestra, and more recently, with the InterSchool Symphony Orchestra of New York, performing Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto.

A passionate chamber musician, Mika has performed with the Manhattan Chamber Players, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, as well as in festivals such as Tanglewood, Music@Menlo, Chigiana, Yellow Barn, Aspen, and Taos. She is a member of Decoda, the affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall, and the powerhouse sextet, Ensemble Mélange. Dedicated to education and audience engagement, she has presented interactive performances in New York City and across the country, including residencies at String Theory and Chamber Music Northwest. She is an alumna of Peabody (B.M., M.M.), Carnegie Hall's Ensemble Connect, and Juilliard (D.M.A.).

Based in New York City, Mika is a faculty member at The Juilliard School, where she teaches keyboard skills, piano, and chamber music in the College, Pre-College, and Extension Divisions. When not at the piano, she can be found tending to her houseplants, cooking, or chasing after her cat.

https://www.mikasasaki.com/

About Lun Li, violin

https://www.curtis.edu/performances/on-tour/upcoming-tours/cello-quintet/cello-quintet-bios/lun-li/

About Mihai Marica, cello

https://www.mihaimarica.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.

https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/about/artists/lecturers-and-hosts/bruce-adolphe/