Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival: Masterminds (free open rehearsal)
Free (RSVP required)
- Tara Helen O'Connor, flute
- Marcy Rosen, cello
- J. Lawrie Bloom, clarinet
- Max Tan, violin
- Sahun Sam Hong, piano
- Sterling Elliott, cello
- Catherine Cho, violin
- Daniel Phillips, violin
Pietro Bottesini — Andante and Variations for Flute, Clarinet, and String Quartet
Johannes Brahms — Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 (rev. version)
Haydn's spirited "London" Symphony in an arrangement for flute, string quartet, and piano opens the concert, followed by Bottesini's Andante and Variations which showcases the flute and clarinet, and the art of Tara Helen O'Connor and Lawrie Bloom. The concert closes with Brahms' masterpiece, his Piano Trio No. 1 for Piano, Violin, and Cello, in its revised version, a work that is in turn majestic, sparkling, quiet, lyrical, and powerful.
Music from this program will also be performed at a full concert, June 13 at 7:30pm. More information: https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/82327/chesapeake-chamber-music-festival-masterminds
About Tara Helen O'Connor, flute
About Marcy Rosen, cello
About J. Lawrie Bloom, clarinet
About Max Tan, violin
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.
http://www.sahunhong.com/About Sterling Elliott, cello
Cellist Sterling Elliott​ is a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the winner of the Senior Division of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition.
Sterling has enjoyed a simple and humble musical journey. As the youngest of 3 siblings, he did not want to play the cello but the violin like his older brother and sister. After a bit of encouragement, he completed The Elliott Family String Quartet by learning to play the cello at the age of three under the direction of Suzuki Cello teacher Susan Hines. He went on to make his concerto debut at the age of 7 by winning the Junior Division of the PYO Concerto Competition, and later the 2014 Richmond Symphony Concerto Competition, the Bay Youth Orchestra Concerto Competition. Sterling has a long history with the Sphinx Organization, where he first received 2nd place in the 2013 National Sphinx Competition Junior Division, then won the 2014 Junior Division. In 2016 he received the Isaac Stern Award by the Sphinx Organization and toured with the Sphinx Virtuosi in 2018 before winning in 2019.
He is a two-time alum of NPR's From the Top where he was a recipient of a scholarship from The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation and performed several concerts in Switzerland at the 2019 World Economic Forum. He is a Young Strings of America ambassador for SHAR Strings. In 2019, he was the first recipient of The National Arts Club's Herman and Mary Neuman Music Scholarship Award.
Sterling Elliott is currently a Kovner Fellow at The Juilliard School where he is pursuing his Masters of Music degree studying with Joel Krosnick and Clara Kim. He completed his undergraduate degree in cello performance at Juilliard in May 2021. He currently performs on a 1741 Gennaro Gagliano cello on loan through the Robert F. Smith Fine String Patron Program, in partnership with the Sphinx Organization.
https://sterlingelliott.com/