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SUE ANN KAHN BRINGS
MOZART FLUTE QUARTETS TO CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE |
Press Release/for immediate release
From: Barbara J. Beitel
Telephone: (609) 465-3963
CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE. On Saturday evening, July 7th, at 8 p.m., the
opening concert of Access to Art’s Summer Chamber Music series will
begin. Five concerts, and one educational event for children will
enliven the summer at the shore. It is Access to Art’s l0th annual
Summer Chamber Music Festival.
Sue Ann Kahn, flute, Eriko Sato, violin, Ronald Carbone, violist, and
Michael Finckel cellist will bring Mozart’s Flute Quartets to the Cape
at Our Lady of the Angel’s R.C. Church, Garden State Parkway and
Mechanic St. here. Recently Sue Ann Kahn and her compatriots completed a
C.D. on Albany Records of Mozart’s Flute Quartets.
“It has always struck me as ironic that the composer who kindled my
interest in the flute was thought to have hated the instrument. When I
was a young flutist, my favorite music in the whole world was Julius
Baker’s recording of the Mozart quartets for flute and strings. There
were only three to listen to: modern editions omitted the Quartet in G
(K.285a) until the publication of the new Mozart edition in l962. I
actually wore out the grooves of my favorite, the Quartet in C. It was,
I thought, music from heaven.” said Sue Ann Kahn, daughter of the famed
architect, Louis I. Kahn who was also a musician as well as an
architect. “Having recorded what I believed to be four original quartets
by Mozart, I find that irony has continued to pursue me. Mozart clearly
did not write the quartet that had always been my favorite, a fact that
surfaced when I came to write the notes for this recording.” she said.
She completed the Mozart Flute Quartets recording for Albany Records,
and all the musicians will be on hand for the performance, except for
the cellist, Alexander Kouguell who is being replaced by Michael Finckel
for the performance.
The musicians are an accomplished lot, New Yorkers, whose music
resonates in the city, and throughout the nation.
Sue Ann Kahn was honored with on of the first Solo Recitalist
Fellowships from the National endowment of the Arts in recognition of
her outstanding gifts as a flutist and received the American New Music
Consortium Award for distinguished performances of contemporary music.
She won the coveted Walter W. Naumburg Chamber Music award as a member
of the Jubal Trio. She heads up the Mannes College of Music in
Manhattan, has served as President of the National Flute Association,
and has received consistant critical praise for her solo and chamber
music recordings for CRI, mmg, Vox/Candide, New Worl, Albany and other
labels. Formerly Professor of Music at Bennington College, Ms. Kahn
teaches flute and chamber music at the Mannes College of Music, at New
York University, and in the Music Performance Program at Columbia
University, and gives master classes and recitals nationwide. She has
performed and coached chamber music at the Chamber Music conference and
Composers’ Forum of the East for over two decades.
Violinist Eriko Sato has been a member and frequent concertmaster of the
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble. She made
her solo debuit at age thirteen and has performed as soloist with
orchestras in Louisville, San Francisco, and Tokyo. Ms. Sato won the
Tibor Varga International Competition, the Young Musicians Foundation
Competition, and three Japanese National Competitions. An active chamber
musician, she has participated in the Mostly Mozart, Aspen, Angel Fire,
Gretna, and Kuhmo Music festivals, and appears regularly at Bargemusic,
Caramoor, Washington Square Concerts and Chamber Music Northwest. She
has recorded for Deutysche Grammophon, Sony Classics, Telarc, Arabesque,
MusicMasters, Vanguard, and Delos. Her most recent recording is Allen
Shawn’s string quartet “Sleepless Night” for Albany Records. Ms. Sato
has taught at Queens College and the Aspen Music Festival and is
currently a faculty member of the Chamber Music Conference and
Composers’ Forum of the East, the Hoff-Barthelson Music School, and the
Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division.
Ronald Carbone is principal violist with the American Ballet Theatre
Orchestra, an associate member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and a
member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. He was also a member of the
Portsmouth Chamber Ensemble, the Lexington Trio, and the Griffes String
Quartet with whom he won two Artist International awards. He’s a member
of the faculty at Vassar College and the Chamber Music Conference and
Composers’ Forom of the East. He has recorded a wealth of chamber music
for Naxos, CRI, Reference-Records and Albany.
Michael Finckel enjoys a wide-ranging career as cellist, conductor,
teacher and founding member of the Trio of the Americas and the Cabrini
Quartet. He performs as soloist and chamber musician throughout the
United States. He has been a member of the Ysaye Quartet, Eberli and
Omega Ensembles, and he performs with members of his family in the
renowned Finckel Cello Quartet. Mr. Finckel has performed contemporary
music with New York’s leading new-music ensembles, including Speculum
Musicae, Ensemble Sospeso, the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, the Group
for Contemporary Music, Steve Reich and Musicians, and American
Composer’s Orchestra, as well as performances with members of the New
York Philharmonic under Pierre Boulez and Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Finckel
is presently Music Director of the Sage City Symphony in Bennington,
Vermont. Currently on the faculties of the Hoff-Barthleson Music School
and the Mannes College of Music Preparatory Division in New York City,
Finckel has taught cello and chamber music at Cornell and Princeton
Universities and at Bennington College in Vermont. He is also on the
faculty of the Chamber Music Conference and Composer’s Forum of the East
and the Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center at Wellesley. He
has recorded for Dorian, Opus One, New World, CRI, Vanguard, Vox/Candide
and ECM/Warner Bros.
Tickets for the concert are $20. adults; $l5. seniors. Access to Art,
Inc. presents the visual and performing arts in Cape May County since
l992. Call (609) 465-3963 for ticket reservations. |
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