2020-2021 SEASON

Chad Hoopes, Violin; Arnaud Sussmann, Violin; Mathew Lipman, Viola; Nick Canellakis, Cello

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PROGRAM

• Antonin Dvorak – String Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51

• Felix Mendelssohn – String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13

• Antonin Dvorak – Waltzes Op. 54 No. 1 and No 4

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ARTIST BIOS

• CHAD HOOPES

  Acclaimed by critics worldwide for his exceptional talent and magnificent tone,
  American violinist Chad Hoopes has remained an impressive, consistent, and
  versatile performer with many of the world’s leading orchestras since winning First

  Highlights of past and present seasons include performances with The Philadelphia
  Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Vancouver Symphony
  Orchestra, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse for the premiere of Qigang
  Chen’s concerto “La joie de la souffrance.” He has performed with leading
  orchestras including San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Houston and National Symphony,
  as well as Minnesota Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, and the
  National Arts Centre Orchestra. Hoopes frequently performs with the Chamber
  Music Society of Lincoln Center. Additionally, he has performed recitals at the
  Ravinia Festival, Tonhalle Zürich, the Louvre, and at Lincoln Center’s Great
  Performers series in New York City.

  His debut recording with the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra under
  Kristjan Järvi featured the Mendelssohn and Adams concertos was released in 2014
  on the French label Naïve. The recording was enthusiastically received by both
  press and public. His recording of Bernstein’s Violin Sonata with pianist Wayne
  Marshall will be released this autumn.

  Hoopes is a frequent guest artist at the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad, Switzerland,
  the Rheingau Festival, and at Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where he was
  named the winner of the prestigious Audience Award. He served as Munich
  Symphony Orchestra’s first Artist in Residence, a position created specifically for
  him after his highly acclaimed debut with the orchestra.

  Born in Florida, Hoopes began his violin studies at the age of three in Minneapolis,
  and continued his training at the Cleveland Institute of Music under David Cerone
  and Joel Smirnoff. He additionally studied at the Kronberg Academy with
  Professor Ana Chumachenco, who remains his mentor.

  Hoopes plays the 1991 Samuel Zygmuntowicz, ex Isaac Stern violin.

• ARNAUD SUSSMANN

  Winner of a 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Arnaud Sussmann has distinguished himself with his unique sound, bravura and profound musicianship. Minnesota’s Pioneer Press writes, “Sussmann has an old-school sound reminiscent of what you’ll hear on vintage recordings by Jascha Heifetz or Fritz Kreisler, a rare combination of sweet and smooth that can hypnotize a listener. His clear tone [is] a thing of awe-inspiring beauty, his phrasing spellbinding.”

  A thrilling young musician capturing the attention of classical critics and audiences around the world, Arnaud Sussmann has appeared with the American Symphony Orchestra, Buffalo Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Paris Chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. Further solo appearances have included a tour of Israel and concerts at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Dresden Music Festival in Germany and at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. Mr. Sussmann has been presented in recital in Omaha on the Tuesday Musical Club series, New Orleans by the Friends of Music, Tel Aviv at the Museum of Art and at the Louvre Museum in Paris. He has also given concerts at the OK Mozart, Chamber Music Northwest and Moritzburg festivals and appears regularly at the Caramoor, Music@Menlo, La Jolla SummerFest, Seattle Chamber Music, Moab Music and Saratoga Springs Chamber Music festivals.

  Recent concerto appearances include performances with Maestro Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Orchestra at the White Nights Festival in St Petersburg, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the Jacksonville Symphony and the Grand Rapids Symphony. This past season, chamber music performances included tours with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center to Korea’s LG Arts Center, Shanghai’s Oriental Center and Hong Kong’s Music Academy.

  Arnaud Sussmann has performed with many of today’s leading artists including Itzhak Perlman, Menahem Pressler, Gary Hoffman, Shmuel Ashkenazi, Wu Han, David Finckel, Jan Vogler and members of the Emerson String Quartet. He has worked with conductors such as Cristian Macelaru, Marcelo Lehninger, Rune Bergmann and Leon Botstein. A dedicated chamber musician, he has been a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2006 and has regularly appeared with them i New York and on tour, including a recent concert at London’s Wigmore Hall.

  A frequent recording artist, Arnaud Sussmann has released albums on Deutsche Grammophon’s DG Concert Series, Naxos, Albany Records and CMS Studio Recordings labels. His solo debut disc, featuring three Brahms Violin Sonatas with pianist Orion Weiss, was released in December 2014 on the Telos Music Label. He has been featured on multiple PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center broadcasts alongside Itzhak Perlman and the Perlman Music Program and with musicians of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

  Born in Strasbourg, France and based now in New York City, Arnaud Sussmann trained at the Conservatoire de Paris and the Juilliard School with Boris Garlitsky and Itzhak Perlman. Winner of several international competitions, including the Andrea Postacchini of Italy and Vatelot/Rampal of France, he was named a Starling Fellow in 2006, an honor which allowed him to be Mr. Perlman’s teaching assistant for two years. Mr. Sussmann now teaches at Stony Brook University on Long Island and was recently named Co-Artistic Director of Music@Menlo’s International Chamber Music Program. He is also the new Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach in Florida.

• MATHEW LIPMAN

  American violist Matthew Lipman has been praised by the New York
  Times for his “rich tone and elegant phrasing,” and by the Chicago
  Tribune for a “splendid technique and musical sensitivity.” Lipman
  has come to be relied on as one of the leading players of his
  generation, frequently appearing as both a soloist and chamber
  music performer.

  Highlights of recent seasons include appearances with the Minnesota
  Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, Academy of St Martin in the Fields and
  Juilliard Orchestra. Lipman has worked with conductors including
  Edward Gardner, the late Sir Neville Marriner, Osmo Vänskä, and
  Nicholas McGegan. His recent solo debuts include appearances at
  the Aspen Music Festival, Seoul’s Kumho Art Hall, Lincoln Center’s
  Alice Tully Hall, Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, and the Walt Disney
  Concert Hall. This season, Lipman makes his debut at Carnegie Hall
  with the Soloists of the Kronberg Academy, and with Michael Tilson
  Thomas’s Viola Visions Festival of the New World Symphony in
  Miami.

  Ascent, his 2019 release by Cedille Records, was celebrated by The
  Strad as a “most impressive” debut album where Lipman is praised
  for his “authoritative phrasing and attractive sound.” The album
  marks the first ever recording of the recently discovered work by
  Shostakovich, Impromptu for viola and piano and of Clarice
  Assad’s Metamorfose for viola and piano, which was commissioned
  for the recording. Lipman has also been featured on the recording of
  Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with violinist Rachel Barton Pine and
  the Academy of St Martin in the Fields conducted by the late Sir
  Neville Marriner. The album topped the Billboard Classical Charts and
  has received praise by both the press and public.

  Named the 2019 Artist-in-Residence for the American Viola Society,
  Lipman has additionally been featured on WFMT Chicago’s list “30
  Under 30” of the world’s top classical musicians, and is a published contributor to The Strad, Strings and BBC Music magazines. He
  performs regularly with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
  and at music festivals including St. Petersburg’s White Nights,
  Music@Menlo, Marlboro, Ravinia, Bridgehampton, Seattle, Saratoga,
  and Kissinger Sommer festivals. His frequent chamber music partners
  include Martin Helmchen, Tabea Zimmerman, Mitsuko Uchida, Itzhak
  Perlman, Sir András Schiff, Henry Kramer, and Pinchas Zukerman.
  Dedicated to expanding the repertoire for the viola, Lipman has also
  performed the premieres of works by composers such as Helen
  Grime and David Ludwig.

  Lipman is the recipient of a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant, a Kovner
  Fellowship, and the Jack Kent Cooke Award, and is also a major prize
  winner in the Primrose, Tertis, Washington, Johansen, and Stulberg
  International Viola Competitions. He studied at The Juilliard School
  with Heidi Castleman, and was further mentored by Tabea
  Zimmermann at the Kronberg Academy. A native of Chicago and an
  alum of The Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two), Lipman is on the
  faculty of Stony Brook University. He performs on a fine 1700 Matteo
  Goffriller viola loaned through the generous efforts of the RBP
  Foundation.

• NICK CANELLAKIS

  Hailed by The New Yorker as a “superb young soloist,”
  Nicholas Canellakis has become one of the most soughtafter and innovative cellists of his generation, captivating
  audiences throughout the United States and abroad. In The
  New York Times his playing was praised as “impassioned …
  the audience seduced by Mr. Canellakis’s rich, alluring tone.”

  Canellakis’s recent highlights include concerto appearances
  with the Albany, Delaware, Lansing, and Bangor Symphonies,
  the Erie Philharmonic, The Orchestra Now, and the New
  Haven Symphony as Artist-in-Residence; Europe and Asia
  tours with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center,
  including appearances in London’s Wigmore Hall, the Louvre
  in Paris, the Seoul Arts Center, and the Shanghai and Taipei
  National Concert Halls; and recitals throughout the United
  States with his long-time duo collaborator, pianist-composer
  Michael Brown. He made his Carnegie Hall concerto debut
  with the American Symphony Orchestra in 2015.

  Canellakis is an artist of the Chamber Music Society of
  Lincoln Center, in which he performs regularly in Alice Tully
  Hall and on tour. He is also a regular guest artist at many of
  the world’s leading music festivals, including Santa Fe,
  Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Bard, Bridgehampton, La Jolla, Hong
  Kong, Moab, Music in the Vineyards, and Saratoga Springs.
  In addition, he was recently named Artistic Director of
  Chamber Music Sedona, in Arizona.

  A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and New England
  Conservatory, his teachers have included Orlando Cole, Peter Wiley, Paul Katz, and Madeleine Golz at Manhattan School of
  Music Precollege. He was a member of the Bowers Program
  (formerly CMS Two), and has also been in residence at
  Carnegie Hall as a member of Ensemble Connect.

  Filmmaking and acting are special interests of Mr. Canellakis.
  He has produced, directed, and starred in several short films
  and music videos, including his popular comedy web series
  “Conversations with Nick Canellakis.” His latest film, “Thin
  Walls,” has been nominated for awards at many prominent
  film festivals. His films and videos can be found on his
  website at nicholascanellakis.com.