Violin, Viola & Piano Recital, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

Program

Clara Schumann (1819–1896)
Three Romances for Violin and Piano, op. 22

I. Andante molto
II. Allegretto
III. Leidenschaftlich schnell

Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Sonata in A Minor No. 1, op. 105

I. Mit leidenschaftlichem Ausdruck
II. Allegretto
III. Lebhaft

Paul Hindemith (1895–1963)
Sonata for Viola and Piano, op. 11, no. 4

I. Fantasie
II. Thema mit Variationen
III. Finale (mit Variationen)

The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival is being held this summer in Lani Hall, a 133-seat auditorium located in the Schoenberg Music Building on the UCLA campus. All concerts are free of charge, and no reservations are required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Lot 2 is the closest campus parking lot; click here for full details on UCLA visitor parking, including campus parking maps and rates.

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Violin, Viola & Piano Recital
Andrew McIntosh, violin, viola
Steven Vanhauwaert, piano

Andrew McIntosh
Andrew McIntosh is a Grammy-nominated violinist, violist, composer, and baroque violinist who teaches at the California Institute of the Arts, with a wide swath of musical interests ranging from historical performance practice of the Baroque and Classical eras to improvisation, microtonal tuning systems, and the twentieth-century avant-garde.

As a solo artist he has performed at the San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox series, Miller Theatre in New York, REDCAT, and festivals and concert series across Europe and the U.S. As a chamber musician, he is a member of Wild Up, the Formalist Quartet, and Wadada Leo Smith’s RedKoral Quartet. As a baroque performer, McIntosh is a member of Tesserae and Bach Collegium San Diego, has served as guest concertmaster for baroque operas with LA Opera and Opera UCLA, and was recently both music director and concertmaster of Long Beach Opera’s all-Handel pastiche production THE FEAST. Most recently, he performed the complete Rosary Sonatas of Heinrich Biber with Tesserae, and his recording (with Steven Vanhauwaert) of the Three Sonatas for Violin and Fortepiano, op. 1b) of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges was released in November 2023 on Olde Focus Records.

As a composer he often works with forms and ideas found in nature or in other artistic disciplines, and was described by Alex Ross in The New Yorker as “a composer preternaturally attuned to the landscapes and soundscapes of the West.” Recent commissions include works for the LA Philharmonic, Calder Quartet, Yarn/Wire, Vicki Ray, and violinists Movses Pogossian, Lorenz Gamma, and Ilya Gringolts.

Steven Vanhauwaert
Hailed by the Los Angeles Times for his “impressive clarity, sense of structure, and monster technique,” pianist Steven Vanhauwaert has garnered a wide array of accolades, including the First Prize at the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition. Mr. Vanhauwaert has appeared as a soloist at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, the Concertgebouw Brugge, the Great Hall of the Budapest Liszt Conservatory, the Forbidden City Theatre in Beijing, Segerstrom Hall, and the National Philharmonic Hall in Kiev. He has appeared with orchestras including the Pacific Symphony, the Lviv Philharmonic, the Sofia Sinfonietta, the Reno Chamber Orchestra, the International Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico, the Flemish Symphony, and the Kyiv Camerata.

Mr. Vanhauwaert serves as co-director for the Unbound Chamber Music Festival in Mammoth Lakes, a three-week-long summer festival featuring guest artists from around the world. He is also the Artistic Director for the Second Sundays at Two concert series in Rolling Hills, CA.

His discography, on the Hortus, Sonarti, ECM, and Bridge labels, covers a wide range of composers, from Joseph Woelfl to Stravinsky and Tigran Mansurian. His recordings have been awarded 5 Diapasons, a nomination for the International Classical Music Awards, France Musique’s Editor’s Choice, and five stars in Pizzicato Magazine. Mr. Vanhauwaert serves on the faculty at the University of Utah’s School of Music and he is a Steinway Artist. More info at www.stevenpiano.com.

About The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

Ambroise Aubrun, D.M.A., Artistic Director

The festival was founded in 1988 by Professor Henry J. Bruman (1913–2005), who sought to introduce new audiences to chamber music at informal concerts on the UCLA campus. The festival is made possible by the Henry J. Bruman Trust, Professors Wendell E. Jeffrey and Bernice M. Wenzel, by a gift in memory of Raymond E. Johnson, and with the support of the UCLA Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies.

Photos courtesy of the artists.