BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:482@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250518T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250518T160000 DTSTAMP:20241118T182604Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/miro-quartet-masumi-per-rostad/ SUMMARY:Miró Quartet with Masumi Per Rostad\, Chamber Music at the Clark 3 0th Anniversary DESCRIPTION:\nAll Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UC LA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online\, via telephone\ , or in person. \nTicket prices: General $55\; Senior (age 55+) $45\; UCL A student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non -refundable.\nTickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday\, April 15 at 12:00 noon.\nSeating at the Clark Library is limited\, and tickets are likely to sell out within a few minutes.\nOnline: https://tinyurl.com/3mev yppr\nTelephone: (310) 825-2101\nIn person: Central Ticket Office windows located on the UCLA campus at 325 Westwood Plaza (ground level\, across fr om Pauley Pavilion).\n\nIf any tickets for this concert remain unsold\, th ey will be available for purchase at the Clark Library on the day of the e vent. Any available day-of tickets will be sold on a first-come\, first-se rved basis by a Central Ticket Office representative beginning at 1:00 p.m . Payment will be accepted via credit card only. For inquiries\, please ca ll or email the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101 or cto@tickets.ucl a.edu\, Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nProgram\n\nJohannes Brahms (1833–1897)\nViola Quintet No. 1 in F major\, op. 88\, "Spring"\n Viola Quintet No. 2 in G major\, op. 111\n\n\n\n\nMiró Quartet\nDaniel C hing\, violin\nWilliam Fedkenheuer\, violin\nJohn Largess\, viola\nJoshua Gindele\, cello\n\n\n\n\nThe Miró Quartet is one of America’s most cele brated and dedicated string quartets\, having\nbeen labeled by The New Yor ker as “furiously committed” and noted by the Cleveland Plain\nDealer for its “exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity.” For over twenty-five years\nthe Quartet has performed throughout the world on the most prestigious concert stages\,\nearning accolades from critics and audi ences alike. Based in Austin\, TX\, and thriving on the\narea’s storied music scene\, the Miró takes pride in finding new ways to communicate wit h\naudiences of all backgrounds while cultivating the longstanding traditi on of chamber music.\n\nIn their 2023-24 season\, the Miró Quartet embark ed on a new performance and recording\nproject with pianist Lara Downes: H ere on Earth features musical depictions of planet Earth\, its\nevolution\ , and the lives of its inhabitants\, with works spanning a century of cult ural shift that\nbegins with Darius Milhaud’s La Création du Monde\, pe rformed in a new arrangement for piano\nand string quartet. Upcoming perfo rmances include the premiere of a new version of Kevin\nPuts’s Credo wit h the Naples Philharmonic\, as well as performances for the Chamber Music\ nSociety of Lincoln Center\, the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts\, the Saratoga Performing\nArts Center\, and Premiere Performances in Hong K ong.\n\nFormed in 1995\, the Miró Quartet was awarded first prize at seve ral national and international\nCompetitions\, including the Banff Interna tional String Quartet Competition and the Naumburg\nChamber Music Competit ion. Deeply committed to music education\, members of the Quartet\nhave gi ven master classes at universities and conservatories throughout the world \, and since\n2003 the Miró has served as the quartet-in-residence at the University of Texas at Austin Sarah\nand Ernest Butler School of Music. I n 2005\, the Quartet became the first ensemble ever to be\nawarded the cov eted Avery Fisher Career Grant.\n\nHaving released many celebrated recordi ngs\, the Miró recently produced an Emmy Award-\nwinning multimedia proje ct titled Transcendence. A work with visual and audio elements\navailable on live stream\, CD\, and Blu-ray\, Transcendence encompasses philanthropy and\ndocumentary filmmaking and is centered around a performance of Franz Schubert’s Quartet in\nG Major on rare Stradivarius instruments. The Mi ró records independently and makes its music\navailable on a global scale through Apple Music\, Amazon\, Spotify\, Pandora\, and YouTube.\n\nThe Mi ró Quartet took its name and its inspiration from the Spanish artist Joan Miró\, whose\nSurrealist works—with subject matter drawn from the real m of memory\, dreams\, and imaginative fantasy—are some of the most grou ndbreaking\, influential\, and admired of the\ntwentieth century. Visit ww w.miroquartet.com for more information.\n\nThe Miró Quartet is represente d by MKI Artists www.mkiartists.com\n\nMasumi Per Rostad\n\n\nPraised for his “burnished sound” (The New York Times) and described as an “elec trifying\, poetic\, and sensitive musician\,” the Grammy Award-winning\, Japanese-Norwegian violist Masumi Per Rostad hails from the gritty East V illage of 1980s New York. He was raised in an artist loft converted from a garage with a 1957 Chevy Bel Air as the remnant centerpiece in their livi ng room. Masumi began his studies at the nearby Third Street Music School Settlement at age three and has gone on to become one of the most in-deman d soloists\, chamber musicians\, and teachers. In addition to maintaining an active performance schedule\, he serves on the faculty of the prestigio us Eastman School of Music in Rochester\, NY.\n\nMasumi regularly tours in ternationally and has performed at many of the most prominent festivals\, including Marlboro\, Spoleto USA\, Music@Menlo\, Caramoor\, Music in the V ineyards\, Bowdoin\, and the Aspen Music Festival. His guest violist colla borations include programs with the St Lawrence\, Ying\, Pavel Haas\, Mir ó\, Verona\, and Emerson String Quartets\, as well as with the Horszowski Trio. He toured and recorded extensively as a former member of the Intern ational Sejong Soloists. He can be heard on the Cedille Records\, Naxos\, Hyperion\, Musical Observations\, Bridge\, and Tzadik record labels.\n\nAs a member of the Pacifica Quartet for almost two decades (2001-2017)\, Mas umi regularly performed in the world’s greatest halls\, including Amster dam’s Concertgebouw\, Tokyo’s Suntory Hall\, Sydney’s City Hall\, Ne w York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center\, London’s Wigmore Hall\, Vi enna’s Konzerthaus and Musikverein\, Munich’s Herkuleshaal\, Paris’s Louvre and Cité de la Musique\, and Berlin’s Konzerthaus\, among many others. He was full professor of viola and chamber music as quartet-in-res idence at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. In 2006\, the ensem ble was awarded the coveted Cleveland Quartet Award\, Avery Fisher Career Grant\, and they were also named Musical America’s 2009 Ensemble of the Year.\n\nMasumi is an ardent advocate for the arts\, and often sought afte r as a contributing writer to such publications as the Huffington Post\, S trings\, and Gramophone magazines as well as The Guardian.\n\nPassionate a bout breaking down barriers that prevent people from enjoying Classical mu sic\, Masumi was the founder of DoCha\, a chamber music festival in Champa ign\, Illinois that produced innovative events with a focus on engaging ne w audiences through fun and inventive programming. DoCha-hosted events fea tured unique collaborations between members of the University and multi-ge nre presentations from Classical chamber music to contemporary dance\, the spoken word\, and much more. All programs were free of charge and took pl ace at a beautiful former community Opera House. Other activities of DoCha included ”in-reach” performances for elementary school students as we ll as master classes\, competitions\, and performance opportunities for lo cal music students.\n\nMasumi has served on the faculties of the Universit y of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, Jacobs School of Music at Indiana Univ ersity\, The University of Chicago\, Longy School of Music\, and Northwest ern University. He has given master classes at The Colburn School\, Clevel and Institute of Music\, The Aspen Music Festival\, Bowdoin International Music Festival\, Interlochen\, and San Francisco Conservatory\, among many others.\n\nHe received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School. There\, he studied with legendary violist and pedagogue Karen Tuttle from the age of seventeen and was made her teaching assistant just three years later at the age of twenty. At Juilliard\, he was awarde d the Lillian Fuchs Award for the most outstanding graduating violist. He also won the Juilliard School Concerto Competition and performed the world premiere of Michael White's Viola Concerto in Lincoln Center’s Avery Fi sher Hall\, with conductor James DePreist. That same year he gave the New York premiere of Paul Schoenfield's Viola Concerto with the Juilliard Symp hony to critical acclaim. In 2008 he was awarded the Rising Star Award’ by the Third Street Music School Settlement for his musical achievements\n \nMasumi lives in Rochester\, NY with his wife Sonia—a concert pianist —and their daughter\, Ling. He is professor of viola and chamber music a t the Eastman School of Music. He is a D’Addario Artist and has used the ir strings since 1999. Celebrating a four-hundred-year birthday in 2019\, his Amati viola was crafted in Cremona\, Italy in 1619.\n\nwww.masumirosta d.com\n\n\n\nChamber Music at the Clark\nProfessor Rogers Brubaker\, Artis tic Director\n\nChamber Music at the Clark will be celebrating its 30th an niversary season in 2024–25. Thanks to the generous support of Friends o f the Clark\, the series has presented over 175 concerts\, featuring some of the world’s finest chamber ensembles\, in its uniquely intimate drawi ng room venue with its superb acoustics. The anniversary season will featu re two special tributes. The November 17\, 2024 concert will honor the lat e Peter Hanns Reill\, who served for nearly two decades as Center and Clar k Director\, and who founded the series in 1994. The April 27\, 2025 conce rt will honor Bruce Whiteman\, who served as Head Librarian of the Clark f rom 1996 until 2010\, and who has written our wonderful program notes for a quarter of a century. We hope you will be able to join us for another sp lendid season of music-making.\n\nChamber Music at the Clark is made possi ble by The Ahmanson Foundation\, under the auspices of Lee Walcott\; Henry J. Bruman Endowment for Chamber Music\; The Colburn Foundation\; Ms. Bren da Anderson\; Mrs. Martha R. Bardach\; Catherine Glynn Benkaim\, Ph.D. and Barbara Timmer\; Dr. Rogers Brubaker\; Dr. Johanna R. Drucker\; Dr. Susan S. Harris and Mr. Mark J. Harris\; Ms. Judy L. Hellinger\; Dr. David E. L opez\; Drs. Martin and Susan Mach\; Mr. Bernie and Ms. Elaine Mendes\; Mrs . Janet K. Minami\; Mr. Jeffrey L. Nagin and Mrs. Bette I. Nagin\; Dr. The odore M. Porter\; Dr. Jeanne Robson\; Dr. Thomas Rosenthal and Ms. Susan M . Rosenthal\; Ms. Carol E. Sandberg\; Charles H. and Carol “Jackie” Sc hwartz\; Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memorial Fund\; Professor Bronwen Wilson\; and Roberta and Robert Young.\n\nPlease see he re for more information about our chamber music programs.\n\n\n\nPhotograp h credit: Tania Quintanilla\, courtesy of Miró Quartet. Photograph of Mas umi Per Rostad\, courtesy of the Artist. 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