BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:580@1718.ucla.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270131T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270131T160000 DTSTAMP:20261020T221831Z URL:https://1718.ucla.edu/events/parker-quartet/ SUMMARY:Parker Quartet with Clarinetist Charles Neidich\, Chamber Music at the Clark DESCRIPTION:All Chamber Music at the Clark tickets will be sold by the UCLA Central Ticket Office. Tickets may be purchased online\, via telephone\, or in person. \nTicket prices: General $60\; Senior (age 55+) $50\; UCLA student (valid student ID required for each ticket) $15. Tickets are non-r efundable.\nTickets for this concert will go on sale Tuesday\, December 15 \, 2026 at Noon.\nSeating at the Clark Library is limited\, and tickets ar e likely to sell out within a few minutes.\n\nOnline: https://ucla.evenue. net/events/CTO\nTelephone: (310) 825-2101\nIn person: Central Ticket Offic e windows located on the UCLA campus at 325 Westwood Plaza (ground level\, across from Pauley Pavilion).\n\nIf any tickets for this concert remain u nsold\, they will be available for purchase at the Clark Library on the da y of the event. Any available day-of tickets will be sold on a first-come\ , first-served basis by a Central Ticket Office representative beginning a t 1:00 p.m. Payment will be accepted via credit card only. For inquiries\, please call or email the Central Ticket Office at (310) 825-2101 or cto@t ickets.ucla.edu\, Monday–Friday 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.\n\n\n\nProgram\ n\nErich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)\nString Quartet No. 2\, op. 26\n\nG abriella Smith (b. 1991)\nCarrot Revolution\n\nJohannes Brahms (1833-1897) \nClarinet Quintet in B Minor\, op. 115\n\nParker Quartet with Clarinetist Charles Neidich \nDaniel Chong\, violin\nKen Hamao\, violin\nJessica Bodn er\, viola\nKee-Hyun Kim\, cello\nCharles Neidich\, clarinet\nThe Grammy A ward-winning Parker Quartet returns to Chamber Music at the Clark\, joined by legendary clarinetist\, conductor\, and composer Charles Neidich. Freq uent musical partners\, the quartet and Neidich recently recorded Johannes Brahms’s beloved Clarinet Quintet\, which anchors this program. The pro gram also includes Gabriella Smith’s vivid Carrot Revolution and Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Vienna-inspired String Quartet No. 2.\n\nInternatio nally recognized for their “fearless\, yet probingly beautiful” perfor mances (The Strad)\, the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has establi shed itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation since its founding in 2002. Renowned for their fresh interpretations of canonical w orks and their passionate advocacy for contemporary music\, the Quartet co ntinues to chart a dynamic artistic path rooted in both tradition and inno vation.\n\nPraised by Gramophone for playing in which “virtuosity and em otion are one\,” the Parker Quartet has performed for over two decades o n many of the world’s leading stages. Recent seasons have included appea rances at Carnegie Hall\, Wigmore Hall\, Konzerthaus Berlin\, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society\, the University of Chicago\, the 92nd Street Y\, a nd Da Camera of Houston\, among others. The Quartet has also been featured at major festivals such as Tanglewood\, Big Ears\, Norfolk\, Lake Champla in\, Bridgehampton\, Skaneateles\, San Miguel de Allende\, and the Banff C entre.\n\nIn the 2026–27 season\, the Parker Quartet appears across Nort h America\, including engagements with Da Camera of Houston\, UCLA\, The P hillips Collection\, and presenters in Austin. At Harvard University\, whe re its members serve as Blodgett Artists-in-Residence\, the Quartet perfor ms on the Blodgett Chamber Music Series and gives four free public concert s each year at Paine Hall. The season also includes residencies at Madelin e Island and Banff\, where the ensemble performs and works closely with st udents and emerging professionals.\n\nBold programming and cross-disciplin ary initiatives are hallmarks of the Quartet’s artistic identity. In 202 4\, they curated a program centered on nature and heritage\, combining mus ic with poetry by Arthur Sze and Victoria Chang\, and featuring a new comm ission by Anthony Cheung for quartet and mezzo-soprano. During their 20th anniversary season (2022–23)\, the Parker Quartet launched The Beethoven Project\, a multifaceted initiative including: performances of the comple te Beethoven string quartets\; commissioned encores from six contemporary composers\; the development of a digital video library highlighting each w ork\; and community-centered performances in non-traditional venues across Boston\, including homeless shelters and youth programs.\n\nDeeply commit ted to the music of our time\, the Quartet has commissioned and premiered works by Augusta Read Thomas\, Felipe Lara\, Jaehyuck Choi\, Zosha Di Cast ri\, Paul Wiancko\, Anthony Cheung\, Wang Lu\, Michi Wiancko\, Sky Macklay \, and Jeremy Gill. As part of Miller Theatre’s Mission: Commission podc ast\, they recorded new works by Kate Soper\, Oscar Bettison\, and Vijay I yer—celebrating the creative process and contemporary collaboration.\n\n Their artistic partnerships span a wide range of disciplines and genres. P ast collaborators include pianists Menahem Pressler\, Anne-Marie McDermott \, Orion Weiss\, Shai Wosner\, Billy Childs\, and Vijay Iyer\; clarinetist s and composers Jörg Widmann\, Anthony McGill\, and Charles Neidich\; flu tist Claire Chase\; and violist Kim Kashkashian. The Quartet is also a pro ud supporter of Kashkashian’s Music for Food initiative\, performing in concerts nationwide to benefit food banks and social service organizations .\n\nRecording remains a central component of the Quartet’s artistic out put. Their 2021 ECM release\, featuring Dvořák’s Viola Quintet with Ki m Kashkashian alongside works by György Kurtág\, was described by The St rad as “nothing short of astonishing\,” and by Gramophone as “define d by virtuosity so agile that it’s indistinguishable from the process of emotional expression.” Their 2019 recording of three Beethoven quartets (Monte Carlo’s Festival Printemps des Arts) earned accolades from Diapa son for its “fearlessness\, exceptional control\, and attention to detai l.” Additional recordings include Mendelssohn on Nimbus Records\, Bartó k on Zig-Zag Territoires\, and the complete Ligeti Quartets on Naxos—a p erformance that garnered the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Perf ormance.\n\nThe Parker Quartet currently serves as Professors of the Pract ice and Blodgett Artists-in-Residence at the Department of Music at Harvar d University. They also hold visiting residencies at the University of Sou th Carolina and the Walnut Hill School for the Arts.\n\nFounded and based in Boston\, the Quartet’s numerous honors include winning the Concert Ar tists Guild Competition\, the Grand Prix and Mozart Prize at the Bordeaux International String Quartet Competition\, and Chamber Music America’s p restigious Cleveland Quartet Award.\n\nClarinetist and conductor Charles Neidich has gained worldwide recognition as one of the most mesmerizing v irtuosos on his instrument. With a tone of hypnotic beauty and a dazzling technique\, Mr. Neidich has received unanimous accolades from critics and fellow musicians both in the United States and abroad\; but it is his musi cal intelligence in scores as diverse as Mozart and Elliott Carter that ha ve earned for Mr. Neidich a unique place among clarinetists. In the words of The New Yorker\, “He’s an artist of uncommon merit—a master of hi s instrument and\, beyond that\, an interpreter who keeps listeners hangin g on each phrase.”\n\nMr. Neidich’s re-recording of the Mozart Clarine t Concerto\, twenty-six years after his celebrated recording with Orpheus for Deutsche Grammophon\, was reviewed by Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim in T he New York Times:\n\nThe mellow\, woodsy tone of the basset horn stars in this pleasing recording of works for basset horns and/or clarinets (in va rious configurations) and orchestra by Mozart and his Bohemian contemporar y Jiri Druzecky. Charles Neidich’s reading of Mozart’s Concerto for Ba sset Clarinet in A (KV 622) radiates sunny serenity. But over the course o f the following works\, including Druzecky’s Concerto for three basset h orns and orchestra in F and a reconstruction of Mozart’s Adagio in F for clarinet and three basset horns (KV 580a)\, the music takes on an inescap ably narcotic quality.  (February 18\, 2015)\n\nMr. Neidich is the artis tic director of the Wa Concert Series at the Tenri Cultural Institute in N ew York\, which he founded alongside his wife\, clarinetist Ayako Oshima\, in September 2017. This critically acclaimed concert series is inspired b y the Japanese concept “wa”— meaning circle\, but also harmony and c ompleteness\; each performance is thus paired with visual arts and offers a variety of culinary delicacies prepared by Ayako Oshima. Summing up his experience with the series throughout the 2017-18 season\, Frank Daykin of New York Concert Review advised: “A word to the wise music lover: Run\, don’t walk\, to this series” (May 7\, 2018).\n\nIn addition to perfor ming as soloist\, Mr. Neidich has\, in recent seasons\, added conducting t o his musical accomplishments. He has led the Cobb Symphony Orchestra and Georgia Symphony in performances of the Franck Symphony in D Minor and Moz art’s Clarinet Concerto (also playing the solo clarinet part).\n\nIn pas t seasons Mr. Neidich has appeared in recital and as guest soloist all ove r the world\, and has been making his mark as a conductor. In wide demand as a soloist\, Mr. Neidich has collaborated with some of the world’s lea ding orchestras and ensembles\, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London\, Concertgebouw of Amsterdam\, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra \, Halle Staatsorchester of Germany\, Orpheus\, the St. Louis Symphony\, J acksonville Symphony\, Pasadena Symphony\, San Diego Symphony\, New City C hamber Orchestra of San Francisco\, Athens Chamber Music Festival\, Tafelm usik\, the Juilliard\, Guarneri\, American\, and Mendelssohn String Quarte ts\, and the Peabody Trio.\n\nMr. Neidich commands a repertoire of over tw o hundred solo works\, including pieces commissioned or inspired by him\, as well as his own transcriptions of vocal and instrumental works. A noted exponent of twentieth-century music\, he has premiered works by Milton Ba bbit\, Elliott Carter\, Edison Denisov\, William Schumann\, Ralph Shapey\, Joan Tower\, and other leading contemporary composers. With a growing dis cography to his credit\, Mr. Neidich can be heard on the Chandos\, Sony Cl assical\, Sony Vivarte\, Deutsche Grammophon\, Musicmasters\, Pantheon\, a nd Bridge labels. His recorded repertoire ranges from familiar works by Mo zart\, Beethoven\, Weber\, and Brahms\, to lesser-known compositions by Da nzi\, Reicha\, Rossini\, and Hummel\, as well as music by Elliott Carter\, György Kurtág\, and other contemporary masters.\n\nA native New Yorker of Russian and Greek descent\, Charles Neidich had his first clarinet less ons with his father and his first piano lessons with his mother. Mr. Neidi ch’s early musical idols were Fritz Kreisler\, pianist Artur Schnabel\, and other violinists and pianists\, rather than clarinetists. However\, th e clarinet won out over time\, and he pursued studies with the famed pedag ogue Leon Russianoff. Although Mr. Neidich became quite active in music at an early age\, he opted against attending a music conservatory in favor o f academic studies at Yale University\, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts\, cum laude\, in Anthropology. In 1975 he became the first Americ an to receive a Fulbright grant for study in the former Soviet Union\, and he attended the Moscow Conservatory for three years where his teachers we re Boris Dikov and Kirill Vinogradov.\n\nIn 1985 Mr. Neidich became the fi rst clarinetist to win the Walter W. Naumburg Competition\, which brought him to prominence as a soloist. He then taught at the Eastman School of Mu sic and during that tenure joined the New York Woodwind Quintet\, an ensem ble with which he still performs. His European honors include a top prize at the 1982 Munich International Competition sponsored by the German telev ision network ARD\, and the Geneva and Paris International Competitions. M r. Neidich has achieved recognition as a teacher in addition to his activi ties as a performer\, and currently is a member of the artist faculties of The Juilliard School\, the Manhattan School of Music\, and the Mannes Col lege of Music. During the 1994-95 academic year he was a Visiting Professo r at the Sibelius Academy in Finland where he taught\, performed\, and con ducted. Mr. Neidich is a long-time member of the renowned chamber ensemble Orpheus.\n\n\n\nChamber Music at the Clark is made possible by The Ahmans on Foundation\, under the auspices of Lee Walcott\; Henry J. Bruman Endowm ent for Chamber Music\; The Colburn Foundation\; Ms. Brenda F. Anderson\; Martha Bardach/Bardach Robson Family Charitable Foundation\; Catherine Gly nn Benkaim\, Ph.D. and Ms. Barbara Timmer\; Rogers Brubaker\, Ph.D\; Johan na R. Drucker\, Ph.D.\; The Mari and Ed Edelman Charitable Fund for Music and Public Service\; Dr. Daniel J. Fink and Dr. Ruth F. Cousineau\; Susan S. Harris\, Ph.D. and Mr. Mark J. Harris\; Judith L. Hellinger\; Dr. David E. Lopez\; Dr. Martin H. Mach and Dr. Susan P. Mach\; Mr. Bernie Mendes a nd Ms. Elaine Mendes\; Mrs. Janet K. Minami\; Mr. Jeffrey L. Nagin and Mrs . Bette I. Nagin\; Jeanne Robson\, Ph.D. \; Dr. Thomas Rosenthal and Ms. S usan M. Rosenthal\; Dr. Patricia Bates Simun and Mr. Richard V. Simun Memo rial Fund\; Professor Bronwen Wilson\; and Mr. Robert A. Young and Mrs. Ro berta J. Husted Young.\n\nPlease see here for more information about our c hamber music programs.\n\n\n\nPhoto credit: Courtesy of Parker Quartet and Charles Neidich. 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