American Visions
| 1. | Introduction | 00:00:53 |
| 2. | Gottschalk: "The Union," Concert Paraphrase on National Airs for Piano, Op. 48 | 00:09:43 |
| 3. | Ives: "The Things Our Fathers Loved" for Voice and Piano | 00:02:15 |
| 4. | Ives: "Charlie Rutlage" for Voice and Piano | 00:02:52 |
| 5. | Ives: "The Indians" for Voice and Piano | 00:01:59 |
| 6. | Ives: "The Housatonic at Stockbridge" for Voice and Piano | 00:03:23 |
| 7. | Ives: "The Circus Band" for Voice and Piano | 00:02:21 |
| 8. | Rzewski: "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues" from Four North American Ballads for Piano | 00:10:32 |
| 9. | Ellington: Clarinet Lament for Clarinet and Piano | 00:03:48 |
| 10. | Gershwin: An American in Paris for Two Pianos | 00:20:40 |
PROGRAM
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Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869) |
"The Union," Concert Paraphrase on National Airs for Piano, Op. 48 (1862) Gilles Vonsattel, Piano |
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Charles Ives (1874–1954) |
"The Things Our Fathers Loved" for Voice and Piano (1917) Randall Scarlata, Baritone; Gilbert Kalish, Piano |
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Charles Ives (1874–1954) |
"Charlie Rutlage" for Voice and Piano (1920) Randall Scarlata, Baritone; Gilbert Kalish, Piano |
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Charles Ives (1874–1954) |
"The Indians" for Voice and Piano (1921) Randall Scarlata, Baritone; Gilbert Kalish, Piano |
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Charles Ives (1874–1954) |
"The Housatonic at Stockbridge" for Voice and Piano (1921) Randall Scarlata, Baritone; Gilbert Kalish, Piano |
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Charles Ives (1874–1954) |
"The Circus Band" for Voice and Piano (1899) Nicholas Canellakis, Cello; Michael Stephen Brown, Piano; Ian Rosenbaum, Percussion |
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Frederic Rzewski (1938–2021) |
"Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues" from Four North American Ballads for Piano (1979) Gilles Vonsattel, Piano |
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Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (1899–1974) |
Clarinet Lament for Clarinet and Piano (1936) David Shifrin, Clarinet; Gloria Chien, Piano |
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George Gershwin (1898–1937) |
An American in Paris for Two Pianos (1928) Alessio Bax, Piano I; Robert Spano, Piano II |
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David Shifrin
Alessio Bax
Gloria Chien
Gilbert Kalish
Gilles Vonsattel
A Yale University faculty member since 1987, clarinetist David Shifrin is artistic director of Yale’s Chamber Music Society and the Yale in New York concert series. He has performed with CMS since 1982 and served as its artistic director from 1992 to 2004, inaugurating CMS’s Bowers Program and the annual Brandenburg Concertos concerts. He was the artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest from 1981 to 2020. Winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant (1987) and the Avery Fisher Prize (2000), he has held principal clarinet positions in numerous orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra and the American Symphony under Leopold Stokowski. As soloist, Shifrin has performed recitals at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Library of Congress. Notable concerto performances include the Philadelphia and Minnesota orchestras; the Dallas, Seattle, Houston, Milwaukee, and Denver symphonies; as well as orchestras in China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy. Shifrin performs on clarinets made by Morrie Backun in Vancouver, Canada, and Légère synthetic reeds.
Alessio Bax won first prize at both the Leeds and Hamamatsu International Piano Competitions, and has appeared with nearly 200 orchestras, including the New York, London, and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras; the Boston, Baltimore, Dallas, Cincinnati, Seattle, Sydney, BBC Scottish, and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestras; the Cleveland and Minnesota Orchestras; and the Tokyo and NHK Symphonies in Japan. He is the recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, and the Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists. At age 14, Bax graduated with top honors from the conservatory of Bari, Italy. He is a former member of CMS’s Bowers Program and is on the faculty at New England Conservatory. For ten years, Bax has been Artistic Director of the Incontri in Terra di Siena Festival, and is the Artistic Director of the London Festival of Chamber Music at Smith Square Hall in London. He also serves as Co-Artistic Director of the Joaquín Achúcarro Foundation for emerging pianists.
Pianist Gloria Chien has a diverse musical life as a performer, concert presenter, and educator. She made her orchestral debut at age 16 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Thomas Dausgaard. In 2009 she launched String Theory, a chamber music series in Chattanooga, and the following year was appointed Director of the Chamber Music Institute at Music@Menlo. In 2017, she joined her husband, violinist Soovin Kim, as Co-Artistic Director of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, Vermont. The duo became Artistic Directors at Chamber Music Northwest in 2020, and were named the recipients of the 2021 Award for Extraordinary Service to Chamber Music from CMS. Ms. Chien received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from New England Conservatory, where she was named the Advisor for the prestigious Institute for Concert Artists in 2024. She is an artist-in-residence at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee; a Steinway Artist; and an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program.
The profound influence of pianist Gilbert Kalish as an educator and pianist in myriad performances and recordings has established him as a major figure in American music-making. This season he appears with the St. Petersburg Chamber Philharmonic, performs at the Ojai Music Festival, and holds a residency at the San Francisco Conservatory. In 2006 he was awarded the Peabody Medal by the Peabody Conservatory for his outstanding contributions to music in America. He was the pianist of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players for 30 years, and was a founding member of the Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, a group that flourished during the 1960s and 70s in support of new music. He is particularly known for his partnership of many years with mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani, as well as for current collaborations with soprano Dawn Upshaw and cellists Timothy Eddy and Joel Krosnik. As an educator and performer he has appeared at the Banff Centre, the Steans Institute at Ravinia, the Marlboro Music Festival, and Music@Menlo; from 1985 to 1997 he served as chairman of the Tanglewood faculty. His discography of some 100 recordings embraces both the classical and contemporary repertories; of special note are those made with Ms. DeGaetani and that of Ives' Concord Sonata. A distinguished professor at SUNY Stony Brook, Mr. Kalish has been an Artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2006.
Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel boasts remarkable versatility and artistic originality. Winner of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, the 2016 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, and top prizes in the Naumburg and Geneva competitions, he has graced prestigious stages worldwide, enthralling audiences with recitals and chamber performances, and collaborating with renowned orchestras including the Munich Philharmonic and the Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco symphonies. As a champion of new music, he has premiered compositions by celebrated composers such as Jörg Widmann, Heinz Holliger, Anthony Cheung, and George Benjamin. He is an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program and has earned degrees from Columbia University and the Juilliard School. Today, Vonsattel shares his passion for music as a Professor of Piano at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.