Events

SUSAN BATES, Director with

Eric Gaenslen, Jonathan Koh

Oct 12 AYE Trio coaching with Mack McCray, piano Oct 13 Verbena Quartet attends St. Lawrence SQ concert Oct 20 YCM at SFMusicDay Nov 8 MASTER CLASS 3:30pm Joyce Yang, piano Alexander String Quartet Knuth Hall, SFSU Nov 10 YCM students attend ASQ, Joyce Yang Concert Kohl Mansion, 7pm Dec 20 YCM performs at Stratford Retirement Community 5pm, San Mateo Jan 23 YCM ensembles perform with the Bella Trio for the Harvard Club of San Francisco Feb 2 MASTER CLASS 5pm Trio Cavatina Kohl Mansion Library

2013-2014 Young Chamber Musicians

AYE TRIO

Alex Chien, piano Young-Hye Lee, violin Elena Ariza, cello

BOURDELLE STRING QUARTET Freya Liu, Taiga Murooka, violin Linus Lu, viola James Ahn, cello

VERBENA QUARTET

Tsutomu William Copeland, Isabella Costanza, violin Clara Chan, viola Irene Jeong, cello

WANG-TAI DUO

Vivian Wang, piano Jeremy Tai, cello

photo: Clara Chan receives coaching from Kirsten Docter, Cavani String Quartet

F A L L N E W S L E T T E R 2 0 1 3

AYE TRIO

Alex Chien, piano Young-Hye Lee, violin Elena Ariza, cello

About the Trio

Violinist, YOUNG-HYE LEE, 15 is a

student of Jenny Rudin and attends Gunn High School in Palo Alto. She joined the El Camino Youth Symphony in 2008, and has won the All-ECYS Concerto Competition five times. She has also participated in Capriccio Chamber Music Summer

Festival.

The AYE Trio began with the acquaintance of cellist Elena and pianist Alex. After reading with Young-Hye there was no doubt they should become a group. Finding a name for the trio turned out to be not as challenging as anticipated, when Alex’s father put the letters of their first names together and found –the AYE!

The Trio will study Beethoven Op. 11, a work sometimes known by its nickname, “Gassenhauer Trio”. The title comes from the third movement theme, a very popular song from a drama giocoso of 1797 by Joseph Weigl.

The Trio will also study the famous “Dumky” Trio by Dvorak this fall. A work of six movements, this piece made the “dumka” style famous for it sudden changes in mood, tempo and character.

The AYE Trio played for renowned pianist, Mack McCray and appeared at SF Music Day in this month. The Trio will appear in master class for pianist Joyce Yang and the Alexander String Quartet at San Francisco State University, Knuth Hall, Friday, November 8, 2013. Free to the public, the concert and class begins at 1:10pm.

Pianist, ALEX CHIEN, 15 is a student of

Kai Chi Zhu and attends Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose. He is the winner of numerous piano prizes among them: the Marilyn Mindell, Zeiter, and the Los Angles International Liszt Competition in 2012. Alex attended the Young Performer’s Program at Music@Menlo in 2012 and 2013.

Meet the Musicians

Cellist, ELENA ARIZA, 15 is a student of

Sieun Lin at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre College where she has participated in chamber music since 2008. She attends the Menlo School, and since 2010 she has spent her summers at the Young Performer’s Program at Music@Menlo. In 2013, Elena also attended the Aspen Music Festival and School.

Bourdelle String Quartet Freya Liu,violin Taiga Murooka, violin Linus Lu, viola James Ahn,cello

Young musicians these days are travelers, finding their musical education across the nation and

sometimes across continents. Violinist, Taiga Murooka (15) began his violin studies in Shanghai, China, continued in Japan and ultimately settled here in Saratoga, Ca.; and, Freya

Liu (15) traveled to NYC to take the first prize at the 2009 American Fine Arts Festival at Carnegie Hall. She is a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Both violinists have studied chamber music at the Hotchkiss Chamber Music Summer Portals in

Connecticut, and are students of Wei He. Linus Lu, (16) is a violist and a composer. He attends Saratoga High School and participates in the school orchestra. Linus is a student of Susan Bates at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre College, and a finalist in the 2013 Northern California Viola Society Young Violists Competition, as well as the ASCP Morton

Gould Young Composer Competition. Cellist, James Ahn (15) attends Gunn High School in Palo Alto and studies with Eric Sung at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre College. James has been a winner of the Junior Bach Festival 2009-2011 & 2013. He is also a prizewinner of the CMTANC and MTAC Voce, and the Menuhin Dowling Competitions.

The BOURDELLE String Quartet has selected Haydn Op.74/3 and Mendelssohn Op. 44/2 to begin this season. Weekly coaching with Susan Bates and Eric Gaenslen has begun with a first

performance slated for January 12. The group will also appear in master class in May performing for the Henschel Quartet and attend the Miró and Henschel Quartet performances at Kohl

Mansion.

Meet the Musicians