December 5, 2006

La Sierra University

Attend a concert from the Beethoven and Beyond concert series Sunday, December 10, 2006 at 7:30 pm
in Hole Memorial Auditorium, La Sierra University (4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, Ca 92505). For ticket information contact the La Sierra University music department at 951-785-2036.

Performers
Jason Uyeyama, Violin
Maurycy Banaszek, Viola
Eric Sung, Cello
Vadim Serebryany, Piano

Concert Program

Beethoven String Trio in G Major, Op. 9 No. 1

Adagio ˆ Allegro con brio
Adagio, ma non tanto, e cantabile
Scherzo:  Allegro, Trio I, II
Presto

Beethoven String Trio in C minor, Op. 9 No. 3

Allegro con spirito
Adagio con espressione
Scherzo:  Allegro molto e vivace
Finale:  Presto

Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 60

Allegro non troppo
Scherzo:  Allegro
Andante
Finale:  Allegro comodo

Featured Artists

Maurycy Banasze, viola
Born in Warsaw, Poland, Maurycy Banaszek has performed at the Marlboro, Seattle, Santa Fe, Aldeburgh, Moritzburg, Mozart, Kingston, Martha'sVineyard, Warsaw Autumn festivals. He regularly tours with the Musicians from Marlboro and appears at the Barge Music in New York.
As a founding member of The Elsner String Quartet he has played in such prestigious venues as the Carnegie Hall in New York, Wigmore Hall in London, Gewandhaus in Leipzig, among others. In August 1998 he was invited by the members of the legendary Amadeus String Quartet to perform at the Amadeus Quartet 50th Anniversary Gala Concert in London.
He was recently invited to be the soloist with the New Jersey Lyric Orchestra at their Carnegie Hall debut performance and with the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra in Jordan Hall, Boston. He was also chosen by Gidon Kremer to participate in Chamber Music Connects the World Festival in Kronberg, Germany where  he performed with the Guarneri String Quartet.
Banaszek is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music in New York where he studied with Michael Tree. He plays a viola made by Hiroshi Iizuka in Philadelphia in 1997.

Jason Uyeyama, violin
Violinist Jason Uyeyama is currently the Director of String Studies at La Sierra University where he teaches violin, viola, and chamber music.  He received his master’s degree from The Juilliard School as a student of Masao Kawasaki.  Other teachers include Itzhak Perlman, Dorothy DeLay, and Yao-Ji Lin. 

This season Mr. Uyeyama can be heard on the concert series “Beethoven and Beyond” at La Sierra University.  Among the works performed will be the string trios, late quartets, and the complete violin sonatas with pianist Vadim Serebryany.  He performs regularly with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and joined the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in performances of the complete Beethoven symphonies this fall.  An active chamber musician, he is a member of the Taylor String Quartet.  He has attended the Aspen, Taos, and Tanglewood music festivals.

Eric Sung, cello
A native of Los Angeles, California, Eric Sung began studying the cello at the age of eight under Edwin and Gretchen Geber. He received his bachelor of music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music where he was awarded the Ellis Feiman Memorial Award.  Sung also received Advanced Degrees from the University of Southern California and the Juilliard School on scholarship.  Over the years, Sung has studied with Stephen Geber, Ronald Leonard, Fred Sherry, Lynn Harrell and David Geber and has taken master classes with Joel Krosnick, Frans Helmerson, Steven Isserlis, Janos Starker and Lawrence Lesser.

Sung has been a recipient of many awards, including a fellowship from the Los Angeles Philharmonic and a scholarship from the Leni FeBland Foundation.  He has also participated in the New York String Seminar under violinist/conductor Jaime Laredo.  In competition, Eric had been a finalist of the Korean International Music Foundation Competition in 2005, had won the Low Strings competition of the Aspen Music Festival in 2002 and also was selected as one of ten cellists to participate in the prestigious Gregor Piatigorsky Seminar for cellists.  Upon a personal invitation, Eric has further studied with the world-renown cellist, Lynn Harrell, at the Aspen Music Festival for two summers, where he was also awarded an orchestral fellowship.

Sung has performed as soloist with the Colburn Chamber Orchestra and the Aspen Academy of Conducting Orchestra.  He has led as principal cellist at the Pacific Music Festival in Japan, National Orchestral Institute and Verbier Festivals.  While at Verbier, Sung performed as principal cellist under conductor James Levine of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and through a European tour under conductor Paavo Jarvi.  He has previously been a member of several orchestras in Ohio, New York City and California, including a season as a substitute member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.  He was also a member of the Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, under director Scott Yoo.  With Metamorphosen, Sung participated in regular concerts at Jordan Hall (Boston) and Troy Savings Bank Hall (NY), as a well as numerous tours throughout the U.S.  From 2002-2005, Sung was the Assistant Principal Cellist of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, under Edo de Waart.  In 2006, he was the Acting Principal Cellist of the National Arts Center Orchestra in Ottawa, Canada, under the direction of Pinchas Zukerman. This fall, Sung joined the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra as Associate Principal Cello.

An enthusiastic teacher, Sung maintains a private studio of students.  His students have been admitted to the Valade Program at the Interlochen Arts Camp, Cleveland Institute of Music, San Francisco Conservatory, Univ. of Miami, and Stetson University.

In his spare time, Sung likes to backpack and camp, with aspirations of mastering the art of fly-fishing and completing a marathon sometime in his life.

Sung plays on a rare Alessandro D’espine cello, made in Turin c.1820.

Vadim Serebryany, piano
Recently described by The Globe and Mail as an “excellent pianist”, and praised for his strong technique by the Toronto Star, Vadim Serebryany has been acclaimed by audiences and critics on five continents for his sensitive and intelligent music making.  The Serebryany’s left their native St. Petersburg in 1977 to settle in Toronto, where he was able to pursue his musical studies with Marina Geringas.

An honors graduate with Distinction from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, he went on to complete his bachelors and masters degrees at New York City’s Juilliard School, under the tutelages of the legendary Russian pianist Oxana Yablonskaya and the esteemed American pianist Jacob Lateiner.  The final leg of Serebryany’s formal education took him to Yale University, where he completed his studies in the prestigious Doctor of Musical Arts program under the brilliant Russian pianist and teacher Boris Berman.

Since graduating, Serebryany has been highly sought after as both a soloist and chamber musician.  He has performed in Europe, South America, Australia and throughout North America, and last winter completed his fifth consecutive recital tour of Japan.  In recent seasons Serebryany has embarked on many interesting and challenging projects, including performing the complete Beethoven sonatas for piano and violin, as well as presenting various solo and chamber works of the Second Viennese School composers in creative programs. 

Serebryany has collaborated with such prominent artists as choreographer Mark Morris, Baritone Gary Reylea, cellists Suren Bagratuni and Eugene Osadchy, violinists Mayumi Seiler, Almita Vamos, Julia Bushkova and Yosuke Kawasaki, and the Glenn Gould String Quartet.   Next summer he and Kawasaki will perform and record the complete sonatas for piano and violin of Beethoven for Blue Griffin Records.  Later this summer Blue Griffin will release Serebryany’s first commercial recording of sonatas for cello and piano by Brahms and Shostakovich.

During the 2004-2005 season Serebryany embarked on a two-year project to perform the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven in his native Toronto, where he also teaches at the Royal Conservatory.

Serebryany is also an adjunct professor at La Sierra University.