Event Overview:
Robert Marcus, clarinet
Cleveland Chandler, first violin
Keith Colon, second violin
Becky Johnson, viola
Miron Yampolsky, 'cello
Program
Gerald Finzi
Five Bagatelles for Clarinet and String Quartet
1. Prelude
2. Romance
3. Carol
4. Forlana
5. Fughetta
Johannes Brahms
Quintet in B minor, Opus 115 for Clarinet and String Quartet
1. Allegro
2. Adagio
3. Andantino
4. Con moto
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
$40 Members - $45 Non-members
6:30 p.m. - Doors open
7:00 p.m. - Performance followed by reception with the artists
Clarinetist and Ingleside Resident Robert Marcus has played the clarinet for more than 75 years, having studied in Los Angeles with Mitchell Lurie and at the Music Academy of the West. He has enjoyed a long history of solo and chamber music performance including appearances with the Nova Vista Symphony, Redwood Symphony, and Los Alamos Symphony in concerti by Mozart, del Aguila, and John Adams, Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsodie, and Luciano Berio;s orchestral transcription of Brahms’ F-minor Clarinet sonata. Over a span of 60 years he has played frequentsolo and chamber music recitals. In addition to playing the standard clarinet repertoire, his chamber music performances include Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du Soldat, Milhaud’s Creation du Monde, Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, and Golijov’s Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind.
Cleveland Chandler, Jr., served as violinist in the United States Air Force Band for 24 years, performing at numerous White House and high-level events worldwide. His education includes a bachelor’s degree from Peabody Conservatory and a master’s degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Recently he joined the violin faculty of the Washington Conservatory of Music. He has studied chamber music with the Emerson and Julliard String Quartets and studied at the Mark O’Connor String Seminar at Berklee College of Music, Aspen Music Festival and the National Orchestral Institute. He also performed for the American Ambassador to Jamaica in Kingston sponsored by the U.S. State Department. He performs regularly with the Gateways Festival and has been featured in ensembles at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, the Music Center at Strathmore, the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall and many other notable venues. Mr. Chandler was featured Guest Artist at Indiana University at South Bend for the “Lift Every Voice” Concert. He and his colleague Robin Massie are first-place winners of the inaugural Misbin Family Memorial Chamber Music Competition, and yhey performed for the 10th Annual Winners Concert and Anniversary Celebration at the Levine School. After military retirement Mr. Chandler continues to be in demand, now frequently performing with the Washington Concert Opera, the Post-Classical Ensemble, the National Philharmonic, the Colour of Music Festival, the Maryland Symphony, the Soulful Symphony, as well as numerous other solo and chamber music engagements with First Class Strings,LLC (which he founded). He was also featured at the French Embassy as part of a quartet performing chamber music of Chevalier de Saint Georges for the Washington International Film Festival. Mr. Chandler performs on a special violin, a 1912 Hannibal Fagnola, bequeathed to him by Mr. Bruce Wade, former violinist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Wade was his former chamber music coach.
Violinist Keith Colón, Jr., began studies at age twelve in the Maryland public school
system and continued studies with Christopher Collins Lee and Cleveland Chander.
He performed for four years with the Drexel University Symphony and Chamber Strings. He attended the Summertrios Chamber Music Festival and has been invited to perform at the festival, for which he now serves as Assistant Artistic Director. He currently performs with The Columbia Orchestra and the Gallery Quartet and is an active freelancer in the mid-Atlantic region,
Becky Johnson, violist, is originally from Larsen, Wisconsin. Ms. Johnson received a Bachelor of Music degree in viola performance from Oberlin Conservatory and her Master of Music degree in Suzuki pedagogy from Ithaca College where she did long- term training with Carrie Reuning-Hummel. As an orchestral musician, Becky has performed as a member of Movement in Music Ensemble (MIME), The Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, and the National Festival Orchestra at the National
Orchestral Institute. An avid chamber music lover, Becky has also performed as a member of the Florestan Quartet and as part of Fox River Chamber Festival, Madeline Island Chamber Music, Credo Chamber Music Festival, New York University String Quartet Intensive, and the Juilliard String Quartet Seminar. Currently residing in McLean, Becky holds the Suzuki Coordinator position and teaches violin and viola at the Washington Conservatory of Music. When not teaching or performing, Becky enjoys gardening, training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, making food, and caring for local cats including her own two furry felines, Layla and Punichan.
Russian-born cellist Miron Yampolsky studied with the legendary Mstislav Rostropovich for 16 years, at Moscow’s Central Music School and later at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory. After winning a top prize in the Munich International Chamber Music Competition Mr. Yampolsky performed extensively as an orchestra soloist, in recital, and as a founding member of the Moscow Piano Trio. Leaving Soviet Union for Israel, he performed as a soloist with the Kol Israel and Haifa Symphony Orchestras and in recitals throughout the country. After immigrating to the United States, Mr. Yampolsky was appointed Assistant Principal Cello with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and also served as Principal Cello with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. He made his New York debut at Alice Tully Hall to rave reviews. He has concertized extensively all over the United States, performing as soloist with the Baltimore Symphony, Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and many others. He has performed at the Tangelwood Summer Music Festival and Spoleto USA as well as such local venues as the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, Phillips Collection, Dumbarton Church, Lyceum, The Arts Club of Washington and many others. In 1985, Mr. Yampolsky became a founder and Faculty member of the Washington Conservatory of Music. Later he taught cello and chamber music at the American University and was appointed as a conductor of the American University Symphony Orchestra. An active promoter of contemporary music, he gave a world premiere of Herman Berlinsky's Sinfonia No.10 for Violoncello and organ a the Washington National Cathedral, and later in New York and San Francisco. Mr. Yampolsky is a recipient of the prestigious Villa Lobos Memorial Medal for his efforts to promote composer's music in the United States.
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The Salon Concert Series is presented by the Classical Music Committee of The Arts Club of Washington, and offers chamber music in an historic atmosphere evocative of the period during which the music was written.
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