The
Lighthouse
Chamber
Players
1997 season
Concert 5
JVelljleet Congregational Church
August 30, 1997, 8 p.m.
THE :LIGHTHOUSE
CHAMBER PLAYERS
SCHlJBERT ANNIVERSARY GALA CONCERT
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30, 1997 AT 8 :00PM
WELLFLEET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
DAVID NIWA, Violin
TREVOR HANDY, Cello
GAll.. NIWA, Piano
ALEXANDER YUDKOVSKY, Violin
ELIZABETH CHANG, Violin
Lnn-I-WEN TING, Viola
MAUREEN McDERMOTT, Cello
GUEST ARTIST BERNARD GREENHOUSE, CELLO
FRANZ SCHUBERT
(1797-1828)
Program
Piano Trio in B flat Major, Op. 99
(D. 898, 1827)
Allegro moderato
Andante un poco mosso
Scherzo: Allegro
Rondo: Allegro vivace
David Niwa, violin
Trevor Handy, cello
Gail Niwa, piano
THE LIGHTHOUSE CHAMBER PLAYERS 1997
ELIZABETH CHANG, violinist, has appeared as soloist with the Gotham Chamber
Orchestra, the Palisades Chamber Orchestra, the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra,
the Philharmonische Akademie Bern, the Music for Westchester Orchestra, and the
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra on its European and East Asian tours. As a chamber
musician she has appeared in many of the major European halls. including the
Salles Pleyel and Gaveau in Paris. the Herkulessaal in Munich, and the Duesseldorf
Tonhalle. A native New Yorker, Elizabeth studied in the Juilliard Pre-College with
Louise Behrend and Joseph Fuchs, in the Boston area with Roman Totenberg, Leon
Kirchner. and Luise Vosgerchian. and in Switzerland with Max Rostal. After being
named a Presidential Scholar in the Arts in 1982. Elizabeth earned her B.A. in
English from Harvard and received a Beebe Fellowship for Study Abroad. She is the
concertmaster of several chamber orchestras in greater New York and has appeared
as a member of the Sea Cliff Chamber Players and the Orchestra of St. Luke· s. This
year she toured Europe and Japan with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and
recorded for Deutsche Grammophon with that group. Elizabeth has taught on the
faculties of the Westchester Consen·atory of Music and the Turtle Bay Music School
and has coached chamber music for the InterSchool Orchestras of New York and at
the Port Milford Chamber Music Festival. She is currently the head of the chamber
music department of the School for Strings and sen•es on the violin faculty of the
Harlem School of the Arts.
From Lutoslawski to Cole Porter, from Cage to K.lezmer, from Bessie Smith to
Beethoven, from his own work to those of his colleagues, JEFFREY GOLDBERG is
a composer-performer (conductor and pianist) whose musicianship and imaginative
programming embrace many styles. Born in Boston, Jeffrey was educated at the
New England Consen·atory, Han·ard University, the University of Michigan, and at
various music festivals (including studies with Leonard Bernstein at the SchleswigHolstein
Musik-Festival and at Tanglewood). Presently combining music and
education in Boston (where he is a resident music tutor at Han•ard University
giving classes in musicianship, analysis, and world music, a doctoral candidate at
the Han•ard Graduate School of Education, and an advisor/teacher for various
interdisciplinal)' programs integrating the arts into public education on all levels),
he was based from 1990-1995 in Germany, working as a conductor, composer,
education/outreach specialist, and coach at the Darmstadt and Ha1mover Opera
houses. His compositions have won many prizes; the Hannover Opera
commissioned two works, each of which had an extended run: Zuriick vom Ring
(chamber opera, 1992/3, 199-t/5 seasons) and A! arlene, or the Angel's Blues (ballet,
199-t/5, 1995/6 seasons). Leonard Bernstein has called him "profoundly musical:
(with) a keenly sensitive ear, a brilliant mind, and an extraordinal)' emotional
drive ... As a pianist he has performed as a soloist with the Boston Symphony
Orchestra and the Boston Pops, the Dannstadt Festi\·al of Contemporary Music, and
in European jazz clubs. A specialist in improvisation in a multitude of styles, he
gives workshops in improvisation and ethnic music; he also performs frequently as
an accompanist and chamber musician, and has extensive experience as a creative
teacher/stol)1eller/el}tertainer in numerous education and outreach programs.
Jeffrey Goldberg has, since 1964, spent summers with his family in Centerville,
where he studied at the Cape Cod Conservatory and served as official pianist in the
early years of the New England Gilbert and Sullivan Society.
TREVOR HANDY was born in Boston in 1965 and received his early musical
training at the Longy School of Music, New England Conservatory, and Greater
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra. As a teenager he performed twice as soloist
with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and at age 16 was accepted to study with
Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School, where he graduated with a B.M. (1986) and
an M.M. (1987). His teachers also were Channing Robbins, Joel Krosnick, and
Lome Munroe. He attended Tanglewood and the Aspen Music Festival as a
fellowship student and participated in the Yehudi Menuhin Summer Academy and
Lausanne Academy of Music master classes with Maurice Gendron in Switzerland.
He was a founding member of the Griffon String Quartet, which won the grand
prize at the 1991 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and gave concerts
in the Northeast and Midwest. In the summer of 1992 he served as co-principal
cello of the National Repertory Orchestra in Colorado, where he also appeared as .
soloist in a performance of Haydn' s D Major Concerto.
Trevor Handy has been a member of the Jacksonville, New Haven. and
Honolulu Symphonies, and is currently in the Columbus Symphony Orchestra. He
has presented recitals at Central Presb)1erian Church as part of its "Sundays at
Central" Series, Ohio State University's Weigel Hall, the Duxbury, MA Arts
Complex, the Pickman Hall of the Longy School of Music, and at the Kamehameha
Schools in Honolulu. He is married to Anne Marie Gabriele, an oboist in the
Columbus and Canton Symphonies.
Critically acclaimed cellist MAUREEN McDERMOTT made her New York recital
debut in 1987 at Carnegie Recital Hall. Since that time, she has performed in such
venues as Carnegie Hall, in 92nd St. Y's Kaufman Hall, in Alice Tully Hall, and on
tour throughout the United States. She has participated in the festivals of Ravinia,
Newport, Park City, Vail, and Port Milford. A prize winner in numerous
competitions, Maureen is a member of the McDermott Trio and the cello quartet
CELLO. Recent concerts include performances at Les Rencontres lnternationa/es
d'Ensembles l'ioloncelles in France, in Merkin Concert Hall. and at the Kennedy
Center. In addition. she performed the Beethoven Triple Concerto with the
McDermott Trio at Alice Tully Hall. Maureen ·has recorded on the Pro Arte, Angel,
Sony and BMG labels. Maureen graduated with honors from the Manhattan School
of Music where she studied with David Wells, Martha Williams and Bernard
Greenhouse. and she has been on the faculty of the Third Street Settlement Music
School since 1987.
Violinist DAVID NIW A's extensive performing career has included feature
appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the
Curtis Institute, the Oak Park Symphony, the Chicago Youth Symphony, the
Chamber Orchestra of the Palisades and the Plainfield Symphony, as well as recitals
in the Corcoran Gallery and the Terrace Theater of the Kennedy Center, the Cloitre
des Jacobins, and Landgraf. Since 1990, he has also been featured regularly as
soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble throughout Japan and Southeast
Asia. As a chamber musician, he has performed as a member of the Roycroft
Chamber Players and as a guest artist at the Summer Chamber Music at URl and at
the Martha 's Vineyard Chamber Music Society. In 1987 and I 988, he appeared as
guest artist-in-residence at the Festival de Ia Gesse in southwestern France.
A native of Chicago, David began his studies with his father, Raymond Niwa,
and subsequently studied at the Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School, where his
teachers were Aaron Rosand and Szymon Goldberg, respectively. He was a top
prizewinner in all five divisions of the prestigious Society of American Musicians
Competition, a three-time winner of the ISMT A Competition, a winner of the St.
Paul Musical Arts Competition, and a recipient of scholarships from the Union
League Civic and Arts Foundation. In 1982, David was a prizewinner in the NF AA
Recognition and Talent Search and a finalist in the 17-General Motors National
Competition. In 1985, he made his live national TV debut with the Tchaikovsky
Concerto on NBC. David is currently assistant concertmaster of the Columbus
Symphony Orchestra.
Pianist GAIL NIW A is the only woman to have won the Gina Bachauer Piano
Competition, capturing the Gold Medal, the Audience Prize, and the Chamber
Music Prize in 1991. She made her New York recital debut in Alice Tully Hall in
October 1991 and has won high praise for recitals Orchestra Hall in Chicago and at
the Ambassador Auditorium's Gold Medal Series in Pasadena. She has given
recit:als at the Kennedy Center, in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and in Athens,
Montreal, Toronto, St. Louis, Kansas City, and Miami, and has toured Scandinavia
and the Far East.
As soloist Gail received outstanding reviews in February 1995 when she
performed the Schumann Piano Concerto with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Sir Georg Solti conducting. The daughter of professional musicians, growing up in
Chicago, she had made her orchestral debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
at the age of eight. The many orchestras she has performed with include the Utah,
Memphis, Fort Wayne, Augusta, Reno, Evanston, and Grant Park Symphonies.
Gail has also won major prizes in the International Chopin Competition, the
Young Keyboard Artists Competition, and the Mae Whitaker Competition, and the
Washington International Competition. An outstanding ensemble player. Gail won
the Best Accompanist Award at the 1986 Tchaikovsky Competition for Violinists in
Moscow, and has been featured a soloist with the Kammergild Chamber Players of
St. Louis, the Banff Festival Chamber Orchestra, the Highland Park Strings, and
the Ocean State Chamber Players. Gail can be heard with violinist David Kim on
recordings for Teldec and The Musical Heritage Society.
A native of California, composer and pianist ERIC SAWYER has received
performances of his compositions in the San Francisco Bay Area, at New York's
Weill and Merkin concert halls and at Tanglewood. as well as in England, France.
and Germany. He has received the Joseph Beams Prize, the C. D. Jackson Award
from Tanglewood, and a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of
Arts and Letters. Among his commissions have been works for the New York Youth
Symphony, baritone Paul Hillier, the Alaria Chamber Ensemble, the Boston
Chamber Ensemble, and the International Arts Chamber Orchestra. Eric has
appeared frequently as a pianist in solo and chamber recitals. He has taught theory
and composition at the University of California, Santa Cruz and currently teaches
music theory as a Visiting Scholar at MIT. Eric received his undergraduate musical
training at Harvard and completed his graduate studies at Columbia University and
the University of California, Davis. His teachers have included Leon Kirchner, Ross
Bauer. George Edwards, and Andrew Imbrie. Eric is a member of Composers in
Red Sneakers and is Co-Chair of the New England Chapter of the Society of
Composers, Inc.
LIUH-WEN TING. violist. born in Taiwan. is a graduate of The Juilliard School.
where she earned both her Bachelor·s and her Master·s degrees as a student of
Karen Tuttle and William Lincer. Liuh-Wen is the violist in the award-winning
Meridian String Quartet and the ABACA String Band, which performs regularly as
part of the Carnegie Hairs Neighborhood Outreach Series. She has performed with
the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, Orchestra of St. Luke's, and the
Orpheus Chamber Ensemble. An energetic proponent of contemporary music, she is
principal violist of the SEM Ensemble. Music Mobile Ensemble (in residency at
NYU), and the Crosstown Ensemble. She has appeared as a soloist with the Taipei
Symphony, the Virtuoso String Players and the Orchestra of Julius Grossman. As a
faculty member of the Juilliard School Pre-College, she is a regular performer on
the Juilliard Pre-College Faculty Concert Series. Liuh-Wen has been on the sta1T for
the Composers' Conference at Wellesley, the Chamber Music Conference of the
East at Bennington College, the "June in Buffalo'' festival, and the Bowdoin Music
Festival. Liuh-Wen, together with her quartet, is a dedicated participant in the effort
to introduce young people in public schools to classical chamber music.
ALEXANDER YUDKOVSKY, violinist, has performed extensively as soloist and
chamber musician in Italy, Spain, France, Finland, Germany, Switzerland. the
Netherlands as well as in this count!)'. He has appeared on tour as a soloist with the
New American Chamber Orchestra and with the Brandenburg Collegium, and as
concertmaster of the Spoleto Festival Orchestra for three years he was featured
regularly in televised chamber music performances. Alexander was born in
Leningrad and came to the U.S. at the age of fourteen . He received his musical
education at the Leningrad Special Music School, the Juilliard School, and the
Rotterdam Conservatory; his principal teachers have been Boris Sergeev, Joseph
Fuchs, Rami Shevelev, and Zino Vinnikov. In recent years Alexander has been
increasingly recognized f<;>r his leadership in education in the arts. For two years he
seryed as the Chairman of the Music Department at the Harlem School of the Arts
and Music Director of the New Jersey State Youth Orchestra. He is currently
Executive Director of the School for Strings in New York, one of the country's
leading centers for instrumental music education for young children.
FRANZ SCHUBERT
(1 797-1828)
Intermission
String Quintet inC Major,
Op. Post. 163, (0 .956, 1828)
Allegro ma non troppo
Adagio
Scherzo-Presto. Trio-Andante
sostenuto
Allegretto
Alexander Yudkovsky, Elizabeth Chang, violins
Liuh-Wen Ting, viola
Maureen McDermott, Bernard Greenhouse, ce//i
Guest artist BERNARD GREENHOUSE. cellist, was born in New Jersey. He studied
at Juilliard and made his New York recital debut at Town Hall to resounding
critical acclaim. Mr. Greenhouse then went to Europe for an audition with Pablo
Casals, which resulted in two years of study with the great Spanish master.
Casals wrote, "Bernard Greenhouse is not only a remarkable cellist, but what I
esteem more, a dignified artist..,
Since then Mr. Greenhouse has won a reputation as one of the major interpreters
on his instrument, making appearances in most of the major cities of Europe and
America in recital, with orchestras and chamber music ensembles, and recording
for CBS, RCA, Concert Hall. and the American Recording Society. He has been
a member of the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and the State
University of New York at Stony Brook, from which he received an Honorary
Doctorate. He has recently retired Emeritus from his position as WCSL Professor
at Rutgers UniYersity. and, as well, from the New England Conservatory; Mr.
Greenhouse now teaches Master Classes in the United States, Canada. and
Europe. He was cellist with the Bach Aria Group, and for thirty two years, a
founding member of the Beaux Arts Trio.
His nried career has brought him recognition both as a soloist and as a chamber
musician. He was recently awarded the National Service Award by Chamber
Music America. Mr. Greenhouse plays the famed "Paganini"' StradiYarius Cello
dated 1707.
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Special thanks to Mr. Bernard Greenhouse
Thanks, as always, to Conrad Nobili and the Nobili family
Many thanks also to Judy and Arthur Davidson, Jane Higgins, Joan Stevens,
George Abbott, Sue Messina, the Goldberg family, and all our friends from
this year and past years who make these concerts possible.
