Chamber Music
SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2010 • 3 pm •4560 Delafield Avenue, Riverdale


Adrienne Kim


Brenda Feliciano


Shaheen Malick





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Adrienne Kim, piano
Francesca Mendoza, violin
Sally Shumway, viola
Bruce Wang, cello
Brenda Feliciano, soprano
Adonis Gonzalez, pianist (for Brenda Feliciano)
Shaheen Malick, cello*

Turina - Quintet, Opus 1 & Sonata No. 2 for Violin & Piano
Selections by Carlos Guastavino, Campos-Parsi, Hernandez, and Montsalvatge
Gaspar Cassado - Suite for Solo Cello
Oliver Caplan - Illuminated by Light of Two Ships Passing in the Night for piano, violin and cello (New York Premiere)**


Pianist ADRIENNE KIM's recent performances include recitals in New York's Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Bargemusic, Boston's Symphony Hall, Washington D.C.'s Phillips Gallery and Ravinia's Rising Stars series in Chicago.  Ms. Kim was a member of Chamber Music Society Two, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's residency program for emerging young artists. She is the resident pianist of the Seal Bay Festival in Maine and participated in the National Endowment for the Arts/Chamber Music America Rural Residency. She has recorded the solo and chamber works of Daniel S. Godfrey with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the violin and piano sonatas of Charles Ives with violinist Lisa Tipton. She and Ms. Tipton also present the “Made in America” series at Weill Hall. Her newest CD of the violin and piano sonatas of Niels Gade with violinist, Katie Wolfe, was released this fall on Centaur.

Soprano BRENDA FELICIANO most recently performed at the Jazz@Lincoln Center Rose Theatre as soloist with the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Ms. Feliciano likes the challenge of performing jazz and classical music, and has quite an extensive repertoire that takes her from Gershwin’s “My Man’s Gone Now”, Wagner’s “Mild und Leise” to “Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 by Villalobos, to Spanish art songs, including the leid of her native Puerto Rico, and also of Cuba.. In the year 2000, she received a Latin Grammy nomination as Best Classical recording, on a project “Music of Two Worlds” with Paquito D’Rivera on clarinet and Aldo Antonazzi on piano, performing Schubert and Guastavino, and she is also a 2007 Grammy winner as a jazz producer “Paquito D’Rivera – Funk Tango. Ms. Feliciano has performed as soloist with many orchestras including the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin, the Milwaukee Symphony, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra and the Costa Rica Symphony. With the Houston Symphony, the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Mexico, an the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, she has worked under the direction of Maestro Carlos Miguel Prieto.

SHAHEEN MALICK is a student of Bonnie Hampton and is a scholarship student at the Prep Division at the Juilliard School of Music. He also attended the School for Strings and Interlochen Summer Arts Festival, and has performed with the Juilliard Pre-College Symphony, Juilliard Pre-College Orchestra and World Youth Symphony Orchestra. Shaheen has performed solo recitals locally and has appeared in chamber concerts at Bargemusic and Alice Tully Hall.

With memorable melodies and colorful interplay, American composer OLIVER CAPLAN (b. 1982) expresses a deeply felt romanticism. Mr. Caplan’s music has been commissioned by the Bronx Arts Ensemble, Columbia University Wind Ensemble and Washington & Jefferson College Wind Ensemble. It has also been presented by the Cleveland Contemporary Players, Lorelei Ensemble, Boston New Music Initiative, 11:11 Theatre Company, University of Nebraska at Kearney New Music Festival, Juventas New Music Ensemble, and dance choreographers Mary Chris DeBelina and Susan Graham, among others. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers recognized him in 2008 and 2009 with ASCAPLUS Awards for emerging artists; and in 2009 as a Finalist for the Morton Gould Young Composer Award.

Mr. Caplan was raised in the Bronx, New York. He studied Music and Geography at Dartmouth College, graduating with honors in 2004. While a student at Dartmouth – amidst irreverent marching band antics and musical studies abroad in London – he found his calling: musical composition. He studied composition with Charles Dodge, sang in the college Handel Society and served as President of the Marching Band. Mr. Caplan entered the Boston Conservatory's composition program and received his Masters of Music in 2006, graduating with Pi Kappa Lambda honors. At the Conservatory, he studied with composers Dalit Warshaw and Dana Brayton. Mr. Caplan currently resides in Somerville, Massachusetts. An avid hiker, he finds inspiration through his time outdoors. For more information visit www.olivercaplan.com.

ADONIS GONZALEZ began studying music at a very early age in Santiago de Cuba. He graduated with honors from the Superior Institute of Art of Havana, holds a Master of Music Degree from the University of Southern Mississippi, and a Doctoral Degree in Piano Performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where he won the 2005 Concerto Competition. He also took courses in Orchestral Conducting at The Juilliard School in New York City.

Gonzalez won the First Prize of the most important Cuban piano competition, that of the National Association of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) in 1994, and the First Prize of the Teresa Carreño International Piano Competition in Caracas, Venezuela in 1998. He is a laureate of the 1995 Ernesto Lecuona International Competition of Havana, and also a laureate of the 2004 International Piano Competition of the Principality of Andorra. He has performed with orchestras in Germany, Austria, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, and the USA, including among others the National Philharmonic of Venezuela, the Wiener Residenz Orchester in Austria, the Junge Süddeutsche Philharmonie Esslingen in Germany, the Mississippi Symphony, the University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, and the Rutgers University Symphony Orchestra.

An avid chamber musician, Gonzalez has performed for The Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, The Concert Artist Guild of New York and The New Jersey Chamber Music Society. He has collaborated with legendary artists such as mezzo- soprano Denyce Graves, violinist Arnold Steinhardt and also with clarinetists/saxophonist Paquito D’ Rivera. The latter invited him to record as a guest artist for his CD Jazz-Clazz nominated by the GRAMMY AWARDS 2009 for Best Classical Crossover Album.

He has also presented solo recitals, master classes and chamber music performances in Italy, Austria, Canada, Poland, Andorra, The Czech Republic, Jamaica, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, Germany, Colombia, Chile and through the USA. In New York City Dr. Gonzalez has performed at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and at The United Nations. He has been broadcast live by WQXR, The Classical Radio Station of the New York Times and by several other television and radio stations in the US, Cuba and Spain.

Currently, Gonzalez holds teaching positions at Passaic County Community College and, Wharton Music Center, and is the Music Director of the First Presbyterian Church of Rahway, New Jersey.

*2009 Bingham Award Co-Winner, BAE Young Bronx Artist Contest

**Illuminated by the Light of Two Ships Passing in the Night – Program Note: The ephemeral has many forms: two strangers passing in the night; sun-dappled Monarchs migrating South; and all too familiar to us artists, fleeting bursts of inspiration evanescing like shooting stars into the darkness. This piece is an ode to moments of illumination. The title draws from a work of conceptual art by Lawrence Weiner (b. 1942). Weiner started as a sculptor, and in 1968 began to explore language as a new medium for presenting his ideas, creating installation art that consisted solely of words imprinted on white walls. Without binding his ideas to concrete physical form, much is left to the imagination of the beholder.

Composed in 2009, “Illuminated by the Light of Two Ships Passing in the Night” has been presented by the Juventas New Music Ensemble, Cleveland Contemporary Players, Boston New Music Initiative, and University of Nebraska New Music Festival. It is available for download on Amazon.com and other music sites.

Tickets $25 | Refreshments will be served.