Musical Arts International, Inc.
2019-2020 Season
Musical Arts International 2019- 2020 Season
Please note the NEW Saturday concert time at 7:30 pm.
Don't miss this 25th anniversary season of fantastic performers playing magnificent chamber works.
Purchase all 4 concerts with a saving of 20%-27%, and get a free ticket to a concert and bring your friend. The performers introduce the music and offer their insight and interpretation. The audience is invited for reception to meet and talk with the artists after the concert. We have some local restaurants for concert day dining discounts-Hollywood East Cafe (240-290-9988) , Tai Kitchen (301-588-3588) and Charm Thai (301-495-6308) in Silver Spring, for you to make a musical afternoon or evening with your family and friends. If you have a favorite restaurant that would like to give a discount, please let us know. After the Sunday concert dining, we can all go to Brookside garden (1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton, MD 20902) which is close by for an enjoyable garden walk.
Tickets for the new season are on sale now. Order Early Birds before September 28, 2019.
Please view the entire season below and call 301-933-3715 for ticket information.
Strata
Saturday, March 14, 2020 at 7:30 pm
Strata is a coming together of three extraordinary musical talents: Audrey Andrist, piano, Nathan Williams, clarinet, and James Stern, violin. Their combined credits encompass numerous international prizes and performances across four continents including such places as Carnegie Hall, the Marlboro Festival and the Kennedy Center.Strata brings “deft ensemble playing” and a “talent…that’s worth getting worked up about” to a repertoire that combines the great trio and duo repertoire of the past with an ever-growing body of new works written especially for them over the more than 25 years they have been playing together. Equally capable of winning over an audience with unique renderings of popular music and of making even the most complex works accessible, exciting and meaningful, Strata has received enthusiastic repeat engagements at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, New York’s historic Maverick Concertsand San Francisco Composers Inc, for which they were listed as one of San Francisco Classical Voice’s “highlights of 2005.” They have been resident artists at the Banff Centre for the Arts and appeared in New York City under the auspices of the International Society for Contemporary Music.
All holders of the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Juilliard School, the members of Strata are dedicated to every level of music education, from the mentoring of graduate students and young professionals, to the initial sparking of musical passion in very young children, to the guiding of audiences in what to listen for. Spoken commentary is an integral part of all their concerts. They perform a wide range of specially tailored presentations for K-12 schools, and have done numerous university residencies involving coaching chamber music and both advising and performing the music of young composers. They have appeared as a featured ensemble at the annual conventions of the Music Teachers’ Association of California and the International Clarinet Association.
The ensemble’s first CD, an exciting mix of new and standard repertoire recorded in 1999, is available on the AUR label as well as on iTunes and Amazon. They are featured on compact discs of the music of Robert Maggio for CRI and Adam Silverman for Albany Records, and have been recorded live in concert for CBC Radio in Canada.
Program: Program includes Mozart Trio "Kegelstatt", Larsen "Slang", Joplin "Easy Winners", Balcom "Original Rag", Schumann "Fairy Tales", Arutiunian "Suite".Latvian Lutheran Church, 400 Hurley Ave. Rockville, MD 20850
Borisevich Duo - a Love Journey
Sunday, May 3, 2020 at 3:00 pm
Margarita Loukachkina and Nikita Borisevich are an internationally acclaimed violin and piano duo, who perform frequently across the United States and Europe. Nikita Borisevichwas born into a musical family and started playing the violin at the young age of five, with his father being his first teacher. Nikita won the prestigious All Russian Competition in Perm at the age of fifthteen. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the legendary Moscow Conservatory, and completed graduate diplomas as well as a second Master of Music Degree at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore with renown violinists and pedagogues Victor Danchenko and Herbert Greenberg. Since his debut with the Perm Opera Symphony Orchestra at the age of twelve, he has performed internationally in Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Latvia, Russia, Spain and across the United States on renowned stages such as the Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.), the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (Russia), Manuel de Falla Auditorium (Granada, Spain) and Shriver Hall (Baltimore). As an active chamber musician, Nikita won numerous chamber music competitions and held top prizes in the Coleman Chamber Music Competition in Los Angeles, California, Chesapeake International Chamber Music Competiton in Easton, Maryland in addition to being awarded the Grand Prize in the International Chamber Music Competition in St. Petersburg, Russia after which he made his debut at the Moscow Philharmonic Society.Known for her dazzling virtuosity and lush tone, award-winning pianist,Margarita Loukachkina, made her debut at the age of 15, performing Grieg Piano Concerto with the Williamsport Symphony. After studying at the prestigious Gnessin School of Music, which produced some of Russia’s most celebrated musicians,she received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from the Peabody Conservatory. Margarita is a major prizewinner of many international competitions including the Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Paris (France), The Konzerteum International Piano Competition in Athens (Greece), Louisiana International Piano Competition in USA in addition to winning the Nittany Valley Symphony Young Soloist Competition, Baltimore Music Club Competition and the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition among others. Her recording have been broadcasted on national television and radio stations and her performance of the famed Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Altoona Symphony at the age of 17 has received rave reviews.In 2017, Nikita and Margarita made their debut as guest artists Sitka Summer Music Festival in Sitka, Alaska, Northwest Bach Festival in Spokane, Washington and Alaska Airlines Concert Series in Anchorage, Alaska.Program: Beethoven, Shostakovich, Bloch, Waxman, Wieniawski.Calvary Lutheran Church, 9545 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20915Left Bank Quartet
Saturday, October 5, 2019 at 7:30 pm
These four musicians, David Salness,violin Sally McLain, violin, Katherine Murdock, viola, Eric Kutz, cello, their diverse and colorful backgrounds, came together through the auspices of the Theater Chamber Players, and rather unexpectedly discovered the joys of a vibrant and enthusiastic collaboration. They have been The Left Bank Quartet since 1999, taking their name from the fact that the Kennedy Center, their first regular venue, is situated on the left bank of the Potomac River.Their combined experiences include participation in the major festivals of the musical world — Aspen, Banff, Chautauqua, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Prussia Cove, Ravinia, Santa Fe, Spoleto and Yellow Barn, to name just a few. Their teaching experiences, collaborations, national and international tours, recital and concerto performances, and success in international competitions give this quartet a rich and varied tapestry as they weave their musical message.
The Left Bank Quartet’s repertoire encompasses an eclectic range, with quartets of composers such as Chavez, Crumb, Durkó, Dutilleux, Ginastera, Jalbert, Kirchner, Kurtág, Korngold, Ligeti, Meriläinen, Nancarrow and Revueltes augmenting the standard fare. Compositions written for and premiered by the quartet include Mark Wilson’s Time Variations (Capstone Records),Dream -Crossed Twilight (2019, commissioned by Maryland State Music Teachers Association) and String Quartet No. 4 by Lawrence Moss, recently released on the Innova label. They are faculty members and artists in residence at University of Maryland.
Program: String Quartets by Polish composers Mieczyslaw Weinberg, Grazyna Bacewicz and Slavonic composer Dvorak Quartet in Eb major, op 51.Latvian Lutheran Church, 400 Hurley Ave. Rockville, MD 20850Duo Amadeae
Sunday, December 8, 2019 at 3:00 pm
Pianist Esther Park has performed as a soloist with orchestras and in recitals across the United States as well as Asia and major European cities. Dr. Park has appeared as soloist with many orchestras such as Houston Symphony, Yale Philharmonia, Corpus Christi Symphony, Filharmonia Pomorska, Poland, Orchestra Filarmonica, Romania, Shanghai Philharmonic, China, Shreveport Symphony, the Juilliard Symphony, and the New Jersey Symphony.Dr. Park has recently formed a piano duo with her sister, Sun-A Park. Duo Amadeae has since won the Chicago International Duo Piano Competition, and has appeared in numerous festivals, concerto performances and in duo recitals. The duo has been heard on WQXR as well as part of the Horowitz & Stecher foundation’s piano series. Dr. Park is the winner of the Jose Roca International , Russian International , “Prix Amadeo” , Chopin Gesellschaft Klavierwettbewerb, San Marino International , China Shanghai International, Paderewski International, the National Chopin Competition (USA), Hilton Head International , the New Orleans International Piano Competition and is the recipient of the President Clinton’s Prodigy Award. She completed the undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Juilliard School with Yoheved Kaplinsky. Dr. Park has also studied at the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater, Hannover. She has since received the Artist Diploma, Master of Musical Arts degrees and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees at the Yale School of Music under the guidance of Mr. Boris Berman. She is a faculty member at East Tennessee State University.
Korean American pianist Sun-A Park is quickly establishing herself as one of the exciting pianists of her generation. Hailed as “incredible” by the great pianist Martha Argerich, Ms. Park has received international recognition in several competitions including first prize at the 2018 Serge and Olga Koussevitzky Young Artists Awards , and prizes at the International Sendai Music Competition, the Ferruccio Busoni International , and the Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition. Ms. Park has made appearances at the Stecher and Horowitz Foundation, Steinway Hall, Horowitz Piano Recital Series , Bass Recital Hall , and was a featured soloist with the Yale Philharmonia and Sendai City Orchestra performing the Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1. Additional concerto engagements included performances with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, Albany Symphony, San Marino Republic Orchestra, Orchester Haydn , Hannover Hochschulorchester , and Symphonic Orchestra of Castilla y León .She had her undergraduate and graduate studies at Juilliard with Yoheved Kaplinsky and Matti Raekallio. She received the Elizabeth Parisot Piano Award for the most outstanding pianist at the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Boris Berman . Her recording of Clementi Sonatas will be released under the Naxos label in July 2019.Li-Ly Chang, pianist, composer, holds a MTNA professional Certificate, "Music Educator of the Year Award 2019" Music & Arts nomination. She teaches at Montgomery College and is currently director of International Young Artist Piano Competition.
Program: solo, duets of Busoni, Faure, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Mendelssohn and trio - 6 hands with Lily Chang, music by Rachmaninoff, Kachaturian.
Calvary Lutheran Church, 9545 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20915