Nancy Zhou, violin
Katie Kadarauch, viola
Angela Lee, cello
Program:
L. BOCCHERINI
Terzetto in E-flat Major, Op. 54, No. 3
B. BARTÓK
Selections from A Gyermekeknek For Children
(transcribed for string trio by A. Karttunen)
F. SCHUBERT
Trio No. 1 in B-flat Major
L. van BEETHOVEN
Serenade in D Major, Op. 8
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Lauded as one of today's probing musical voices, Chinese-American violinist Nancy Zhou is the winner of the 2018 Shanghai Isaac Stern Violin Competition. With a robust online presence that seeks to invigorate appreciation for the art and science of the violin, her thoughtful musicianship resonates with a global audience in such a way that brings her on stage with leading orchestras around the world.
Making her orchestral debut at the age of 13 with her hometown orchestra, the San Antonio Symphony, the violinist went on to collaborate with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Padua Chamber Orchestra, among others. She has collaborated with conductors such as Jaap van Zweden, Sakari Oramo, Hannu Lintu, Eun Sun Kim, Peter Oundjian, Christoph Poppen, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Michael Stern, and Darrell Ang.
Alongside undertaking projects as a soloist, Nancy holds interest in chamber music and in providing guidance to young musicians. As a collaborator, she has performed at the Tanglewood Music Festival, Verbier Festival, Ravinia Festival, Bronisław Huberman Festival, Tongyeong Music Festival, Festpiele Mecklenburg- Vorpormmern, Festival de Coimbra, and the Marvão Festival, and the Paganini Genova Festival. In 2017, she was invited by the Encore Chamber Music Festival to serve as guest artist and faculty member. She is a regular guest educator in Taiwan, holding masterclasses at various institutions and conducting private classes. Since the spring of 2020, the violinist devotes time to a private online studio, teaching a number of students across the globe and presenting public group classes on fundamental training and cultivating mindful awareness critical to performance.
Born in Texas to Chinese immigrant parents, Nancy Zhou began the violin at age four under the guidance of her father. She went on to study with Miriam Fried at the New England Conservatory while pursuing her interest in literature and subsequently earning a Bachelor’s of Arts at Harvard University. An Associated Artist of the Queen Elisabeth Chapel, where she studied with Augustin Dumay, Nancy has also received generous support by Anne-Sophie Mutter and the Anne-Sophie Mutter Foundation.
A San Francisco native, Katie Victoria Kadarauch is an American-born, 3rd generation musician and teacher. She has toured and performed across four continents with a special passion for teaching and chamber music. For fourteen seasons she has served as the Assistant Principal Viola of the San Francisco Symphony, and recently in 2019, she joined the Minnesota Orchestra with Osmo Vanska for two weeks as a Guest Associate Principal. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Kadarauch is the founding violist of the Janaki String Trio (JST) which she formed while studying at the Colburn School in Los Angeles. The trio toured the United States and abroad extensively and recorded for the Naxos and Yarlung labels in Canada and Australia. Hailed by the New York Times as “magnificently polished” and exhibiting “an irresistible electricity”, the JST made their Carnegie Hall debut in January 2007 as Grand Prize winners of the NYC Concert Artists’ Guild International Competition. From Panama to Perth, the JST continued to engage in a comprehensive schedule of learning, performing, and mentoring well into Ms. Kadarauch's tenure with the San Francisco Symphony. In addition, she is also the proud alumna of the Taos, Yellow Barn, Soundfest, Banff, Great Lakes, and Marlboro Music Festivals. Other domestic tours and guest appearances include performances with the Alexander String Quartet, the Israeli Chamber Players, International Sejong Soloists, Colburn Chamber Orchestra, and “Musicians From Marlboro.” She was also a featured performer at the International Viola Congress in Minneapolis alongside Kim Kashkashian in 2006. Teaching is of special interest to Ms. Kadarauch, and she is involved with multiple local groups including adult amateur chamber ensembles. In addition to private instruction and her online studio, she served for many years on the viola faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as the Orchestral Repertoire teacher. She has given masterclasses at the Colburn School, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and most recently the University of Northern Iowa. Upcoming events include a guest artist residency at the University of Nevada-Reno, as well as an orchestral excerpts masterclass at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Kadarauch holds both a Bachelors of Music and Graduate degree from the New England Conservatory, and a Professional Studies Certificate from the Colburn School of Music. Her primary solo and chamber music teachers include Kim Kashkashian, Paul Coletti, and the Cavani and Tackas String Quartets. Prior to her current orchestral appointment, Kadarauch recorded many film scores in Los Angeles, was a substitute violist for the LA Philharmonic, and performed Mahler 7 as the Guest Principal Viola with the San Francisco Symphony while still a graduate student. In the summers, Kadarauch can be heard with the Classical Tahoe Festival in Nevada performing symphonic, opera, and chamber music repertoire with colleagues from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony, and the Seattle Symphony. She is currently featured on the new “San Francisco Symphony+” performances of Indian and Zimbabwean music, streaming online worldwide.
Angela Lee has given recitals in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Victor Borge Hall and Carnegie Hall in New York, Chicago's Cultural Center, The Phillip's Collection and Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Copenhagen's Nationalmuseet, and the Purcell Room at South Bank Centre in London. A graduate of The Juilliard School and Yale School of Music, she is a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to study in London with William Pleeth, a grant from the Foundation for American Musicians in Europe, the Jury Prize in the Naumburg International Cello Competition, and a cello performance fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. She is frequently invited to festivals including St. Petersburg’s Revelations, IMS at Prussia Cove, Cagayan Valley International Music Festival, Taipei Summer Festival, Pontino Festival, La Musica, Banff, Marlboro Music Festival, Anneberg Festival, Chelsea Music Festival, Music Mountain, Mahler-Jihlava Festival, and Mainly Mozart collaborating with Nobuko Imai, Bruno Giuranna, Frans Helmerson, Isabelle Faust, Lydia Artymiw, Andras Schiff, Alexander Lonquich, Franco Petracchi, Stephen Prutsman, Cho-Liang Lin, and members of the Berlin Philharmonic, Beaux Arts Trio, Guarneri Quartet, St. Lawrence String Quartet, and Canadian Brass.
Using music to foster peace and goodwill, Angela Lee has made numerous humanitarian trips to the Republic of the Philippines and the former Yugoslavia. While on a U.N.-sanctioned tour of six war-torn cities throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina, she performed for NATO troops and displaced civilians. Ms. Lee serves on the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra Alumni Association Leadership Council and on the Board of Directors of The Resonance Project, which promotes live music in mediation settings and international conflict resolution. As a founding member of The Lee Trio, Angela Lee traveled to Ukraine in 2010 and to Romania in 2017 to perform and work with underprivileged children. Her 1762 cello is made by Nicolo Gagliano from Naples.