MANHATTAN CHAMBER PLAYERS
ARCHIVE VIDEO FROM JUNE 6, 2020
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Co-Presenters
Chamber Music Monterey Bay
Chamber Music Society of Detroit
And with support from
Cathy and Peter Halstead
PROGRAM: "Knowing Johannes Brahms"
Pre-Concert Remarks: Luke Fleming
Segment 1: Adam Golka, Piano and Francesca de Pasquale, Violin
Brahms: Sonatensatz (1853)
Dvořák: Romance, Op. 11 (1877)
Segment 2: Molly Carr, Viola; Oded Hadar, Cello; Anna Petrova, Piano
Brahms: Trio in A minor, Op. 114 (1891)
The Manhattan Chamber Players is a chamber music collective of New York-based musicians who share the common aim of performing the greatest works in the chamber repertoire at the highest level. Formed by Founding Artistic Director Luke Fleming, MCP is comprised of an impressive roster of musicians who all come from the tradition of great music making at the Marlboro Music Festival, Steans Institute at Ravinia, Music@Menlo, Yellow Barn and Kneisel Hall Chamber Music Festivals and Perlman Music Program. At the core of MCP’s inspiration is its members’ joy in playing this richly varied repertoire with longtime friends and colleagues. Its roster allows for the programming of the entire core string, wind, and piano chamber music repertoire - from piano duos to clarinet quintets to octets. While all its members have independent careers as soloists and chamber musicians, they strive for every opportunity to come together and again share in this special collaboration.
MCP’s June 6 program features two different ensembles, both showcasing the music of Brahms, with an added work by Brahms’ fiend and younger contemporary Antonín Dvořák, whose music Brahms admired and championed. Brahms’ Trio in A minor, Op. 114, was originally composed for clarinet, cello and piano; the clarinet part is played in this performance by MCP violist Molly Carr.
“Manhattan Chamber Players offer their audience the best of all possible worlds:
top musicianship, diverse repertoire, and a flexible lineup that allows for just about any combination of instruments.
We value our relationship with MCP and eagerly await their next return to our stage!”
“An intensely wrought and burnished performance…Overall, I wished I could put them on repeat.”
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Manhattan Chamber Players
Luke Fleming, Artistic Director of both the Manhattan Chamber Players and the Crescent City Chamber Music Festival, will introduce the artists and works on the program. Formerly violist of the Attacca Quartet, he regularly performs with Decoda, the New York Classical Players, and the Serafin Ensemble, and has performed as guest violist with the Dover, Escher, and Pacifica String Quartets.
Adam Golka, pianist of the Manhattan Chamber Players, is an alumnus of the Marlboro Music Festival, Steans Institute at Ravinia, Music@Menlo, and Prussia Cove, and has soloed with the BBC Scottish, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Milwaukee, San Diego, San Francisco, Vancouver and Seattle Symphonies, among many others.
Francesca de Pasquale, violinist of the Manhattan Chamber Players, is a recently-appointed violin faculty member of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She has soloed with the Gustav Mahler Orchestra and the Bach Festival of Philadelphia, among others, and regularly performs with her trio, the Aletheia Piano Trio, A Far Cry, the Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and The Knights.
Molly Carr, violist of the Manhattan Chamber Players, serves on the viola faculties of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, the Juilliard School's Precollege Program, and the Alberto Jonas International School of Music in Valencia, Spain. She is also the Founding Director for the award-winning non-profit Project: Music Heals Us. She regularly performs in her duo with pianist Anna Petrova, the Carr-Petrova Duo.
Anna Petrova is an alumna of the Manhattan School of music and Music@Menlo, and is currently Assistant Professor of Piano at University of Louisville, KY. She performs regularly with the Manhattan Chamber Players, in her duo with violist Molly Carr the Carr-Petrova Duo, and in the Iris Trio.
Oded Hadar is one of the founding cellists of the Manhattan Chamber Players, and is married to violist Molly Carr, with whom he has performed extensively. He is an alumnus of the Perlman Music Program, Tel Aviv University (where he studied with Hillel Zori), and the New England Conservatory, studying with Paul Katz. He has collaborated with Shmuel Ashkenazy, Atar Arad, Rudolf Koelman, and Menahem Breuer.
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