Janey 'n' Friends Morning Concert with Popovers -Mozart, Brahms, Wolf, and Walker for Strings and Piano

10:30am concert - ticket price includes a hot popover fresh from The Stadium in Bar Harbor after the performance. 

Janey Choi & Eric Wyrick, violins

Amadi Azikiwe, viola

Robert Burkhart, cello

Vadim Serebryany, piano

Program:

W.A. Mozart (1756-1791) Piano Quartet in g minor, K478

1. Allegro

2. Andante

3. Rondo (Allegro moderato)

G. Walker (1922 - 2018) Lyric

H. Wolf (1860-1903) Italian Serenade

• intermission -

J. Brahms (1833-1897) Piano Quintet in f minor , op 34

1. Allegro non troppo

2. Andante, un poco adagio

3. Scherzo (Allegro)

4.Finale: Poco sostenuto – Allegro non troppo – Presto, non troppo

Bios & hi-res pics below:

Canadian violinist/teaching artist/concert host, Janey Choi has performed, taught, and collaborated with artists across the globe, engaging audiences of all ages and genres. She is the recipient of numerous awards including National First Prize in the Canadian Music Competition, an Artists International debut recital at Carnegie Hall, and was recently appointed Assistant Principal 2nd Violin of the Philadelphia Ballet. She has participated in such festivals as Mostly Mozart, Norfolk, Taos, Bar Harbor Music Festival, the Spoleto Festivals in the U.S. and Italy, Festival Musical de Santo Domingo, the Santa Fe, Sarasota & Berkshires Opera companies. Highlights of recent years include performances with the Ardelia Trio, Leonia Chamber Musicians, as substitute Concertmaster of Broadway’s &Juliet and Aladdin, leading an orchestra at the Met Gala, at the Kennedy Center with Orchestra of St Luke’s, on tour with Adele, Beyoncé, Bruce Springsteen, and Stevie Wonder, curating an interactive chamber series at the cell theatre in NYC, and her debut as a host of the New York Philharmonic’s Young People’s Concerts. She has held education posts for the New York Philharmonic, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Binghamton University, and has presented educational programs for Carnegie Hall Family Day, the College Music Society National Conference, Concert Artists Guild, Lincoln Center Institute, and Tokyo College of Music. Dr. Choi holds advanced degrees from the Juilliard School and Rutgers University where her major teachers were Joseph Fuchs, Joel Smirnoff, Harvey Shapiro and Arnold Steinhardt. She enjoys organizing chamber music readings, hiking, playing hockey and doing jigsaw puzzles with her husband and two daughters. For more information, please visit www.JaneyChoi.com

Amadi Azikiwe, violist, violinist, and conductor, has been heard in recital in major cities throughout the United States, such as New York, Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Houston, Baltimore, and Washington, DC, including an appearance at the US Supreme Court. Mr. Azikiwe has also been a guest of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at the Alice Tully Hall and the Kennedy Center. Abroad, he has performed throughout Israel, Canada, South America, Central America, Nigeria, India, Japan, and Hong Kong.

As an orchestral musician, he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and as guest principal violist of Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra.

A native of New York City, Mr. Azikiwe first studied music with his mother, after which he began training at the North Carolina School of the Arts as a student of Sally Peck. His studies continued at the New England Conservatory with Marcus Thompson and at Indiana University as a student of Atar Arad.

Vadim Serebryany has performed as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician on five continents. A graduate of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, the Juilliard School and Yale University, Mr. Serebryany’s teachers have included Marina Geringas, Oxana Yablonskaya, Jacob Lateiner and Boris Berman.

Mr. Serebryany has collaborated with many of the classical music world’s finest musicians and ensembles, including Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra, The American String Quartet, cellist David Geringas, violinist Mayumi Seiler and many others.

Vadim is a passionate educator who has taught university-level music students for 18 years. He currently lives in Ithaca, New York, where he is a member of the piano faculty at Ithaca College’s renowned School of Music, Theater and Dance.

Cellist Robert Burkhart combines a deep commitment to the existing cello repertoire with what the New Yorker magazine calls an “adventurous” spirit in new music. With performance credits at Alice Tully Hall, Bargemusic, Carnegie Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and The Rose Studio at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Robert has also appeared as a soloist throughout Japan as a member of the New York Symphonic Ensemble, and been featured in recital on WQXR’s “Young Artist Showcase.”

At the center of new music in New York, Robert has performed with the American Modern Ensemble, Argento New Music Project, Fireworks Ensemble, Newspeak, and SONYC. Recent collaborations include Uri Caine, Georg Friedrich Haas, Aaron Jay Kernis, Steve Mackey, Joan Tower, Charles Wourinen, and Chen Yi. He has performed the New York premiere of John Harbison’s Abu Ghraib for cello and piano, and was the soloist in Augusta Read Thomas’s Passion Prayers for cello and chamber ensemble at the New York Times Center.

Robert’s major teachers include Paul Tobias at The Mannes College of Music and Uri Vardi at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he has worked with Timothy Eddy, Aldo Parisot, and Janos Starker at festivals and masterclasses. Robert has taught at Juilliard Pre-college, Mannes Prep, Syracuse University, and Music Conservatory of Westchester, and been artist-in-residence at Yale University and the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada. His recent CD “20/21: Music for Cello and Piano from the 20th and 21st Centuries,” features pianist Blair McMillen and the premiere of a work for cello and piano by composer Andrew Waggoner. Robert’s recording of solo Bach on the American Express commercial “Don’t Take Chances. Take Charge.” has garnered national attention.

Janey Choi and Eric Wyrick, violin, Amadi Azikiwe, viola, Robert Burkhardt, cello, Vadim Serebryany, piano