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ABOUT THE PROGRAMPETER HALSTEAD We are delighted to welcome Wu Han and David Finckel
on their inaugural visit to Tippet Rise.
They have built up an enormous archive of amazing music at Lincoln Center over the decades, playing all of it themselves memorably, while running innumerable music festivals, while running the first website (since 1997) in digital history to bring music into the hands of the musicians themselves, artistled.com, where they have recorded nineteen albums.
As joint artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, they have raised the guilty secret of classical music (that chamber music is gorgeous and fun)
to the stature it had lacked for centuries, where chamber musicians have attained the rank of soloists. Chamber music demands teamwork and listening, not just playing. It needs to breathe the way people do, and it grows in meaning the more human it gets.
Wu Han and David Finckel appear each season in more than one hundred concerts at the most prestigious venues across the United States, Mexico, Canada, the Far East, and Europe to unanimous critical acclaim. They have also overseen the establishment and design of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s acclaimed CMS Studio and CMS Live labels, as well as the Society’s recording partnership with Deutsche Grammophon; and the much lauded Music@Menlo LIVE label.
For many years the cellist of the legendary Emerson Quartet, David Finckel leads a multifaceted career as concert performer, recording artist, educator, arts admin- istrator, and cultural entrepreneur. For many years, he and Wu Han taught alongside the late Isaac Stern at Carnegie Hall. Today he serves as professor of cello at the Juilliard School, artist-in-residence at Stony Brook University, and director of the LG Chamber Music School in Korea. He also leads the Finckel-Wu Han Chamber Music Studio at
The Music at Tippet Rise
the Aspen Music Festival and the new Chamber Music Encounters program at CMS. He was the first American pupil of the great cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. He has won nine Grammy Awards. This year he and Wu Han are recipi- ents of Musical America’s Musicians of the Year Award, one of the highest honors granted by the music industry.
Wu Han’s international tours have led her to England, Italy, Germany, Austria, Spain, Denmark, Japan, Korea, and her native Taiwan, and she appears regularly at the Aspen Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, the Sanibel Music Festival, the Caramoor Music Festival, the Savannah Music Festival, and Music@Menlo. Her teachers include Raymond Hanson, Rudolf Serkin, Herbert Stessin, Lilian Kallir, and Menahem Pressler, all of them legendary chamber pianists and soloists, placing her in a direct line from Harold Bauer, Arnold Schoenberg, and Jose Iturbi.
This year she celebrates a ground-breaking Live from Lincoln Center broadcast; reunites with violinist Daniel Hope and violist Paul Neubauer for a series of nine concerts in Europe; makes long-awaited recital debuts in St. Petersburg and Hong Kong; returns to Seoul, South Korea for the sixth annual Chamber Music Today festival; leads a special patrons’ tour to St. Petersburg; continues the important work of the Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center, and launches Music@Menlo’s fifteenth anniversary season.
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827) Twelve Variations in G Major on “See the conqu’ring hero comes” from Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus, WoO 45
Beethoven wrote some 70 variations. While in Berlin in 1796, he wrote these variations and his two Op. 5 Cello Sonatas. At that point, Handel wasn’t as omnipresent as he