Events
Boston, MA 02115-4702
With pianist, Alexander Crosett.
Hailed as “sensational” and for playing with “total commitment and conviction” (Seen & Heard International 2024), cellist Rainer Crosett is quickly building an international career as an artist of uncommon sensitivity and creativity. From his Wigmore Hall recital debut in 2019 as the first American cellist ever to win the Pierre Fournier Award, to his Spring 2023 concerto debut with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London, he regularly appears as a soloist and chamber musician on many of the most renowned stages throughout Europe and North America. Rainer’s passion for the many ways music relates to other fields continues to yield boundary-breaking interdisciplinary projects and programs.
Rainer is the co-founder of a new interdisciplinary performance collective in Berlin, Tonhain Kollektiv, which will debut in April 2024. A highlight of his previous season was leading an exploration of the relationship between poetic language & forms and instrumental music with Harvard Professor of Anthropology Nicholas Harkness, which culminated in a Yellow Barn Artist Residency and a performance and presentation at Harvard University. This endeavor builds on Rainer’s work as co-founder of Project LENS, which started at Harvard in 2015 and featured collaborations with leading thinkers and artists of our time, such as Steven Pinker, the Parker Quartet, and Samuel Bak.
Boston, MA 02115-4702
With pianist, Adria Ye.
A cellist of Chinese-Canadian descent, born and raised in the Boston area, Leland has performed as a soloist and chamber musician in venues across America’s east coast, such as Merkin Concert Hall and Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in New York, and Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall, and Sanders Theatre in Boston, as well as internationally in Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Israel, and Spain. Violinist Itzhak Perlman has described Leland as someone that “plays with the beauty of sound and subtlety that we don’t often encounter in a cellist of his age,” someone who is “a musician who willingly considers all aspects of music.” Leland was named a recipient of the Presidential Scholar Award at New England Conservatory for 2022-2024 and the Spark Fund from The Joy of Music Inc., and was a Young Artist in Residence for American Public Media’s radio program Performance Today in 2023.
Leland was a long-time student of Ronald Lowry and Paul Katz before attending Princeton University, where he graduated with an A.B. in German Literature. He went on to complete an M.M. at The Juilliard School under the teaching of Minhye Clara Kim, Timothy Eddy, and Natasha Brofsky, and is currently an Artist Diploma candidate at the New England Conservatory under guidance of Yeesun Kim and Donald Weilerstein.
Boston, MA 02115-4702
Norman. Fischer is the cellist with the Fischer Duo, a group with pianist Jeanne Kierman that was founded in 1971 and specializes in both the classical masterworks of Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann as well as music of our own time. They have over a dozen recordings. They continue to actively perform throughout the United States and twice have served as Artistic Ambassadors for the USIA with tours to South America and South Africa.
Mr. Fischer is currently Herbert S. Autrey Professor of Cello and Director of Chamber Music at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston. Before accepting this position in 1992, he held positions at Dartmouth College and the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Mr. Fischer also holds the Charles E. Culpepper Foundation Master Teacher Chair at the Tanglewood Music Center, where he has been on the summer faculty since 1985. He has also served on many competition juries, including the Paolo Borciani and Banff International string quartet competitions. He is currently on the board of directors of Chamber Music America.
Boston, MA 02115-4702
Violist Hyobi Sim is the Assistant Principal Viola of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and serves on the viola faculty at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Sim has performed around the world at notable venues such as Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Street Y, and the Sydney Opera House. She is a regular participant in chamber music festivals, including the Seoul Spring Festival, Chamber Music Festival of the Black Hills, Kumho Asiana Soloists, Music in the Vineyards, and Accordo from the Schubert Club. Over the years, she has collaborated with musicians such as Gary Hoffman, Joshua Bell, Olivier Doise, Pamela Frank, Daniel Phillips, Steven Tenenbom, Steven Isserlis, and Jeremy Denk.
As a soloist, Sim has appeared with orchestras including the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Gyeonggi Philharmonic Orchestra, Korean Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, and Guri Symphony Orchestra. She has also toured Puerto Rico with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Christian Zacharias. Sim actively engages in performances at events such as the Kumho Rising Star Concert, Kumho Young Artists Concert, and Yeongsan Grace Hall Recital. She has also been invited to serve as principal violist with the Seoul Arts Center Orchestra, Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music in Santa Cruz, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra on tour throughout Australia.
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Natasha Brofsky is cellist of the Naumburg Award-winning Peabody Trio, which has performed on leading chamber music series throughout the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.. The trio has been heard on numerous radio broadcasts, and has recorded on the New World, CRI, and Artek labels. She has performed as a guest artist with numerous ensembles, including the Takacs, Prazak, Cassatt, Norwegian, Jupiter, Ying, and Borromeo quartets. Brofsky has held principal positions in the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra under Iona Brown. She was also a member of the Serapion Ensemble, performing with the group in Germany and Austria, and the string trio Opus 3, which performed throughout Norway.
She has given master classes at many schools, including San Francisco Conservatory, Peabody Conservatory, and Boston University. She has taught at Barratt-Due’s Institute in Oslo and at the University of Colorado-Boulder and the Heifetz Institute. She has been on the faculties of the Yellow Barn Festival (Vermont) since 2001 and the New England Conservatory since 2004.
Boston, MA 02115-4702
Darrett Adkins has commissioned and been the dedicatee of many important new works for cello, including concertos by Su Lian Tan and Philip Cashian, as well as Jeffrey Mumford’s concerto, which Adkins premiered with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. He performed the U.S. premieres of Birtwhistle’s Meridian and Donatoni’s Le Ruisseau sur l’escalier at Tanglewood, and the New York premieres of Rolf Wallin’s Grund at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, Arne Nordheim’s Tenebrae, Messiaen’s Concerto for Four Instruments, and Berio’s Sequenza XIVa (with the International Contemporary Ensemble.)
An avid chamber musician, Adkins performs and records with the Lions Gate Trio. He is a former member of the Zephyr Trio and the Flux Quartet. He has recorded with the Juilliard Quartet and been a guest at the festivals of Melbourne, Oslo Chamber Music, Ojai, Aspen, Tanglewood, and Chautauqua. He with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Tokyo Philharmonic, Suwon Philharmonic, National Symphony of the UFF in Rio de Janeiro, and the symphonies of New Hampshire and North Carolina. Mr. Adkins joined the Juilliard faculty in 2002 and the Oberlin Conservatory faculty in 2003.
