PROGRAM

January 9 –18, 2015

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PRESENTING SPONSOR The Knight Foundation

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

MARQUEE SPONSORS Dadeland Marriott Miami-Dade County Departmentof Cultural Affairs

PATRON SPONSOR Hal Philipps

BENEFACTOR SPONSORS Key BiscayneCommunity FoundationJEM FundThe White Family FundJoan McCaughan

PRINCIPLE CONCERT SPONSORS The Buttrick FamilyStearns, Weaver, MillerThe Clinton Family Fund

Welcome to

Welcome to the third annual GardenMusic Festival. The mission of Fairchild’s GardenMusic Festival is to bring the highest quality and most exciting chamber music to South Florida; to create a powerfully immersive experience for visitors to Fairchild that will connect music with the garden space and other artistic disciplines; to foster the collaborative and creative spirit between musicians and artists in other genres; and to provide engaging and stimulating educational opportunities for young people at Fairchild.

Through GardenMusic, visitors to Fairchild will be exposed to chamber music through open, outdoor rehearsals and short, surprise concerts that will bring the joy of chamber music directly into the community. All visitors will have the opportunity to meet and engage with the musicians, experiencing music on an intimate and personal level. The subscription concerts will allow for a more traditional chamber music experience in an incomparable setting.

Artistic Directors The Sixth Floor Trio Teddy Abrams, Harrison Hollingsworth and Johnny Teyssier

Educational Director Gabriel Globus-Hoenich

Composer in Residence Sebastian Chang Artist in Residence Agustina Woodgate

Managing Director Margaret Bushko

Concert Dates:

Friday, January 9, 7:00 p.m. Opening Night Concert

Saturday, January 10, 10:30 a.m. Children’s Concert Sunday, January 11, 7:00 p.m. The Sacred, Profane and Spiritual

Saturday, January 17, 10:30 a.m. Children’s Concert Saturday, January 17, 7:00 p.m. Experimentation: Making New From the Old Sunday, January 18, 7:00 p.m. A Gozar! featuring Tiempo Libre

Presented by

Visceral Teddy Abrams Sixth Floor Trio, Gabriel Globus-Hoenich, GardenMusic Ensemble

Piano Quintet, Op. 81, Mvt. 1 AntonínDvořăk Lily Francis, Johannes Dickbauer, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Nicholas Finch, Julio Elizalde

Piano Quintet, “Trout,” D 667, Mvt. 4 Franz Schubert Lily Francis, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Nicholas Finch, Nathan Farrington, Julio Elizalde

Spain Chick Corea GardenMusic Ensemble

Actuality Teddy Abrams Sixth Floor Trio, Gabriel Globus-Hoenich, GardenMusic Ensemble

“Future of Folk” featuring Aoife O’Donovan and Jeremy KittelAoife O’Donovan, Jeremy Kittel, Nathaniel Smith, GardenMusic Ensemble

New Work Sebastian ChangGardenMusic Ensemble

Big Fiddle Jeremy Kittel GardenMusic Ensemble

FRIDAY, JANUARY 9| I. OPENING NIGHT CONCERT

Program subject to change.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 11| II. STORIES TOLD THROUGH MUSIC

Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, Prelude and Mvt. 1 Osvaldo Golijov Johnny Teyssier, Lily Francis, Johannes Dickbauer, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Nicholas Finch

Mephisto Waltz, No. 2 Franz Liszt Julio Elizalde, Sebastian Chang

Unser Leben ist ein Schatten Johann Bach GardenMusic Ensemble

Symphonie Fantastique, Mvt. 5 Hector Berlioz GardenMusic Ensemble

Folk Music from World Traditions GardenMusic Ensemble

Dreams and prayers of Isaac the Blind, Postlude Osvaldo Golijov Johnny Teyssier, Lily Francis, Johannes Dickbauer, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Nicholas Finch

Unser Leben ist ein Schatten Johann Bach GardenMusic Ensemble

Symphonie Fantastique, Mvt. 5 Hector Berlioz GardenMusic Ensemble

Folk Music from World Traditions GardenMusic Ensemble

Dreams and prayers of Isaac the Blind, Postlude Osvaldo Bolijov Johnny Teyssier, Lily Francis, Johannes Dickbauer, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Nicholas Finch

SUNDAY, JANUARY 11| II. THE SACRED, PROFANE AND SPIRITUAL

Program subject to change.

Swedish Folk Tune Förra året - De dödade oss Teddy Abrams GardenMusic Ensemble, led by Ali Luthmers

Divertissement Jean Françaix Lily Francis, Johannes Dickbauer, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Grace An, Nathan Farrington,

Harrison Hollingsworth

Sunrise Sebastian Chang Lily Francis, Johannes Dickbauer, Sebastian Chang

Concert Duo Edgar Meyer Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Nathan Farrington

Rite of Spring (selections) Igor Stravinsky Teddy Abrams, Julio Elizalde, Gabriel Globus-Hoenich

Red River Mason Bates Johnny Teyssier, Ali Luthmers, Grace An, Julio Elizalde, Sebastian Chang

Spontaneous Augustina Woodgate, GardenMusic Ensemble and audience

SATURDAY, JANUARY 17 | III. EXPERIMENTATION: MAKING NEW FROM THE OLD

Hyfro Harrison Hollingsworth

Rotation Teddy Abrams

Selections by Tiempo Libre

New Jazz Work Johannes Dickbauer

New Jazz Work Sebastian Chang

For Your Adorn Sebastian Chang

Selections by Tiempo Libre with GardenMusic Artists

SUNDAY, JANUARY 18| IV. A GOZAR! FEATURING TIEMPO LIBRE

Making the arts general in Miami

Knight Foundation is proud to support the GardenMusic Festival and Fairchild’s efforts to cultivate the arts in South Florida.

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Program subject to change.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 18| IV. A GOZAR! FEATURING TIEMPO LIBRE

Making the arts general in Miami

Knight Foundation is proud to support the GardenMusic Festival and Fairchild’s efforts to cultivate the arts in South Florida.

KnightArts.org | #KnightArts

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SIXTH FLOOR TRIO The Sixth Floor Trio is a chamber group dedicated to the creation and performance of music that connects different musical styles, communities, and artistic disciplines. Formed by graduates of the Curtis Institute of Music in 2008, the Trio has performed extensively throughout the United States in venues ranging from traditional concert halls to grunge bars and experimental spaces.

The Trio’s debut performance took place in August 2009, when the group opened for (and collaborated with) Marvin Hamlisch in Western North Carolina. Following this very successful beginning, the Trio performed at venues such as the Kennedy Center in 2010 (with two return engagements in 2011 and 2012), the Kravis Center (Palm Beach) in 2011, World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, the FUZE! Series at the Akron Art Museum, the Living Room in New York City, and numerous other locations during the Trio’s annual Summer, Fall and Winter residencies.

In addition to presenting performances, the Sixth Floor Trio has created and directed several exciting projects inspired by the Trio’s mission to bring music to the widest audiences and to connect with artists from many different genres. The Trio received a substantial grant in 2011 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to present “Random Acts of Culture” across the United States. These “Random Acts” led the Trio to collaborate with organizations such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Stanford University, the Akron Public Library, Philadelphia’s National Museum of American Jewish History, Greyhound, and the Ferry Terminal Marketplace in San Francisco in addition to showcasing the Trio at numerous malls, markets, transit centers, and airports around the country.

The Trio also serves as Artistic Directors of GardenMusic. The inaugural season of GardenMusic took place in the spring of 2012, and included a week of both casual and evening performances, educational presentations reaching numerous local schools, Random Acts of Culture, and collaborations with some of Miami’s most exciting artists in many genres. The Trio’s programmingforthefirstseasonrangedfromMedievaltoClassicaltoworldpremieres,dancecommissions, video installations, and theater works.

OneoftheTrio’sothermajorprojectsisafilmseriescalled“MusicOfThePeople.”Sponsoredby the Knight Foundation, the video project explores folk music from around the world by following the Sixth Floor Trio as they try to learn new musical styles and understand the folk-culture of different regions. Each episode ends in a friendly “challenge” of a local folk group to test the Trio’s ability to absorb new types of music. The pilot episode featured Bluegrass from the High Country of North Carolina.

EducationalandcommunityengagementworkhasalsobeenaverysignificantpartoftheSixthFloor Trio’s activities. The group has presented numerous concerts for Astral Artist’s community programs, has performed at (and worked with) schools around the country, and worked with the music education program Play On Philly! in Philadelphia.

The Sixth Floor Trio’s vision places all musical traditions from around the world and across time on one continuum as part of the same great musical language, and the Trio’s mission is to make connections between these varied musical styles in its repertoire. From Bluegrass to Klezmer, Classical to Jazz, Ancient Music to Contemporary Rock – the group explores it all and brings the music’s energy to the world. In addition, the Trio strives to share its artistic passion and music-making with diverse audiences everywhere, from traditional concertgoers to those with acute needs or in remote places.

BIOGRAPHIES

An unusually versatile musician, Teddy Abrams is a widely acclaimed conductor, as well as an established pianist, clarinetist, and composer. He has been named Music Director Designate of the Louisville Orchestra, and assumes the title of Music Director in September 2014. Recently appointed Music Director and Conductor of the Britt Classical Festival, 2014 markshisfirstseasoninthatrole.Simultaneously,Teddyconcludes his tenure as Assistant Conductor of the Detroit

Symphony with the 2013-14 season. Additional appointments include a tenure as Resident Conductor of the MAV Symphony Orchestra in Budapest.

Active as a guest conductor, Abrams’ recent and upcoming performances include returns to The Florida Orchestra, the Jacksonville Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony, where he conducted the orchestra’s summer classical series in July 2013. Recent debuts have included the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, and the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. From 2008 to 2011 Abrams was the Conducting Fellow and Assistant Conductor of the New World Symphony (NWS) and conducted many performances, including subscription concerts and numerous other full and chamber orchestra events. Abrams has conducted the NWS in Miami Beach, Washington, D.C. and at Carnegie Hall, and has worked with many other orchestras around the country.

An accomplished pianist and clarinetist, Abrams has appeared as a soloist with a number of orchestras - including playing and conducting the Ravel Piano Concerto with the Jacksonville Symphony in fall 2013 - and has performed chamber music with the St. Petersburg String Quartet, Menahem Pressler, Gilbert Kalish, Time for Three and John Adams in addition to annual appearances at the Olympic Music Festival. Dedicated to exploring new and engaging ways to communicate with a diverse range of audiences, Abrams co-founded the Sixth Floor Trio in 2008. The Trio has performed around the country, establishing residencies in communities in North Carolina, Philadelphia, New York and South Florida. Abrams collaborated (as an arranger and pianist) with Cleveland Orchestra principal trombonist Massimo La Rosa for La Rosa’s debut CD, released in October 2010.

Abrams studied conducting with Michael Tilson Thomas, Otto-Werner Mueller and Ford Lallerstedt at the Curtis Institute of Music, and with David Zinman at the Aspen Music Festival; he was the youngest conducting student ever accepted at both institutions. Abrams is also an award-winning composer and a passionate educator - he has taught at numerous schools throughout the United States. His 2009 Education Concerts with the New World Symphony (featuring the world premiere of one of Abrams’ own orchestral works) were webcast to hundreds of schools throughout South Florida.

Abrams performed as a keyboardist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, won the 2007 Aspen Composition Contest, and was the Assistant Conductor of the YouTube Symphony at Carnegie Hall in 2009. He has held residencies at the La Mortella music festival in Ischia, Italy and at the American Academy in Berlin. Teddy was a proud member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra for seven seasons, and graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music, having studied piano with Paul Hersh.

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Heralded a “bold, emergent, personality” by the Philadelphia Inquirer, bassoonist Harrison Hollingsworth is widely regarded as one of the premier wind players of his generation, and holds the principal bassoon chair of the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center. Originally from Kingwood, TX, Harrison is a graduate of The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA where he held the Sheldon Bonovitz Fellowship and studied with both Bernard GarfieldandDanielMatsukawa,theretiredandcurrentprincipal

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French-American clarinetist Johnny Teyssier is laureate of the Juventus organization, which recognizes the most talented young soloists in Europe; he is the third clarinetist to join the Juventus roster since the organization’s inception in 1991. He is also winner of the Ico Ardán Award, given by the Irish Chamber Orchestra to young emerging international soloists. His performances have appeared regularly on American Pubic Media’s nationally broadcast Performance Today, as

well as the BBC Radio 3 and Ireland’s RTÉ Lyric.

Johnny has appeared as soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and the Colburn Orchestra. He has performed recitals throughout the United States and Europe in venues such as the Kennedy Center, the Kravis Center, La Mortella in Ischia, Italy and the American Academy in Berlin. He was a featured artist at the 2007 MBNA Shannon International Music Festival in Limerick, Ireland, and has also attended the Music from Angel Fire Festival, the Juventus Festival, the Yellow Barn Music Festival and the International Young

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bassoonists of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Harrison is also a conductor. He has guest conducted on multiple subscription concerts for the NYCB Orchestra, and he holds the David Alan Miller Conducting Fellowship for the New York Youth Symphony, where he serves as Assistant Conductor. He is also a graduate of The Mannes College for Music, where he received his Master’s in Orchestral Conducting under David Hayes. Under a grant from The Williamson Foundation for Music, Harrison has also studied orchestral conducting with Michael Jinbo at the Pierre Monteux School.

In addition to serving as principal bassoon for the New York City Ballet, Harrison formerly heldtheEileenMcManimenprincipalbassoonchairforSymphonyinC(formerlyHaddonfieldSymphony),wherehehasalsoservedasprogramannotatorandfirstviolinist.Anadvocatefornew music both on the podium and in the recital hall, Harrison has premiered multiple new works for bassoon, including Teddy Abrams’ Bassoon Sonata, of which he is the dedicatee.

Also an enthusiastic chamber musician, he has performed at the Kingston Music Festival and the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, and is a founding bassoonist of Reed5 and founding bassoonist/violinist of the Sixth Floor Trio, which inaugurated its own annual GardenMusic Festival in partnership with Fairchild Garden in Miami in March 2012, and were the recipients of a substantial grant from the Knight Foundation to perform Random Acts of Culture across the United States in 2011-2012.

As a soloist, Harrison is on the roster of Astral Artists, which sponsored his professional recital debut in 2009. He has played concertos with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Symphony in C, the Clear Lake Symphony, and many other orchestras. He has also been featured in recital on WHYY ARTS television series – “On Stage at Curtis,” NPR’s syndicated radio show “From the Top,” and WHYY 91 FM Radio’s “Showcase,” which broadcast the radio premier of his brass choir composition “Fanfare and Contrapunctus.” His bassoon playing can also be heard on Arturo Ripstein’snewfilmLasRazonesdelCorazon.

Now based in New York, Harrison pursues many activities. He is an original member of the Mimesis Ensemble (with whom he made his Kennedy Center conducting debut). He works as a freelance conductor in NYC, conducting recording sessions at Avatar Studios as well as serving as a clinician for various orchestras (most recently, the Westchester Area All-State Orchestra), and has played as principal bassoonist with the Long Island Philharmonic, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Phantom of the Opera Orchestra, Gotham Chamber Opera, and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, and has taught bassoon and chamber music for the Chautauqua Music Festival.Alsoanavidfiddler,HarrisonplayswiththeBrooklynrootsstringbandUnionStreetPreservation Society, which released its debut album in July 2011.

JeremyKittelisattheforefrontofanewbreedoffiddlersandviolinists who easily navigate between a multitude of musical styles and traditions. Fluidly mastering this rich musical heritage, he also breaks exciting new ground while helping to redefinetheroleofhisinstrument.

Currently touring internationally with his name-sake group, the Jeremy Kittel Band, he leads audiences into exciting new-

acoustic music territory. He also maintains an active schedule of collaborations with some of today’smostinnovativeandinfluentialartists,fromgenresdiverseasfolk,jazz,classical,andpopmusic.Recentlycompletingafive-yearpositionasafull-timememberoftheGrammy-winning Turtle Island Quartet, he has also toured and recorded with such musical giants as Mark O’Connor, Bela Fleck, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, Paquito D’Rivera, the Assad Brothers, Stefon Harris, My Morning Jacket, Jars of Clay, Abigail Washburn, and Ben Sollee. He has appeared on the NPR radio show A Prairie Home Companion, has been a guest performer with multiple symphony orchestras, and has performed at venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Bonnaroo, and the Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

His most recent solo recording, Chasing Sparks (Compass Records), clearly establishes Jeremy as a formidable composer and arranger as well as a violinist of the highest technical and musical sensibilities. This comes as no surprise given that his three previously released CDs span the musical spectrum from jazz to celtic, with a strong dose of originality and technical mastery.

One of the leading improvising violinists of his generation, Jeremy has a master’s degree in jazz violin from the Manhattan School of Music, and he is the recipient of the 2010 Emerging Artist Award from his alma mater, the University of Michigan. He is also a National US Scottish Fiddle champion as well as a multiple winner of Detroit Music Awards and ASTA Alternative Style awards.

As a lover of song, and as a singer himself, Kittel enjoys collaborating with singers and lyricists from any genre. Most recently, he has arranged and recorded orchestral-style strings for several

JEREMY KITTEL

Artist Music Festival in Hilton Head, NC.

Johnny is a founding member of the Sixth Floor Trio, a chamber ensemble that explores diverse musical styles including Klezmer, bluegrass, rock and ancient music through original arrangements and improvisation. Apart from traditional concerts in such venues as the Kravis Center, World Cafe Live, and the Living Room, the trio is spearheading a variety of cutting-edge musical projects. In partnership with Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, the trio created GardenMusic, a chamber music festival in Miami. Additionally, the trio received a grant in 2011 from the Knight Foundation to be the resident ensemble for the Random Acts of Culture project. The trio is dedicated to community outreach, and regularly brings their love of music into classrooms around the country.

An equally committed orchestral player, Johnny was recently appointed principal clarinet of the Malmö Symphony in Sweden, and he currently serves as principal clarinet in the Minnesota Opera Orchestra. He has also played as a guest principal clarinet with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, and has performed with the Colburn Orchestra, the Curtis Symphony, and Symphony in C.

Born in 1987, Johnny was raised in a French family in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He started the clarinet at the age of ten, studying with Dwayne VanWyhe and Burt Hara. He attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan as a student of Nathan Williams. At the age of 17, he was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Donald Montanaro, Pamela Frank and Ford Lallerstedt. In 2011, he received an Artist Diploma from the Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where he studied with Yehuda Gilad.

major-label releases: Abigail Washburn’s “City of Refuge,” My Morning Jacket’s “Circuital,” and an upcoming release by the Platinum-selling, Grammy-winning band Jars of Clay.

Kittel currently resides in beautiful Brooklyn, NY. When he’s not on tour, he often enjoys Monkey Conditioning and Ecstatic Dance.

MontrealnativeGabrielGlobus-Hoenich’scareerreflectsadeep diversity of talent, with extensive forays in the worlds of jazz, classical music, and world music as a drummer, percussionist, composer, and teaching artist. As a busy jazz drummer, Gabriel has performed with a multitude of jazz greats,includingJohnSwana,TimWarfield,PatBianchi,Orrin Evans, Joe Magnarelli, and Larry McKenna. Gabriel has been featured on drum-set with the Philly Pops, Detroit

Symphony, Illinois Symphony, Curtis Institute Symphony among other orchestras. In addition, Gabriel frequently performs chamber music and as a member of Philadelphia’s premier ensemble Dolce Suono has performed premiers of the works of Theo Bleckmann, Steve Mackey, Steven Stuckey, Stratis Minakakis, and David Ludwig.

Gabriel is also one of the founders of Drumming for Social Change, an organization dedicated to researching and developing percussion based educational programming. Gabriel recently spentoverfiveweeksstudyingBrazilianpercussioninSalvadordaBahia,Brasilandresearching how percussion and folkloric music can be used as conduit for social change. Gabriel also leads the 12 piece timba band GGH and The People of Earth for whom he composes, arranges, and plays percussion.

A dedicated educator, Gabriel works in Philadelphia schools as a teaching artist for the Philadelphia Orchestra’s School Partnership Program as well as El-Sistema-inspired Play on Philly. In 2013, Gabriel was musician in residence at the Please Touch Museum in Philadelphia where he presented daily workshops to children aged 0-7. Gabriel has also coached percussion at Haverford College and maintains a private studio.

A 2008 graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, Gabriel has studied with some of the premier percussion teachers in the world, including Kenny Washington, Rodney Green, Don Liuzzi, Robert Van Sice, and Alan Abel.

For more information, visit www.gghdrums.com

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Lily Francis is quickly establishing herself as one of the leading violinist/violists today. Recently one of the top prizewinners at the 2009 ARD Music Competition (Violin) in Munich, she has performed with several of the leading orchestras in Germany, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the Munich Radio Orchestra. She made her Weill Recital Hall debut in New York in May 2008 on the Distinctive

Debuts series, and plays both violin and viola regularly in the USA, and throughout Europe. A consummate chamber musician, Ms. Francis was a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center CMS Two program from 2006-2009, which presented her in concerts in Alice Tully Hall and other notable New York venues. She has toured the USA with the Chamber Society, as well as several Musicians From Marlboro programs. As the newest member of the critically-acclaimed Aronowitz Ensemble, she performs throughout the UK, including appearances at Wigmore Hall and Aldeburgh. This season sees her performing as a concermaster of the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, as a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, teaching students at Mit Musik Miteinander in Kronberg, Germany, and guest-leading

LILY FRANCIS

Hailed by Die Presse as “the secret highpoint of the evening,” violinist Johannes Dickbauer is renowned for his incredible versatility. Classically trained at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia,hefindshimselfequallyathomeasasoloist,chamber musician, jazzer, folk musician, composer or arranger. A top prize winner and winner of the Public’s Prize at the 2007 Concours International de Violon Sion, Johannes has made appearances with several European orchestras,

including the Wiener Kammerphilharmonie, the Dohnanyi Budafolk Orchestra under Shlomo Mintz, and the Wiener Kammerorchester, under the baton of the celebrated violinist Sir Yehudi Menuhin.

JohanneshastwicewontheMusicaJuventutisCompetitioninVienna,thefirsttime,earninghim his classical debut in the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the second, as part of the duo Cardboard Heroes, with bassist Manuel Mayer. Cardboard Heroes makes its debut at the Konzerthaus in the spring of 2011, with a program of all original compositions.

Johannes always has several projects in the works; his duo-collaboration with pianist Roman Rabinovich, prizewinner at the 2008 Rubinstein Competition, has yielded Red Blanket, a composed/free-improvisation work which brings listeners on an epic journey. As a violinist of the radio.string.quartet.vienna, he has released his fourth CD on the ACT label, with Swedish singer Rigmor Gustafsson. The quartet’s 2006 album, Celebrating the Mahavishnu Orchestra, was awarded the “German Recordlabel Critics” prize and the “Pasticcio” Prize from radio-station Ö1. At the Traumzeit Festival in Duisburg, Germany, the quartet performed on the same program as guitar-legend John McLaughlin; a live DVD of their concert commemorates the experience. The quartet has carved a niche for itself in the European jazz scene, and can be seen performing at many of the major jazz festivals worldwide, such as Paris Jazz Festival, Jazzfest Berlin, Jazzfestival Basel, Swedish Jazz Celebration 2010, and at the Musikverein in Vienna.

Johannes received his B.M. ‘07 from the Curtis Institute, where he was a student of Pamela Frank. Currently, he has lessons with Ernst Kovacic, and previous teachers have included Benjamin Schmid and Gerhard Schulz. He has participated in masterclasses with Dave Douglas, the Guarneri String Quartet, Uri Caine, Shmuel Ashkenasi and Claude Frank.

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the Munich Chamber Orchestra. Recent festival appearances have included the Lockenhaus Festival,IttingerPfingstkonzerte,MarlboroMusic,SantaFeChamberMusicFestival,Kronberg,HatfieldHouse,andInternationalMusiciansSeminaratPrussiaCove.

Ms. Francis has collaborated with many of the leading musicians of our time, including Mitsuko Uchida, Andras Schiff, Gidon Kremer, Arnold Steinhardt, Kim Kashkashian, and Peter Wiley, as well as several artists of other disciplines. As the violist of the Vertigo String Quartet, she recorded the score to Michael Hollinger’s award-winning play Opus, which began in Philadelphia, played in New York, and is currently touring the USA. Ms. Francis’ violin-playing handswerefeaturedinDougAitken’sart-filmSleepwalkers, which was projected onto an outer wall of MoMA in New York City. She has also collaborated with the Boston Ballet School and the Rock School of Dance on choreographed pieces about Bach.

A graduate of the Curtis Institute and New England Conservatory, Ms. Francis studied with Joseph Silverstein and Miriam Fried. Other teachers have included Philip Setzer, Brian Lewis, Teri Einfeldt, Steve Tenenbom, and Gerhard Schulz. She plays an 1846 Pierre Silvestre violin and a 2004 Marco Coppiardi viola.

Praised as a musician of “compelling artistry and power” by the Seattle Times, the gifted American pianist Julio Elizalde is one of the most sought-after and multi-faceted artists of his generation. He has performed in many of the major music centers throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America to popular and critical acclaim. After three seasons as jhene aiko interview co-Artistic Director of the Olympic Music Festival near Seattle, Washington, the summer of 2015 marks Dr. Elizalde’s

debut season as Artistic Director of the 32-year-old arts organization.

Dr. Elizalde has appeared with many of the leading artists of our time. He tours internationally with world-renowned violinists Sarah Chang and Ray Chen and has performed alongside conductors Itzhak Perlman, Teddy Abrams, and Anne Manson. He has collaborated with artists such as violinist Pamela Frank, composers Osvaldo Golijov and Stephen Hough, baritone William Sharp, and members of the Juilliard, Cleveland, Kronos, and Brentano string quartets. Dr. Elizalde is a founding member of the New Trio, winner of both the Fischoff and Coleman National Chamber Music Competitions and is the recipient of the Harvard Musical Association’s prestigious Arthur W. Foote Prize.

Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Dr. Elizalde is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School, where he earned a doctor of musical arts degree in 2011. His teachers include Paul Hersh, Jerome Lowenthal, Joseph Kalichstein, and Robert McDonald.

Dr. Elizalde regularly performs with the assistance of an Apple iPad Air using forScore music reading software. Page turns are executed by a wireless foot pedal by AirTurn.

Twitter & Instagram: @JulioThePianist

JULIO ELIZALDE

Sebastian Chang is a composer and pianist born and raised in Southern California. He received his B.M. in Composition from the Curtis Institute of Music, studying under Jennifer Higdon and Richard Danielpour, and his M.M. in Composition from the University of Southern California, studying under Donald Crockett. In his pre-collegiate years, he studied under Suzanne Wong-Abe, Mark Sullivan, Bruce Miller, Michael Martin, and Richard Derby.

The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Tokyo Symphony have performed his original compositions. HereceivedthreeBMIStudentComposerAwardsandfiveASCAPMortonGouldYoungComposersAwards.HeperformedasapianosoloistwiththePacificSymphonyOrchestra,theCalifornia Symphony, and the Reno Philharmonic.

He is self-published under Sebastian Press and is additionally published by Alpha Major, based out of Houston, Texas. His new orchestral composition “Walking” was premiered by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in November 2013.

SEBASTIAN CHANG

Classically trained at Cuba’s premier conservatories, the members of three-time Grammy-nominated Tiempo Libre are true modern heirs to the rich musical tradition of their native Cuba. The Miami-based group is celebrated for its sophisticated performances of timba music, an irresistible, dance-inducing mix of r&b, pop, jazz, and Cuban son. Tiempo Libre has introduced Cuban music to new audiences through appearances on shows such as the Tonight Show,

Live from Lincoln Center and Dancing With the Stars and concerts worldwide including performances at Tanglewood, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, The Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Hong Kong’s Kwai Tsing Theatre and Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy. Tiempo Libre collaborated on “Para Ti” with violinist Joshua Bell for his At Home with Friends album and frequently plays with leading orchestras. The band recently released My Secret Radio on Sony Masterworks, previous albums Bach in Havana (Sony Masterworks), Arroz Con Mango (Shanachie) and Lo Que Esperabas (Shanachie) were nominated for Grammys®.

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Boston born Aoife O’Donovan is known for her ethereal vocals and substantive songwriting. After graduating from New England Conservatory, O’Donovan hit the road as the leadsingerandprincipalsongwriter/song-finderofCrookedStill, which grew into one of the world’s most acclaimed progressive string groups over the ensuing decade. The stunning versatility and appeal of her voice brought her to the attention of some of the most eminent names in music

and led to collaborations across a wide variety of genres with everyone from Alison Krauss to Dave Douglas and regular appearances on A Prairie Home Companion, along with a role as vocalist on the Grammy-winning Goat Rodeo Sessions alongside Chris Thile, Yo-Yo Ma, Edgar Meyer and Stuart Duncan. In 2012, the now Brooklyn-based musician went to Portland, OR to fulfillherdreamofrecordinganalbumwithcelebratedproducerTuckerMartine(MyMorningJacket, The Decemberists). Rich in tender vocals and unexpected textures, the resulting solo debut album, Fossils, bears the remarkable fruits of their creative partnership.

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Violinist Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu enjoys a versatile international career as an orchestral soloist, a recitalist and a chamber musician. She has been featured with the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan and the Taipei Symphony Orchestra in her native country, as well as with such European orchestras as the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra and the Russian State Symphony Orchestra.

As solo recitalist and chamber musician, Wu performs regularly in Asia, Europe and NorthAmerica, at such prominent venues as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center and Library of Congress, among many others. Artists with whom she has collaborated include Gary Graffman, Kim Kashkashian, Ani Kavafian,IdaKavafian,Midori,RalphKirshbaum,WilliamPreucil,ThomasQuasthoff,FredSherry, and members of the Alban Berg, Brentano, Guarneri, Miró, Tokyo and Ying quartets. Wu has appeared as guest violist—her second instrument—with the Orion String Quartet and the Dover Quartet. She is currently the Artist in Residence of the Da Camera Society of Los Angeles since 2013.

Wu’s festival collaborations include the Marlboro Music Festival, Santa Fe Chamber MusicFestival, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Mainly Mozart, La Jolla Music Society

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SummerFest, Music@Menlo, Verbier Festival and Academy, Olympic Music Festival, and she has served as a chamber music coach at the ENCORE School for Strings, the Hotchkiss Summer Portals, and Wildwood Academy of Music and the Arts.

Wu’s media appearances feature performances on NPR’s “From the Top,” on WHYY TV and Radio in Philadelphia, as well as numerous on-air interviews with Philharmonic Radio Taipei and IC Broadcasting of Taiwan. She has been spotlighted on Taiwan’s TVBS Television and in the September 2004 issue of Marie Claire Taiwan.

Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu received her bachelor’s degree from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2008, which awarded her the Milka Violin Artist Fellowship. In 2010 she graduated from the USC Thornton School of Music, with awards for excellence in both solo string instrument performance and chamber music. Wu’s teachers include Dorothy DeLay, Hyo Kang, Ida Kavafian,VictorDanchenko,StevenTenenbom,andMidoriGoto.ShejoinedtheThorntonSchool faculty in 2011 as an Adjunct Instructor of Violin and Chamber Music.

Among Wu’s many honors and awards are the Gold Medal in the 2003 Stulberg International String Competition and third prize in the Odessa International David Oistrakh Violin Competition. She has been praised by Taiwan’s Liberty Times for “capturing the spirit of the music astonishingly.”

Wu performs on a 1734 Domenico Montagnana violin.

Bassist Nathan Farrington has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony, the Aspen Music Festival Conducting Orchestra, and the Minnesota Sinfonia, and appears regularly in the bass sections of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Columbus Symphony, and the East Coast Chamber Orchestra. An avid chamber musician, Farrington has completed three summers at the Marlboro Music Festival.

He has preformed on numerous occasions on NPR s A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor. Mr. Farrington graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music studying with the Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal bassist, Hal Robinson, as well as with soloist Edgar Meyer.

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Nathaniel Smith has transported the cello into multiple genres and styles by transcending traditional cello technique and transforming the role of the cello. Born in Brandon, Mississippi, Nathaniel studied classical cello and enriched his approach to playing through local jam sessions and attending musical gatherings around the country.

Living in Nashville, TN, Nathaniel’s cello tracks can be heard on many albums, including Sarah Jarosz, Laura Viers, Abigail Washburn, Jars of Clay, and Camera Obscura. Nathaniel has performed nationally and internationally with various artists including Mark O’Connor, Natalie MacMaster, Abigail Washburn, Bela Fleck, Darol Anger, Steve Martin, andJeremyKittel.HehastouredextensivelyforthepastfiveyearswithSarahJaroszperformingon Austin City Limits, The Conan O’Brien Show, The Craig Ferguson Show, as well as National Public Radio and A Prairie Home Companion.

www.nathanielsmithcello.com

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Since his debut as soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the age of 18, cellist Nicholas Finch has established himself as an artist of great depth and diversity, performing a wide variety of repertoire both within and beyond the classical genre. Finch was recently appointed Principal Cellist of the Louisville Orchestra during the 2013-2014 season by their new music director Teddy Abrams. During the same season he also appeared numerous time with the elite Boston-based chamber

orchestra ‘A Far Cry,’ appearing in two new recorded albums and touring Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Illinois. One of these albums, “Dreams and Prayers,” was recently nominated for a Grammy Award, while the other album, “The Law of Mosaics”, was listed by Alex Ross of The New Yorker as one of his recommended new CDs of the year. During the 2014-2015 season, in additiontohisdutiesinLouisville,FinchwillperformDvořăk’sCelloConcertoinBMinorwiththe Melrose Symphony Orchestra in Boston, along with performances with Trio Caesura and appearances at the Las Vegas Wine and Music Festival and the Lake George Music Festival. Finch has collaborated with some of the most prominent artists of today, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble, violinist Sarah Chang, pianist Joyce Yang, conductor Keith Lockhart, the Argento New Music Ensemble, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble 2021, and composers Gabriela Lena Frank, Osvaldo Golijov, Andrew Norman, Bright Sheng, and many more. Performances have taken him to the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Spectrum in New York City, and Alice Tully Hall. He has made concerto appearances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Civic Orchestra, the Melrose Symphony Orchestra, and the Quincy Symphony Orchestra. A native of Boston, Finch began his cello studies at the age of 12 with Joan Esch and Andrew Mark of the Boston Conservatory. He attended Harvard, Juilliard, the University of Michigan, and the Mannes College of Music, studying with Harvey Shapiro, David Soyer, Richard Aaron, and Marcy Rosen.

NICHOLAS FINCH

Woodgate’s interventions, objects, and collaborative events respond to our constructed structures and explores their impact in the surrounding landscapes. Her work considers behavior patterns and organizational systems across times and invites peopletointeractwiththeminregenerativeways.Shereflectson civic politics and the use of space and place, often with a ludic and regenerative approach. Inspired by thermodynamics and the perpetual motion of things, her process-oriented practice

considers everything, discards nothing, and turns everything into something else.

Agustina Woodgate was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1981. She received her BFA from the Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte, Buenos Aires. She has received honors and awards including the Florida Prize, South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship, National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC); Art Matters Grant and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.Solo exhibitions include GPS/Geometria Poetica Social, Faena Arts Center, Buenos Aires (2014); Rugs, Hollywood Art Center (2014); Woodgate’s solo project New Landscapes was presented at Art Positions during Art Basel Miami Beach in 2012. Voicing Responsibility, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2012); Collectivism, Spinello Projects, Miami (2011); Growing Up, Miami-Dade Public Library (2010); and in 2010 she funded Radio Espacio Estacion, an ongoing online nomadic bilingual radio station.

Her public art projects include: Hopscotch commissioned by PlayPublik, Krakow, Poland (2014), Daylight Saving, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC (2014); Hopscotch, Temporary Contemporary, The Bass Museum, Miami (2013); Kulturpark, an initiative

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set in an abandoned amusement park in East Berlin (2012); 1111, Highway Billboards & Bus Shelter Posters, Locust Projects, Miami (2011).

Woodgate has been included in group exhibitions at the Orlando Art Museum (2014); Denver Art Museum (2013); White Box, NY (2012); Gallery Nosco, London (2011); Good Children, New Orleans (2011); Naples Museum of Art, FL (2011); North Carolina Museum (2011); Montreal Biennale, Canada (2009); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2007).

Woodgate’s work has been featured in publications including TIME magazine, The Guardian, The New York Times, The New York Foundation for the Arts, BBC Mundo, The Miami Herald, Art Papers, Arte al Dia and Artinfo.

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Accredited by the American Association of Museums, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is supported by contributions from members and friends, and in part by the State of Florida, Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Miami-Dade County Tourist Development Council, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and with the support of the City of Coral Gables.

ur mission is to save tropical plant diversity by exploring, explaining and conserving the world of tropical plants; fundamental to this task is inspiring a greater knowledge and love for plants and gardening so that all can enjoy the beauty and bounty of the tropical world.

ur mission is to save tropical plant diversity by exploring, explaining and conserving the world of tropical plants; fundamental to this task is inspiring a greater knowledge and love for plants and gardening so that all can enjoy the beauty and bounty of the tropical world.