2010 Summer Series 22nd Season The Honest Brook Music Festival will present its 22nd Season in July and August. The concerts are held in a preserved dairy barn in an idyllic rural setting in the Western Catskills. Sebastian Bäverstam, cello Constantine Finehouse, piano Saturday, July 10, 8:00 PM Praised by The Strad for his “. . . powerfully expressive style,” cellist Sebastian Bäverstam is a winner of the 2009 Concert Artists Guild International Competition. He is also a winner of the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition, resulting in a performance of the Shostakovich Concerto with the BSO at Symphony Hall. In 2007, Mr. Bäverstam was called on to substitute for Lynn Harrell with the Cape Cod Symphony on only six hours notice. He delighted the audience playing Schumann’s Cello Concerto and was praised by the Cape Cod Times for his “insightful musicianship and poetic feeling.” Highlights of his upcoming concert schedule include New York recitals at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, as part of the CAG Winners Series, and at Merkin Concert Hall, as well as performances at St. Vincent College (PA), the Honest Brook Music Festival (Delhi, NY), and in Boston, Connecticut and Switzerland. Mr. Bäverstam, age twenty, has appeared multiple times on the nationally syndicated radio show From the Top, and he has also been heard on international radio broadcasts on Voice of America. On television, he was featured on the PBS TV version of From the Top, and he has participated in a PBS documentary filmed at Carnegie Hall, as well as a film by the Masterclass Media Foundation of Great Britain and a nationally televised commercial for Bose speakers. As a concerto soloist, Mr. Bäverstam has performed with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Boston Civic Symphony, Brockton Symphony Orchestra, Concord Symphony Orchestra and the Chernikov Symphony Orchestra, among others, and has toured China, Venezuela and Brazil as soloist with the New England Conservatory Youth Philharmonic Orchestra. He has attended many summer festivals including the Aspen Festival, the Banff Centre in Canada, the Verbier Festival Academy and the International Music Academy of Switzerland, directed by Seiji Ozawa. Mr. Bäverstam offered his first full recital at the age of six at Harvard University and his first concerto with orchestra at the age of seven. In 2002 at the age of fourteen, he made his Weill Hall debut. A dual citizen of the United States and Sweden, Mr. Bäverstam has participated in master classes with Frans Helmerson, Orlando Cole, Pieter Wispelwey, and Bernard Greenhouse, among others, and he currently studies with Paul Katz at the New England Conservatory in Boston. Constantine Finehouse, piano, was recently praised by Rhein Main Presse Allgemeine Zeitung, for his “interpretations of depth and maturity.” Since receiving his Masters in Piano Performance from Yale University as a student of Boris Berman, he has performed extensively in the US and abroad. Mr. Finehouse has played with numerous orchestras in the Boston area and has given a number of solo and chamber music performances in the city's best halls. He is a champion of music by the American composer William Bolcom whose complete piano solo works he is currently recording for Naxos Records. In the 2006-07 season Mr. Finehouse performed at Brandeis University, MIT, Amherst College, Eastern Tennessee State University and Harvard Musical Association; he performed in London, Russia, Ukraine and Hungary during the summer season. Mr. Finehouse completed his undergraduate work at The Juilliard School under the guidance of Herbert Stessin and Jerome Lowenthal and is currently a Graduate Diploma student of Bruce Brubaker at New England Conservatory. His awards include the Vladimir Horowitz Scholarship from Juilliard, a 2004 St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant and a 2006 Classics Abroad Project Award. The Jupiter String Quartet: Nelson Lee and Meg Freivogel, violins Liz Freivogel, viola Daniel McDonough, cello Saturday, July 17, 8:00 PM The Jupiter String Quartet was formed in 2001 after Daniel, Nelson, and Meg met at the Cleveland Institute of Music. When they were searching for a violist Meg suggested they might consider her sister Liz, who was at nearby Oberlin College. The quartet finished up their schooling together at the New England Conservatory of Music, where they were in the Professional String Quartet Training Program. They currently reside in Boston. The quartet chose its name because Jupiter was the most prominent planet in the night sky at the time of its formation, and the astrological symbol for Jupiter resembles the number four. There are also musical references (for example, Holst's The Planets, in which Jupiter is “the bringer of jollity”) that emphasize the connotations of happiness and strength associated with the Roman god Jupiter. The quartet owes much of its musical philosophy to the influences of the original Cleveland Quartet and the current Takacs Quartet, in which all four members form a dynamic and democratic union. The Jupiters spent many of their formative years under the instruction of these eminent chamber musicians, and continue to adhere to many of their central principles today. While enjoying the opportunity to work with living composers, they still feel a strong and fundamental connection to the core string quartet literature. In addition to its formal concert schedule, the Jupiter String Quartet places a strong emphasis on developing relationships with future classical music audiences through outreach work in the school systems and other educational performances. They believe that chamber music, because of the intensity of its interplay and communication, is one of the most effective ways of spreading an enthusiasm for “classical” music to new audiences. The Jupiters have been fortunate to receive several recent chamber music honors, including first prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition, grand prize in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, membership in Lincoln Center's Chamber Music Society Two, and Chamber Music America's Cleveland Quartet Award, which “honors and promotes a rising young string quartet whose artistry demonstrates that it is in the process of establishing a major career.” The quartet also won the 2005 Young Concert Artists International auditions and now holds YCA’s Helen F. Whitaker Chamber Music Chair. Most recently, they were honored to receive an Avery Fisher Career Grant. The quartet concertizes across the United States, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and South America. They have enjoyed playing in such venues as New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Boston’s Jordan Hall, Mexico City’s Palacio de Bellas Artes, and Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, Corcoran Gallery, and Library of Congress. They have also been enthusiastically received at several major music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival, the Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, the Caramoor International Music Festival, the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, the Honest Brook Festival, the Skaneateles Festival, and the Yellow Barn Music Festival. Jeanine De Bique, soprano Keun-a Lee, piano Sunday, August 1, 4:00 PM Soprano Jeanine De Bique won the Paul A. Fish Memorial First Prize in the 2008-09 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and gave her debut recitals in the Young Concert Artists Series in New York and Washington. This season, she is Artist-in-Residence with the Basel Opera in Switzerland, where she performs as Kate Pinkerton in Madam Butterfly and Barberina in Le nozze di Figaro. Current highlights of Ms. De Bique’s season are her debut with Lorin Maazel and the New York Philharmonic in performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 at Avery Fisher Hall and performing as Iza in La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein and Sophie in Werther.   Ms. De Bique’s leading roles in opera productions at the Manhattan School of Music, include Adele in Strauss’s Die Fledermaus, the title role in Handel’s Semele, Lauretta in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, Sister Constance in Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmelites, and Girl in Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti. Her other operatic appearances include the title role in Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea and La Princesse in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortileges at the Chautauqua Music Program, Yum Yum in Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado with St. Louis Opera Theatre, Clara in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess on tour in Eastern Europe and Russia, the Woman of the River in Tarik O’Regan’s Heart of Darkness with American Opera Projects, and the premiere of Paul Brantley’s On the Pulse of Morning with the MSM Symphony. Born in Trinidad, Ms. De Bique earned her Bachelor’s Degree in 2006 from the Manhattan School. She also earned her Master’s degree in 2008 and her Professional Studies Certificate in 2009 with Marlena Malas. She is a Winner of the 2009 Gerda Lissner Vocal Competition in New York, a Regional Finalist and Study Grant Winner in the 2007 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, a Finalist and Winner of the Lys Symonette Award in the Kurt Weill Foundation’s 2007 Lotte Lenya Competition, and a First Prize Winner in the 2006 National Association for Negro Singers Competition. She received a Study Grant from the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation in 2006, and has participated in master classes with Renee Fleming, Marilyn Horne, Catherine Malfitano, Thomas Hampson, and Mirella Freni. Korean Pianist Keun-A Lee is in her first year of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. Following her debut at Sejong Center for the Performing Arts in Korea in 1998, Ms. Lee has focused her career on musical collaboration, performing in major venues in this country, Canada and Germany. She has served as a vocal coach at the Ravinia Festival’s Steans Institute for Young Artists, at the Merola Opera Program at San Francisco Opera, and at the Music Academy of the West. She has received the Samuel Sanders Award from the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival. Ms. Lee has been chosen to perform with singers for The Marilyn Horne Foundation, in the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert broadcast live on Chicago's 98.7 WFMT, for the Juilliard Vocal Honors Recital, and for the Judith Raskin Memorial Recital. She has also performed recitals with cellist Soo Bae, in the New York Philharmonic’s Kaplan Penthouse Chamber Series and The David G. Whitecomb Foundation’s recital series. Ms. Lee’s piano studies began at the age of four. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Piano Performance at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea, and her Master’s degree and Artist Diploma in Collaborative Piano from The Juilliard School, working with Margo Garrett, Jonathan Feldman and Brian Zeger. Ms. Lee also earned a Professional Studies Certificate in Vocal Accompanying with Warren Jones at the Manhattan School of Music. The Dorian Wind Quintet: Gretchen Pusch, flute Gerard Reuter, oboe Jerry Kirkbride, clarinet John Hunt, bassoon Karl Kramer, horn Sunday, August 8, 4:00 PM The Dorian Wind Quintet is recognized worldwide by professional musicians and audiences alike for its uniquely polished and passionate performances. Audiences consistently take with them memories of compelling, energetic and dramatic music-making. Since its formation at Tanglewood in 1961, the Dorian Wind Quintet has performed repertoire ranging from the Baroque to Pulitzer Prize-winning commissions in the world's most renowned concert halls. The Quintet has literally been around the world concertizing in 49 of the 50 states and Canada, touring Europe eighteen times, and playing throughout the Middle East, India, Africa and Asia. The Dorian made history as the first wind quintet to appear at Carnegie Hall (1981). The Dorian Wind Quintet has collaborated with well-known artists and has appeared at numerous festivals including the Stravinsky Festival at Lincoln Center, International Festival in Warsaw, Caramoor International Music Festival, Newberry Spring Festival (Great Britain), Stratford Festival in Ontario, San Luis Obispo Festival and the New American Music Festival in Sacramento. As a resident ensemble, the Quintet has served Mannes College of Music, Brooklyn College, Hunter College (New York City) and the Festival Institute at Round top (Texas). Offering both full and mini-residencies, the ensemble has also been in residence at Dartington Hall and Newberry (both in England), and at the Tanglewood Music Festival. The Dorian Wind Quintet has recorded on the Vox, CRI Serenus, New World and Summitt Record labels. Among the works recorded is George Perle's Quintet IV which was commissioned by the Quintet and winner of a 1986 Pulitzer Prize. Each member of the Dorian is a virtuoso in his or her own right, as well as a dedicated chamber player. Each has been associated with the most prominent performing ensembles, venues and musical institutions in the world and has united in the Dorian Wind Quintet out of passion for the repertoire and the joy of its performance. Back to Top