Montana Chamber Music Summer Festival Piano Quintet at National Discovery Center
AMERICAN PRAIRIE TO HOST MONTANA CHAMBER MUSIC SUMMER FESTIVAL
CONCERT, JULY 15
World-class piano and string quintet to perform at the National Discovery Center
American Prairie is pleased to announce an evening of classical music at the National Discovery Center in Lewistown. On Wednesday, July 15 at 7 pm, American Prairie will present a performance by Montana Chamber Music, which is part of their “Summer Music Festival.” The 70-minute concert will be held in the Clyde Aspevig Event Center inside American Prairie’s National Discovery Center, located at 302 W. Main in
Lewistown. Admission is free. Donations to American Prairie, however, can be made online at https://americanprairie.org.
The program presented by Montana Chamber Music will feature musical artists Angella Ahn (violin), Peter Zazofsky (violin), Sara Stalnaker (cello), David Harding (viola), Zachary Cohen (bass), and Jean Schneider (piano). They will perform Serge Koussevitzky’s “Valse Miniature” for Double Bass and Piano, Op. 1, No. 2; Florence Price’s String Quartet in G major, Second movement Andante Moderato – Allegretto;
Antonin Dvořák’s String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96, “American”; and Franz Schubert‘s Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 Op. 114, known as the “Trout Quintet”.
About the artists
Violinist Angella Ahn, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, is Artistic Director of Montana Chamber Music, Associate Professor in Montana State University’s School of Music, Advisory Board Member of Intermountain Opera, and serves as Council Member on the Montana Arts Council. She also performs with her sisters as part of the Ahn Trio. Angella has performed in every U.S. state and over 30 countries, including performances at the White House, Prague, Buenos Aires, Vienna, Leipzig, Beijing, Istanbul, and countless other international venues.
Peter Zazofsky, violinist, was born in Boston and is a soloist, chamber musician, and educator. He has performed with many great orchestras, including the Boston Symphony, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. He has also performed at Carnegie Hall, in Brussels, Rio, Buenos Aires, Beijing, Paris, Denmark, Switzerland, Chile, Canada, Israel, and many other places. Peter is currently Associate Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at Boston University and has been on the faculty there since 1987.
Sara Stalnaker, cellist, grew up in Portland, Oregon, and earned her Bachelor’s in Music at Oberlin Conservatory and her Master’s at Rice University. For over a decade, she taught at Community MusicWorks and performed in the Providence String Quartet. She has collaborated with numerous chamber music groups around the nation, but also performed numerous solo concerts and taught music classes at Woodside Montessori Academy.
David Harding, viola, has an extensive solo and chamber music career. He has performed throughout Europe, the United States, Canada, Central America, and Australia, in such renowned venues as Berlin’s Philharmonie, the Beethovenhaus in Bonn, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and New York’s 92nd Street Y and Metropolitan Museum of Art. David has also performed at music festivals around the world, including the Edinburgh International Festival, Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, Seattle Chamber Music Society, and many others. With his wife, flutist Lorna McGhee, and harpist, Heidi Krutzen, David is a member of Trio Verlaine.
Zachary Cohen, bass, is currently Principal Bass of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. Zachary has performed as principal bassist and in the section at Marlboro, Grant Park Orchestra, Mostly Mozart, the Grand Teton Music Festival, Mahler Chamber Orchestra (Berlin), the Minnesota & Baltimore Orchestras, and at the Dresden Musikfestspiele.
As an active chamber musician, he has collaborated closely with a wide range of artists including Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Conrad Tao, Itzhak Perlman, Richard Goode, Mitsuko Uchida, Midori, Mark O’Connor, Edgar Meyer and members of the Guarneri and Mendelssohn Quartets. Since his senior year at Juilliard, Zachary has been a member of the New York-based chamber orchestra/collective “The Knights”. Zach has also won a Grammy, recording with the SPCO on their Schubert “Death and the Maiden” album.
Jean Schneider, pianist, will be performing on American Prairie’s Bösendorfer concert grand piano. Jean began her piano studies at age seven, and by the age of fifteen had performed three times as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has been heard in recital in the U.S. and Europe, and on the radio in Germany, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and on NPR’s Performance Today. She has collaborated with numerous artists in concerts at Tanglewood, Aspen, and Norfolk Festivals, the Banff Centre, and the Sarasota Music Festival, where she is Associate Piano Faculty. Jean currently lives in New York City, where she performs as soloist and chamber musician.
