The Martha’s Vineyard Chamber Music concerts on Monday at the Whaling Church in Edgartown and at the Chilmark Community Center on Tuesday will feature Stephanie Chase and Joanne Kurkowicz, violins, violist Lila Brown, cellist Matthias Naegele and pianist Delores Stevens.
In celebration of Robert Schumann’s 200th anniversary, the ensemble will play Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E-flat, opus 44. Also on the program are Ludwig van Beethoven’s familiar String Trio in G, opus 9, #1, and Joaquin Turina’s Quator, opus 67.
After admired violinist Stephanie Chase’s Thanksgiving concert in Edgartown last year, when she joined the ensemble to play Gabriel Fauré’s Quartet #1 in C minor, opus 15, Tisbury artist Peggy Turner Zablotny was inspired to create the botanical collage Composition for a Celebration. She has donated a framed print of the collage to the society; the print will be raffled off at the final concert in August.
Ms. Chase first picked up the violin before she was two years old, made her debut with the Chicago Symphony at age nine, and had her first concert in Carnegie Hall at 18. Ms. Chase is an assistant professor of violin at New York University and is on the faculty at Queens College. Formerly a member of the faculties of the Boston Conservatory and MIT, she is the founder and director of Music of the Spheres Society which explores links between music, philosophy and the sciences.
Violinist Joanna Kurkowicz was born and raised in Poland; a strong advocate of contemporary music, she came to the U.S in 1992 to complete not only a second master’s degree under Charles Treger at UMass-Amherst, but also the prestigious Artist Diploma Program at the New England Conservatory.
Violist Lila Brown has appeared with the society 12 times. After graduating from the Juilliard School she joined the Boston Symphony, and left to become principal violist of the Camerata Academic in Salzburg. She is currently a member of the faculty of the Boston Conservatory. Founder of the chamber group Music from Salem, she remains its resident violist and artistic director.
Matthias Naegele, in his third appearance with the Island chamber group, performs regularly with numerous chamber music ensembles including the Kaleidos String Quartet, the Prometheus Piano Quartet, and the Chamber Music Society of New York University. He also writes fiction, and teaches at the New School and coaches for the Quartet Program at Bucknell University. He plays on a Mateo Gofriller cello made in Venice in 1735.
Concerts start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $30 at the door; students are admitted free.
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