Season Finale Concert & Conversation
The Eureka Chamber Music Series concludes another successful concert season with a rare collaboration between musical artists and friends. Pianist and Van Cliburn Gold Medalist Jon Nakamatsu is joined by Amos Yang, assistant principal cellist with the San Francisco Symphony; violinist and founding member of the Castalian String Quartet Daniel Roberts; and violinist and violist Tom Stone, the ECMS artistic director and founding member of the Cypress String Quartet.
The Mainstage Concert will be presented on Saturday, May 2nd at 7:30 p.m. at Calvary Lutheran Church in Eureka. The repertoire for the evening features a satisfying variety of classical and romantic chamber works, including the Piano Trio in F major, Hob. XV:37 by Joseph Haydn, String Trio No. 5 in C minor, Op. 9, No. 3 by Ludwig van Beethoven, and Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 by Johannes Brahms. Mainstage Concert tickets are $40 general and $10 for students. Please visit eurekachambermusic.org and follow the “purchase tickets” link. Remaining tickets will be sold at the door.
On Sunday, May 3rd at 3:00 p.m. at The Lutheran Church of Arcata, the string trio of Stone, Daniels, and Yang will return to the stage, performing Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations, arranged for string trio by Dmitry Sitkovetsky. There will also be time for an insightful conversation about the work between the artists and the audience. Concert and Conversation tickets are $20 general and $5 for students. As always, purchasing tickets in advance is recommended for this well-established concert series. There are no added fees or service charges when ordering tickets online.
Now in his third decade of touring worldwide, American pianist Jon Nakamatsu continues to draw critical and public acclaim for his intensity, elegance and electrifying solo, concerto and chamber music performances. Catapulted to international attention in 1997 as the Gold Medalist of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition — the only American to achieve this distinction since 1981 — Mr. Nakamatsu subsequently developed a multi-faceted career that encompasses recording, education, arts administration and public speaking in addition to his vast concert schedule.
As a recitalist, Mr. Nakamatsu has appeared in New York City’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, Washington DC’s Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Musée d’Orsay and the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, and in major centers such as Boston, Chicago, Houston, London, Milan, Munich, Prague, Singapore, Warsaw and Zurich. In Beijing he has been heard at the Theater of the Forbidden City, the Great Hall of the People, China Conservatory, and the National Centre for the Performing Arts. His numerous summer engagements included appearances at the Aspen, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Caramoor, Vail, Wolftrap, Colorado, Brevard, Britt, Colorado College, Evian, Interlochen, Klavierfestival Ruhr, Santa Fe and Sun Valley festivals. In 2022 he participated in an extended residency at the Bowdoin Festival in Maine and returned to the Chautauqua Institution in New York where he has served as Artist in Residence since the summer of 2018.
Amos Yang has been assistant principal cellist with the San Francisco Symphony since 2007. He was previously a member of the Seattle Symphony. Yang has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, the Far East, and Europe, appearing at the Aspen Music Festival, the American Academy in Rome, Wigmore Hall, and Alice Tully Hall. He has collaborated with the Ying Quartet, Turtle Island String Quartet, pianists Ann Schein and Melvin Chen, violinist Earl Carlyss, and composer Bright Sheng.
Born and raised in San Francisco, he was a member of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra and San Francisco Boys Choir. Yang holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from The Juilliard School. His primary teachers have included Irene Sharp, Channing Robbins, Paul Katz, and Steven Doane. From 1996 to 2002, he was the cellist in the Maia String Quartet. He also served on the faculties of the Peabody Conservatory, the University of Iowa, Grinnell College, and the Interlochen Advanced String Quartet Institute. Yang serves on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the San Francisco Academy Orchestra.
Daniel Llewellyn Roberts studied with Nigel Murray and Jan Repko. He is a graduate of the Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, holds Masters degrees from the Royal College of Music, London (as a Yehudi Menuhin Scholar), and the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien, Hannover, and has twice been a Leverhulme Chamber Music Fellow at the Royal Academy of Music, London. As a soloist, Daniel has appeared in Hong Kong City Hall, the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh, the Hindemith Cabinet, Frankfurt, and the Sudler Recital Hall, Yale University. He was the recipient of the 2009 Musicians Benevolent Fund ‘Emily English’ Award for ‘most outstanding violinist’, and the 2010 Philharmonia Orchestra MMSF ‘John E. Mortimer’ prize.
Daniel is in demand as both a violin and chamber music teacher, previously holding positions at Birmingham Conservatoire and St. Paul’s Girls’ School, London, and giving masterclasses at St. Mary’s Music School, Edinburgh, and in various music schools and conservatoires in China. He also teaches at the Xenia Chamber Music Course in Italy. Daniel is a Yeoman of the Worshipful Company of Musicians and is extremely grateful to them for the loan of a fine violin by Joseph Guarneri filius Andrea of 1705.
Tom Stone is a founding violinist of the Cypress String Quartet and one of the leading figures in American chamber music. Over the course of an internationally celebrated performing career spanning North America, Europe, and Asia, he has released more than fifteen acclaimed recordings and held senior leadership roles at some of the country’s most respected institutions — including Artistic Director of the Centrum Chamber Music Festival and the Eureka Chamber Music Series, and Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale. A dedicated mentor, Tom has guided emerging ensembles worldwide, including prizewinners of the Banff International String Quartet Competition, and has served as a visiting artist at Harvard, MIT, and Stanford.
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- Sunday, May 3 : 3-4 p.m.
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