The Blue Hill Concert Association 2019 Season
Chamber Music at its Best

All Sunday Concerts Begin at 3:00 pm

Concerts held at the First Congregational Church of Blue Hill, Blue Hill, Maine

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Axiom Brass  ----  January 20, 2019
Dorival Puccini, Jr.  - Trumpet
Michael Hawes - Trumpet
Matthew Bronstein - Horn
Corey Sansolo - Trombone
Kevin Harrison - Tuba



Program: Anthony Holborne -- Elizabethan Dance Suite
Johann Sebastian Bach -- Contrapunctus III and XI from the Art of the Fugue
Axel Jorgensen -- Quintet for Brass
Matt Ulery -- Ida Suite
Astor Piazzolla -- Suite del Angel 

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We are looking forward to another exciting season of great music, classes, clinics and special appearances. This year we once again travel around the country with concerts in the South, Midwest, the East and West Coasts and more. This season, we will present a new series of concerts and educational programs in and around Chicago. We are looking forward to seeing many old friends and fans, meeting new ones, and visiting new places. We look forward to seeing you at one of our concerts!
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Tesla Quartet  ----  February 10, 2019
​Ross Snyder  - Violin
Michelle Lie - Violin
Edwin Kaplan -Viola
Serafim Smigelskiy  - Cello

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Program:
Osvaldo Golijov -- Tenebrae
Philip Glass -- String Quartet No. 5
Ottorino Respighi-- String Quartet in D Major

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Praised for their “superb capacity to find the inner heart of everything they play, regardless of era, style or technical demand” (The International Review of Music), the Tesla Quartet brings refinement and prowess to both new and established repertoire. Dubbed “technically superb” by The Strad, the Tesla Quartet recently took Second Prize as well as the Haydn Prize and Canadian Commission Prize at the 12th Banff International String Quartet Competition. The quartet has also garnered top prizes at numerous other international competitions, including the Gold Medal at the 2012 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, Third Prize and the Best Interpretation of the Commissioned Work at the 6th International Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition in Vienna, and Third Prize at the 2012 London International String Quartet Competition. The London Evening Standard called their rendition of the Debussy Quartet “a subtly coloured performance that balanced confidently between intimacy and extraversion.” 
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Calidore Quartet   ---- March 10, 2019
​​Jeffrey Myers - Violin
Ryan Meehan - Violin
Jeremy Berry - Viola
Estelle Choi - Cello


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Program:
Haydn -- Quartet in F Major, op.  - No 2
Caroline Shaw -- Entr'acte, minuet & trio
Caroline Shaw -- First Essay: Nimrof
Beethoven, Quartet No 14 in C-sharp minor, op. 131

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The Calidore String Quartet’s “deep reserves of virtuosity and irrepressible dramatic instinct” (New York Times) and “balance of intellect and expression” (Los Angeles Times) has won them accolades across the globe and firmly established them as one of the finest chamber music ensembles performing today. After their Kennedy Center debut the Washington Post proclaimed that “Four more individual musicians are unimaginable, yet these speak, breathe, think and feel as one…The grateful audience left enriched and, I suspect, a little more human than it arrived.”
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Ying Quartet ---- March 24, 2019

Robin Scott - Violin
Janet Ying - Violin
Philip Ying - Viola
David Ying - Cello



Program: 
Zhou Long -- The Old Fisherman
Lie Liang --Gobi Gloria
Chen Yi -- Shuo
Debussy -- Quartet in g minor, op. 10
Tchaikovsky -- Quartet No. 1 in D major. op. 11

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Our mission has always been twofold: to make classical music a relevant and vital part of American culture in all its diversity, and to do so with the highest standards of artistic integrity. Whether we are performing in Carnegie Hall or the White House, teaching at the Eastman School of Music or spending a week in Helena, Montana, the Quartet is committed to exploring the many ways in which great music can impact and transform our daily lives. LifeMusic is intended to be suitable both in the concert hall and in community settings as an effective manifestation of that powerful connection between music and life.-The Ying Quartet