Fine Arts Quartet
Ralph Evans, violin
Efim Boico, violin
Nicolò Eugelmi, viola
Wolfgang Laufer, cello

Summer Evenings of Music 2010
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Summer Evenings of Music Festival 2009

This summer, the Fine Arts Quartet (Ralph Evans, Efim Boico, Wolfgang Laufer-all of whom have performed together for more than a quarter century-and Chauncey Patterson) will offer four concerts of chamber music between June 17 and June 28. They will be celebrating the bicentennials of two of the world's greatest composers, Haydn and Mendelssohn. At least one work by these composers will be included in each program. Their guests will include pianists Jeewon Park and Miklos Schön; cellist Daniel Laufer; trumpeter Kevin Hartman; and Andrew Raciti, string bass.

The Fine Arts Quartet, founded in 1946, has become an artistic institution: one of the very few quartets in the world that has recorded and toured internationally, without pause, over six decades. For more than forty years, the Quartet has found a home at UWM. While in residence, the Quartet has trained young musicians, offered an ongoing series of the finest chamber music that has developed a devoted following, and reminded the world that Milwaukee is an important center for the arts.

Please join the members of the Quartet and their guests for four evenings of glorious music-making.

Summer Evenings of Music Festival Programs
Fine Arts Quartet 2009-2010 Season
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About the Guest Artists
About the Fine Arts Quartet

Summer Evenings of Music Festival Programs [top]
SUMMER EVENINGS OF MUSIC FESTIVAL 2009

All concerts take place at 7:30 pm in the Helen Bader Concert Hall Helene Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, 2419 E. Kenwood Boulevard

*Programs Subject to Change

Fine Arts Quartet 2009-2010 Season [top]
All concerts begin at 3:00 pm on Sundays in the Helen Bader Concert Hall

September 20, 2009
November 15, 2009
February 7, 2010
April 11, 2010

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Summer Evenings of Musis 2009 (4 concerts)	$68
Summer Evenings + Fine Arts Quartet 2009-2010 season (8 concerts)	$125

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Available in the Zelazo Center lot, to the south of the building, and in the Union parking garage across Kenwood Boulevard.  Parking is free on Sundays only.

About the Guest Artists [top]

Miklos Schön
Miklos Schön was born in Paris of Hungarian parents. He began studying the violin at the age of four, but opted definitively for the piano at age nine. He studied with Germaine Mounier and Luben Yordanoff at the National Superior Conservatory of Music of Paris. He received the first prize for chamber music in 1982, and the first piano prize and the harmony and counterpoint award in 1983. He finished his studies the following year at the Alfred Cortot music school with Germaine Mounier. In 1995, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Schön a certificate of aptitude and first prize at a competition for piano pedagogy. He has worked with György Cziffra, Claude Helffer, Charles Rosen and Georges Pludermacher,and he has won prizes at several international competitions, including Senigallia (Italy), Epinal (France) and the Cziffra Foundation. Building an international career, Schön has appeared in numerous music festivals and concerts, either as soloist (recital and with orchestra) or in small chamber music ensembles in Europe, the United States and Asia. In 1994 he founded the Weber Trio, and he is also artistic director of the Festival aux Chandelles in France http://www.festivalauxchandelles.fr. Schön has released several well-received recordings.

Daniel Laufer
Daniel Laufer is the associate principal cellist of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Born in Israel, he studied with his father, Wolfgang Laufer, cellist of the Fine Arts Quartet, then attended the North Carolina School of the Arts where he studied with Robert Marsh. Mr. Laufer won a position with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra on his 18th birthday, making him the youngest musician hired by that orchestra. Following two years with Dallas, he joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in the position he now holds. Mr. Laufer has given recitals in Milwaukee, Dallas, Boston, and Atlanta, as well as two live recitals for radio on WFMT in Chicago. Daniel has performed at Summer Chamber Music Festivals such as the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and the Kfar Blum Chamber Music Festival in Israel. He has performed as soloist with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra , the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Laufer has also collaborated with the Fine Arts Quartet as a guest in France, Atlanta, and in Milwaukee joining guest artist Pinchas Zukerman. He is a founding member of the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta.

Jeewon Park
Hailed for her "deeply reflective" (Indianapolis Star) playing, pianist Jeewon Park is rapidly garnering the attention of audiences for her dazzling technique and poetic lyricism. Since making her debut at the age of 12 performing Chopin's First Concerto with the Korean Symphony Orchestra, Ms. Park has performed at major venues such as Weill Recital Hall, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall and Kaplan Penthouse, Merkin Hall, 92nd Street Y, Steinway Hall, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Kravis Center (FL). As a recitalist, she has been heard at the Steinway Hall in New York, Seoul Arts Center in Korea, Caramoor International Festival, Norfolk Music Festival, Music Alp in Courchevel (France) and Kusatsu Summer Music Festival (Japan), among others. An avid chamber musician, Ms. Park has performed in numerous festivals such as the Spoleto USA Festival, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival (NY), Beethoven Festival (NY), Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival (VT), Appalachian Summer Festival (NC), Emilia-Romagna Festival (Italy) and Barge Music (NY). She has performed as a guest artist with the New York Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble, and has collaborated with numerous artists. As an orchestral soloist, she has performed with the Charleston Symphony (SC), Mexico City Philharmonic, Monterrey Symphony, Mexico State Symphony, in addition to many major orchestras from her native Korea. Following her February 2006 performance of the Mozart Concerto K. 453 with the Charleston Symphony, the Post and Courier acclaimed that "Park demonstrated rare skill and sensitivity, playing with a feline grace and glittering dexterity... lyrical phrasing and pearly tone quality." In the 2008-2009 season, Ms. Park appears in many North American cities including New York, Boston, St. Paul, Washington D.C., Indianapolis, St. Petersberg, Buffalo, Burlington and Omaha. Highlights of this season include several performances of Mozart Piano Concertos K. 414 and K. 415, a solo recital and an all-Mendelssohn chamber music program at Caramoor, and a U.S. tour with the "Charles Wadsworth and Friends" series. Jeewon Park most recently recorded an album of chamber works by the Pulitzer Prize winning composer Paul Moravec, which was released by Naxos in the fall of 2008. She has been heard in numerous live broadcasts on National Public Radio and New York's Classical Radio Station, WQXR. Additionally, her performances have been nationally broadcast throughout Korea on KBS and EBS television. Ms. Park holds degrees from The Juilliard School and Yale University, where she was awarded the prestigious Dean Horatio Parker Prize. Her teachers include Herbert Stessin, Claude Frank and Gilbert Kalish.

Andrew Raciti
Andrew Raciti is currently assistant principal bass for the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Before joining the MSO in September of 2006, he was in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for more than four years, where he served as assistant principal bass for the last 2 1/2 years. While living in Australia he also subbed with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Raciti has performed at various summer music festivals, including the National Repertory Orchestra, the Sarasota Chamber Music Festival, the Colorado Chamber Music Festival, and the Madeline Island Music Festival. His principal teachers include Paul Ellison at Rice University, Richard Davis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Laura Snyder of the Milwaukee Symphony. A native of Milwaukee, Raciti is a proud alumnus of the Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra and a public school string program.

Kevin Hartman
Kevin Hartman, trumpet, is professor of trumpet at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University, where he studied with Vincent Cichowicz. Following his studies at Northwestern he played in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and studied with Adolph Herseth. Hartman has performed, toured and recorded with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Grant Park Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Brass Quintet. He has been principal trumpet of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic and the Chicago Sinfonietta. He is a core member of the Fulcrum Point New Music Project.

About the Fine Arts Quartet [top]
The Fine Arts Quartet is one of the most distinguished ensembles in chamber music today, with an illustrious history of performing success and an extensive recording legacy. Founded in Chicago in 1946, and based at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee since 1963, the Quartet is one of the elite few to have recorded and toured internationally for over half a century. Three of the Quartet's current artists, Ralph Evans, Efim Boico, and Wolfgang Laufer, have now been performing together for over 25 years. Chauncey Patterson has joined them as interim violist for the 2008-9 season, replacing Yuri Gandelsman who recently retired from the Quartet. Each season, the Fine Arts Quartet tours worldwide, with concerts in such musical centers as New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, Moscow, Tokyo, Beijing, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Mexico City, and Toronto. The Quartet also continues to record actively, with over 65 works recorded since 1985. The latest releases include: the Fauré Piano Quintets; the complete Bruckner chamber music; the complete Mendelssohn String Quintets, named a "Recording of the Year 2008" by Musicweb International and selected for the 2009 Grammy Awards Entry list in the "Best Classical Album" category; Four American Quartets by Antheil, Herrmann, Glass, Evans - also selected for the 2009 Grammy Awards Entry list; the complete Schumann Quartets, selected for the 2008 Grammy list and called "one of the very finest chamber music recordings of the year" by the American Record Guide in 2007; chamber music by Glazunov, named a "Recording of the Year 2007" by Musicweb International; the complete Dohnányi Quartets and Quintets; the complete early Beethoven Quartets in SACD format; and the complete Mozart String Quintets, in SACD, selected for the 2003 Grammy Entry List and designated a "Critic's Choice 2003" by the American Record Guide. Releases planned for 2009 include the Franck Quartet/Piano Quintet; three Beethoven String Quintets; and three Shostakovich quartets. Special recognition was given for the Quartet's commitment to contemporary music: a 2003-2004 national CMA/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, given jointly by Chamber Music America and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. The Quartet members have helped form and nurture many of today's top international young ensembles. They have been guest professors at the national music conservatories of Paris and Lyon, as well as at the summer music schools of Yale University and Indiana University. They also appear regularly as jury members of major competitions such as Evian, Shostakovich, and Bordeaux. Documentaries on the Fine Arts Quartet have appeared on both French and American Public Television. For more information on the Quartet, please visit: www.fineartsquartet.org

The Fine Arts Quartet series is supported in part by a gift from the Fred Landis 1998 Revocable Trust in their honor and generous donations from the Lubar Family Foundation and several generous individuals.