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Mozart
Flute Quartet
Sue Ann Kahn and Friends will Bring Mozart
Flute Quartets to the Shore on July 7th
at Our Lady of the Angel’s R.C.
Church, Cape May Court House at 8 p.m.
Cape May Court
House. On Saturday evening, July 7th,
at 8 p.m. at Our Lady of the Angel’s R.C.
Church, Mechanic St. and the Garden State
Parkway, Sue Ann Kahn and her musician
friends will bring Mozart’s Flute Quartets
to the region. It is the first concert of
Access to Art’s 10th Annual
Summer/Fall Chamber Music series, the Sam
Maitin Chamber Music Festival. Tickets are
$20. adults; $l5. seniors and students. A
CD recently produced by Albany Records will
be available after the concert.
 Throughout her career,
flutist Sue Ann Kahn has been
acclaimed for her virtuosic and sensitive
performances of music of all periods. She
was honored with one of the first Solo
Recitalist Fellowships from the National
Endowment of the Arts in recognition of her
outstanding gifts as a flutist and received
the American New Music Consortium Award for
distinguished performances of contemporary
music. She won the coveted Walter W.
Naumburg Chamber Music Award as a member of
the Jubal Trio, and she performs with the
Trio, the League-ISCM Chamber Players, and
other ensembles in major concert halls
throughout the United States. Ms. Kahn has
received consistent critical praise for her
solo and chamber music recordings for CRI,
MMG, Vox/Candide, New World, Albany and
other labels. Formerly Professor of Music at
Bennington College, Ms. Kahn teaches flute
and chamber music at the Mannes College of
Music, at New York University, and in the
Music Performance Program at Columbia
University, and gives master classes and
recitals nationwide. She has served as
President of the National Flute Association,
and she has been consistently active as an
advocate for the flute and its music. Ms.
Kahn has performed and coached chamber music
at the Chamber Music Conference and
Composers’ Forum of the East for over two
decades.
Violinist Eriko Sato
has been a member and frequent concertmaster
of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and the St.
Luke’s Chamber Ensemble. She made her solo
debut at age thirteen and has performed as
soloist with orchestras in Louisville, San
Francisco, and Tokyo. Ms. Sato won the
Tibor Varga International Competition, the
Young Musicians Foundation Competition, and
three Japanese National Competitions. An
active chamber musician, she has
participated in the Mostly Mozart, Aspen,
Angel Fire, Gretna, and Kuhmo Music
festivals, and appears regularly at
Bargemusic, Caramoor,Washington Square
Concerts, and Chamber Music Northwest. She
has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, Sony
Classics, Telarc, Arabesque, MusicMasters,
Vanguard, and Delos. Her most recent
recording is Allen Shawn’s string quartet
“Sleepless Night” for Albany Records. Ms.
Sato has taught at Queens College and the
Aspen Music Festival and is currently a
faculty member of the Chamber Music
Conference and Composers’ Forum of the East,
the Hoff-Barthelson Music School, and the
Mannes College of Music Preparatory
Division. She lives in New York City with
her husband, pianist David Oei and their pit
bull mix, Jazz.
Ronald Carbone,
violist, enjoys a diverse music life
encompassing chamber music, recordings, and
solo performances. He is principal violist
with the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra,
an associate member of the Metropolitan
Opera Orchestra, and a member of the
Orchestra of St. Luke’s. An active chamber
musician, he was violist with the Composers
String Quartet and Spectrum Concerts Berlin,
Germany, for ten years, and he was also a
member of the Portsmouth Chamber Ensemble,
the Lexington Trio, and the Griffes String
Quartet, with whom he won two Artist
International awards. He is presently a
member of the Silvermine Quartet. Mr.
Carbone was a member of the Atlanta Symphony
and the Barcelona City Orchestra. He
attended the New England Conservatory of
Music and holds degrees from Florida State
and Yale Universities, studying with Boris
Koutzen, Richard Burgin, and Harold Coletta.
Currently, Mr. Carbone is a member of the
faculty at Vassar College and the Chamber
Music Conference and Composers’ Forum of the
East. He has recorded a wealth of chamber
music for Naxos, CRI, Reference-Records, and
Albany.
 Michael Finckel enjoys a wide-ranging
career as cellist, conductor, teacher,
and composer. A founding member of the Trio
of the Americas and the Cabrini
Quartet, he performs as soloist and chamber
musician throughout the United
States. He has been a member of the Ysaye
Quartet, Eberli and Omega Ensembles, and he
performs with members of his family in the
renowned Finckel Cello Quartet. Mr. Finckel
has performed contemporary music with New
York’s leading new-music ensembles,
including Speculum Musicae, Ensemble Sospeso,
The Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, The Group
for Contemporary Music, Steve Reich and
Musicians, and American Composer’s
Orchestra, as well as performances with
members of the New York Philharmonic under
Pierre Boulez and Leonard Bernstein. Mr.
Finckel is presently Music Director of the
Sage City Symphony in Bennington, Vermont.
Currently on the faculties of the Hoff-Barthleson
Music School and the Mannes College of Music
Preparatory Division in New York City,
Finckel has taught cello and chamber music
at Cornell and Princeton Universities and at
Bennington College in Vermont. He is also
on the faculty of the Chamber Music
Conference and Composer’s Forum of the East
and the Composers Conference and Chamber
Music Center at Wellesley. He has recorded
for Dorian, Opus One, New World, CRI,
Vanguard, Vox/Candide and ECM/Warner
Bros.
The concert will be accompanied by a talk on
Mozart given by Ms. Kahn. Call
Access to Art, Inc. at (609) 465-3963 for
information and ticket reservations. |
