Distinguished Concerts International New York

Founded by Iris Derke (General Director) and Jonathan Griffith (Artistic Director and Principal Conductor) Distinguished Concerts International is driven by passion, innovative vision, a total belief in its artists, and unwavering commitment to bringing forth unforgettable audience experiences. With over 25 combined years of experience, DCINY is a creative producing entity with unmatched integrity that is a talent incubator, a star-maker, and a presenter of broadly accessible, world-class musical entertainment. For more information about Distinguished Concerts International in New York and upcoming DCINY musical events around the world, please visit: www.DCINY.org, or call 212-707-8566.

DCINY ArtIst serIes: DCINY offers performance opportunities for soloists and chamber ensembles of excellence at venues throughout New York City. For more information, contact Johanna Kodlick, Director of Artistic Operations, at Johanna@DCINY.org or 212-707-8566 x 305.

DCINY ADmINIstrAtIve stAff

Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General DirectorJonathan Griffith, Co-Founder, Artistic Director and Principal ConductorJohanna B. Kodlick, Director of Artistic OperationsDanuta Gross, Director of Finance and AdministrationNaghma Husain, Director of Design and PromotionsJeffery R. Thyer, Associate Director of Program Development Andrew W. Monath, Program DevelopmentKevin Taylor, Program DevelopmentNicole Cotton, Production ManagerAndrea Macy, Marketing & PromotionsLynn Tsai, Concert Operations Associate Luzanne Veldsman, Intern

DCINY thanks its kind sponsors and partners in education: VH 1 Save the Music, Education Through Music, and High 5.

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Featuring works by Beethoven, Boccherini, Glière, Stravinsky, and more

2012 SEASON

Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General DirectorJonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic DirectorPRESENTS

Distinguished Concerts Artist SeriesThe Werner Chamber Quartet

Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:00 PMWeill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall

Please make certain your cellular phone or other electronic devices are switched off. Please hold your applause until the end of the final movement.

Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:00 PM, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall

Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General Director

Jonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic Director

Presents

DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS ARTIST SERIESTHE WERNER CHAMBER QUARTET

HélèNe, luCIeN, mArIel, AND ANDrée WerNer

CHACoNNe from PArtItA No. 2 IN D mINor Johann SebaStian bach/ (ArrANgemeNt for 4 CellI) arr. LaSzLo Varga héLène, Lucien, MarieL, andrée, ceLLo

fANtAsIestüCke, oP. 73 robert SchuMann

i. zart und Mit auSdruck

ii. Lebhaft, Leicht

iii. raSch und Mit feuer

héLène, ceLLo – andrée, piano

soNAtA No. 3 IN g mAjor Luigi boccherini i. Largo

ii. aLLegro aLLa MiLitaire

iii. Minuetto

héLène, ceLLo – MarieL, piano – Lucien, continuo

suIte ItAlIeNNe igor StraVinSky I. introduzione

ii. Serenata

iii. aria

iV. taranteLLa

V. Minuetto e finaLe

Lucien, ceLLo – MarieL, piano

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sHININg NIgHt: AN IllumINAtINg festIvAl of CoNCerts

March 29-April 1, 2012 Details and discounts: visit www.DCINY.org/shininglight

Film screening - New York Premiere Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten LauridsenFriday, March 30, 2012, 5:30 PMNew York Society for Ethical CultureDCINY will host the New York Premiere of a new film celebrating the life and work of Morten Lauridsen, followed by a Q&A with Mr. Lauridsen and filmmaker Michael Stillwater. Winner, Best Documentary, DC Independent Film Fest

Eternal Light...Shining BrightSaturday, March 31, 2012, 2:00 PMAvery Fisher Hall, Lincoln CenterMusic for Women’s Chorus • Hilary Apfelstadt, Conductor LaureateLauridsen: Lux AeternaJonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal ConductorMorten Lauridsen, Composer-in-ResidenceFeaturing Distinguished Concerts Orchestra International and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

This Shining Night: The Music of Whitacre and LauridsenSunday, April 1, 2012, 8:30 PMStern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallEric Whitacre, Composer/ConductorComposer/Special guest artist: Morten LauridsenFeaturing Distinguished Concert Singers International

Festival Prelude:Sounds of Twilight at Winter’s End Thursday, March 29, 2012, 6:30 PMStern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallCoronado High School Wind Ensemble, Alan Combs, DirectorClark High School Concert Band and Orchestra Jeffrey Lacoff and Charles Cushinery, DirectorsSantiago High School Madrigals and Santiago High School Treble Ensemble, Karen Garrett, Director

36

Notes on the Program

Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)The ground bass pattern of the chaconne has found itself exhaustively reimagined by countless composers, and perhaps no more effectively than by Bach. His treatment of the simple harmonic progression is masterful in its journey through a myriad of expressive transformations of the central 8-bar theme. The recurrent descending bass line forms the foundation of the piece over which the soloist takes Baroque-inspired melodic detours. Bach’s Chaconne has been transcribed for numerous instruments; this transcription for cello quartet is by the famous Hungarian cellist Laszlo Varga.

Members of the quartet have had private audiences with Laszlo Varga, Andres Diaz, Michel Strauss, Wolfgang Lehner, Bernard Greenhouse, Lluis Claret, Julius Berger, Harro Ruijsenaars, Steve Doane, Wendy Warner, and Robert Levin. They have soloed with numerous orchestras, including the Bozeman, Billings, and Great Falls Symphony Orchestras, and the String Orchestra of the Rockies. They have been enthusiastically received at Montana State University’s Guest Artist and President’s Fine Arts Series, St. Timothy’s Summer Music Festival in Georgetown Lake, Montana, the Music Guild in Los Angeles, the Congress of Luthiers in France, the Provincehuis in Groningen, Holland, Harvard University’s Arts First, and on National Public Radio’s From the Top. During the summers, the quartet studies and performs at festivals and venues abroad, including Peter de Grote Festival in Holland, La Ferme de Villefavard and Chateau Fonplégade in France, the Mittelfest in Cividale, Italy, and the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria.

They are known to many in and around the Montana area for their contributions to important community organizations including the Rescue Mission for the Home-less and the Wyoming Girls School, and they have shared their music in sup-port of the arts for the Emerson Cultural Center, the Equinox Theater Company, Shakespeare in the Parks, music seminars at Montana State University, and for numerous public schools, rural schools, and universities at home and abroad that encourage opportunities for young musicians.

Hélène (22) is a senior at Yale where she has played cello in the Yale Symphony Orchestra, viola da gamba in the Yale Temperament, and has performed in numerous chamber groups. She will be pursuing a masters in cello performance upon graduating from Yale. Lucien (21) is a junior at Harvard, where he is presi-dent of the Brattle Street Chamber Players. He was recently the winner of this year’s Harvard Bach Society Orchestra Concerto Competition, and was also elect-ed as the 45th music director of the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra for its 2012-2013 season. Mariel (19), a 2011 U.S. Presidential Scholar, will be a freshman at Harvard in the Fall of 2012. She is currently enrolled in the Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago, studying cello with Hans Jørgen Jensen, piano with Alan Chow, and chamber music with Almita and Roland Vamos. Andrée (18) is a high school senior at the Bozeman Charter School in Montana, and as a recent winner of Montana Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, performed the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra in December 2011.

The quartet plays three Cody Kowalski bows, an Andrew Carruthers cello, and three Frank Ravatin cellos, one of which was commissioned and owned by Bernard Greenhouse. In addition to their classical music repertoire, the Werner Chamber Quartet enjoys playing their own arrangements of Argentinian tangos, jazz combos, Broadway musicals, and occasionally they drop their acoustic cellos and pick up electric versions to perform their own arrangements of rock ‘n roll.

interMiSSion

soNAtA IN f mAjor, oP. 5 No. 1 Ludwig Van beethoVen

i. adagio SoStenuto - aLLegro

andrée, ceLLo – MarieL, piano

Album leAves, 12 PIeCes for Cello AND PIANo, oP. 51 reinhoLd gLière i. con Moto andrée ceLLo – héLène, piano

V. andantino poco aniMato

héLène, ceLLo – andrée, piano

soNAtA IN A céSar franck

iii. ben Moderato: recitatiVe-fantaSia

iV. aLLegretto poco MoSSo

MarieL, ceLLo – Lucien, piano

CArmeN fANtAsY georgeS bizet/ (ArrANgemeNt for 4 CellI) arr. Lucien werner héLène, Lucien, MarieL, andrée, ceLLo

Please make certain your cellular phone or other electronic devices are switched off. Please hold your applause until the end of the final movement.

Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 (Robert Schumann, 1810-1856)Schumann’s collaboration, both domestically and professionally, with Clara Wieck is well documented. His conflicted psyche and symbiotic relationship with Clara is seemingly channeled in the Fantasiestücke. Comprised of three separate pieces, the work is not dark, but rather wildly contradictory with full-throated romanticism. The fruits of Schumann’s dual personality are on full display, with the intensely melodic lyricism of an introspective “Eusebius” contrasted with the ‘sturm und drang’ of the blustery “Florestan.” Their juxtaposition makes for a compelling example of the ‘romantic’ in music.

Sonata No. 3 in G Major (Luigi Boccherini, 1743-1805)Among the jewels of Boccherini’s repertoire are his numerous cello sonatas, the legacy of a composer who was himself a cello virtuoso. The G Major sonata is in the traditional three movement form - slow-fast-slow. It displays all the lyricism, effortless grace, melodic naturalness, and of course high-flying virtuosity that characterize Boccherini’s unique musical aesthetic.

Suite Italienne (Igor Stravinsky, 1882-1971)Stravinsky took the ballet Pulcinella and transformed it into his Suite Italienne. The ballet itself evolved using several Renaissance Italian themes, and while Stravinsky certainly utilized these themes, the musical texture of the piece is sprinkled with his signature clashing harmonies and 20th century rhythms. The original Italian themes and bass lines are present with little modification, but the jarring rhythmic and harmonic aberrations are Stravinsky’s unmistakable artistic stamp.

Sonata in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1 (Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827)Beethoven arguably stands alone as the first great champion of the cello sonata. His early sonatas, such as the one on this program, exhibit traditional early Classical influence, especially that of Mozart and Haydn, and grandly explore the dialogue between cello and piano. Achieving balance between the instruments is difficult, especially in the lower register where the cello can be overwhelmed by the piano bass. Beethoven, however, was able to brilliantly master this delicate musical pas de deux.

Album Leaves, 12 Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 51 (Reinhold Glière, 1875-1956)Composer Reinhold Glière found ample inspiration in the cultural traditions of his native Russia. Drawing on Slavic folk song and dance, Glière composed nationalistic testimonials to a nascent Soviet Union, although hints of early twentieth century expressionist influences are easily recognizable in his work. Powerful and structured compositions celebrating Russian nationalism are tempered with modern musical idioms. The selections from the Twelve Album Leaves presented today exhibit an unmistakable sentimentality for mother Russia, a common theme in Glière’s work.

4 5

Sonata in A Major (César Franck, 1822-1890)Franck was a masterful proponent of cyclic form, where initial musical ideas are manipulated throughout the entire composition. A standard technique of the cyclic form is to use several different keys to explore a musical theme, a characteristic which is particularly evident in the improvisatory 3rd movement and in the ‘canonic imitation’ of the 4th movement. The piece on today’s program is Frank’s own transcription of his 1886 Violin Sonata in A Major which has been memorialized in the legendary last recording of the great cellist Jacqueline du Pré.

Carmen Fantasy (Georges Bizet, 1838-1875)Carmen, the great French opera of the 19th century, has for more than a century stood as a masterpiece of the comic tragedy, its characters magnifying the inherent complexities of human nature in compelling dramatic fashion. In the years since its premiere in 1875, many composers and transcribers have lighted upon the opera’s instantly memorable themes to serve as inspiration for embellished and virtuosic instrumental fantasies. This version for cello quartet presents a pastiche of some of Carmen’s most recognized melodies, including the Habanera and Seguidille.

About the Artists

Hélène, Lucien, Mariel, and Andrée are siblings in the Werner Chamber Quartet. They were born and raised in Montana and study cello with Richard Aaron of the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School, and Hans Jørgen Jensen of Northwestern University. Each member of the quartet also studies piano with Brian Johnson and is a distinguished participant in the Royal Conservatory of Music’s piano program.

Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 (Robert Schumann, 1810-1856)Schumann’s collaboration, both domestically and professionally, with Clara Wieck is well documented. His conflicted psyche and symbiotic relationship with Clara is seemingly channeled in the Fantasiestücke. Comprised of three separate pieces, the work is not dark, but rather wildly contradictory with full-throated romanticism. The fruits of Schumann’s dual personality are on full display, with the intensely melodic lyricism of an introspective “Eusebius” contrasted with the ‘sturm und drang’ of the blustery “Florestan.” Their juxtaposition makes for a compelling example of the ‘romantic’ in music.

Sonata No. 3 in G Major (Luigi Boccherini, 1743-1805)Among the jewels of Boccherini’s repertoire are his numerous cello sonatas, the legacy of a composer who was himself a cello virtuoso. The G Major sonata is in the traditional three movement form - slow-fast-slow. It displays all the lyricism, effortless grace, melodic naturalness, and of course high-flying virtuosity that characterize Boccherini’s unique musical aesthetic.

Suite Italienne (Igor Stravinsky, 1882-1971)Stravinsky took the ballet Pulcinella and transformed it into his Suite Italienne. The ballet itself evolved using several Renaissance Italian themes, and while Stravinsky certainly utilized these themes, the musical texture of the piece is sprinkled with his signature clashing harmonies and 20th century rhythms. The original Italian themes and bass lines are present with little modification, but the jarring rhythmic and harmonic aberrations are Stravinsky’s unmistakable artistic stamp.

Sonata in F Major, Op. 5 No. 1 (Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827)Beethoven arguably stands alone as the first great champion of the cello sonata. His early sonatas, such as the one on this program, exhibit traditional early Classical influence, especially that of Mozart and Haydn, and grandly explore the dialogue between cello and piano. Achieving balance between the instruments is difficult, especially in the lower register where the cello can be overwhelmed by the piano bass. Beethoven, however, was able to brilliantly master this delicate musical pas de deux.

Album Leaves, 12 Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op. 51 (Reinhold Glière, 1875-1956)Composer Reinhold Glière found ample inspiration in the cultural traditions of his native Russia. Drawing on Slavic folk song and dance, Glière composed nationalistic testimonials to a nascent Soviet Union, although hints of early twentieth century expressionist influences are easily recognizable in his work. Powerful and structured compositions celebrating Russian nationalism are tempered with modern musical idioms. The selections from the Twelve Album Leaves presented today exhibit an unmistakable sentimentality for mother Russia, a common theme in Glière’s work.

4 5

Sonata in A Major (César Franck, 1822-1890)Franck was a masterful proponent of cyclic form, where initial musical ideas are manipulated throughout the entire composition. A standard technique of the cyclic form is to use several different keys to explore a musical theme, a characteristic which is particularly evident in the improvisatory 3rd movement and in the ‘canonic imitation’ of the 4th movement. The piece on today’s program is Frank’s own transcription of his 1886 Violin Sonata in A Major which has been memorialized in the legendary last recording of the great cellist Jacqueline du Pré.

Carmen Fantasy (Georges Bizet, 1838-1875)Carmen, the great French opera of the 19th century, has for more than a century stood as a masterpiece of the comic tragedy, its characters magnifying the inherent complexities of human nature in compelling dramatic fashion. In the years since its premiere in 1875, many composers and transcribers have lighted upon the opera’s instantly memorable themes to serve as inspiration for embellished and virtuosic instrumental fantasies. This version for cello quartet presents a pastiche of some of Carmen’s most recognized melodies, including the Habanera and Seguidille.

About the Artists

Hélène, Lucien, Mariel, and Andrée are siblings in the Werner Chamber Quartet. They were born and raised in Montana and study cello with Richard Aaron of the University of Michigan and the Juilliard School, and Hans Jørgen Jensen of Northwestern University. Each member of the quartet also studies piano with Brian Johnson and is a distinguished participant in the Royal Conservatory of Music’s piano program.

36

Notes on the Program

Chaconne from Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)The ground bass pattern of the chaconne has found itself exhaustively reimagined by countless composers, and perhaps no more effectively than by Bach. His treatment of the simple harmonic progression is masterful in its journey through a myriad of expressive transformations of the central 8-bar theme. The recurrent descending bass line forms the foundation of the piece over which the soloist takes Baroque-inspired melodic detours. Bach’s Chaconne has been transcribed for numerous instruments; this transcription for cello quartet is by the famous Hungarian cellist Laszlo Varga.

Members of the quartet have had private audiences with Laszlo Varga, Andres Diaz, Michel Strauss, Wolfgang Lehner, Bernard Greenhouse, Lluis Claret, Julius Berger, Harro Ruijsenaars, Steve Doane, Wendy Warner, and Robert Levin. They have soloed with numerous orchestras, including the Bozeman, Billings, and Great Falls Symphony Orchestras, and the String Orchestra of the Rockies. They have been enthusiastically received at Montana State University’s Guest Artist and President’s Fine Arts Series, St. Timothy’s Summer Music Festival in Georgetown Lake, Montana, the Music Guild in Los Angeles, the Congress of Luthiers in France, the Provincehuis in Groningen, Holland, Harvard University’s Arts First, and on National Public Radio’s From the Top. During the summers, the quartet studies and performs at festivals and venues abroad, including Peter de Grote Festival in Holland, La Ferme de Villefavard and Chateau Fonplégade in France, the Mittelfest in Cividale, Italy, and the Mozarteum International Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria.

They are known to many in and around the Montana area for their contributions to important community organizations including the Rescue Mission for the Home-less and the Wyoming Girls School, and they have shared their music in sup-port of the arts for the Emerson Cultural Center, the Equinox Theater Company, Shakespeare in the Parks, music seminars at Montana State University, and for numerous public schools, rural schools, and universities at home and abroad that encourage opportunities for young musicians.

Hélène (22) is a senior at Yale where she has played cello in the Yale Symphony Orchestra, viola da gamba in the Yale Temperament, and has performed in numerous chamber groups. She will be pursuing a masters in cello performance upon graduating from Yale. Lucien (21) is a junior at Harvard, where he is presi-dent of the Brattle Street Chamber Players. He was recently the winner of this year’s Harvard Bach Society Orchestra Concerto Competition, and was also elect-ed as the 45th music director of the Harvard Bach Society Orchestra for its 2012-2013 season. Mariel (19), a 2011 U.S. Presidential Scholar, will be a freshman at Harvard in the Fall of 2012. She is currently enrolled in the Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago, studying cello with Hans Jørgen Jensen, piano with Alan Chow, and chamber music with Almita and Roland Vamos. Andrée (18) is a high school senior at the Bozeman Charter School in Montana, and as a recent winner of Montana Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition, performed the Dvořák Cello Concerto with the Bozeman Symphony Orchestra in December 2011.

The quartet plays three Cody Kowalski bows, an Andrew Carruthers cello, and three Frank Ravatin cellos, one of which was commissioned and owned by Bernard Greenhouse. In addition to their classical music repertoire, the Werner Chamber Quartet enjoys playing their own arrangements of Argentinian tangos, jazz combos, Broadway musicals, and occasionally they drop their acoustic cellos and pick up electric versions to perform their own arrangements of rock ‘n roll.

interMiSSion

soNAtA IN f mAjor, oP. 5 No. 1 Ludwig Van beethoVen

i. adagio SoStenuto - aLLegro

andrée, ceLLo – MarieL, piano

Album leAves, 12 PIeCes for Cello AND PIANo, oP. 51 reinhoLd gLière i. con Moto andrée ceLLo – héLène, piano

V. andantino poco aniMato

héLène, ceLLo – andrée, piano

soNAtA IN A céSar franck

iii. ben Moderato: recitatiVe-fantaSia

iV. aLLegretto poco MoSSo

MarieL, ceLLo – Lucien, piano

CArmeN fANtAsY georgeS bizet/ (ArrANgemeNt for 4 CellI) arr. Lucien werner héLène, Lucien, MarieL, andrée, ceLLo

Please make certain your cellular phone or other electronic devices are switched off. Please hold your applause until the end of the final movement.

Please make certain your cellular phone or other electronic devices are switched off. Please hold your applause until the end of the final movement.

Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:00 PM, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall

Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General Director

Jonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic Director

Presents

DISTINGUISHED CONCERTS ARTIST SERIESTHE WERNER CHAMBER QUARTET

HélèNe, luCIeN, mArIel, AND ANDrée WerNer

CHACoNNe from PArtItA No. 2 IN D mINor Johann SebaStian bach/ (ArrANgemeNt for 4 CellI) arr. LaSzLo Varga héLène, Lucien, MarieL, andrée, ceLLo

fANtAsIestüCke, oP. 73 robert SchuMann

i. zart und Mit auSdruck

ii. Lebhaft, Leicht

iii. raSch und Mit feuer

héLène, ceLLo – andrée, piano

soNAtA No. 3 IN g mAjor Luigi boccherini i. Largo

ii. aLLegro aLLa MiLitaire

iii. Minuetto

héLène, ceLLo – MarieL, piano – Lucien, continuo

suIte ItAlIeNNe igor StraVinSky I. introduzione

ii. Serenata

iii. aria

iV. taranteLLa

V. Minuetto e finaLe

Lucien, ceLLo – MarieL, piano

7

sHININg NIgHt: AN IllumINAtINg festIvAl of CoNCerts

March 29-April 1, 2012 Details and discounts: visit www.DCINY.org/shininglight

Film screening - New York Premiere Shining Night: A Portrait of Composer Morten LauridsenFriday, March 30, 2012, 5:30 PMNew York Society for Ethical CultureDCINY will host the New York Premiere of a new film celebrating the life and work of Morten Lauridsen, followed by a Q&A with Mr. Lauridsen and filmmaker Michael Stillwater. Winner, Best Documentary, DC Independent Film Fest

Eternal Light...Shining BrightSaturday, March 31, 2012, 2:00 PMAvery Fisher Hall, Lincoln CenterMusic for Women’s Chorus • Hilary Apfelstadt, Conductor LaureateLauridsen: Lux AeternaJonathan Griffith, DCINY Artistic Director and Principal ConductorMorten Lauridsen, Composer-in-ResidenceFeaturing Distinguished Concerts Orchestra International and Distinguished Concerts Singers International

This Shining Night: The Music of Whitacre and LauridsenSunday, April 1, 2012, 8:30 PMStern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallEric Whitacre, Composer/ConductorComposer/Special guest artist: Morten LauridsenFeaturing Distinguished Concert Singers International

Festival Prelude:Sounds of Twilight at Winter’s End Thursday, March 29, 2012, 6:30 PMStern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie HallCoronado High School Wind Ensemble, Alan Combs, DirectorClark High School Concert Band and Orchestra Jeffrey Lacoff and Charles Cushinery, DirectorsSantiago High School Madrigals and Santiago High School Treble Ensemble, Karen Garrett, Director

Distinguished Concerts International New York

Founded by Iris Derke (General Director) and Jonathan Griffith (Artistic Director and Principal Conductor) Distinguished Concerts International is driven by passion, innovative vision, a total belief in its artists, and unwavering commitment to bringing forth unforgettable audience experiences. With over 25 combined years of experience, DCINY is a creative producing entity with unmatched integrity that is a talent incubator, a star-maker, and a presenter of broadly accessible, world-class musical entertainment. For more information about Distinguished Concerts International in New York and upcoming DCINY musical events around the world, please visit: www.DCINY.org, or call 212-707-8566.

DCINY ArtIst serIes: DCINY offers performance opportunities for soloists and chamber ensembles of excellence at venues throughout New York City. For more information, contact Johanna Kodlick, Director of Artistic Operations, at Johanna@DCINY.org or 212-707-8566 x 305.

DCINY ADmINIstrAtIve stAff

Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General DirectorJonathan Griffith, Co-Founder, Artistic Director and Principal ConductorJohanna B. Kodlick, Director of Artistic OperationsDanuta Gross, Director of Finance and AdministrationNaghma Husain, Director of Design and PromotionsJeffery R. Thyer, Associate Director of Program Development Andrew W. Monath, Program DevelopmentKevin Taylor, Program DevelopmentNicole Cotton, Production ManagerAndrea Macy, Marketing & PromotionsLynn Tsai, Concert Operations Associate Luzanne Veldsman, Intern

DCINY thanks its kind sponsors and partners in education: VH 1 Save the Music, Education Through Music, and High 5.

or visit www.DCINY.org/connect

If you have enjoyed your time with us, please tell your friends about DCINY. Thank you for joining us.

#DCINY

To connect with DCINY on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites, and to sign up for the DCINY E-list for updates and special ticket offers, scan

DCINY • 212-707-8566 • Toll free 877-MYDCINY • Concerts@DCINY.orgwww.DCINY.org

The Art of PerformanceThe Power of Education

Distinguished Concerts International New York250 W 57th Street, Suite 1610 • New York, NY 10107

212.707.8566 • Toll Free: 1.877.MYDCINYConcerts@DCINY.org

#DCINY

Join the conversation:

Featuring works by Beethoven, Boccherini, Glière, Stravinsky, and more

2012 SEASON

Iris Derke, Co-Founder and General DirectorJonathan Griffith, Co-Founder and Artistic DirectorPRESENTS

Distinguished Concerts Artist SeriesThe Werner Chamber Quartet

Saturday, March 24, 2012, 2:00 PMWeill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall