Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Name: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Start: 2026-03-10T19:30:00-04:00
Location: 32 2nd St, Troy, NY, United States, New York 12180

Schedule

Tue, 10 Mar, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

32 2nd St, Troy, NY, United States, New York 12180 | Troy, NY

Program:
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

MICHAEL STEPHEN BROWN, piano
TARA HELEN O’CONNOR, flute
JURI VALLENTIN, oboe
DAVID SHIFRIN, clarinet
PETER KOLKAY, bassoon
DAVID BYRD-MARROW, horn

Century of Winds
Maurice Emmanuel (1862–1938)
Sonata for Flute, Clarinet, and Piano, Op. 11 (1907)
Allegro con spirito
Adagio
Molto allegro e leggierissimo
O’CONNOR, SHIFRIN, BROWN

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)
Andante for Horn and Piano, Op. posth. (1888)
BYRD-MARROW, BROWN

Carl Czerny (1791–1857)
Andante e polacca in E major for Horn and Piano (1848)
BYRD-MARROW, BROWN

August Klughardt (1847–1902)
Quintet in C major for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Horn, Op. 79 (c. 1898)
Allegro non troppo
Allegro vivace
Andante grazioso
Adagio—Allegro molto vivace
O’CONNOR, VALLENTIN, SHIFRIN, KOLKAY, BYRD-MARROW

INTERMISSION

André Jolivet (1905–1974)
Sonatine for Oboe and Bassoon (1963)
Ouverture
Récitatif
Ostinato
VALLENTIN, KOLKAY

Louise Farrenc (1804–1875)
Sextet in C minor for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Horn, and Piano, Op. 40 (1851–52)
Allegro
Andante sostenuto
Allegro vivace
O’CONNOR, VALLENTIN, SHIFRIN, KOLKAY, BYRD-MARROW, BROWN

BIO:
Michael Stephen Brown is a composer and pianist hailed by the New York Timesas “one of the leading figures in the current renaissance of performer-composers.” A 2025 MacDowell Fellow, 2024 Yaddo Artist, and winner of Lincoln Center’s Emerging Artist Award and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, Michael performs internationally and receives commissions from orchestras, soloists, and festivals around the world. Recent highlights include a recital at Alice Tully Hall for CMS, collaborations with cellist Nicholas Canellakis and violinists Pinchas Zukerman, Kristin Lee, and Arnaud Sussmann, and an Asia recital tour. Currently he is composing The Magical Carnival, a CMS-led project co-presented by a consortium of US presenters. His first album devoted entirely to his music, Twelve Blocks, will be released in fall 2025. He is the composer for Angeline Gragasin’s upcoming film Look But Don't Touch. An alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, Michael lives in New York City and Wallkill, New York, with his two 19th-century Steinways, Octavia and Daria.

David Byrd-Marrow is the solo hornist of the International Contemporary Ensemble and a member of The Knights. He has premiered works by Matthias Pintscher, Arthur Kampela, George Lewis, Tyshawn Sorey, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Du Yun, Marcos Balter, Anna Webber, Jörg Widmann, Miguel Zenón, and Chick Corea. Formerly a member of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, he has also made appearances with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Atlanta, Seattle, and Tokyo symphony orchestras, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, the Washington National Opera, and the Metropolitan Opera. Byrd-Marrow holds degrees from the Juilliard School and Stony Brook, and is Assistant Professor of Horn at the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver.

Called “stunningly virtuosic” by the New York Times and “superb” by the Washington Post, Peter Kolkay is the only bassoonist to be awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. In addition to performing with CMS, he regularly appears as a chamber musician at the Sarasota, Music@Menlo, and Bridgehampton summer festivals. Kolkay has commissioned and premiered solo works by Joan Tower, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Elliott Carter, and Tania León, among many others, and his most recent recordings include an album of music for bassoon and strings with the Calidore String Quartet, and the Christopher Rouse concerto with the Albany Symphony. He is Professor of Bassoon at the Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music and has given master classes throughout the US, Mexico, and South Korea. Kolkay is an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, and holds degrees from Lawrence University, the Eastman School of Music, and Yale University. He is a native of Naperville, Illinois.

Tara Helen O’Connor, recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a two-time Grammy nominee, was the first wind player to participate in CMS’s Bowers Program. A regular performer at major music festivals around the country, she is also the Co-Artistic Director of the Music from Angel Fire Festival in New Mexico, the Artistic Director of the Essex Winter Series, a member of the woodwind quintet Windscape, and a founding member of the Naumburg Award–winning New Millennium Ensemble. She has recorded for Deutsche Grammophon, EMI Classics, Koch International, CMS Studio Recordings, and Bridge Records, and can be heard on numerous film and television soundtracks. She has premiered hundreds of new works and has collaborated with the Orion, St. Lawrence, and Emerson String Quartets. A Wm. S. Haynes flute artist, O’Connor is on faculty at Yale School of Music. Additionally, she teaches at Bard College and the Manhattan School of Music.

A Yale University faculty member since 1987, clarinetist David Shifrin is artistic director of Yale’s Chamber Music Society and the Yale in New York concert series. He has performed with CMS since 1982 and served as its artistic director from 1992 to 2004, inaugurating CMS’s Bowers Program and the annual Brandenburg Concertos concerts. He was the artistic director of Chamber Music Northwest from 1981 to 2020. Winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant (1987) and the Avery Fisher Prize (2000), he has held principal clarinet positions in numerous orchestras including the Cleveland Orchestra and the American Symphony under Leopold Stokowski. As soloist, Shifrin has performed recitals at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and the Library of Congress. Notable concerto performances include the Philadelphia and Minnesota orchestras; the Dallas, Seattle, Houston, Milwaukee, and Denver symphonies; as well as orchestras in China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Switzerland, Germany, and Italy. Shifrin performs on clarinets made by Morrie Backun in Vancouver, Canada, and Légère synthetic reeds.

German oboist Juri Vallentin has gained international attention as a prize winner of major competitions such as the International Tchaikovsky Competition as first oboist, the German Music Competition, and the International Oboe Competition of Japan. He has performed as soloist with the MDR Symphony Orchestra, the Mariinsky Orchestra, the Lower Saxony State Orchestra, the Brandenburg State Orchestra, and the Munich Chamber Orchestra, among others. His albums Bridges, featuring Italian concertos, Ebenbild, which combines music and literature, and Bridges, with music from five centuries, as well as numerous radio productions for BR, SWR, and Deutschlandfunk, document his artistic work. He co-founded the wind quintet BREEZE in 2021. Born in Mainz, he studied in Nuremberg and at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he graduated with highest honors. Vallentin is Professor of Oboe at the Karlsruhe University of Music and a member of CMS’s Bowers Program.