Anthony McGill & Gloria Chien
Join us 7:30 p.m. Friday, December 6, 2024 in the Administration Auditorium
GRAMMY Nominee & Superior Pianist
Hailed for his “trademark brilliance, penetrating sound and rich character” (New York Times), clarinetist Anthony McGill enjoys a dynamic international solo and chamber music career and is principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic — the first African-American principal player in the organization's history. He is the recipient of the 2020 Avery Fisher Prize, one of classical music’s most significant awards, and was named Musical America’s 2024 Instrumentalist of the Year. American Stories, his album with the Pacifica Quartet, was nominated for a GRAMMY® for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance.
McGill is an extraordinary player, with a quiver of skills and a palette of colors that only buttress what is a singular sensibility toward his instrument. The man is an artist. The Washington Post
He serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School and is the Artistic Director for Juilliard’s Music Advancement Program. He holds the William R. and Hyunah Yu Brody Distinguished Chair at the Curtis Institute of Music.
McGill is a Backun Artist and performs exclusively on Backun Clarinets.
Learn more at anthonymcgill.com.
Superior Pianist
Taiwanese-born pianist Gloria Chien has one of the most diverse musical lives as a noted performer, concert presenter, and educator. She made her orchestral debut at the age of sixteen with the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Thomas Dausgaard, and she performed again with the BSO with Keith Lockhart. She was subsequently selected by the The Boston Globe as one of its Superior Pianists of the year, “who appears to excel in everything.” In recent seasons, she has performed as a recitalist and chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall, the Library of Congress, the Phillips Collection, the Dresden Chamber Music Festival, and the National Concert Hall in Taiwan. She performs frequently with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Gloria received her bachelor, masters and doctoral degrees at the New England Conservatory of Music with Wha Kyung Byun and Russell Sherman. She is Artist-in-Residence at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, and she is a Steinway Artist.
Learn more at gloriachien.com.
Here With You
McGill and Chien made their commercial recording debut as a due on Here With You, an album (mostly) of early and late German Romantic masterworks they’ve treasured throughout their 15 years of mutual admiration and musical collaboration. The project embodies, in the artists’ words, a “shared expression of beauty and friendship.”
McGill and Chien play as sensitively as two halves of a wholeMusicWeb International, UK
Program
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano by Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)
I. Grazioso
II. Andantino – Vivace e leggiero
Clarinet Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 120, No. 2 by Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
I. Allegro amabile
II. Allegro appassionato
III. Andante con moto – Allegro
Solo de Concours by André Messager (1853-1929)
Four Pieces in Bird Shape, Op. 18 by Takashi Yoshimatsu (b. 1953)
I. Ballade
II. Invention
III. Recitativo
IV. Divertimento
Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 48 by Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
I. Allegro con fuoco
II. Andante con moto
III. Rondo: Allegro