ARTISTS
Wu Han, Piano
Chad Hoopes, Violin
Richard Lin, Violin
Milena Pájaro-Van DeStadt, Viola
Dmitri Atapine, Cello
PROGRAM
Leclair Sonata in E major for Two Violins, Op. 12, No. 2 (c. 1747–49)
Arensky Quintet in D major for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 51 (1900)
Viotti Duo in G major for Two Violins, W 4.9 (c. 1789–90)
Saint-Saëns Quintet in A minor for Piano, Two Violins, Viola, and Cello, Op. 14 (1855)
Cellist Dmitri Atapine, whose playing has been described as “highly impressive throughout” (The Strad), regularly appears on world’s foremost stages and frequently performs with the Chamber Music Society, where he is an alum of the Bowers Program. Featured at leading festivals—including Music@Menlo, La Musica Sarasota, Pacific, Aldeburgh, Aix-en-Provence, Nevada, and others—he has won many awards including first prize at the Carlos Prieto Cello Competition, as well as top honors at the Premio Vittorio Gui and Plowman chamber competitions. Professor of Cello at the University of Nevada, Reno, Atapine holds a doctorate from the Yale School of Music. He is Artistic Co-Director of the Friends of Chamber Music Kansas City, Apex Concerts, and Ribadesella Festival, and also co-directs the Young Performers Program at Music@Menlo.
American violinist Chad Hoopes performs with the world’s leading orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, l’Orchestre de Paris, l’Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, and the Minnesota and National Arts Centre orchestras, as well the San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Houston, and National symphonies. An alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, he has been featured on recordings including the recent Moritzburg Festival Dvorák album with cellist Jan Vogler, released by Sony Classical, and with the MDR Leipzig and conductor Kristjan Järvi performing Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto on the Naïve label. A 2017 recipient of Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Career Grant, Hoopes studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Kronberg Academy. He plays the 1991 Samuel Zygmuntowicz, ex Isaac Stern violin.
Taiwanese-American violinist Richard Lin continues to gain international prominence since his Gold Medal prize at the 2018 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. He has collaborated with numerous orchestras and performed at celebrated concert venues throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. He is a laureate of the Sendai, Joseph Joachim, Singapore, and Michael Hill International Violin competitions and is on faculty at the National Taipei University of Education. In spring 2023, he released a new album with pianist Thomas Hoppe on the Azica label featuring his Carnegie Hall program with works by Vitali, Richard Strauss, John Corigliano, and Frolov. Born in Phoenix, Arizona, and raised in Taiwan, Lin graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School, where he studied with Aaron Rosand and Lewis Kaplan, respectively.
Violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt has appeared as soloist with the Tokyo Philharmonic, the Jacksonville Symphony, and the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra, and has performed in recitals and chamber music concerts throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, including an acclaimed 2011 debut recital at London’s Wigmore Hall. She was the founding violist of the Dover Quartet, and played in the group from 2008 to 2022. In 2013 the Dover Quartet was the first-prize winner and recipient of every special award at the Banff International String Quartet Competition, and won the gold medal and grand prize in the 2010 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. Her numerous awards also include first prize of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and top prizes at the Sphinx Competition and Tokyo International Viola Competition. Pájaro-van de Stadt has degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.
Pianist Wu Han, recipient of Musical America’s Musician of the Year Award, enjoys a multi-faceted musical life that encompasses artistic direction, performing, and recording. Co-Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 2004 as well as Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Silicon Valley’s Music@Menlo since 2002, she also serves as Artistic Advisor for Wolf Trap’s Chamber Music at the Barns series and Palm Beach’s Society of the Four Arts, and as Artistic Director for La Musica in Sarasota, Florida. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of ArtistLed, classical music’s first artist-directed, internet-based recording label. A recipient of the Andrew Wolf Award, she was mentored by some of the greatest pianists of our time, including Lilian Kallir, Rudolf Serkin, and Menahem Pressler. Married to cellist David Finckel since 1985, Wu Han divides her time between concert touring and residences in New York City and Westchester County.
