ARTISTS
Anne-Marie Mcdermott, Piano
Wu Han, Piano
Benjamin Beilman, Violin
David Finckel, Cello
PROGRAM
Franz Schubert Fantasie in F minor for Piano, Four Hands, D. 940 (1828)
Franz Schubert Rondo in B minor for Violin and Piano, D. 895 (1826)
Franz Schubert Trio No. 2 in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, D. 929 (1827)
Violinist Benjamin Beilman’s 2024–25 season includes returns to the Chicago Symphony, Antwerp Symphony, and Hamburger Symphoniker. He also makes debuts with the Belgian National Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony. In the US, performances also include a return to the Cincinnati Symphony and a recital tour with Steven Osborne. In April 2022, he became one of the youngest artists to join the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music. He has performed with major orchestras including the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Zurich Tonhalle, Sydney Symphony, Houston Symphony, and Minnesota Orchestra. An alum of CMS’s Bowers Program, Beilman studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Kronberg Academy (with Christian Tetzlaff), and has received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a London Music Masters Award. He plays the “Ysaÿe” Guarneri del Gesù (1740), generously on loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.
Co-Artistic Director of CMS since 2004, cellist David Finckel has performed on the world’s stages in the roles of recitalist, chamber artist, and orchestral soloist. The first American student of Mstislav Rostropovich, he joined the Emerson String Quartet in 1979, and during 34 seasons garnered nine Grammy Awards and the Avery Fisher Prize. In 1997, he and pianist Wu Han founded ArtistLed, the first internet-based, artist-controlled classical recording label. In 2022, Music@Menlo, a summer chamber music festival in Silicon Valley founded and directed by David and Wu Han, celebrated its 20th season. He is a professor at both the Juilliard School and Stony Brook University, and oversees both CMS’s Bowers Program and Music@Menlo’s Chamber Music Institute. Along with Wu Han, he received Musical America’s 2012 Musicians of the Year Award.
Anne-Marie McDermott is one of the most versatile and sought-after pianists of her generation. She evenly divides her performing activities between playing concertos with orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and others; recitals at the major series in North America; and chamber music, touring each year with CMS. She is Artistic Director of the Bravo! Vail Festival in Colorado, which has grown into one of the most important summer festivals in North America, the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival in Florida, and the Chamber Music Festival at the McKnight Center in Stillwater, Oklahoma. McDermott is a recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. She records for Bridge Records, and her recordings have been widely acclaimed. They include The Complete Piano Music of Gershwin for Piano and Orchestra, the complete Prokofiev Piano Sonatas, and all-Haydn, all-Scriabin, and all-Mozart discs.
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.
