SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 AT 4:00PM
VIANO STRING QUARTET
Visual Artist: Allison Dick
ST. PAUL’S BY-THE-SEA EPISCOPAL CHURCH
2023 Juried Art Show Winner, Elena Øhlander
THE ARTISTS
Viano String Quartet
Lucy Wang, violin
Hao Zhou, viola
Aiden Kane, viola
Tate Zawadiuk, cello
Praised for their “virtuosity, visceral expression, and rare unity of intention”(Boston Globe), the Viano String Quartet are First Prize winners of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Formed in 2015 at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where they were Ensemble-in-Residence through the 2020-21 season, the quartet has performed in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Place Flagey, Konzerthaus Berlin, and Segerstrom Center for the Arts. The quartet has been named the Nina von Maltzahn string quartet-in-residence at the Curtis Institute of Music for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 season.
Summer of 2022 brings re-invitations to Great Lakes and Rockport Music Festivals, as well as performances at Chamber Music Northwest (Protégé Project 3-week residency), Tannery Pond under the auspice of Capitol Region Classical, Victoria Summer Music Festival, Bard Music Festival finished with a residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. In the fall Viano will be making their Lucerne Festival and Wigmore Hall debuts followed by performances in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Florida, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Delaware, Tennessee, Washington DC and Canada. March 2023 marks the beginning of their three-year residency with Music in the Morning in Vancouver where they will create programming to include artist collaborations, extensive community engagement and masterclasses.
As part of the Banff International String Quartet Competition prize, the quartet is in residence at the Meadows School of Music at the Southern Methodist University through the 2022-23 season. For two weeks each semester, they will perform side-by-side concerts, coach chamber ensembles, and initiate projects within the SMU community.
Recent highlights include performances on three continents, including debuts in Berlin, Paris, Bremen, Brussels, Vancouver, and Beijing, among other cities. They have collaborated with world-class musicians such as pianists Emanuel Ax, Marc-André Hamelin and Elisso Virsaladze, violists Paul Coletti and Paul Neubauer, violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, vocalist Hila Plitmann and clarinetist David Shifrin.
The quartet achieved incredible success in their formative years, with an unbroken streak of top prizes. In addition to their career-defining achievement at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition, where they were among the youngest First Prize winners in history, they also received the Grand Prize at the 2019 ENKOR International Music Competition and second prize at the 2019 Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition. At the 2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition they received Third Prize, the Haydn Prize for the best performance of a Haydn quartet, and the Sidney Griller Award for the best performance of the compulsory work, Thomas Ades’ “The Four Quarters”. They received the Silver Medal at the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and Third Prize at the 9th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2017.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started, the Viano String Quartet actively presented virtual and socially distanced live concerts for various organizations, including the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Friends of Chamber Music of Troy, Salt Lake Chamber Music Society, Dallas Chamber Music Society, Schneider Series at the New School, and the Banff International String Quartet Festival. With their colleagues in the Calidore String Quartet, they presented a movement of the Mendelssohn Octet while distanced across countries in a film project “The Way Forward.” Committed to engaging with communities outside the concert hall, the Viano String Quartet has given presentations for school children and students of all ages through residencies in Bellingham, Washington—the “Play it Forward” residency, a collaboration between the Bellingham Festival of Music and the Whatcom Symphony to reach school children in the northern Washington State area—Northern Michigan University, and the Santa Monica Conservatory. In 2019 they gave multiple performances of “Over the Top”, a Musical Encounter Interactive presentation they scripted, developed and performed at the Colburn School for inner city school children.
The Vianos currently work primarily with faculty members of the Curtis Institute of Music, including the Dover Quartet, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Steven Tenenbom, and Peter Wiley. Their past mentors include Colburn Conservatory of Music faculty members Martin Beaver, Scott St. John, Clive Greensmith, Paul Coletti and Fabio Bidini. They have received coachings from artists such as David Finckel, Gary Hoffman, Arnold Steinhardt, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and members of the Alban Berg, Brentano, Emerson, Miró, Shanghai, St. Lawrence, and Takács String Quartets. They have attended the Ravinia Steans Chamber Music Institute, the St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar, the Festival d’Aix en Provence, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the McGill International String Quartet Academy.
The name “Viano” was created to describe the four individual instruments in a string quartet interacting as one. Each of the four instruments begins with the letter “v”, and like a piano, all four string instruments together play both harmony and melody, creating a unified instrument called the “Viano”.
Lucy Wang
Canadian violinist Lucy Wang has garnered praise as an artist whose “technical prowess, tonal mastery and stage presence can come as no surprise to anyone who has seen her work” (Peace Arch News). She is a founding member of the Viano String Quartet, First Prize Laureates of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition and the current Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, and has performed in venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Izumi Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Konzerthaus Berlin.
A native of Vancouver, B.C., Lucy was featured on CBC Radio’s List of “30 Hottest Classical Musicians Under 30”. A prizewinner in numerous solo competitions, Lucy has soloed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Colburn Orchestra, and Philharmonic Northwest, under the batons of Gordon Gerrard, Bramwell Tovey, Otto Tausk, and Xian Zhang. She has collaborated in performance with artists such as Emanuel Ax, Marc-Andre Hamelin, James Ehnes, Paul Neubauer, David Shifrin, and Elisso Virsaladze.
During the early days of the pandemic, Lucy immediately took initiative to continue reaching audiences virtually by sharing music on social media platforms, receiving nearly 50 million views and attracting over 500,000 followers worldwide. Lucy also presented over a hundred virtual and live socially distanced events with the Viano Quartet for organizations and festivals around the world, including the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, Deutschlandfunk Radio, and the Montreal Chamber Music Festival. Lucy has studied with Martin Beaver at the Colburn Conservatory, Carla Birston, and Gerald Stanick.
She performs on a 1715 Dominicus Montagnana violin, generously on loan from the Canada Council Instrument Bank.
Hao Zhou
“Personal, impassioned, courageous, and unostentatiously brilliant” (Musical America), American violinist Hao Zhou rose to international acclaim as both the Grand Laureate of the 2019 Montreal International Violin Competition and a First Prize winner of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. An accomplished soloist and chamber musician, Hao made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 12. He made solo appearances with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Downey Symphony Orchestra, and Peninsula Symphony Orchestra alongside conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Alexander Shelley, and Thierry Fischer.
A founding member of the award-winning Viano String Quartet, Hao has also performed worldwide in venues including Konzerthaus Berlin, Izumi Hall, Place Flagey, and Wigmore Hall with such internationally distinguished artists as Emanuel Ax, Roberto Diaz, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Orion Weiss, and Marc André-Hamelin. He was invited to the Kronberg Academy Festival in 2019 and has spent past summers at the Ravinia’s Steans Institute for Young Artists and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.
Currently, Hao is pursuing post-graduate studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with the Viano String Quartet as the Nina von Maltzahn Graduate String Quartet in Residence. He was the first recipient of the Frances Rosen Violin Prize at the Colburn Conservatory, where he studied with Martin Beaver and received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.
Hao plays on a 1783 Joseph and Antonio Gagliano violin, on generous loan from the Aftergood Family.
Aiden Kane
American violist Aiden Kane is an award-winning musician and member of the Viano String Quartet. The ensemble won first prize at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition, and has performed internationally in venues such as Die Glocke in Bremen and Wigmore Hall. Aiden is the former violist of the Calla Quartet, the Silver medalist at the 2015 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The Calla Quartet helped launch the Colburn Conservatory’s inaugural Musical Encounter Interactive program, where they performed for 1,500 elementary school children.
As a soloist, Aiden has been featured with the Frederick Symphony Orchestra and the National Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed solo recitals at the Alden Theater’s Young Artist Series and the Strathmore Mansion, sponsored by the Friday Morning Music Club. Aiden has participated in many festivals with the Viano Quartet, including the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar, McGill International String Quartet Academy, and Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. Additionally, she has attended the Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Music Workshop and Summer Music School, and Yellow Barn.
Currently, Aiden is a post-graduate student at the Curtis Institute of Music, as a member of the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet-in-Residence. Prior to attending Curtis, she studied with the National Symphony Orchestra’s principal violist Daniel Foster through the orchestra’s Youth Fellowship Program, and then with Paul Coletti at the Colburn Conservatory of Music where she received a Bachelor’s and two Master’s degrees and (most importantly) an invitation to join the Vianos.
Tate Zawadiuk
Canadian cellist, Tate Zawadiuk, is both an engaging soloist and founding member of the Viano String Quartet. The ensemble won first prize at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition and has performed internationally in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, Flagey, and Bremen Die Glocke. As a soloist, Tate has performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vancouver Philharmonic, New Westminster Symphony, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with world renowned artists such as Emanuel Ax, James Ehnes, Marc-André Hamelin, Inon Barnatan, Clive Greensmith, Scott St. John, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom, and Johannes Moser.
Tate has attended many festivals, including Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar, McGill International String Quartet Academy, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, ENCORE Chamber Music Festival, and the Académie de Villecroze where he worked with Colin Carr. In 2016, Tate received an Award of Excellence from the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.
Currently, Tate is in his first year of post-graduate studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, as a member of the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet-in-Residence. He holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Clive Greensmith and Ronald Leonard.
Tate plays on a 1701 David Tecchler on loan from David Kerr’s Violin Shop in Portland, Oregon.
Sarah Pelch
Vice President
Opus 3 Artists
348 West 57th St, Suite 282
New York, NY 10019
212.584.7512
spelch@opus3artists.com
SIGNATURE CONCERT SPONSOR
In addition to its outstanding concerts and educational outreach programs, BFAS also presents an art exhibition from a regional visual artist at each home concert.
Works are showcased at the concert and at the reception following each concert. Concert attendees are able to meet the artists at the reception. The exhibition remains in place for several weeks and works are available for purchase.
VENUE
St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
465 11th Avenue North
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
Doors open at 3:15PM
2023 Juried Art Show Winner
Elena Øhlander
SUNDAY, NOV. 5 AT 4:00PM
VIANO STRING QUARTET
Visual Artist
Allison Dick
ST. PAUL’S BY-THE-SEA EPISCOPAL CHURCH
SIGNATURE CONCERT SPONSOR
THE ARTISTS
Viano String Quartet
Lucy Wang, violin
Hao Zhou, viola
Aiden Kane, viola
Tate Zawadiuk, cello
Praised for their “virtuosity, visceral expression, and rare unity of intention”(Boston Globe), the Viano String Quartet are First Prize winners of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. Formed in 2015 at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, where they were Ensemble-in-Residence through the 2020-21 season, the quartet has performed in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Place Flagey, Konzerthaus Berlin, and Segerstrom Center for the Arts. The quartet has been named the Nina von Maltzahn string quartet-in-residence at the Curtis Institute of Music for 2021/2022 and 2022/2023 season.
Summer of 2022 brings re-invitations to Great Lakes and Rockport Music Festivals, as well as performances at Chamber Music Northwest (Protégé Project 3-week residency), Tannery Pond under the auspice of Capitol Region Classical, Victoria Summer Music Festival, Bard Music Festival finished with a residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. In the fall Viano will be making their Lucerne Festival and Wigmore Hall debuts followed by performances in Oklahoma, California, Texas, Florida, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Delaware, Tennessee, Washington DC and Canada. March 2023 marks the beginning of their three-year residency with Music in the Morning in Vancouver where they will create programming to include artist collaborations, extensive community engagement and masterclasses.
As part of the Banff International String Quartet Competition prize, the quartet is in residence at the Meadows School of Music at the Southern Methodist University through the 2022-23 season. For two weeks each semester, they will perform side-by-side concerts, coach chamber ensembles, and initiate projects within the SMU community.
Recent highlights include performances on three continents, including debuts in Berlin, Paris, Bremen, Brussels, Vancouver, and Beijing, among other cities. They have collaborated with world-class musicians such as pianists Emanuel Ax, Marc-André Hamelin and Elisso Virsaladze, violists Paul Coletti and Paul Neubauer, violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, vocalist Hila Plitmann and clarinetist David Shifrin.
The quartet achieved incredible success in their formative years, with an unbroken streak of top prizes. In addition to their career-defining achievement at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition, where they were among the youngest First Prize winners in history, they also received the Grand Prize at the 2019 ENKOR International Music Competition and second prize at the 2019 Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition. At the 2018 Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition they received Third Prize, the Haydn Prize for the best performance of a Haydn quartet, and the Sidney Griller Award for the best performance of the compulsory work, Thomas Ades’ “The Four Quarters”. They received the Silver Medal at the 2018 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and Third Prize at the 9th Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in 2017.
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started, the Viano String Quartet actively presented virtual and socially distanced live concerts for various organizations, including the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, Friends of Chamber Music of Troy, Salt Lake Chamber Music Society, Dallas Chamber Music Society, Schneider Series at the New School, and the Banff International String Quartet Festival. With their colleagues in the Calidore String Quartet, they presented a movement of the Mendelssohn Octet while distanced across countries in a film project “The Way Forward.” Committed to engaging with communities outside the concert hall, the Viano String Quartet has given presentations for school children and students of all ages through residencies in Bellingham, Washington—the “Play it Forward” residency, a collaboration between the Bellingham Festival of Music and the Whatcom Symphony to reach school children in the northern Washington State area—Northern Michigan University, and the Santa Monica Conservatory. In 2019 they gave multiple performances of “Over the Top”, a Musical Encounter Interactive presentation they scripted, developed and performed at the Colburn School for inner city school children.
The Vianos currently work primarily with faculty members of the Curtis Institute of Music, including the Dover Quartet, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Steven Tenenbom, and Peter Wiley. Their past mentors include Colburn Conservatory of Music faculty members Martin Beaver, Scott St. John, Clive Greensmith, Paul Coletti and Fabio Bidini. They have received coachings from artists such as David Finckel, Gary Hoffman, Arnold Steinhardt, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and members of the Alban Berg, Brentano, Emerson, Miró, Shanghai, St. Lawrence, and Takács String Quartets. They have attended the Ravinia Steans Chamber Music Institute, the St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar, the Festival d’Aix en Provence, the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and the McGill International String Quartet Academy.
The name “Viano” was created to describe the four individual instruments in a string quartet interacting as one. Each of the four instruments begins with the letter “v”, and like a piano, all four string instruments together play both harmony and melody, creating a unified instrument called the “Viano”.
Lucy Wang
Canadian violinist Lucy Wang has garnered praise as an artist whose “technical prowess, tonal mastery and stage presence can come as no surprise to anyone who has seen her work” (Peace Arch News). She is a founding member of the Viano String Quartet, First Prize Laureates of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition and the current Graduate String Quartet-in-Residence at the Curtis Institute of Music, and has performed in venues such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, Wigmore Hall, Izumi Hall, Carnegie Hall, and Konzerthaus Berlin.
A native of Vancouver, B.C., Lucy was featured on CBC Radio’s List of “30 Hottest Classical Musicians Under 30”. A prizewinner in numerous solo competitions, Lucy has soloed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Colburn Orchestra, and Philharmonic Northwest, under the batons of Gordon Gerrard, Bramwell Tovey, Otto Tausk, and Xian Zhang. She has collaborated in performance with artists such as Emanuel Ax, Marc-Andre Hamelin, James Ehnes, Paul Neubauer, David Shifrin, and Elisso Virsaladze.
During the early days of the pandemic, Lucy immediately took initiative to continue reaching audiences virtually by sharing music on social media platforms, receiving nearly 50 million views and attracting over 500,000 followers worldwide. Lucy also presented over a hundred virtual and live socially distanced events with the Viano Quartet for organizations and festivals around the world, including the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, Deutschlandfunk Radio, and the Montreal Chamber Music Festival. Lucy has studied with Martin Beaver at the Colburn Conservatory, Carla Birston, and Gerald Stanick.
She performs on a 1715 Dominicus Montagnana violin, generously on loan from the Canada Council Instrument Bank.
Hao Zhou
“Personal, impassioned, courageous, and unostentatiously brilliant” (Musical America), American violinist Hao Zhou rose to international acclaim as both the Grand Laureate of the 2019 Montreal International Violin Competition and a First Prize winner of the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition. An accomplished soloist and chamber musician, Hao made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 12. He made solo appearances with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, Downey Symphony Orchestra, and Peninsula Symphony Orchestra alongside conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Alexander Shelley, and Thierry Fischer.
A founding member of the award-winning Viano String Quartet, Hao has also performed worldwide in venues including Konzerthaus Berlin, Izumi Hall, Place Flagey, and Wigmore Hall with such internationally distinguished artists as Emanuel Ax, Roberto Diaz, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Orion Weiss, and Marc André-Hamelin. He was invited to the Kronberg Academy Festival in 2019 and has spent past summers at the Ravinia’s Steans Institute for Young Artists and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.
Currently, Hao is pursuing post-graduate studies at the Curtis Institute of Music with the Viano String Quartet as the Nina von Maltzahn Graduate String Quartet in Residence. He was the first recipient of the Frances Rosen Violin Prize at the Colburn Conservatory, where he studied with Martin Beaver and received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees.
Hao plays on a 1783 Joseph and Antonio Gagliano violin, on generous loan from the Aftergood Family.
Aiden Kane
American violist Aiden Kane is an award-winning musician and member of the Viano String Quartet. The ensemble won first prize at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition, and has performed internationally in venues such as Die Glocke in Bremen and Wigmore Hall. Aiden is the former violist of the Calla Quartet, the Silver medalist at the 2015 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. The Calla Quartet helped launch the Colburn Conservatory’s inaugural Musical Encounter Interactive program, where they performed for 1,500 elementary school children.
As a soloist, Aiden has been featured with the Frederick Symphony Orchestra and the National Philharmonic Orchestra. She has performed solo recitals at the Alden Theater’s Young Artist Series and the Strathmore Mansion, sponsored by the Friday Morning Music Club. Aiden has participated in many festivals with the Viano Quartet, including the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar, McGill International String Quartet Academy, and Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival. Additionally, she has attended the Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Music Workshop and Summer Music School, and Yellow Barn.
Currently, Aiden is a post-graduate student at the Curtis Institute of Music, as a member of the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet-in-Residence. Prior to attending Curtis, she studied with the National Symphony Orchestra’s principal violist Daniel Foster through the orchestra’s Youth Fellowship Program, and then with Paul Coletti at the Colburn Conservatory of Music where she received a Bachelor’s and two Master’s degrees and (most importantly) an invitation to join the Vianos.
Tate Zawadiuk
Canadian cellist, Tate Zawadiuk, is both an engaging soloist and founding member of the Viano String Quartet. The ensemble won first prize at the 2019 Banff International String Quartet Competition and has performed internationally in venues such as Wigmore Hall, Berlin Konzerthaus, Flagey, and Bremen Die Glocke. As a soloist, Tate has performed with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vancouver Philharmonic, New Westminster Symphony, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with world renowned artists such as Emanuel Ax, James Ehnes, Marc-André Hamelin, Inon Barnatan, Clive Greensmith, Scott St. John, Noah Bendix-Balgley, Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom, and Johannes Moser.
Tate has attended many festivals, including Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, St. Lawrence String Quartet Seminar, McGill International String Quartet Academy, Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival, ENCORE Chamber Music Festival, and the Académie de Villecroze where he worked with Colin Carr. In 2016, Tate received an Award of Excellence from the National Youth Orchestra of Canada.
Currently, Tate is in his first year of post-graduate studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, as a member of the Nina von Maltzahn String Quartet-in-Residence. He holds both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Colburn Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Clive Greensmith and Ronald Leonard.
Tate plays on a 1701 David Tecchler on loan from David Kerr’s Violin Shop in Portland, Oregon.
Sarah Pelch
Vice President
Opus 3 Artists
348 West 57th St, Suite 282
New York, NY 10019
212.584.7512
spelch@opus3artists.com
In addition to its outstanding concerts and educational outreach programs, BFAS also presents an art exhibition from a regional visual artist at each home concert.
Works are showcased at the concert and at the reception following each concert. Concert attendees are able to meet the artists at the reception. The exhibition remains in place for several weeks and works are available for purchase.
VENUE
St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church
465 11th Avenue North
Jacksonville Beach, FL 32250
Doors open at 3:15PM