Autumn Schubertiade | A DCMS Special Event

About this event

The VanSickle Family Foundation House Concert Series

- presented by the Dallas Chamber Music Society -

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WHEN: Monday, November 2nd - 6:30pm

WHERE: Classic Wine, 10400 Clarence Dr., Frisco, TX 75033

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PROGRAM: Schubert's remarkable String Quintet in C major , D. 956 (1828) is presented as guests enjoy lite bites and a curated selection of wines from his native Austria , expertly chosen and poured by Classic Wine.

Aaron Boyd - Violin 1 Emmanuelle Boisvert - Violin 2 Pierre Lapointe - Viola Sai Sai Ding - Cello 1 Ko Iwasaki - Cello 2

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- AARON BOYD, violin Violinist Aaron Boyd has established an international career as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral leader, recording artist, and educator. He has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Russia, and Asia, collaborating with members of the Juilliard, Guarneri, Emerson, and Tokyo Quartets and artists including Mitsuko Uchida, Lynn Harrell, Cho-Liang Lin, Wu Han, and David Finckel.

Boyd has appeared at the Marlboro, La Jolla, Aspen, Rockport, and Music@Menlo festivals and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. During five seasons with the Escher String Quartet, he received the Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Prize. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Boyd has served on the faculties of Columbia University and the University of Arizona and is currently Director of Chamber Music and Professor of Practice in Violin at Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts and Board Chair for the Dallas Chamber Music Society. He performs on a 1700 Matteo Goffriller violin.

- EMMANUELLE BOISEVERT, violin Violinist Emmanuelle Boisvert, praised for her “brilliant, endlessly imaginative and daring style” (The Detroit News), has enjoyed a distinguished career as orchestral leader, soloist, chamber musician, and educator. Following her tenure with the Cleveland Orchestra, she became the first and youngest woman appointed concertmaster of a major American orchestra, serving 23 years as Concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Boisvert currently serves as Associate Concertmaster of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, holding the Robert E. and Jean Ann Titus Family Endowed Chair. She has performed as soloist and worked with many of the world’s leading conductors, and her recording of John Williams’s Violin Concerto with Leonard Slatkin received critical acclaim. An active chamber musician and teacher, Boisvert has appeared at festivals and institutions across North America. She studied at the Quebec Conservatoire and Curtis Institute of Music and is an alumna of the Marlboro Music Festival.

- PIERRE LAPOINTE, viola Violist Pierre Lapointe is an internationally acclaimed chamber musician, educator, and longtime member of the Escher String Quartet, which he co-founded in 2005. He has performed at many of the world’s leading venues and festivals, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Aspen Music Festival, Music@Menlo, Wigmore Hall, BBC Proms, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and the Louvre Auditorium.

Lapointe has collaborated with artists including Pinchas Zukerman, Joshua Bell, Lynn Harrell, Leon Fleisher, David Finckel, Wu Han, and Cho-Liang Lin. His recordings appear on BIS, Naxos, Bridge, Azica, and Music@Menlo Live. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, where he earned his D.M.A., Lapointe studied viola with Emerson String Quartet violist Lawrence Dutton. He currently serves as Adjunct Associate Professor at SMU Meadows School of the Arts and performs on a Deconet viola formerly played by Boris Kroyt of the Budapest String Quartet.

- SAI SAI DING, cello Cellist SaiSai Ding, a native of Shanghai, is a member of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. He began studying cello at age six at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music before moving to the United States, where his teachers included Ko Iwasaki and Andrés Díaz. Ding graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2023, where he studied with Peter Wiley, Carter Brey, and Gary Hoffman and received extensive chamber music coaching from Steven Tenenbom, Midori, and members of the Dover Quartet. He later continued his studies at Southern Methodist University with Andrés Díaz and Aaron Boyd. Ding has received top honors at the Collin County Young Artists Competition, Vernell Gregg Young Artist Competition, Fort Worth Symphony Young Artist Competition, and Schoenfeld International Competition. As a soloist, he has appeared with orchestras including the Shanghai Philharmonic and Fort Worth Symphony and has participated in festivals including the Lucerne Music Festival and Josef Gingold Festival.

-KO IWASAKI, cello Cellist Ko Iwasaki, winner of the 1960 Japan National Music Competition, studied with Hideo Saito at the Toho Music School and Leonard Rose at The Juilliard School, later working with Harvey Shapiro and Pablo Casals. He has won prizes at major international competitions in Vienna, Munich, Budapest, Moscow, and the Cassadó Competition.

Iwasaki made his New York debut with Young Concert Artists in 1965 and his European debut with André Previn and the London Symphony Orchestra in 1972. As a soloist and chamber musician, he has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Japan, and the former Soviet Union and appeared at festivals including Marlboro, Aspen, Santa Fe, and Lockenhaus.

A distinguished educator, Iwasaki has taught at Illinois State University, the University of Illinois, and Southern Methodist University and has served on juries for major international competitions. He continues to perform and teach at the Toho Conservatory Graduate School in Japan.

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