We warmly welcome you to join us for an evening of live chamber music & dialogue with psychoanalytic colleagues & world class musicians, followed by a dessert reception. French composer Olivier Messiaen’s apocalyptic Quatuor pour la fin du Temps “Quartet for the End of Time” premiered on January 15, 1941, in the desolate German prison camp, Stalag VIIIA. Composed and rehearsed in captivity, then performed for an audience of both inmates and prison guards, the Quartet is among the great chamber works in the western musical repertoire. A remarkable story of courage and transformational creativity. Inspired by the Book of Revelation, the composition strives for transcendence toward eternity.

 

Musical duets by Estonian composer, Helena Tulve, and Arnold Schoenberg, who emigrated from Austria to United States during the war, complement and resonate with Messiaen’s  masterpiece.  Listening together in community will enhance capacities for “not knowing,” staying with, or reflecting on complex somato-sensory experiences and interpretative meaning making in clinical and musical settings.

 

 

SoYoung Choi, violin, made her debut performance with the Sangrok Chamber Orchestra, and has since performed as a soloist with eminent Korean orchestras such as the Seoul Philharmonic, Bucheon Philharmonic, and Daejeon Philharmonic. Her debut recital was part of the esteemed Kumho Prodigy Concert series, and in recent years she has given solo recitals at the Daejeon Cosmopolitan Music Festival and the Daejeon Art Center. SoYoung has performed at the Honors Ensemble Recital in Jordan Hall, the Ceramic Palace Chamber Music Series, the Heredium Summer Music Festival Series, the Mellon Music Festival, and the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance in Canada. She has appeared at festivals including Yellow Barn, Kneisel Hall, the Taos School of Music, the Heifetz Music Festival, the Great Mountain Music Festival, and the Summit Music Festival. After studying with Kowoon Yang and Ju-Young in Korea, SoYoung received her B.M. and M.M. under the guidance of Miriam Fried and Donald Weilerstein, and her D.M.A. from Manhattan School of Music, studying with Mark Steinberg. SoYoung is currently based in Amsterdam, where she is pursuing advanced studies and performing at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. She is a founding member of Quartet Amizia, and in addition to her performing career, SoYoung was a founding member and director of the Ahava Ensemble, an initiative which organizes benefit concerts to support cancer patients and children. 

 

Seth Knopp, piano, was a founding member of the Peabody Trio, recipient of the 1989 Naumburg Award. After making its Alice Tully Hall debut in 1990, the trio performed on the most important chamber music stages nationally and internationally. In over 25 years as Artistic Director of Yellow Barn, Seth has built an international center for chamber music, bringing musicians and audiences to Putney, Vermont each summer. Yellow Barn’s holistic philosophy and programming focuses listeners in new ways and has become an important influence in the music world. In 2008, he created Yellow Barn’s Artist Residencies, the first residency program for performing musicians in the United States. In 2010, Seth founded and became the artistic director of Soundings: New Music at the Nasher, a concert series at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, exploring the unique lens through which music helps us better understand our world. Recent projects include the creation of Beethoven Walks, transcriptions of Bach’s Musical Offering and Chaconne, the premiere recordings of Jörg Widmann’s song cycle Das Heiße Herz with baritone William Sharp and Eric Nathan's song cycle Some Favored Nook with William Sharp and soprano Tony Arnold, and performances with members of the Brentano String Quartet for the opening of the Chou Wen-chung Center in Guangzhou, China. For thirty-five years Seth was a member of the piano and chamber music faculties at the Peabody Institute. His solo and chamber music performances can be heard on the Artek, Koch, and New World Records labels.

 

Daniel Meszaros, clarinet, is currently a Master's student at Stony Brook University, where he studies with Alan R. Kay and teaches the undergraduate clarinet studio. Daniel earned both his bachelor's and master’s degrees at Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, where he graduated with outstanding overall classification. During his time in Hungary, Daniel participated in many prestigious competitions where he earned awards including First Prize in the Soloist category and Second Prize in the Chamber Music category at Citta’ di Palmanova Music Competition (2018), Third Prize in the XIV. National Clarinet Competition (2018), Third Prize in the I. Mozgovenko International Clarinet Competition (2019), Second Prize in the XX. Kiejstut Bacewicz Chamber Music Competition (2019), Second Prize in the I. International Piano Chamber Music Competition (2021), and Third Prize in the XX. Citta’ di Carlino International Clarinet Competition (2022). Daniel was a teacher for three years at the XVII. District Bela Bartok Elementary School of Music in Budapest, Hungary. He has also participated in masterclasses with Béla Kovács, István Kohán, Milan Rericha, Charles Neidich, Márta Gulyás, Pascal Gallois, Hansjörg Schellenberger, Francois Leleux, Felix Renggli, György Pauk, Barnabás Kelemen, and Gábor Takács-Nagy.

 

Melissa Wimbish, soprano, is a classically trained soprano whose repertoire spans opera, art song, early music, musical theatre, and pop. She has premiered several roles written for her, including the title role in Josephine by Tom Cipullo. She made her Carnegie Hall recital debut as winner of the NATS Artist Award Grand Prize. Her notable stage appearances include the 50th anniversary celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s MASS at The Kennedy Center, the U.S. premiere of Hilda Paredes’s Harriet, and Mysteries of the Macabre with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Recent concert engagements include soprano solos in Bach’s B Minor Mass and St. John Passion, Handel’s Messiah, and the recent world-premiere of Robert Manno’s Portrait of Millay at the 2024 Windham Chamber Music Festival. Melissa is also active as a songwriter and bandleader with the Baltimore-based, award-winning pop duo Outcalls. melissawimbish.com

 

Sunny Yang, cello, grew up in a family of passionate amateur musicians with a vast range of musical tastes and an ever-growing collection of LPs and instruments. As she continued her musical studies in the United States and Europe, her interest in exploring our understanding of the world through music and collaboration deepened. Selected as one of the Faces to Watch by The Los Angeles Times, Sunny has sustained a versatile international career as a cellist and educator. As the cellist of the Kronos Quartet from 2013-2023, she continually reimagined the concert experience as a living art form. Touring five months a year, she performed extensively at the world's most celebrated venues and festivals, commissioned over 500 new works, and released more than 20 critically acclaimed albums. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance, the German Critics Award, and the Edison Klassiek Award. She has held the Richard and Barbara Debs Creative Chair at Carnegie Hall, as well as an Honorary Fellowship at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. She has made concerto appearances with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Nova Scotia, and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. Sunny has led workshops and masterclasses at major institutions worldwide, including Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, Stanford University, the Royal College of Music, the String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam, and the Washington Performing Center for the Arts. She was instrumental in developing and launching Fifty for the Future, a project that presents fifty new works made freely available to the public. Sunny currently serves as Principal Cello at the San Francisco Opera. sunnyyangcello.com

Based in Putney, Vermont Yellow Barn’s approach to lifelong education for musicians and audiences, commitment to quality and a unique philosophy, and programs that focus listeners in new ways, set it apart from any other chamber music center in this country. Through its annual summer festival, Yellow Barn Music Haul appearances, and ongoing series of Artist Residencies and Music From Yellow Barn performances, each year Yellow Barn welcomes over 100 musicians from all over the world to Vermont, and reaches countless audience members from the local community and across the nation. For performances and more information, visit Yellow Barn's YouTube channel.