FOUR OF THE WORLD’S FINEST PIANISTS JOIN FORCES AT THE ...

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February 24, 2012 312-334-2459

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FOUR OF THE WORLD’S FINEST PIANISTS JOIN FORCES AT THE HARRIS -
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER CHICAGO-BASED SERIES

AND RESIDENCY CONTINUES

“Seldom have I heard chamber musicians listen, respond to and exalt each other this acutely, or beautifully.”
–John Von Rhein, Chicago Tribune, January 30, 2012

CHICAGO (February 24, 2012) – Four of the world’s most spectacular pianists join forces for one dazzling
performance at the Harris Theater! The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) continues its three-year
annual concert series and residency on Tuesday, March 20, 2012 at 7:30 pm with Masters of the Keyboard, a
program of virtuosic four-hand piano works featuring pianists Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Anne-Marie McDermott,
André-Michel Schub, and CMS Co-Artistic Director Wu Han. The Harris Theater is pleased to co-present the
nation’s premier ensemble for chamber music in its first-ever Chicago-based performance series, bringing today’s
most esteemed and influential classical musicians in the world to Chicago audiences. Tickets, $25 - $50, are available
at the Harris Theater box office located in Millennium Park at 205 E. Randolph Dr., by calling 312-334-7777 or by
visiting www.harristheaterchicago.org.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s second series program Masters of the Keyboard on March 20 will
feature:

Debussy Nocturnes for Two Pianos (arr. Ravel) (1897-99)
Nuages
Fêtes
Sirènes

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and André-Michel Schub

Debussy Petite Suite for Piano, Four Hands (1886-89)
Anne-Marie McDermott and André-Michel Schub

Debussy Jeux for Two Pianos (arr. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet) (1913)
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Anne-Marie McDermott

Bizet Jeux d'enfants for Piano, Four Hands (1871)
Wu Han and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Gershwin An American in Paris for Two Pianos (1928)
Anne-Marie McDermott and Wu Han

The first Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center season at the Harris concludes on May 22, 2012 with French
Virtuosity featuring pianists Inon Barnatan & Juho Pohjonen; violinists Jessica Lee, Kristin Lee and Elmar
Oliveira; violist Beth Guterman; and cellist Andreas Brantelid.

In addition to a three concert series performances this season, CMS has partnered with the Harris Theater and The

Music Institute of Chicago to provide master class opportunities to some of Chicago’s finest young student
musicians. Six Music Institute of Chicago Academy Fellowship pianists will have the once-in-a-lifetime chance to
perform for and learn from CMS artists, considered by many to be the world’s most esteemed and influential classical
musicians. Andrew Guo will work with Wu Han and André-Michel Schub; David Hou will work with Wu Han and
Anne-Marie McDermott; Kyle Jannak-Huang will work with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and André-Michel Schub; Ryan
Jannak-Huang will work with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet; Adam Kim will work with Wu Han and André-Michel Schub; and
Kate Liu will work with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and Anne-Marie McDermott. All six students will also take part in a
combined master class with Bavouzet, McDermott, Schub, and Wu Han, which will take part at the Harris Theater.

Biographies

About The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
The nation’s premier repertory company for chamber music, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is
one of twelve constituents of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the largest performing arts complex in the world.
Through its performance, education, and recording/broadcast activities, CMS draws more people to chamber music
than any other organization of its kind.

CMS presents annual series of concerts and educational events for listeners ranging from connoisseurs to chamber
music newcomers of all ages. Performing repertoire from over three centuries, and numerous premieres by living
composers, CMS offers programs curated to provide listeners a comprehensive perspective on the art of chamber
music. The performing artists of CMS, a multi-generational selection of expert chamber musicians, constitute an
evolving repertory company capable of presenting chamber music of every instrumentation, style, and historical period.
Its annual activities include a full season of concerts and events, national and international tours, nationally televised
broadcasts on Live From Lincoln Center, a radio show broadcast nationwide, and regular appearances on National
Public Radio’s Performance Today.

CMS is committed to bringing audiences the finest performances of an extraordinary body of repertoire and has
commissioned over 150 new works from a formidable array of composers, including Samuel Barber, Leonard
Bernstein, John Corigliano, George Crumb, Lukas Foss, Alberto Ginastera, Morton Gould, Oliver Knussen, Darius
Milhaud, Peter Schickele, Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and many more.

In 2004, CMS appointed cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han as the organization’s artistic directors. They succeed
founding director Charles Wadsworth (1969-89), Fred Sherry (1989-93), and David Shifrin (1993-2004).

About Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Highlights of Jean-Efflam Bavouzet’s 2011-12 season include returns to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and Philharmonia Orchestra (both with Vladimir Ashkenazy). He also appears
with the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer, Orchestre national de Lyon with Leonard Slatkin, the Finnish
Radio Symphony Orchestra, and returns to Japan for performances with the NHK Symphony Orchestra. An active
recitalist, he regularly appears at the Wigmore Hall and the Southbank Centre in London, BOZAR in Brussels, and the
Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam as well as Cité de la Musique and the Opéra National de Paris. Last season’s concerto
performances included his debut with the New York Philharmonic, a US tour with Daniele Gatti and the Orchestre
National de France, and a 2011 BBC Prom with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. An
exclusive recording artist for Chandos, Mr. Bavouzet received a Gramophone Award in 2011 for his recording of works
by Debussy and Ravel (with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Yan Pascal Tortelier) and his recording of the Bartók
Concertos (with Gianandrea Noseda and the BBC Philharmonic) was shortlisted in the concerto category. He has won
multiple awards for his recording of Debussy’s Complete Works for Solo Piano, including the BBC Music Magazine
Award for Volume 3 and a Gramophone Award for Volume 4. The first volume of his new recital CD project of Haydn’s
complete Piano Sonatas received the prestigious Choc de l'annee award in 2010. Future recording projects include a
Beethoven Piano Sonatas cycle.

About Wu Han

Co-artistic director of the Chamber Music Society, pianist Wu Han ranks among the most esteemed and influential
classical musicians in the world today. Leading an unusually multifaceted artistic career, she has risen to international
prominence through her wide-ranging activities as a concert performer, recording artist, educator, arts administrator,
and cultural entrepreneur. In high demand as a recitalist, concerto soloist, and chamber musician, Wu Han has
appeared at many of the world’s most prestigious concert series and venues across the United States and around the
world. She is a frequent collaborator with many of today’s finest musicians and ensembles, and appears extensively
each season as duo pianist with cellist David Finckel. In addition to her distinction as one of classical music’s most
accomplished performers, Wu Han has established a reputation for her dynamic and innovative approach to the
recording studio. In 1997 Wu Han and David Finckel launched ArtistLed, classical music’s first musician-directed and
Internet-based recording company, whose catalogue of 12 albums has won widespread critical acclaim, including BBC
Music Magazine’s coveted Editor’s Choice award for the label’s Russian Classics album. Wu Han has achieved
universal renown for her passionate commitment to nurturing the careers of countless young artists through a wide
array of education initiatives. For many years, she taught alongside the late Isaac Stern at Carnegie Hall and the
Jerusalem Music Center. In 2009, under the auspices of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Wu Han and
David Finckel established chamber music training workshops for young artists in Korea and Taiwan. They are also the
founding artistic directors of Music@Menlo, a chamber music festival and institute in Silicon Valley.

About Anne-Marie McDermott
For over 25 years, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott has played concertos, recitals, and chamber music in hundreds of
cities throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. She is artistic director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival,
the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival in Florida, and The Avila Chamber Music Celebration in Curaçao. She was
also recently appointed curator for chamber music at the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego. As a soloist, she has
recorded the complete Prokofiev piano sonatas and Bach English Suites and Partitas (the Bach album was named
Gramophone magazine’s Editor’s Choice), and her solo disc of Chopin’s works was released in 2011. She has
performed with the New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Seattle Symphony, National
Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Virtuosi, and Hong Kong Philharmonic. A highlight of 2011 was
her performance of Bernstein's Age of Anxiety with Steven Sloane at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig. Ms. McDermott has
been an Artist of the Chamber Music Society since 1995. With CMS she has performed the complete Prokofiev piano
sonatas and chamber music, as well as a three-concert series of Shostakovich chamber music. She is also a member
of the piano quartet Opus One with colleagues Ida Kavafian, Steven Tenenbom, and Peter Wiley. Ms. McDermott
studied at the Manhattan School of Music with Dalmo Carra, Constance Keene, and John Browning. She was a winner
of the Young Concert Artists auditions and was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant.

About André-Michel Schub
Pianist André-Michel Schub has been described by The New York Times as “pianistically flawless... a formidable
pianist with a fierce integrity.” He has repeatedly performed with the world's most prestigious orchestras, including the
Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles and New York
philharmonics, the Detroit Symphony, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw, and the Bournemouth Symphony. Since
1997 he has been the music director of the Virginia Arts Festival Chamber Music Series, where he plans the chamber
music programming and performs on a number of programs each year. He was the grand prize winner of the 1981 Van
Cliburn International Piano Competition, recipient of the 1977 Avery Fisher Recital Award, and winner of the 1974
Naumburg International Piano Competition. Born in France and raised in the US, Mr. Schub first attended Princeton
University and then transferred to The Curtis Institute, where he studied with Rudolf Serkin. His recordings, for Vox
Cum Laude, Piano Disc, Musical Heritage Society, and CBS Masterworks (now SONY Classical), include works of
Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, and Liszt, as well as an all-Stravinsky album with violinist Cho-Liang Lin. Currently on the
faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, Mr. Schub has been an Artist of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln
Center since 2002.

About the Music Institute of Chicago Academy
Founded in 2006, the Music Institute of Chicago Academy has established itself as one of the most respected pre-
collegiate conservatory programs in the United States. The Academy’s internationally recognized faculty, rigorous
curriculum, and instructional model, as well as the program’s highly gifted students, have solidified its preeminent
reputation. Students in this prestigious program have come from throughout the United States, as well as from Central

and South America, Europe, Japan, China, and Korea. The very selective program focuses on providing an intensive
and comprehensive musical education and significant performance opportunities for developing musicians. Each
Fellow receives a scholarship covering 95 percent of tuition for a year of study in the Academy, exclusive opportunities
to perform and coach with an array of world-class guest artists, and complimentary sessions of professional recording
and piano accompanist services for competitions and conservatory auditions. The carefully assembled faculty
represents teachers and performers with a passion for developing young talent and an established reputation for
student achievement. The nation’s most elite college and university music conservatories, including The Juilliard
School, the Curtis Institute of Music, the Eastman School of Music, and the New England Conservatory, actively
pursue graduates of the four-year program.

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Opened in 2003, the Harris Theater’s mission is to partner and collaborate with an array of Chicago’s emerging and
mid-sized performing arts organizations to help them build the resources and infrastructure necessary to achieve
artistic growth and long-term organizational sustainability. The Harris Theater for Music and Dance was the first multi-
use performing arts venue to be built in the Chicago downtown area since 1929 and today the Theater continues to
host the most diverse offerings of any venue in Chicago, featuring the city’s world-renowned music and dance
institutions and the Harris Theater Presents series of acclaimed national and international artists and ensembles. To
learn more about the season at the Harris Theater, visit www.harristheaterchicago.org or call the box office at 312-334-
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For additional information about the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Chicago’s state-of-the art 1,470 seat
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For further information regarding these performances or high-res images please contact Jennifer Bauer, Harris Theater
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The Harris Theater is pleased to announce that UBS is serving as the 2011-2012 Season Sponsor.

United Airlines is the Official and Exclusive Airline of the Harris Theater.

The Harris Theater gratefully acknowledges the Irving Harris Foundation for its leadership support of the
Presenting Fund.

The Harris Theater gratefully acknowledges the members of the Harris Theater Music Consortium for their
support of this performance.

The Harris Theater is partially supported by the CityArts Program 4 grant from the City of Chicago Department
of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

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