Piano Quartet
Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 2:30pm
With Dawn Wohn, Violin, Yaroslav Kargin, Viola, Ashley Bathgate, Cello, and Gili Melamed-Lev, Piano
Programme
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Quartet in G minor, KV 478
- Piazolli‑Talbott- Tangos
- Robert Schumann - Piano Quartet in E flat major Op 47
Bios
Dawn Wohn, Violin
Dawn Wohn, violinist, was born in College Park, Maryland, and started playing the violin at the age of four, and had her first solo recital at age five in New Jersey. She is the winner of numerous competitions such as the string honors competition at Juilliard, the Korean Young Musician competition in Philadelphia, the Music Journal Competition, The Korean Daily Times Competition and has been a two time grand prize winner of the Catholic and Music Society competitions. She has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Korean Broadcasting Symphony, which was broadcasted live on national radio, the New York Sinfonietta, the Taejon City Philharmonic, which was broadcasted on KBS TV, the Aspen Conducting orchestra, Japan’s Telemann Ensemble and the Vivaldi Youth Ensemble. She performs regularly in solo and chamber music recitals in places such as Alice Tully, Paul, Morse, Jordan and Carnegie Weill Hall. Ms. Wohn attended the Juilliard School’s pre-college division as a full scholarship student of Dorothy DeLay and Hyo Kang.
Ms. Wohn studied at the Aspen Music Festival and School as a fellowship student and has been featured in the Starling recital series and the Young Artist concerts. Other festival appearances include Sarasota Music Festival, Great Mountains Music Festival, IMS Prussia Cove, The Juilliard School’s Chamberfest and the New York String Seminar. She has participated in master classes by artists such as Igor Ozim, Gerhard Schultz, Pamela Frank, Mauricio Fuks, Robert McDuffie, David Finckel, Wu Han, Peter Winograd, Robert Lipsett, and Tod Phillips. Her chamber music teachers have included Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Fred Sherry, Earl Carlyss, Toby Appel, Baruch Arnon, Jonathan Feldman, Isadore Cohen, amongst many others.
Other honors include being selected to perform on the radio show From the Top, and being a recipient of an award from the ARTS awards program. She received her Bachelor’s degree as a scholarship student with Hyo Kang at The Juilliard School, and a Master’s degree from Yale University with Syoko Aki. In the fall she will continue her studies at Yale as a candidate for the Artist Diploma program.
Yaroslav Kargin, Viola
Yaroslav Kargin, has been a soloist with State Symphony of Russia Chamber Orchestra, Young Soloists of New York Chamber Orchestra, and American Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Kargin graduated from the Gnesins' Russian Academy of Music (former Gnesins' Institute) with a Diploma of Honor in 1996. His Professor was the principal violist of Bolshoi Theater Igor Boguslavsky.
In 1994, while a student, Mr. Kargin won an audition and was admitted to the State Academic Symphony of Russia under Eugeny Svetlanov ‑ one of the premier orchestras in the world ‑ a member of which he had been for six years. During this term he participated in a large number of performances and recordings, and traveled to sixteen countries on concert tours including Japan, China, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, USA, Brazil, and Argentina where he played in the best concert halls, such as Albert Hall in London, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Lincoln Center in New York, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. Yaroslav had a great privilege to perform with world star conductors and soloists including Evgeny Svetlanov, Kurt Masur, Yury Temirkanov, Valery Gergiev, Mstislav Rostropovich, Vladimir Spivakov, Isaac Stern, Montserrat Caballe, Evgeny Kissin, Yury Bashmet, Elisso Wirsaladze, Natalya Gutman.
In Russia Mr. Kargin played a diverse repertoire of viola solo and chamber music in concert halls in Moscow and S.‑Petersburg. Yaroslav collaborated with the principal violist of the State Symphony of Russia George Kapitonov, and was a member of the Ensemble of Soloists of the Symphony. He has also performed as a soloist with State Symphony Chamber Orchestra (Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.6).
As a soloist, chamber musician, and member of the State Symphony and the Ensemble of Soloists of the Symphony, Mr. Kargin had numerous appearances on Russian and European TV.
In 1999 Yaroslav Kargin was an Assistant Professor of Viola at Gnesins' Academy substituting his former teacher Professor Boguslavsky.
In 2001 Mr. Kargin was admitted as a graduate assistant to Louisiana State University School of Music in the studio of Dr. Jerzy Kosmala. There he played a number of chamber music recitals including performances Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.6 (played with Dr. J. Kosmala), Schubert's "Trout‑Quintet", and Schoenberg's "Verklarte Nacht" In September 2001 Mr. Kargin won an audition and was appointed the principal violist with the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra.
In 2002‑2004 Yaroslav studied at Yale University School of Music with a full tuition scholarship on Artist Diploma Program in the studio of Jesse Levine. There he was an Instructor of Viola for undergraduate and Secondary Viola graduate students. In the summer of 2003 Mr. Kargin was on the faculty as an Instructor of Viola at Interlochen Arts Camp. There he participated in a number of faculty recitals.
Yaroslav's debut at Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall was in 2003 when he played as a guest artist with Moscow Chamber Orchestra. In December 2004 he appeared on a recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with Young Soloists of New York Chamber Orchestra . In October 2005 Yaroslav Kargin performed as a soloist with American Chamber Orchestra.
Currently Yaroslave Kargin is playing numerous solo and chamber music recitals and with Symphonies and other groups, including Young Soloists of New York Chamber Orchestra, Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Canterbury Choral Society in NYC, Orchestra New England, Greenwich Choral Society, New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Yale Camerata. His most recent appearance at Carnegie Hall was in November 2007 with Canterbury Choral Society where he performed Mahler's Symphony 8.
Mr. Kargin is serving as an Executive Director of Public Relations and Artistic Member of Young Soloists of New York Chamber Society and is maintaining a private violin and viola studio in New Haven and Fairfield County, CT.
Ashley Bathgate, Cello
Ashley Bathgate was born in 1985 in Saratoga Springs, N.Y and began cello studies at age 12. As a recitalist, she has appeared at the Saratoga Chamber Music Festival, Barge Music, The Pleshakove Music Center and Moulin d’Ande in Normany, France to name a few, and this season made her official New York Debut in Carnegie’s Weill Hall with noted pianist Todd Crow. Ashley was also a feature artist on WMHT FM and oN WQXR FM’s ‘Young Artist Showcase’, hosted by Robert Sherman. She has been invited to perform as a guest soloist with orchestra, including appearances with the Lake Placid Sinfonietta, the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra, thr Windham Chamber Players and in performances of the d’Albert and Barber cello concertos with the American Symphony Orchestra, directed by Leon Botstein.
Devoted to chamber music, Ashley performs regularly in benefit concerts and chamber recitals in the US, Canada and Europe. She has been privileged to work with many distinguished artists including pianist, Pascal Rogé and violinist Chantal Juillet. In addition, Ashley has relished the opportunity to perform new and recent works, most notably with renowned composers John Adams, Ezra Laderman and Martin Bresnick. She is a member of the Yale Cellos, the Yale Philharmonia and performs frequently at the Windham Chamber Music Festival, directed by Robert Manno and Magdalena Golczewski.
Ashley was a full scholarship student at Bard College, where she studied cello with Luis Garcia-Rénart and composition with Joan Tower. Having received her master’s degree in 2007 from the Yale University School of Music, she was selected for the prestigious Artist Diploma program by her teacher Aldo Parisot, and in that same year received the Prize in his name for the gifted cellist most showing promise for a concert career. While at the Yale University School of Music, studies included compositon with Ezra Laderman and chamber music with Claude Frank, Boris Berman, Peter Frankl, Ani Kavafian and the Tokyo String Quartet. Ashley has participated in master-classes with Jian Wang, Irene Sharp, Ralph Kirschbaum and Jesus Castro-Balbi. Among her many awards are a grant from the New York Philharmonic Players Fund sponsored by Stephen and Elaine Stamas, top prizes in the Lois Lyman concerto competition (99', 01', an unprecedented achievement), the Hugo Kauder Memorial Strings competition in 2006 and the 2008 Yale Univeristy School of Music Woolsey Hall concerto competition.
Gili Melamed-Lev, Piano
Gili Melamed-Lev is one of the Hudson Valley’s leading pianists. Her virtuoso performances as a soloist and with fellow artists in chamber groups have made her a much sought-after professional. Lev’s 2008 performances include a unique collaboration with actor/director John McManus on the fabled “Snow Goose” story in which she integrated a wide variety of classical scores with McManus’s dramatic reading. In another unique performance, Lev served as Music Director for an operatic version of the play “Red Carnations,” produced jointly by Walking the Dog Theater Company and the Diamond Opera Theater.Melamed-Lev performs regularly with the Music Coalition of Columbia County, New York and is completing her second CD.
Melamed-Lev’s career began in her native city, Jerusalem. In 1985, she moved to New York City where she graduated from the Juilliard School of Music . She later settled in Spring Valley, NY where she worked as Artist-in-Residence with “Eurythmy Spring Valley”. While working with the group, she toured and performed throughout Europe and in many cities across the US. During these years she also taught music as a faculty member of Sunbridge College. Currently, Gili Melamed-Lev lives with her family in Harlemville, NY
