LUMINOUS: MOZART AND SCHUMANN

Our Fall program celebrates the heart of Marinus Concerts: creating beautiful music among friends and sharing its power to bring light into our lives. Anchored by Mozart and Schumann's Piano Quartet's both in E-Flat, this music traces the evolution of the piano quartet as a genre, and reflects the depth of human experience through brilliance, achingly beautiful romanticism, and carefree joy. Performed by stellar artists including Ieva Jokubavičiūtė (hailed by the New York Times as "an artist of commanding technique, refined temperament and persuasive insight"), Siwoo Kim (an “incisive” and “compelling” player- New York Times), Rachel Kuipers Yonan ("intimate and full of character" -BBC Music Magazine), and Joseph Kuipers ("One of the rare musical voices of today"- Berliner Abend Post). 6PM | Family Friendly Concert: 30 Minute Concert featuring an interactive performance, and chance to meet the musicians, ask questions and even try an instrument themselves! Perfect for children and parents ages 3+. 6:30PM | BYOP (Bring Your Own Picnic) with King Family Wine available for purchase in the Carriage House or on the Carriage House patio (weather permitting) with a limited menu. The King Family Vineyards Tasting Room closes at 6:30 PM. If you wish to arrive early for wine and a full Tasting Room menu of wines, please arrive at King Family prior to 6 pm. 7:30PM | Concert in the Carriage House ARTISTS Ieva Jokubavičiūtė piano Siwoo Kim violin Rachel Kuipers Yonan viola Joseph Kuipers cello PROGRAMME Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, K. 493 (1786) Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Piano Trio in C Minor, No. 2, Opus 66 (1845) Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Opus 47 (1842) The program opens with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, K. 493, a work of effortless elegance and radiant lyricism that helped define the piano quartet as a genre. Its refined conversation among the four instruments reveals Mozart at the height of his expressive powers, balancing brilliance with warmth and wit. From there, we encounter gorgeous slow movement from Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 66 (1845). Written only two years before his untimely death, the trio was the last large-scale chamber work Mendelssohn completed. The evening culminates in Robert Schumann's Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47, one of the crowning achievements of the Romantic chamber music repertoire. Composed during Schumann's celebrated "chamber music year" of 1842, the quartet overflows with soaring melodies, passionate dialogue, and moments of profound intimacy. From the tender Andante cantabile to the exhilarating finale, Schumann transforms four individual voices into a tapestry of extraordinary beauty and emotional power. Three extraordinary composers. Three distinct musical voices. One unforgettable evening of chamber music. Together, these masterpieces invite listeners into an intimate world where conversation becomes poetry and every voice tells a compelling story. Lithuanian pianist IEVA JOKUBAVICUITE'S powerfully intricate performances have led critics to describe her as possessing "razor-sharp intelligence and wit" (The Washington Post) and as "an artist of commanding technique, refined temperament, and persuasive insight" (The New York Times). In 2006, she was honored as a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. In 2021, Sono Luminus released Ms. Jokubaviciute’s latest recording, Northscapes, featuring works by twenty-first-century composers from the Nordic and Baltic countries of Europe. Gramophone magazine described it as “a fascinating, well-balanced programme, played with engrossingly undemonstrative virtuosity… Jokubaviciute navigates the contrasting demands of each work with hugely impressive skill.” Jokubaviciute’s recital programs and recording projects bring her to major stages across the US and Europe. She made her orchestral debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival and has since performed concerti with orchestras in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay; Washington, DC; and Fargo, ND. A highly sought-after chamber musician and collaborator, Ieva appears on major stages throughout North America and tours extensively in Europe, Japan, India, and South America. She regularly performs at international music festivals, including Marlboro, Ravinia, Chesapeake Chamber Music, Prussia Cove in Cornwall, England, and the Festival de la Musique de Chambre at La Lointaine in France. Recently, she participated at the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival in Burlington, VT; Seattle Chamber Music Festival; Festival Mozaic in San Luis Obispo, CA; and the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival at East Carolina University. She is a founding member of Trio Cavatina, a winner of the Naumburg International Chamber Music Competition. Earning degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and from Mannes College of Music in New York City, her principal teachers have been Seymour Lipkin and Richard Goode. Ieva is currently Professor of the Practice of Music at Duke University in Durham, NC, where she has been a faculty member since 2020. Previously, Ieva was Associate Professor, Piano at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, VA. SIWOO KIM is an “incisive” and “compelling” violinist (The New York Times) who “plays with stylistic sensitivity and generous tonal nuance.” (The Chicago Tribune) Siwoo actively performs as soloist & chamber musician and he is the founding co-artistic director of VIVO Music Festival in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.Since his Carnegie Hall debut with the Juilliard Orchestra, he has gone on to perform as soloist with orchestras in four different continents. As chamber musician, he performs at festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, collaborating with revered artists including Mitsuko Uchida, Denes Varjon and Susan Graham. An advocate of new music, Siwoo premiered and recorded Samuel Adler’s only violin concerto on Linn Records and VIVO Music Festival annually co-commissions new chamber music works with Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain. This season, Siwoo recorded and released the premiere recording of Michael Torke’s “Last” on Ecstatic Records with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO). Siwoo received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Juilliard School where he studied with Robert Mann and Donald Weilerstein. He went on to complete a two-year fellowship at Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect program. Recognized for her the “directness and depth of her playing” (Gramophone), RACHEL YONAN enjoys a rich and varied career as recitalist, artistic director, commentator and champion of chamber music. She has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in concert halls across the United States, England, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and China; and recently on NPR and Canadian Public Radio and BBC Radio3. Critics hailed her debut album Kiss on Wood as “haunting, beautiful music, beautifully played and recorded” (Bill Dodd, Native DSD). Ms. Yonan has been invited to perform at prestigious festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, Open Chamber Music Prussia Cove, Festival Mozaic and Taos Music Festival. Yonan has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Roberto Díaz, Joseph Silverstein, James Dunham and Robert Levin; and recently joined the Dover and Escher Quartets for chamber concerts.