Wisconsin Chamber Music Intensive
2021 Wisconsin Chamber Music Intensive
Free & Open to High School, College & Adult Students
High School, college, & adult students who study and perform intermediate to advanced repertoire are invited to develop and advance their chamber music skill alongside world-class musicians during the free inaugural Wisconsin Chamber Music intensive, filled with exciting online workshops & activities.
Students will have the opportunity to work and chat with our resident Advanced Chamber Music Institute coaches, and several noteworthy guest artists, including the MSO resident conductor Yaniv Dinur, concert pianist Joyce Yang, jazz bassist Clay Schaub and MacArthur Fellowship winner, violinist Vijay Gupta. Spots are limited so be sure to secure yours today!
Workshops include:
- Chamber Music Deep Dive with Joyce Yang
- Score Study with Yaniv Dinur
- Alexander Technique and Injury Prevention for Musicians
- Eurythmics/Movement for Musicians
- Playing What You Believe In
- Instrument-Specific Chamber Music Challenges, and more!
Instruments: Piano, Strings, & Winds
Ages: High School, College, & Adult students who study and perform intermediate to advanced repertoire
Dates: Saturday, January 30 from 10:00am-2:30pm | Sunday, January 31 from 1:00pm-5:00pm
Location: The entire weekend will be conducted over Zoom.
Costs: $0 with registration by January 22
Application Deadline: EXTENDED – Friday, January 22, 2021
Contact: Please email Teresa Drews at tdrews@wcmusic.org with any questions or concerns.
Meet the WCMI Guest Artists
Internationally-acclaimed Concert Violinist
Rachel Barton Pine
In both art and life, violinist Rachel Barton Pine has an extraordinary ability to connect with people. Celebrated as a leading interpreter of great classic and contemporary works, her performances combine her innate gift for emotional communication and her scholarly fascination with historical research. She plays with passion and conviction, thrilling audiences worldwide with her dazzling technique, lustrous tone, and infectious joy in music-making.
Pine performs with the world’s leading orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Camerata Salzburg, and the Chicago, Vienna and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. She has worked with renowned conductors, including Teddy Abrams, Marin Alsop, Semyon Bychkov, Neeme Järvi, Erich Leinsdorf, Sir Neville Marriner, Nicholas McGegan, Zubin Mehta, Tito Muñoz, and John Nelson, and has collaborated with artists such as Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, and William Warfield.
Pine frequently performs music by contemporary composers, including major works written for her by Billy Childs, Mohammed Fairouz, Marcus Goddard, Earl Maneein, Shawn E. Okpebholo, Daniel Bernard Roumain, José Serebrier, and Augusta Read Thomas. She has premiered concertos written for her by Fairouz, Goddard, and Maneein. This season, she premieres “Violin Concerto No. 2,” written for her by Billy Childs through a co-commission by the Grant Park Music Festival, the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra, the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra, and the Interlochen Orchestra.
Chicago-Based String Quartet
Members of D Composed
D-Composed is a Chicago-based chamber music experience that honors Black creativity and culture through the music of Black composers.
Since 2017, we have created intimate, out-of-the-box experiences that celebrate a mix of genres and sounds of Black music throughout history. We take music out of the concert halls and share it in spaces like art galleries and cafes.
We’re architects of creativity and merge various artistic mediums to properly honor the legacy and brilliance of Black composers.
With our platform, we plan to change an entire field – and we’re doing it on our own terms.
Resident Conductor, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Yaniv Dinur
Yaniv Dinur is the winner of the 2019 Sir George Solti Conducting Award. Resident conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and music director of the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, Dinur is lauded for his bold programming, insightful performances, and unique ability to connect with diverse audiences, from season subscribers to first-time concertgoers.
Currently in his third season as music director of the New Bedford Symphony, he leads the orchestra with star soloists such as Yefim Bronfman, Joyce Yang, and Vadim Gluzman, and in a wide range of repertoire that includes music by women composers on every concert. As the resident conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony, Dinur conducts more than 50 concerts per season. Highlights of recent and upcoming guest conducting engagements include subscription debuts with the Houston Symphony and Fort Worth Symphony, a return to the San Diego Symphony, and his debut at the Peninsula Music Festival.
Grammy-Nominated Concert Pianist
Joyce Yang
Blessed with “poetic and sensitive pianism” (Washington Post) and a “wondrous sense of color” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang captivates audiences with her virtuosity, lyricism, and interpretive sensitivity.
She first came to international attention in 2005 when she won the silver medal at the 12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The youngest contestant at 19 years old, she took home two additional awards: Best Performance of Chamber Music (with the Takàcs Quartet), and Best Performance of a New Work. In 2006 Yang made her celebrated New York Philharmonic debut alongside Lorin Maazel at Avery Fisher Hall along with the orchestra’s tour of Asia, making a triumphant return to her hometown of Seoul, South Korea. Yang’s subsequent appearances with the New York Philharmonic have included opening night of the 2008 Leonard Bernstein Festival – an appearance made at the request of Maazel in his final season as music director. The New York Times pronounced her performance in Bernstein’s The Age of Anxiety a “knockout.”
In the last decade, Yang has blossomed into an “astonishing artist” (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), showcasing her colorful musical personality in solo recitals and collaborations with the world’s top orchestras and chamber musicians through more than 1,000 debuts and re-engagements.
Jazz Bassist, Alexander Technique Teacher
Clay Schaub
Clay Schaub is an Alexander Technique teacher and jazz bassist. He runs a private practice at his home in Bayview, Milwaukee, where he works frequently with musicians, actors, dancers, and people with chronic pain. Having nearly a decade of Alexander teaching experience, Clay has also worked as an assistant trainer of teachers on programs around the country, including ATNYC, ATMKE, and ATTiC (Chicago). He completed a 1600-hour, 3-year Certification Program through the American Society for the Alexander Technique in June of 2012 under the direction of John Nicholls and Nanette Walsh at ATNYC in Manhattan. Clay first came to the Technique in 2002, after years of struggling with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and performance-related injuries. Clay continues the Alexander work, teaches jazz bass, and keeps an active performance schedule. He finds great joy in it.
Violinist, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Vijay Gupta
Vijay Gupta believes that the work of the artist and citizen is one: to make a daily practice of the connected, creative, and courageous world we long to live in Hailed by The New Yorker as “a visionary violinist…one of the most radical thinkers in the unradical world of American classical music” Vijay is an esteemed musician, speaker and thought leader, serving to create spaces of belonging, healing and wholeness through music.
Vijay’s labor of love lies in the founding and directing of Street Symphony, which brings music to people in shelters, clinics, county jails and prisons. His work serves to engage people across vast differences to create new connections and transformative conversations. For his work in bringing beauty, respite, and purpose to those all too often ignored by society, while encouraging us to reflect on many ways we can all make a difference and truly be citizens in our world today, Vijay Gupta is the recipient of a 2018 Catherine D. and John T. MacArthur grant.
A dynamic speaker and facilitator, Vijay shares his vision of transformation through artistic practice in the form of musical keynote lectures, workshops and strategic conversations for companies, conferences, universities, and non-profit organizations.
