George Crumb’s Sonata for Solo Cello, Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio in E Minor, and Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio in B-flat Major will set the stage for a shadowy evening of haunting nostalgia and evocative sentimentality. Performed by Artistic Director and violinist Sandy Yamamoto, ACMC’s Cello Artist-in-Residence Annie Jacobs-Perkins, and acclaimed pianist Colette Valentine.
Friday night tickets are only available in advance and include drinks and light bites during a post-concert reception with the artists. Subject to availability, $12 Student Rush (with student ID), $33 General Admission, and $48 Premium tickets may be purchased at the box office starting at 6:30 PM on the evening of the Saturday night concert.
Program
Sonata for Solo Cello | George Crumb (1929–2022)
- Fantasia
- Tema Pastorale con variazioni
- Toccata
Piano Trio in E Minor | Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975)
- Andante
- Allegro con brio
- Largo
- Allegretto
INTERMISSION
Piano Trio in B-flat Major, D. 898 | Franz Schubert (1797–1828)
- Allegro moderato
- Andante un poco mosso
- Scherzo. Allegro
- Rondo. Allegro vivace
Sandy Yamamoto, violin | Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello | Colette Valentine, piano
Run time: This concert is approximately 80 minutes, plus one short intermission.
Sandy Yamamoto
Violinist Sandy Yamamoto has dazzled audiences in concert performances around the globe for the past three decades as a soloist and as a member of the Miró Quartet. As a member of the Quartet, she was a recipient of the Naumburg Chamber Music and Cleveland Quartet Awards, won First Prize at the Banff International String Quartet Competition, and was one of the first chamber musicians to be awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She is the Associate Professor of Practice in Violin Performance at the Butler School of Music at UT-Austin and was the recipient of the 2016 Butler School of Music Teaching Excellence Award. In the summers, she teaches at the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival in Vermont. This season, Ms. Yamamoto is serving as co-concertmaster of the San Antonio Philharmonic at the invitation of their new Musical Director, Jeffrey Kahane. She is also very excited to start her new position with ACMC as their new Artistic Director.
Annie Jacobs-Perkins
Praised for “hypnotic lyricism, causing listeners to forget where they were for a moment,” (The New Yorker), cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins is the winner of the Pierre Fournier Award, Chamber Orchestra of the Springs Emerging Soloist Competition, Father Merlet Award from the Pro Musicis Foundation, New England Conservatory Concerto Competition, and Hennings-Fischer Young Artist Competition. She is Artist-in-Residence of the EstOvest Festival Contemporary Cello Week and the Austin Chamber Music Center for the 2023-24 season. Jacobs-Perkins is also cellist of Quatuor Mona and Trio Brontë, winner of the 2023 Ilmari Hannikainen International Chamber Music Competition. She regularly performs at venues such as the Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Berliner Philharmonie, Krzyzowa Music, Ravinia Steans Institute, Yellow Barn Festival, and Marlboro Music.
Annie’s primary teachers include Frans Helmerson, Troels Svane, Laurence Lesser, Ralph Kirshbaum, and Kathleen Murphy Kemp.
Colette Valentine
Critically hailed for her “clean, sparkling technique” (Salt Lake Tribune) and for her “consummate skill and musicianship” (Classical New Jersey), pianist Colette Valentine has performed in such important venues as Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Kennedy Center, and the Library of Congress. As pianist of the Ecco Trio, praised by the Washington Post for capturing “the intimacy of chamber music at its best,” she has toured the US and Japan. She has collaborated in chamber concerts with the New York Philharmonic Winds, St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, the Washington Chamber Society, the Left Bank Concert Society, the Grand Teton Music Festival and the Rembrandt Chamber players, among others.