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Quintessential Quintets
3/30/2025 at 3:00 pm Daniel Phillips, violin Emma Frucht, violin William Frampton, viola Cara Pogossian, viola Marcy Rosen, cello Mozart String Quintet No. 5 in D major, K 593
Dvorak String Quintet No. 3 in E flat major, op. 77
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CONCERT LOCATION:
Bunker Hill Presbyterian Church 330 Greentree Road Sewell, NJ 08080 CONCERT TIME: 3:00 pm Doors open at 2:30 pm PLEASE PLAN AHEAD To guarantee your seat, purchase online by Saturday night of concert week. On concert day, ticket purchases at the door can be made by cash, check or credit card. Call 856-494-6077 to leave a request for information before concert day. Phone line is not manned on concert day. If you have a problem with ticket purchase, please call (856) 494-6077 and leave a voicemail or send email to [email protected] for assistance. This program is made possible in part by funding from The Gloucester County Cultural and Heritage Commission at Rowan College of South Jersey, a partner of the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State and the National Endowment for the Arts. |
Violinist Daniel Phillips is co-founder of the Orion String Quartet which gave its last concert in April 2024 , presented by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln after an illustrious 37 year career. A graduate of Juilliard, his major teachers were his father Eugene Phillips, Ivan Galamian, Sally Thomas, Nathan Milstein, Sandor Végh, and George Neikrug. Since winning the 1976 Young Concert Artists Competition, he has performed as a soloist with many orchestras, including the Pittsburgh, Houston, New Jersey, Phoenix, San Antonio symphonies. He appears regularly at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, St Lawrence String Quartet Seminar , Heifetz Institute, Chesapeake Music Festival, the International Musicians Seminar in England, and Music from Angel Fire, where he is co-artistic director. He was a member of the renowned Bach Aria Group and has toured and recorded in a string quartet for Sony with Gidon Kremer, Kim Kashkashian, and Yo-Yo Ma. A judge in the 2022 Leipzig Bach Competition 2018 Seoul International Violin Competition, and the 2023 World Bartok Competition and the 2024 Prague Spring Competition , Phillips is a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and on the faculties of the Bard College Conservatory, and the Juilliard School. He lives with his wife, flutist Tara Helen O'Connor, and their two dachshunds on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
A native New Yorker, violinist Emma Frucht completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard University, majoring in Art History. Shortly after earning her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, Emma joined the Grammy-nominated Aizuri Quartet. Notable highlights of recent seasons include the quartet’s major concerto debut with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in performances of John Adams’s Absolute Jest, their debuts at the 92Y, Carnegie Hall, and Boston’s Celebrity Series, and Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award. In addition to quartet playing, she is a tenured member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, frequently serving as concertmaster and principal second violin. She performs regularly in leadership positions with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and New York Classical Players, and is a frequent guest of East Coast Chamber Orchestra, A Far Cry, the American Ballet Theater Orchestra, and the American Symphony Orchestra. Emma joined the faculty of Adelphi University in the fall of 2022 as an Adjunct Professor of Violin. Her primary teachers have included Louise Behrend, Lynn Chang, Daniel Phillips, and Naoko Tanaka.
Violist William Frampton has been praised by critics for his “impressive” performances (The New York Times) and “a glowing amber tone” (The Boston Globe). Since his New York recital debut in 2009 at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, William has enjoyed a career as chamber musician, soloist, orchestral player, and teacher. These performances include over 100 performances with a string quartet led by Midori Goto in tours of Asia and North America. He is Principal Viola of the American Symphony Orchestra, an Associate Musician with The Metropolitan Opera, and member of the Harlem Chamber Players String Quartet. He can also be heard in the Broadway orchestras of Hamilton, Wicked, and The Lion King, and in film scores including The Joker, The Greatest Showman, The Girl on the Train, West Side Story, and many others.
Frampton is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Music at Bunker Hill. William’s festival appearances include Bard Summerscape, Verbier, and IMS Prussia Cove, and as soloist with conductors Joseph Silverstein and David Hoose. He holds degrees from New England Conservatory and the Juilliard School, and studied with Kim Kashkashian, Samuel Rhodes, Choong-Jin Chang, and Byrnina Socolofsky. William teaches viola at The College of New Jersey.
Armenian-American violist Cara Pogossian is an avid chamber musician having performed at numerous summer festivals, including the Marlboro Festival, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Tippet Rise, and Taos School of Music. She has had the privilege of collaborating and performing with many of the leading figures in classical music, such as Mitsuko Uchida, Don Weilerstein, Ida Kavafian, Joseph Lin, Marcy Rosen, Peter Wiley, Daniel Phillips, Kim Kashkashian, and the Borromeo String Quartet. Cara is a 2024 recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award, and has performed at several high-profile concerts as an AGBU (Armenian General Benevolent Union) Scholarship recipient. Last year, Cara was named the winner of the NEC Concerto Competition, culminating in a performance of Bartók’s Viola Concerto with the NEC Philharmonia. Engagements this season include performances at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts as an Evnin Rising Star, a Concerto for String Quartet with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and a Musicians from Marlboro tour. Cara recently completed her graduate studies with Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory of Music, as the recipient of the Abraham Skernick Memorial Presidential Scholarship. She had previously studied with Hsin-Yun Huang and Misha Amory at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Marcy Rosen, cello, has established herself as one of the most important and respected artists of our day. The New Yorker magazine dubbed her “a New York legend of the cello,” and the Los Angeles Times has called her “one of the intimate art’s abiding treasures.” She has performed throughout the world and in all 50 of the United States. Sought after for her riveting and informative Master Classes, she has been a guest of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China, the Seoul Arts Center in Korea and the Cartagena International Music Festival in Colombia. She is a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and has been co-artistic director of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival in Maryland since 1986. Since first attending the Marlboro Music Festival in 1975, she has taken part in 25 Musicians from Marlboro tours and performed in concerts celebrating the 40th, 50th, and 60th anniversaries of the festival. A graduate of the Curtis Institute, Ms. Rosen is currently Professor of Cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, also serving as artistic director of the Chamber Music Live concert series. In 2024, she was appointed Artistic Director of the Evnin Rising Stars program at the Caramoor Center for the Arts.
A native New Yorker, violinist Emma Frucht completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard University, majoring in Art History. Shortly after earning her Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School, Emma joined the Grammy-nominated Aizuri Quartet. Notable highlights of recent seasons include the quartet’s major concerto debut with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra in performances of John Adams’s Absolute Jest, their debuts at the 92Y, Carnegie Hall, and Boston’s Celebrity Series, and Chamber Music America’s Cleveland Quartet Award. In addition to quartet playing, she is a tenured member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, frequently serving as concertmaster and principal second violin. She performs regularly in leadership positions with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and New York Classical Players, and is a frequent guest of East Coast Chamber Orchestra, A Far Cry, the American Ballet Theater Orchestra, and the American Symphony Orchestra. Emma joined the faculty of Adelphi University in the fall of 2022 as an Adjunct Professor of Violin. Her primary teachers have included Louise Behrend, Lynn Chang, Daniel Phillips, and Naoko Tanaka.
Violist William Frampton has been praised by critics for his “impressive” performances (The New York Times) and “a glowing amber tone” (The Boston Globe). Since his New York recital debut in 2009 at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, William has enjoyed a career as chamber musician, soloist, orchestral player, and teacher. These performances include over 100 performances with a string quartet led by Midori Goto in tours of Asia and North America. He is Principal Viola of the American Symphony Orchestra, an Associate Musician with The Metropolitan Opera, and member of the Harlem Chamber Players String Quartet. He can also be heard in the Broadway orchestras of Hamilton, Wicked, and The Lion King, and in film scores including The Joker, The Greatest Showman, The Girl on the Train, West Side Story, and many others.
Frampton is the Artistic Director and co-founder of Music at Bunker Hill. William’s festival appearances include Bard Summerscape, Verbier, and IMS Prussia Cove, and as soloist with conductors Joseph Silverstein and David Hoose. He holds degrees from New England Conservatory and the Juilliard School, and studied with Kim Kashkashian, Samuel Rhodes, Choong-Jin Chang, and Byrnina Socolofsky. William teaches viola at The College of New Jersey.
Armenian-American violist Cara Pogossian is an avid chamber musician having performed at numerous summer festivals, including the Marlboro Festival, Ravinia Steans Music Institute, Tippet Rise, and Taos School of Music. She has had the privilege of collaborating and performing with many of the leading figures in classical music, such as Mitsuko Uchida, Don Weilerstein, Ida Kavafian, Joseph Lin, Marcy Rosen, Peter Wiley, Daniel Phillips, Kim Kashkashian, and the Borromeo String Quartet. Cara is a 2024 recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award, and has performed at several high-profile concerts as an AGBU (Armenian General Benevolent Union) Scholarship recipient. Last year, Cara was named the winner of the NEC Concerto Competition, culminating in a performance of Bartók’s Viola Concerto with the NEC Philharmonia. Engagements this season include performances at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts as an Evnin Rising Star, a Concerto for String Quartet with the Portland Symphony Orchestra, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, and a Musicians from Marlboro tour. Cara recently completed her graduate studies with Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory of Music, as the recipient of the Abraham Skernick Memorial Presidential Scholarship. She had previously studied with Hsin-Yun Huang and Misha Amory at the Curtis Institute of Music.
Marcy Rosen, cello, has established herself as one of the most important and respected artists of our day. The New Yorker magazine dubbed her “a New York legend of the cello,” and the Los Angeles Times has called her “one of the intimate art’s abiding treasures.” She has performed throughout the world and in all 50 of the United States. Sought after for her riveting and informative Master Classes, she has been a guest of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China, the Seoul Arts Center in Korea and the Cartagena International Music Festival in Colombia. She is a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and has been co-artistic director of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival in Maryland since 1986. Since first attending the Marlboro Music Festival in 1975, she has taken part in 25 Musicians from Marlboro tours and performed in concerts celebrating the 40th, 50th, and 60th anniversaries of the festival. A graduate of the Curtis Institute, Ms. Rosen is currently Professor of Cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, also serving as artistic director of the Chamber Music Live concert series. In 2024, she was appointed Artistic Director of the Evnin Rising Stars program at the Caramoor Center for the Arts.