University Singers – Betsy Burleigh, conductor, with Chris Albanese, tenor; Ingrid Matthews and Danqi Zeng, baroque violin; Macarena Sanchez Ruíz, baroque cello; and Jonathan Oddie, harpsichord; Shayla Van Hal, organ; and the Pacifica Quartet with Marta Aznavoorian, piano (guest) Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!Repertoire Mielczewski: Canzona prima a 3 (c.1630)Moniuszko: Selections from "Sonety krymskie (Crimean Sonnets)" (1867)Sawa: Ecce lignum crucis (1986) Zarębski: Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 34 (1885)About the ArtistsChris Albanese is Pam and Jack Burks Associate Professor of Choral Conducting at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he conducts the Grammy-nominated Singing Hoosiers. Under his direction, the Singing Hoosiers were invited to perform at national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association in 2025 and 2021. He has led and prepared the ensemble for performances with notable guests, including Sylvia McNair and Sandi Patty. In recognition of his excellence in teaching, he was awarded Indiana University's Trustees Teaching Award in 2022. Before Indiana, Albanese was a member of the Grammy Award-winning ensemble Chanticleer. With Chanticleer, he performed across the United States and abroad, including at Los Angeles's Disney Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, Prague's Rudolfinum, and St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater. With the ensemble, he appeared with the ensemble as a featured guest on The Hallmark Network's Home and Family. Albanese concurrently serves as music director of the Akron Symphony Chorus where he has prepared the chorus to critical acclaim for performances of works including Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Haydn's The Creation, Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem, and the world premiere of Julia Perry's Frammenti dale lettere di Santa Caterina. An active concert singer and recitalist, Albanese's performance credits include appearances with the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, Skylark Ensemble, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, Dayton Opera, Ars Musica Chicago, the Castleton Festival under the baton of Maestro Lorin Maazel, and Chamber Fest in a performance of Britten's Canticle III, Op. 55, with Konstyantin Travinsky (piano) and Oto Carrillo (horn). Albanese has presented workshops and led festival choirs across the United States and abroad, most recently for the Indiana State School Music Association, Michigan State Vocal Music Association, and Ohio Valley Choral Festival. He earned a B.M. in Music Education and Vocal Performance from the University of Dayton, an M.M. in Vocal Performance from Northwestern University, and a D.M.A. in Choral Conducting from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. A multi-Grammy nominated artist, pianist Marta Aznavoorian performs to critical acclaim on the world stage as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, chamber musician, and educator. She made her professional debut at age 13 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the invitation of Sir George Solti. A champion of new music, she collaborates with several of today's most innovative composers and has been recognized for her outstanding outreach, performance, and mentoring in the United States and abroad. She is a founding member of the celebrated Lincoln Trio and the Aznavoorian Duo with her sister, Ani. A Steinway Artist, Aznavoorian currently serves as lecturer in piano and chamber music at DePaul University and records extensively under the Cedille Records Label. A student of the renowned teacher Menahem Pressler, Aznavoorian earned a bachelor's degree and an Artist Diploma at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a master's degree from New England Conservatory, where she studied with Patricia Zander.Betsy Burleigh is Thomas R. Kasdorf Professor of Choral Conducting and professor of music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she was chair of the Choral Conducting Department from 2013 to 2024. Burleigh served as music director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh from 2006 to 2015, leading performances of Brahms' Requiem, Bach's B Minor Mass, Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, and Mozart's Great Mass in C Minor, and preparing the choir for performances with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO). As a guest conductor, Burleigh has led the PSO, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Akron Symphony, Canton Symphony, and Handel Society of Dartmouth College. She prepared the Tanglewood Festival Chorus for performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus for performances with the Cincinnati Pops. Burleigh served as assistant director of The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus for 11 years, during which time she prepared the chorus for all performances at the Blossom Festival and oversaw the chorus for Pierre Boulez's Deutsche Gramophone recording of Berlioz's Roméo et Juliette. Other positions have included directing the Providence Singers, Akron Symphony Chorus, Canton Symphony Chorus, and Mastersingers of Lexington. Acclaimed for her oratorio conducting, Burleigh's Chorus pro Musica performance of Haydn's Creation was praised as an "expansive, poetic reading" (The Boston Globe). Her rendition of Orff's Carmina Burana was called both "nuanced" and "hair-raising" (The Boston Musical Intelligencer). She won the 2000 Northern Ohio Live Achievement Award for best classical/opera performance for Ulmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis and conducted The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus on an Emmy Award-winning concert for the 9/11 Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. Burleigh previously held teaching positions at Tufts, Clark, Southeastern Massachusetts, and Cleveland State universities, Longy School of Music, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned a Bachelor of Music Education degree with distinction from Indiana University, a Master of Music in Choral Conducting degree with distinction from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a Doctor of Music in Choral Conducting from the Jacobs School.Ingrid Matthews teaches baroque violin in the Historical Performance Institute at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She served previously as music director of the Seattle Baroque Orchestra and has appeared as a soloist, guest director, and concertmaster for leading early music ensembles including the New York Collegium, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra, Ars Lyrica, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Musica Angelica, The Bach Sinfonia, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and many others. She is also a member of San Francisco-based chamber ensemble Musica Pacifica and has held teaching residencies at the University of Southern California, University of Toronto, Oberlin College, Cornish College of the Arts, New England Conservatory, and others. Herself a competition winner (she received first prize in the 1989 Erwin Bodky International Competition for Early Music), Matthews has served as a juror for competitions such as the Maurice and Lillian Barbash International Bach Competition and the Indianapolis Early Music Competition. Matthews has received high critical acclaim for her extensive discography; her recording of the Sonatas and Partitas for unaccompanied violin of J. S. Bach was named "top recommendation for this music…on either period or modern instruments" by American Record Guide, and her recording of Biagio Marini is included in the Norton Anthology of Music used by conservatories and universities worldwide.Jonathan Oddie is professor of practice in historical performance (historical keyboards) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Oddie is in demand across the United States as a versatile performer on harpsichord, fortepiano, and continuo organ. As a continuo player, he works with leading musicians including violinist Dmitry Sinkovsky and flutist Janet See and with orchestras including Portland Baroque Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony. He has performed on chamber music series including Gallery Concerts Seattle and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and he has been featured as a soloist with the Northwest Sinfonietta and Saratoga Orchestra. Oddie studied piano and harpsichord at Indiana University, where his teachers included Elisabeth Wright, Jean-Louis Haguenauer, and Edmund Battersby. He also earned a doctorate in musicology from the University of Oxford, where he researched the instrumental music of English composer Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625). Oddie has published research in the journals Early Music and Historical Performance. His awards include a Performer's Certificate from the Jacobs School of Music and a Frank Huntington Beebe Fellowship. Recognized for its virtuosity, exuberant performance style, and daring repertory choices, the Pacifica Quartet has achieved international recognition over the past 30 years as one of the finest chamber ensembles performing today, establishing itself as the embodiment of the ideal American quartet sound. Named faculty string quartet-in-residence at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in 2012, Pacifica was previously quartet-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and most recently received its second Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance for Contemporary Voices (2020), featuring the works of three Pulitzer Prize–winning women. In 2017, the Quartet was appointed to lead the Center for Advanced Quartet Studies at the Aspen Music Festival and School. Formed in 1994, the Pacifica Quartet quickly won chamber music's top competitions, including the 1998 Naumburg Chamber Music Award. In 2002, the ensemble was honored with Chamber Music America's Cleveland Quartet Award and the appointment to Lincoln Center's The Bowers Program, and in 2006 was awarded a prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. The Pacifica Quartet has proven itself the preeminent interpreter of string quartet cycles, having given highly acclaimed performances of the complete Carter, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Shostakovich cycles in numerous cities across the United States, in Australia, and in Tokyo and London. An ardent advocate of contemporary music, Pacifica commissions and performs many new works, including compositions by Keeril Makan, Julia Wolfe, and Shulamit Ran. The Quartet has recorded the Carter cycle (Naxos) and the Shostakovich cycle (Cedille Records) to rave reviews. Other recording projects include Leo Ornstein's piano quintet with Marc-André Hamelin, the Brahms piano quintet with Jacobs Distinguished Professor Menahem Pressler, and the Brahms and Mozart clarinet quintets with Anthony McGill. Prior to its appointment to the Jacobs School, Pacifica was on the faculty of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for 9 years and served as resident performing artists at the University of Chicago for 17 years. Visit pacificaquartet.com for more information. Meeting URL:

Repertoire Schubert: Fantasy in C Major ("Sei mir gegrüßt!"), D.934 (1827) Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major, D.667 (1819) ("Trout")About the Artists Violist Mark Holloway is a chamber musician sought after in the United States and abroad. He is professor of practice (string chamber music, viola) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a member of the Pacifica Quartet. As an artist of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he has appeared at such prestigious festivals and series as Marlboro, Music@Menlo, Ravinia, Caramoor, Banff, Taos, Music from Angel Fire, Mainly Mozart, Alpenglow, Plush, Whittington, Olympic, Concordia Chamber Players, Kon-Tiki, Bay Chamber Concerts, and with the Boston Chamber Music Society. Performances have taken him to far-flung places, including Chile and Greenland, and he plays regularly at chamber music festivals in France, Musikdorf Ernen in Switzerland, and at the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove, England. He has frequently appeared as a guest with the New York Philharmonic, Orpheus, and the Metropolitan Opera orchestras. Holloway has been principal violist at Tanglewood and of the New York String Orchestra, and he has played as a guest with the Boston Symphony and guest principal of the American Symphony, Riverside Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Camerata Bern, American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has performed at Bargemusic, the 92nd Street Y, Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, Tertulia, Cartagena International Music Festival, with the Israeli Chamber Project, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, NOVUS NY, Emerald City Music, and on radio and television throughout the Americas and Europe, most recently a Live From Lincoln Center broadcast. Hailed as an "outstanding violist" by American Record Guide, and praised by Zürich's Neue Zürcher Zeitung for his "warmth and intimacy," he has recorded for the Marlboro Recording Society, CMS Live, Music@Menlo LIVE, Naxos, and Albany labels. Holloway earned a B.M. summa cum laude from Boston University, where he studied with Michelle LaCourse, and a Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music, as a student of Michael Tree. A native of South Korea, Sung-Mi Im has been an active soloist, chamber musician, and educator. After a successful debut with Daegu Symphony Orchestra in Korea at age eight, she pursued undergraduate studies at Seoul National University and her master's degree in piano performance, receiving the Dean's Scholarship at Boston University. Im has given solo and chamber music recitals in London, Montreal, Dallas, Seoul, and New York, and has appeared with orchestras in Korea, including the Sofia Philharmonic, Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra, Daegu Symphony Orchestra, Ulsan Philharmonic Orchestra, and Busan Symphony Orchestra for the 10th Korean Orchestra Festival at Seoul Arts Center. Her performances with the Bloomington (Indiana) Symphony Orchestra and the Jupiter Symphony in New York City were met with much acclaim as well. Im has appeared in many international festivals, including Kusatsu Music Festival and Moon Beach Festival in Japan, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Sitka Music Festival in Alaska, Bargemusic in New York, Chamber Music International in Dallas, Tucson Chamber Music Festival, Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival in Finland, and the Great Mountains Music Festival in Korea, among others. A devoted educator, Im has been a faculty member at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 2011. She is a recipient of the IU Trustee's Teaching Award. At the Jacobs School, Im has created opportunities for students to perform at IU's regional campuses, local hospitals, and retirement communities. As artistic director of the Bloomington Chapter of Music for Food, she has organized concerts linking a larger national network and local community groups to confront local food insecurity.Kurt Muroki is professor of double bass at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. An artist member with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he began his musical studies on the violin at the age of six and subsequently performed concerti with the Honolulu Symphony and the Maui Symphony. He went on to study the double bass at 13 and entered The Juilliard School of Music at 17, studying with Homer R. Mensch. At 21, Muroki began performing with the Sejong Soloists under ICM Management. He has performed with the Jupiter Chamber Players, Speculum Musicae, Ensemble Sospeso, Sequitur, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Brooklyn Philharmonic, American Composers Orchestra, Tokyo Opera Nomori, New York City Ballet, 92nd St. Y, Bargemusic, and in the Great Performers series at Lincoln Center. Festival appearances include Aspen, Marlboro, and Festival L'Autonne at IRCAM, among others. Muroki is active playing on soundtracks for movies and commercials, with titles including the The Departed, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Hitch, Julie and Julia, The Manchurian Candidate, and Moonrise Kingdom. He has collaborated on albums and live concerts with such artists as The Who, Sting, Peter Gabriel, and Itzhak Perlman. Muroki has won numerous competitions, including first prize in the Aspen Music Festival double bass competition and the Honolulu Symphony Young Artists competition, and he was the first bassist to win the New World Symphony concerto competition. He has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Tokyo, and Orion quartets, Ensemble Wein-Berlin, Jaime Laredo, Lynn Harrell, Toru Takemitsu, Peter Schickele, and John Zorn, among others. Muroki is also on the faculties of Stony Brook University, the McDuffie Center for Strings at Mercer University, the Bowdoin International Music Festival, and the New York String Orchestra Seminar. He is on the board of directors of the International Society of Bassists and is a D'Addario Strings artist. He plays on a double bass once owned by the famous double bassist Domenico Dragonetti and attributed to Nicolo Amati (c.1665).Peter Stumpf is professor of music (cello) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Prior to this appointment, he was principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Stumpf's tenure in Los Angeles followed 12 years as associate principal cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra. His professional orchestral career began at age 16 when he joined the cello section of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. He earned a bachelor's degree from the Curtis Institute of Music (CIM) and an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory. A dedicated chamber music musician, he is a member of the Johannes String Quartet and has appeared on chamber music series on several continents. He has performed with the chamber music societies of Boston and Philadelphia and at the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico, as well as such festivals as Marlboro, Spoleto, and Aspen. He has toured with Music from Marlboro, the Casals Hall Ensemble, and pianist Mitsuko Uchida. He has collaborated with pianists Leif Ove Andsnes, Emmanuel Ax, Jorge Bolet, Yefim Bronfman, Radu Lupu, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Andras Schiff, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and with the Emerson and Guarneri String Quartets. Concerto appearances have been with the Boston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Boston Philharmonic, among many others. As a recitalist, he has performed at the Universities of Hartford, Syracuse, and Delaware, at Jordan Hall in Boston, and at the Philips and Corcoran Galleries in Washington, D.C. Most recently, he performed J. S. Bach's Six Suites for Solo Cello on series in Philadelphia and Los Angeles. His awards include first prize in the Washington International, Graham-Stahl, and Aspen Concerto Competitions, and second prize in the Evian International String Quartet Competition. As a teacher, he has served on the faculties of the University of Southern California, Hartt School of Music, and New England Conservatory, and he was guest artist faculty at CIM, Yellow Barn Music Festival, and Musicorda Summer String Program.Itamar Zorman is associate professor of music in violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Since his emergence with the top prize at the 2011 International Tchaikovsky Competition, Zorman has wowed audiences all over the world with his "youthful intensity" and "achingly beautiful" sound (Bachtrack), earning him the title of the "virtuoso of emotions" (Göttinger Tageblatt). Awarded the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award for 2014, he is the winner of the 2013 Avery Fisher Career Grant. Zorman has performed as a soloist with such orchestras as the Mariinsky Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, New World Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, KBS Symphony Seoul, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, German Radio Philharmonic, Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, Kremerata Baltica, RTE National Symphony Orchestra (Dublin), and American Symphony. In 2024, he performed with the RAI National Symphony Orchestra in its traditional televised Christmas concert, following the Pope's blessing. He has worked with conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Michael Tilson-Thomas, David Robertson, Valery Gergiev, James DePreist, Karina Canellakis, Yuri Bashmet, and Nathalie Stuztmann. He has performed around the world in venues such as Avery Fisher Hall, Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Zurich's Tonhalle, and Tchaikovsky Concert Hall in Moscow. As a recitalist, Zorman performed at Carnegie Hall's Distinctive Debut series, Wigmore Hall, People's Symphony Concerts, the Louvre Museum, Suntory Hall, and HR-Sendesaal Frankfurt. He was invited to the Verbier, Rheingau, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, MITO SettembreMusica, and Radio France festivals. He has also collaborated with such legendary artists as Mitsuko Uchida, Richard Goode, Steven Isserlis, and Jörg Widmann. As a teacher, Zorman has held visiting positions at the Eastman School of Music, IU, and McDuffy Center for Strings. He is a regular faculty member at the Bowdoin International Music Festival, Heifetz Institute, and Keshet Eilon. He has taught master classes at the Royal Academy of Music, San Francisco Conservatory, and Duke University. Zorman plays on a 1734 Guarneri del Gesù, from the collection of Yehuda Zisapel.

Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!Repertoire to be announcedAbout the Artists Pianist Kyunghoon Kim is lecturer in music in chamber and collaborative music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. A native of South Korea, Kim made his debut at the age of 12 with the Solideo Philharmonic Orchestra. He has been a featured soloist with numerous orchestras in South Korea, Vietnam, and the United States, including two appearances with the IU Symphony Orchestra as a concerto competition winner. His performance of Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 with conductor Arthur Fagen was praised as being "not only bombastic, but intensely musical, rich in nuances, introspective, lyrical" (Herald-Times). Kim's solo performing career includes prizes and awards from the Chautauqua Solo Piano Competition, Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Competition, Ben L. Gomez Piano Competition, National Society of Arts and Letters Instrumental Competition, Hanoi International Piano Competition, Haneol Music Competition, and Korea Piano Society Competition. He is a sought-after collaborator whose repertoire encompasses all instruments, from strings to percussion, as well as vocal works. He has collaborated with renowned musicians such as Kathleen McLean, Stephen Lange, and Angel Subero. An active chamber musician and educator, Kim performs regularly with his piano trio and has given master classes at universities. He also serves the IU Piano Academy as a piano duet coach. Kim's early education in music composition led him to his activities as an arranger of classical, jazz, pop songs, and hymns for solo piano, and four-hands piano settings, performed by him and his wife, pianist Elizabeth Yao, and uploaded to his YouTube channel. More than 7,000 copies of his music have been sold on Musicnotes. Kim earned a Doctor of Music in Piano Performance degree with double minors in music theory and early music (harpsichord) at the Jacobs School as a protégé of Arnaldo Cohen, with whom he also completed a Master of Music degree. His early keyboard studies were with Elisabeth Wright. Kim earned a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance degree from Seoul National University, where he studied with Hyoung-Joon Chang. Hailed by critics as a "superior poet" (Vancouver Sun) and praised for his "heart and indomitable will" (Gramophone), Grigory Kalinovsky has performed at some of the world's major venues, from all three stages of Carnegie Hall in New York to Laeiszhalle (Musikhalle) Großer Saal in Hamburg. His recording with pianist Tatiana Goncharova featuring Shostakovich's Violin Sonata and 24 Preludes was released by Centaur Records to great critical acclaim and hailed by the composer's son, conductor Maxim Shostakovich, as "a must-have for any Shostakovich music connoisseur." The duo's recording of the complete set of sonatas for violin and piano by Mieczysław Weinberg was released on Naxos label in 2017. A devoted educator, Kalinovsky has been on the faculty at the IU Jacobs School of Music since 2013. His book ViolinMind, on theory and technique of playing using different tuning systems, written in collaboration with famed cello professor Hans Jørgen Jensen, was published by OvationPress in 2019. Kalinovsky has presented master classes at many major music schools and festivals in the United States and abroad, including the New England Conservatory, Colburn School, University of Maryland, San Francisco Conservatory, Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Buchmann-Mehta School of Music and Jerusalem Music Center in Israel, Hochschule für Musik "Hanns Eisler" in Germany, Beijing Central Conservatory in China, and Seoul National University and Korea National University of Arts in South Korea. He has recently recorded several hours of violin technique pedagogy videos for Tonebase Violin. His students have won top prizes at national and international competitions, including the Spohr International Violin Competition, Tibor Varga Junior Competition, Menuhin Young Artists Competition in England, and Andrea Postacchini Young Violinists Competition in Italy, among others. Kalinovsky started his music education with Tatiana Liberova in his native St. Petersburg, Russia. After coming to New York, he continued his studies with Pinchas Zukerman and Patinka Kopec at the Manhattan School of Music, where he later served as a faculty member for 15 years until his move to Indiana University.Elizabeth Yao is lecturer in music in piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she coordinates its secondary piano program and directs the Young Pianists program and the Summer Piano Academy. Yao has been praised for her sincerity of expression and the "intelligent, emotional coherence" of her musical interpretations. She has been featured as guest soloist with the Coeur d'Alene Symphony and as a guest artist on Spokane Public Radio's From the Studio. Other distinctions include prizes and awards from the Southern Illinois Young Artists Organization Instrumental Competition, Indianapolis Matinee Musicale Collegiate Scholarship Competition, Lima Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition, and Ladies Musical Club of Seattle Award Tour Competition. As a collaborator, she has played with the University of Washington Symphony Orchestra and the modern music ensemble Inverted Space. An educator and a music advocate, Yao has worked with students of all ages and levels, with an emphasis on accessibility, student self-efficacy, and student wellness. She has toured with the San Francisco Symphony Adventures in Music educational outreach program, performing to and teaching thousands of elementary school students. She has presented her research at the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) Collegiate Chapters Symposium and has been a guest panelist at the Jacobs School's Office of Entrepreneurship and Career Development and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music MTNA collegiate chapter. Yao earned a Doctor of Music degree from the Jacobs School of Music, with double minors in music theory and music history and literature, under the tutelage of André Watts. Her dissertation, "Let the Record Show," analyzes historical and recent recordings as an entry point for contextualizing and understanding the evolution of performance practices over the past 100 years. She earned a master's degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music under the guidance of Mack McCray and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Washington with double bachelor's degrees in piano performance (with honors) and Chinese. Yao lives in Bloomington, Indiana, with her husband and dog. Meeting URL:

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Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!Cello soloist to be announcedRepertoire Jennifer Higdon: blue cathedral (2000)V. Herbert: Cello Concerto No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 30 (1894)L. Bernstein: Symphony No. 1. Jeremiah (1942)About the Artists Born in North Carolina, David Charles Abell studied viola, trumpet, piano, organ, and composition, turning his attention to conducting at age 14. He subsequently studied with Leonard Bernstein and Nadia Boulanger, earning degrees from Yale University and The Juilliard School. He has worked with distinguished artists including Bryn Terfel, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau, Stephen Hough, Judi Dench, Emma Thompson, Lea Salonga, Idina Menzel, Heather Headley, Petula Clark, Josh Groban, Matthew Morrison, Michael Ball, and Michael Feinstein. The many international orchestras he has conducted include the London Symphony, BBC Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Wiener Symphoniker, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de Lyon, Prague Philharmonia, Atlanta Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony, and Boston Pops. Abell's television and radio appearances encompass a wide repertoire, from Johann Strauss (with the period-instrument Wiener Akademie) to the launch of the Ten Pieces classical music education project with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Three of his five appearances at the BBC Proms were televised: the Richard Rodgers Centenary, Sondheim at 80, and the War Horse Prom in 2014. His particular affinity with the operatic repertoire has attracted repeat engagements with Cincinnati Opera and Lyric Opera of Kansas City as well as guest appearances with Opera Philadelphia, Michigan Opera Theatre, Atlanta Opera, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, and many others. Considered one of the top international conductors of musical theatre, he led the French premieres of four Stephen Sondheim musicals and conducted the Les Misérables tenth and twenty-fifth anniversary concerts. For the centennial of his mentor Leonard Bernstein, Abell conducted Songfest and the Serenade with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, West Side Story at Glimmerglass and Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and three concerts of Bernstein's theater music with the Philly POPS. Recordings include excerpts from La Bohème and Madama Butterfly,Something's Gotta Give (with Simon Keenlyside), Jonathan Dove's opera Tobias and the Angel, and complete recordings of Miss Saigon and Man of La Mancha.Forever (with soprano Diana Damrau). Michelle DeYoung is associate professor of music in voice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. DeYoung has established herself as one of the most exciting artists of her generation. She continues to be in demand throughout the world, appearing regularly with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, The Met Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, and the Concertgebouworkest. She has also performed at the prestigious festivals of Ravinia, Tanglewood, Saito Kinen, Edinburgh, and Lucerne. In Australia, she has appeared multiple times with the Sydney Symphony and most recently sang Kundry in concert performances of Parsifal at Opera Australia. Equally at home on the opera stage, DeYoung has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Teatro alla Scala, Bayreuth Festival, Berliner Staatsoper, Paris Opera, Theater Basel, English National Opera and the Tokyo Opera. Her many roles include the title roles in Samson et Dalilah and The Rape of Lucretia, Fricka, Sieglinde and Waltraute in The Ring Cycle, Kundry in Parsifal, Venus in Tannhäuser, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde, Eboli in Don Carlos, Amneris in Aida, Santuzza in Cavellaria Rusticana, Marguerite in Le Damnation de Faust, Dido in Les Troyens, Judith in Bluebeard's Castle, and Jocaste in Oedipus Rex. She also created the role of the Shaman in Tan Dun's The First Emperor at the Metropolitan Opera. A multi-Grammy Award-winning recording artist, DeYoung's impressive discography includes Das Rheingold and Die Walküre with the Jaap van Zweden and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (Naxos), Kindertotenlieder, Mahler's Symphony No. 3, and Das Klagende Lied with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony (SFS Media), Les Troyens with Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO Live!), and Mahler Symphony No. 3 with both the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Bernard Haitink (CSO Resound) and the Pittsburgh Symphony and Manfred Honeck (Challenge Records International). Her first solo disc was released on the EMI label. Meeting URL:

Featuring Eric Bowling, flute (alumnus guest) Jacob Burk, violaSara Dailey, narrator (alumna guest) Helen Ford, cello (guest) Michael Grubb, narrator (guest) Maria Izzo, soprano (alumna guest) Emily Nehus, violin (alumna guest) Paulina Villarreal, mezzo-soprano/narrator RepertoireChappell Kingsland: Confessions of a Murderess (2011)Anthony Plog: Animal Ditties I (1978)Daniel Cueto: Ave (2025)Elaine Fine: Happy Family (2005)Jenni Brandon: The Woman with the Unfathomable Eyes (2010)About the ArtistKimberly Carballo is senior lecturer in music in chamber and collaborative music and director of the Jacobs Virtual Academy at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She joined the Chamber and Collaborative Music Department in 2016, its inaugural year. Carballo is an active international performer and educator, teaching both at the Jacobs School and in her private studio. She is a strong believer in and practitioner of community engagement locally and globally. She founded Reimagining Opera for Kids, a music community engagement and education program based in Bloomington, Indiana, and participates annually as a faculty advisor for the IU portion of the team in the Cheerful Heart Music Education Mission in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. She is a founding member of the Amity Trio, a chamber ensemble that commissions and performs new music in order to amplify underrepresented voices. Carballo is also part of the inaugural and ongoing team for Tunaweza Kimuziki (Through Music All is Possible), a project promoting exchange among music educators, scholars, and performers in Kenya and the United States. Carballo earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University (Individualized Major Program) in Music Theory, and a Master of Music in Music Theory from the Jacobs School of Music. She studied piano with Michel Block and Christopher Harding and chamber music with Leonard Hokanson.

Repertoire Quantz: Trio Sonata in C Minor, QV 2:Anh. 5Ginastera: Duo, Op. 13 (1945)Dring : Trio (1968)Still: Miniatures (1948)Gaubert: Tarentelle (1903)About the ArtistPei-San Chiu is an internationally acclaimed Taiwanese flutist and educator. She debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2012 as first-prize winner of the Alexander & Buono International Flute Competition and has performed across the United States, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, and Singapore in solo, chamber, and orchestral settings. From 2013 to 2016, she served as principal flute of the Lexington Philharmonic, garnering praise for her "character and vitality" (Lexington Herald-Leader), and has performed as guest principal with the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, Guangzhou Symphony, and Shenzhen Symphony. A passionate advocate for contemporary music, she has commissioned and premiered works by Bin Li, Tsung-Jen Hsieh, Mei-Chun Chen, Zhou Tian, and Yu-Chun Hu. Her solo album Air, featuring works by female composers, was nominated for Best Art Music Album at the 2025 Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan. She also performs with the Formosa Trio, Aureus Duo, and Trio 2:1, releasing albums including First Impression, Anniversary, and The Sound of Flowers. Chiu is associate professor of flute at Tunghai University, where she received the 2020 Teaching Excellence Award, and adjunct associate professor of flute at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She earned Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees from the Jacobs School. Chiu continues to inspire audiences and students alike through her innovative artistry and dedication to advancing the flute repertoire and pedagogy.Hsuan Chang Kitano is adjunct lecturer in music in historical performance (fortepiano and harpsichord) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she has been on faculty since 2013. Her performance and recording engagements on fortepiano, harpsichord, basso continuo, and piano have taken her to prominent venues in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Italy, and the United States. A prizewinning keyboard soloist, she has been the winner of the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra/Early Music Institute Concerto Competition (harpsichord) and the Early Music Institute Concerto Competition (fortepiano). Her playing on harpsichord and fortepiano has been praised for its "elegance with admirable clarity" (The Herald-Times). Kitano is an active scholar in the field of eighteenth-century keyboard music. Her research on improvisation in keyboard music of the Classical Era was influenced by Robert Levin while she worked as a visiting scholar at Harvard University. Her historical keyboard performances have been informed by master classes of Skip Sempé, Pierre Hantai, Christopher Rousset, Trevor Pinnock, and Malcolm Bilson. Kitano's current research focuses on intercultural musical improvisation. Building on her knowledge of historical performance practice of Baroque thorough bass and eighteenth-century improvisation on cadenza and Eingänge, she has conducted collaborative projects with traditional music of India, Taiwan, and China. She also works with museums on historical keyboard instrument restoration in addition to a project regarding a different tuning system on her recording of the Bach Goldberg Variations at Zuckermann Harpsichords International. Kitano earned D.M. and M.M. degrees from the Jacobs School.Melivia Raharjo is lecturer in music in collaborative piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Born in Indonesia, she is an avid collaborative pianist and has appeared in chamber performances with such renowned artists as the Takács Quartet, Roger Vignoles, Jaime Laredo, Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler, Mark Kosower, and Richard Weiss. One of the official pianists of the 11th International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 2022, she was awarded special prizes for best performances of the Mozart and Beethoven sonatas with gold medalist Sirena Huang. She also has been playing for the cello master class program in Hidden Valley Music Seminar since 2022. Raharjo is a Music Academy of the West alumna and won the Duo Competition with violist Keoni Bolding in 2021. As part of the prize package, they performed a recital in Santa Barbara for which they created a program including special lighting effects to enhance its theme of night, from dusk through dawn. The recital also included the world premiere of Conrad Tao's "Churn." Previously, she worked as a staff pianist at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Anita Pontremoli for her master's degree and artist diploma in collaborative piano. Raharjo discovered her passion in collaborating with other musicians while pursuing a bachelor's degree at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore, studying with Albert Tiu. Performing with other musicians who are passionate about music brings so much joy to her life she hopes that their performances inspire others to play more chamber music in the future.Jessica Warren is adjunct associate professor of music in oboe at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She performs regularly with leading ensembles including the National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, and Berkshire Bach Society. She recently served as guest principal oboe with the United States Air Force Band during its spring 2024 multistate tour. A Jacobs School alumna and two-time fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, Warren brings significant teaching experience from positions at George Washington University, the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the New England Conservatory. Warren specializes in oboe reedmaking education and oboe gouging machine training. Her dissertation, "Significant Learning as Reedmaking Pedagogy," evaluated and reimagined collegiate reedmaking curricula. She regularly presents lectures and master classes in the area of mindfulness in reedmaking and practicing. Warren earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University, studying under John Ferrillo. She earned a Performer Diploma and a Master of Music degree under Linda Strommen at Jacobs and a bachelor's degree under Robert Sorton at The Ohio State University.

Faculty/Guest Chamber Music Recital