Ensemble 1828 Goes Online!

Ensemble 1828 returns in June 2020 in virtual form! We are so excited to be hosting this innovative event, broadcast directly from us to the device of your choice. Tune in wherever you are!

Program:

PIAZZOLLA "Summer" from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
BERNSTEIN Piano Trio
MENDELSSOHN Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66

Artists:

Nicole Oswald, violin
Isaac Pastor-Chermak, cello
Alison Lee, piano

Tickets:
Admission $25. Please purchase a ticket on EventBrite (below) and you'll immediately receive a link to the stream. While only one ticket purchase is required per household to view the stream, we hope you would consider purchasing a ticket for each viewer, or adding a donation equivalent to the number of tickets you would purchase for a live event (e.g. if two people plan to watch, purchase one ticket, and consider adding a donation for the value of a second ticket).

100% of proceeds go directly to the artists.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Ensemble 1828 -- violinist Nicole Oswald, cellist Isaac Pastor-Chermak, and pianist Alison Lee -- debuted in June 2019 with a seven-concert tour of Northern California cities, performing an all-Schubert program to packed houses and critical acclaim. Honoring Schubert’s last and most productive year with their name, Ensemble 1828’s debut was praised for its “thoroughly engaging energy” and “rhetorical uniqueness.” In March 2020, the trio is back on tour in the Bay Area celebrating Beethoven’s 250th birthday with performances of his Archduke trio. June 2020 brings a six-concert tour with music of Tchaikovsky, Leonard Bernstein and Jennifer Higdon; in September 2020, Ensemble 1828 will be in residence at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia.

Nicole Oswald is currently pursuing a masters of music under the world- renowned violinist, Andrés Cárdenes at the Carnegie Mellon School of Music. At CMU, Nicole is a graduate assistant and serves as concertmaster of the Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic Orchestra. Nicole recently received an Artist Diploma from the Frost School of Music in Miami, FL 2018. There, she studied under Charles Castleman as a graduate teaching assistant and Henry Mancini Institute fellow. Nicole has been a guest artist at the Castleman Quartet Program and studied chamber music with members of the; Pacifica, Fine Arts, Ying, Dover, Cavani, Concord, Juilliard, Bergonzi and Chilingirian String Quartets. She has appeared in solo master classes with; Rachel Barton Pine, Christian Tetzlaff, Mimi Zweig, Giora Schmidt, Csaba Erdélyi, Irvine Arditti, and Vadim Repin. While in Miami, Nicole was a chamber music teacher at Miami Youth for Chamber Music, appeared as a guest performer with the Bergonzi String Quartet and played in the Palm Beach Opera Orchestra. This fall, Nicole will join the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra as a section violinist while finishing her graduate studies at CMU. Nicole plays on a 1920 Stefano Scarampella on generous loan to her from Charles Castleman.

Isaac Pastor-Chermak is Principal Cellist of Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony; Associate Principal Cellist of Stockton Symphony; Assistant Principal Cellist of Opera San Jose and Fresno Philharmonic; and a member of Berkeley Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, Monterey Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, and Dayton Philharmonic. He spends his summers at the Eisenstadt Classical Music Festival in Austria, where he is Assistant Principal Cellist, and the Lake Tahoe Music Festival, as Principal Cellist. Mr. Pastor-Chermak is the cellist of Black Cedar Trio, the only professional flute-cello-guitar ensemble in the country, and Ensemble 1828, a piano trio, as well as a frequent sonata collaborator with pianists Miles Graber and Alison Lee. He holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

A native of Fremont, California, pianist Alison Lee is the first prize winner of several competitions such as Thursday Musical’s Scholarship Competition, the Dorothy Van Waynen Piano Competition and the Pacific Musical Society Competition. She received second prize in the 2016 Midwest International Piano Competition, where she performed Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto with conductor Jason Weinberger and the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony. In 2019, Alison was featured as a soloist with the Coeur d’Alene Symphony Orchestra as a winner of their National Young Artists Competition. In addition to her enthusiasm for the solo piano repertoire, Alison is passionate about playing chamber music and is a founding member of a piano trio called Ensemble 1828. She frequently collaborates with her sister, pianist Katherine Lee, as well as with cellist Isaac Pastor-Chermak, with whom she has presented recitals featuring the complete Beethoven Sonatas for Cello and Piano. Other collaborative performances include appearances with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and violinist Charles Castleman. Alison received her Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance from the University of Minnesota, where she was a student of Lydia Artymiw. Prior to studying in Minneapolis, Alison studied with Jon Kimura Parker at Rice University and Angela Cheng at Oberlin Conservatory. In her free time, Alison loves swimming, visiting national parks, cooking, and learning languages.

• Saturday, June 20, 2020 at 5:30 PM – 7 PM

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