CHAMBER MUSIC WORKSHOP
August 17-21, 2015
A One of a Kind Music Workshop
for intermediate, advanced, and professional musicians, ages 18+
We invite amateur, preprofessional, and professional musicians to join in exploring the only extant chambermusic work by Gustav Mahler - his Piano Quartet in A minor - and the Brahms Piano Quartet in G minor.
A UNIQUE ENVIRONMENT
Study with artist faculty in a noncompetitive, mutually
supportive environment. Participate in both coached and selforganized reading sessions. Enjoy a faculty chamber concert
that includes, in addition to the Brahms, a performance and
discussion of the Mahler and the Schnittke Scherzo, the latter
based upon Mahler’s fragment for the second movement of
the piano quartet.
Equally important, intersperse your learning with amicable
social gatherings with colleagues and faculty during happy
hours and delicious shared meals. And, of course, enjoy the
outdoors and wildlife of the Rocky Mountains.
REGISTER TODAY
www.RockyRidge.org | 970-586-4031
TUITION: $885 Includes room and board
The program is open to strings (violin, viola, cello)
and piano. Previous preparation on the Mahler and
Brahms piano quartets is essential for all participants.
Enrollment is limited to ensure balanced groups and
coaching.
Meet the Faculty
Jacob Murphy, violinist with the
Euclid Quartet
A founding member of the Euclid Quartet,
Jacob Murphy has performed across
the country, including Carnegie Hall,
the Library of Congress, and the Aspen
Music Festival. Highlights of his quartet
career include winning top prizes at the Osaka International
Chamber Music Competition, the Hugo Kauder International
Competition for String Quartets, and the Carmel Chamber
Music Competition. Murphy is currently on the faculty of Indiana
University South Bend, where he teaches violin and chamber
music.
John Dexter, violist with the
Manhattan String Quartet
As violist with the Madison String
Quartet from 1973-79, Dexter was a
faculty member of Colgate University
and Hamilton College and performed
throughout the U.S. and Europe. With
the Manhattan String Quartet since 1980, Dexter toured the
Far East, Mexico, South America, Europe and North America,
including tours and teaching residencies in the former Soviet
Union. The Quartet was the first American quartet to record
the Shostakovich quartet cycle, labeled “Chamber Music
Recording of the Year” for 1991 by Time Magazine. Recordings
include releases on CRI, XLNT, SONY, CBS Masterworks,
Centaur, Musical Heritage and ESS.A.Y, and Dexter’s recording
of Anthony Newman’s Viola Concerto on Newport Classics. He
is active as a chamber music coach throughout the country.
Dexter served as Principal Violist with the Philharmonia Virtuosi,
Joffrey Ballet, American Symphony Orchestra, American
Composers Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic and the New
York City Opera orchestra.
Judith Glyde, former cellist with the
Manhattan String Quartet
Judith Glyde is Professor Emeritus of
cello and chamber music at the University
of Colorado Boulder (CU). A founding
member of the Manhattan String Quartet
in 1970, she left the Quartet at the end of
the 1991-92 season to join the faculty at CU. Now performing
as teacher and guest artist with festivals including the Alba
Festival (Piemonte), the Music and Performing Arts Program (a
study abroad program in Florence, Italy), and as cellist with the
Glyde/Artese/Bologni Piano Trio, Glyde is a Founding Director
of Florentia Consort, a non-profit organization in Florence.
Formerly Artist-in-Residence at Town Hall in New York City;
Colgate University, NY; and at Grinnell College, IA, Glyde has
performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada, Mexico, the
former Soviet Union and South America.
Kuang-Hao Huang, pianist with
Fulcrum Point New Music Project
Pianist Kuang-Hao Huang has performed
throughout the U.S. as well as in Europe
and Asia. He is most often heard as
a collaborator with Chicago’s finest
musicians, from instrumentalists of the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra to singers from the Lyric Opera.
An advocate of new music, Huang is a member of Fulcrum
Point New Music Project. He can be heard in recordings on
the Cedille, Innova and Naxos labels. Huang teaches at the
Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University and
at Concordia University-Chicago. He also serves as Associate
Artistic Director of Rush Hour Concerts and is the driving force
behind Make Music Chicago, a day-long, citywide celebration of
music on the summer solstice.
Daphne Leong, Visiting Lecturer
Associate Professor, Music Theory, University of
Colorado Boulder
CHAMBER MUSIC WORKSHOP
REGISTER TODAY www.RockyRidge.org | 970-586-4031