Great Masterworks of Chamber Music

Artistic Director
RUSSELL HARLOW

Musicians
Russell Harlow, Clarinet
Rebekah Johnson, Violin
Simón Gollo, Violin
Leslie Harlow, Viola
Tom Landschoot, Cello
Horacio Contreras, Cello

PCI Artist Liaison
JENNY KNAAK

PCI Technical Director
HAYDEN CHIPLEY

Program

Park City, UT
August 22, 2021 at 3:00pm

Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in A Major, K. 581, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, written in 1789

I. Allegro
II. Larghetto

III. Menuetto and Trio
IV. Allegro con variazioni

Russell Harlow, Clarinet
Rebekah Johnson, Violin
Simón Gollo, Violin
Leslie Harlow, Viola
Tom Landschoot, Cello

Intermission

Quintet in C Major for Two Violins, Viola and Two Cellos, D. 956, Opus posth. 163, written in 1828

I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Adagio
III. Scherzo
IV. Allegretto

Rebekah Johnson, Violin
Simón Gollo, Violin
Leslie Harlow, Viola
Tom Landschoot, Cello
Horacio Contreras, Cello

Theater

The Eccles Center is the largest theater in Park City, Utah with 1,269 seats. It is home to Park City Institute's Main Stage Season from October through April each year, presenting a broad range of world-class performing arts from international dance companies to Broadway icons to beloved author/humorists to virtuosos in a host of musical styles from Chamber Music to rock'n'roll.

Health and Safety

The Park City Institute and the Park City School District have taken measures to assure the health and safety of our patrons, staff, and performers. These include updated HVAC, touchless restrooms, electronic ticketing, electronic programs, all volunteers and staff to be fully vaccinated, enhanced cleaning, and empty seats. We ask that all patrons wear a mask until seated and whenever moving about the building.

Park City Institute

Presents

The Park City Chamber Society

Since 1984, internationally acclaimed classical solo artists have been converging on picturesque Park City, Utah, working together to prepare unique, vibrant chamber music programs designed to delight intimate audiences that include everyone from first-time concertgoers to lifelong chamber music fans.

Chosen for their dynamic musical personalities, the Beethoven Festival roster artists breathe expression into every Festival performance, making each concert a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the listener.

These exceptional artists perform these programs throughout Utah and beyond, as well as including their work in outreach to lesser served communities, senior living facilities, and schools.

Click on each photo below to read about these wonderful artists.

More information and a Full Concert Calendar can be found at:

https://www.pcmusicfestival.com/

The Players

Russell Harlow

Clarinetist and Beethoven Festival Artist in Residence Russell Harlow is one of the nation's premiere solo and chamber clarinetists. Mr. Harlow performed the New York Premiere of the Ramiro Cortes Trio (written for him), along with the Brahms Quintet, at Carnegie's Weill Hall in New York. The Sonolumina Ensemble ISOMIKE Label High Definition recording featuring Mr. Harlow entitled "Chamber Music for Clarinets and Strings" has received critical acclaim in both the U.S. and Europe. His most recent recordings for the ISOMIKE Label are "Mozart and Romantic Encores" and "Beethoven by Special Arrangement". These two recordings are featured on the High Definition recording site NativeDSD.com. The Mozart recording was nominated for Chamber Music Recording of the Year on this audiophile site and the Beethoven recording has been labeled as one of the site’s "Best-Selling" albums.

Russell Harlow co-directs the Beethoven Festival Park City and has performed and lectured for International Clarinet Association events throughout the world. His website ClarinetCentral.com is regularly visited by clarinetists worldwide. In addition to performances in Utah with the Beethoven Festival, the Contemporary Music Consortium and Sonolumina Orchestra, Mr. Harlow has performed with the Affetti Festival, Sitka and Anchorage Fall Classics Festivals (Alaska), the Amsterdam Chamber Players, the Puerto Rico Clarinet Festival, the Ars Nova, Lyrica and Piatigorsky Foundation concerts in New Jersey and with the Leonore Trio and Bargemusic in NYC.

Russell Harlow's mentors include Gary Foster, Mitchell Lurie, Harold Wright and violinist Charles Libove, and he was coached in chamber music and attended the masterclasses by cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Harlow is featured on recordings with flutist Laurel Ann Maurer, the Mirecourt Trio, the Beethoven Festival and the Utah Symphony abd has recorded numerous solos for major film scores. He founded and directed Utah's Nova Series until he joined the Beethoven Festival as Co-Director in 1986. He attended both UCLA and USC before joining the Utah Symphony at the age of 21.

REBEKAH JOHNSON

Violinist Rebekah Johnson was awarded first prize in The Minneapolis Young Artist Competition at the age of six. As a soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Johnson has toured throughout Europe and the United States, including solo performances for the inaugural season of Spoleto USA in Charleston, SC, a recital tour of Zimbabwe in 2002 as part of the Eclipse of the Sun Festivities in Africa, and performances at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall. Primarily focusing on traditional repertoire, Ms. Johnson has also premiered works by Philip Glass, Aaron Jay Kernis, and Frank Ezra Levy. A frequent guest performer on the “Meet the Composer” series directed by Lukas Foss in the 1980s, she was also a founding member of The Leonore Trio. Ms. Johnson's recording work includes "Three Partitas by J.S. Bach" and a new recording featuring the works of Ysaye, Bartok and Villa-Lobos. Ms. Johnson received both Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Degrees from The Juilliard School, where she studied with Ivan Galamian and Sally Thomas. Ms. Johnson lives in both New York City and in Idaho where she performs summers with the Grand Teton Music Festival.

In addition to performing in chamber music here at the Beethoven Festival for many years, Ms. Johnson performs in chamber music with her partner Scott Ballantyne, cellist, and serves as a Principal with the New Jersey Symphony and, each summer, with the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra and Festival Chamber Music Concerts.

SIMON GOLLO

Award-winning violinist Simón Gollo is one of the most versatile Latin American artists of his generation residing in the United States. His diverse career demands him to serve the roles of artist director, conductor, soloist, chamber musician and pedagogue. As Founder and Artistic Director of the Aruba Symphony Festival and Academy (formerly Festival y Academia del Nuevo Mundo in Venezuela), he demonstrates a genuine commitment to the promotion and presentation of international artists in new scenarios, bringing music to larger audiences while offering young musicians the opportunity to work with renowned artists of international prominence. Simón Gollo has appeared as a conductor and soloist across the United States, Europe, Central and South America at prestigious venues such as the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (Philadelphia, USA), 92Y- Kaufmann Concert Hall (NY, USA), Chamber Music Society of Detroit, National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, USA), Bolivar Hall (London, UK), Teatro Teresa Carreño (Caracas, Venezuela), Auditorio Blas Galindo (Mexico City, Mexico), and the Teatro Mayor (Bogota, Colombia). He has performed with international figures such as Alessio Bax, Ricardo Morales, Dmitri Berlinsky, Richard Young (Vermeer Quartet), Miguel Dasilva (Ysaÿe Quartet), Randolph Kelly, John Novacek, Mihai Marica, Yura Lee, and Jacob Koranyi, among many others. In addition to his collaborations as soloist and conductor, chamber music has been a major focus throughout his career. From 2012 to 2015, Mr. Gollo was a member of the Dali String Quartet and is regularly invited by the St. Luke’s Orchestra (NY) and several chamber music ensembles such as Camerata Nordica (Sweden), Classical Jam, International Chamber Soloists, Chamber Orchestra of San Antonio for tours and concerts given at esteemed venues such as the Carnegie hall in NYC, and Cadogan Hall (London, UK – BBC Proms Festival). Most recently Simón Gollo has been a member of the La Catrina string quartet for which he was nominated for a Latin Grammy for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, “String Quartet No. 3 (In memoriam Ludwig Van Beethoven)” by composer and producer Yalil Guerra from the quartet’s latest album, “Alma con Brio.” Simón Gollo is a gifted and committed pedagogue who keeps a very busy teaching schedule including invitations to teach master classes around the world. After earning degrees from the Conservatoire de Musique de Geneve, Switzerland, and the Conservatoire Superieur et Academie de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion, Switzerland he was a violin professor for the prestigious “El Sistema” and Mozarteum in Caracas, Venezuela. His violin teachers include Gyula Stuller, Anne Bauer, Patrick Genet, and Gabor Takaçs. Currently, Simón Gollo is Assistant Professor of Violin in the Department of Music at New Mexico State University (NMSU) and Conductor of the NMSU Philharmonic. Since 2016 Simon Gollo has a prominent career as a conductor emphasizing his artistic commitment to social projects of a musical nature in El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, and the USA. Simon Gollo is a member of La Catrina String Quartet, quartet in residence at New Mexico State University and the “Reveron Piano Trio”. Simón Gollo is a recording artist for IBS Classical. In 2019 Simon Gollo joins the Q-Arte Quartet as a guest artist for concerts and tours in Colombia and Europe. Simón recently founded the Las Cruces Youth Orchestra system, the very first youth orchestra in the city. In a very short time, he has tripled the size of the NMSU Phil, and in the first year of its inception he was able to recruit more than thirty students to the Youth Orchestra, clear evidence of his good standing and fine reputation in the region. He organized and conducted the Music Beyond Borders concerts, an important musical and cultural exchange between the United States and Mexico. These two concerts alone brought nearly fifteen hundred audience members to Las Cruces and the city of Juarez. And the idea of Music Beyond Borders represents perfectly who Simón is; an artist who not only defies social and cultural challenges, but conquers them with integrity and grace. Throughout his career, Simón Gollo has demonstrated a genuine commitment to having a positive impact on communities of various socio-economic conditions and cultural education through his musical endeavors.

VIOLIST LESLIE HARLOW

Festival Artist in Residence, Violist Leslie Harlow, is the Founder and Co-Director of the Park City Beethoven Festival. She has performed in chamber concerts with a host of the finest artists of this era. A graduate of the Juilliard School, Leslie Harlow performed in masterclasses for William Primrose, Paul Doktor, Donald McGinnis, Heidi Castleman, and Nabuko Imai and her primary teachers were Marna Street, Susan Schoenfeld, Paul Doktor, and violinist Harry Shub with additional lessons with Heidi Castleman, Donald Wright, and Francis Tursi. Ms. Harlow studied chamber music with coaches including Felix Galimer, Samuel Rhodes, David Soyer, Paul Doktor, Charles Castleman, Robert Sylvester, and Julius Baker.

Following graduation from Juilliard, Ms. Harlow moved to Utah with the plan to found a chamber music festival modeled after festivals she had been performing with over the years. She founded the Deer Valley (Utah) Chamber Music Festival in 1984 which has since been renamed the Beethoven Festival. The Festival continues to this day as Utah's oldest classical music festival, as of 2021,

presenting over 800 festival chamber concerts featuring many of the finest classical soloists of this era.

An active recording artist, both in chamber music and in commercial studio work, Ms. Harlow's viola solos have been featured on a number of film and television soundtracks including "Murder in the First”, "Surviving Picasso” and, most recently “Alpha”. She also founded and for many years directed the Park City Film Music Festival, the first U.S. film festival dedicated to the impact of music in film.

Active in teaching, Leslie Harlow is the coordinator and coach for the chamber music program Utah Valley University Department of Music in Orem, Utah. In 2015 Ms. Harlow was invited to present the collegiate level viola master class at the National ASTA Convention and to serve as a judge for the collegiate solo competition.

Representing the Festival, Leslie and clarinetist Russell Harlow perform concerts together with their colleagues throughout the year. They particularly enjoy performing for senior residents in retirement homes and for aspiring young artists at their schools.

Outside of the Festival, Harlows are busy professional performing artists, invited to perform in Utah and beyond, including for the Bargemusic Series in New York. Leslie Harlow’s recording credits also include the critically-acclaimed SACD recording for the ISOMIKE label: Chamber Music for Clarinets and Strings which features works by Karel Husa, Bohuslav Martinu, and Ingolf Dahl.


CHELLEST TOM LANDSCHOOT

Praised for his expressive, virtuoso, and poetic music-making, Belgian cellist Tom Landschoot enjoys an international career as a concert and recording artist and pedagogue. He has toured North America, Europe, South America, and Asia and has appeared on national radio and television worldwide.

His solo career started after taking a top prize at the International Cello Competition ‘Jeunesse Musicales’ in 1995 in Bucharest, Romania. He has performed with the National Orchestra of Belgium, the Frankfurt Chamber Orchestra, Tempe Symphony, Prima la Musica, the Symphony of the Southwest, Shieh Chien Symphony Orchestra, Scottsdale Philharmonic, Flemish Symphony Orchestra, Kaohsiung City Symphony, Loja Symphony Orchestra in Ecuador, and the Orchestra of the United States Army Band and has appeared at Barge Music, Park City, Santa Barbara, Mammoth Lakes, Eureka, Utah, Red Rock, Park City, Manchester, Fresno, Madeline Island, Waterloo, Killington, and Texas Music Festivals. His recordings are available on Summit, Organic, Kokopelli, ArchiMusic, and Centaur Records.

Since 2013, he has been a member of the Rossetti Quartet. He has also performed with the Takacs, Dover, and Arianna Quartets and members of the Cleveland, Vermeer, Tokyo, and Orion Quartets. Past collaborations include Lynn Harrell, Peter Wiley, Gilbert Kalich, Cho-Liang Lin, Martin Beaver, and Martin Katz. An avid promoter of music of our time, he has commissioned and premiered over 20 new works for cello, including a concerto by Dirk Brosse. Recent engagements included several concerts with the Symphony Orchestra of Flanders with a new concerto of Belgian composer Frank Nuyts.

Tom Landschoot has been involved in interdisciplinary public service projects through his music, such as raising funds and awareness for the need of building an orphanage and hospital in Tamil Nadu, India. As part of this humanitarian project, Landschoot was featured in a documentary film of a cellist performing across India, integrating photography, culinary, journalism, and original music compositions.

He has served as a faculty member at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, Castleman Quartet Program in New York, Killington Music Festival, Meadowmount School of Music, Foulger International Music Festival, High Peaks, Madeline Island, Manchester, Montecito, and Texas Music Festival. Landschoot has given master classes at conservatories and universities throughout Asia, the U.S. and Europe, and South America.

His students can be found among the ranks of national and international competition winners, occupy principal positions in major orchestras and teach at Universities around the US and abroad.

Tom Landschoot is currently Professor of Cello at Arizona State University, one of the top schools of music in the United States. Prior to joining the music faculty at Arizona State University, Landschoot taught at the University of Michigan. He is the recipient of ASU’s prestigious Herberger College of Fine Arts Distinguished Teaching Award. Landschoot has served on the faculty of the Shieh Chien University in Taipei since 2008.

Tom Landschoot founded the Sonoran Chamber Music Festival (www.sonoranchambermusic.com), and has served as President of the Arizona Cello Society.
He Performs on a cello by Tomaso Balestrieri (1776) and a Dominique Pecatte bow.

CELLIST HORACIO CONTRERAS

Venezuelan cellist Horacio Contreras has gained esteem through a multifaceted career as a concert cellist, chamber musician, pedagogue, and scholar. He has collaborated with prestigious institutions across the Americas and Europe as a concerto soloist, a recitalist, a chamber musician, and a master class clinician. Highlights of his career include solo performances with the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Municipal Orchestra of Caracas in Venezuela, the EAFIT University Orchestra in Colombia, the Camerata de France in France, and the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra and the Music Institute of Chicago’s Chamber Orchestra in the US; chamber collaborations with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and members of the Detroit, Milwaukee and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras and the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester Berlin; and master classes at Bloomington, Juilliard, Michigan, Oberlin and the ASTA National Convention, as well as at many renowned programs from Latin America. Recent collaborations include the recording of the works for cello and piano by Ricardo Lorenz, the commission and premiere of Diáspora for cello and piano by the Schubert Club’s composer-in-residence Reinaldo Moya, and the recording of Shuying Li’s World Map Concerti with the Four Corners Ensemble. Horacio serves on the faculty of Lawrence University and the Music Institute of Chicago, and the University of Michigan’s MPulse summer institute Center Stage Strings. His students have made solo recordings, soloed nationally and internationally, attended festivals such as Aspen, Orford and Domaine Forget, and won awards at regional and national competitions. They have continued their education at institutions including the University of Michigan, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne in Switzerland, and the Hochschule for Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim, Germany. Some of his former students have pursued successful careers as orchestral musicians, chamber musicians, teachers, and freelancers. Others have devoted their energies to grow in other professional areas and enjoy a meaningful connection with music through the cello. He is the coauthor of The Sphinx Catalog of Latin-American Cello Works, a comprehensive database with information about works for cello written by Latin American composers, created in partnership with the Sphinx Organization and CelloBello.org. His pedagogic book Exercises for the Cello in Various Combinations of Double-Stops has received recognition as a significant contribution to the instrument’s literature. He is a member of the Four Corners Ensemble and the Reverón Piano Trio. He started his musical studies in Venezuela through El Sistema, and holds degrees from the Conservatoire National de Région de Perpignan, France, the Escola de Musica de Barcelona, Spain, and the University of Michigan.