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Music Department

National Gallery of Art

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The Sixty-fourth Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery of Art

2,579th Concert

National Gallery Chamber Players String Quartet

Claudia Chudacoff and Teri Lazar, violin

Osman Kivrak, viola

Diana Fish, cello

June 4, 2006

Sunday Evening, 6:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree
Program

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

String Quartet in B-Jlat Major, op. 76, no. 4 (“Sunrise”) (1797)

Allegro con spirito

Adagio

Menuetto: Allegro

Allegro ma non troppo

Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975)

String Quartet no. 4 in D Major, op. 83 (1949)

Allegretto

Andantino

Allegretto

Allegretto

INTERMISSION

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

String Quartet in A Minor, op. 13 (1827)

Adagio; allegro vivace

Adagio non lento

Intermezzo: Allegretto con moto

Presto
The Musicians

The National Gallery Chamber Players String Quartet is a regular feature

of each season of concerts at the Gallery and has acquired a splendid reputation since its debut performance in 1995. In addition to standard quartet

repertoire, the group presents rarely heard masterpieces of chamber music.

The musicians also perform under the name Sunrise Quartet, and in that

capacity they have been recognized with a Chamber Music America residency at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts as well as with residencies

at the Concerts at the Beach in Delaware and the Davies Concert Series in 

Camp Springs, Maryland. With perfectly matched skills, the first and second violinists ofthe quartet are able to change places, a practice that is rare 

among such ensembles.

Violinist Claudia Chudacoff is the concertmaster of the National Gallery

Orchestra and the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, and is the assistant

concertmaster of the White House Chamber Orchestra ofthe Marine Band.

An active chamber musician, she is a member ofthe Washington Chamber

Players and has performed frequently at the United States Holocaust 

Memorial Museum chamber music series. Her experience as orchestral 

soloist includes concerto performances with the Concert Artists of

Baltimore, the National Gallery Orchestra, and the Toledo and Ann Arbor

symphony orchestras. The recipient of a master of music degree from the 

Eastman School of Music, Chudacoff has recorded chamber music for

Albany Records.

Violinist Teri Lazar has performed as a soloist and chamber musician

in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. She is the concertmaster ofthe Virginia Chamber Orchestra and performs with the Richmond Chamber Players and Currents, a chamber music series also based

in Richmond. She earned a doctor ofmusic degree from The Catholic

University of America and teaches violin at American University, where 

she is a musician in residence. Lazar has recorded chamber music for the

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Albany, Centaur, Klavier, and North/South Consonance labels, and has 

been heard on National Public Radio’s Performance Today.

Violist Osman Kivrak is a winner ofthe National Scholarship Competition

in Turkey and the Baltimore Chamber Music Awards. He has performed

at the Spoleto Festival in Charleston, South Carolina, and has toured Italy

and other parts of Europe as a chamber musician. He performs with the 

Richmond Chamber Players and Currents, and teaches at American 

University, as a musician in residence. A graduate ofThe Catholic University

of America, where he earned a doctor of music degree, Kivrak is a composer as well as a performer. His compositions were recently recognized 

with awards from the Maryland State Arts Council and the MarylandNational Capital Parks and Planning Commission.

Cellist Diana Fish came to Washington, dc, in 1994 to be a member

ofthe Marine Chamber Orchestra of “The President's Own” United States

Marine Band, in which she currently serves as assistant principal cellist.

She graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with

Orlando Cole, and continued her work at the graduate level at Indiana

University, where she studied with Janos Starker. Fish has been the principal cellist of Concert Artists of Baltimore, with whom she performed as

soloist in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto for piano, violin, and cello. She has 

also appeared as soloist with the Marine Chamber Orchestra in Victor

Herbert's Cello Concerto in E Minor. A charter member ofthe Sunrise 

Quartet and the National Gallery Chamber Players String Quartet, Fish

has been performing with both ensembles for the past eleven years.

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