Lina Bahn

Violinist Lina Bahn is a member of the Interference Collective at the Katzen Museum and a

founding member of MoVE, a violin quartet dedicated to social change. She has performed

at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Le Poisson Rouge, and The Stone. As a guest with the Takacs 

String Quartet, she performed at the Concertgebouw, Strathmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, and

Queen Elizabeth Hall. Bahn has taught master classes throughout the world, including at

the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore, the Sydney Conservatory, the Curtis Institute

of Music, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. From 2008 to 2014, she served on 

the faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and she currently teaches at the Thornton

School of Music at the University of Southern California. In June 2016, Naxos released her

solo album, Mean Fiddle Summer.

Amy Sue Barston

Praised as "passionate and elegant” by the New York Times, cellist Amy Sue Barston has

performed as a soloist and chamber musician on stages throughout the world, including

Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Ravinia, and Chicago's Symphony Center. At age seventeen,

she appeared as soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on live television and was

the Grand Prize winner in the Society of American Musicians' Competition. She also won

First Place and the Audience Prize in the Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition.

Barston studied with Nell Novak at the Music Institute of Chicago, Eleonore Schoenfeld at

the University of Southern California, and Joel Krosnick at Juilliard, where she earned her

master's degree. Barston is artistic director of the Canandaigua Lake Music Festival in New

York and the cellist of the Corigliano Quartet, which has been hailed by Strad Magazine as

having "abundant commitment and mastery," and whose recent Naxos CD was named one

of the top recordings of the year by both the New Yorker and Gramophone Magazine. Barston

is also a devoted teacher, both in her private studio and at Juilliard Pre-College.

James Stern

James Stern is a multifaceted musician whose violin playing has been heard worldwide and

cited by the Washington Post for "virtuosity and penetrating intelligence." Stern has performed at the Marlboro, Ravinia, Banff, and Bowdoin festivals, as well as at New York's Alice

Tully Hall and Carnegie Hall. His recording of the sonatas and partitas by Bach was released

on Albany Records. He is a member of the Stern/Andrist Duo with his wife, pianist Audrey

Andrist, and Strata, a trio in which they are joined by clarinetist Nathan Williams. The duo

has performed throughout the United States, Canada, and China, with additional recitals in

Munich and Paris. Stern has performed as a member of VERGE ensemble, 21st Century Consort,

and the Axelrod Quartet, and at many Washington-area venues, including the White House.

In frequent appearances at the Clarice Smith Center, he has brought innovative programming that includes performing in multiple capacities (as violist, pianist, conductor, reciter,

and arranger). Stern is currently a professor at the University of Maryland School of Music.

Cover J. Cartwright after George Beck, Georgetown and the Federal City of Washington (detail), 1801,

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Otis T. Bradley

75TH SEASON 

OF CONCERTS

FEBRUARY 22, 2017 • NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
FEBRUARY 22

12:10 • West Building, West Garden Court

Works by Jeffrey Mumford (b. 1955)

"Washingtonians on Wednesdays”

Sponsored by the Billy Rose Foundation

"in soft echoes... a world awaits": music for strings and piano

an expanding distance of multiple voices (2005)

Lina Bahn, violin

revisiting variazioni elegiaci... once more (2001)

Amy Sue Barston, cello

wending (2001)

James Stern, viola

a landscape of interior resonances

Audrey Andrist, piano

in soft echoes... a world awaits

Lina Bahn, violin, James Stern, viola, Amy Sue Barston, cello

The Composer

Born in Washington, DC, in 1955, composer Jeffrey Mumford has received numerous fellowships, grants, awards, and commissions, including those awarded by the Aaron Copland School

of Music at Queens College, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Guggenheim 

Foundation, the National Black Arts Festival, and the National Endowment for the Arts. His

works have been performed worldwide and in the United States by the Atlanta, Cincinnati,

Cleveland, Detroit, Minnesota, and National Symphony Orchestras, among others. His chamber 

works have been performed by the Borromeo, Corigliano, and Pacifica String Quartets, as

well as the CORE and Empyrean ensembles, Imani Winds, and Los Angeles Philharmonic

New Music Ensemble.

Current projects include becoming..., a new work for harp and percussion for the

Icelandic ensemble Duo Harpverk; a new work for piano and nine instruments for Winston

Choi and the Chicago-based Fulcrum Point New Music Project; a new string quartet as part of 

an international consortium (including ensembles from London, Berlin, Stuttgart, Amsterdam,

Copenhagen, Glasgow, Boston, and New York); three windows, a new work for soprano, harp,

and cello for Metropolitan Opera soprano, Alyson Cambridge; a cello concerto in memory of 

Elliott Carter and composed for Christine Lamprea; of radiances blossoming in expanding air,

a work for cello and chamber orchestra composed for Deborah Pae; reflected air, a duo for

alto saxophone and cello for Duo Denisov in Paris; and the ongoing set of rhapsodies for

cello and strings.

Mumford also brings the fruits of a flourishing career as composer and teacher to

the Washington Conservatory of Music, Bowling Green State University, the Oberlin College

Conservatory of Music, and Lorain County, Ohio, Community College, where he is a distinguished visiting professor.

The Musicians

Audrey Andrist

Hailed as a "stunning pianist with incredible dexterity" (San Francisco Classical Voice), Canadian

pianist Audrey Andrist has thrilled audiences around the globe —from North America to Europe

and Asia — with her "passionate abandon" and "great intelligence.” Andrist grew up on a farm

in Saskatchewan, and while in high school traveled three hours one-way for piano lessons

with William Moore, himself a former student of famed musicians Cecile Genhart and Rosina

Lhevinne. Andrist completed master's and doctoral degrees at the Juilliard School with Herbert 

Stessin and garnered first prizes at the Mozart International, the San Antonio International,

the Eckhardt-Gramatte, and the Juilliard Concerto Competitions. She has performed at the 

National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Place des Arts in Montreal, Alice Tully Hall, and the Kennedy

Center. She is a member of the Stern/Andrist Duo with her husband, violinist James Stern, and

Strata, a trio with Stern and clarinetist Nathan Williams. Andrist can be heard on more than 

a dozen recordings of both standard and modern repertoire. She lives in the Washington, DC,

area and teaches at the University of Maryland and the Washington Conservatory of Music.