September 18, 2022

The grand-prize winner of the Yellow Springs Chamber Music Competition (2009), gold medalist of the International Chamber Music Ensemble Competition at Carnegie Hall (2008), and finalist of the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition (2011), enhakē has successfully toured on three continents and in some of the world’s most exciting venues, including: Carnegie Hall and the OK Mozart Festival. They have also been the ensemble-in-residence for the Albany Symphony Orchestra in Georgia and Tallahassee Youth Orchestras. The quartet’s members are all dedicated educators having held posts at universities in Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Mississippi, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Wis- consin, in addition to being faculty members at the Chapel Hill International Chamber Music Workshop, Music in the Mountains Conservatory, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Michigan. As a group they have produced CDs for the MSR, Naxos, and Emeritus labels. Their previ- ous CD, Prepárense: The Piazzolla Project, was called “positively delightful…[t]he sense of ensemble is near-miraculous” (Fanfare). Another reviewer stated, “[t]he intensity is real, the sounds gorgeous, the rhythms infectious…this version strides proudly alongside the legendary recording by Piazzolla himself” (Gramophone).

John Mackey (b. 1973) Breakdown Tango (2000) SiHyun Uhm (b. 1999) Circus Suite for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano I. Monkey II. Clown III. Trapeze IV. Lion (Written for and dedicated to enhakē) Peter Schickele (b. 1935) Quartet for Clarinet (in A), Violin, Violoncello, and Piano (1982) I. Moderate, flowing II. Fast, driving III. Slow, elegiac, but with motion IV. Quite fast, dancing * * * INTERMISSION * * * Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939) Abgang and Kaddish (2019) (Written for enhakē) Alexis Ciesla (b. 1967) Hora & Freilach (2022) WORLD PREMIERE (Written for and dedicated to enhakē) Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)/transcribed and arranged by M. Brent Williams Concierto para Quinteto (1971)