The summer’s Chautauqua Chamber Music Resident Artist Series continues this weekend at 4:15 p.m. Saturday in Elizabeth S. Lenna Hall, featuring the Chautauqua Piano Quartet and a program of Beethoven and Faurè.
Chautauqua School of Music faculty members Aaron Berofsky, violin and chair of School of Music Strings; Kathryn Votapek, viola; and cellist Felix Wang are joined by pianist Phillip Bush for a program of piano quartets — Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 16 and Gabriel Faurè’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15.
In addition to teaching at Chautauqua, Berofsky is Professor of Violin at the University of Michigan and has served as visiting professor at the Hochschule fur Musik in Detmold, Germany. Violist and violinist Votapek was a member of the Chester String Quartet for 15 years, and now maintains an active career as soloist and as guest artist at music festivals throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, including at Chautauqua.
In addition to being the cellist of the Blair String Quartet, Wang is a founding member of the Blakemore Trio and co-principal cellist of the IRIS Orchestra.
Bush is widely acknowledged as one of the most experienced American chamber music pianists of his generation, and has performed and recorded with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, appeared innumerable times on Brooklyn’s Bargemusic series, and has performed at the Grand Canyon Music Festival, Newport Music Festival, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival, Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival and at many other festivals.
