2018-2019

SHENSON
CHAMBER
MUSIC
CONCERTS
GIL AN TOCCO CORN, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
DEAR
MUSIC
LOVER
Welcome to our 21st year of music at the National Museum of Women in
the Arts. I am thrilled to continue the momentum of our groundbreaking
20th Anniversary Season as we present four new concerts that uphold our
mission of celebrating and supporting women in all areas of the arts.

The 2018-2019 season will kick off on October 21 with Bernstein at 100:
Complete Solo Piano Works, performed by a group of women musicians
from the Catholic University of America Rome School of Music, Drama,
and Art, in celebration of the 100th birthday of the legendary Leonard
Bernstein. Following, on November 7, we welcome Jenny Lin who will
present The Art of Preludes and Fugues, illuminating Shostakovich’s Preludes
and Fugues. Lin is one of the most celebrated pianists today and is known
for her adventurous and charismatic artistry. On April 10, we welcome the
young and exciting Aletheia Piano Trio, who are quickly rising to acclaim
and melding an impressive background of chamber music experience
with cultural explorations. Rounding out our season on May 8, the San
Francisco-based Amaranth Quartet will make its Washington, D.C., debut
with two world premieres, by the celebrated composer Sahba Aminikia
and the young and gifted Alyssa Weinberg, a highly anticipated evening.

Since 1998 we have presented more than sixty-five free performances

featuring emerging and established women musicians who have
brought to life the halls of this great museum with their artistry
and talent. Thank you for your continued support. I hope you will
join us for another season of celebration and glorious music.

See you at the concerts,

Gilan Tocco Corn

Artistic Director
GILAN TOCCO CORN
Artistic Director

Concert Pianist Gilan Tocco Corn is the co-founder and

artistic director of the Shenson Chamber Music Concerts.
She is also the chairman of the board for the Young
Concert Artists of Washington. Born in Iran where she
began studying piano at an early age, she continued her
studies at the Vienna Academy of Music with Professor
Grete Hinterhofer, graduating with honors in 1964. She
subsequently received a French government scholarship
to study in Paris with legendary pianist Magda Tagliaferro,
under whose tutelage she remained while residing at
the prestigious Cité des Arts. Tocco Corn has performed
recitals and chamber music with orchestras in Europe,
North and South America, and the Middle East.
She played command performances for Their Majesties,
the Shah and Empress of Iran, and for other notables,
such as the King and Queen of Thailand, King Hassan
of Morocco, and President Ford at a White House state
dinner. She also performed at a gala concert at Wolf
Trap with other artists, including M. Rostropovich and
Anna Moffo. In addition to her musical training, Tocco
Corn has studied literature at the Paris Sorbonne
University and has a degree from the University
of Cambridge. She is fluent in five languages.
 FA L L
2018

WOMEN
PERFORM
BERNSTEIN:
COMPLETE
SOLO PIANO
WORKS P H O T O : JAC K M I T C H E L L

Sunday, October 21, 2018

3 p.m.

Performed by the faculty, students, and alumnae of the piano division of

the Catholic University of America Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art

In collaboration with The Catholic University of America Piano Division,

NMWA presents a unique concert featuring the complete solo piano works
of the legendary Leonard Bernstein. This concert joins a two-year global
celebration of the 100th birthday of Bernstein, with more than 2,000
events scheduled on six continents. Do not miss this rare opportunity to
hear Bernstein’s intimate Anniversaries, brilliant Touches, as well as other
piano works performed by the faculty, alumni and students of The Catholic
University of America’s Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art.

Featuring: Dr. Ralitza Patcheva, Dr. Francesca Hurst, Dr. Anna

Nizhegorodtseva, Mary Ann Shoemaker, Marta Elder, Yang Yang,
Sadie Hoyt, Dr. Katherine Lim, Dr. JeongEeun Kang, Jackie Song,
Dr. Chloe Canton Rice.
THE ART OF
PRELUDES
AND FUGUES
JENNY LIN,
PIANO
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
7:30 p.m.

PHOTO: LIZ LINDER

Jenny Lin is one of the most respected on Steinway & Sons, Hänssler Classic,
young pianists today, admired for eOne, BIS, New World and Albany
her adventurous programming and Records. She is also the central figure
charismatic stage presence. She has in “Cooking for Jenny” by Elemental
been acclaimed for her “remarkable Films, a musical documentary
technical command” and “a gift portraying her journey to Spain. Other
for melodic flow” by the New York media appearances include CBS
Times. The Washington Post praises Sunday Morning, NPR Performance
“Lin’s confident fingers…[and] Today, and “Speaking for Myself,” a
spectacular technique…surely one film about Manhattan as seen through
of the most interesting pianists in the eyes of eight contemporary
America right now,” and Gramophone artists by filmmaker Bert Shapiro.
magazine has hailed her as “an
exceptionally sensitive pianist.” Highlights of the 2017-18 season
include tours throughout North
Her concerts have taken her to America, Europe, and Latin America;
Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, her debut in Lincoln Center’s Great
Kennedy Center, MoMA, Stanford Performers Series; the release
LIVE, and the National Gallery of Melody’s Mostly Musical Day,
of Art. She has also appeared at an illustrated album for children;
festivals such as Mostly Mozart, piano music of Sergei Prokofiev and
BAM’s Next Wave, Spoleto/USA, Kirill Zaborov; and the complete
Kings Place (London), Chopin Piano Etudes of Philip Glass. Since
Festival (Austria), and Schleswig- 2014, she has joined Philip Glass
Holstein Festival (Germany). in his ongoing world tour of his
Etudes. Lin is a Steinway Artist.
Since 2000, Lin’s discography
includes more than 30 recordings
 SPR I N G
2019

ALETHEIA
PIANO TRIO
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
P H O T O : J I YA N G C H E N 7:30 p.m.

Featuring violinist Francesca dePasquale, Music at the Institute series at the

cellist Juliette Herlin, and pianist Ukrainian Institute (New York City),
Fei-Fei Dong, the Aletheia Piano Trio and the Hewlett-Woodmere Library
is quickly rising to acclaim for their series (Hewlett, New York). Additional
impassioned energy and musical highlights include the Busan Maru
integrity. Praised as an “outstanding International Music Festival in Korea
ensemble” with “confidence and and a ten city tour across China.
understanding of musicians beyond
their years” (Palm Beach Daily News), Members of the trio bring together
the trio was formed in 2013 at the an extraordinary background of
Juilliard School and quickly gave debut chamber music experience and cultural
performances at the Rose Studio and explorations, collaborating with artists
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in including the Brentano String Quartet,
New York and the Terrace Theater at Gérard Caussé, Paul Coletti, Glenn
the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Dicterow, Jérôme Ducros, Jennifer
Frautschi, and Anne-Marie McDermott.
Recent performances include the
Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, The ensemble is named for Aletheia,
Saint Vincent College Concert Series the Greek concept of sincerity,
(Latrobe, Pennsylvania), Shandelee Music which celebrates their approach
Festival (Livingston Manor, New York), to realizing musical works, as
Harvard Club of New York, Perlman Music well as their connection to each
Program Alumni Recital series, other and their audiences.
 AMARANTH QUARTET
Washington, D.C. Debut and World-Premieres
by Sahba Aminikia and Alyssa Weinberg

Wednesday, May 8, 2019

7:30 p.m.
Amaranth Quartet is committed to featured as quartet-in-residence
presenting music of all eras with at the Banff Centre, New Music on
equal enthusiasm and artistry. the Point, and Lake Tahoe Music
Comprising violinists Emily Botel Festival, where they performed as
and Abigail Shiman, violist Julie soloists with the festival orchestra.
Michael, and cellist Helen Newby, The quartet has worked with a
the group was founded in 2014. number of established and emerging
Rooted in the San Francisco Bay composers including Sahba
Area, Amaranth performs frequently Aminikia, Ashley Fure, Tania León,
on a variety of concert series and Christian Wolff, Alyssa Weinberg,
festivals including the Presidio and Ryan Brown.
Sessions, San Carlos Eclectic Music
Festival, Bay Area Modern Music Formed at the San Francisco
Festival, Old First Concerts, and the Conservatory of Music, Amaranth
Kronos Festival. They have appeared Quartet has had the privilege of
at prominent Bay Area venues such working with the Kronos, JACK,
as Herbst Theater, SFJAZZ, the Mirò, Cypress, Ives, Concord, and
Fillmore, Freight and Salvage, and St. Lawrence String Quartets.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
The quartet is fiscally
Amaranth has toured throughout sponsored by InterMusic SF.
North America and has been

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Brewer, Lydia Brown with Stars of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory
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Zukerman, Eugenia Zukerman and Anthony Newman.

The Shenson Chamber Music Concert Series is made possible by support from
Fred M. Levin and Nancy Livingston, The Shenson Foundation in memory of Drs.
Ben and A. Jess Shenson, and The Honorable Mary V. Mochary.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) is the world’s only major museum
solely dedicated to celebrating the creative contributions of women. The museum
champions women through the arts by collecting, exhibiting, researching, and creating
programs that advocate for equity and shine a light on excellence. NMWA highlights
remarkable women artists of the past while also promoting the best women artists
working today. The museum’s collection includes over 4,700 works by more than 1,000
women artists from the 16th century to the present, including Mary Cassatt, Frida
Kahlo, Alma Thomas, Lee Krasner, Louise Bourgeois, Chakaia Booker, and Nan Golden.
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