Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Members to Perform Romantic Piano Quartets

The Chamber Music Society of Detroit presents an all-star cast of four distinguished musicians - violinist Daniel Hope, violist Paul Newbauer, cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han - coming together for an evening of piano quartets Saturday, April 11 at 8 PM. The concert is part of a twelve-concert U.S. tour featuring artist members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and includes quartets by three Romantic masters, Gustav Mahler, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. The evening also includes a pre-concert recital by duo pianists Yuki and Tomoko Mack beginning at 6:45 PM which is open to ticket-holders free of charge. The Mack sisters will perform music of Dvo?ák, Liszt, Piazzolla, Smetana and Gravilin.

The concert takes place at Seligman Performing Arts Center, located at 22305 West 13 Mile Road in Beverly Hills, on the campus of Detroit Country Day School. Tickets are $30 - $60 for adults and $15 - $30 for students, and may be purchased online at www.ChamberMusicDetroit.org or by phone at 248-855-6070. $10 student rush tickets are available at the box office on concert night one hour prior to performance.

Co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han were named Musical America's 2012 Musicians of the Year. Both lead multifaceted careers as concert performers, recording artists, educators, administrators, and cultural entrepreneurs that place them in the ranks of today's most influential classical musicians. They appear extensively together as duo partners. In 1997 they together launched ArtistLed, classical music's first musician-directed and Internet-based recording company, whose catalogue of 16 albums has won widespread critical praise. They are co-founders and co-artistic directors of Music@Menlo, Silicon Valley's acclaimed chamber music festival and institute, as well as Chamber Music Today in Soeul, Korea. In 2013 they inaugurated a special chamber music program at Aspen Music Festival and School.

The first American student of the legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, David Finckel served as cellist of the nine-time Grammy Award-winning Emerson String Quartet for 34 seasons. He is on the faculty at The Juilliard School and Stony Brook University.

Wu Han has achieved universal renown for her passionate commitment to nurturing the careers of countless young artists through a wide array of education initiatives. For many years, she taught alongside the late Isaac Stern at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center.

British violinist Daniel Hope has toured the world as a virtuoso soloist for 25 years. He is renowned for his musical versatility and creativity as well as for his dedication to humanitarian causes. An exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist since 2007, he has earned numerous Grammy nominations, a Classical BRIT award, the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, and six ECHO Klassik Prizes. He has performed in all of the world's most prestigious venues-from Carnegie Hall to the Concertgebouw-and with the world's greatest orchestras, including the Boston and Chicago symphonies and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, as well as the major orchestras of Berlin, London, Leipzig, Dresden, Israel, Moscow, Oslo, Paris, Stockholm, and Vienna. He has also published three bestselling books and regularly produces radio and television shows around the world.

Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at age 21, Paul Neubauer appeared as soloist with that orchestra in over twenty performances during his six-year tenure. He has also appeared with 100 orchestras worldwide, including the Los Angeles and Helsinki Philharmonics and the National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth Symphonies, among others. A two-time Grammy nominee, he recorded pieces that were composed for him by Joan Tower, Henri Lazarof and Derek Bermel. Mr. Neubauer gave the world premiere performance of the revised Bartók Viola Concerto as well as premieres of concertos by Joan Tower, Krzysztof Penderecki, Tobias Picker and David Ott, among others. He serves on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Mannes College.

Michigan-based sisters Yuki and Tomoko Mack have been performing as a piano duo team since 1994. They have won top prizes in such international competitions as the Dranoff International Two-Piano Competition in Florida, the Ellis Two-Piano National Competition in South Carolina, and took both the First and Kodama Prizes at the International Piano Duo Competition in Tokyo. They have performed in major cities in the U.S. and abroad, including New York, Los Angeles, Milan and Tokyo, and have been heard on live radio broadcasts in Stockholm, Warsaw, Milan, Chicago and on PBS in Michigan and Florida.