MENDELSSOHN String Quintet No 2 in Bb Major, Op 87 Preucil, Setzer, Phelps, Ngwenyama, Brey

FELIX MENDELSSOHN String Quintet No. 2 in Bb Major, Op. 87
William Preucil, violin
Philip Setzer, violin
Cynthia Phelps, viola
Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola
Carter Brey, cello
Mendelssohn String Quintet No. 2 in Bb Major, Op. 87
Allegro vivace
Andante scherzando
Adagio e lento
Allegro molto vivace
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William Preucil was appointed concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra in 1994. Prior to joining the Orchestra, he performed for seven seasons as the first violinist of the Cleveland Quartet, performing over 1000 concerts annually throughout the world and recording the Beethoven quartet cycle and other works for Telarc.
Mr Preucil is former concertmaster of the Atlanta Symphony, and has held similar posts in Utah and Nashville. During his tenure in Atlanta he appeared with the orchestra as soloist in seventy performances of fifteen different concerti. The Violin Concerto by Stephen Paulus was dedicated to him, and he recorded it with the Atlanta Symphony for New World Records. Other solo appearances have been with the orchestras of Minnesota, Detroit, Rochester, Utah, and Hong Kong.
Mr Preucil performs regularly at the most prestigious chamber music festivals, including Seattle, Sitka, Sarasota, Norfolk, and in Switzerland, France, and Germany. He is a member of the Lanier Trio, whose recording of the complete Dvorák piano trios was honored as one of TIME magazines’s top ten CDs in 1993.
Actively involved as an educator, Mr Preucil taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He has held positions as Professor of Music at Eastman and Distinguished Lecturer in Music at the University of Georgia. He is a member of the Artistic Advisory Board for the Interlochen Center for the Arts.
Mr Preucil began violin study at the age of five, taught by his mother, Doris Preucil. At sixteen, he graduated with honors from the Interlochen Arts Acodemy and entered Indiana University to study with Josef Gingold. He studied additionally with Zino Francescatti and Gyorgy Sebok.
Violinist Philip Setzer, a founding member of the Emerson String Quartet, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and began studying violin at the age of five with his parents, both former violinists in the Cleveland Orchestra. He continued his studies with Josef Gingold and Rafael Druian, and later at the Juilliard School with Oscar Shumsky. In 1967, Mr. Setzer won second prize at the Marjorie Merriweather Post Competition in Washington, DC, and in 1976 received a Bronze Medal at the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels. He has appeared with the National Symphony, Aspen Chamber Symphony (David Robertson, conductor), Memphis Symphony (Michael Stern), New Mexico and Puerto Rico Symphonies (Guillermo Figueroa), Omaha and Anchorage Symphonies (David Loebel) and on several occasions with the Cleveland Orchestra (Louis Lane). He has also participated in the Marlboro Music Festival. In April of 1989, Mr. Setzer premiered Paul Epstein's Matinee Concerto. This piece, dedicated to and written for Mr. Setzer, has since been performed by him in Hartford, New York, Cleveland, Boston and Aspen.
Currently serving as the Distinguished Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at SUNY Stony Brook and Visiting Faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Setzer has given master classes at schools around the world, including The Curtis Institute, London's Royal Academy of Music, The San Francisco Conservatory, UCLA and The Mannes School. Mr. Setzer is also the Director of the Shouse Institute, the teaching division of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival in Detroit. Mr. Setzer has also been a regular faculty member of the Isaac Stern Chamber Music Workshops at Carnegie Hall and the Jerusalem Music Center, and his article about those workshops appeared in The New York Times on the occasion of Isaac Stern's 80th birthday celebration.
Philip Setzer exclusively uses Thomastik Dominant and Vision strings. Violin: Samuel Zygmuntowicz (Brooklyn, NY 2011)
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