Our 2010/2011 Season
April 10, 2011
Antares Ensemble with Sarah Wolfson, soprano
The ensemble Antares comprises four virtuoso instrumentalists, and draws from a large and colorful repertoire for clarinet, violin, cello and piano, as well as their various trio and duo combinations. This and their high-energy performance style and remarkable ensemble dynamic allows them to create programs presenting chamber masterworks of the Classical and Romantic eras alongside with some of the most exciting music from the 20th and 21st centuries. Antares’ numerous festival appearances include the Bayview Music Festival (MI), the Huntington Summer Arts series (NY), and a three-part series at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, New Haven (CT). Further concert engagements for the group include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Kennedy Center, Merkin Concert Hall, Chamber Music Cincinnati, Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music in New York City, the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois, the Raleigh Chamber Music Guild (NC) and Panama’s Asociacion Nacional de Conciertos.
A graduate of the Juilliard School, Sarah Wolfson, soprano, was honored with the William Schuman Prize for Outstanding Achievement and Music Leadership. Recent engagements include soloist in the Bach B Minor Mass with the American Symphony Orchestra as part of Symphony Space Wall to Wall Bach. She was the 2005 winner of The Juilliard Vocal Arts Alice Tully Hall Debut Competition, and won the First Prize of the 2007 Concert Artist Guild International Competition. She has performed at the Ravinia, Spoleto USA, La Jolla Summerfest and Aspen Music Festivals and with the opera companies of Santa Fe, Wolf Trap and Florida Grand Opera. A recipient of a Lucrezia Bori Grant for study abroad from Juilliard, Ms. Wolfson studied in Salzburg, Austria, she performed recitals at The Sacellum and Schloss Leopoldskron.