From a LIVE performance at the Chautauqua Institution in New York

Live recording from concert on 28 March 2022 at the Berio-Saal of the Wiener Konzerthaus
Soloist: Nermin Kaygusuz, Kemence
ensemble XXI. jahrhundert
Conductor: Peter Burwik

Recording: ORF

Onur Türkmen: Hat | EXXI | Kaygusuz - Burwik

Concert Recording of the premiere performance
Soprano: Peyee Chen
Clarinet: Nina Janssen 
a song cycle on the theme of the earth
I. Prologue (verses from the Song of Solomon)
II. Morn of Silence (by O. Türkmen)
III. Sonnet 65 (by W. Shakespeare)
IV. Interlude (verses from the Song of Solomon)
V. Lynkeus (J.W.von Goethe)
VI. Epilogue (verses from the Song of Solomon)
Recorded at Bilkent Concert Hall by Özkan Bapbacı
Mastering by Laçin Şahin

Morn Of Silence

Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet no. 5   Audubon Quartet

Violinist, Ellen Jewett has performed in Europe, Japan, Africa, New Zealand, Canada and throughout the US in major venues such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall and the Kennedy Center, both as recitalist and with groups such as Ensemble X, Taliesin Trio, American Chamber Players, New York Chamber Soloists the New York Chamber Ensemble, Apple HIll Chamber Players and the Mark Morris Dance Company. For 11 years Ellen Jewett was a member of the prize-winning Audubon Quartet. Hailed by the New York Times for their “strikingly beautiful, luminescent sound” the quartet performed for 37 years throughout the US and abroad and coordinated an intensive string quartet seminar every summer at the Chautauqua Institute. They held their final concert there in the summer of 2011. Other chamber music collaborations include performances with Yo Yo Ma, James Buswell, Colin Carr, Eugenia Zuckerman, Anthony Newman, John O'Conor, Marcus Thompson, James Campbell, Eli Eban, Rusen Gunes, Johannes Moser, Idil Biret and Lydia Artymiw. An avid performer of contemporary music, she has performed many premiers and worked closely with such composers as Phillip Glass, Sir Michael Tippett, Leon Kirchener, John Harbison, Kamran Ince, Steven Mackey, Steven Stucky, and Joan Tower and has performed with important NY-based contemporary music ensembles such as Continuum, Sequiter and Ensemble X. She received her BM at Indiana University and MM at State University of New York, Stony Brook where her major teachers were Joyce Robbins, James Buswell and Josef Gingold. She worked intensively with members of the Julliard, Tokyo and Budapest string quartets and was privileged to perform under Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. Ellen Jewett performed as one of the concertmasters of the Borusan Philharmonic for 3 years under the invitation of Gurer Aykal, has been a guest concertmaster of the Istanbul State Orchestra, Bilkent Orchestra and is currently the founder and artistic director of Klasik Keyifler, a chamber music festival in Cappadocia. She has served on the faculties of McGill University, SUNY Stony Brook, Ithaca College, and f Ankara University. Ms. Jewett has recorded for Centaur, Chandos, Albany and Newport Classics and released a CD of Turkish music for violin on Naxos.

Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet no. 5 Audubon Quartet

Ellen Jewett-violin

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