TROUT QUINTET
Michael Grossman, violin
John Konigsmark, viola
Lewis Patzner, cello
Mark Culbertson, bass
Jeanette Tietze, piano
~ PROGRAM ~
Op. 114 – Franz Schubert
Allegro vivace
Andante
Scherzo- Presto
Tema – Andantino
Finale – Allegro giusto
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ABOUT THE MUSICIANS
Violinist Michael Grossman has enjoyed a performance career as an orchestral player, chamber player, and soloist. He has served as concertmaster of the Cape Cod Symphony, the Oregon Mozart Players, the Portland Chamber Orchestra, and the Portland Columbia Symphony. As a member and leader of the San Francisco string orchestra, Stratos, he has recorded the first classical CD to be produced on the Warner Brothers label. Michael was a founding member of the string Quartet “Metolius”, in residence at Oregon State University. In addition to years of performing throughout the Northwest, Michael has performed at the concert halls of New York, Boston, and at the White House. A New Jersey native, Michael has studied violin performance in New York, Boston, and Portland. His teachers have included Erick Friedman, Burton Kaplan, Roger Shermont, and Pierre d’Archambeau. He currently lives in Marin, where he freelances and teaches privately
Violist John Konigsmark, grandson of a concert violinist, began playing the violin at the age of five and has pursued the instrument with exuberance to this day. Having played in a piano trio at the age of 12, chamber music remains his most cherished endeavor. In 1969, while attending the San Francisco Conservatory of Music he was drafted and consequently played viola with the West Point String Quartet in New York, which provided the good fortune of studying with Oscar Shumsky at Juilliard. Relocating to San Francisco and equally at home on both violin and viola, Konigsmark regularly performed with the SF Symphony, Ballet, and Opera Orchestras. In 1996, his passion and pursuit of chamber music lead him to create and direct the Methow Music Festival in the Cascades of Washington.
Cellist Lewis Patzner was born in Oakland to a musical family. He studied cello at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins under the tutelage of Amit Peled from 2003 to 2007. After receiving his BM, Lewis pursued rock music and toured internationally with his instrumental experimental metal band, Judgement Day (founded in 2002. Strings Magazine pronounced Judgement Day,”a master class in the seemingly boundless possibilities of signal-processed, electronic string music and a testament to the band’s creativity.” Lewis’s background in jazz and rock, combined with his classical chops, has helped him carve out a niche in the Bay Area music scene as an in-demand session musician and improviser. His roster of projects now includes Musical Art Quintet (classical-jazz fusion), Town Quartet (standard classical repertoire and new music), La Dee Da (eclectic pop-rock), Devotionals (downtempo folk-rock), Jazz Mafia and the Cosa Nostra Strings (jazz), and Alligator Spacewalk (dance/funk/soul). He is also a founding member of the local musical societies The Haydn Enthusiasts and Concerto Club. In addition to these groups, he performs as a solo artist and is nearing the completion of an album of original compositions and transcriptions for solo acoustic cello.
Bassist Mark Culbertson holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theory-Composition from Chapman University, and Master of Music from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He has studied with Michael Manring, Bertram Turetzky, Joelle Leandre, David Young, John Clayton, Jim Campilongo, Kenneth Gaburo, Victor Savant, and Herbert Brun. He has performed with Berkekey Opera, Symphony of the Redwoods, and other orchestras, as well as numerous clubs and venues with jazz, rock, and improvized music with ensembles and musicians such as the Studio Five Jazz Band, Roy Loney, and Patti Austin, and Harold Jones. He is currently the director of the Dominican University Jazz Band, and a music instructor at San Domenico, Marin Waldorf School, and Dominican University while offering private coaching at San Rafael High School and the College of Marin Orchestra.
Pianist Jeanette Tietze holds degrees in piano and violin pedagogy from the Hochschule fur Musik, Vienna, and an MM degree in Piano Performance from SF State University, where she studied with Carlo Bussoti. Her teachers in Vienna included Oleg Maisenberg and Leonid Brumberg, former assistant to Heinrich Neuhaus. Jeanette also holds a Kodaly Certificate from Holy Names University and teaches Kodaly music classes at several schools in the Bay Area. She is Organist/Music Director at Holy Innocents Episcopal Church in Corte Madera, and maintains a private piano studio.
WEDNESDAY NOON CONCERTS
The community is invited to our complimentary Wednesday Noon Concert series. As part of our ongoing mission to use the transformative power of the arts to inspire and enrich our community, we have opened our doors for the past two years, every Wednesday at Noon, and presented concerts performed by talented musicians that are free of charge to the public. These free noon performances offer listeners the opportunity to discover the beauty of music in an intimate accessible setting, while providing the community with cultural enrichment and exposure to talented performers.
Concerts are in a one-hour format and performances take place in the intimate Tivoli or Crescendo where both audience and musicians can sit in vibrant, close proximity. Musicians often stay after the performance to informally speak about the program and their upcoming concerts.
