Mozart and Dvořák Quintets

PAUL HUANG, Violin
DANBI UM, Violin

PAUL NEUBAUER, Viola

DANIEL PHILLIPS, Viola

DMITRI ATAPINE, Cello
 

Mozart: Quintet in C minor for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, K. 406 (1782, arr. 1787)

Kodály: Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 12 (1919-20)

Dvořák: Quintet in E-flat major for Two Violins, Two Violas, and Cello, Op. 97, “American” (1893)

About the Artists
Cellist Dmitri Atapine, whose playing has been described as “highly impressive throughout” (The Strad), regularly appears on world’s foremost stages and frequently performs with the Chamber Music Society, where he is an alum of the Bowers Program. Featured at leading festivals—including Music@Menlo, La Musica Sarasota, Pacific, Aldeburgh, Aix-en-Provence, Nevada, and others—he has won many awards including first prize at the Carlos Prieto Cello Competition, as well as top honors at the Premio Vittorio Gui and Plowman chamber competitions. Professor of Cello at the University of Nevada, Reno, Atapine holds a doctorate from the Yale School of Music. He is Artistic Co-Director of the Friends of Chamber Music Kansas City, Apex Concerts, and Ribadesella Festival, and also co-directs the Young Performers Program at Music@Menlo.

Recipient of a 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, violinist Paul Huang has made recent appearances with the Detroit Symphony, Rotterdam and Seoul Philharmonics, the Detroit, San Francisco, Dallas, Baltimore, Houston, San Diego and NHK Symphony. In the 2024–25 season, he returns to Taiwan’s National and Hiroshima Symphonies, Residentie Orkest Den Haag, and makes his London debut at the Barbican Hall with BBC Symphony Orchestra as well as debuts with Indianapolis and Oregon Symphonies. In fall 2021, he became the first classical violinist to perform his own arrangement of the US national anthem for the opening game of the NFL to an audience of 75,000. His recent recital appearances included those at the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, Aspen, and Lucerne Festivals. He plays on the legendary 1742 ex-Wieniawski Guarneri del Gesù on loan through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.

Violist Paul Neubauer has been called a “master musician” by the New York Times. He recently made his Chicago Symphony subscription debut with conductor Riccardo Muti. Appointed principal violist of the New York Philharmonic at age 21, he has appeared as soloist with over 100 orchestras including the New York, Los Angeles, and Helsinki philharmonics; National, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, and Bournemouth symphonies; and Santa Cecilia, English Chamber, and Beethovenhalle orchestras. He has premiered viola concertos by Bartók (revised version of the Viola Concerto), Friedman, Glière, Jacob, Kernis, Lazarof, Müller-Siemens, Ott, Penderecki, Picker, Suter, and Tower. A two-time Grammy nominee, Neubauer is the artistic director of the Mostly Music series in New Jersey and is on the faculty of the Juilliard School and Mannes College.

Violinist Daniel Phillips co-founded the Orion String Quartet, which after an illustrious 37-year career gave its last concert in April 2024, presented by CMS. He is a graduate of Juilliard, and his major teachers were his father Eugene Phillips, Ivan Galamian, Sally Thomas, Nathan Milstein, Sandor Végh, and George Neikrug. He served as a judge in the 2018 Seoul International Violin Competition, the 2022 Leipzig Bach Competition, and the 2023 World Bartók Competition, and the 2024 Prague Spring Competition. Phillips is a professor at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College and is on the faculties of Bard College Conservatory and Juilliard. He lives with his wife, flutist Tara Helen O’Connor, in Manhattan with their two dachshunds.

Violinist Danbi Um is a Menuhin International Violin Competition Silver Medalist, a winner of the prestigious 2018 Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and a recent top prizewinner of the Naumburg International Violin Competition. Recent and upcoming engagements include appearances with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Cleveland Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music San Francisco, and the Rockport, Moab, Saratoga Performing Arts (SPAC), Santa Fe, and North Shore Music Festivals. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Ms. Um moved to the United States to study at the Curtis Institute of Music, where she earned a bachelor’s degree. She also holds an Artist Diploma from Indiana University. She is an alum of CMS’s Bowers Program and plays a 1683 “ex-Petschek” Nicolo Amati violin, on loan from a private collection.