Mozart and Fauré Piano Quartets, Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–91)
Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, K.493

I. Allegro
II. Larghetto
III. Allegretto

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, op. 15

I. Allegro molto moderato
II. Scherzo, Allegro vivo
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro molto

Mozart and Fauré Piano Quartets
Zachary Deak, piano
Ambroise Aubrun, violin
Virginie D’Avezac, viola
Sophie Chauvenet, cello

Zachary Deak
Pianist Zachary Deak has appeared in recital as a soloist and chamber musician in the United States, France, Morocco, Portugal, Moldavia, and the United Kingdom. He has concertized at renowned venues such as the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, the Cité de la Musique and Salle Cortot in Paris, the Casa de Musica in Porto, and the Institut Francais in Agadir, Morocco. Recent highlights include a performance of Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the ODU Symphony Orchestra, a lecture recital titled “Claude Debussy: The Search for an Authentic French Style” in El Paso, Texas, the performance of “Peace” for clarinet and piano by acclaimed composer Jessie Montgomerie at the Virginia Arts Festival and chamber music performances in the Masters in the Chapel concert series in Venice, CA, and the Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival at UCLA. The recipient of numerous awards, Zachary received the Hopkinson silver medal at the prestigious Chappell Medal Piano Competition in London in 2012. In 2013, he had the privilege to work intensively with the eminent pianist Maria Joao Pires in Paris and Brussels.

A graduate of the École Normale de Musique de Paris and the Royal College of Music in
London, Zachary received his Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance from the
University of Southern California. In addition to his performance career, Zachary is deeply committed to music education. He has taught at Cal State University Los Angeles and Cuesta College San Luis Obispo, and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Piano and Musicology and Director of Keyboard Studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Through his online piano school, “Piano with Zachary Deak,” he extends his passion for teaching to students worldwide via the ArtistWorks learning platform.

Ambroise Aubrun
Hailed as a “marvelous violinist” (France Musique) with “sensitive tone” (Pizzicato Magazine) and “tremendous ease, suppleness, and beauty of sound” (Nice-Matin), violinist Ambroise Aubrun enjoys a career as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician. He has performed extensively on three continents and has conducted master classes in North America (Québec, California, Oregon, New York, Wisconsin, Nevada, Utah, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico), France, Italy, Australia, and New Zealand.

His albums for Editions Hortus and Navona Records have embraced a wide range of repertoire from J.S. Bach to Eric Tanguy (b. 1968), and received praise of the highest caliber (five stars in Pizzicato Magazine, “coup de coeur” by France Musique, and a nomination for the 2021 International Classical Music Awards). His performances and albums have been broadcast on CBS, ABC, WFMT Chicago, France Musique, 3MBS Melbourne (Australia), Klara Radio (Belgium), KPFK Los Angeles, KNCJ Nevada, WTUL New-Orleans, and KUSC Los Angeles.

He has served as guest concertmaster of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and the International Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico, and is a regular guest of the Los Angeles Philharmonic violin sections.

Aubrun graduated at age nineteen from the Paris National Superior Conservatory, and then studied at UCLA (DMA) and at the Colburn Conservatory of Music (Artist Diploma). He is a winner of the Charles Oulmont Prize of the Fondation de France, a laureate of the Langart Foundation in Switzerland, and a recipient of the UNLV Barrick Scholar Award for outstanding achievement in Creative Activities and a CSUN Faculty Achievement Award. Currently Associate Professor of Violin at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Dr. Aubrun previously taught at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and UC Santa Barbara. He is the artistic director of the Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival at UCLA. Dr. Aubrun plays a Matteo Goffriller violin, on generous loan from the Langart Foundation. More information at www.ambroiseaubrun.com.

Virginie d’Avezac
The French violist Virginie d’Avezac has performed with prominent orchestras across Europe and North Africa, such as the National Orchestra of Bordeaux, the National Orchestra of Radio-France, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Morocco, and the National Orchestra of Tunis. In 2010, Virginie was admitted to the prestigious ProQuartet chamber music program, where her string quartet was mentored by internationally acclaimed musicians from the Alban Berg Quartet, the Danel Quartet, and the Pražák Quartet. Since her arrival in the USA in 2016, Virginie has performed with the LA Master Chorale, the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the New West Symphony, Bakersfield Symphony, and Downey Symphony. She has participated in chamber music series such as the Henry J. Bruman Festival, the Mason Concerts, the Concerts in the Dome, Sundays Live at LACMA, and the South Pasadena Public Library Concert Series. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. She is a proud contributor to the Grammy-winning album Mythologies (2022).

Sophie Chauvenet
Sophie Chauvenet started playing cello in Reims, France, with Marc-Didier Thirault. She later studied at the Paris National Superior Conservatory (CNSMDP) with Philippe Muller, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, and Marc Coppey. Laureate of the Maurice Gendron and Rampal competitions, she quickly decided to focus on her orchestral career, which led her to work with some of the world’s biggest conductors, such as E.P. Salonen, P. Jordan, C. Eschenbach, V. Gergiev, M. Janoski, S. Osawa, M-W Chung, P. Jarvi, M. Franck, and G. Dudamel, to name a few. In addition to her orchestral position with the Orchestre de la Garde Républicaine (Paris), Sophie is an active chamber musician and a member of the four-celli Quatuor Serioso Celli, the Voltaire Trio, and Ensemble 1904.

The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival is held in Lani Hall, a 133-seat auditorium located in the Schoenberg Music Building on the UCLA campus. All concerts are free of charge, and no reservations are required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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About The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

Ambroise Aubrun, D.M.A., Artistic Director

The festival was founded in 1988 by Professor Henry J. Bruman (1913–2005), who sought to introduce new audiences to chamber music at informal concerts on the UCLA campus. The festival is made possible by the Henry J. Bruman Trust, Professors Wendell E. Jeffrey and Bernice M. Wenzel, by a gift in memory of Raymond E. Johnson, and with the support of the UCLA Center for 17th-& 18th-Century Studies.

Photos courtesy of the artists.