Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!Repertoire Beethoven: String Trio in E-Flat Major, Op. 3 (1796)W. A. Mozart: String Quintet in C Major, K.515About the Artists Israeli-born violist and composer Atar Arad is distinguished professor of music in viola at the IU Jacobs School of Music. Summer activities include teaching at Keshet Eilon, Domaine Forget, Heifetz Institute, and, the Steans Music Institute. Cum laude first-prize winner at the Geneva International Music Competition (1972), he has performed worldwide in recitals and as a soloist with major orchestras and was a member of the celebrated Cleveland Quartet. Recordings with the quartet and as a soloist for such labels as Teldec, Telarc, RCA, and RIAX are widely acclaimed. His performance of Paganini's Sonata Per La Grand' Viola e Orchestra is considered a landmark in the history of the viola. Arad's compositions include a solo viola sonata, two string quartets, and more. Tikvah for viola solo was commissioned for the 2008 Munich International Viola Competition by ARD. Listen (Three Poems by W. S. Merwin) for tenor, clarinet, viola, cello, and bass was written for the International Musicians Seminar concert tour in England with Mark Padmore. Epitaph for cello and string orchestra was written for Gary Hoffman, who premiered it with the Kremerata Baltica Orchestra. Arad played the viola version at the 2012 International Viola Congress (IVC) and his 12 Caprices for Viola (Hofmeister Musikverlag) on concert tours of the United States, Canada, Israel, England, Germany, France, Spain, and Portugal. Recent performances include the Primrose Memorial Concert at Brigham Young University and a Toronto recital as the Lorand Fenyves Distinguished Visitor. At IVC 2018, he premiered Ceci n'est pas un Bach, a concerto for viola and strings. In June 2019, with Vadim Gluzman and Mark Kosower, he premiered his String Trio, commissioned by the North Shore Chamber Music Festival. He is a recipient of the American Viola Society's Career Achievement Award (June 2018); the International Viola Society's Silver Alto Clef 2018 ("in recognition for his outstanding contributions to the to the viola"); and the IU Trustees Teaching Award (2019). Arad plays on a viola by Niccolo Amati and uses PI strings by Thomastik. A soloist of international distinction, violinist Mark Kaplan has performed with nearly every American, European, and Australian orchestra, and with many of the world's great conductors, including Ormandy, Rattle, Maazel, Masur, Dutoit, Salonen, Semkov, Skrowaczewski, and Tennstedt. He has made highly acclaimed concerto and recital appearances in all the musical centers of America and Europe, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Singapore. Kaplan is also devoted to chamber music, appearing with pianist Yael Weiss and cellist Peter Stumpf as the Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio, with recordings and concert tours world-wide. Prior to that he performed and recorded extensively for two decades in the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio with cellist Colin Carr and the late pianist David Golub. Especially known for his interpretations of twentieth- and twenty-first-century works and the great German classics, his extensive discography of over 45 commercial CDs includes concertos, solo, and chamber works from Paganini, Bart��k, Berg, Sarasate, and Nono to Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann, as well as two complete recordings of Bach's solo violin works. Since 2005, he has been professor of music in violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, following a decade as professor at UCLA. Kaplan is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay. Violinist Kyung Sun Lee is professor of music in violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She captured a bronze medal in the 1993 Queen Elizabeth Competition, sixth prize in the 1994 Tchaikovsky Competition, first prizes at the Washington and D'Angelo International Competitions, and third prize in the Montreal International Competition, where she also won the Audience Favorite and Best Performance of the Commissioned Work prizes. Subsequent to winning these awards, Lee has enjoyed ever-increasing popularity as a performer and received high critical acclaim. The Strad praised her "exceptional tonal suavity and expressive intensity in equal measure," while Harris Goldsmith declared, "Godard's Concerto Romantique could not have had a more outstanding soloist than Kyung Sun Lee" (New York Concert Review Inc.). In addition to being in demand as a soloist and chamber musician, Lee is an accomplished teacher and clinician. After becoming assistant professor of violin at Oberlin Conservatory in fall 2001, then associate professor at the University of Houston in fall 2006, she has been professor at Seoul National University since 2009. Lee taught for two summers at the Aspen Music Festival and has also been on faculty at the Bowdoin Music Festival and the Heifetz International Institute. In recent, years she has been in demand as a judge of violin competitions including the Joachim International Violin Competition Hannover, Seoul International Competition, and Singapore International Violin Competition. She studied at Seoul National University, Peabody Conservatory, and The Juilliard School. Her teachers have included Sylvia Rosenberg, Robert Mann, and Dorothy Delay. Lee plays a Joseph Guarnerius violin from 1723 and is music director of Changwon International Chamber Music Festival and Seoul Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra.Brandon Vamos is professor of practice (cello) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and a member of the Pacifica Quartet, the school's faculty quartet in residence. Vamos has appeared as soloist with orchestras worldwide and has collaborated with many distinguished artists, including Paul Katz, Michael Tree, Yo-Yo Ma, Menahem Pressler, and the Emerson Quartet, and has recorded for Cedille, Naxos, and Cacophony Records. Awarded a Performer's Certificate at the Eastman School of Music, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree as a student of Paul Katz, Vamos has also studied with distinguished artists such as Tanya Carey in Macomb, Illinois, and Aldo Parisot at Yale University, where he earned a Master of Music degree. As a member of the Pacifica Quartet, he won a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance and the Cleveland Quartet Award, in addition to being named Musical America's 2009 Ensemble of the Year.Stephen Wyrczynski is currently professor of music in viola at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He was a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra for 18 years, joining them in 1992. Wyrczynski regularly performs as a soloist and chamber musician. He prioritizes faculty-student collaborations. One such partnership, which he cofounded with the late violinist Jorja Fleezanis, was an exploration of music from the Second Viennese School, in which faculty and students together performed music by Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg. Wyrczynski considers his teaching a direct result of his own relationship to performing, practicing, and listening. Teaching a student about the great privilege it is to serve the composers of our repertoire is one of the best ways for the students to gain ownership of their musical training. Most recently, he has completed a transcription of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring with pianist Aram Arakelyan. Wyrczynski and Arakelyan gave the world premiere in the fall of 2024 and recorded it for Azica Records in the summer of 2025 with producer Alan Bise. A printed edition is published by Songburd Music. Wyrczynski will join the faculty of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in 2027. Meeting URL: