Sunday, September 22nd and Monday 23rd
Recital: 7:30 pm, Sunday, September 22nd, Recital Hall, MB I
Master Class: 1:30 pm, Monday, September 23rd, Room 128, MB II
Jessica Thompson, viola
Andrea Lam, piano
Master Class: 1:30 pm, Monday, September 23rd, Room 128, MB II
Jessica Thompson, viola
Andrea Lam, piano
Violist Jessica Thompson is a passionate chamber musician who performs regularly throughout the United States and abroad as a member of the Daedalus Quartet. The quartet, Grand Prize winner of the 2001 Banff International String Quartet Competition and resident quartet at Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two from 2005-07, is currently in residence at the University of Pennsylvania. As a member of Daedalus, Ms Thompson has premiered works by such composers as Fred Lerdahl, Joan Tower, Richard Wernick, and Lawrence Dillon. Ms. Thompson has also toured with Musicians from Marlboro and has performed at numerous festivals, including the Portland Chamber Music Festival, the Halcyon Music Festival (Portsmouth, NH), the Newport Music Festival, and the Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival. She performs often as a member of the East Coast Chamber Orchestra.
Ms. Thompson has appeared as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and in recital in cities such as Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC. She currently teaches at Princeton and Columbia Universities. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Karen Tuttle.
Ms. Thompson has appeared as soloist with the Minnesota Orchestra and in recital in cities such as Philadelphia, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC. She currently teaches at Princeton and Columbia Universities. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Karen Tuttle.
Pianist Andrea Lam made her orchestral debut at age 13 with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and since then she has given over 80 performances with orchestras in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Japan, and Hong Kong. She has performed with many of the world’s leading conductors, including Alan Gilbert, Edo de Waart, Michael Christie, Sir William Southgate and Wing-sie Yip. She has performed with all the major Australian orchestras, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Wichita Symphony, Ridgewood Symphony and Christchurch Symphony Orchestra (NZ). ABC Classics recently released her soloist recordings of two Mozart Concertos with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Nicholas Milton.
As a keen chamber musician, Andrea is also pianist of the Claremont Trio with violinist Emily Bruskin and cellist Julia Bruskin. Deeply committed to commissioning composers of their generation, they have premiered works by Sean Shepherd, Helen Grime, Gabriela Lena Frank, Robert Paterson, Kati Agócs, and Judd Greenstein.
Andrea holds degrees from the Yale School of Music and the Manhattan School of Music. Her teachers include Boris Berman, Arkady Aronov, Ronald Farren-Price, Neta Maughan, and Kathryn Lambert.
