For Immediate Release
November 20, 2024
CLARK ART INSTITUTE PRESENTS VIOLINIST
AMY SCHWARTZ MORETTI AND VIOLIST
CHE-YEN CHEN IN CONCERT WITH PERFORMING
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE FOUNDERS JEEWON PARK
AND EDWARD ARRON
Williamstown, Massachusetts—On Sunday, December 15 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents an afternoon of exquisite chamber music in the Michael Conforti Pavilion. Jeewon Park (piano) and Edward Arron (cello), artistic directors of the Clark's Performing Artists in Residence program, are joined by Amy Schwartz Moretti (violin) and Che-Yen Chen (viola). The program includes G. F. Handel/J. Halvorsen’s Passacaglia for Violin and Cello, Georges Enescu’s Concertstück for Viola and Piano, W. A. Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G Minor (K. 478), and Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C Minor (op. 15).
Jeewon Park made her debut at age twelve performing Chopin’s First Concerto with the Korean Symphony Orchestra. Park has since performed in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, Merkin Hall, the 92nd Street Y, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Seoul Arts Center in South Korea. Park and her husband Edward Arron are in their twelfth season as co-artistic directors of the Clark’s Performing Artists in Residence series.
Since making his New York recital debut in 2000 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Edward Arron has appeared as a soloist with major orchestras and as a chamber musician throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He tours and records as a member of the renowned Ehnes String Quartet and is a regular guest with the Boston and Seattle Chamber Music Societies as well as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Arron has served on the music faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst since 2016.
Before becoming the inaugural Director of Mercer University’s McDuffie Center for Strings, Macon, Georgia, in 2007, Amy Schwartz Moretti was concertmaster of the Florida Orchestra and the Oregon Symphony. She has premiered concertos for Matt Catingub and Christopher Schmitz, collaborated with James Ehnes for Prokofiev’s Sonata for Two Violin and Bartók’s 44 Duos (both receiving consecutive Juno Awards for Classical Album of the Year in 2014 and 2015), and performed the complete cycle of Beethoven String Quartets in Seoul, South Korea with the Ehnes Quartet.
Professor of Viola at University of California, Los Angeles’s Herb Alpert School of Music, Che-Yen Chen previously served on the faculty of the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music. Chen joined the renowned Ehnes Quartet in 2023 and has performed and taught in music festivals across North America and Asia. As the founding and former member of the Formosa Quartet, he won the first prize in the 2006 London International String Quartet Competition. Chen was the principal violist of the San Diego Symphony and Mainly Mozart Festival Orchestra and has appeared as guest principal with other major orchestras in North America.
Tickets $25 ($20 members, free for students with valid ID). For accessibility questions, call 413 458 0524. Advance registration required. Capacity is limited. No refunds.
This performance is presented through the generous support of the Sea Island Foundation. Jeewon Park performs on a Steinway & Sons piano, provided through a special arrangement with the firm.
ABOUT THE CLARK
The Clark Art Institute, located in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, is one of a small number of institutions globally that is both an art museum and a center for research, critical discussion, and higher education in the visual arts. Opened in 1955, the Clark houses exceptional European and American paintings and sculpture, extensive collections of master prints and drawings, English silver, and early photography. Acting as convener through its Research and Academic Program, the Clark gathers an international community of scholars to participate in a lively program of conferences, colloquia, and workshops on topics of vital importance to the visual arts. The Clark library, consisting of some 300,000 volumes, is one of the nation’s premier art history libraries. The Clark also houses and co-sponsors the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.
The Clark, which has a three-star rating in the Michelin Green Guide, is located at 225 South Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Its 140-acre campus includes miles of hiking and walking trails through woodlands and meadows, providing an exceptional experience of art in nature. Galleries are open 10 am to 5 pm Tuesday through Sunday from September through June, and daily in July and August. Admission is free January through March and is $20 from March through December; admission is free year-round for Clark members, all visitors age 21 and under, and students with a valid student ID. Free admission is also available through several programs, including First Sundays Free; a local library pass program; and EBT Card to Culture. For information on these programs and more, visit clarkart.edu or call 413 458 2303.
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