NOON Concert with Jennifer Choi, Angela Lee & Marc Teicholz
Our Noon Concert today features Violinist Jennifer Choi, cellist Angela Lee, and guitarist Marc Teicholz join who forces to play a delightfully varied and colorful program. The music ranges from Paganini to Piazzolla, Baroque to Balkan, light and humorous to darkly sensual and intense.
SUPPORT If you would like to help us continue these important concerts and ensure they are available to everyone to enjoy please consider donating, volunteering or sponsorship. We are grateful for any help and dedicated to serving our community of audience and performers.
ABOUT THE MUSICIANS
A graduate of The Juilliard School and Yale School of Music, cellist Angela Lee is a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship to study in London with William Pleeth, a grant from the Foundation for American Musicians in Europe, the Jury Prize in the Naumburg International Cello Competition, and a cello performance fellowship from the American-Scandinavian Foundation. She is a founding member of The Lee Trio which won top prizes in the Kuhmo International Chamber Music Competition in Finland and the Gaetano Zinetti International Chamber Music Competition in Italy. The Trio has commissioned and premiered works of numerous living composers and has recordings on Delos, Innova, and the Chelsea Music Festival Records labels. In its third decade, the Trio regularly gives master classes worldwide and performs in major venues across North America, Asia, and Europe including the South Bank Centre and Wigmore Hall in the U.K., Carnegie Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Leipzig Gewandhaus, The National Philharmonic in Kyiv, and the Shanghai Oriental Art Center.
Using music to foster peace and goodwill, Angela Lee has made humanitarian trips to the Republic of the Philippines and the former Yugoslavia. While on a U.N.-sanctioned tour of six war-torn cities throughout Bosnia-Herzegovina, she performed for NATO troops and displaced civilians.
Award winning violinist, Jennifer Choi has charted a career that breaks through the conventional boundaries of solo, chamber music, and the art of improvisation. Hailed by The New York Times as an “excellent violinist," "soulful, compelling,” she has performed worldwide in venues such as the Library of Congress in Washington D. C., the RAI National Radio in Rome, Hong Kong National Radio, and the Mozartsalle in Vienna since giving her debut recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall in 2000. As a soloist, she has performed with the Oregon Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, the SONYC (String Orchestra of New York City), among others. A prominent chamber musician, Jennifer has performed for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums, Santa Cruz's Music In May, and numerous other chamber music series across North America, Europe, and Asia. She performs on a 1718 “Firebird” Stradivarius generously bestowed upon her by Finrebel.
Marc Teicholz, classical guitarist, is the first prize-winner of the 1989 International Guitar Foundation of America competition. Marc Teicholz has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, receiving critical acclaim for his recitals and master classes. Some of the major concert halls he has performed in include Los Angeles' Ambassador Auditorium, Atlanta's Spivey Hall, and Columbia's Koger Center.
Mr. Teicholz has toured Russia, Poland, and Switzerland as well as Southeast Asia, Fiji, and New Zealand under the auspices of the U.S.I.A. Artistic Ambassador program. He has appeared as a soloist with the Pacific Symphony, Far Eastern Orchestra in Russia, the Metropolitan Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal, the Cordoba Orchestra in Spain, the Santa Cruz Symphony, the Houston Chamber Orchestra, the California Symphony, New Millennium Strings, the Santa Rosa Symphony, the Oakland Symphony, the Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra, and the Maui Symphony. Mr. Teicholz also toured extensively with the popular quartet, "A Festival of Four." He has recorded several solo CD's for Naxos, Sugo, and Menus and Music, as well as the pilot soundtrack for George Lucas’ “Young Indiana Jones.” He enjoys working with composers, including Andrew Imbrie, Dusan Bogdanovic and Lee Actor, to produce new guitar literature and has premiered several new works written for him. Releases include a solo CD of waltzes (“Valseana”) recorded on vintage instruments with GSI which was named by Acoustic Magazine as one of the 10 best CDs of 2011 and a debut CD with the Pacific Guitar Ensemble. A recording of the music of Ernesto Nazareth, arranged and produced by Sergio Assad, was released in 2016 and named by Acoustic Magazine as one of the 10 best CDs of that year. He also premiered a concerto by Clarice Assad dedicated to him in 2016.
He is on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and at California State University East Bay. Recently he has participated at the Valley of the Moon Music Festival, GuitarWest Festival in Calgary, the Kaslo Festival in British Columbia, the Moab Music Festival, the National Guitar Summer Workshop, the California Summer Arts Festival and the Weathersfield Music Festival in Vermont. Marc Teicholz graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, received a master's degree from the Yale School of Music, and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley at the Boalt School of Law.
ABOUT NOON CONCERTS Our 2024 season of signature Noon Concerts fills the theater with the intimate warmth and beauty of superbly talented Bay Area, National and International talent. All concerts are free to the pubic, we welcome everyone through our doors. Join us to celebrate the transcendent power of live music.
CURATOR We have had the good fortune to have Beni Shinoharas our Noon Concerts Curator over the last 9 years. She is a highly respected Bay Area musician who is in demand for her talent and dedication. She has made our Noon Concerts one of the area’s sought-after engagements for many performers and we are thrilled to have her curating our Season once again.
SUPPORT If you would like to help us continue these important concerts and ensure they are available to everyone to enjoy please consider donating or volunteering or sponsorship. We are grateful for any help and dedicated to serving our community of audience and performers.