March 14, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Portland, Ore. … Symphony violinist Jonathan Dubay and Symphony violist Brian Quincy are joined by cellist Gregory Dubay and pianist Carol Rich to present three centuries of chamber music on Wednesday, April 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. at BridgePort BrewPub. Chamber Music on Tap, the “listener-friendly” chamber music series sponsored by BridgePort Brewing Company, is presented by Fortissimo, an Oregon Symphony volunteer organization. The BridgePort BrewPub is located at 1313 N.W. Marshall.
Dubay, who last appeared on the Chamber Music on Tap series in 1995 with the Three Centuries Ensemble, enjoys performing with his brother and identical twin, Gregory Dubay, as well as Rich and Quincy. They will begin the evening with a 20th century work, “Three Nocturnes,” written in 1925 by American composer Ernest Bloch, who spent the later years of his life in Agate Beach, Ore. They continue with music from the Classical era, Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478, and finish the evening with a Romantic work, Schubert’s Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 125 written in 1827, a year before the composer’s death.
Dubay explains the evening’s musical programming as a concert of contrasts. “The Schubert is a monumental work, 40 minutes long, and is inspired and inventive in every way. It has lots of thematic material and a number of melodies, which modulate to many keys.” Dubay chose the Bloch because it balances the Schubert in both its size and overall style. “The nocturnes are completely opposite from Schubert, with very short but finely wrought and mysterious themes, and an overall ambiguity, characterized by a recurring low C pedal against other harmonies.” Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478, is a standard of chamber music repertoire and hints at the “Sturm und Drang” turbulence and emotional quality of Haydn’s music.
Chamber Music on Tap is held upstairs in the BridgePort BrewPub's Heritage Room every third Wednesday of each month through May. The concerts provide audience members the opportunity to interact with musicians and socialize while sampling the brewery's homemade pizza and handcrafted, award-winning ales in the pub's unique building, a 100-year-old former rope factory.
Jonathan Dubay and Friends will perform on Wednesday, April 16, at 6 p.m. at BridgePort BrewPub. Tickets are $6 for Fortissimo members, $10 for the general public and may be purchased in advance at the Oregon Symphony Ticket Office (923 S.W. Washington), Monday - Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or charged by phone at 503-228-1353 or (800) 228-7343. Tickets also may be purchased at the door, if available. All proceeds from the evening benefit the Oregon Symphony.
Violinist Jonathan Dubay is a product of both East and West: a Portland boy who went East to study music, he has returned to make the City of Roses his home.
Mr. Dubay gives much credit to his early music training in Portland. Lessons at age 10 in public school led to participation in the Portland Youth Philharmonic and the Community Music Center where he is now a faculty member. His teachers in Portland were Kathryn Gray, Michael Foxman, and Carol Sindell.
Mr. Dubay now holds a doctoral degree from Yale University School of Music. He also earned his master's degree at Yale and attended Reed College, the Eastman School of Music, and The Juilliard School where he served as teaching assistant to the Juilliard String Quartet. His summers have included studies at the Taos School of Music, Yale Summer School for Music and Art at Norfolk, and the Aspen Music Festival.
Awards for Mr. Dubay include First Prize in the Chamber Music Yellow Springs Competition in Ohio and the Shoreline Alliance Auditions in Connecticut, the George Eastman, Stuart Walker, and Brodas Erle Memorial Scholarships, the Aspen Center for Advanced Quartet Studies Fellowship, and the Lisa Arnhold Memorial Fellowship at The Juilliard School.
Mr. Dubay's later teachers include Syoko Aki, Charles Calstleman, Sylvia Rosenberg, and Donald Weilerstein. He has studied chamber music with the American Quartet, Emerson Quartet, Juilliard Quartet, Tokyo Quartet, members of the Guarneri Quartet, Koichiro Harada, Raphael Hillyer, Abram Loft, Felix Galimir, and Earl Carlyss.
For four years Mr. Dubay was second violinist of the Essex Quartet, performing chamber music concerts across the country, including appearances at Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Hall in New York, the Friends of Chamber Music Series in Portland, and live broadcasts on WQXR, WNYC (New York), KUSC (Los Angeles), and WGBH (Boston) “Morning PRO MUSICA.” He has performed at the Chillmark Chamber Festival in Massachusetts and has been Resident Artist at the Bay View Music Festival in Michigan and the University of Santa Barbara Summer Vocal Institute.
Mr. Dubay also has been a member of the New Haven Symphony and the Chamber Orchestra of New England, recording with them the complete music for chamber orchestra by Charles Ives.
Jonathan Dubay enjoys complementing his orchestral duties with chamber music concerts and plays on a violin by Giovanni Batista Gabrielli, made in Florence, Italy, in 1779. This is Jonathan's tenth season with the Oregon Symphony, during which time he has performed twice as featured soloist with the orchestra. He teaches violin and chamber music at Lewis and Clark College. Unlike his brother, he has never even tried surfing.
Pianist Carol Rich, a native New Yorker, received her Doctor of Musical
Arts degree from the University of Washington, and her Master of Music
degree from The Juilliard School. She has appeared in Oregon as piano
soloist with the Oregon Symphony, Portland Youth Philharmonic, Columbia
Symphony, and many other musical organizations. Dr. Rich is the principal
keyboardist for the Oregon Bach Festival, the Cascade Festival, and the
Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestra. In addition to teaching piano privately
for over thirty years, Dr. Rich's innumerable musical pursuits encompass
a wide variety of interests. She is a member of the Scriabin Society,
and has appeared as lecturer discussing topics such as “The Authenticity
of the Early Haydn Sonatas” and “Beethoven's Pedal Markings.”
Dr. Rich is presently an instructor at Portland State University where
she teaches private piano, accompanying, and chamber music.
Cellist Gregory Dubay’s early years of music and cello studies
were in Portland at the Community Music Center. After 20 years, he has
recently returned to that same school to serve as Director. In between,
he earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at the Manhattan
School of Music, and has been Principal Cellist of the Honolulu Symphony.
He has been a member of the Bergen (Norway) Philharmonic, the Oregon Bach
Festival Orchestra, the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, and has performed
with the Oregon Symphony and Oregon Ballet Theatre Orchestras. He is not
a good surfer.
Brian Quincy, violist, is currently a member of the Oregon Symphony and performs in the Third Angle New Music Ensemble. He has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony, and is the former Principal Viola of the Sacramento Symnphony. Mr. Quincy has participated in the Tanglewood Fellowship program, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the La Jolla Chamber Music Festival and the Music Academy of the West. He is a graduate of the USC School of Music where he studied with Donald McInnes.