PASSION

PASSION

This spring program reflects the heart of Marinus Concerts: creating beautiful music among friends and sharing its power to bring hope and renewal after the long stillness of winter. Anchored by Schubert's Cello Quintet, this music speaks to the human capacity for reflection, resilience, and joy.

Performed by stellar artists including Grammy awarding winning Henry Wang, Siwoo Kim (hailed by the The New York Times as “incisive” and “compelling"), Rachel Yonan ("intimate and full of character", BBC Music Magazine), John-Henry Crawford ("beautifully played and sweetly lyrical", Classical Review) and Joseph Kuipers ("a powerfully gifted performer", Sonus Journal).

6PM | Family Friendly Concert: 30 Minute Concert featuring short performance and peak backstage to meet the musicians and their instruments. Perfect for children and parents ages 3+.

6:30PM | King Family Wine* and BYOP (Bring your own picnic!) to enjoy on the grounds

7:30PM | Concert in the Carriage House

*available for purchase

PARTICIPANTS

Siwoo Kim violin

Henry Wang violin

Rachel Kuipers Yonan viola

Joseph Kuipers cello

John-Henry Crawford cello

PROGRAMME

Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

String Quartet in C Major, Opus 76, No.3, “Emperor” (Kaiserquartett)

JS Bach (1685-1750)

Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639

JS Bach

“Erbarme dich, mein Gott" (Have mercy, my God) from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Intermission

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

String Quintet in C Major, D 956, posth. 163

The concert opens with the radiant elegance of Haydn’s “Emperor” Quartet, a work that balances noble simplicity with warmth and wit, embodying the sense of shared conversation that lies at the core of chamber music. From here we turn inward to two of J.S. Bach’s most intimate and searching works, Erbarme Dich and Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu. In these pieces, Bach distills profound emotional depth into lines of extraordinary clarity and tenderness, offering music that feels both deeply personal and universally consoling.

The program culminates in Schubert’s monumental Cello Quintet, a masterpiece that embraces the full range of human experience—from luminous serenity to aching vulnerability. Written near the end of the composer’s life, the quintet feels like a testament to friendship that is already looking to the world beyond.

These works together form a spring offering: music that emerges from the wintry cold carrying tenderness, depth, and the hope of renewal.

Louisiana-born cellist John-Henry Crawford has been lauded for his “polished charisma” and “singing sound” (Philadelphia Inquirer). In 2019, he won First Prize at the IX International Carlos Prieto Cello Competition and was named Young Artist of the Year by the Classical Recording Foundation. In 2021 he was named the National Federation of Music Clubs’ 2021-2023 Young Artist in Strings and in 2023 made his Carnegie Hall debut as recipient of the American Recital Debut Award.

His albums have accrued over 3 million streams. Corazón: The Music of Latin America reached #5 on the Billboard Classical Charts and was selected as Editor’s choice in Gramophone Magazine. Crawford’s debut album Dialogo as well as his Voice of Rachmaninoff also appeared on the Billboard Top 10 Classical chart. In June 2024 he released his concerto debut album featuring concerti by Dvořák and Tchaikovsky with the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra and Martin West.

Crawford has given concerts in 25 states as well as Brazil, Canada, Costa Rica, France, Germany, Mexico, Switzerland and the Philippines at venues such as Paris’ Auditorium du Louvre and Dresden’s Volkswagen’s Die Gläsern Manufaktur. He gave his concerto debut with The Philadelphia Orchestra as First Prize Winner of the orchestra’s Greenfield Competition.

Crawford is from a musical family and performs on a rare Homolka cello smuggled out of Austria by his grandfather, Robert Popper, who evaded Kristallnacht and a bow by Tourte ‘L'Aîné’ from 1790. In addition to music, he enjoys learning languages, performing magic tricks, and photography.

Siwoo Kim is an “incisive” and “compelling” violinist (The New York Times) who “plays with stylistic sensitivity and generous tonal nuance.” (The Chicago Tribune) Siwoo actively performs as soloist & chamber musician and he is the founding co-artistic director of VIVO Music Festival in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.Since his Carnegie Hall debut with the Juilliard Orchestra, he has gone on to perform as soloist with orchestras in four different continents. As chamber musician, he performs at festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, collaborating with revered artists including Mitsuko Uchida, Denes Varjon and Susan Graham. An advocate of new music, Siwoo premiered and recorded Samuel Adler’s only violin concerto on Linn Records and VIVO Music Festival annually co-commissions new chamber music works with Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain. This season, Siwoo recorded and released the premiere recording of Michael Torke’s “Last” on Ecstatic Records with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO).Siwoo received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Juilliard School where he studied with Robert Mann and Donald Weilerstein. He went on to complete a two-year fellowship at Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect program.

Grammy Award-winning violinist Henry William Wang has been praised by the Washington Post as an artist "that makes the audience cheer lustily." A native of St. Louis, he has appeared as soloist with orchestras throughout the United States.

Currently based in New York, Henry serves as Concertmaster of Metropolis Ensemble, the Grammy Award-winning Experiential Orchestra, and The Orchestra San Antonio. He is a substitute violinist with the New York Philharmonic and performs regularly with New York Classical Players, Trinity Wall Street NOVUS ensemble, Quodlibet Ensemble, and the Manhattan Chamber Players. His solos can be heard on the Grammy Award-winning album The Pr*son on the Chandos label.

Henry is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Glenn Dicterow. He continued his studies with Mr. Dicterow and Lisa Kim in the Orchestral Performance Program at Manhattan School of Music, and earned his Bachelor of Music at Northwestern University under Almita and Roland Vamos.

Active beyond the classical realm, Henry regularly collaborates with jazz legends including Steve Coleman and Billy Childs. He has appeared on recordings by the Roots, on the television program America's Got Talent, and on soundtracks for films including Barbie, Joker, and In the Heights.

Recognized for her the “directness and depth of her playing” (Gramophone), RACHEL YONAN enjoys a rich and varied career as recitalist, artistic director, commentator and champion of chamber music. She has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician in concert halls across the United States, England, Switzerland, Italy, Austria and China; and recently on NPR and Canadian Public Radio and BBC Radio3. Critics hailed her debut album Kiss on Wood as “haunting, beautiful music, beautifully played and recorded” (Bill Dodd, Native DSD). Ms. Yonan has been invited to perform at prestigious festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, Open Chamber Music Prussia Cove, Festival Mozaic and Taos Music Festival. Yonan has collaborated with Itzhak Perlman, Roberto Díaz, Joseph Silverstein, James Dunham and Robert Levin; and recently joined the Dover and Escher Quartets for chamber concerts. Integrating her interest in music and philosophy, she is Visiting Scholar at Jesus College, University of Cambridge where her scholarship focuses on the role of music in personal formation and flourishing. Rachel is Creative Director of Marinus Ensemble and Concerts (hailed as “perfectly balanced” by the Philadelphia Inquirer), and taught viola performance and chamber music at Duke University.

Joseph Kuipers is an American cellist, educator, and arts innovator whose career bridges performance, teaching, and cultural leadership. Raised in a musical family, he pursued advanced studies across the United States and Europe, working with Paul Katz, Bernard Greenhouse, Michael Flaksman, Thomas Demenga, and Rainer Schmidt, with additional influence from Anner Bylsma and Richard Aaron.

Renowned for his versatility on modern and gut strings, Kuipers is committed to programs that connect historical performance practice with the music of today. He has appeared at major international festivals including Aspen, Ravinia, Festival International du Domaine Forget, Kronberg Academy, Ascoli Piceno Festival, Carl Orff Festival, and the World Cello Congress, and has collaborated closely with composers such as Arvo Pärt, Heinz Holliger, Helmut Lachenmann, and Robert Cogan.

As Creative Director of Texas Cellos, Kuipers has expanded the organization’s artistic vision to include Texas Cello School, TexasCellos SESSIONS, Metamorphosis Chamber Orchestra, and the Fredericksburg Music Festival and School, advancing Texas Cellos’ mission to enrich communities through music, education, and creative collaboration.

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