BIO

Emily Daggett Smith violin
Stefan Jackiw | violin
Edward Klorman | viola
Deborah Pae | cello

One of the most exciting chamber ensembles currently emerging on the concert scene, the Tessera Quartet has already created an energetic presence, captivating audiences with its glowing sound and bold interpretations. A compelling mosaic of four accomplished young soloists, the Tessera Quartet was formed under the guidance of the renowned Juilliard String Quartet in 2007. Highlights of its current season include recital appearances with the legendary pianist Claude Frank, as well as multiple performances of Lowell Liebermann's Piano Quintet with the composer at the piano. Next year, the Tessera Quartet will record Liebermann's omplete quartets for Koch Records.

Emily Daggett Smith is a celebrated young violinist and chamber musician, having won the Gold Medal at Fischoff in the junior division in 2005 with the Alisier Trio. Now completing her final year as an undergraduate at The Juilliard School, where she is an acting concertmaster of the orchestra, she studies with Joel Smirnoff. In her first year, she traveled with the Juilliard Orchestra in the nationwide 100th anniversary tour, and again in 2008, with the tour to China. She has performed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Zankel Auditorium, Weill Hall, Symphony Space, and Boston's Symphony Hall, in orchestral and chamber groups with artists including Claude Frank and Joseph Kalichstein. She has participated in festivals including Kneisel Hall, the Orpheus program at The Juilliard School, Banff International Master Classes, and the New York String Orchestra Seminar. She has won various competitions in the Boston area and performed violin concerti with the Brockton, Newton and Waltham Symphonies. She has appeared on PBS's national broadcast, “Live at Lincoln Center” as well as twice on NPR's“From the Top.” For nine summers, she attended Greenwood Music Camp in Cummington, MA, which fostered her deep love of chamber music, and in honor of Greenwood's 75th anniversary she performed Saint-Saens Rondo-Capriccioso with the Greenwood orchestra at the Hatch Shell at the Esplanade in Boston.

Violinist Stefan Jackiw has performed with the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the orchestras of Baltimore, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Nashville, Oregon, Rochester, San Francisco, Seattle, and Utah, among many other ensembles. Abroad, Mr. Jackiw has appeared with the Philharmonia Orchestra, the Bournemouth Symphony, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, l’Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Seoul Philarmonic, and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. Born to physicist parents in 1985, Mr. Jackiw began playing the violin at the age of 4. Mr. Jackiw holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, as well as an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory. In 2002, he was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. www.StefanJackiw.com

Edward Klorman is rapidly emerging as one of most exciting violists of his generation and as an innovative leader in the music community. He has performed as soloist in Eastman Theatre, with the Rochester Chamber Orchestra, and with New York’s Camerata Notturna and as co-soloist with Stefan Jackiw for Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. An avid chamber musician, he has collaborated with such renowned artists as the Orion Quartet, Ying Quartet, Claude Frank, Joseph Kalichstein, and Charles Neidich. A founder of two chamber music series – the Canandaigua LakeMusic Festival (in upstate New York’s Finger Lakes region) and Music at the Bowery (at the historic St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery in Manhattan’s East Village) – Mr. Klorman is deeply committed to sharing classical music with broader audiences and has been acclaimed by New Yorker critic Alex Ross for his community engagement activities. Mr. Klorman graduated with distinction from The Juilliard School, where he recently joined the faculty. He has presented illuminating lectures that combine music performance and the historical imagination at the Salzburg Mozarteum, Université de Montréal, and the International Viola Congress. Describing a recent presentation, The Strad wrote “Edward Klorman gave a thoroughly researched and imaginatively illustrated lecture, turning a subject which is often dry and theoretical into a practical and fascinating one.” Mr. Klorman makes his home in New York City. For more information, visit www.EdwardKlorman.com.

At only twenty-one years old, cellist Deborah Pae is captivating audiences on world stages as a seasoned recitalist and chamber musician. She has appeared in recital at the invitation of the Louvre Recital Series in Paris and Musée de Grenoble, the Colony Club, Young Musicians Forum, Neue Galerie (NY), Artists Ascending Recital Series (TN), and the Van Wezel Foundation’s Young Artists Series (FL); and has performed as soloist with New Jersey and Livingston Symphony Orchestras, and the Westchester Philharmonic. Ms. Pae has enjoyed collaborating and working with a multitude of artists including members of the Juilliard, Emerson, and Cavanni String Quartets, Itzhak Perlman, Roger Tapping, Gilbert Kalish, Ronald Leonard, and Patti Monson. She has made several appearances at the Metropolitan Museum, New York Society of Ethical Culture, Zankel and Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall as well as the Kennedy Center and Dag Hammarskjöld Auditorium at the United Nations. She has also been featured in performances at several festivals including the Perlman Music Program, Kneisel Hall, the 7th Adam International Cello Festival in New Zealand, the International Musicians Seminar at Prussia Cove, and has participated in master classes by Wolfgang Emmanuel Schmidt, Ralph Kirshbaum, Itzhak Perlman, and Donald Weilerstein. Ms. Pae enjoys being involved in music education and outreach, and has spent her time as a chamber music and orchestral mentor at the Juilliard Pre-College and Kneisel Hall.