Festival Chamber Players: Sarah Kapustin, violin; Roeland Jagers, viola; Megan Yip, cello; Melivia Raharjo, piano

Repertoire Lutosławski: Bucolics (1952/62) Borodin/Goldstein: Sonata in B Minor (1860) Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26 (1861) About the Artists Violist Roeland Jagers is a passionate (chamber) musician, teacher, and soloist. He was a founding member of the Rubens Quartet, laureate of several international competitions. The quartet enjoyed an active international career for 16 seasons in Europe, the United States, and Israel. Since then, Jagers has performed in various formations and recital programs. His diverse chamber music recordings have been highly praised in the international press. Formerly principal viola of the Noord Nederlands Orkest and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (National Opera) in Amsterdam, he is a much sought-after guest principal with other orchestras, including the Residentie Orkest, the Belgian National Orchestra and Amsterdam Sinfonietta, and a substitute with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Jagers teaches viola and chamber music at the Indiana University Summer String Academy as well as the University of Oklahoma Summer String Academy. He has extensive teaching experience, working regularly with all levels from amateurs and college students to young professionals. He wrote a brief chamber music method, in which such subjects as score study, leadership, and rehearsal techniques are addressed. Jagers studied viola with Gisella Bergman and Ferdinand Erblich. He earned a Bachelor of Music diploma with honors (2001) and a Master of Music (2004) with Vladimir Mendelssohn, also with honors, at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In addition to his activities as a violist, Jagers also studied piano, earning a Bachelor of Music diploma in 2003. As a member of the Rubens Quartet, Jagers studied for four years at the Dutch String Quartet Academy in Amsterdam, where he worked intensively with members of the Amadeus, Hagen, Juilliard, and Borodin quartets, followed by two years at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin with Eberhard Feltz. Jagers plays a Giovanni Pistucci viola, on loan to him from the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds in Amsterdam. Praised by Musicweb International for her playing “informed by intelligence and profound musicianship,” American-Dutch violinist Sarah Kapustin enjoys a rich and varied career as soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster, and teacher. In 2025, she celebrated her fortieth year of playing the violin by releasing six live video recordings of the Bach works for solo violin on her YouTube channel. A devoted and passionate chamber musician, Kapustin has appeared at various festivals, notably the Kuhmo Festival (Finland) , Musique de Chambre à Giverny (France) , Sitka Festival (Alaska) , and the Marlboro Music Festival (Vermont) . Her recordings of the Beethoven sonata cycle (with Jeannette Koekkoek) and solo works by Bartók, Bach, and Fulmer, among others, have received international acclaim. Kapustin was the first violinist of the renowned Rubens Quartet from 2008 until the group’s final season in 2016. Kapustin earned a master’s degree in violin performance from The Juilliard School with Robert Mann. She previously earened a Bachelor of Music and an Artist Diploma from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music as a pupil of Mauricio Fuks, and formerly studied with Mimi Zweig and James Przygocki at the String Academy of Wisconsin. Increasingly sought after as a teacher, she is a professor of violin at the Amsterdam Conservatory (young talent program) and the ArtEZ Conservatory in Zwolle. She has given master classes in the United States, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Columbia and Hong Kong, and is a faculty member of the Indiana University Summer String Academy. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Kapustin currently resides in Zwolle, the Netherlands, with her husband, violist Roeland Jagers, and their daughter and dog. She also performs and tours regularly with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Resonanz, and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Kapustin gratefully plays on the “Nico Richter and Hetta Rester” G. B. Rogeri, Brescia, c.1690, on loan to her from the Muziekinstrumenten Fonds in Amsterdam. Melivia Raharjo is lecturer in music in collaborative piano at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Born in Indonesia, she is an avid collaborative pianist and has appeared in chamber performances with such renowned artists as the Takács Quartet, Roger Vignoles, Jaime Laredo, Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler, Mark Kosower, and Richard Weiss. One of the official pianists of the 11th International Violin Competition of Indianapolis in 2022, she was awarded special prizes for best performances of the Mozart and Beethoven sonatas with gold medalist Sirena Huang. She also has been playing for the cello master class program in Hidden Valley Music Seminar since 2022. Raharjo is a Music Academy of the West alumna and won the Duo Competition with violist Keoni Bolding in 2021. As part of the prize package, they performed a recital in Santa Barbara for which they created a program including special lighting effects to enhance its theme of night, from dusk through dawn. The recital also included the world premiere of Conrad Tao’s “Churn.” Previously, she worked as a staff pianist at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Anita Pontremoli for her master’s degree and artist diploma in collaborative piano. Raharjo discovered her passion in collaborating with other musicians while pursuing a bachelor’s degree at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore, studying with Albert Tiu. Performing with other musicians who are passionate about music brings so much joy to her life she hopes that their performances inspire others to play more chamber music in the future. Megan Yip is an active cellist, educator, and Fulbright Scholar, engaging globally in such venues as David Geffen Hall, Jordan Hall, Helsinki Music Center, and Berwaldhallen Concert Hall. Recent highlights include touring with Queens of the Stone Age in their Catacombs Tour, recording Chen Yi’s Ning and Chinese Fables for Naxos, and performing with James Ehnes in James Howard’s new piece They Have Just Arrived At This New Level. She won Second Prize and Audience Award at the 2023 Schadt String Competition. Yip is recognized for her solo and ensemble work, featured in Strad Magazine, including a Grammy-nominated project with Yale Cellos. She is guest artist with Versoi Ensemble, a collective of American and Finnish artists who collaborate in chamber music as agents of cultural diplomacy. Other chamber music appearances include Yellow Barn, Prussia Cove, and Musique de Chambre à Giverny. A dedicated educator, she previously held teaching positions at Yale College, Ross School of Business, and New England Conservatory. She has given master classes at Notre Dame University, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Yale University, The Juilliard School, San Francisco Conservatory, University of North Carolina, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and Elly Bašić School of Music (Zagreb) . In 2021, Yip won a Fulbright Scholar Award to Germany for a grant studying the 12 Sacher pieces for solo cello. She earned a doctorate from University of Michigan and holds advanced degrees from Yale School of Music and Juilliard. Her former teachers include Jean-Guihen Queyras, Richard Aaron, and Paul Watkins. Yip was most recently lecturer of cello at University of Michigan and released her first technique book, The Independent Cellist.