Wednesday, May 11, 2011

11-05-'11 - midweek update

As some of you may know, at Wednesdays at 12:30 pm we organize one-hour concerts called "Strad for Lunch" featuring one of our Stradivarius instruments. Today's concert was a wonderful Violin Sonata (Mozart, No. 32 in B-flat major, K. 454) and another one composed by Prokofiev (No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80), performed by Erika Mitsui on the violin and Alexandra Joan on the piano.

Erika is a marvelous Japanese-American violinist, born and raised in New York, who studies at Juilliard with Ronald Copes from the Juilliard quartet. Alexandra is a French-Romanian pianist who's been a very active player in Europe and made her debut in New York in 2007. You might have heard her already at WMP this season as she's the artistic director of the Kaleidoscope series. They both did wonderfully today and had every one of us impressed!

Tomorrow evening (Thursday May 12th) at 7:30 pm we organize an evening of Chamber music with violinist Anastasia Khitruk and pianist Elena Baksht. They will be playing pieces from Colina, franck and Ravel. Anastasia Khitruk is an internationally renowned champion of rarely performed works and Elena captivates her audience from the moment she appears on stage with a combination of profound lyricism, dazzling technique and charismatic presence. We'd love to see you there tomorrow!

Eva - Intern for three weeks

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