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THE
KALICHSTEIN-LAREDO-ROBINSON TRIO
Monday, October 20, 2008
Since making their debut as the Kalichstein-Laredo- Robinson Trio at the White House for President Carter's Inauguration in January 1977, pianist Joseph
Kalichstein, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson have set the standard for performance of the piano trio literature for more than thirty years. During the 2007-08 season, at the 92nd Street Y, the Trio presented the New York premiere of Richard Danielpour’s piano quartet Book of Hours – a special commission for their 30th anniversary in 2007.
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RICHARD GOODE, piano
Monday, November 3, 2008
Acknowledged as one of the leading interpreters of Beethoven and Mozart. Richard Goode infuses every measure with the utmost expressivity, making his musicianship an exciting combination of grandness and humility, boldness and depth -- "the boldness of the mind, the depth of the heart." His ability to enter and illuminate the different worlds of each composer he plays has inspired one critic to remark, "You'd swear the composer himself was at the keyboard, expressing musical thoughts that had just come into his head."
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WEILERSTEIN TRIO
Monday, December 1, 2008
The highly acclaimed Weilerstein Trio, the trio-in-residence at the New England Conservatory of Music, has established itself as one of the most dynamic and electric piano trios on the concert stage today. In the words of the
Boston Globe, “passion is the hallmark of the Weilersteins’ playing.” Since their first public concert at the Round Top Festival Institute when cellist Alisa was six years old, the Trio has gained a wide following among diverse audiences.
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ESCHER STRING QUARTET
Monday, January 12, 2009
Since its formation in 2005, the Escher String Quartet has established a reputation as a world-class string quartet and attracted the attention of several esteemed artists, who immediately admired the young ensemble's individual sound, inspired artistic decisions and unique cohesiveness. Within months of its inception, the Escher was invited by both Pinchas Zukerman and Itzhak Perlman to be the quartet-in-residence at each artist's summer festival: The Young Artists Programme at Canada's National Arts Centre and The Perlman Chamber Music Program on Shelter Island, NY.
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DAVID FINCKEL, cello, and WU HAN, piano
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Ranked among the most esteemed and influential classical musicians in the world today, cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han appear in the world’s most prestigious concert series and festivals as soloists, as a duo, and in David’s case, as cellist of the Emerson String Quartet. With a repertoire that spans virtually the entire literature for cello and piano, the husband-wife duo has garnered superlatives from the press and the public.
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MUSICIANS from MARLBORO
Monday, March 9, 2009
Musicians From Marlboro is the touring extension of the renowned Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. Typically, tour groups are built around a work performed during a prior summer; with five days of intensive rehearsals and six to eight concerts in nine days, the tours offer the young participating artists invaluable experience and exposure – a chance to put into practice what they have gained from their summers in Vermont. For audiences, the tours provide the opportunity of hearing a wonderful mix of repertoire and discovering young artists destined to become future musical leaders.
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YSAŸE STRING QUARTET
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
The Ysaÿe Quartet, formed in 1984, is named after the violinist, quartet player and composer
Eugène Ysaÿe (1858 - 1931).
Four years after its inception, the Quartet gained international recognition by being the first French quartet to win the Grand Prix at the Evian International Competition, and, in 2001, it was awarded the Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros for its recording of the complete quartets by André
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