Four world premieres celebrated the 2020 winners of these prestigious prizes in Jewish and Canadian music.
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Concert Review: ASPECT Chamber Music Series – ‘French Impressions’ (Debussy, Chausson) (27 February 2020)
Violinist Grace Park, pianist Gilles Vonsattel, and the Calidore String Quartet played music by Claude Debussy and Ernest Chausson in the latest ASPECT chamber music concert.
Read More »Concert Review: Mirror Visions Ensemble – ‘The Disappearing Art of Letter Writing’ (NYC, 17 Feb 2020)
Four singers and a pianist swung from romance to riotous humor to wartime pathos, delivering musical settings of letters from different eras with force and feeling.
Read More »Concert Review: Cellist Jakob Kullberg (Brooklyn, 2 February 2020)
Music by six Nordic composers, including Kullberg himself, allowed three fine musicians to focus on the cellist's ongoing search for new ways to build on the past century's musical traditions while forging his own path.
Read More »Concert Review: Intersect Music Festival 2019
I enjoyed myself and would definitely return.
Read More »Cabaret/Theater Review: Sven Ratzke, ‘Where Are We Now’ – Songs of David Bowie
Cabaret superstar Sven Ratzke and brilliant pianist Christian Pabst's 'Where Are We Now' is an ardent tribute to David Bowie and a vivid efflorescence of two towering artistic personalities.
Read More »Concert Review: Juilliard String Quartet Play Beethoven, Kurtág (NYC, 12 Dec 2019)
The Juilliard String Quartet captured Beethoven at his brightest and darkest, with string quartets early and late.
Read More »Concert Review: Aspect Chamber Music Series – ‘Russian Elegy’ (Music of Tchaikovsky, Glinka, Lyadov)
Aspect presented a concert of Russian music by Tchaikovsky, Glinka, and Lyadov from an accomplished, though ad hoc, piano trio featuring a 2019 International Tchaikovsky Competition First Prize winner.
Read More »Concert Review: Illenium – The Ascend Tour
If you're lucky enough to live near a venue where Illenium is bringing this tour (with William Black and Dabin), do yourself a favor you'll remember for a lifetime, and get a ticket.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Ching-Yun Hu, Presented by GetClassical in School (NYC, 19 Nov 2019)
Pianist Ching-Yun Hu performed a kick-off concert for GetClassical in School, a new program that classical music concert artists into NYC schools.
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