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TSM presents Schubert's Piano

The Royal Conservatory of Music

The critically acclaimed Trio Zimbalist brings their lively energy to Toronto for a performance of tempestuous piano trios bound to keep you on the edge of your seat.  

TSM presents Trio Zimbalist

With a heritage as rich as a Sachertorte, tonight’s concert gorges on the finest musical ingredients of Austria’s capital. Beethoven’s symphonies are cornerstones of the orchestral world – our very own sponge cake base! The Seventh Symphony is a feast of rhythm and dance, although Beethoven came from Spanish stock and maybe this just got the better of him when he cooked it up – expect more barnstorming than boleros. A hundred years on, the music of Berg stirred from the melting pot of 1900s Vienna. His Violin Concerto is, by turn, angelic and angst-ridden, one of the most innovative pieces ever written for the instrument. ‘Waltz King’ Johann Strauss II provides the icing on the cake with his Emperor Waltz, with a bonus trip down the river Danube, our dance through Vienna is complete.

Viennese Whirl

The Bridgewater Hall

Strauss’ Also sprach Zarathustra — with its iconic opening popularized in 2001: A Space Odyssey — sets the tone for a program of dazzling, otherworldly pieces. Bartók’s pantomime ballet, The Miraculous Mandarin, is a lurid, supernatural tale rendered in arresting colors. Czech violinist Josef Špaček takes on Martinů’s tuneful and vivacious Violin Concerto No. 1.

Also sprach Zarathustra

Symphony Center

Curtis President and CEO Roberto Díaz joins a Trio Zimbalist for a performance in New York City. Noted for both their refinement and fire, the four musicians will bring their arsenal of talent to Fauré’s gorgeous, rarely performed C-minor Piano Quartet, and Dvořák’s Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, “Dumky”

Curtis at 92NY

The Arnhold Center

This week, music director Nathalie Stutzmann conducts Dvořák’s timeless Symphony No. 9, From the New World, a musical postcard written by a homesick composer working in New York City. One of the best-loved symphonies of the Romantic age, Dvořák’s New World offers a tender English-horn solo that later became the Gospel hymn “Goin’ Home.” Pairing New World with the composers elegant Violin Concerto, played by talented Czech violinist Josef Špaček, making his ASO debut. Maestro Stutzmann opens the program with the atmospheric miniature Cortège by Jean Sibelius.

Nathalie Stutzmann + Dvořák New World Symphony

Atlanta Symphony Hall

Following a highly successful Fall 2021 tour of Europe, where it garnered acclaim for “precision and feverish intensity” (Greece’s EfSyn), Trio Zimbalist returns to Europe with Curtis on Tour in Spring 2023. Don’t miss this chance to witness the latest addition to Curtis’s artist management initiative and hear iconic works from the piano trio repertoire.

Josef Špaček

Violinist

Events

Past events

Jul 19, 2024

TSM presents Schubert's Piano · The Royal Conservatory of Music

Jul 17, 2024

TSM presents Trio Zimbalist · The Royal Conservatory of Music

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Violin Concerto by Berg

BBC Philharmonic

Violin in Violin Concerto No. 1 by Martinů

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

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