Violinist

Virtuosi Violini

Madison Avenue Presbyterian

Join us on New Year’s Day for some of Bach’s greatest hits! The ARTEK Singers, Saint Ignatius Choir, and ARTEK Orchestra will be led by director Gwendolyn Toth in a festive concert of our favorites. The program includes the sublime Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043, featuring ARTEK’s violin leader Cynthia Freivogel and guest soloists Augusta McKay Lodge; the beloved Brandenburg no. 3 Concerto for strings; and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, part 2 with its heavenly Sinfonia for strings and winds, featuring ARTEK’s outstanding vocal soloists.

ARTEK • Holiday Concert

Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church

In 1778, at the age of 22, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visited Paris with his mother.  On a previous visit, he and his older sister, Nannerl, had been paraded before Europe’s courts and aristocrats as child prodigies.  Nannerl was then twelve; Wolfgang, seven.

Mozart’s 1778 reception was somewhat different.  He claimed the performance of his own Sinfonia Concertante had been sabotaged by an Italian composer, Giuseppe Cambini.  To make up for that, Joseph le Gros, the director of the esteemed French public concert series, Concert Spirituel, asked him to write a new symphony.  The result was Symphony No. 31 in D Major, known as Mozart’s ‘Paris’ Symphony.  It premiered at the Parisian home of Count Karl von Sickingen on June 12, 1778, with its first public performance at Concert Spirituel six days later.

Violinist

Augusta McKay Lodge

Events

Past events

Oct 28, 2025

Virtuosi Violini · American Classical Orchestra

Jan 1, 2025

ARTEK • Holiday Concert · Gotham Early Music Scene

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Concerto for Two Violins by Bach

Gotham Early Music Scene

Violin in Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major by Bach

Gotham Early Music Scene

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