Pianist

Be enthralled by the dazzling virtuosity of Juho Pohjonen and Wu Qian sharing one piano.

Piano Virtuosos

Norton Museum of Art

“We are so excited and proud to return to Menlo and bring you this passionately romantic program full of verve and imagination. We start our concert with a new work by the phenomenal young composer Julia Adolphe who wrote the piece for us in memory of her father. This emotional and life-affirming trio was premiered by us at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center earlier this year, and we can‘t wait to introduce it to the Menlo Audience. The rest of the program features the Great Romantics; Edvard Grieg, Cecile Chaminade; a Trailblazer for female composers in the 19th Century; and we finish the program with Felix Mendelssohn‘s 2nd Piano Trio, undoubtedly one of his finest and most dramatic works. We can‘t wait to see you at our performance!” —The Sitkovetsky Trio

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The Sitkovesky Trio

St Bede's Episcopal Church

CONCERT PROGRAM VI: Chamber Music Now

Menlo School Campus

The artistic, political, and social explosions that began at the start of the twentieth century presaged one hundred years of turmoil, and composers realized that musical rules were no more. Variety abounded; no musical style dominated, and anyone could become an artist. This eclectic sampling of music from the most changeable era in world history was foreshadowed by Beethoven, whose creativity and artistic independence remained unmatched.

CONCERT PROGRAM V: The Turbulent Century

Each weekday of the festival at 11:00 a.m., our “Mornings@Menlo” sessions feature either a master class with the Chamber Music Institute’s young artists, or a Café Conversation. The Institute’s master classes offer visitors the opportunity to witness the exchange between artist and apprentice, and culminate in the festival’s series of Prelude Performances and Koret Young Performers Concerts.

Master Class With Wu Qian

Rose Studio: Beethoven, Rachmaninov, and Price

Rose Studio

Late Night Rose: Beethoven, Rachmaninov, and Price

The three most familiar members of the chamber music family—winds, strings, and piano—join forces for a program rich in sonorities and cultural variety. Bohuslav Martinů, who inherited the mantle of Dvořák to become the most famous Czech composer of his day, left a huge catalog of chamber music. The Austrian Ludwig Thuille excelled in opera but his chamber music is now making a well-deserved comeback. And Germany’s Ludwig Spohr, one of his era’s greatest violinists, composed prolifically and skillfully for all combinations of chamber ensembles, the nonet is among his finest compositions.

Winds of Change

Lincoln Center

Quintessential Russian and Viennese styles abound in this pairing of composers deeply embedded in their singular cultures. The Slavic melancholy of Arensky gives way to the exuberant flair of Brahms as we juxtapose works in both popular and formal idioms: Arensky’s miniatures for children and Brahms’s Hungarian Dances show the composers at their crowd-pleasing best, while their two piano trios reveal the depth and mastery that earned each legendary status and lasting appeal.

Brahms and Arensky

Four-hand piano pieces bring musicians as close as they can get to the ultimate in collegial music-making. The piano trio, with just one additional musician, generates all the excitement and passion of an entire orchestra. Romantics Brahms and Arensky mine the full range of these two genres to bring listeners an evening that begins with the wonder of childhood and ends with Brahms at the height of his dramatic powers.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Central United Methodist Church

Delight & Drama

St. Cecilia Music Center

Festival Day 2

Tucson Convention Center

What makes a sonata great? This most intimate form of chamber music, an equal give-and-take between two artists, has inspired composers from classical to modern times to write some of their most exciting, personal and delightfully intriguing music. From Brahms’s masterful, profound late-period clarinet sonata we move to Shostakovich’s last work, finished only weeks before his death. The mournful voice of the viola expresses Shostakovich’s farewell to the world. And no one in history elevated the sonata genre as dramatically as Beethoven, as we will hear in his early, nerve-rattling violin sonata in the composer’s signature stormy key of C minor.

Great Sonatas

Harris Theater

Brahms, Beethoven, and Shostakovich Sonatas

Long-time Sedona friend and favorite Alex Fiterstein headlines a program featuring the rich tradition of Jewish music, journeying from the classical tradition to the wild and fun world of Klezmer, as seen through the soulful voice of the clarinet.

From Classics to Klezmer

Sedona Performing Arts Center

The remarkable and versatile violinist Kristin Lee is joined by the brilliant pianist Qian Wu for a recital of classics and delights from the vast violin-piano genre.

Wu Qian

Pianist

Events

Feb 22, 2024

Piano Virtuosos · Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach

Nov 3, 2023

The Sitkovesky Trio · Music@Menlo

Aug 5, 2023

CONCERT PROGRAM VI: Chamber Music Now · Music@Menlo

Jul 30, 2023

CONCERT PROGRAM V: The Turbulent Century · Music@Menlo

Jul 28, 2023

Master Class With Wu Qian · Music@Menlo

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