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Originally trained as a professional chess player, this stunning Ukrainian virtuoso sailed through the Kiev Conservatory, winning competitions along the way, by relying on her extraordinary sight-reading abilities and photographic memory. Her career now flourishing, Ms. Lisitsa dazzles audiences from Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to Vienna’s Musikverein and Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw. She performs regularly with such performers as Lynn Harrell and Hilary Hahn.

BEETHOVEN "Appassionata" Sonata

RACHMANINOV Preludes

SCHUMANN Kinderszenen

LISZT Totentanz

“A gigantic talent – electrifying!” – Baltimore Sun

“Blazing virtuosity”– Miami Herald

Valentina Lisitsa 's website

Concert sponsored by Denise and Ed Del Beccaro

This superb British artist (whose playing was featured on the soundtrack of “Amadeus”) has performed recently with
the N.Y. Philharmonic with Sir Colin Davis, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra with Trevor Pinnock, and the Vienna
Philharmonic with Sir Simon Rattle. Critics rave about her recitals in Rotterdam, Prague, Washington, Philadelphia,
Carnegie Hall and at London’s Wigmore and Queen Elizabeth Halls.

BACH Partita in C minor

SCHUBERT Moments Musicaux

SCHUBERT Sonata in C minor

“Stormy brilliance and pure shimmering beauty”– San Francisco Chronicle

“A superb palette of tonal colours, immaculately voiced” –The Guardian (London)

This, the most celebrated quartet in the world, has received eight Grammy Awards, including an unprecedented two for “Best Classical Album.” Artists-in-residence at the Smithsonian Institution, the group was recently honored by Carnegie Hall with an historic eight-concert Perspectives Series and has worked with Emanuel Ax, Leon Fleisher, Lynn Harrell, Paul McCartney, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern and Richard Stoltzman among many others.

BEETHOVEN Quartet in F minor, Op. 95 "Serioso"

MOZART Quartet in B-flat, K. 589

RAVEL Quartet

“America’s greatest quartet” –Time Magazine

“Musically insightful and always interesting.”–New York Times

The Emerson Quartet's website

Concert Sponsored by Janet and Sol Weingarten

These virtuostic, ebullient works reflect one of the happiest and most productive periods in Bach’s life, when he was the music director in the small town of Coethen, and they remain enduringly popular. Our program will feature Brandenburgs No. 4 (a merry romp) and No. 5 (a festive tour de force), as well as a Vivaldi concerto for two recorders. The Bay Area boasts the country’s greatest concentration of early music specialists, and our performers will be an elite musical “A-team,” including members of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.

J.S. BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 4
J.S. BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
VIVALDI Concerto for Two Recorders

Dwelling in the highest echelon of today’s musical artists, this multiple Grammy Award-winning cellist performs regularly with the leading orchestras of Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, London, Munich, and Berlin, with such conductors as James Levine, Sir Neville Marriner, Kurt Masur, Zubin Mehta, Sir Simon Rattle, and Michael Tilson Thomas. He collaborates with such artists as Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman (with whom he performed live at the Grammy Awards), Vladimir Ashkenazy, Anne-Sophie Mutter, and André Previn.

Program TBA

Concert sponsored by Myrna and Robert Witt

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