Chiarina’s season opener shines with beloved works for strings by Mozart and Tchaikovsky and a dynamic cast.
Post Type Archives: Concerts
Retrospectives
Music for clarinet, viola, and piano, written over a span of more than two centuries, comes alive in this program featuring artists Charles Neidich, Dana Kelley, and Efi Hackmey.
Heaven and Earth
This program for piano trio journeys through the otherworldly visions of Vasks, the sensuous Romanticism of Rachmaninoff, and Schoenfield’s unique musical fusion that evokes the sounds of a jazz café.
The Trout
Schubert’s beloved “Trout” Quintet forms the centerpiece of this program that also showcases a bright, evocative piano trio by Tailleferre and virtuosic duo for violin and bass by Penderecki.
Fairy Tales
Imagination, stories, and colors come together in Chiarina’s opening concert of 2021. Principal players from the National Symphony Orchestra and Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra perform the music of Debussy, Schumann, Tailleferre, and Poulenc.
Monuments: Beethoven at 250
Commemorating Beethoven’s 250th birthday in 2020, Chiarina presents a second concert of his trios for violin, cello and piano.
Distant Songs
National Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Nurit Bar-Josef teams up with pianist Efi Hackmey in a program of old and new, showcasing colorful and evocative works by Fauré, Prokofiev, and American composer Reena Esmail.
Between Worlds
In Chiarina’s first-ever cello-piano recital, artistic directors Carrie Bean Stute and Efi Hackmey explore the voice of American composer Carlos Simon, the sacred solemnity of Max Bruch, and the splendor of Brahms.
Convergence
Something borrowed, something new: Schubert’s work for the arpeggione—an instrument that enjoyed a brief vogue in the 1820s—shines on the viola, and Ravel’s incorporation of the American blues into his sonata memorializes the musical spirit of the 1920s. Dvořák borrows as well, fusing a Czech folk idiom with 19th-century Romanticism.
Spectrums
Two towering giants of Austro-German Romanticism—a young Mahler working in the wake of a seasoned Brahms—bookend Jennifer Higdon’s work that explores the connection between colors and music.