Hadelich Bids California Summer Adieu
Summer is coming to a close and violinist Augustin Hadelich will usher in the fall at the close of the Pacific Symphony’s Summer Festival on September 6. Hadelich, winner of the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, will perform Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto and Rachmaninoff’s “Vocalise,” at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, California. The 30-year-old symphony is led by music director Carl St. Clair and features concertmaster Raymond Kobler.
Joan Tower Feted at a Pair of Events
The Da Capo Chamber Players, resident ensemble at the Bard College Conservatory of Music for more than two decades, will honor founding member, composer, and pianist Joan Tower with the program “Da Capo’s Joan—A 70th Birthday Portrait of Joan Tower,” on September 15 at Merkin Hall in New York City. The performance will include a world premiere by composer Connor Brown, and will feature violinist Curtis Macomber, cellist André Emelianoff, and guest violist
Lois Martin.
Later in the month, the Cassatt String Quartet will be among those celebrating Tower’s birthday. The Manhattan-based Cassatts—violinists Muneko Otani and Jennifer Leshnower; violist Michiko Oshima; and cellist Nicole Johnson—will present an all-Tower program at the Leonard Nimoy Thalia at the Peter Norton Symphony Space in New York City on September 18, October 2, and October 16. The quartet will also present the program on October 14 at the Charles R. DeCarlo Performing Arts Center at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.
London Beckons Simonyan
Siberian violinist Mikhail Simonyan will make his London debut at Wigmore Hall with pianist Julia Zilberquit on October 14. The concert will include Bach’s Violin Sonatas Nos. 3 and 4 and Prokofiev’s Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2. The 22-year-old Simonyan will also release his debut album of the Prokofiev works with pianist Alexei Podkorytov on the Delos label in January 2009. Simonyan has studied under violinist Victor Danchenko.
Icelandic Violinist to Visit Carnegie Hall
Icelandic violinist Evalon Ingolf will take the stage with pianist Pei-Yao Wang at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on September 16 for performances of Ernest Chausson’s Poème; Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 3; Karol Szymanowski’s La Fontaine d’Aréthuse (from Three Myths); Johann Sebastian Bach’s Chaconne; and Henryk Wieniawski’s Souvenir de Moscou. Ingolf has released two albums on the JAPIS label, and has studied under Stephan Gheorghiu, Victor Pikaizen, Zakhar Bron, and Tibor Varga.