Ukraine-born violinist/composer Andy Didorenko returns to HVG to perform a violin and piano duo recital with his wife Yuliya Basis. Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory graduates, they have performed all over the world as soloists and chamber musicians and as a duo since 2002. The duo will present a program of standard violin and piano works as well as Didorenko’s new Composition
Pieces. Also on the program will be another new piece, Triad, for three violins with Didorenko and two of his top students.
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Friends and Neighbors at Hudson View Gardens
Friends and Neighbors is back to celebrate two anniversary birthdays in 2020 -Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th and longtime HVG resident and composer, Aaron Jay Kernis’s 60th – with
performances by members of the Kernis/Luest family as well as friends and neighbors. Beethoven’s legacy as one of the worlds best classical composers carries on today after 250 years; Kernis is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the 2019 Grammy award for “Best Contemporary Classical Composition”.
Suggested donation of $15 ($12 for students & seniors; free for kids under 8) includes post concert reception and a chance to mix and mingle with Sam and your friends and neighbors.
The Lounge is located one block west of Ft. Washington Avenue at Pinehurst Avenue & West 183rd St. (A or #1 train to 181st St. or M4 bus to 183rd St.)
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Rococo Variations at Hudson View Gardens
PROGRAM Quartet in G major from “Tafelmusik” by Georg Philip Telemann Oboe sonata in G minor by Giovanni Batista Platti Concerto RV 98 “Tempesta di Mare” by Antonio Vivaldi Concerto RV 88 “La Pastorella” by Antonio Vivaldi
ROCOCO VARIATIONS The High Baroque is in full bloom in this program of quartets by Vivaldi, Telemann, and Johann Christian Bach with guest flutist Melanie Williams. These conversational pieces are by turns light, airy, fanciful, and virtuosic. Help us finish the season in “style galante” and enjoy the brighter, lighter side of the baroque era.
Carnegie Hall Citywide Concerts at Our Saviour’s Atonement: Bridget Kibbey, Bach to Brazil
When you hear Bridget Kibbey, you’ll toss aside everything you thought you knew about harp music. Praised for her “bravura and sensitivity” (The Washington Post), her daring and diverse programming spans the Baroque era—her performance of Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is a YouTube sensation—to explorations of Brazilian dance music. She regularly performs with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, is a passionate advocate for living composers, and has toured and recorded with such superstars as Plácido Domingo and Dawn Upshaw.
PERFORMERS
A celebration of Nuevo Latino Culture, Bridget as assembled an all-star cast of musicians merging the jazz and classical worlds, including percussion giant Samuel Torres, and guitarist João Luiz Rezende.
About Carnegie Hall Citywide
Carnegie Hall is honored to partner with local community organizations to present free concerts that are sensational celebrations of sounds from across the country and around the globe. At a Carnegie Hall Citywide concert, you can revisit your favorite music or try something new, stay in your home borough or journey farther afield. Whatever you choose, you’ll experience everything that makes New York City so vibrant.
Rebecca Fischer & Anthony Hawley at Hudson View Gardens
Award-winning violinist REBECCA FISCHER and visual artist ANTHONY HAWLEY will present The Afield, a multidisciplinary collaboration dedicated to exploring the space between sound and sight. The husband and wife duo combine new and original compositions for violin, voice and electronics with video and other media. The performance will include original works as well as
pieces by Telemann, composer Matthew Fuerst, and others.Suggested donation of $15 ($12 for students & seniors; free for kids under 8) includes post concert reception and a chance to mix and mingle with Sam and your friends and neighbors.
The Lounge is located one block west of Ft. Washington Avenue at Pinehurst Avenue & West 183rd St. (A or #1 train to 181st St. or M4 bus to 183rd St.)