NEC's most popular chamber music series, curated by cellist Laurence Lesser, President Emeritus and Walter W. Naumburg Chair in Music, features faculty, alumni, students and friends.
This year's season spotlights several significant composer birthdays plus pieces inspired by national, folk, or vernacular idioms. Performers whose names are followed by an asterisk are NEC alumni.
Tonight's program features a recent work by NEC composition chair Michael Gandolfi.
Ludwig van Beethoven Folk Songs
D’Anna Fortunato*, mezzo-soprano
Donald Weilerstein, violin
Laurence Lesser, cello
Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, piano
Michael Gandolfi Plain Song, Fantastic Dances (2005)
Joanna Kurkowicz, violin
Stephanie Fong, viola
Rafael Popper-Keizer*, cello
Edwin Barker*, bass
Thomas Martin, clarinet
Richard Svoboda, bassoon
Jason Snider*, French horn
Bedrich Smetana Trio in G Minor, Op. 15
Donald Weilerstein, violin
Laurence Lesser, cello
Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, piano
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CHARLES IVES