Violin and Piano Recital with Mark Peskanov and Jonathan Feldman

Violin and Piano Recital Beethoven Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1 Allegro con brio Tema con variazioni. Andante con moto Rondo. Allegro Bach Selections from the Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin Franck Sonata in A Major Allegretto ben moderato Allegro Recitativo-Fantasia: Ben moderato Allegretto poco mosso with Mark Peskanov, violin, and Jonathan Feldman, piano American virtuoso violinist and artistic visionary Mark Peskanov was born in Odesa. Peskanov sang before he could walk or talk, and soon became a star violin student at the famed Stolyarsky school. At fifteen, he emigrated to the United States, where he was immediately accepted at the Aspen Music Festival and the Juilliard School. His phenomenal facility and musicianship won him both the Aspen and Juilliard concerto competitions, bringing him to the notice of Isaac Stern and Mstislav Rostropovich and rocketing him into the top echelons of the music world. Upon his debut with the Chicago Symphony, the Chicago Tribune called him a “sensational soloist.” The Cleveland Plain Dealer proclaimed, “Violinist Adds Glory to Odessa” and the New York Times declared, “Mark Peskanov is a tremendous young violinist and his Friday evening concert at Carnegie Hall was a triumph…He has it all—technique, temperament, and taste.” Peskanov is a staunch champion of American composers. He premiered the John Williams Concerto with the St. Louis Symphony, and the Stanley Wolfe Concerto (written for Peskanov) with the New York Philharmonic. He has performed more than fifty concertos with virtually every major U.S. orchestra and in Europe, the Middle East, Australia, South America and Japan. Peskanov’s major accolades include the Avery Fischer Career Grant, the first Frederick R. Mann Award, and Carnegie Hall’s first Isaac Stern Award. Peskanov inaugurated Tokyo’s Suntory Hall with Yo-Yo Ma and Stern, and Weill Recital Hall with Stern, Midori and Gil Shaham. Collaborating with these colleagues prompted Peskanov to turn intensively to the chamber music repertoire’s more intimate, complex, and dialogical possibilities. His delight in chamber music, his independent artistic vision, and his desire to mentor promising musicians as he had been mentored, led to Peskanov’s present role. Since 2005, he is president and artistic/executive director of Bargemusic, New York City’s cultural icon in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Over more than three decades of artistic involvement with Bargemusic, Peskanov has curated in the neighborhood of five thousand chamber concerts, encompassing a vast range of genres and styles in hundreds of concerts annually. Under his leadership Bargemusic continues to evolve as an innovative, influential, and integral component of New York City’s cultural world. Peskanov is known for his openness to an astonishing range of music and artists at all stages of their careers. Muses the New York Times, “One reason that openness seems to come so easily to Mr. Peskanov is that few proposals crossing his desk are likely to outpace his own vision of what Bargemusic can be.” Recognized by colleagues and critics worldwide as a leading chamber musician and collaborative pianist, Jonathan Feldman has performed with some of the world’s most legendary musicians, including violinists Nathan Milstein, Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, Kyung Wha Chung, Joshua Bell, Yehudi Menuhin, Augustin Hadelich, cellists Pierre Fournier, Zara Nelsova, Harvey Shapiro, and flutists James Galway and Emanuel Pahud.A graduate of The Juilliard School, Mr. Feldman joined its faculty in 1989 and became chairman of the school’s collaborative piano department from 1991 until 2015. He was invited to join the collaborative piano faculty of New England Conservatory in 2010 and completed his tenure there in 2024. He was asked to help out, and is currently teaching, at the USC Thornton School in Los Angeles for the 2024-25 year. He has given master classes throughout the United States and the Far East and has lectured at international festivals and competitions. He is the Director of Collaborative Piano at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, a post he has held since 2005. He has appeared in other summer festivals, such as Tanglewood, Bridgehampton, Music from Angel Fire, Vail Bravo Festival, the Hidden Valley Music Seminars, the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival and the Collaborative Piano Institute. He has performed with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York City and was a featured performer in a Live From Lincoln Center with Gil Shaham. For over twenty years, he performed regularly with the New York Philharmonic as a keyboard player and appeared in many concerts with the New York Philharmonic Chamber Ensembles. Jonathan Feldman has recorded for Angel/EMI, RCA Red Seal, DGG, Columbia Masterworks, Naxos, Nonesuch, Summit, Avie and Cala Records. Mr. Feldman has recorded with his wife, New York Philharmonic principal bassoonist Judith LeClair. His most recent recording is with violinist William Wei, winner of the 2015 Queen Elizabeth competition. Mr. Feldman can also be heard on soundtracks for many movies, most notably Music of the Heart with Meryl Streep and The Man Who Wasn’t There, directed by the Coen Brothers.