Bruce Wolosoff, photo by Jamie Lopez; Amy Barston, photo courtesy the artist; Deborah Buck, photo courtesy the artist; Mark Tan photo by Andrej Grilc. Tickets General Ticket: $30 Reserve Tickets Now! This program is sponsored by Steve Pesner, in loving memory of his wife Michele Pesner. The Reflections in Music series, led by artistic director Bruce Wolosoff, returns for a program that considers the ‘Opus One’ – the first published work by a composer. From Beethoven’s assured early chamber writing and Paganini’s brilliant self-portrait as a violin virtuoso, to Rachmaninoff’s expansive lyricism and Alban Berg’s late-Romantic intensity breaking through into modernism, each work performed in this invigorating concert reveals a composer defining a public voice. Wolosoff will play piano and introduce music with his signature spoken commentary, joined by violinists Max Tan and Deborah Buck, and cellist Amy Barston. “An ‘opus one’ is a moment of arrival, when a composer steps forward and declares ‘this is who I am,” according to Wolosoff. The program also includes first published works by Bach and Vivaldi, as well as Wolosoff’s own Opus One, the piano trio Bodhisattva. The Washington Post wrote that the work, “Drawing on the starkness of Beethoven’s late quartet language and the sorrowful language of the blues, is a moving, well-crafted piece that offers accessibility without being simple-minded.” ABOUT THE PERFORMERS AMY BARSTON Cello ABOUT AMY Praised as “passionate and elegant” by The New York Times, cellist Amy Barston has performed as a soloist and chamber musician on stages all over the world, including Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Ravinia, Caramoor, Haan Hall (Jerusalem), the Banff Centre, Prussia Cove (England), the Power House (Australia), and Chicago’s Symphony Center. At seventeen, she was a soloist with the Chicago Symphony on live television, won Grand Prize in the Fischoff International Chamber Music Competition. Amy earned her Masters at Juilliard with Joel Krosnick. She also worked with YoYo Ma. She has performed as soloist with dozens of orchestras all over the world and made her first solo appearance with orchestra in Guelph, Canada when she was twelve. Amy is a devoted teacher at the Juilliard School Pre-College Division; her students commute for lessons from hundreds of miles away, some as far as Alaska and Japan. She is visiting cello professor at Xiamen University, artists in residence at Swarthmore College, and artistic director of both ChamberFest Canadaigua in NY and Park Ave Concerts in PA. For 12 years she was the cellist of the Corigliano Quartet, hailed by Strad Magazine as having “abundant commitment and mastery,” and whose Naxos CD was named recording of the year by both the New Yorker and Gramophone Magazine. Amy’s recent recital performances include Bali, Australia, Taiwan, New Zealand, Canada, New York, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Baltimore, Rochester, Seattle, Chicago, and China. DEBORAH BUCK V...
