Sunday Concert Series at the GARDNER #3

A series of Classical concerts performed in ISG/Calderwood Hall

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It's 19 degrees with a wind factor of about 5 !  But it's worth bundling up and heading into ISG to enjoy another wonderful concert in the Sunday Series Program.

 

 

 Presenting

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Veit Hertenstein, Viola

Born in 1985 in Augsburg, Germany, Mr. Hertenstein began studying the violin and piano at the age of 5 and switched to the viola when he was 15. At the age of 19, he studied with Nicolas Corti, violist of the Amati Quartet at Zurich Hochschule der Künste.  In 2009 he earned an artist diploma at the Haut Ecole de Musique in Geneva working with violist Nobuko Imai and with Miguel da Silva, violist of the Ysaye Quartet.

He plays a 1701 David Tecchler viola. 

Violist Veit Hertenstein, First Prize Winner of the 2011 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, is one of the most captivating musicians on his instrument to emerge in years. Known for his exciting stage presence and virtuoso artistry.

Mr. Hertenstein has participated in the Marlboro Festival, the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad and the Verbier Festival in 2009 and 2010, where he was awarded the “Henri Louis de la Grange” special viola prize. He has appeared at Seiji Ozawa’s International Music Academy in Switzerland in 2008, and has won numerous competitions such as the Pro Helvetia viola concerto commission, the New Talent Competition of the European Broadcasting Union (2009), the Tokyo International Viola Competition (2009), and the Orpheus Competition in Zurich (2007). His performances have been broadcast throughout Europe, and he has recorded for Euro-Classics. Mr. Hertenstein will make his New York debut at Merkin Hall and his Washington, D.C. debut at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater this season.

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Pei-Yao Wang, Piano

Born in Taipei, Pei-Yao Wang was the youngest pianist ever to receive the overall First Prize in the Taiwan National Piano Competition, at the age of eight. Four years later, she entered the Curtis Institute of Music, where she worked with Seymour Lipkin and Institute Director Gary Graffman. She then studied with Claude Frank at Yale University, where she received the Master of Music degree. She currently resides in New York City, where for several years she was the only student of Richard Goode.

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Pei-Yao Wang made her official orchestral début with the Taipei Symphony Orchestra at the age of eight and has since performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. In chamber music she has collaborated with members of the Guarneri, Orion, Chicago, Mendelssohn and Miro quartets, and has performed with other distinguished artists such as Claude Frank, Hilary Hahn, David Shifrin, and Mitsuko Uchida. She is also regularly invited to perform at festivals including Marlboro, Caramoor, Norfolk, La Jolla, Ravinia, and Bridgehampton in New York. She is currently a member of Chamber Music Society Two at Lincoln Center, a programme to promote emerging young artists.

 

Performing Selections from:

Schumann, Sonata in A minor

Prokofiev, Selections from Romeo and Juliet

Rota, Intermezzo for Viola and Piano

Shostakovich, Preludes Op.34

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BRAVO !~