Chamber Music in New York

Four Hands Piano Recital Selections from music of Brahms, Dvořak, Schubert, and more with Jonathan Feldman and Rita Sloan, piano Rita Sloan is acknowledged internationally as a leading teacher of piano, collaborative piano and chamber music. Ms. Sloan retired this past July from being a piano faculty member and director of the collaborative piano program at the University of Maryland, positions she has held since 1999. As an Artist Faculty Member at the Aspen Music Festival, Rita Sloan founded their Collaborative Artist Program from which she retired in 2022. She has performed as soloist with both the Aspen Festival Orchestra and Chamber Symphony as well as in chamber music with many of Aspen’s distinguished guest artists. Teaching residencies and master class presentations have included Tainan National University of the Arts and National Normal University in Taiwan, China Conservatory in Beijing, China, leading universities in Seoul, Korea, London’s Royal College of Music, American universities and conservatories including the Juilliard School in New York. RIta Sloan has performed with orchestra, in recital, and in chamber music throughout the U.S., Europe, South America and Japan. She has been a guest in many chamber music venues and has performed with members of the Emerson and Guarneri String Quartets. Born in Russia to Polish parents, Ms. Sloan graduated from the Juilliard School, where she studied with Martin Canin and Rosina Lhévinne. Further studies were with Leon Fleisher, Aube Tzerko, Herbert Stessin and Vladimir Ashkenazy. 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 fes

Violin and Piano Recital Mozart Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor, K. 304 Allegro Tempo di menuetto Beethoven Sonata No. 1 in D Major, Op. 12 No. 1 Allegro con brio Tema con variazioni . Andante con moto Rondo . Allegro 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

$10 student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330. New York Piano Society, under the artistic direction of Natasha Paremski, proudly presents Dvořák's Piano Quartet, featuring Kaufman Special High School alumna violinist Ana Isabella España, renowned violist Aditi Prakash, and world-class cellist Gwen Krosnick. The afternoon will also feature performances by New York Piano Society members, including pianists making their Merkin Hall debut and those making return appearances. The program showcases masterworks from Bach to Rachmaninoff and everything in between. Come revel in an afternoon of beautiful music and unforgettable performances. Carl Di Casoli, piano Alex Shapiro, piano Alok Dutt, piano Nate Warden, piano Stan Sisskin, piano Arpan Doshi, piano Lauren Kim, piano Alexander Weymann, piano Henri Delbeau, piano Giancarlo Facchi, piano Len Horovitz, piano Yiran Wang, piano Ana Isabella España, violin Aditi Prakash, viola Gwen Krosnick, cello J.S. BACH – Goldberg Aria and Variations 1-14 BEETHOVEN – Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 “The Tempest” SIBELIUS – 13 Pieces for Piano, Etude, Op. 76 No. 2 MENDELSSOHN – Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 DEBUSSY – Arabesque No. 1 RAVEL – Prelude and Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin CHOPIN – Nocturne, Op. 48, No. 1 in C Minor RACHMANINOV – Prelude Op. 32, No 12 in G-sharp Minor LISZT – Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth R. SCHUMANN – Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17 DVOŘÁK – Piano Quartet, Op 87

$10 student tickets are available. Call the box office at 212 501 3330. New York Piano Society, under the artistic direction of Natasha Paremski, proudly presents Dvořák's Piano Quartet, featuring Kaufman Special High School alumna violinist Ana Isabella España, renowned violist Aditi Prakash, and world-class cellist Gwen Krosnick. The afternoon will also feature performances by New York Piano Society members, including pianists making their Merkin Hall debut and those making return appearances. The program showcases masterworks from Bach to Rachmaninoff and everything in between. Come revel in an afternoon of beautiful music and unforgettable performances. Carl Di Casoli, piano Alex Shapiro, piano Alok Dutt, piano Nate Warden, piano Stan Sisskin, piano Arpan Doshi, piano Lauren Kim, piano Alexander Weymann, piano Henri Delbeau, piano Giancarlo Facchi, piano Len Horovitz, piano Yiran Wang, piano Ana Isabella España, violin Aditi Prakash, viola Gwen Krosnick, cello J.S. BACH – Goldberg Aria and Variations 1-14 BEETHOVEN – Sonata No. 17 in D Minor, Op. 31 No. 2 “The Tempest” SIBELIUS – 13 Pieces for Piano, Etude, Op. 76 No. 2 MENDELSSOHN – Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 DEBUSSY – Arabesque No. 1 RAVEL – Prelude and Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin CHOPIN – Nocturne, Op. 48, No. 1 in C Minor RACHMANINOV – Prelude Op. 32, No 12 in G-sharp Minor LISZT – Die Zelle in Nonnenwerth R. SCHUMANN – Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17 DVOŘÁK – Piano Quartet, Op 87

Program: Haydn , Sonata no.1 in F major for violin and viola, Hob VI:1; Beethoven , Trio for Clarinet (or Violin), Cello and Piano, “Gassenhauer”, Op.11; Bruch , String Quintet in E flat major; Mendelssohn , Piano Quartet no. 3 in B minor, Op.3 Performers: Michael Brown , Piano; Danbi Um , Violin; Julia Schilz , Violin

Program: Haydn , Sonata no.1 in F major for violin and viola, Hob VI:1; Beethoven , Trio for Clarinet (or Violin), Cello and Piano, “Gassenhauer”, Op.11; Bruch , String Quintet in E flat major; Mendelssohn , Piano Quartet no. 3 in B minor, Op.3 Performers: Michael Brown , Piano; Danbi Um , Violin; Julia Schilz , Violin

Presented by Camerata Nordica. Performers: Camerata Nordica Octet; Shuichi Okada, Violin; Hanna Helgegren, Violin; Katarzyna Szydlowska, Violin; Daina Mateikaite, Violin; Kimi Makino, Viola; Sebastian Steinhilber, Viola; Zéphyrin Rey-Bellet, Cello; Sabina Sandri-Olsson, Cello Program: SHOSTAKOVICH SHOSTAKOVICH Two Pieces for String Octet, Op. 11; HANNA HELGEGREN HANNA HELGEGREN The Nordic Seasons; FELIX MENDELSSOHN FELIX MENDELSSOHN Octet; * And traditional Swedish folk pieces

As our concert series returns home to Kirkland Chapel following a two-year renovation, we are thrilled to present Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles , one of the most celebrated choral works of the twenty-first century. Inspired by the ancient Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in northern Spain, the work unfolds across four immersive movements, blending echoes of medieval chant with luminous contemporary harmonies to create a sound world of extraordinary beauty, color, and power. A journey of perseverance, transformation, and arrival, Path of Miracles is an especially fitting work with which to mark our return to this beloved space. Purchase in person tickets here. Purchase livestream tickets here.