CofC Concerts to Feature Gold Medal Violinist Ilya Kaler in Chamber Music Performance

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CofC Concerts to Feature Gold Medal Violinist Ilya Kaler in Chamber Music Performance

April 13, 2017 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm UTC+0

$15 – $25

Multiple Gold-Medal Winning Violinist Ilya Kaler To Close 2016-17 Season of College of Charleston Charleston Music Fest

Ilya Kaler is one of the most outstanding personalities of the violin today, whose career ranges from that of a soloist and recording artist to chamber musician and professor. He will be joined by Yuriy Bekker, violin; Natalia Khoma, cello and Volydymyr Vynnytsky, piano; for an intimate chamber concert to close the 2016-17 season of the Charleston Music Fest. Presented by the College of Charleston School of the Arts, the concert will take place on Thursday, April 13, 2017 and will include performances of Sonata for two violins in C Major, Op.56 by Sergei Prokofiev and Trio Elegiaque Op. 9 in D minor by Sergei Rachmaninov.

Kaler earned rave reviews for his solo appearances with such distinguished orchestras throughout the world as the Leningrad, Moscow and Dresden Philharmonic Orchestras, Montreal Symphony, Danish and Berlin Radio Orchestras, Moscow and Zurich Chamber Orchestras, as well as many of the major American orchestras. Kaler collaborated with a number of outstanding conductors such as Valery Gergiev, Dmitry Kitayenko, Mariss Jansons and Jerzy Semkow. His solo recitals have taken him throughout the five continents.

Kaler is a gold medal winner at three of the world’s prestigious international violin competitions: the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (1986), the Sibelius Competition in Helsinki (1985), and the Paganini Competition in Genoa (1981). Kaler currently serves as Professor of Violin at the DePaul University School of Music in Chicago. He frequently serves as a jury member at international violin competitions throughout the world. Kaler records exclusively for Naxos Records. His highly acclaimed albums include Sonatas by Schumann and Brahms, Concertos by Paganini, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Schumann, Dvorak, Glazunov, Szymanowski, Karlowicz, as well as Taneyev Suite, Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo and Ysaye’s Six Sonatas for Violin Solo.

Yuriy Bekker, violinist and conductor, has led the Charleston Symphony Orchestra as Concertmaster since 2007 and was named its Principal Pops Conductor in 2016. Additionally, Bekker served as the orchestra’s Acting Artistic Director from 2010-2014 and Director of Chamber Orchestra from 2014-2015, playing a major role in the orchestra’s successful resurgence. Bekker has performed worldwide as a celebrated guest concertmaster, avid chamber musician, and critically-acclaimed soloist. In addition to over a dozen concertos with the Charleston Symphony, he has performed with the Vancouver Symphony (British Columbia), Ulster Orchestra in Northern Ireland, Buffalo Philharmonic, Chicago Chamber Music Society, European Music Festival Stuttgart (Germany), Pacific Music Festival (Japan), Spoleto Festival USA, Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Aspen Music Festival, at the Kennedy Center, and in cities including: New York City, Chicago, Miami, Orlando, Missoula, Asheville, Flagstaff, Scottsdale, and Graz, Austria. He has collaborated with Herbert Greenberg, Claudio Bohorquez, Alexander Kerr, Andrew Armstrong, Robert DeMaine, Sara Chang, Gil Shaham, Joshua Roman, JoAnn Falletta, and Andrew Litton. Mr. Bekker is an adjunct faculty member of the College of Charleston School of the Arts as a violin professor and as conductor of the College of Charleston Orchestra.

Natalia Khoma – Volodymyr Vynnytsky Duo is the unique team of two virtuoso soloists from the same city and with a similar background. Both were born in Lviv, Ukraine, studied at the prestigious Moscow Conservatory, are International Competitions winners. Each has a distinguished career as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, and has appeared individually and as a Duo with major orchestras and premier chamber music series through the United States and Europe. With performances which have been hailed around the world as “most excellent,” “perfectly controlled and beautifully expressive,” “magical…deeply touching,” “with virtuosity and admirable feeling,” “passion, profundity and poignancy,” “cellist pianist solo soulmates,” the Duo is one of the most electrifying musical partnerships.

Charleston Music Fest presents intimate chamber music concerts featuring College of Charleston faculty, and local and international artists. The performance will take place on Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 7:30 p.m., at the Recital Hall in the Simons Center for the Arts, 54 Saint Philip St. General admission is $25 and $15 for all students. Tickets and season subscriptions can be purchased online at go.cofc.edu/cmf, by calling (843) 953-6315, or at the door.

CofC Concerts to Feature Gold Medal Violinist Ilya Kaler in Chamber Music Performance

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Date:
April 13, 2017
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm UTC+0
Cost:
$15 – $25
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Website:
http://sota.cofc.edu/

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Venue

Simons Center Recital Hall
54 St. Philip Street
Charleston, 29401
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Phone
843-953-4422