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Tonight’s concert is being of the faculties at the Cleveland Tchaikovsky Piano Competition in Love Triangle broadcast live on nscmf.org Institute of Music and San Francisco Moscow. Wolfram has appeared as Friday, September 11, 2O2O / 7:3O PM and presented without an Conservatory of Music. Kosower is the a soloist with many of the greatest intermission. first cellist to record the complete music orchestras of the world and has for solo cello of Alberto Ginastera, developed a special reputation as Romantic music of the Schumanns for the Naxos label. the rare concerto soloist who is also equally adept as a recitalist and Vadim Gluzman, violin and chamber musician. His benchmark artistic director recordings for the Naxos label Gluzman’s extraordinary artistry includes four CDs of Franz Liszt’s brings to life the glorious violinistic Opera Transcriptions. tradition of the 19th and 20th I. Zart und mit Ausdruck Shterenberg / Wolfram centuries. Gluzman appears with Tender and with expression major orchestras around the Three Fantasy Pieces for Ilya Shterenberg, clarinet world such as the as the Berlin Principal clarinetist of the San clarinet and piano, op. 73 II. Lebhaft, leicht Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Antonio Symphony and Principal Lively, light Chicago Symphony, Cleveland clarinetist of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, Israel Philharmonic, III. Rasch und mit Feuer Orchestra, Shterenberg balances a Quick and with fire Gewandhaus, London busy career as an orchestral musician, Angela Yoffe, piano Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, chamber music performer, and a executive director , and the soloist. He has been featured as a Pianist, producer, and educator, Royal Concertgebouw alongside Clara Schumann I. Andante molto Gluzman / Wolfram soloist with the San Antonio and Angela Yoffe, is widely admired today’s leading conductors, Charleston symphonies, and as for her dazzling musicianship and Three Romances for violin II. Allegretto Christoph von Dohnanáyi, principal clarinetist with Cincinnati passion for music education. Born in and piano, op. 22 III. Leidenschaftlich schnell Riccardo Chailly, Tugan Sokhiev, and Seattle Symphonies. Ilya has Riga, Yoffe is founder and executive , Andrew collaborated with some of the most director of The Music Makers, an Davis and Neeme Järvi, Osmo notable conductors of our time, organization that produces Chicago’s Johannes Brahms Allegro con brio Wolfram / Gluzman / Kosower Vänskä and Michail Jurowski. including Roger Norrington, Seiji annual North Shore Chamber Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Scherzo. Allegro molto Ozawa, Dennis Russell Davies, Daniel Music Festival, the Music Makers op. 8 Adagio Barenboim, George Solti, Pierre International, and the Arkady Fomin Allegro Boulez and others. Scholarship Fund. Ms. Yoffe performs as a chamber musician and recitalist around the world and records exclusively for BIS Records.

Mark Kosower, cello Described as “a virtuoso of staggering prowess” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Mark Kosower is principal cellist of the , William Wolfram, piano former principal of the Bamberg American pianist William Wolfram Symphony in Germany, an active was a silver medalist at both the recording artist and orchestral soloist, William Kapell and Naumburg and President of the Cleveland Cello International Piano Competitions, Society. He has been a member and a bronze medalist at the One of the most poignant love stories in classical music is that of the complex relationship between the brilliant but troubled composer Robert Schumann, his adoring wife, the celebrity pianist Clara Schumann, and the beguiling Johannes Brahms, who was devoted to both of them.

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