
Visiting Presenter
Notes on Freedom
Prelude Performance by Balourdet String Quartet · 6:30 PM
Part of
This concert explores the secret notes embedded in Brahms’s music, representing his ideas of love and independence. Brahms’s cryptograms are also the catalyst behind a hypnotic musical meditation on freedom and loneliness by Andrew Norman, described as “the leading composer of his generation” by the Los Angeles Times.
BRAHMS
Scherzo in C Minor for Violin and Piano (Sonatensatz)
ANDREW NORMAN
Suspend, a fantasy for piano and chamber orchestra
BRAHMS
Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 60
Featured Artists

Inon Barnatan
piano
Inon Barnatan
“One of the most admired pianists of his generation” (New York Times), Inon Barnatan has received universal acclaim for his “uncommon sensitivity” (The New Yorker), “impeccable musicality and phrasing” (Le Figaro), and his stature as “a true poet of the keyboard: refined, searching, unfailingly communicative” (The Evening Standard). A multifaceted musician, Barnatan is equally celebrated as soloist, curator and collaborator.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1979, Inon Barnatan started playing the piano at the age of three after his parents discovered he had perfect pitch, and made his orchestral debut at age 11. His musical education connects him to some of the 20th century’s most illustrious pianists and teachers: he studied first with Professor Victor Derevianko, who, himself, studied with the Russian master Heinrich Neuhaus; and in 1997 he moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Maria Curcio—a student of the legendary Artur Schnabel—and with Christopher Elton. Today Barnatan performs at all the great halls of the world, collaborating and recording with the top chamber and classical conductors, orchestras, and musicians.

Paul Huang
violin
Paul Huang

Eric Jacobsen
conductor
Eric Jacobsen

Tessa Lark
violin
Tessa Lark

Jonathan Vinocour
viola
Jonathan Vinocour

Alisa Weilerstein
cello