La Jolla Music Society
Opening Night: Side by Side
Prelude Interview with Inon Barnatan hosted by Leah Rosenthal · 6:30 PM · The JAI
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Our opening concert brings together compositions written in collaboration with multiple composers or played by multiple performers on the same instruments, all performed by some of the most brilliant chamber musicians of our time. A series of Romantic-era variations culminates in two stunning quartets, Bacewicz’ Quartet for Four Violins and Czerny’s Quartet for Four Pianos, with four of the finest pianists in the world—Garrick Ohlsson, Inon Barnatan, Joyce Yang, and Wynona Yinuo Wang—on stage at once.
VARIOUS
Variations in A Major on a Russian Theme
CHOPIN-FRANCHOMME
Grand Duo Concertant on Themes from Robert le Diable
BRAHMS
Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op. 56b
BACEWICZ
Quartet for Four Violins
CZERNY
Quatuor Concertant No.1, Op. 230
Artists on this program
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.
Tessa Lark
violin
Tessa Lark
Johannes Moser
cello
Johannes Moser
Garrick Ohlsson
piano
Garrick Ohlsson
Blake Pouliot
violin
Blake Pouliot
Masumi Per Rostad
viola
Masumi Per Rostad
Sophia Stoyanovich
violin
Sophia Stoyanovich
Wynona Yinuo Wang
piano
Wynona Yinuo Wang
Joyce Yang
piano