Piatigorsky Foundation violinist Linda
Rosenthal and pianist Maxim Pakhomov will perform at the Edge
Center in Bigfork as part of the
Foundation’s program to bring world class music to smaller communities
throughout America .
Linda is based in Juneau Alaska and has performed everywhere in that state from
remote fishing villages above the Arctic Circle to logging camps in Southeast
Alaska, plus throughout the rest of North America, Europe and Asia. Maxim is
from the Far East region of Russia
with a touring background that includes England ,
Scotland , Austria, and Estonia . The date is Thursday April
27, time 7PM, prices $10 adults, students free.
It would be hard to find a wider
mix of experiences between these artists, but their music, mostly classical,
brings this diversity together in the “essence of music…the melody.” The
program will be selections from composers spanning a time frame from the 1700’s
to modern day. Combine the wide experiences with the range of musical
selections and you will have a very interesting concert.
Violinist
Linda Rosenthal is both a soloist with orchestra and chamber musician. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of both the Juneau Jazz and Classics, an
annual music festival that brings world-renowned jazz and classical artists to
perform and teach in Juneau each May, and the
Lake Placid Chamber Music Seminar in Lake
Placid , New York .
Linda also tours Strings and Stories, a show for young audiences that
she created and premiered at the Kennedy
Center in 1995.
Since its debut, Ms. Rosenthal and Los
Angeles actor Bill Blush have toured Strings and Stories annually under the auspices of The Piatigorsky Foundation.
Their show has reached thousands of children in schools, museums,
libraries and community centers throughout the United States .
Over the past decade, Ms. Rosenthal has commissioned and
premiered more than a dozen works, including pieces for solo violin, electric
violin, violin and piano, and violin and narrator. Her most recent commission
was Glacier Blue, a Concerto for Solo Violin and Jazz Big Band. Ms.
Rosenthal plays on a violin made in Turin ,
Italy in 1772
by J. B. Guadagnini.
Pianist Maxim Pakhomov’s American
credits include performances in Merkin Hall and Zankel Hall, where he premiered
his own arrangement of Stravinsky’s Petrushka for piano duo. Currently,
he maintains an active schedule as a chamber musician and a chamber music
coach. He has performed with The Westchester Chorale and is the principal
pianist of the Bronx Opera Company. As a faculty member of Chamber Music
Institute in Orono , Maine , he performed with Japanese star –
violinist Ryu Goto, who is a brother of world famous violinist Midori.
His solo performances include piano concertos by Rachmaninoff,
Tschaikovsky, Saint-Saƫns, Brahms and Beethoven with the Orchestra of The
Bronx; Beethoven’s Concerto No.4 with the Orchestra of the Barge Music
Festival; the Triple concerto with the Bronx Symphony; Brahms’ Piano
Concerto No. 2 with the Staten Island Philharmonia, Bach’s D Minor
Concerto with The Bach Festival Small Orchestra of the Lautreamont Concert
Series and The Beethoven Choral Fantasy with One World Symphony.
Mr. Pakhomov is a three-time winner of the Bronx Council on The Arts’
BRIO Award (Bronx Recognizes Its Own). He is also an organist in the
Congregational Church in Darien
Connecticut – playing organ and
learning organ repertoire have been his passions for the last five years.
The program will include selections from the following
works and composers.
Sonata in G Major, Op. 30 No. 3 Ludwig
van Beethoven (1770-1827)
Allegro Assai
Tempo di
Menuetto
Allegro
vivace
Rumanian
Folk Dances Bela
Bartok (1881-1945)
Elegy
and Habanera George Perlman (1897-2000)
Sonata
No. 1 for Piano Solo Rebecca
Oswald (born 1958)
Ballad
No. 1 for Solo Piano Sharon
Farber
Zigeunerweisen Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908)
Meditation from “Thais” Jules
Massenet (1842-1912)
Fantasy on Fiddler on the Roof Jerry
Bock (1928-2010)
arr. Manuel Compinsky (1901-89)
The
non-profit Piatigorsky Foundation's mission is to make live classical
music part of the fabric of everyday life for communities throughout the United States
with concert tours bringing top-quality musicians to audiences who often would
not have the opportunity to hear them. The Foundation was established in 1990
by cellist Evan Drachman, grandson of the great Russian cellist
Gregor Piatigorsky (1903-1976), The Foundation carries on his legacy
in the belief that, as Piatigorsky said, "Music makes life
better. Music is neither a luxury nor a frill. It is a necessity! It is rich.
It is imaginative. And it is for everyone."
In
addition to the Piatigorsky Foundation, this program is made possible with the help of the following:
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