This year’s Music
eX
Series features some fantastic literature for piano and strings! Be sure to support Louisville chamber music and the School of Music by checking out this season’s amazing offerings.
September 21st
, 2014
Hear series Artistic Director
Dror
Biran
in an afternoon of solo piano favorites from Bach through
Debussy
. The program includes Bach’s French Suite in C Minor, Mozart’s Sonata in C Minor, several
Debussy
Préludes
and an assortment of works by Chopin.
October 26th
, 2014
Described by Isaac Stern as one of the most outstanding Israeli violinists, Sergey
Ostrovsky
joins pianist
Dror
Biran
for a concert of violin sonata classics. First is Beethoven’s beloved Spring Sonata followed by
Prokofiev’s
brooding Sonata in F Minor and
Fauré’s
Sonata in A Major.
February 22nd
, 2015
School of Music professor Paul York presents music for cello alongside pianist
Dror
Biran
in a program that features Bach’s Suite No. 2 in D Minor,
Einojuhani
Rautavaara’s
Sonata No. 2 and
Mendelssohn’s
Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major.
March 29th
, 2015
School of Music violin professors J. Patrick
Rafferty
and Brittany
MacWilliams
team up with Paul York,
Dror
Biran
and the U of L
eX
String Orchestra for a concert of Bach concertos. The afternoon will showcase J.S. Bach’s two violin concertos in A Minor and E Major and his Keyboard Concerto in F Minor. Also to be performed is the Cello Concerto in B-flat Major by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of Johann Sebastian.
More information about the series and its artists can be found here [4].
All performances will be at 3 pm on their respective dates in Comstock Hall at the School of Music. Season tickets are $50, individual tickets are $15 and tickets for students with IDs are $5. To purchase a subscription, call 502-852-6907. All proceeds from ticket sales will go toward piano and string scholarships at the University of Louisville.
(Photo courtesy of U of L.)
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