Paganini Caprices!
Sun, Apr 28, 2024, 11:00 am, 1:00 pm
Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio at CMS
1 hour, including instrument petting zoo
What is a caprice anyway? We take a closer listen to Paganini's Caprices for Violin, Op. 1, arranged for violin and piano by Robert Schumann.
All patrons, including small children sitting in laps, must have a ticket to enter. All performances are appropriate for ages 3-6 as long as guests are not disruptive to other patrons' enjoyment of the performance. Please be aware that anyone causing a disturbance during a performance, regardless of age, will be asked to leave the hall. There is a designated quiet area if you or your companions need a break.
Program
FEATURING MOVEMENTS FROM
Niccolò Paganini
(1782–1840)Caprices for Violin and Piano, Op. 1
(1805)
Rami Vamos
Lun Li
Peter Dugan
Rami Vamos thinks about music all day long. His alarm clock plays music to wake him up. Then he teaches music to young children in a public school in Pelham, NY. Then he practices his guitar. Then he helps his children (who play the guitar and the violin) practice their instruments. After his children go to sleep, he practices his guitar and plays music that he wrote with his wife, Nurit Pacht. Nurit plays the violin. Before bed he writes musical shows for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. They are mostly about a musical character he invented named Wolfgang Amadeus Schmutzinberry. Schmutzinberry also loves music. After Rami goes to sleep, he dreams all night about music until his alarm clock plays him another song.
Lun Li is a violinist committed to creating thought-provoking, boundary-pushing concert experiences for contemporary audiences around the world. A native of Shanghai who is currently based in New York, he won first prize in the 2021 Young Concert Artists Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. Additionally, he is also joint winner of the first prize at the Lillian and Maurice Barbash J.S. Bach Competition 2021. He has appeared on major musical stages around the world, including Helsinki Music Centre, Konzerthaus Berlin, Kulturpalast Dresden, Wiener Konzerthaus, and Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center. This season, he will make his solo recital debut in Merkin Hall at the Kaufman Music Center in New York and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, as well as his concerto debut at Lincoln Center. An avid chamber musician, he has participated in the Marlboro, Music@Menlo, Verbier, and Angelfire music festivals. This season, he will go on tours with Marlboro Music Festival and Young Concert Artists, bringing him to Carnegie Hall, Merkin Concert Hall, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, and others. In 2024, he begins his tenure as a member of CMS’s Bowers Program. He holds degrees from the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School; his mentors include Ida Kavafian, Catherine Cho, and Joseph Lin. Li plays on the Stradivarius “Samazeuilh” 1735 violin, on a generous loan from the Nippon Music Foundation.
Pianist Peter Dugan’s debut performances with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony were described by the Los Angeles Times as “stunning” and by the San Francisco Chronicle as “fearlessly athletic.” He can also be heard as the piano soloist on a new release of Ives’ Fourth Symphony from Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. In 2020 he joined violinist Joshua Bell for At Home With Music, a national PBS broadcast and live album release on Sony Classical. He is heard across America as the host of NPR’s From the Top. A sought-after multi-genre artist, he has performed in duos and trios with artists ranging from Itzhak Perlman and Renee Fleming to Jesse Colin Young and Glenn Close. He has been presented in chamber music recitals by Carnegie Hall, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, Music at Menlo, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, and the Moab Music Festival. His latest album with baritone John Brancy, The Journey Home: Live from the Kennedy Center, was released on Avie Records in 2021 along with an accompanying documentary film from WNET’s AllArts. Dugan holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School, where he studied under Matti Raekallio. He resides in New York City with his wife, mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan, and serves on the faculty at the Juilliard School Extension.
Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio at CMS
To ensure adequate safety and capacity, all attendees for this event, regardless of age, need a ticket. This includes children that will be sitting in a guardian's lap during the performance.