Italian composer and virtuoso cellist Giovanni Sollima's Lamentatio for Cello Solo performed by Alexander Hersh. Video by Grittani Creative. Filmed in Guarneri Hall, Chicago, Illinois, and at the Indiana Dunes.… Read more »
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Meet Gabriela Lara
Gabriela Lara performed in Guarneri Hall as a NEXUS fellow, along with Brian Hong, violin; Alexi Kenney, violin; Zoë Martin-Doike, viola; Alexander Hersh, cello; and Victor Asuncion, piano during NEXUS Chamber Music Chicago's 2019 summer festival.… Read more »
NEXUS Includes Work by Florence Price
Programmed in the 2019 NEXUS Chamber Music series is a not-to-miss performance of Five Folksongs in Counterpoint for String Quartet by American composer Florence Price (1887-1953), whose work greatly deserves wider attention. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Florence Price rose to the highest echelon of American composers during the first half of the 20th century, a tremendous feat for an African-American woman of her time.… Read more »
Marlboro: 68 Years of Chamber Music
The Marlboro Music School and Festival represents the pinnacle of the study of great chamber music masterpieces. Having grown up in a chamber music household, I had known about Marlboro from an early age, but had never actually visited until last weekend.… Read more »