*NEW for Heifetz 2020* Schulhoff: Andante & Burlesk fr. Violin Sonata No. 2 Itamar Zorman, Kwan Yi /// For #AlumniMonday we look back to the July 22 Alumni Showcase Concert from Heifetz Rubato: The Virtual Concert Hall for our 2020 Summer Institute. Heifetz alumnus (and Tchaikovsky Competition Medalist) Itamar Zorman, now a teacher at Eastman School of Music, joins us from his home in Athens, GA with pianist Kwan Yi to introduce and then perform two movements from Czech composer Erwin Schulhoff's 1927 Violin Sonata No. 2. Schulhoff's music for violin has been called "often outrageously virtuosic and never less than fascinating."

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Chock Full o' Bach: Sarabande & Gigue fr. Cello Suite No. 3 - Noémie Raymond-Friset, cello /// A look back to last October when Heifetz Institute alumna and @heifetzpeg faculty member @noemie_rf performed at the Robinhood Free Meetinghouse in Georgetown, ME as part of Heifetz on Tour's annual fall jaunt through New England. While our touring activities will limited to the online realm this season, we delight is reliving this dynamic performance. This third suite, in the key of C major, showcases the astounding resonance of the cello, and Noémie expresses both the warmth of the Sarabande and the lively energy of the Gigue with true mastery.

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🍎🍯Shanah tovah, or "good year" to all our friends observing Rosh Hashanah. For #FacultyFriday we present Ralph Kirshbaum, co-director of the prestigious Ashkenasi/Kirshbaum Chamber Music Seminar, performing the first movement, Prayer, of Ernest Bloch's "From Jewish Life." Bloch was born in 1880 in Geneva to Jewish parents, and would study music in Brussels (with violinist Eugène Ysaÿe), Germany, and Paris, before settling in the United States in 1916, where he would hold positiions at Mannes School of Music, Cleveland Institute of Music, and San Francisco Conservatory of Music. This set of three short movements was written in 1924 and dedicated to cellist Hans Kindler; the first movement evokes the spirit of prayers traditionally sung in the Ashkenazi synagogue. Bloch said that writing music that expressed his Jewish identity was "the only way in which I can produce music of vitality and significance." Kirshbaum is accompanied here by pianist Lise Keiter, Professor of Music at Mary Baldwin University, recorded in concert in the Blackfriars Playhouse at the American Shakespeare Center during the Heifetz Institute's first season in Staunton, VA in 2012. We wish you a good and sweet year ahead!

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*New for Heifetz 2020* Bax: Sonata for Viola & Piano - I. Allegro Jack Kessler, viola & Miki Aoki, piano /// Heifetz student Jack Kessler in Miami, FL performs the first movement of the the Sonata for Viola and Piano by Arnold Bax, written in 1922 by the English composer for his instructor at the Royal Acedemy of Music, the great violist Lionel Tertis. Jack is joined by Heifetz faculty pianist Miki Aoki in New York City. From the July 2 Stars of Tomorrow concert from Heifetz Rubato: The Virtual Concert Hall for our 2020 Summer Institute. Full video on Facebook and YouTube.

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#AlumniMonday - Violist Andrew Gonzalez is one of the most familiar faces on the Heifetz stage, as an alumnus, Heifetz on Tour Artist, and HeifetzPEG and Heifetz Baroque faculty member. We're thrilled to share the news and congrats on the announcement that he will be joining the Jasper String Quartet as their new violist beginning in the 2020-21 season. Winner of the prestigious CMA Cleveland Quartet Award, Philadelphia's Jasper String Quartet is the Professional Quartet in Residence at Temple University's Center for Gifted Young Musicians and the Founder and Artistic Director of Jasper Chamber Concerts. They are also the 2020-2022 Artists in Residence at Swarthmore College. The Jaspers have been hailed as “sonically delightful and expressively compelling” (The Strad) and the New York Times named their recent album, Unbound, as one of the 25 Best Classical Recordings of 2017.

We look back to the 2016 Heifetz Festival of Concerts for Andrew's stunning interpretation of the third movement (Andante) from Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 with pianist Carlos Avila.

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