**New for Heifetz 2020** Bolcom: Graceful Ghost Rag Geneva Lewis & Nathan Lewis /// Heifetz alum Geneva Lewis, announced last week as a Grand Prize winner of the 2020 Concert Artists Guild Competition, was also a featured artist in the Heifetz Rubato "Alumni Showcases" during the summer of 2020. From Los Angeles, Geneva is joined by her brother Nathan Lewis to perform the charming "Graceful Ghost Rag" by American composer William Bolcom. @genevalauren @concert_artists_guild

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Chock Full O' Bach: V. Bourrées from Cello Suite No. 3 Beiliang Zhu, baroque cello ///
Our latest Bach installment takes you back to Heifetz 2017, featuring Heifetz alum and Artist in Residence, and now Heifetz faculty member Beiliang Zhu, the first performer to win the Leipzig International Bach Competition on a baroque instrument. From Francis Auditorium at Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, VA, Beiliang performs the fifth-movement Bourrées I & II from Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009.

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*New for Heifetz 2020* PianoPalooza: Florence Price: Fantasie Nègre No. 1 Jessica Xylina Osborne, piano /// #FacultyFriday From the 2020 edition of the Heifetz Institute's annual "PianoPalooza" - a showcase for the Institute's outstanding piano faculty - pianist Jessica Xylina Osborne (@xylinathepianist) performs the Fantasie Nègre No. 1, written by seminal African-American composer Florence Price in 1929. Dedicated to Price’s student Margaret Bonds, another female composer of color, the piece incorporates the African American spiritual "Please Don’t Let This Harvest Pass" with a series of variations and reharmonizations, deftly combining classical European and Negro spiritual musical idioms.

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*NEW FOR HEIFETZ 2020* Mozart: Duo in Bb for Violin & Viola, K.424 - Rachell Wong & Andrew Gonzalez /// #VideoOfTheWeek - One of the few in-person collaborations from the Heifetz Institute’s 2020 Virtual Festival of Concerts – an energetic performance by two of the most well-known faces to appear on Heifetz stage over the years - Rachell Ellen Wong and violist Andrew Gonzalez. This dynamic duo performs in the invariably-inspiring setting of the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, Virginia. Mozart’s string duos were essentially written to bail out his composing buddy Michael Haydn, younger brother of Joseph. He had been hired to be the Kapellmeister of the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg’s court, and as part of the gig he was to write a series of six duos for violin and viola. But whether due to illness, or legend has it, drunkenness, Haydn only finished four of the six, and was about to get his salary cut off by the easily-enraged Prince Archbishop. Mozart himself had had his own nasty encounters with the the Prince Archbishop, who, as the both the chief political and religious figure, ruled Salzburg with an iron fist. Two years earlier, Mozart’s cheeky resignation from the Prince-Archbishop’s court was met with an infamous “kick in the arse” from the archbishop’s chief steward, Count Arco. Mozart left under such bad terms with the Prince that upon his return to his hometown, he fretted that his former employer might arrest him. So it was in his interest to keep his former boss happy, and soon enough the prolific Mozart put pen to paper to dash off the remaining two duos to complete the set and passed them off to Michael Haydn to present as his own. At this point in his career Mozart was considered one of the most skilled string players in all of Europe, both as a violinist and violist. Though his preference for the bigger instrument clearly shines in the Bb duo, where it often plays the lead role.

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*NEW FOR HEIFETZ 2020* Dvorak: 3 Romantic Pieces, Op. 75 - Angela Chan & Beilin Han /// #AlumniMonday Heifetz alum and Heifetz On Tour performer Angela Sin Ying Chan, now pursuing graduate studies at New England Conservatory, performs three of the charming Romantic Pieces, Op. 75, by Antonín Dvořák. Angela is joined by Heifetz faculty pianist Beilin Han for this collaborative performance featured on our debut Heifetz Alumni Showcase production on Rubato, the Heifetz Virtual Concert Hall. @angelasinyingchan @hanbeilin

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