I recently had the pleasure and honor to give a short recital filmed live at the beautiful new Stissing Center in Pine Plains, NY. It was recently posted to Youtube and remains viewable. Hope you’ll enjoy it! 

The program is an optimistic-sounding one for these times: the Ysaÿe Sonata No. 5 for solo violin,  Elliott Carter “Rhapsodic Musings” and “Statement: Remembering Aaron” from his “Four Lauds”, and, with pianist Ryan MacEvoy McCullough, Ross Lee Finney’s “Fiddle-doodle-ad: Eight American Folk Tunes”.

The Ysaÿe starts with the sounds of rosy dawn (L’Aurore) as the natural world awakens, and bursts into joyful dance. Carter’s music for me always has a feel of living in the now and charging into the future. The Finney is a wonderful and lively suite of folk tunes he arranged at the end of World War 2.

My very warm thanks to the Stissing Center for inviting me, J. Henry Fair and team for the terrific video, and Ryan McCullough for sound recording.