People's Symphony Concerts: Espressivo! Piano Quartet
$20.80 ($10.40 student/essential worker)
- Anna Polonsky, piano
- Jaime Laredo, violin
- Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
- Sharon Laredo Robinson, cello
Nokuthula Ngwenyama — Joy Steppin' for Piano Quartet (NYC premiere)
Johannes Brahms — Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Espressivo! Piano Quartet—with chamber music stars Jaime Laredo, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, Sharon Robinson and Anna Polonsky—features the NYC premiere of a new work by Nokuthula Ngwenyama.
About Espressivo! Piano Quartet
Four great artists with a passion for chamber music have formed an exciting new quartet that is bound to become an audience favorite. Each of them is known for wonderfully expressive playing, so it seemed that "Espressivo!" was the perfect name for this new quartet of piano and strings.
https://www.espressivoquartet.com/About Peoples' Symphony Concerts
Peoples' Symphony Concerts mission is to serve the citizens of the New York area who are on a limited budget by presenting classical music performances of the highest caliber at affordable ticket prices.
https://www.pscny.org/About Anna Polonsky, piano
Anna Polonsky, in high demand as a soloist and chamber musician, has appeared with the Moscow Virtuosi, the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Columbus Symphony Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, the St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, and has collaborated with the Guarneri, Orion, Daedalus, and Shanghai Quartets, and with such musicians as Mitsuko Uchida, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Goode, Emanuel Ax, Arnold Steinhardt, as well as clarinetist David Shifrin and cellist Peter Wiley with whom she also performs as a trio. Her chamber festival appearances include Marlboro, Chamber Music Northwest, Seattle, Music@Menlo, Cartagena, Bard, and Caramoor, as well as at Bargemusic in New York City, and her concert appearances have occurred in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Alice Tully Hall, and Carnegie Hall’s Stern, Weill, and Zankel Halls. Ms. Polonsky has toured extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Anna has been a member of the Chamber Music Society Two as a frequent guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, taken part in the European Broadcasting Union’s 2006 project to record and broadcast all of Mozart’s keyboard sonatas, and in the spring of 2007, inaugurated the Emerson Quartet’s Perspectives Series with a solo recital at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. She is a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and the Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award.
Ms. Polonsky made her solo piano debut at the age of seven at the Special Central Music School in Moscow, Russia, emigrated to the United States in 1990, and attended high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan. She received her Bachelor of Music diploma from The Curtis Institute of Music under the tutelage of the renowned pianist Peter Serkin and continued her studies with Jerome Lowenthal, earning her Master’s Degree from the Juilliard School. In addition to performing, Ms. Polonsky is a piano faculty member at Vassar College and the Marlboro and Kneisel Hall chamber music festivals.
http://www.annapolonsky.com/About Jaime Laredo, violin
About Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
https://www.curtis.edu/academics/faculty/milena-pajaro-van-de-stadt/