Masterworks Series: Haydn Beethoven Shostakovich
$35
- Mark Peskanov, violin
- Wayne Smith, cello
- Marina Iwao, piano
Ludwig van Beethoven — Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5, No. 2
Dmitri Shostakovich — Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40
Cellist Wayne Smith and pianist Marina Iwao perform cello sonatas by Beethoven and Shostakovich. The two are joined by violinist/Bargemusic President Mark Peskanov for Haydn's Piano Trio No. 39 in G major to open the program.
About Bargemusic
Moored in Brooklyn just under the Brooklyn Bridge, Bargemusic presents great music year-round. Walk across the gangplank of a renovated coffee barge into a “wonderfully intimate wood-paneled room with thrilling views of lower Manhattan and excellent acoustics.” Experience why critics call Bargemusic “the perfect chamber-music hall” and why artists say it is “unlike any other place in the world to perform.”
https://www.bargemusic.org/About Mark Peskanov, violin
Mark Peskanov (born in Odessa, Ukraine – then part of the USSR) is an American virtuoso violinist, known as a soloist, chamber musician, composer, conductor, and concert presenter.
Peskanov began playing the piano at age three, and the violin at seven. He received early musical training at the Stolyarsky school. In 1973, at the age of fifteen, he emigrated to the United States, where he attended the Aspen Music Festival and the Juilliard School. Upon his recital debut at Carnegie Hall, The New York Times declared, "Mark Peskanov is a tremendous young violinist and his Friday evening concert at Carnegie Hall was a triumph…He has it all—technique, temperament, and taste."
Since 2005, Peskanov is president and artistic/executive director of Bargemusic.