Masterworks Series: Beethoven & Mozart / Semplice Players with Mark Peskanov

• Semplice Players
• Mark Peskanov, violin

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.”

About Semplice Players

In music, the Italian marking "Semplice" means the performance should sound fresh, simple, and satisfying. Founded in 2016, Semplice Players takes that approach in its mission of cultural enrichment of the public through musical performance. Whether playing the great masterworks or a piece written yesterday, expert musicians and emerging artists join together in bringing the always living, evolving tradition of music-making to audiences of every age and walk of life, wherever chamber music can be enjoyed.

Jessica Ryou, violin |
David Kovac, viola |
Margo Shohl, viola |
Sean Hawthorne, cello

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.