Philadelphia Chamber Music Society: Kim Kashkashian, viola & Robert Levin, piano
$30 ($10 student)
- Kim Kashkashian, viola
- Robert Levin, piano
Maurice Ravel — Selected works (songs TBA)
Claude Debussy — Selected works (songs TBA)
Gabriel Fauré — Selected works (songs TBA)
Robert Schumann — Fünf Stücke im Volkston ("Five Pieces in Folk Style"), Op. 102
Igor Stravinsky — Suite Italienne (arr. Kim Kashkashian)
Internationally recognized as a unique voice on the viola, Kim Kashkashian is an artist who combines a probing, restless intellect with enormous beauty of tone. For her first PCMS recital since 2015, the Grammy Award winner is joined by her long-standing duo partner, Robert Levin, for a performance of repertoire originally written for other instruments. The program culminates in Kashkashian's version of Stravinsky's neoclassical masterpiece Suite Italienne, a show-stopping addition to the repertory of modern viola music.
This performance will be presented in-person at Benjamin Franklin Hall, and online via free livestream at https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/livestreams/.
About Robert Levin, piano
Pianist and Conductor Robert Levin has performed throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. His solo engagements include the orchestras of Atlanta, Berlin, Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Los Angeles, Montreal, Utah, and Vienna on the Steinway with such conductors as Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, Bernard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, and Esa-Pekka Salonen. On period pianos, he has appeared with the Academy of Ancient Music, English Baroque Soloists, Handel & Haydn Society, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique – with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, Sir Charles Mackerras, Nicholas McGegan, and Sir Roger Norrington.
https://www.rayfieldallied.com/artists/robert-levinAmerican Philosophical Society: Benjamin Franklin Hall
427 Chestnut StPhiladelphia, PA 19106
United States