Delgani I – Dreams & Prayers
$30 ($5 student)
- Anthea Kreston, violin
- Jannie Wei, violin
- Kimberlee Uwate, viola
- Eric Alterman, cello
- Wonkak Kim, clarinet
Bedřich Smetana — String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, "From My Life"
Osvaldo Golijov — The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
Dreams and Prayers opens our 9th season with a piece written for Delgani, a gift from Iranian composer Reza Vali, who bases his musical "calligraphies" on classical Persian modes. Smetana's autobiographic From My Life depicts the hopes and dreams of a young composer and the subsequent loves and losses of his life. On the second half, clarinetist Wonkak Kim joins Delgani for Osvaldo Golijov's The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, a mystical epic inspired by Jewish music, history, and language.
Delgani Quartet offers five live performances of this program in four cities, October 22-29. Click "More info" for details.
About Anthea Kreston, violin
Violinist Anthea Kreston sometimes just needs to pinch herself. How did she get so lucky? She was the first American violinist to play in a major European string quartet, the Artemis Quartet – and she travelled the world, performing on some of the most legendary stages a person could dream of, from Carnegie Hall to Wigmore – from the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam to Seoul. She was a Professor at the Universität der Kunste Berlin, where Clara Schumann and Schoenberg taught. She also was a Master Teacher at the Queen Elizabeth Chapel in Brussels, where her students won competitions from Australia to New York. She loves to write – penning a classical music blog which was one of the top-5 most read music blogs internationally, and has an awesome husband and two funny and generous daughters. Her recent release on Warner Classics is a recording of Shostakovich Quartets and Piano Quintet, and she has hosted her own podcast from the Boulez Hall in the heart of Berlin. She has played in the Berlin Philharmonic, and as concertmaster of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. But most of all, she loves being with her family, growing tomatoes, and petting bunnies.
https://musicanddance.uoregon.edu/directory/profiles/all/akrestonAbout Jannie Wei, violin
https://eugenesymphony.org/about-us/get-to-know-us/musicians/strings/jannie-wei