Violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv Album Release Concert & Discussion
$45 ($30 UIA members)
- Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin
- Steven Beck, piano
Myroslav Skoryk — Violin sonata (selections)
Viktor Kosenko — Violin sonata (selections – world premiere)
The Ukrainian-American violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv celebrates her new album of violin sonatas by 20th century Ukrainian composers with pianist Steven Beck. She’ll perform a movement of each sonata, interspersed with a panel discussion by authorities on Ukrainian culture. Party and drinks follow.
Ms. Ivakhiv has made it her mission to share the music of her home country. Her new album includes violin sonatas spanning 1922 to 1991 by three seminal Ukrainian composers: Sergei Bortkiewicz, Myroslav Skoryk, and Viktor Kosenko (the latter is a world premiere). Each of the three composers on the new album are major figures in Ukrainian classical music and in Ivakhiv's personal musical life.
The evening will feature Ivakhiv and pianist Steven Beck performing selections from the new album, alongside a discussion about the contribution of Ukrainian composers to the musical canon with music professors Maria Sonevytsky (Bard College) and Peter Schmelz (Johns Hopkins University).
Admission includes a copy of the new CD, Ukrainian Masters: Sonatas for Violin and Piano by Bortkiewicz, Kosenko and Skoryk.
About Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin
Violinist Solomiya Ivakhiv is praised for her “crystal clear and noble sound” (Culture and Life, Ukraine) and acclaimed for her “distinctive charm and subtle profundity” (Daily Freeman, New York).
She is celebrated as a soloist, recitalist and chamber music collaborator, as a champion of new music, and as a dedicated educator.
https://solomiyaivakhiv.com/About Steven Beck, piano
A New York concert by pianist Steven Beck was described as "exemplary" and "deeply satisfying" by Anthony Tommasini in The New York Times. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where his teachers were Seymour Lipkin, Peter Serkin, and Bruce Brubaker.
Mr. Beck made his concerto debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, and has toured Japan as soloist with the New York Symphonic Ensemble. His annual Christmas Eve performance of Bach's Goldberg Variations at Bargemusic has become a New York institution. He has also performed as soloist and chamber musician at Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Library of Congress, Weill Recital Hall, Merkin Hall, and Miller Theater, as well as on WNYC, and summer appearances have been at the Aspen Music Festival and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. He has performed as a musician with the New York City Ballet and the Mark Morris Dance Group, and as an orchestral musician he has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the New York City Ballet Orchestra, and Orpheus.
Mr. Beck is an experienced performer of new music, having worked with Elliott Carter, Pierre Boulez, Henri Dutilleux, Charles Wuorinen, George Crumb, George Perle, and Fred Lerdahl. He is a member of the Knights, the Talea Ensemble, Quattro Mani, and the Da Capo Chamber Players. His discography includes George Walker’s piano sonatas on Bridge Records, and Elliott Carter’s Double Concerto on Albany Records. He is a Steinway Artist, and is on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, as well as the Colorado College Summer Music Festival and the Sewanee Music Center.
https://nyphil.org/about-us/artists/steven-beck