Washington Performing Arts: Yo-Yo Ma, cello & Kathryn Stott, piano

• Yo-Yo Ma, cello
• Kathryn Stott, piano

Gabriel Fauré — Berceuse Op. 16
Antonín Dvořák — Songs My Mother Taught Me, B. 104, Op. 55, No. 4
Sérgio Assad — Menino
Nadia Boulanger — Cantique
Gabriel Fauré — Papillon for cello and piano, Op. 77
Dmitri Shostakovich — Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40
Arvo Pärt — Spiegel im Spiegel
César Franck — Violin Sonata in A major (arr. for cello)

Please note: This performance is currently sold out.

Extraordinary cellist and beloved music ambassador Yo-Yo Ma returns to the Kennedy Center for a lively Concert Hall recital with longtime musical partner, British pianist Kathryn Stott. For more than 30 years, the duo has "…developed a wonderfully warm and mutually responsive musical partnership that has blossomed in performances that are both generous and incisive" (NPR).

The evening's repertoire includes Dvořák's tender and reflective Songs My Mother Taught Me, Arvo Pärt's exquisite and haunting Spiegel im Spiegel, Brazilian composer Sergio Assad's Menino, Fauré's fleeting Papillon ("Butterfly"), Op. 77, Shostakovich's eminently lyrical Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40, and more.

Ma and Stott share a notable interpretative equality, as heard on numerous albums, including their 2020 Songs of Comfort and Hope in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pair have traveled the globe together and as individual artists, performing in venues spanning the world’s finest concert halls and everywhere in between. They have been longtime friends of Washington Performing Arts and it is a pleasure to welcome them back for their first duo concert with us since 2010.

About Washington Performing Arts (D.C.)

https://www.washingtonperformingarts.org/

About Yo-Yo Ma, cello

https://www.yo-yoma.com/

About Kathryn Stott, piano

https://www.kathrynstott.com/