[SOLD OUT] Phillips Collection: Adé Williams, violin & Chelsea Wang, piano
SOLD OUT
- Adé Williams, violin
- Chelsea Wang, piano
William Grant Still — Suite for Violin and Piano
Florence Price — Adoration
Franz Schubert — Fantasie in C major for violin and piano, D. 934, Op. 159
Please note: Due to demand, all concerts for the Phillips Music 2024-25 Season are now sold out.
A laureate of both the junior and senior divisions of the Sphinx Competition, Adé Williams makes her Phillips debut with pianist Chelsea Wang. Both graduates of the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music, they begin with Johannes Brahms's first Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 78, a beguiling and tuneful work where the violin and piano converse in absolute balance with neatly unfolding melodies. They turn next to a suite by William Grant Still, a 1943 work which engages with three sculptures by artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance: Richmond Barthé's African Dancer, Sargent Johnson's Mother and Child, and Augusta Savage's Gamin. Williams and Wang will then play Florence Price's Adoration, a brief but highly expressive and meditative work, before concluding with Franz Schubert's exceptional Fantasy in C major, D. 934.