TRIBUTE TO PABLO CASALS
FEAT. ESPRESSIVO! PIANO QUARTET

SALOMON SERIES
SUNDAY, JANUARY 17 AT 2:00 PM

Virtual Concert: Mon, Jan 18 - Sat, Dec 23

Anna, Jaime, Milena, and Sharon salute Pablo Casals’s 150th Birthday with Schumann, Brahms, & an 8-minute film on the legendary cellist

PROGRAM: 

Casals Tribute & 8-minute film
Schumann: Piano Quartet
~ intermission ~
Brahms: Piano Quartet No.2 in A Major

This program will run approximately two hours with a 20 minute intermission.

ESPRESSIVO! PIANO QUARTET
Anna Polonsky, piano
Jaime Laredo, violin
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, viola
Sharon Robinson, cello

BIO: 

Four great artists with a passion for chamber music have formed an exciting new quartet that is bound to become an audience favorite.  Each of them is known for wonderfully expressive playing, so it seemed that ESPRESSIVO! was the perfect name for this new quartet of piano and strings.

For decades, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson, together with their piano trio partner the late Joseph Kalichstein, were considered "chamber music royalty" (Washington Post), a term that applies equally to their ESPRESSIVO! partners - the stellar violist Milena Pájaro-van de Stadt (formerly of the Dover Quartet) and award-winning pianist Anna Polonsky, one of chamber music's most sought-after partners.  Read more…

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Photo credit: Christian Steiner