This evening’s concert caps our Festival residency at the Czech Center NYC with a World Premiere performance of a new song cycle by composer Jacob Beranek, co-commissioned by the Chelsea Music Festival and the National Czech-Slovak Museum & Library for the Year of Czech Music. The piece features soprano Marisa Karchin singing libretto by 17th century Czech poet Bedrich Bridel. Our 2024 Composer-in-Residence, Ania Vu, will also perform one of her own solo piano pieces. And to honor Bed?ich Smetana’s 200th anniversary as well as the 100th anniversary of Gabriel Fauré’s death, Festival musicians will present two masterworks of the chamber music literature.

Program:

Jacob Beranek (b. 1998) | Co B?h? ?lov?k? (What is God? Man?) (2024 World Premiere)
Bed?ich Smetana (1824-1884) | Piano Trio No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 15 (1855-1880)
Ania Vu (b. 1994) | Dark Whims (2013)
Gabriel Fauré  (1845-1924) | Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor (1886-1887)

Featuring:

Soprano | Marisa Karchin
Clarinet | Mark Dover
Violin | Lisa Lee, Max Tan
Cello | Christine Lamprea, Angela Lee
Piano | Melinda Lee Masur, Robert Fleitz, Andrea Lam, Ania Vu

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