SPOTLIGHT VIRTUAL CLASSICAL MINI CONCERTS

Armenian-American violinist and Icicle Creek Chamber Music Institute alum Hoorig Taline Poochikian began playing the violin with her mother at the age of six. Currently based in New York City, Hoorig has received her doctoral degree in violin performance at Stony Brook University, where she studied with Hagai Shaham, Arnaud Sussmann, Phil Setzer and Jennifer Frautschi.

Program:
Preludio from J.S. Bach’s Partita No.3 in E Major
Eugene Ysaye’s Sonata No.2 in A Minor

Program:
Fanny Mendelssohn – Song without Words, opus 8, #1
Clara Schumann – Romance opus 21, #1
Scott Joplin – Bethena Concert Waltz
Edvard Grieg – Wedding Day at Trollhaugen

Pianist Christina Dahl has established a reputation as one of the leading teachers of her generation. She has recently given masterclasses at New England Conservatory, Royal College of Music Stockholm and the Steinhardt series at NYU. She has been on faculty at Stony Brook University for nearly twenty years.

Program:
Excerpts from Bach’s Goldberg Variations

Recently appointed Artist-Teacher of Piano at Ohio University, pianist Emely Phelps enjoys a multifaceted career as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Praised by the Boston Globe for her “fleet, energetic, and bright-toned” playing, Emely made her solo orchestral debut with the National Symphony Orchestra as the grand prizewinner of their Young Soloists Competition, and has since been a featured soloist with the Las Colinas Symphony Orchestra

Program:
Bach, Presto from Violin Sonata in G minor, BWV 1001
Clare Cooney

Chopin, Etude in C-sharp minor, op. 25, no. 7
Daniel Anastasio

Bach, Chaconne from Violin Partita in D Minor (arranged for two cellos by Claudio Jaffe and Johanne Peron)
Kamila Dotta and Eric Haugen