Sunday, April 10, 2022, at 4 pm

Program

Dimitri Sitkovetsky (arr.): Complete Bach Goldberg Variations

Ida Kavafian, violin, Steven Tenenbom, viola, and Peter Wiley, cello, are longtime friends and musical collaborators. With pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, they perform as Opus One. They are veterans as well as present members of the world’s most prestigious chamber groups including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Tashi, the Beaux Arts Trio and the Orion and Guarneri String Quartets. As soloists as well as chamber musicians, they are each familiar figures in concert halls throughout the world.

Ida Kavafian has given premières of many new works including concertos by Toru Takemitsu and Michael Daugherty, has toured and recorded with jazz greats Chick Corea and Wynton Marsalis, and has had a solo feature on CBS Sunday Morning. She recently retired as Artistic Director of Music from Angel Fire in New Mexico.

Steven Tenenbom has enjoyed a widely varying career as soloist, chamber musician, and teacher of the next generation of talented musicians. Mr. Tenenbom is a member of the viola faculty of The Juilliard School and The Bard College Conservatory of Music, and the coordinator of string chamber music at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Peter Wiley has played at leading festivals including the Marlboro Music Festival, for which he also tours and records. As a recitalist he has appeared at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. He made his concerto debut at Carnegie Hall in 1986 with the New York String Orchestra conducted by Alexander Schneider. A past recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant, Mr. Wiley joined the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in 1996. He also teaches at Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Photos copyright Christian Steiner (Kavafian), Orion String Quartet (Tenenbom), William Wegman (Wiley)