Past Concerts

Paganini is the most famous violin virtuoso who ever lived, and who produced prolific compositions often featuring his instrument. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, another Italian composer (whose career began more than 200 years later), achieved significant fame as he wrote a great number of film scores for Hollywood as well as a concerto for the 20th century violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. This program includes unusual chamber music that these two composers beautifully incorporate a classical guitar as the featured voice.

PROGRAM
Niccolo Paganini • Sonata for Violin & Guitar
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco • Quintet for Guitar & String Quartet, Op.143

Paganini is the most famous violin virtuoso who ever lived, and who produced prolific compositions often featuring his instrument. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, another Italian composer (whose career began more than 200 years later), achieved significant fame as he wrote a great number of film scores for Hollywood as well as a concerto for the 20th century violin virtuoso Jascha Heifetz. This program includes unusual chamber music that these two composers beautifully incorporate a classical guitar as the featured voice.

PROGRAM
Niccolo Paganini • Sonata for Violin & Guitar
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco • Quintet for Guitar & String Quartet, Op.143

Tomás Cotik, Violin

Grace Choi, Piano

Wagner, Liszt, Dvořák, with the Oregon Symphony,  October 27, 2024

Wagner, Liszt, Dvořák, with the Oregon Symphony, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland, OR, October 28, 2024

ALL MOZART

Sunday, October 20, 2024 • 3:00 PM

Mozart epitomizes the prolific genius of the Classical period. It is always a great pleasure to feature his string quintet in our program. For this concert, we are also including a chamber music arrangement of the composer’s Piano Concerto No. 12 with Amici’s Artistic Director Eunhye Grace Choi playing the soloist’s role.

PROGRAM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Piano concerto No.12 in A Major, K. 414
• String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516

MUSICIANS
Eunhye Grace Choi, piano
Lillie Manis, viola
Steven Pologe, cello
Sharon Schuman, violin
Tomas Cotik, violin
Arnaud Ghillebaert, viola

ALL MOZART

Saturday, October 19, 2024 • 3:00 PM

Mozart epitomizes the prolific genius of the Classical period. It is always a great pleasure to feature his string quintet in our program. For this concert, we are also including a chamber music arrangement of the composer’s Piano Concerto No. 12 with Amici’s Artistic Director Eunhye Grace Choi playing the soloist’s role.

PROGRAM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Piano concerto No.12 in A Major, K. 414
• String Quintet No. 4 in G Minor, K. 516

MUSICIANS
Eunhye Grace Choi, piano
Lillie Manis, viola
Steven Pologe, cello
Sharon Schuman, violin
Tomas Cotik, violin
Arnaud Ghillebaert, viola

Beethoven- Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastorale’

Robert Schumann- Violin Concerto- Tomas Cotik

Willamette Falls Symphony, Mark Perlman, Music Director

Tomas Cotik, Violin and Grace Choi, Piano

Chamber Music Camp with Sprague HS, Lisa Rael, Conductor

Robert Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105
Clara Schumann: Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22

Intermission –

Robert Schumann: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 121

Performers:
Tomás Cotik, Violin
Grace Choi, Piano

Experience an evening of exquisite music featuring the works of Robert and Clara Schumann, performed by renowned violinist and PSU professor Tomás Cotik and acclaimed pianist Grace Choi. This concert showcases the profound emotional depth and lyrical beauty of the Schumanns’ compositions for violin and piano.

Repertoire:

Robert Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor, Op. 105
Clara Schumann: Three Romances for Violin and Piano, Op. 22

Intermission –

Robert Schumann: Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in D Minor, Op. 121

Performers:
Tomás Cotik, Violin
Grace Choi, Piano