“Exploring Musical Summits”

Brahms “Violin Concerto”       Mendelssohn “Ruy Blas Overture”     Schumann “Symphony #2”

Robert Schumann was a rather controversial figure during the  19th century. One of the greatest composers of the period, a virtuoso pianist,  an influential music critic, and a lifelong aesthete, Schumann had as many  friends as he had enemies. Those with whom he was close, including Felix  Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms, were lifelong friends who shared views about  life, art, and the future of both. Join us as we celebrate one of the greatest  circles of musical friends in the history of music. The Riverside County  Philharmonic is joined by one of today’s best violinists, Yuval Yaron (a former  student of the legendary Jascha Heifetz), in Brahms’ beloved Violin Concerto.

Also featured will be Mendelssohn’s rarely-heard  Ruy Blas Overture and Schumann’s virtuosic 2nd Symphony.

Meet the Artist: Yuval Yaron

Yuval Yaron, one of today’s great violinists, joined the music faculty at UCSB after over two decades at the Indiana University School of Music.

From his first prize-winning performances at the 1975 Sibelius Competition in Helsinki, he has thrilled audiences on three continents in recital, in recording and as soloist with major orchestras. Yaron has performed as guest soloist with distinguished symphony and radio orchestras such as Tokyo, Israel, Munich, Berlin, Mexico City, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Helsinki, Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore, St. Louis, Montreal and Indianapolis. He has collaborated with conductors Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Klaus Tennstedt and James De Priest, among others.

His recording on Accord of the Six Sonatas and Partitas of Bach received international praise. The Six Solo Sonatas of Eugene Ysaye Eugène Ysaÿe, followed by the 10 Jewish Melodies were also recorded on the same label. Reviews of Baroque sonatas, including Tartini’s famous Devil’s Trill, remark “Yaron’s superlative command of every aspect of violin technique is obvious in his virtuosic approach to the works on the disc”.

Unabashed in his adherence to the grand school of violin playing advanced by his pedagogues, Josef Gingold and Jascha Heifetz, Yaron’s renditions are as sonorous as they are virtuosic.” (The Strad, London, May 1999. Recently a live performance of the Sibelius concerto with Klaus Tennstedt and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (Profil) was released. Yuval Yaron has been heard in recital in his native Tel-Aviv, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Toronto, Basel, Hannover, Helsinki, and Reykjavik to great critical acclaim.

In addition to the standard recital repertoire, he has performed extraordinary one-evening solo concerts of the complete solo Sonatas and Partitas of Bach. Recent performances included Shostakowitch Concerto in Concepcion, Chile with Tomasz Gulka conducting, and a recital in Helsinki, Finland in 2010, honoring the journalist Daniel Pearl, that included Yaron’s own arrangement of Chasidic Melodies -“Nigun”.

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