Weekend of Chamber Music: Resonance Across Centuries
July 23rd at 7:30pm

Performance, demonstration and discussion of historical period instruments with WCM artists Nurit Pacht, Caroline Stinson and Andrus Madsen

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Violinist Nurit Pacht was selected as one of the “Stars of the Year 2000” by Le Monde de la
Musique and since then her career has blossomed with appearances in London’s Wigmore Hall, Vienna’s Musikverein, Moscow’s Great Hall, Washington’s Kennedy Center, Carnegie’s Weill Hall, The People’s Hall of China in Beijing and at Ravinia’s Rising Stars Series. Chosen by director Robert Wilson to be the featured musician in his multi-media piece Relative Light featuring solo violin works by John Cage’s and J.S. Bach, Nurit are equally at home in the standard repertoire as in the contemporary.

Canadian cellist Caroline Stinson performs widely as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician and has appeared at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, Boston’s Gardner Museum and Washington D.C.’s Smithsonian; the Koelner Philharmonie, Lucerne Festival and Cité de la Musique in Europe, and the Centennial Centre in Canada. In recent seasons she appeared in recital in New York sponsored by the Finnish Consulate, in recital in Brussels, Belgium, with Accroche note in Strasbourg France, and as a soloist with the Stamford Symphony in Connecticut under Eckart Stier, where she also serves as Principal Cellist. Ms. Stinson has commissioned and premiered works from solo cello to concerti, as well as chamber music with the Lark Quartet and Open End Ensemble, and has had the privilege of working closely with Pierre Boulez, John Corigliano, Peter Eötvös, John Harbison, Aaron Kernis, Paul Moravec, Shulamit Ran, Steven Stucky, Joan Tower and Andrew Waggoner.

Andrus Madsen is a versatile musician and educator with extensive experience in both performance and teaching. As an instructor, he has worked with students of all levels since the 1990s, teaching piano, harpsichord, and organ at prestigious institutions such as the Eastman School of Music, Boston University, and Brigham Young University. Madsen has also presented master classes at numerous universities and music festivals, including the University of Cincinnati, University of Texas Austin, Florida Gulf Coast University, and the Amherst Early Music Festival.