Ani Kavafian and Mihae Lee to Perform Kreutzer and More
WILLIAMSTOWN - The Williams College Department of Music presents Ani Kavafian, violin and Mihae Lee, piano on Friday, Sept. 26 at 8 p.m. in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College Campus. This free event is open to the public. Both musicians will also present master classes for Williams College students on the same day at 4:15 p.m. These are also open to the public.This evening of music includes Mozart’s Sonata in B flat Major K 378 for Piano and Violin, Brahms’s Sonata in G Major, Op. 78 the "Regen" for Violin and Piano, and Beethoven’s Sonata No. 9 in A Major the "Kreutzer" for Violin and Piano.
Violinist Ani Kavafian is enjoying a prolific career as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and teacher. She has performed with virtually all of America’s leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of St. Louis, Delaware, Detroit, San Francisco, Atlanta, Seattle, Minneapolis, Utah, and Rochester. Her numerous solo recital engagements include performances at New York’s Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully, as well as in venues across the country.
For more than two decades pianist Mihae Lee has been captivating audiences throughout North America, Europe, and Asia in solo recitals and chamber music concerts, appearing in such venues as Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, Jordan Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Academia Nationale de Santa Cecilia in Rome, Warsaw National Philharmonic Hall, and Taipei National Hall.
Praised by the Boston Globe, “Mihae Lee’s playing was simply dazzling,” she is an artist member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and a member of the Triton Horn Trio with violinist Ani Kavafian and French hornist William Purvis. Her recordings of Brahms, Shostakovich, Bartok, and Stravinsky with the members of BCMS were critically acclaimed by High Fidelity, CD Review, and Fanfare magazines, the reviews calling her sound “as warm as Rubinstein, yet virile as Toscanini.”
