Mozart Sonata Performances at Simon’s Rock Sept. 4
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — After completing two previous cycles of violin and viola sonatas, by Brahms and Beethoven, violinist Ronald Gorevic and pianist Larry Wallach will perform works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on Sept. 4, at 2:00 p.m. in the McConnell Theater of the Daniel Arts Center on the campus of Bard College at Simon’s Rock.
The program will include four sonatas, drawing on the three main periods of Mozart’s sonata production: no. 6 in D major (k. 306), no. 11 in G major (k. 379) no. 4 in E minor (k. 304) which is probably the most familiar of the sonatas, and no. 15 in A major (k. 526), the most extensive of these works.
Gorevic has had a career as both a teacher and performer, on both the violin and viola. Gorevic has given many recitals to critical acclaim, throughout the U.S. and Europe, including such major cities as London, New York, Cleveland, Chicago, and Atlanta.
As a violist, he has been a member of several well-known string quartets, spanning over twenty years, and covering most of the quartet repertoire. He has performed the Beethoven cycle twice, and has toured throughout the U.S. Germany, Japan, Korea and Australia.
Gorevic was a founding member of the Prometheus Piano quartet in 1995. He has been heard on radio stations across the U.S., and has also been broadcast on S.German and S.W.German radio, and on the Australian Broadcast network.
Wallach has taught music at Simon’s Rock for five decades. He is a performer, composer, musicologist, and educator whose interests span the history of Western music up to the present day, with particular focus on baroque and modern repertories. He has published articles about Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms, and as pianist performed all the Ives violin sonatas. He is a founding board member of the Berkshire Bach Society.
Wallach is active as a keyboard player on harpsichord, organ, and piano, collaborating with Ronald Gorevic, Paul Green, the Avanti Wind Quintet, John Cheek, Daniel Stepner, Stephen Hammer, Lucy Bardo, Paul Green, Susanna Ogata, Allan Dean, Ronald Barron, the Berkshire Bach Society chorus, Crescendo, and Anne and Eva Legêne. He has organized and performed in a concert for the Bard Retrospective Festival for Charles Ives in 1996, for the Housatonic River Festival Concert in 2004, for the Boston Early Music Festival in 2009, and for a program of music for four harpsichords that was performed in Norfolk CT, Great Barrington, MA, Albany, NY and Hunter, NY in 2009 and 2010.
His compositions, primarily of chamber music, have been performed in New York, New England, Texas, California, and elsewhere. In 2020, his orchestral composition “Species of Motion” was recorded by the Janacek Philharmonic in the Czech Republic. He started writing music reviews for the Columbia College newspaper in 2009, for the Berkshire Review of the Arts, and is currently a music critic for “The Berkshire Edge.”
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