Virtuosic Bach and Jazz CafÉ

Friday, May 31 at 7:30pm
Joseph Strug Concert Hall, Fountain School of Performing Arts
1385 Seymour St., Halifax

Sponsored by Judith Fingard and Elizabeth Precious

Using music from J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue, Christos Hatzis’s Stylus imitates a “broken record”, skipping and repeating material to create a shifting focus. Then, Kerson Leong brings us Bach’s magnificent C Major solo sonata, with its towering and virtuosic fugue, and Joseph Petric follows with a new work by Abigail Richardson. We close with the fabulous jazz-klezmer-Broadway mix of Paul Schoenfield’s Café Music.

On the Program

CHRISTOS HATZIS: Stylus (9’)

Joseph Petric, accordion
Airi Yoshioka, violin
Sharon Wei, viola

J.S. BACH: Sonata in C Major, BWV 1005 (22’)

Kerson Leong, violin

INTERMISSION

ABIGAIL RICHARDSON-SCHULTE: Bloom (17’)

Joseph Petric, accordion
Mark Lee, violin
Gwen Hoebig, violin
Isaac Chalk, viola
Blair Lofgren, cello

PAUL SCHOENFIELD: Café Music (16’)

Mark Fewer, violin
Cameron Crozman, cello
John Novacek, piano