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