Benefit for Ukraine featuring Ukrainian Concert Pianist Stanislav Khristenko

The distinguished Ukrainian pianist Stanislav Khristenko performs all four Chopin ballades, additional works by Ukrainian composers Boris Liatoshysnky and Valentin Silverstov.

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Gabriele Baldocci

Gabriele Baldocci, pianist and professor at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music in London, performed in prestigious musical centres such as Tonhalle in Zurich, Parco della Musica in Rome, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Auditorio Nacional in Madrid, Palau de la Musica in Barcelona, Ceramic Crystal Hall in Seoul, Sala Verdi in Milan, Teatro Ghione in Rome, Teatro Rossetti in Trieste.

The Aizuri String Quartet

Praised by The Washington Post for “captivating” performances that draw from its notable “meld of intellect, technique and emotions,” the Aizuri Quartet was awarded the Grand Prize and the CAG Management Prize at the 2018 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition, along with top prizes at the 2017 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan.

Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung Piano Duo

Piano four-hands duo recital with Alessio Bax and Lucille Chung, piano

Oxana Yablonskaya

Oxana Yablonskaya is one of a number of hugely talented expatriate Russian pianists to have emerged from the post-World War II era. Yablonskaya possesses an all-encompassing technique and vast repertory that takes in works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Scriabin, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and many others.

Péter Tóth

Program: Works by Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven, Liszt, Bartok and Chopin 

Hungarian pianist Péter Tóth has concertized in most countries in Europe, including Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Germany, Russia, France, Holland, Spain, Italy and Switzerland. In addition, he performed in Japan, South Korea, Peru, Costa Rica, China, Australia and the United States.

Violinist Ilya Kaler and  Pianist Alon Goldstein

lya Kaler is one of the most outstanding personalities of the violin today, with a career ranging from that of soloist and recording artist to chamber musician and professor. 

Alon Goldstein is one of the most original and sensitive artists of his generation, admired for his musical intelligence and dynamic personality.

Pianists Alon Goldstein, John Orlando and Soprano Solmaaz Adeli

Alon Goldstein is one of the most original and sensitive pianists of his generation. 

Recent highlights for the mezzo-soprano include a performance of the Austrian and American National Anthems at the US Embassy’s Independence Day Celebration for an audience of 3,000

The Tempest Trio

Alon Goldstein is one of the most original and sensitive pianists of his generation. 

Ilya Kaler has received enthusiastic reviews for both his distinguished solo performances and highly acclaimed recordings.

From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Israeli cellist Amit Peled, a musician of profound artistry and charismatic stage presence.

Pianist Jon Nakamatsu & Clarinetist Jon Manasse

American pianist Jon Nakamatsu continues to draw unanimous praise as a true aristocrat of the keyboard, whose playing combines elegance, clarity, and electrifying power. 

Among the most distinguished classical artists of his generation, clarinetist Jon Manasse is internationally recognized for his inspiring artistry, uniquely glorious sound and charismatic performing style.

Pianist Brian Ganz

Brian Ganz is widely regarded as one of the leading pianists of his generation. The Washington Post has written: “One comes away from a recital by pianist Brian Ganz not only exhilarated by the power of the performance but also moved by his search for artistic truth.”

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson

Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Frédéric Chopin, Mr. Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature.

Cellist Amit Peled

​From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Israeli American cellist Amit Peled, voted by Musical America as one of the most Influential Music Professionals of 2015, is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today.

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Paul Roberts

Pianist, writer, lecturer, inspiring teacher – and a leading authority on the music of Debussy and Ravel – Paul Roberts has earned the admiration of audiences, critics and fellow professionals world wide.

Ching-Yun Hu and Prodigies

Declared a “…first-class talent…” and praised for her “…poetic use of color and confidently expressive phrasing…” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), the distinguished Taiwanese pianist CHING-YUN HU is recognized and acclaimed worldwide for her dazzling technique, deeply probing musicality and directly communicative performance style.

Lucia Luque and Mauro Bertoli

Lucia Luque Cooreman, violinist, is considered by public and critics one of the best young artists in South America. 

Mauro Bertoli, is an Italo-Canadian pianist, who lives in Ottawa where he moved from Italy in 2009.

Haskell Small

Composer and pianist Haskell Small has been praised for the exquisite blend of sound and silence in his compositions and for his prodigious technique and subtle touch at the keyboard. His discography of over a dozen recordings and his frequent national and international tours have firmly established Small's stellar artistic reputation around the world.

Pianist Jerome Rose

JEROME ROSE, hailed as "the Last Romantic of our own age" and one of America's most distinguished pianists, has been heard in major concert halls across five continents. A Gold Medalist from the International Busoni Competition, Mr. Rose began his international career while still in his early twenties.

Alon Goldstein & Inbal Segev

Domenico Scarlatti: Four Sonatas Brahms: Sonata No. 2 in F Major, Op. 99
Schumann: Fantasiestucke, Op. 73 Tsintsadze: Five Pieces on Folk Themes
Dvořák: Rondo Op. 94

Including
Artists/Audience Interactive Talk

Pianist Danny Driver

Driver’s playing is always beautifully measured and marked by an exquisitely deft precision.  — Graham Lock, International Piano

The international critical acclaim that Danny Driver’s recordings and performances have generated over recent years has cemented his reputation as one of Britain’s most respected and versatile pianists.

Pianist Sofya Melikyan

​Komitas Vardapet
Babadjanian
Shahrimanyan,
Granados Goyescas


Hailed for her “magnificent singing line and an exquisite artistic sensibility”, Armenian-born pianist Sofya Melikyan is recognized as an artist with a unique voice, who combines “high-wire virtuosity” with “deep musical intuition and ability to connect with the audience” (Mundoclasico).

Pianist Alon Goldstein

​Alon Goldstein is one of the most original and sensitive pianists of his generation, admired for his musical intelligence, dynamic personality, artistic vision and innovative programming.

Pianist Johnathan Biss

Beethoven sonata op. 7
Brahms Klavierstücke, op. 118
Kurtag Jatekok, selections
Beethoven Sonata op. 111


Jonathan Biss was born in 1980; his professional debut preceded this event by several months, when he performed, prenatally, the Mozart A Major Violin Concerto at Carnegie Hall, with the Cleveland Orchestra under the direction of Lorin Maazel.

Pianist Gwhyneth Chen

Bach-Busoni: Chorale Preludes
Bach: French Suite No. 5 in G Major
Stravinsky’s Petroushka
Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise
Scriabin: Sonata No. 2
Stravinsky: Petrouchka

Cellist Amit Peled & Pianist Noreen Polera

Performing together on the Cello and Piano.

J.S. Bach: Five Unaccompanied Suites for Solo Cello

From the United States to Europe to the Middle East and Asia, Israeli American cellist Amit Peled, voted by Musical America as one of the most Influential Music Professionals of 2015, is acclaimed as one of the most exciting instrumentalists on the concert stage today.

Antonio Pompa-Baldi, pianist

Raffi Besalyan, pianist

Music by Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Gershwin

Inna Faliks, pianist Ellen Bass, poet

Santa Cruz Poet Laureate Ellen Bass reads her poetry before each piece/movement played by Inna Faliks.

Adam Marks, pianist

Recital of Beethoven - Sonata No. 14, Op. 27 No. 2 - “Moonlight”

Prokofiev - Sonata No. 4. Op. 29

Kevin Puts - Alternating Current

Bach/Busoni - Chaconne

The Ives Quartet with guest pianist John Orlando

William Bolcom’s Three Rags and Quincy Porter Quartet No.9 concluding with the Quintet for Piano and Strings by Arthur Foote- all-American, all accessible.

Music with a latin twist, fine wines and chocolates

Join us for a soiree featuring cellist Stephen Harrison of the distinguished Ives Quartet with well known local pianist John Orlando, fines wines from Stockwell Cellars, delicious chocolates from Donnelly's and music with a latin twist by Albeniz, Scarlatti, Ginastera and Piazzolla (with a little Brahms and Chopin thrown in for good measure).

Kostov-Valkov Piano-Cello Duo

Recital of Bach, Beethoven, including the cello sonatas of Chopin and Rachmaninoff

Let's Have Fun! A night of music, food, entertainment and an auction of wonderful things

Let’s Have Some Fun!

A fun filled evening with music, food, wine, plus a live auction of wonderful things

Catered by
Lifestyle Culinary Arts

Featuring the inimitable and sensational singer, songwriter and comedian

JAMES LEE STANLEY

Baritone Eugene Villanueva and Pianist John Churchwell

American baritone Eugene Villanueva has been hailed by critics for “a voice as handsome as his countenance” (San Francisco Classical Voice). His “full resonant instrument, flowing legato line, gorgeous vocalism allied to passionate declamation,and exemplary diction” have brought him many successes in opera and concert halls throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.

Pianist Haskell Small

Musica Callada, Federico Mompou (1893-1987) Books 1-4
Music for Meditation
Technical prowess became poetry. Small wove a spell...sheer musicality...each note a liquid jewel."
- The Washington Post
he succeeds in creating that state- in reality so difficult to achieve- but which appears to be effortless, of just sitting there and 'only' listening to music."- Die Welt, Berlin

Pianist Soheil Nasseri

All Beethoven Recital including Sonata No. 28, Op. 101, Sonata No. 16 in G Major, Op. 31, No. 1, Bagatelles, Op. 119 and the Waldstein Sonata, Op. 53

Pianist Tanya Gabrielian

Committed: a program of piano works by composers afflicted by mental disorders.


Sarabande and Chaconne from Almira by	George Frideric Handel 
		arr. Franz Liszt 

Two Mazurkas	by Alexei Stanchinsky 

Morceaux de fantasie, Op. 3 by Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninov 

Demian Sonata	Arturo Cardelus (b. 1981)
	
Sonata Op. 111	Ludwig van Beethoven

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Benefit for Ukraine featuring Ukrainian Concert Pianist Stanislav Khristenko