CCM
ABOUT TONIGHT’S GUEST ARTISTS NOVEMBER 14, 2017
THE WEILERSTEIN DUO
DONALD WEILERSTEIN, VIOLIN • VIVIAN HORNIK WEILERSTEIN, PIANO
The Weilerstein Duo has been widely acclaimed nationally and internationally for its performances and teaching. In 2006 the Weilersteins marked the occasion of their three-decade performing and recording career with recitals and the reissue of their Arabesque CDs. These recordings include two volumes of the complete works by Ernest Bloch for violin and piano, lauded by Fanfare as a “must” on the journal’s annual “Want List,” and the sonatas of Janácek, Enescu and Dohnányi. The Duo’s discography also includes the complete Schumann sonatas for Azica Records. American Record Guide, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Baltimore Sun have lauded the Duo’s recordings. Noted for dynamic performances, the Duo has given recitals at Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y and Merkin Hall in New York City, at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, DC, and in major cities in the United States, Europe, Asia, South America and Israel. They premiered Joe Hallman’s concerto for violin and piano last spring with the New York Classical Players chamber orchestra in New York. The Duo returns regularly to the Yellow Barn Music Festival and the Perlman Music Program and has participated in many other festivals, including Banff, Marlboro, Aspen, Norfolk, La Jolla, Music Academy of the West and Kneisel Hall. They have been guest artists at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland, the Young Musician’s Festival and Keshet Eilon in Israel, the Daniel Days in Holland and the Mendelssohn Summer school in Hamburg, Germany. They have also taught and performed throughout China, as well as in Venezuela as part of El Sistema. They were guest artists at the Hanover Hochschule in 2015. During the 2016-17 season they were guest artists at Guildhall in London and at the Lubeck Conservatory as well as returning to the Hanover Hochschule.