Concerts
February 28, 2025 – June 1, 2025
Signs, Games, and Messages: A Kurtág Festival
Program One:
Bartók and Kurtág
Hiromi Kikuchi, violin and Ken Hakii, viola
Benjamin Hochman, Artistic Director
Signs, Games, and Messages: A Kurtág Festival
Program Two:
Piano Marathon
BARTÓK’S MIKROKOSMOS (BOOKS 4, 5, and 6)
PERFORMED BY STUDENTS AND FACULTY OF THE CONSERVATORY
Benjamin Hochman, Artistic Director
Signs, Games, and Messages: A Kurtág Festival
Program Three:
Literary Inspirations I: Lichtenberg, Joyce and Kurtág
Works by Kurtág, Bach, Gubaidulina, Purcell, Eötvös, Cage, and more.
Benjamin Hochman, Artistic Director
Signs, Games, and Messages: A Kurtág Festival
Program Four:
Literary Inspirations II: Beckett and Kurtág
Works by Kurtág, Schubert and Beethoven.
Performers include: Ryan McCullough, piano, Luosha Fang, violin/viola, Raman Ramakrishnan, cello, Daniel Phillips, violin, Carmit Zori, violin, Melissa Reardon, viola.
Benjamin Hochman, Artistic Director
The Seattle Series
Debussy: Sonata for cello and piano
Beethoven: Piano Sonata, No. 30 in E major, Op. 109
Messiaen Quartet of the End of Time
Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet
Cameron Daly, violin
Efe Baltacigil, cello
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Voices of Change, Dallas
Ivan Enrique Rodriguez: A la Soledad from Epistolas (2017)
Jonathan Cziner: A Song Without Words from 7 Character Pieces (2018)
Jesse Brault: Intermezzo (Homage to Will) (2022)
Will Stackpole: Letters to Distant Cities (2023 - 2024)
-Intermission-
Kaija Saariaho: Ballade (2005)
George Benjamin: Shadowlines (2001)
Maurice Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin
Benjamin Hochman, Piano
Recital with Raman Ramakrishnan
Beethoven: Seven Variations on 'Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen', WoO 46
Britten: Sonata in C, Op. 65
Beethoven: Sonata No. 3 in A major, Op. 69
Raman Ramakrishnan, cello
Benjamin Hochman, piano
PIano Recital at The Clark
Gluck arr. Kempff: Plainte d'Orphée & Dance of the Blessed Spirits
Ustvolskaya: Preludes (selection)
Matthew Aucoin: The Tracks Have Vanished
Wagner arr. Liszt: Isoldes Liebestod
Franck: Prélude, Choral et Fugue FWV 21
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Westchester Philharmonic
Mozart: Violin Sonata
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Deborah Wong, violin
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Musicians of the Westchester Philharmonic
Westchester Philharmonic
Mozart: Violin Sonata
Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Deborah Wong, violin
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Musicians of the Westchester Philharmonic
Recital in Tel Aviv
Schumann: Papillons Op. 2
Franck: Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue
Couperin: Pièces de clavecin
Ravel: Tombeau de Couperin
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Music Mountain: Season Opening Concert
Beethoven: Piano Trio Op. 97, "Archduke"
Brahms: Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25
Benjamin Bowman, violin
Milan Milisavljević, viola
Joel Noyes, cello
Benjamin Hochman, piano