Student Recital
The Edith L. and Robert Prostkoff Memorial Concert Series
The Curtis Institute of Music’s iconic Student Recital Series returns this fall in Gould Rehearsal Hall. All recitals require a free ticket reservation. Public registration is available one week prior to event and is limited to two tickets per request.
This wide-ranging program begins with exciting new works for solo strings. Experience a theatrical work by Brooklyn-based Darian Donovan Thomas and learn why the New York Times claims “the changing American canon sounds like Jessie Montgomery.” The performance continues with Eugène Ysaÿe’s joyful Sonata in G major, which includes a rustic country dance, and Witold Lutosławski’s kaleidoscopic and explosive Subito, his final work for violin. Works by Fauré and Rachmaninoff, two titans of the Romantic period, conclude the recital.
Program
| MONTGOMERY | Rhapsody No. 1 |
| Rhapsody No. 2 | |
| Beatrice Chen, viola | |
| THOMAS | A Disintegrating Foundation Under a Catastrophe of Air |
| Marguerite Cox, double bass | |
| YSAŸE | Sonata in E major, Op. 27 |
| Gawon Kim, violin | |
| FAURÉ | Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13 |
| Allegro molto | |
| Andante | |
| Allegro vivo | |
| Allegro quasi presto | |
| Gawon Kim, violin | |
| Jenny Chen, piano | |
| LUTOSLAWSKI | Subito |
| Gawon Kim, violin | |
| Yoni Levyatov, piano | |
| RACHMANINOFF | Variations on a Theme of Corelli, Op. 42 |
| Anton Mejias, piano |
About the Performers
Beatrice Chen, from Chicago, is a student of Hsin-Yun Huang and entered Curtis in 2018.
Marguerite Cox, from Hudson, Ohio, is a student of Edgar Meyer and Harold Robinson, and entered Curtis in 2020.
Gawon Kim, from Seoul, is a student of Shmuel Ashkenasi and entered Curtis in 2017.
Anton Mejias, from Helsinki, Finland, is a student of Ignat Solzhenitsyn and entered Curtis in 2019.
Jenny Chen, staff pianist
Yoni Levyatov, staff pianist
