Strad for Lunch Series – Monday, February 1
Stradivarius on display Madrid’s Palacio Real
Every Monday at 12:30pm, WMP Concert Hall offers a 45 minute long chamber music concert to the public, and it is free admission with a suggested donation of $10.00. The idea of the concert series is to offer high quality music to their neighbors while they take their lunch break.
Monday, February 1 at 12:30pm
Violinist Erno Kallai and Pianist Larry Weng
These two talented musicians will perform works by Mozart, Bartok, Paganini, Sarasate, Liszt and Bazzini.
Winner of the Eleventh Carl Flesch International Violin Competition, Erno Kallai is establishing himself as one of the most exciting and charismatic young violinist today. In December 2008 he made his Carnegie Hall debut, performing Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto no.2 with the Juilliard Orchestra, under James DePreist. He performed chamber music concerts with Itzhak Perlman and members of the Perlman Music Program in venues such as Chicago Symphony Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the McCarter Theater. He has played for Hungarian radio and Television and appeared on the McGraw-Hill Company’s “Young Artists’ Showcase” with host Bob Sherman on WQXR. Erno’s regular recital partners include Rohan DeSilva and Janos Balazs, pianists and he has collaborated with Mattias Jacobsson, guitarist.
He has won numerous awards and prizes, including first prize at the Zathureczky Violin Competition in 2003, awards from the Semmering Music Festival in 2004 (which included the best interpretation of a work by Kodaly, and award for the best interpretation of a Viennese Classic work with his performance of Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.5), a Valerie Beth Schwartz Career Grant from Salone de Virtuosi in 2007, first prize at the Juilliard Concerto Competition in 2008, among others.
Born in Budapest, Hungary, Erno Kallai began early violin training with his father. At age of twelve, he had been admitted to the Exceptionally Talented Children’s class of the Franz Liszt University of Music where he studied with Andras Csontha and Eszter Perenyi. In 2006 he moved to the United States to study with Itzhak Perlman at the Juilliard School, where he still continues his studies as a full scholarship student. Erno Kallai is playing a 1723 Petrus Guarnerius violin, a generous gift from the Juilliard Rare instrument Collection.
Larry Weng began his piano studies at the age of seven with Dorothy Shi. At the age of eleven, he enrolled in the New England Conservatory Preparatory School under the tutelage Sylvia Chambless. Larry Weng is a laureate of numerous competitions, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition and the Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition for Young Musicians.
He has performed in many renowned concert halls, such as Symphony Hall, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Weill Recital Hall, and the Kaufman Center. He has also worked with numerous orchestras, including the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 2005, he was admitted to the joint degree program between Columbia University and The Juilliard School.
In the past few years, Larry has continued to garner recognition in the music world, with top prizes from the New York Piano Competition and the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin competition. Hailed by renowned professors and performers such as Arie Vardi and Paul Badura-Skoda as a “fine musician with a bright future,” Larry is dedicated to not only the artistic creation of music in the concert hall, but also to education and outreach in the broader community.
He firmly believes in the transformative powers of music, and the importance of immersing the youth in music in both an understandable and interesting manner. Larry has completed his Bachelor’s degree in Economics at Columbia University, and is currently finishing his Masters degree at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Jerome Lowenthal and Matti Raekallio.
WMP Concert Hall is located at 31-33 East 28th Street, between Park and Madison. No food or beverages are permitted in the concert hall.
Future Shows:
Monday, February 8th @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Akiko Kobayashi and pianist Juliana Han
Monday, February 22nd @ 12:30pm:
Violinist Emily Smith and pianist Marnie Hauschildt
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