“Gidon Kremer’s incandescent violin playing illuminates any style of music he chooses to focus on.”
-The New Yorker
Violin legend Gidon Kremer performs the U.S. Premiere of his transcription of Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s richly varied and complex 24 Preludes, originally scored for cello. Kremer is a champion of the Polish-born Soviet composer, whose music shares common ground with that of Shostakovich, while maintaining its originality by incorporating myriad musical styles. The preludes are paired with projections of powerful images by Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus, whose highly expressive art also responds to a particular vision of life in mid-20th century Soviet Union.
Program
Mieczyslaw Weinberg: 24 Preludes, Op. 100 (transcribed from cello to violin by Gidon Kremer)
Photographs by Antanas Sutkus.
Leadership support for music programming in 2017 provided by the Anne and Chris Flowers Foundation and the Thompson Family Foundation.
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Gidon Kremer
Driven by his strikingly uncompromising artistic philosophy, Gidon Kremer has established a worldwide reputation as one of his generation’s most original and compelling artists. He has championed the works of Russian and Eastern European composers and performed many important new compositions, several of which have been dedicated to him.
Antanas Sutkus
Lithuanian photographer Antanas Sutkus initiated and served as Deputy Chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Photographers, served as Chairman of the Association of Lithuanian Art Photographers, and has served as Chairman of the Union of Lithuanian Art Photographers since 1996.