In Mozart’s time, musicians were accustomed to arranging orchestral music for smaller groups of musicians to play in their own homes. Similarly, during the pandemic, musicians have had to find inventive ways to share their art. In this concert, pianist Apprentice Suren Barry follows in that tradition, transcribing and performing one of the great Mozart Piano Concertos in a version for keyboard and string quartet, recorded in the VMMF Directors’ Berkeley living room. Rachel Barton Pine and Eric Zivian will collaborate from a distance in Clara Schumann’s exquisite Romances, completing this program that brings artists together in ways new and old.

Emily Marvosh, contralto
Featuring Rachel Barton Pine, violin and Suren Barry, piano
Elizabeth Blumenstock, Carla Moore, violins
Liana Bérubé, viola
Tanya Tomkins, cello

Virtual: Pre-recorded concert + Zoom reception with Festival Musicians!