Celebrating Beethoven’s love of Mozart and Nature, this program opens opens with his Violin Sonata no. 2 in A major followed by a chamber version of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor.  2021 Apprentice Suren Barry returns as the Festival Laureate to perform the solo part of this stormy work. Beethoven steals the show at the end with his rarely heard masterpiece, “The Storm Quintet” for strings. Listen for the thunder and birds in the final movement!

2:00 PM Blattner Series Lecture: “Conversation with Kate and Drake”
Harvard musicologist Kate van Orden in conversation with Festival Laureate cellist, Drake Driscoll

4:00 PM Concert

Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Sonata in A-major, op. 12 no. 2
Ravenna Lipchik*, violin
Axel Trolese*, fortepiano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto in D minor, K. 466
Suren Barry+, solo fortepiano
Carmen Lavada Johnson-Pájaro*, violin
Alisa Rose, violin
Seth Van Embden*, viola
Hana Cohon*, cello

-intermission-

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quintet in C major, Op. 29, “Storm”
Rachell Ellen Wong+, violin
Carmen Lavada Johnson-Pájaro*, violin
Seth Van Embden*, viola
Andrew Gonzalez+, viola
Tanya Tomkins, cello

*2022 VMMF Apprentice
+VMMF Laureate