Anna Tsukervanik - Violinist
Saturday, June 17, 2017 at 8:00 pm
Uzbekistani violinist Anna Tsukervanik Will be the first event in this year’s Friends of Classical Music Series.
Born in Uzbekistan, Anna had her first solo public performance at the age of at 8 and was only 14 when she won first prize in the Glazunov International Villon Competition in Paris. A “New Names” Award winner in Moscow and the Grand-Prix winner of the International Violin Competition in Kazakhstan, she has soloed with the Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg, debuted in NYC at the Lyric Chamber Music Society, and performed with the renowned Emerson String Quartet. She will be accompanied on piano by Erica Murase.
Ms. Tsukervanik will be performing:
Beethoven - Romance for Violin and Piano No.2 in F major, Op.50
Grieg - Sonata for Violin and Piano No.3 in C minor, Op.45
Ysaye - Sonata for Violin Solo No.3 in D minor, Ballade, "A Georges Enescu," Op.27 No.3
Wieniawski - Fantasy on Themes from Gounod's "Faust" for Violin and Piano, Op.20
The Friends of Classical Music of Arts on the Lake was formed in 2010 to encourage and support performances of classical music.
Please join the Friends of Classical Music here and support bringing classical music to our community. Membership ($150 per person) includes admission to all four 2017 Friends' events (including the special dinner event), a listing in our program, and on the Arts on the Lake website.
This event will be held at: Arts on the Lake, 640 Route 52
Kent, NY 10512
About the Event
Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1987, Anna started her studies at the age of 4 at the Uspensky Specialist Music School. Her first solo performance was at the age of 8. At the age of 14, she took first prize in the Glazunov International Violin Competition in Paris. She is the Grand-Prix winner of the International Violin Competition held in Alma-Ata (Kazakhstan). In 2009 Anna performed with the Gunma Youth Symphony Orchestra Festival in Tokyo, and in concert series with the Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg (Germany), conducted by Claus-Peter Modest, held in Bukhara (Uzbekistan). In 2013 she performed a debut recital in New York City at the Lyric Chamber Music Society. Anna has served as Concertmaster of the Lynn University Philharmonia in Boca Raton, FL. Participated in master classes with Leon Fleisher, Guillermo Figueroa, Wu Han, Schmuel Ashkenasi, Elmar Oliveira, Philip Setzer, Ilya Kaler, Philip Fowke, Mikhail Gotzdinner; as a member of orchestra performed under the baton of John Nelson, Albert-George Schram, Jon Robertson, Guillermo Figueroa, Greg Ritchey; worked and performed with such distinguished artists, as Ilya Kaler, Lawrence Dutton of the Emerson String Quartet, Yael Weiss, and Ralph Kirshbaum. Anna graduated from the Uspensky School in 2007 and entered the State Conservatoire of Uzbekistan. Currently, Anna is studying with Philip Setzer of the Emerson String Quartet for her Doctoral Degree in Violin Performance at Stony Brook University, NY.