Cellist Ji Young Lee and Pianist Dina Vainshtein will perform the works by Debussy, Ligeti, and Rachmaninov written from 1900 to 1953. There will be comments on music and a Q&A session.
Please note the entrance to our space is not directly on Broadway. You must walk through the adjacent Lou Ann David park and then follow the yellow dots on the sidewalk under the covered plaza to find our entrance.
Parking
Free 2 hr Parking is available on Broadway St. Holland St. and Broadway St.
Program
C. DebussySonata for Cello and Piano (1915)
Prologue
Sérénade, Modérément animé - Final, Animé
G. Ligeti Sonata for cello solo (1953)
Dialogo, Adagio, rubato, cantabile
Capriccio, Presto con slancio
S. Rachmaninov Sonata in G minor for Cello and Piano Op. 19 (1901)
Andante
Allegro mosso
Biography
Pianist Dina Vainshtein collaborates with some of the most promising musicians of our time. Now based in Boston, she is the daughter of two pianists, and studied with Boris Berlin and Arthur Aksenov at the prestigious Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. At the 1998 International Tchaikovsky Competition, she received the Special Prize for the Best Collaborative Pianist.
In recent concerts she has collaborated with violinists Miriam Fried, Yura Lee, Karen Gomyo, Chad Hoopes, Caroline Goulding, Zina Schiff, Alexi Kenney, and Angelo Yu; cellists Natasha Brofsky and Amit Peled; as well as the Borromeo String Quartet.
She came to the United States in 2000 to attend the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she worked with Vivian Hornik Weilerstein and Donald Weilerstein. She soon found numerous performing opportunities in the US, from Alice Tully Hall and Weill Recital Hall in New York City, to the Caramoor Festival, Music at Menlo, the Ravinia Festival, the Music Academy in the West at Santa Barbara, not to mention tours of Japan, China, Europe, and Russia.
Bob McQuiston reviewed the recent Naxos release of Emile Sauret’s violin showpieces featuring Michi Wianko and Vainshtein: “She couldn’t have a better partner than Ms. Vainshtein, who plays the perfect supporting role in these fiddle-dominated pieces. More specifically, she exercises a perfect balancing act between artistic reserve during bravura violin passages as opposed to compelling dramatic assertiveness when the piano is spotlighted.” Vainshtein made another acclaimed Naxos recital disc with Frank Huang, the concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic.
For nearly a decade, Vainshtein has been affiliated with the New England Conservatory and the Walnut Hill School, where she teaches chamber music. At both institutions she worked with Benjamin Zander in his renowned interpretation classes. Maestro Zander praised their collaboration as “the perfect partnership; [she is] the ultimate professional.”
