Cellist Alexander Hersh has quickly established himself as one of the most exciting and creative talents of his generation. Alexander is a top prize winner of the: Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition (2024), Pro Musicis International Award (2022), Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant (2020), Astral Artists National Auditions (2019), National Federation of Music Clubs Biennial Young Artist Competition (2019), New York International Artists Association Competition (2017), Schadt String Competition (2016), Hellam Young Artists Competition (2015), and the Luminarts Classical Music Fellowship (2016). Recent and upcoming concerto engagements include the Houston Symphony, Boston Pops, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Rockford Symphony Orchestra, Allentown Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra, Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra, Jefferson Symphony orchestra, Symphony Parnassus, Saint Paul Civic Symphony, and the Dupage Symphony Orchestra. Recital and chamber music engagements, past and present, include Carnegie Weill Hall, Marlboro Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Ravinia, Caramoor, Music@Menlo, Pro Musica San Miguel de Allende, Miami Chamber Music Society, Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Tri-County Concerts, Perlman Music Program, Lucerne Festival Academy, I-M-S Prussia Cove, Amsterdam Cello Biennale, Kneisel Hall, and Domaine Forget.
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Music can be a time-travel device or a teleportation machine. A chord progression might whisk you back a decade or two, like to a Tuesday in April. Or, the hint of a melody might bring to mind the sights and sounds of a foreign land you once visited. Composers continually draw on this miraculous sound-memory to create “musical postcards” that express their memories, and inspire ours.
Tchaikovsky’s famous Souvenir de Florence is literally a “wish-you-were-here” postcard to us, and exudes all of the warmth, vibrancy, and joy of his beloved visits to Italy to escape Russian winters. Even more adventurous is Maurice Ravel’s set of art songs, Chansons madécasses, inspired by the African tropical isles and set to evocative French poetry voiced by the captivating Jennifer Johnson Cano.
We’ll also travel in time to one of the most exciting eras of our own music and experience the world premiere of Steven Banks’s homage to the great Nina Simone in a piece that conjures the iconic style and voice of one of America’s most influential musicians.
Recital in Alhambra, California at Fried Music featuring works by Debussy and Saint-Saens with pianist Connie Kim-Sheng Fried, solo works by Alexander Hersh and Giovanni Sollima, and ending with Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto and Sollima Violoncellos Vibrez for Two Cellos and orchestra alongside student performers from the Fried Music summer intensive.
Midday recital with John Novacek featuring works for cello and piano by Samuel Barber, Camille Saint-Saens, Lukas Foss, and Alexander Hersh