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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This year’s annual concert in Mission San Luis Obispo features three octets for very different ensembles. Norman’s Gran turismo opens the program, using perpetual virtuosity of eight violins to simulate the sounds of race cars. A string octet by Festival Mozaic’s own John Novacek and Stravinsky’s “neoclassical” octet for a variety of wind instruments round out the first half. After intermission, Scott Yoo conducts the “Gran Partita” wind serenade, one of Mozart’s most beloved masterpieces.
The 2026 Chamber Music Series wraps up with an exciting and diverse program of music. Before he became a Hollywood film score composer, Korngold received incredible praise for his sextet, with critics calling it the finest such work since Brahms. Steve Reich’s Double Sextet is up next, which combines two identical sextets of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano and vibraphone for a very unique sonic experience. Dvořák’s third string quintet closes the program, nicknamed “American” as he composed it while living in Spillvile, Iowa.
NEXUS Chamber Music returns to the North Shore with a dynamic program for string octet, promising an exhilarating and fresh sonic experience. Eight world-renowned musicians will collaborate on Shostakovich’s haunting and electrifying Two Pieces for String Octet and the beloved String Octet by the young genius Felix Mendelssohn. The program also features the world premiere performance of a new string trio by Brooklyn-based composer and Grammy® award winning trumpet player Michael R. Dudley Jr.