PROGRAMS & EVENTS

All events take place in the Eastman School’s Kilbourn Hall unless otherwise noted. Click here to purchase concert tickets.

Wednesday, September 13, 8PM

Shostakovich:
Ten Preludes (arr. Tzigonov) – Oleh Krysa, Tatiana Tchekina
Piano Trio No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 67 – Barry Snyder, Oleh Krysa, Yosif Feigelson
Violin Sonata, Op. 134 (arr. M. Tziganov) – Oleh Krysa with string orchestra

Friday, September 15, 8PM

Weinberg: Sonata for Solo Violin – Charles Castleman
Weinberg: Piano Trio – Anna Gourfinkel, Mikhail Kopelman, Yosef Feigelson
Shostakovich: Cello Sonata, Op. 40 – Steven Doane, Barry Snyder
Shostakovich: Seven Romances on Poems of Alexandr Blok, Op. 127 – Lauren Skuce, Elinor Freer, Mikhail Kopelman, Steven Doane

Saturday, September 16, 9AM - 5PM, Howard Hanson Hall

Symposium of Papers and Panel Discussion
Morning Session (Christopher Moore, chair)
9:00 Welcome by Jamal Rossi, Acting Dean
9:15 Laurel E. Fay: "Dmitri Dmitrievich and Metek: a Biographical Overview"
10:00 David Fanning: "In Shostakovich's Orbit: Weinberg's String Quartets"
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Simon Morrison: "Bureaucratic Muddle instead of Ideological Music"
12:00-1:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session (Holly Watkins, chair)
1:30 Christopher Moore: "Shostakovich's Preludes, op. 34: Allusion and Multivalence"
2:15 Truman Bullard: "The Early Poetry of Alexander Blok in the Late Music of Dmitri Shostakovich"
3:00 Peter Schmelz: "What was Shostakovich, and What Came Next?"
3:45 Break
4:00 Panel discussion, Truman Bullard, moderator

Saturday, September 16, 7:15PM

Pre-concert lecture, with Manashir Yakubov, president of Russia's Dmitri Shostakovich Society and director of the DSCH publishing house.

Saturday, September 16, 8PM

Weinberg: Sonata No. 3 for Solo Cello – Yosef Feigelson
Weinberg: String Quartet No. 13 – Ying Quartet
Weinberg: From Poetry of S. Petöfi – Yvonne Douthat and Joo Hyun Lee
Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147 – George Taylor and Michael Tan

Sunday, September 17, 3PM

Weinberg: Piano Quintet, – Elizabeth Kopelman, Mikhail Kopelman, Lynn Blakeslee, George Taylor, Rosemary Elliot
Shostakovich: Piano Quintet, Op. 57 – Elinor Freer, Ying Quartet
Shostakovich: Prelude and Scherzo for String Octet, Op. 11 – Mikhail Kopelman, Lynn Blakeslee, George Taylor, Alan Harris, Ying Quartet

Sunday, October 22, 3PM

Shostakovich: String Quartets Nos. 7 in F-sharp minor, Op. 108; 10 in A-flat major, Op. 118; 1 in C major, Op. 49; and 8 in C Minor, Op. 110
Kopelman Quartet