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Monday, November 5, 2012, 7:30 PM. Music Mondays presents In the Tempest: Music of Thomas Adès, hosted by Thomas Adès. Composer, conductor, pianist, and youngest ever winner of the Grawemeyer Award, Thomas Adès takes the podium at the Metropolitan Opera this fall to conduct his own opera The Tempest; come hear this fascinating exploration of his chamber music, hosted by the composer. Both “viscerally appealing” (New York Times) and full of bewitching sonorities, Adès’s artistic voice is admired the world over.

Program:
Adès | Court Studies from the Tempest
Adès | Cardiac Arrest
Adès | Catch
Adès | Life Story
Adès – Couperin | Les baricades mistérieuses
Debussy | Cello Sonata
Janáček | Violin Sonata
Performers include:
Todd Palmer, clarinets
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Julia Bruskin, cello
Taka Kigawa, piano
Aaron Wunsch, piano
Advent/ Broadway Church, 2504 Broadway at 93rd St., New York, NY 10025
Free concert

Monday, October 25, 2010 at 8 p.m.

Frederick Loewe Theatre
35 West Fourth Street
New York, NY

This concert is presented by New York University as part of its Distinguished Faculty series.  It is open to the public and admission is free.

The program features the Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 78 by Johannes Brahms, the Sonata for Violin and Piano by Leos Janacek, Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 7 by Anton Webern and the Sonata No. 9 (“Kreutzer”), Op. 47 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Stephanie Chase is “one of the violin greats of our era.” — Newhouse Newspapers

“Pianist William Wolfram combined elegance and clarity in his playing, with the virile, propulsive energy and mercurial shifts of mood needed to make this music come to life.” — Jules Langert, San Francisco Classical Voice

For more information about this event, call (212) 998-5424 or visit the NYU calendar at www.events.nyu.edu.  For more information about Stephanie Chase, please visit www.stephaniechase.com.