Beyond NYC: Sparkill Concert Series 2018-2019 Season Finale

An all-Beethoven program with pianists Vassily Primakov and Oxana Mikhailoff and cellist Ben Capps concludes the 2018-2019 concert season at the Union Arts Center in Sparkill, NY on Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 3 pm

Opting for a program of Beethoven’s sonatas wasn’t a difficult decision for the music directors of the Sparkill Concert Series. Beethoven’s music is both familiar and beloved and is always a treat in a chamber setting. The range of  selections presented by the Sparkill Concert Series throughout the year offered a diversity of styles and arrangements. To wrap-up the season with Beethoven’s music is a pleasant and memorable touch.

A sonata as a music form was meant to be a piece played as opposed to a cantata, a piece sung. Starting from the Baroque period, the form was used by generations of composers. Beethoven was particularly fond of the form judging by the sheer number of expansive sonatas composed by him.

The Union Arts Center is inviting music lovers to a wonderful finale to mark its triumphant 2018 – 2019 concert season. The concert program features Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas “Appassionata” and “Les Adieux”, and Cello Sonatas No. 2, Op 5 and No. 3, Op 69 performed by Ben Capps, cello, Oxana Mikhailoff, piano, Vassily Primakov, piano.

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Primakov started learning music with his mother and then from the age of eleven attended Moscow’s Central Special Music School. He continued at the Juilliard School from 17 when he came to New York to pursue his studies with the pianist Jerome Lowenthal. He is the winner of various prestigious piano competitions from the William Putsches Piano Recital Award, the Gina Bachauer International Artist Piano Competition, and the Young Concert Artist (YCA) International Auditions among others. In 2012 he was awarded a prestigious Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant.

Primakov is recording prolifically and by now has released over 30 albums. His recording won him wide recognition and following of music fans. The Classical Recording Foundation had named him “Young Artist of the Year” in 2007. Later in 2009, his album of Chopin Mazurkas was selected by the National Public Radio as ‘Best of the Year”. The success in recording led Primakov to found with his duo partner Natalia Lavrova, a new recording company, L.P. Classics Inc. in 2011.

Oxana Mikhailoff, a Russian-born American pianist of extraordinary talent, is known for her vast repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary composers. She is a second-prize winner at the Martha Argerich International Piano Festival in 2003. In addition to her appearances at the acclaimed music halls around the world from Argentina to North America and Europe, she is a recognized educator maintaining an active teaching career in Westchester, NY. Mikhailoff is an artistic director of Midland Concert Series  at the Bronxville Women’s Club in Bronxville, NY. Her artistic vision for the Midland Concert Series is driven by her mission to bring world-class musicians to perform in Westchester, NY.

Exciting young American cellist Ben Capps enjoys a versatile performing career as a soloist and chamber musician. His artistry has been praised as “most appealing” by the New York Times, “virtuosic and impassioned” by the Barre Montpelier Times. He has performed in varying capacities at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, Weill and Zankel Halls, Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Mann Hall in Tel Aviv, Meyerson Hall in Dallas, and the Auditorio Nacional, the Palace of Fine Arts and Sala Nezahualcoytl in Mexico City.

Union Arts Center in Sparkill, NY is a unique hybrid space with beautiful architectural interiors in a restored historic firehouse. It houses an art gallery, a library and an inviting concert hall upstairs with a Yamaha DCFIIISM4 Pro 9’ piano with Disklavier, custom-designed sound system for excellent acoustics, and an elegant atmosphere.

Program

“Appassionata” , “Les Adieux”, Cello Sonatas No. 2, Op 5 and No. 3, Op 69

 

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Date: Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 3 pm

Venue: Union Arts Center, 2 Union Street, Sparkill, NY 10976