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SUMMARY:Pieter Wispelwey\, cello and Pei-Shan Lee\, piano: Complete Beeth
 oven Cello Sonatas
DESCRIPTION:Pieter Wispelwey\, cello Pei-Shan Lee\, piano A rare opportun
 ity to experience all five of Beethoven’s cello sonatas in a single even
 ing\, this extraordinary recital traces the composer’s evolution from yo
 uthful fire to transcendent late style. Legendary Dutch cellist Pieter W
 ispelwey\, praised by The New York Times for his “unusually complete gra
 sp of the music\,” joins acclaimed pianist Pei-Shan Lee\, whose playing 
 has been called “ravishing and insightful” by The Boston Globe\, for a p
 owerful exploration of one of chamber music’s greatest collection of mas
 terpieces. Join us for a pre-concert stage talk at 2:15pm with Professor
  Anne Schreffler. Please note that the duration of this performance will
  be 2.5 hrs with two brief intermissions. Program: BEETHOVEN: Cello Sona
 ta No. 1 in F major\, Op. 5\, No. 1 BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No. 2 in G m
 inor\, Op. 5 No. 2 — BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No. 4 in C major\, Op. 102\
 , No. 1 BEETHOVEN: Cello Sonata No. 5 in D major\, Op. 102\, No. 2 — BEE
 THOVEN: Cello Sonata No. 3 in A major\, Op. 69 Read more Pieter Wispelwe
 y is equally at ease on the modern or period cello. His acute stylistic 
 awareness\, combined with a truly original interpretation and a phenomen
 al technical mastery\, has won the hearts of critics and public alike in
  repertoire ranging from JS Bach to Gubaidulina\, Dutilleux and works co
 mposed for him. Wispelwey’s career spans five continents and he has appe
 ared as soloist with many of the world’s leading orchestras including th
 e Boston Symphony\, Dallas Symphony\, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra\, Vanco
 uver Symphony\, NHK Symphony\, Yomiuri Nippon\, Tokyo Philharmonic\, Sap
 poro Symphony\, Sydney Symphony\, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São P
 aulo\, London Philharmonic\, Hallé Orchestra\, BBC Symphony\, BBC Scotti
 sh Symphony\, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment\, Academy of Ancient
  Music\, Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig\, Danish National Radio Symphony\,
  Budapest Festival Orchestra and Camerata Salzburg. Conductor collaborat
 ions include Ivan Fischer\, Esa-Pekka Salonen\, Herbert Blomstedt\, Yann
 ick Nézet-Séguin\, JeffreyTate\, Kent Nagano\, Otto Tausk\, Sir Neville 
 Marriner\, Philippe Herreweghe\, Vassily Sinaisky\, Vladimir Jurowski\, 
 Louis Langrée\, Marc Minkowski\, Ton Koopman and Sir Roger Norrington. W
 ith regular recital appearances in London (Wigmore Hall\, Kings Place)\,
  Paris (Châtelet\, Louvre)\, Amsterdam (Concertgebouw\, Muziekgebouw)\, 
 Brussels (Bozar)\, Berlin (Konzerthaus)\, Vienna (Konzerthaus\, Musikver
 ein)\, Milan (Società del Quartetto)\, Buenos Aires (Teatro Colon)\, Syd
 ney (The Utzon Room)\, Seoul (Arts Center)\, Tokyo (Toppan Hall)\, Los A
 ngeles (Walt Disney Hall) and New York (Lincoln Center)\, Wispelwey has 
 established a reputation as one of the most charismatic recitalists on t
 he circuit. In the 2025/2026 season\, Wispelwey appeared in recital at t
 he Laidlaw Centre in St Andrews with pianist Alasdair Beatson\, and reun
 ited with the Dudok Quartet for performances in Nottingham\, Leamington\
 , Norwich and Rotterdam. He returned to New York’s Orchestra of St. Luke
 ’s and gave a complete Bach Suites recital at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hal
 l\, as well as a further recital appearance at Wigmore Hall. Wispelwey’s
  performances of the complete Bach Suites in a single evening form a maj
 or strand of his recital appearances\, an accomplishment that has attrac
 ted major critical acclaim throughout Europe and the US. “On paper it is
  a feat requiring brilliance\, stamina and perhaps a bit of hubris. In p
 ractice Mr. Wispelwey proved himsel fimpressively up to the challenge\, 
 offering performances as eloquent as they were provocative” (New YorkTim
 es). With a number of “complete” sets by other composers in his repertoi
 re\, he has also followed the complete Bach Suites with a recital of tho
 se by Britten\, and extended the venture to its greatest proportion yet 
 when he played the complete Bach Suites\, Beethoven’s complete works for
  cello and piano\, and the two cello sonatas by Brahms over the course o
 f three consecutive evenings at Melbourne Recital Centre as part of thei
 r Great Performers Series. Together with Paolo Giacometti\, Wispelwey is
  the recipient of the 2019 Brahmspreis in recognition of the duo’s groun
 dbreaking interpretations of the composer’s music\, which culminated in 
 an exciting recording venture committing the complete duo works by Schub
 ert and Brahms to disc. The final instalment of the 6 CDs was released i
 n May 2019 by Evil Penguin Records Classic. Pieter Wispelwey’s impressiv
 e discography of about 50 albums\, available on Channel Classic\, Onyx a
 nd EPR\, has attracted major international awards. As well as the comple
 te Schubert and Brahms\, he has released three recordings of the complet
 e Bach Suites\, and his recent recording of Weinberg’s Concertino receiv
 ed the German Record Critics Award. In 2023\, he released two albums In 
 Memoriam\, dedicated to his son Dorian\, who tragically died in 2022. Th
 e first of these is a rerelease of the three greatest Schubert Violin-Pi
 ano pieces and the Trockne Blumen Variations\, Schubert having played a 
 great role in Dorian’s life. The second\, the Scordatura album\, feature
 s two works in darker\, alternative tunings: Bach’s Fifth Suite and Koda
 ly’s Sonata. A 35-disc retrospective box set was released in November 20
 24\, compiling all of Wispelwey’s recordings for Channel Classics betwee
 n 1990 and 2009\, an extraordinary body of work spanning solo repertoire
 \, major concertos\, chamber music\, and contemporary works\, and showca
 sing long-standing collaborations with artists such as Paul Komen\, Paol
 o Giacometti\, Dejan Lazić\, and conductor Iván Fischer. Recent highligh
 ts include duo recitals with Paolo Giacometti at Teatro Colon (Buenos Ai
 res) and Villa Papendorf\, appearances at the Cello Biënnale Amsterdam\,
  the International M. K. Čiurlionis Music Festival and Toppan Hall (Toky
 o)\, performances with the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa as part of 
 Festival Paulo Gaio Lima\, and with the Estonian National Symphony Orche
 stra. Born in Haarlem\, The Netherlands\, Wispelwey studied with Dicky B
 oeke and Anner Bylsma in Amsterdam and later with Paul Katz in the USA a
 nd William Pleeth in the UK. Pieter is Professor of Cello at Robert Schu
 mann Musikhochschule Düsseldorf and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. He
 plays on a 1760 JB Guadagnini cello and a 1710 Barak Norman baroque cell
 o. Pianist Pei-Shan Lee's playing has been praised in Strad Magazine as 
 "glittering... sensuous\, tender\, and luminous." The Boston Musical Int
 elligencer writes of her "gorgeous tone and colorrange" with "monumental
  orchestral sonorities." The Washington Post hails her as a"consummate" 
 artist\, and the Maine Classical Beat commends her gift for "holding it 
 all together... as the composer directing from the piano."Ms. Lee has to
 ured the world with concerts throughout much of Europe\, Israel\, Asia\,
  and America. Major venues in the United States include Lincoln Center\,
  Kennedy Center\, and WeillRecital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Lee has al
 so performed at the Mostly Mozart Festival\, Caramoor Festival\, Great L
 akes Chamber Music Festival\, Rockport Chamber Music Festival\, Bowdoin 
 Festival\, Heifetz Institute\, and Chautauqua Institute. Festivals abroa
 d have included Pro Quartet in France\, Great Wall Academy in Beijing\, 
 Formosa Chamber Music Festival in Taiwan\, and International Piano Festi
 vals in Spain and Russia. Since coming to the United States from Taiwan\
 , Ms. Lee has specialized in the duo repertoire for both strings and woo
 dwinds\, and has collaborated with some of America's most important musi
 cians\, including her distinguished faculty colleagues at New England Co
 nservatory: violinists Margaret Batjer\, Cathy Cho\, Ryu Goto\, Jacques 
 Israelievitch\, Stefan Jackiw\, Ani Kavafian\, Joseph Silverstein\, and 
 Ian Swensen\; violists Brian Chen\, James Dunham\, Edward Gazouleas\, an
 d Dmitri Murrath\; and cellists Robert deMaine\, Andres Diaz\, and Piete
 r Wispelwey. She has appeared in concerts with the Ariel\, Formosa\, Har
 lem\, Jupiter\, and Szymanowski String Quartets\, and with principals of
  the Bavarian Radio\, Boston\, Chicago\, Cincinnati\, Detroit\, and the 
 Los Angeles Philharmonic. A member of NEC's Collaborative Piano Faculty\
 , and a passionate advocate for advancing the art of piano-instrumental 
 collaboration\, Ms. Lee previously served on the faculty of California S
 tate University Northridge\, where she created a new MM in Collaborative
  Piano. Her doctoral thesis\, "The Collaborative Pianist: Balancing Role
 s in Partnership\," has become an important resource for schools wishing
  to begin Collaborative Piano degree programs and has been translated in
 to Chinese. Formerly on the faculty of the Perlman Music Program\, she c
 urrently directs the Collaborative Piano Fellowship program at the Bowdo
 in International Music Festival in Maine during the summers. Originally 
 from Taiwan\, Ms. Lee came to the U.S. after winning the Youth Division 
 of Taiwan's National Piano Competition. Based in Boston\, she has worked
  with the Boston Symphony Orchestra's guest conductors and soloists\, an
 d participated in the filming of The Portrait\, on violinist Anne-Sophie
  Mutter\, and of Talent Has Hunger\, on cellist Paul Katz and his NEC ce
 llo studio. She has also held positions at the Chautauqua Institute\, Cl
 eveland Institute of Music\, and Meadowmount School of Music. Former tea
 chers include Irma Vallecillo\, Anne Epperson\, Jonathan Feldman\, Solom
 on Mikowsky\, and Yu-Yun Chen. Concord Chamber Music (CCM) seeks to enha
 nce the cultural life of the greater Boston area by presenting affordabl
 e concerts of the highest caliber\, and through community and educationa
 l outreach. Performances have featured renowned ensembles and artists su
 ch as the Juilliard\, Borromeo\, Muir\, Pacifica\, Takács\, Parker\, and
  Jerusalem Quartets\; the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson and Hermitage Pian
 o Trios\; Triple Helix\; violinists Gil Shaham and Glenn Dicterow\; and 
 pianists Yefim Bronfman\, Marc-André Hamelin\, Menahem Pressler\, Jonath
 an Biss\, and Peter Serkin. Concerts also regularly feature members of t
 he Boston Symphony Orchestra and acclaimed chamber musicians. With the 2
 026-2027 season\, CCM begins its 27th year of extraordinary musical expe
 riences.\n\nTickets: https://ci.ovationtix.com/36622/performance/1182928
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LOCATION:Groton Hill Music Center\, 122 Old Ayer Rd\, Groton\, MA 01450
URL:https://findlocal.community/event/4cc2893a-13ba-4283-8de9-90ea813dbd5
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