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JULIA BRUSKIN, CELLO
AARON WUNSCH, PIANO

SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2020

7:30 PM EDT: “Doors Open”
7:35 PM EDT: Pre-Concert Talk
8:00 PM EDT: Concert Begins

PROGRAM:

Beethoven: Seven Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen,”
       (“Among Men Who Know the Feeling of Love”), WoO 46                        
Nadia Boulanger: Three Pieces for Cello and Piano                                           
Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano                                                       
Beethoven: Sonata for Cello and Piano in C major, Op. 102, No. 1

Julia Bruskin and Aaron Wunsch are partners in life and partners in music. In addition to individually having active worldwide solo recital, chamber music and orchestral performance careers, they frequently perform duo recitals. With this program of music by Beethoven, Boulanger and Debussy, they share the music they look to in these challenging times.

First prize winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in 2001, Julia Bruskin is a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and is also the cellist of the critically acclaimed Claremont Trio, inaugural winner of the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio Award founded by the Chamber Music Society of Detroit.  The Claremont Trio tours extensively, including concerts this past year for the Library of Congress, New York’s Lincoln Center and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. A frequent guest at summer music festivals, Ms. Bruskin has performed at La Jolla Summerfest, Mostly Mozart, Caramoor, Saratoga, Bard and Norfolk, and has toured with the Musicians from Ravinia.

Praised for his bold interpretations and communicative sensitivity, pianist Aaron Wunsch appears regularly on concert stages throughout the U.S., Europe and Asia. He has performed in Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall and Duke’s Hall in London, and at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland. A ten-city solo recital tour of China garnered critical acclaim and enthusiastic audience responses. Lauded for his “masterful” chamber music performances (Hartford Courant), he has appeared at the Norfolk, Bowdoin, Sarasota and Great Lakes chamber music festivals, collaborating in performance with cellist Lynn Harrell, clarinetist Charles Neidich, and the New York Woodwind Quintet.

Mr. Wunsch is a full-time faculty member at the Juilliard School and serves as Artistic Director of New York’s Music Mondays chamber series.

Julia Bruskin and Aaron Wunsch reside in New York City and serve as Artistic Directors of the Skaneateles Festival in upstate New York.

ABOUT CameraMusic:

"Musica da camera" (the Italian term for "chamber music") takes on a whole new meaning during the COVID-19 crisis, as musicians everywhere find themselves isolated and unable to perform for live audiences. CameraMusic is the Chamber Music Society of Detroit's answer to this, inviting artists to perform live on camera over the Internet from wherever they are. All artists performing on CameraMusic are being compensated for their work.

The Chamber Music Society of Detroit is able to offer these free livestreams only with the generous support of our listeners. Every dollar contributed to the CMSD’s CameraMusic Fund helps to pay musicians for their live CameraMusic performances. Thank you!