Rolf Schulte
Sunday, August 12, at 3:00 pm
A Friends of Classical Music Event
Distinguished Violinist Rolf Schulte and pianist Aaron Likeness join us for the second event in the 2018 Friends of Classical Music program.
Rolf Schulte who The New Yorker has called "one of the most distinguished violinists of our day," started playing the violin at age five under his father's tutelage. Having studied with many noted players throughout Europe, he made his orchestral debut with the Philharmonia Hungarica in Cologne at age 15 playing Mendelssohn's Concerto. He has played with many of the world's great orchestras including the Berlin and Munich Philharmonic.
The program for the afternoon of August 12.
Suite Italienne Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Introduzione
Serenata
TarantellI
Gavotta con due Variazioni
Scherzino
Minuetto e Finale
Forlane from "Le tombeau de Couperin"
Maurice Ravel/arr. R.Kirshbaum (1875-1937)
Sonate For Violin and Piano Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Allegro vivo
Intermède/Fantasque et léger
Finale/Très animé
Intermission
Syrinx (1913) Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Églogue from Duo concertant Stravinsky
"La fille aux cheveux de lin" Debussy /arr.Hartmann
"La plus que lente" /arr.L.Roques
Three pieces from "Firebird" Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Prélude et Ronde des princesses
Scherzo
Berceuse
Minstrels Claude Debussy
| Tickets: | |
| $20.00 | General Admission |
| $150.00 | Friend of Classical Music |
| $15.00 | Member Admission |
| $10.00 | Student Admission |
About the Rolf Schulte
German-born Rolf Schulte, whom The New Yorker has called “one of the most distinguished violinists of our day,” started playing the violin at age five under his father’s tutelage. He later studied with Kurt Schäffer at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf, attended Yehudi Menuhin’s summer course in Gstaad, Switzerland, and studied with Franco Gulli at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena before moving to the United States to study with Ivan Galamian at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
At age 15, he made his orchestral debut with the Philharmonia Hungarica in Cologne, playing Mendelssohn’s Concerto. Under the auspices of Young Concert Artists he gave his New York debut at Town Hall to great acclaim.
He has since performed with the Berlin Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Frankfurt Museums Orchester, Stuttgart Staatsorchester, Bamberg Symphony, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice in Venice (in Stravinsky’s Concerto under Robert Craft), RTE Irish National Symphony in Dublin, and the Radio Orchestras of Berlin (RSO), Cologne (WDR), and Stuttgart (SDR) under conductors Christoph von Dohnányi, György Lehel, Tamas Vásary, Dennis R. Davies, Daniel Nazareth, Alexander Lazarov, Guido Ajmone-Marsan and many others. In 1990 he performed Roger Sessions’ Violin Concerto with the Radio Orchestra of the USSR in Moscow under the direction of Lukas Foss and presented American music in recital.