NEW CONCERT SERIES,
NEW SOCIAL EXPERIENCES
an afternoon salon concert series curated by concert violinist Max Tan featuring short classical music programs, insights from world-class artists, and conversation
Meet 8 artists at 5 salon concerts!
Join a new family of art-lovers!
Concerts are Saturdays at 2 PM at the Thomas McGuire Hall of the Sarasota Art Museum. (Scroll down for dates).
Discounted tickets available to members of the Sarasota Art Museum!
“I was inspired last spring by an exhibition at the Sarasota Art Museum on Judith Linhares: Artist as Curator. It made me think of how musicians not only serve as interpreters of composers and their works but also serve to curate the listening experience. Listen Hear will explore the many different and incredible ways we listen.”
— Max Tan, violin/viola, series curator
Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 2 PM
Folk Music Inspirations
Timothy Chooi, violin and ChangYong Shin, piano
Listen Hear returns again with Timothy Chooi and ChangYong Shin presenting a short program of works inspired by folk music throughout Europe. Centered on Edvard Grieg’s Violin Sonata No. 3, the artists will also present works by Dvorak, Szymanowski, and Sarasate, sharing how folk music in the lives of each composer informs their understanding and performance.
EVENTS AND TICKETS
Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 2 PM
Is Music Finite or Infinite?
Improvisation, Notation, and Performance
Michelle Ross, violin and composition
The Listen Hear series returns to explore improvised music, a mysterious intersection of creation and interpretation. Michelle Ross, an alumna of the Perlman Music Program, discusses the creative process, including her library of personal voice memos and galleries of her own manuscripts. In this recreation of her workspace, the salon features premieres of new works that Ross will improvise for all to enjoy.
Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 2 PM
Textures and Timbres
Max Tan, viola; Sam Boutris, clarinet; Chelsea Wang, piano
Tan, Boutris, and Wang will perform works by Mozart, Brahms, Bruch, and other gems of the chamber music repertoire revolving around the viola and clarinet. Elements of the instruments’ singing, breathing, and speaking characteristics will be compared as the artists discuss their interplay—and exchangeability—in classical music.
Saturday, November 5, 2022 at 2 PM
Beethoven in the Home
Max Tan, violin and TianYi Li, piano
The Listen Hear series kicks off with TianYi Li and Max Tan who will perform a historical arrangement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, published in 1886, and a new arrangement of Beethoven’s Leonore Overture arranged for solo piano by Juilliard doctoral candidate TianYi Li, and explore how instrumentation and arranging can affect our experience of musical works.
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Saturday, December 3, 2022 at 2 PM
Brahms and the Magic of Time
Max Tan, violin and Stephanie Tang, piano
The Listen Hear series continues with Stephanie Tang and Max Tan exploring Brahms’ Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Major, perhaps the most loving of his three violin sonatas. Using historical recordings from before the Second World War, the artists discuss time versus timing, and will share insights on how our understanding of these concepts has changed throughout the last century.
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