Curtis on Tour: Debussy, Ravel, and Fauré

Friday, May 23, 2025 8:00 pm CET/GMT+1 

Philharmonie Berlin, Kammermusiksaal (Herbert-von-Karajan-Str. 1, 10785 Berlin)

Internationally renowned cellist Gary Hoffman, the Nina and Billy Albert Chair in Cello Studies at Curtis joins some of the school’s esteemed alumni for a tour of Europe in the spring of 2025. A thrilling concert of iconic works and audience favorites, the program features one of Claude Debussy’s final compositions, the Sonata in D minor for Cello and Piano, an elegant, evocative work, at once dark, mysterious, meditative, and playfully whimsical.

Maurice Ravel’s shimmering Piano Trio in A minor follows, a dreamlike work with echoes of jazz, Javanese gamelan, and courtly Baroque dances, all leading to a splashy finale. The concert closes with Gabriel Fauré’s deeply moving Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15, widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated French chamber music works of the late 19th century.

Program:
Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano in D minor
Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
INTERMISSION
Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, op. 15
 
Ensemble:
Alexandra Cooreman, violin
Alyssa Warcup, viola
Gary Hoffman, cello
Serena Wang, piano

Organized by the Curtis Institute of Music in cooperation with Bard College Berlin and Young Euro Classic.

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