MUSICIANS ON THE RISE
LAURA POE – World Premiere
ALAN BLANK – Poems from the Holocaust
J.S. BACH – Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor TBD
GABRIEL FAURÉ – Sonata G major
SERGEI PROKOFIEV – Five Melodies
FELIX MENDELSSOHN – Su Leika
L.V. BEETHOVEN – Cello Sonata No. 5

The acclaimed double bassist and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Nina Bernat and pianist Anthony Ratinov perform a recital celebrating female strength and empowerment through music for piano, mezzo-soprano and bass accompanied by images from Bernat’s grandmother’s post-war life. It features a world premiere by Lara Poe and Alan Blank’s Poems from the Holocaust, plus music by Gabriel Fauré, Felix Mendelssohn and Sergei Prokofiev, culminating in Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 5.