Virtuosic Bach and Jazz CafÉ

Friday, May 31 at 7:30pm
Joseph Strug Concert Hall, Fountain School of Performing Arts
1385 Seymour St., Halifax

Using music from J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue, Christos Hatzis’s Stylus imitates a “broken record”, skipping and repeating material to create a shifting focus. Then, Kerson Leong brings us Bach’s magnificent C Major solo sonata, with its towering and virtuosic fugue, and Joseph Petric follows with a new work by Abigail Richardson. We close with the fabulous jazz-klezmer-Broadway mix of Paul Schoenfield’s Café Music.

On the Program

CHRISTOS HATZIS: Stylus (9’)

Joseph Petric, accordion
Airi Yoshioka, violin
Sharon Wei, viola

J.S. BACH: Sonata in C Major, BWV 1005 (22’)

Kerson Leong, violin

INTERMISSION

ABIGAIL RICHARDSON-SCHULTE: Bloom (17’)

Joseph Petric, accordion
Mark Lee, violin
Gwen Hoebig, violin
Isaac Chalk, viola
Blair Lofgren, cello

PAUL SCHOENFIELD: Café Music (16’)

Mark Fewer, violin
Cameron Crozman, cello
John Novacek, piano