C4NM: Commemorating The 75th Anniversary Of The Death Of Anton Webern
$15 ($10 student)
- Janis Mercer, piano
- Daniel Lewin, violin
- Caroline Jou Armitage, soprano
- Robert Howard, cello
- Dan Flanagan, violin
- Jacob Hansen Joseph, viola
- Thalia Moore, cello
- Heidi Moss, soprano
- Matt Ingalls, clarinet
- Ricardo Martinez, saxophone
Anton Webern — Four Pieces for Violin and Piano Op. 7
Anton Webern — Five Songs after Poems by Richard Dehmel
Anton Webern — Three Little Pieces for Cello and Piano, Op, 11
Anton Webern — String Quartet (1905)
Anton Webern — Variations for Piano Op. 27
Anton Webern — Five Songs on Poems by Stefan George, Op. 4
Anton Webern — Kinderstück (performed with selections from The Kinderstück Project)
Anton Webern — Quartet Op. 22
Commemorative concert of the 75th anniversary of the death of Anton Webern, featuring solo piano, chamber and vocal music from various periods of his life and The Kinderstück Project, pieces for piano written by student and local professional composers in response to Webern’s children’s piece, Kinderstück.
COVID-19 Protocols:
- Masks are required for all in attendance.
- Attendees are required to be fully vaccinated.
Please note: audience capacity is reduced, so purchase your tickets early!
About Janis Mercer, piano
Janis Mercer is an American composer/pianist living in San Francisco. Her musical activities as composer, and pianist are closely interwoven. Her compositions range in size from 8-piece chamber ensemble to digitally realized fixed electronics; utilize timbres from voice to drum set; and employ styles from 12-tone technique to structured improvisation, microtonality to field recordings. Ms. Mercer holds artist residencies at Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Ragdale, Centrum, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods.
Ms. Mercer’s music appears on Centaur Records. She is published by Media Press.
https://janismercer.com/About Daniel Lewin, violin
Daniel Lewin has performed extensively throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. He has had an unusually diverse career as a soloist, chamber musician, concertmaster and teacher.
Mr. Lewin began his musical training at the age of six, studying piano with Edmund Arkus and violin with Benno Rabinof. For three years he studied with Giorgio Ciompi at Duke University before receiving his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School as a scholarship student of Joseph Fuchs. He made his European recital debut at the Festival de Boulogne-sur-Gesse in Southern France.
Daniel Lewin has held the position of Concertmaster with the Symphony of the United Nations, Solisti New York, the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, Charleston Symphony, Nevada Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, and Cedar Rapids Symphony. He made his Carnegie Hall concerto debut with the New York Youth Symphony. He has also played with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, the Spoleto Festival in both Charleston, S.C. and Spoleto Italy and toured Greece as a member of the American Symphony Orchestra. In addition, he has performed at the festivals of Cabrillo (California), Casals (Puerto Rico), Grand Tetons (Wyoming), Lancaster (Ohio), Chautauqua (N.Y.), Skaneateles (N.Y.), Bear Lake (Idaho), and Deer Valley (Utah).
Daniel Lewin was Professor of Violin and Viola at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and a founding member of the Nevada Fine Arts Trios and also served as the Concertmaster of the Nevada Symphony. He also spent a season as Visiting Artist in Residence of Violin at the University of Memphis where he was also a member of the Pyramid String Trio. Mr. Lewin was also the Concertmaster of the West Virgina Symphony and first violinist of the Montclaire String Quartet. His teaching credentials also include the College of Charleston, S.C., and the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, N.C.
Mr. Lewin currently resides in the East Bay, where he teaches privately, performs in various chamber ensembles, and was recently the Director of the Trinity Chamber Concert Series in Berkeley.
https://fremontsymphony.org/daniel-lewin