Winter Piano Festival: Gilbert Kalish, Christina Dahl, & Oksana Ejokina
In person: $25 ($15 student) | Stream: $15
- Christina Dahl, piano
- Gilbert Kalish, piano
- Oksana Ejokina (Ezhokina), piano
Frédéric Chopin — Selected works
Ann Southam — Selected works
Franz Schubert — Selected works
A special chamber music concert with our Icicle Creek Winter Piano Festival faculty artists! Pianists Christina Dahl, Gilbert Kalish, and Oksana Ejokina return to Canyon Wren Recital Hall for an afternoon performance including works by Mozart, Chopin, Southam, and Schubert.
About Christina Dahl, piano
Christina Dahl has established a reputation as one of the leading teachers of her generation, working for nearly twenty years in the Stony Brook University graduate music department, a program that has fostered eclectic pianists whose careers range from Bang On a Can and Yarn/Wire membership to prizewinning in the Cleveland Competition, the Gina Bachauer, the Orleans and other international solo competitions. Since childhood her focus has been on chamber music: Christina can be heard on the Bridge, Albany and Tzadik labels. She has twice been a cultural ambassador for the US State Department, and has toured and taught master classes in Africa, South America, and the United States.
http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/music/aboutus/faculty/dahl_christina.htmlAbout Gilbert Kalish, piano
As head of the performance faculty, Gilbert Kalish had done much to create the uniquely supportive and stimulating environment of Stony Brook's music department. Through his activities as performer and educator, he has become a major figure in American music making. A native New Yorker, Mr. Kalish studied with Leonard Shure, Julius Hereford and Isabelle Vengerova. He is a frequent guest artist with many of the world’s most distinguished chamber ensembles. Mr. Kalish's discography of some 100 recordings encompasses classical repertory, 20th-century masterworks and new compositions.
http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/music/aboutus/faculty/kalish_gilbert.htmlAbout Oksana Ejokina (Ezhokina), piano
Russian-born pianist Oksana Ejokina appears frequently as guest recitalist and chamber musician on concert series across the United States and abroad. Oksana is the pianist of the Volta Piano Trio, whose recordings received accolades in multiple international music magazines, such as The Strad, Gramophone and American Record Guide. A sought-after teacher, Ejokina is Chair of Piano Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University. She has been associated with the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts for nearly fifteen years serving as Artistic Director of several flagship classical music programs.
https://www.plu.edu/music/staff/oksana-ezhokina/