Notes in Nature: Emotional Landscapes
March 15, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Notes in Nature: Emotional Landscapes for Violin and Piano
Saturday, Mar. 15, 2025
7pm – 8:30pm
$35 per person in advance; $40 at the door if seats are available. Reservations required. All tickets final sale. Rain or shine.
Emotional Landscapes is a captivating musical journey with pieces by Beethoven, Brahms, Davidson, and Still. This concert brings together a diverse selection of works for violin and piano that explore a spectrum of human emotions and natural beauty. Inspired by sculptures from his contemporaries from the Harlem Renaissance, William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano intertwines classical and African-American musical traditions to evoke rich emotional and cultural narratives. The second piece on the program is “Blue Curve of the Earth,” by Tina Davidson. This contemporary piece explores the composer’s observation and emotional response to the beauty of nature’s grandeur.
Beethoven’s “Spring Sonata” is a classical masterpiece that embodies the joy and renewal of spring, bridging the emotional landscapes of the earlier pieces with its lightness and lyrical grace. The evening concludes with Brahms’ Sonata No. 3, a profound work of deep expressiveness that ties together the themes of the concert. Set in the elegant Great Hall of the Main House, this performance offers a seamless blend of historical and contemporary influences, inviting you to take part in a rich dialogue between past and present interpretations of the human experience.
Immerse yourself in a remarkable musical experience at Planting Fields during our newest concert series in collaboration with Long Island Chamber Music: Notes in Nature!
We invite you to embark on a captivating journey through the works of beloved composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms, whose timeless masterpieces will be celebrated alongside rediscovered gems and exciting contemporary compositions. This series features five concerts, each presenting a unique opportunity to explore the rich landscape of chamber music and brought to life by the passionate performances of exceptional musicians.
Chelsea WangPraised by the New York Times as an “excellent young pianist”, Chelsea Wang has appeared as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America in venues including Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Merkin Hall, Kimmel Center’s Perelman Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Columbia University’s Miller Theater, Benjamin Franklin Hall, Guarneri Hall, and more. She has also performed extensively in Europe and Asia, appearing in venues including Konzerthaus Berlin, Munich’s Allerheiligen-Hofkirche, Konzertsaal at Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden Hochschule fur Musik, Chamber Hall of Warsaw Philharmonic, Seoul Arts Center, Taipei National Concert Hall, Kaohsiung Weiwuying Center for the Arts, Hong Kong City Hall, and Taitung Cultural Performing Arts Center. She is a prize winner and finalist of many national and international piano competitions including the Seoul International Piano competition, Washington International Piano Competition, New York International Piano Competition, and many more.
Ms. Wang made her orchestral debut at the age of six and has performed with many orchestras since then including the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Des Moines Symphony Orchestra, musicians from the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, New Orleans Civic Symphony, Waterloo- Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra, Fort Dodge Symphony Orchestra, Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra, among others. Her festival appearances include the Music@Menlo, Ravinia Steans Institute, Bravo!Vail, Tippet Rise, Music Academy of the West, Orford, PianoTexas, Fontainebleau, Music from Angel Fire, Four Seasons, Banff, Amalfi Coast, and Norfolk Chamber Music Festivals. Chelsea has performed as a guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Manhattan Chamber Players, Buffalo Chamber Music Society, Hong Kong Intimacy of Creativity, and the Dame Myra Hess Series.
A native of West Des Moines, Iowa, Ms. Wang is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia where she studied with Meng-Chieh Liu and Ignat Solzhenitsyn and was awarded the prestigious Sergei Rachmaninoff Award upon graduation. She received her Master of Music degree and Graduate Performance Diploma at the Peabody Conservatory under the tutelage of Leon Fleisher and Yong-Hi Moon, and is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music with James Giles. Additionally, Ms. Wang is a member of the prestigious New York-based Ensemble Connect, a highly selective two-year fellowship program under the joint auspices of Carnegie Hall, The Weill Institute, and The Juilliard School.
Gergana HaralampievaGergana Haralampieva is a Bulgarian-American violinist and music educator. Gergana received her Bachelor’s Degree from Curtis Institute of Music and her Master’s Degree from New England Conservatory. As an in-demand chamber musician, Gergana has performed with the Borromeo String Quartet, Eighth Black Bird, A Far Cry, and was a member of Ensemble Connect from 2018 – 2020 an in-residence ensemble at Carnegie Hall. As an educator, Gergana has taught classes at Fordham University, Skidmore College, and City College Academy of the Arts in Washington Heights.
For questions, please contact Lilly McGurk, Stewardship Director at lmcgurk@plantingfields.org
About Long Island Chamber Music
Long Island Chamber Music (LICM) is a collective of professional musicians that bring classical music to Long Island communities through concerts and educational programs year-round. LICM was founded in 2020 by husband-and-wife musicians Eric Huckins and Gergana Haralampieva alongside composer Nick DiBerardino with the mission of making professional classical music of the highest caliber accessible to Long Island audiences.
LICM performs chamber music at local venues across Long Island including concert halls, parks, libraries, churches, museums, and community centers. LICM works closely with its community partners to create concert programs that are relevant and compelling to audiences. Each concert showcases a variety of instrumentations drawing from LICM’s artist roster of over 20 professional musicians. LICM is strongly committed to programming works and featuring musicians from historically underrepresented communities in the classical music field.
LICM provides a variety of highly interactive educational concerts and residencies in schools, libraries, and community centers that focus on fostering a love and understanding of classical music for all ages.
LICM musicians are all drawn from Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Astral Artists, Concert Artist Guild and several other of the country’s most prominent musical institutions. In addition to being leaders in their art form, LICM musicians are teaching artists, entrepreneurs, and socially-minded advocates for classical music.
Long Island Chamber Music is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. All Long Island Chamber Music programs are made possible through the efforts of our community partners, support from local businesses, and the generosity of the Long Island community.
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