onstage/offstage: Jewish Kaleidoscope

NSCMF’s veteran artists pianist William Wolfram, cellist Mark Kosower, and clarinetist Ilya Shterenberg, join our directors Vadim Gluzman and Angela Yoffe in exploring the many dimensions of Jewish and Israeli music in a concert supported by the Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest, culminating in a world premiere of a new work by the celebrated Israeli composer Avner Dorman.

The onstage/offstage series brings the magic of the annual summer festival to downtown Chicago during the 2O2O-21 season. Now that guidelines are permitting in-person concerts we are so pleased to welcome you back inside the concert hall. Each event is presented live-in-person in the lovely recital hall at PianoForte Chicago Chicago’s premier downtown piano destination – and will livestream to homes around the world at the same time, your choice!

ARTISTS

Vadim Gluzman, violin
Ilya Shterenberg, clarinet
Mark Kosower, cello
William Wolfram, piano
Angela Yoffe, piano

PROGRAM

Darius Milhaud
Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano

Maurice Ravel
Two Hebrew Melodies, for Cello and Piano

George Gershwin
Three Preludes, for Clarinet and Piano

Ernest Bloch
“Baal Shem” Suite (Three Pictures of Chassidic Life)

Avner Dorman
Dancing at Mount Meron, for Piano, Violin, Clarinet and Cello World Première Performance*

* Commissioned for the North Shore Chamber Music Festival by Joseph and Minna Pirogovsky