2011 Performances

January 12

Masterclass at studio theatre from 4 - 8

Columbus State University


January 13

Legacy Live!
Columbus State University's Premiere Chamber Music Series

January 13, 2011 - Performance at 7:30 PM
A performance of all Beethoven cello sonatas with Irina Nuzova

Irina Nuzova -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cello


January 25

Wendy Warner and Irina Nuzova have an NPR interview with Fred Child on Performance Today. Topics of conversation include:

the beginnings of their partnership
their most recent recording
Wendy's tutelage under Mistlav Rostropovich
Piatigorsky's thinking behind the transcription of Scriabin's etude for piano
the origins of Nicolai Miaskovsky's exquisitely romantic cello and piano sonata
the "Russian soul" in Rachmaninoff's lyrical as well as tumultuous G-minor sonata for piano and cello.

Irina Nuzova -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cello


February 6

4:00 PM Handel Sonata in g minor.

Columbus State University

Joseph Golden -- organ
Zoran Jakovcic -- viola
Wendy Warner -- cello


February 10-13

Hartford Symphony Orchestra presents a Valentine's Romance

Belding Theater
Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

February 10, 2011 at 7:30pm
February 11, 2011 at 8:00pm
February 12, 2011 at 8:00pm
February 13, 2011 at 3:00pm

Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Elgar: Cello Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1

Prior to this Masterworks concert there is a pre-concert discussion with the Maestro that starts one hour prior to the performance. Topics include but are not limited to the various composers and the historical significance of the pieces being played.

Edward Cumming -- conductor
Wendy Warner -- cello


February 20

6:00 PM: A program of chamber music masterworks, including Brahms B Major Trio and Schubert's famous Trout Piano Quintet.

Columbus State University, Schwob School of Music
RiverPark campus - RiverCenter for the Performing Arts
Room: Legacy Hall

Sergiu Schwartz -- violin
Zoran Jakovcic -- viola
Alex Pershounin -- bass
Alex Kobrin -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cell


March 4

8:00 PM: Boston Artists Ensemble

Peabody Essex Museum
Phillips Library Auditorium
East India Square (161 Essex St) 
Salem, Massachusetts 01970 

Boccherini Quintet in E minor, Opus 15, No.5
Judith Weir String Quartet (1990)
Beethoven Serenade for String Trio in D, Opus 8
Schubert String Quartet in B flat, D112

Tatiana Dimitriades -- violin
Julianne Lee -- violin
Rebecca Gitter -- viola
Jonathan Miller -- cello
Wendy Warner -- cello


March 6

2:30 PM: Boston Artists Ensemble

Trinity Church
11 Homer Street
Newton, MA 02465
617.964.6553

Boccherini Quintet in E minor, Opus 15, No.5
Judith Weir String Quartet (1990)
Beethoven Serenade for String Trio in D, Opus 8
Schubert String Quartet in B flat, D112

Tatiana Dimitriades -- violin
Julianne Lee -- violin
Rebecca Gitter -- viola
Jonathan Miller -- cello
Wendy Warner -- cello


March 23

2:30 PM and 10:30 PM: Soundcheck on WNYC.

As a part of the show "Ladies Night, " Angela Blasi, Wendy Warner, and Olga Vinokur join host John Schaefer in the studio.

Angela Maria Blasi -- soprano
Olga Vinokur -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cello


March 24

8:00 PM: Bargemusic, a floating concert hall in Brooklyn.

Music By, For, and About Women

Thomas Pasatieri (1945– ) “The Bride of the Moor” for Voice/Cello/Piano (world premier) 
Amy Cheney Beach“Chanson D'Amour” for Voice/Cello/Piano
Dalit Warshaw (1974– ) Desert Call, solo cello (NY premier) 
Louise Farrenc (1804–1875) Sonate for cello and piano in B flat, op. 46
Isabella ColbranPovero cor tu palpiti for voice/piano
Clara SchumannLiebst du um Schoenheit for voice/piano
Lili BoulangerClairieres dans le ciel… Elle etait descendue… for voice/piano
Fanny MendelssohnHensel Warum sind denn du rosen so Blass for voice/piano 

Angela Maria Blasi -- soprano
Olga Vinokur -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cell


March 27

3:00 PM: In RealTime Series: 
Music By, For, and About Women

New Jersey City University
Rossey Hall, Ingalls Recital Hall, Room 101
Jersey City, New Jersey

Angela Maria Blasi -- soprano
Olga Vinokur -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cello


April 3

4:00 p.m. Join the Schwob School of Music's stellar faculty in their third Chamber Series concert. 

Stravinsky's L'histoire du soldat
Prokofiev's Overture on Hebrew Themes
Rachmaninoff's Vocalise

Phone: 706-649-7225
Email: schwobmusic@colstate.edu
Event Website

RiverPark campus
RiverCenter for the Performing Arts
Room: Legacy Hall

Columbus State University
4225 University Avenue
Columbus, Georgia 31907

Dr. Michelle DeBruyn -- soprano
Paul Hostetter -- conductor
Alexander Kobrin -- piano
Dr. Robert Murray -- trumpet
Dr. Lisa Oberlander -- clarinet
Dr. Bradley Palmer -- trombone
Dr. Alexander Pershounin -- bass
Sergiu Schwartz -- violin
Dr. Paul Vaillancourt -- percussion
Dr. Ron Wirt -- bassoon
Wendy Warner -- cello


April 4

A selection from the recent LegacyLive! performance by Wendy Warner and Irina Nuzova was broadcast on National Public Radio's Performance Today.

Beethoven's Sonata in A Major

Irina Nuzova -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cello


April 10 & 17

4:00 p.m. WarnerNuzova perform the Complete Beethoven Cello Sonatas & Variations at The Phillips Collection

Sonata No. 1 in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1
Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 5, No. 2
Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69
Sonata No. 4 in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1
Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2
Three Sets of Variations

1600 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-387-2151

Irina Nuzova -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cello


May 2

2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Wendy performs with the Jupiter Chamber Players.

Johann Georg LICKL Cassazione in Eb Major, 1798

Once attributed to Mozart, the admirable quartet is for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn.

SHOSTAKOVICH 7 Romances on poems of Alexander Blok Op. 127, 1967

This sublime, bleak, searing testament to the 50th anniversary of the Russian “October Revolution” is arguably one of the greatest vocal compositions of the 20th century ~ for soprano and piano trio, the Blok Suite is dedicated to soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, who sang the premiere with her husband, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich (Wendy Warner is his protégée), violinist David Oistrakh, and pianist Moisey Vainberg ~ the foreboding Symbolist poems are by one of Russia’s preeminent poets.

Béla BARTÓK Piano Quintet, 1903-1904

An early work, the dramatic Romantic quintet hints of Brahms and Strauss, with a distinct Hungarian flavor ~ Bartók performed its premiere with the Frill Quartet in Vienna.

Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church
152 West 66 Street
(West of Broadway)
New York, NY 10023

Lina Tetriani -- soprano
Stephen Beus -- piano
Misha Vitenson -- violin
Maurycy Banaszek -- viola
Wendy Warner -- cello


May 7

7:30 p.m. WarnerNuzova perform at the Music Institute of Chicago's Nichols Concert Hall

1490 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201

Irina Nuzova -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cello


May 11

Supreme Court Musicale

East Conference Room, 
Supreme Court of the United States.

Irina Nuzova -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cello


May 13

12:00 p.m. Performance on Chicago's WFMT with the Beethoven Project Trio.


May 14

7:30 p.m. Concerto Extravaganza at the Music Institute of Chicago's Nichols Concert Hall

Vote for your favorite concertos to be performed by this star-studded lineup of top performing artists. Ballots will be distributed at each MIC series concert beginning on opening night, September 12, 2010. Vote often-a prize will be awarded at the concert on May 14 for the most ballots turned in by a single audience participant!

1490 Chicago Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201

Marta Aznavoorian -- piano
Desiree Ruhstrat -- violin
Wendy Warner -- cello


May 15

2:30 p.m. All Star Quartet at the Norton Concert Series

Maurice Ravel: Piano Trio in A minor
Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op. 47
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25

200 W. 11th St
Lockport, IL

Rachel Barton Pine -- violin
Michael Larco -- viola
Soojin Ahn -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cello


May 21 & 22

Fundraiser for the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago with Camerata Chicago and the Beethoven Project Trio

Works by Beethoven:

Overture to Corialanus in C Major, Opus 62
Triple Concerto in C Major, Opus 56
5th Symphony in C Minor, Opus 67

May 21, 7:30 p.m
Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room
Art Institute of Chicago
230 S Columbus Dr
[camerata-group_tn] Chicago, IL 60603
Tickets $100

May 22,4:00 p.m.
St. Michael Catholic Church
310 S. Wheaton Ave. 
Wheaton, IL 60187

Camerata Chicago
George Lepauw -- piano
Sang Mee Lee -- violin
Wendy Warner -- cello


June 8, 10, and 11

North Shore Chamber Music Festival

June 8: Arensky - Two Cello Quartet
June 10: Auerbach - "Postscriptum" for Piano Trio and Schumann Piano Quartet
June 11: Brahms Piano Quintet

Village Presbyterian Church
1300 Shermer Road, Northbrook, IL

Next Generation Chamber Ensemble, William Wolfram, Angela Yoffe, Alex Fiterstein, Ilya Kaler, Atar Arad, Vadim Gluzman, Angela Yoffe, Lisa Shihoten, Elina Lev, Rose Armbrust, Ani Aznavoorian, and Wendy Warner


June 14, 15, and 17

Chelsea Music Festival

June 14: Cordyceps Liszt (2011) and Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048
June 15: Korngold Piano Quintet in E Major, Op. 15 (1920)
June 17: Liszt Remixed (2011)

Tuesday and Friday's concert venue: Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W. 22nd St. at 11th Ave. Wednesday's concert venue: Leo Baeck Institute, 15 W. 16th St. between 5th and 6th Aves.

A wide variety of musicians will be performing alongside Wendy Warner


June 28 - July 1

Teaching at the JCC Thurnauer School of Music Camp.


July 9

Memorial concert for Nell Novak.

7:30, Nichols Hall
Music Institute of Chicago


August 2 & 4

Two Concerts with the Peninsula Music Festival in Door County, Wisconsin.

Tuesday, August 2, 8 p.m. Beethoven Triple
Thursday, August 4, 8 p.m. Saint-Saens Concerto

Door Community Auditorium
Fish Creek, WI

Peninsula Festival Orchestra
Felicia Moye -- violin
Winston Choi -- piano
Victor Yampolsky -- conductor
Wendy Warner -- cello


September 11

On tour with pianist Olga Vinokur in Cambridge, England at Newnham College Hall.


SEPTEMBER 25

4 pm: Faculty concert at Columbus State University's Schwob School of Music.

Beethoven Septet
Beethoven Ghost Trio

Eklund, Wirt, Kobrin, Oberlander, Pershounin, Schwartz, Jakovcic,
Wendy Warner -- cello


October 15 & 16

Two Concerts with the Reno Chamber Orchestra in Nevada. 

The program includes:

Weiner: Divertimento No. 1
Haydn: Symphony No. 86
Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Cellos
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1

Dates and performance times are as follows:

Saturday, October 15, 2011, 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, October 16, 2011, 2:00 p.m.

Nightingale Concert Hall
1664 N Virginia Street
Church Fine Arts Complex
University of Nevada, Reno campus

Ted Kuchar -- conductor
Peter Lenz -- cello
Wendy Warner -- cello


October 24

Concert with cellist Bongshin Ko at Columbus State University with a quartet comprised of faculty and students.

Bongshin Ko -- cello
Sergiu Schwartz -- violin
Zoran Jakovcic -- viola
Wendy Warner -- cello


October 29

Barber Cello Concerto at the Columbus State University School of Music with the Columbus State University Orchestra.

Paul Hostetter -- conductor
Wendy Warner -- cello


October 30

Faculty concert, part of a chamber music series at Columbus State University's Schwob School of Music.

Beethoven's Clarinet Trio Op. 11 in B-flat Major

Lisa Oberlander -- clarinet
Yien Wang -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cello


November 4 & 5

November 4: 10 a.m. Youth Concert. 

November 5: 8 p.m. Performance of Haydn D Major.

Whitehead Auditorium
Valdosta State University, GA

Howard Hsu -- conductor
Wendy Warner -- cello


November 13

Music in the Park—Chamber Music Series.

Sunday, November 13, 2011, 4pm
Saint Anthony Park United Church of Christ
St. Paul, MN

Irina Nuzova -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cello


November 28

Legacy Live: Join Faculty Artist Wendy Warner, cello, in an evening of beautiful French music: Poulenc and Franck Sonatas for Cello and Piano. Additionally, Faculty Composer Dr. Fred Cohen's new work for Clarinet, Viola, Cello and Piano, Á propos de l'amitié, is premiered.

Legacy Hall, River Park Campus, 
Schwob School of Music
Columbus State University, GA

Yien Wang -- piano
Lisa Oberlander -- clarinet
Zoran Jakovcic -- viola
Wendy Warner -- cello

December 10

Residency at Music Institute of Chicago.

Master Classes from:
11-1 at Ravinia, Highland Park
3-5 at Nichols Hall, Evanston.

Irina Nuzova -- piano
Wendy Warner -- cello


December 28 - 31

Nevada Chamber Music Festival

The Reno Chamber Orchestra is proud to present the eighth annual Nevada Chamber Music Festival December 28-31, 2011, featuring some of the world's finest musicians performing the great works of chamber music.

Wednesday, December 28, 7:00 p.m.
Masterworks Concert No.1
Nightingale Concert Hall

Friday, December 30, 7:00 p.m.
Masterworks Concert No. 3
South Reno United Methodist Church

Saturday, December 31, 7:00 p.m.
Masterworks Concert No. 4 – New Year's Eve Celebration
Nightingale Concert Hall