Trio in concert Saturday at opera house
Hudson Hall and Classics on Hudson present violinist Tim Fain, pianist Roman Rabinovich and flutist Eugenia Zukerman on Saturday, May 20 at 7 p.m. at Hudson Hall at the historic Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren St., Hudson.
The concert, “First Loves and Fresh Ink,” is the second in the inaugural concert series at Hudson Hall. It will bring together violin masterpieces from Fain’s most recent album, “First Loves,” alongside works by Philip Glass and some of Fain’s own arrangements. The program includes J.S. Bach’s “Trio Sonata in G Major,” “Praeludium and Allegro” by Fritz Kreisler and Cesar Franck’s “Sonata for Violin and “Piano,” as well as “Arches” by Kevin Puts and Fain’s remix of Tchaikovsky’s ballet classic “Swan Lake.”
An Avery Fisher Career Grant-winning violinist, Fain can be seen on screen and heard on the Grammynominated soundtrack to the film “Black Swan.” He can also be heard on the soundtrack to “Moonlight” and gave “voice” to the violin of the lead actor in the hit film “12 Years a Slave,” as he did with Richard Gere’s violin in the film “Bee Season.” Recipient of the Young Concert Artists International Award, he has appeared internationally as soloist with the world’s major symphony orchestras. He has also toured with Musicians from Marlboro, and as a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, and around the globe in a duo-recital program with Philip Glass. His multi-media solo evening “Portals” premiered to sold-out audiences on both coasts and continues to travel worldwide.
Praised by The New York Times for his “uncommon sensitivity and feeling”, Roman Rabinovich was the winner of the 2008 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. He has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Israel in such prestigious venues as Wigmore Hall in London, Leipzig’s Gewandhaus and Carnagie’s Zankel Hall, as well as the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory, Cité de la Musique in Paris and the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. This concert marks Rabinovich’s return to the Hudson Opera House, where he performed in 2015 as part of the Classics on Hudson season.
Zukerman, the artistic director of Classics on Hudson and the music director of Clarion Concerts in Columbia County’s Leaf Peeper Concerts, has been hailed by the press as “one of the finest flutists of our time.” Artistic Director of the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival from 1998 through 2010, Zukerman was instrumental in bringing the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony to the festival for extended residencies each summer.
A recipient of the Young Concert Artists International Award, she is renowned worldwide as a recitalist and soloist. Zukerman is also a writer, artistic director, television journalist, educator and internet entrepreneur.
Tickets start at $25. They are available by calling (518) 822-1438 or by visiting hudsonhall.org.