Posts Tagged ‘Gil Shaham’
Violinist Gil Shaham and Pianist Akira Eguchi Return to San Diego In Triumph
In a well-received duo recital, on Thursday, April 25, violinist Gil Shaham and his stellar musical compatriot pianist Akira Eguchi made their inaugural appearance in the La Jolla Music Society’s spectacular new Baker-Baum Concert Hall.
Read MoreAugustin Hadelich Brilliant in Shostakovich First Violin Concerto with San Diego Symphony
While local audiences respond warmly to highly accomplished performers, they can be a bit chilly to less familiar, modernist repertory of the last century.
Read MoreShaham Soars Again as Soloist in the San Diego Symphony’s 2016-17 Season-Opening Concert
Can San Diego audiences ever get too much of Gil Shaham? Just two months ago he brilliantly played Sergei Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto at La Jolla SummerFest, and Friday (October 14) he gave a thrilling account of Felix Mendelssohn’s beloved Violin Concerto with the San Diego Symphony under Music Director Jahja Ling—Shaham’s fifth local appearance in the last four years.
Read MoreShaham Shines in Prokofiev Concerto for SummerFest Grand Finale
In accord with the longstanding La Jolla SummerFest tradition, Friday’s (August 26) grand finale performance featured a chamber orchestra, with renowned violinist Gil Shaham as soloist . . .
Read MoreGil Shaham in the Cathedral of Bach
Gil Shaham’s Friday (Feb. 27) program, devoted exclusively to the unaccompanied violin works of J. S. Bach, created a virtual cathedral of sound in La Jolla’s Sherwood Auditorium . . .
Read MoreDavid Bruce’s Mystical Violin Concerto
No matter how celebrated the composer, a commission is always a gamble. David Bruce’s “Night Parade”— the slightly jazzy, atmospheric tone poem he wrote for the San Diego Symphony’s Carnegie Hall debut and China tour last year—proved amiable, but it was no show-stopper. His new Violin Concerto “Fragile Light,” which Gil Shaham premiered under Music Director Jahja Ling and the San Diego Symphony Friday (Dec. 12), however, struck pay dirt . . .
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