Efe Baltacigil, cello and Benjamin Hochman, piano
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 8:00 PM
Location: American Philosophical Society, 427 Chestnut Street
**Subscription Series: Joseph and Marie Field Recital Series**
The Program
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in F Major, Op. 5, No. 1
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 2
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in A Major, Op. 69
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 102, No. 1
Beethoven: Cello Sonata in D Major, Op. 102, No. 2
The Artists
Formerly Associate Principal Cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Efe Baltacıgil is now Principal Cello with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. Winner of the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, he was also awarded The Peter Jay Sharp Prize in December 2005 and the Washington Performing Arts Society Prize, which presented his Washington, DC debut in April 2006. Mr. Baltacigil has performed the Brahms Sextet with Pinchas Zukerman, Midori and Yo-Yo Ma at Carnegie Hall for Isaac Stern’s memorial, and participated in Mr. Ma’s Silk Road Project. He has also appeared as soloist in the Schumann Cello Concerto with the Curtis Chamber Orchestra conducted by Otto-Werner Mueller. Mr. Baltacigil was born in Istanbul, Turkey. He started studying the violin at the age of five and changed to the cello at the age of seven. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Mimar Sinan University Conservatory in Istanbul in 1998 and an Artist Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 2002. For more information on Efe Baltacigil, visit www.efebaltacigil.net.
Winner of 2011’s prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant, pianist Benjamin Hochman has earned widespread acclaim for his performances with the New York and Israel Philharmonics and the Chicago and New Jersey Symphonies, among others. He has also collaborated with groups such as the Tokyo, Mendelssohn, Casals, Pražák and Daedalus Quartets. In 2009 he released his first album on Artek featuring solo works of Bach, Berg and Webern. Born in Jerusalem, Benjamin Hochman is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Mannes College of Music, where his principal teachers were Claude Frank and Richard Goode. He is currently an Associate Professor of Piano at East Carolina University. For more information on Benjamin Hochman, visit www.benjaminhochman.com.
