The Program

Schubert:  Sonatina in A Minor, D. 385
Shostakovich:  Violin Sonata, Op. 134
Schnittke:  Violin Sonata No. 1
Schubert:  Fantasie in C Major, D. 934

The Artists

A native of Munich, Germany, Korbinian Altenberger was recently appointed Principal Second Violin of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared as soloist in the U.S., Israel, Japan, South Africa, New Zealand, and throughout Europe. As the Second Prize winner of the Montréal International Musical Competition in 2010, he was invited to perform in recital in the celebrated Maly Hall of the Moscow Conservatory of Music in September 2010 and with the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra in October 2011. Mr. Altenberger studied at the Mozarteum Salzburg and the Musikhochschule Köln and received both a graduate diploma and an artist diploma from the New England Conservatory as a student of Donald Weilerstein. He recently completed studies with Midori Goto in the Graduate Certificate Program at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California, where he held the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Scholarship. Mr. Altenberger has recorded Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3 with the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra, for Germany’s Bella Musica label. An Astral Artist, he made his New York recital debut in Merkin Concert Hall in November 2010, performing four of Beethoven’s ten violin sonatas with pianist Andrius Zlabys. 

Recognized as one of today's most gifted artists and enjoying an active career as both conductor and pianist, Ignat Solzhenitsyn has won critical acclaim throughout the world for his lyrical and poignant interpretations.  Currently Conductor Laureate of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia (COP), he completed six seasons as Music Director of COP and served as its Principal Conductor for the preceding six years.  He also serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.  An avid chamber musician, Mr. Solzhenitsyn has collaborated with the Emerson, Borodin, Brentano, St. Petersburg, and Lydian String Quartets, and in four-hand recitals with Mitsuko Uchida.  A winner of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Ignat Solzhenitsyn serves on the piano faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music.  For more information on Ignat Solzhenitsyn visit www.ignatsolzhenitsyn.com.