The Program

Copland: Duo for Flute and Piano
Mendelssohn: Sonata in F Minor, Op. 4 (arr. Piccinini)
Liebermann: Flute Sonata
Ludwig: Canzoniere [Phila. Premiere]
Prokofiev: Flute Sonata in D Major, Op. 94

Pre-concert Lecture at 6:45 pm by David Ludwig

The Artists

Widely recognized as one of the world’s leading flute virtuosos, flutist Marina Piccinini began her flute studies in Toronto with Jeanne Baxtresser and received her BM and MM degrees from the Juilliard school where she studied with the legendary flutist Julius Baker.  She came to public attention after winning first prize in the CBC Young Performers Competition in Canada, and a year later, first prize in New York’s Concert Artists Guild International Competition.  In 1989 she was cited by Musical America as a “Young Artist to Watch”, and in 1991 she became the first flutist to win a coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant from Lincoln Center.  A devoted chamber musician, Marina Piccinini has collaborated with the Tokyo, Brentano, Mendelssohn, and Takács string quartets and with the percussion ensemble Nexus and has made recent recital appearances in London’s Wigmore Hall, Tokyo`s Casals Hall, the Kennedy Center in Washington and the Mozart Saal in Vienna's Konzerthaus.  She is also a regular participant at major summer festivals, including the Marlboro Festival, Mostly Mozart and others.  Since 2001 she has served on the faculty of the Peabody Institute.  Ms. Piccinini's latest CD recording is a collaboration with her husband, pianist Andreas Haefliger, of the sonatas of Prokofiev and Franck.

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 gave his New York solo recital debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 2006-2007 season and that season also performed Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2 Age of Anxiety with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein and toured with pianist Jonathan Biss.  His recent engagements include solo recitals at Chicago’s Music in the Loft and as part of Caramoor’s Haydn Festival .  During the 2009-2010 season Mr. Hochman released his first album on Artek, featuring Bach’s Partita No. 4 in D and Partita No. 6 in E minor, Berg’s Sonata, Op. 1 and Webern’s Variations Op. 27.  For more information on Benjamin Hochman visit www.benjaminhochman.com.