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Perlman Music Program Suncoast
presents
Members of the Juilliard String Quartet
With Anna Polonsky on piano on March 13
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The Perlman Music Program
he Perlman Music Program
Suncoast presents Members
of the Juilliard String Quartet
with Anna Polonsky, pia-
no on Sunday, March 13 at 7
p.m. at First Congregational Church in
Sarasota.
The Juilliard String Quartet program
previously announced has been changed
due to the death
of the Quartet’s
violist, Roger Tapping.
The Quartet
will honor Roger’s
memory with a
program of piano
quartets featuring
Anna Polonsky
on piano.
“We are heartbroken
to have lost
our beloved colleague
and friend
Areta Zhulla
Roger Tapping,”
members of The
Juilliard String
Quartet said in a
statement. “One
of the most passionate
and celebrated
chamber
musicians of his
generation, Roger
was adored by students,
colleagues, and audiences around the
world. His love for performing and teaching
radiated from his very being and deeply
touched all who knew him. We will continue
to be inspired by his unstoppable energy
and zeal, qualities that he brought to all his
musical collaborations… These concerts are
dedicated to his memory.”
Following a sold-out performance at the
Sarasota Opera House in 2019, Juilliard String
Quartet members Areta Zhulla, violin; Ronald
Copes, viola; and Astrid Schween, cello,
return to Sarasota, along with pianist Anna
Polonsky, to perform repertoire by Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, Krzysztof Penderecki, and
Johannes Brahms.
First violinist Areta Zhulla, the newest
member of the Juilliard String Quartet,
was a PMP “Little,” attending The Perlman
Music Program Summer School from 2000-
2005, and one season as a PMP Winter Residency
student. Between 2009 and 2016, she
returned to the Suncoast to perform PMP
Alumni: Around Town outreach programs
in the community and in schools.
Zhulla and Schween are faculty members
with The Perlman Music Program
Summer Music School and Chamber Music
Workshop. They, along with violinist and
violist Ronald Copes, are faculty with The
Juilliard School in New York City, and are
all sought-after teachers on the string and
chamber music faculties.
Founded in 1946 and hailed by The Boston
Globe as “the most important American
quartet in history,” the Juilliard String Quartet
draws on a deep and vital engagement to
the classics, while embracing the mission of
championing new works, a vibrant combination
of the familiar and the daring.
Each performance is a unique experience,
bringing together the members’ profound
understanding, total commitment, and
unceasing curiosity in sharing the wonders
of the string quartet literature. The Quartet’s
recordings of the Bartók and Schoenberg
Quartets, as well as those of Debussy,
Ravel and Beethoven, have won Grammy
Awards. In 2011
the Quartet became
the first
classical music ensemble
to receive
a lifetime achievement
award from
the National Academy
of Recording
Arts and Sciences.
Pianist Anna
Polonsky is widely
in demand as a
Ronald Copes
soloist and chamber
musician. She
has appeared with
the Moscow Virtuosi,
the Buffalo
Philharmonic, the
Saint Paul Chamber
Orchestra
and the Colum-
Astrid Schween Anna Polonsky
bus Symphony
Orchestra, among
others, and has
collaborated with such musicians as Yo-Yo
Ma, Richard Goode, Emanuel Ax, Peter Wiley,
and Jaime Laredo.
Polonsky is a recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni
Trust Fellowship and the Andrew Wolf
Chamber Music Award. She made her solo
piano debut at the age of seven at the Special
Central Music School in Moscow, Russia;
emigrated to the United States in 1990;
and attended high school at the Interlochen
Arts Academy in Michigan.
Polonsky received her Bachelor of Music
from The Curtis Institute of Music under
the tutelage of the renowned pianist Peter
Serkin, and continued her studies with Jerome
Lowenthal, earning her Master’s Degree
from The Juilliard School.
FAST FACTS:
Date: Sunday, March 13 at 7 p.m.
Doors open at 6:30pm
Location: First Congregational Church,
1031 S. Euclid Ave., Sarasota.
PROGRAM:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Quartet
No. 2 in E-flat major, K. 493
Krzysztof Penderecki - String Trio for
Violin, Viola, and Cello
Johannes Brahms - Piano Quartet No. 3 in
C minor, Op. 60.
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PerlmanSuncoast.org.
Susan Goldfarb
PROGRAM DIRECTOR
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