Fri 3/29 @ 7:30PM
German violinist Carolin Widman is a versatile musician who performs solo, in chamber settings and with orchestra. Her musical interests range from the great classical pieces written for the instrument to newly commissioned works, although she’s especially known for her performance of contemporary work.
She doesn’t perform frequently in the U.S. but she’ll be at the Transformer Station for a solo performance that features in intriguing mixture of reportoire. She’ll open with Antiphona, written by 12th-century polymath nun Hildegard von Bingen, one of only a handful of prominent women composers of early music known to us.
She’ll jump nearly a millennium for the next three pieces. British composer George Benjamin’s Three Miniatures for Solo Violin were written in 2001, Danish composer Hans Abrahamson’s Capriccio Bagateller was written in 1990, and German composer Jörg Widmann’s Three Etudes for Violin date from the mid 90s, early in the career of the now 45-year-old composer/conductor/clarinetist who last year was the third most performed contemporary composer in the world. He’s also the performer’s brother.
She’ll close the program with one of the most noted composers of all, J.S. Bach, performing his Partita in D Minor.
Tickets are $25.