Holiday Celebration

4-hands/1-piano or 2-pianos

Tchaikovsky, arr. E. Langer 
The Nutcracker Suite, op.71a

Shostakovich
Waltz from Jazz Suite no.2

Bolcom, arr. Vieness
Serpent’s Kiss

Tchaikovsky, arr. Rachmaninoff
The Sleeping Beauty Waltz

Rossini
Overture to Barber of Seville

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Leroy Anderson

Sleigh Ride

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Carol of the Bells

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Havah Nagila

Saint-Saens
Carnival of the Animals 

Encore: Berlin, arr. Vieness
White Christmas

Let's Dance

4-hands/1 piano program

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Moszkowski    Spanish Dances

(Spanish)

Brahms    Hungarian Dances

(Hungarian)

Corigliano    Gazebo Dances

(European)

Intermission

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Barber    Souvenirs, Op. 28

(European, American, Argentinian)

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Milhaud    Le Boeuf sur le toit, op. 58

(Brazilian)

Piazzola    Libertango

(Argentinian)

Cervantes    Danzas Cubanas

(Cuban)

W. Bolcom/Vieness Duo

The Serpent’s Kiss

(Ragtime/American)

Imagery & Fantasy

2 Pianos

Brahms

Sonata in f-minor, op. 34b

Bolcom

The Serpent’s Kiss

Saint-Saëns

Danse Macabre, op. 40

Barber

Souvenirs, op. 28

Pas de Deux

Saint-Saëns

The Carnival of the Animals

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The Roaring Twenties:
An American Affair

4-hands/1-piano

Gershwin

Three Preludes

Gershwin

The Man I Love

I Got Rhythm

Summertime

It Ain’t Necessarily So

Someone to Watch Over Me

G. Gershwin

Rialto Ripples

Gershwin

Rhapsody in Blue

Barber

Souvenirs

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Copland

Variations on a Shaker Melody

W. Bolcom/Vieness Duo

The Serpent’s Kiss

Through The Ages

4-hands/1-piano

Bach/Howe

Sheep May Safely Graze

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Mozart
Sonata in C-Major, KV 521

Dvorak
Legends op. 59

No.1 in d-minor

No. 3 in g-minor

Brahms

Hungarian Dances

Intermission

Schubert

Fantasy in f-minor, D. 940

Barber

Souvenirs, Op. 28

Bolcom/Vieness

The Serpent’s Kiss

Eva Schaumkell

German pianist Eva Schaumkell has performed in the United States, the Middle East, and throughout Europe with ‘interpretational skills that combine intuition with analytical sense and remarkable musical maturity.’ Ms. Schaumkell was awarded first prize at the 2018 International James Ramos Video Competition, at the 2014 International Siegfried Weishaupt Piano Competition in Germany, and second prize at the 2015 Coeur d’Alene Young Artist Competition in the U.S. She was also a recipient of prizes at the Thürmer Piano Competition, at the national Jugend Musiziert competition, the Thornton Music Scholarship, the Carl Maria von Weber Scholarship, as well as the Drosihn Förderpreis scholarship.

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Ms. Schaumkell has performed in such notable venues in the UK as Steinway Hall London, the Luton Music Club, Buckingham Palace, and at the City of London Festival, as well as Stadthalle Weilburg, Kurhaus Bad Schwalbach, Coselpalais Dresden in Germany, and the MusicAlp Festival in Courchevel, France. Recent hightlights include performances of Schumann’s piano concerto with the London Spring Sinfonia at St. Sepulchre in London, solo recitals at the International Summer Academy of Music in Germany, and a performance of Beethoven’s first piano concerto with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra lead by Maestro Ahmed El Saedi, at the Cairo Opera House in Egypt.

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Eva received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Guildhall School in London, her Master’s from the Hochschule für Musik Dresden, and is currently completing a DMA at USC in Los Angeles, studying with renowned pianist and teacher Daniel Pollack.

She has received important artistic guidance from pianists such as Cyprien Katsaris, Pascal Devoyon, Vanessa Latarche, Dmitri Alexeev, Dominique Merlet, Victor Rosenbaum, Ivari Ilja, Norman Krieger, and Jeffrey Kahane.

Vijay Venkatesh

Hailed by the Herald-Tribune for his “dazzling pianism verging on the impossible, effortless technical command and authority with a sense of poetry and refinement that belies his years,” Indian-American pianist Vijay Venkatesh has been recognized as a pianist with profound musicianship, sparkling pianism and an innate sense of partnership.

Venkatesh has rapidly established a major international reputation after winning Gold Medal in the San Jose, Seattle, Zimmerli, World Piano, and Waring International Piano Competitions. Recent and upcoming concerto highlights include performances with Seattle Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Sarasota Orchestra, Roanoke Symphony, Northern Neck Orchestra, Redlands Symphony, and more. He has performed as soloist with such celebrated conductors as Jeffrey Kahane, Ludovic Morlot, and David Lockington.

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He has been honored as a Davidson Fellow Laureate at the Library of Congress, USC Discovery Scholar, Parnassus Society Prize Winner, and Grand Prize Winner of the Los Angeles Music Center’s Spotlight Awards.  

He has performed on NPR’s “From the Top,” Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess series, and as guest artist at the Aspen, Brevard, Banff, Vienna, Sarasota, and Newport Music Festivals.

Originally from California, he holds degrees from USC Thornton and IU Jacobs School of Music, where he was a recipient of the Barbara and David Jacobs Fellowship under the tutelage of Norman Krieger and André Watts. He had previously studied with Jeffrey Kahane and received artistic guidance from Murray Perahia and Jean-Yves Thibaudet. He currently pursues an Artist Diploma at the Colburn School in Los Angeles with Fabio Bidini.