Current Salon

DONATE! Watch Salonline 7:30 PM Join Zoom Discussion 8:30 PM Previous Salonlines

If you’re looking for Alex Hassan,
please click “Previous Salons”

Sunday, May 18, 2025, 7:30 PM

— a “hybrid” event —

Program

“Sonata Concertata” in A Major, Opus 61
N. Paganini
I. Allegro spiritoso

“Suite Buenos Aires”
M. Pujol
II. Palermo
I. Pompeya

“Danzas Españolas”
E. Granados
No. 5, Andaluza

“Histoire du Tango”
A. Piazzola
Bordel 1900 
Café 1930 
Night-club 1960 
Concert d’aujourd’hui

BIOGRAPHY

Violinist Holly Nelson became the concertmaster of the Pan American Symphony Orchestra, a DC-based ensemble dedicated to performing Latin American orchestral repertoire, in 2024. Nelson is frequently featured as a soloist with the ensemble in their Kennedy Center concert series and recently recorded an album of tango violin showpieces with the ensemble due for release in 2025. Other recent concerto engagements include performing Las Cuatro estaciones porteñas by Astor Piazzolla with the Peabody Symphony Orchestra, performing Violin Concerto No. 2 by Florence Price with the Durham Symphony Orchestra in North Carolina, and giving the Maryland premiere of TreeSong for violin and orchestra by John Williams with the John Williams Project Orchestra in Baltimore. Nelson is the recipient of the Peabody Institute of Music’s 2022 Presser Graduate Music Award, and in 2023, she was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant to study tango music performance practice and pedagogy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, for nine months. During her grant, she was invited to perform solo violin at the US Embassy in Buenos Aires. Nelson maintains a vibrant private studio at Levine Music, where she teaches both Suzuki and traditional methods.

Winning over 10 competitions, David Steinhardt is the youngest guitarist to place first at the Hamilton International and Great Lakes Guitar Competition. A sought-after performer, Steinhardt has concertized in venues including Merkin and Wigmore Hall and festivals including the Hamilton, Montreal, and Ullapool International Guitar Festivals. Concerto highlights include his debut with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Los Angeles debut of Steve Goss’ A Concerto of Colours with the USC Wind Ensemble. Steinhardt graduated with honors from USC Thornton School of Music under the tutelage of William Kanengiser and Pepe Romero. He went on to earn an Advanced Postgraduate Diploma in Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, studying with Matthew McAllister and Allan Neave before completing his Master of Music from the Yale School of Music under the tutelage of Benjamin Verdery. A passionate educator, he has taught masterclasses for the Connecticut Guitar Festival, Guitar Hamilton, and Guitar San Antonio. Steinhardt is on faculty at Levine Music and summer faculty at the Interlochen Centers for the Arts. 


If you’d like to receive Emerson Avenue Salon invitations, you can add yourself to the invitation list HERE.


SCHEDULE

7:30 Sharp! YouTube Performance
8:35-ish Zoom Reception (soon after performance ends)
9:30-ish Dessert and wine

HOW TO WATCH

To watch the YouTube broadcast of this performance, click the following link:

Click Here to Watch this Salonline on YouTube

or https://youtube.com/live/9J2Q2SXbsyo

Until the video begins, this will be a static picture.
(You can only make “chat” comments while the YouTube Live broadcast airs and only if you have a YouTube “channel”, which is free and easy to get.)

THEN…

We would like you to join our discussion/Q&A with Holly & David in our “Meet the Artists” discussion following the performance. You can join via Zoom — just download and and install the Zoom application and, after the performance (e.g. 8:35PM), click on the following link :

 >>>   AFTER THE SALONLINE!!   <<<

Click Here to Join the Zoom Reception
Meeting ID: 881 0788 6228
Passcode: 1508

or https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88107886228?pwd=L354T4vXVW6HYF6zFBJScKNC6TPnnY.1


We are delighted with how many of you have come along with us on our venture into the “virtual” online world (here’s to virtue!)  We hope to continue to host and broadcast Salonlines most Sunday evenings at 7:30.


This performance is obviously free but if you would like to help, please visit the Donations Page.

Our artists REALLY appreciate your show of support!.

We (Jackie & Bill) will MATCH ALL DONATIONS!!

Please give generously!

We will serve pie, wine and decaf after the performance.

You can sign up to receive invitations or change your email settings HERE