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Sunday, December 1, 2024
— a “hybrid” event —
Ariana Nelson, cello
Tanya Gabrielian, piano
Echoes of Romanticism
This recital features three distinctive works that showcase each composer’s innovative style and the powerful partnership between cello and piano. The program opens with Lukas Foss’ Capriccio, a dynamic work that blends playfulness with virtuosity. Following this is Nadia Boulanger’s Trois Pièces for cello and piano, which showcase her mastery as a composer, perhaps being more well known as a composition teacher of many modern composers. The concert will conclude with César Franck’s Sonata in A Major, a true masterpiece of the romantic repertoire.
PROGRAM
Lukas Foss
Capriccio for cello and piano
Nadia Boulanger
Trois Pièces for cello and piano
I. Moderato
II. Sans vitesse et à l’aise
III. Vite et nerveusement rythmé
César Franck
Sonata in A Major
I. Allegretto ben moderato
II. Allegro
III. Recitativo – Fantasia
IV. Allegretto poco mosso
BIOGRAPHY
Cellist Ariana Nelson is a member of the boundary-breaking and critically acclaimed Carpe Diem String Quartet. When not on tour with her quartet, she is based in Arlington, Virginia, where she frequently performs with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera. Additionally, she maintains a private teaching studio and is a coach for the Crescendo chamber music program and the American Youth Philharmonic. As an avid proponent of new music, she has been an artist-faculty member at the Charles Ives Music Festival since 2017. Her interest in improvisation and folk music led her to co-found the Pacific Crest Trio in 2020. Before moving to the DC area, Ariana was a member of the Houston Grand Opera Orchestra and served as an adjunct cello professor at Texas Southern University. Originally from Seattle, Ariana received her Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School, and her Bachelor of Music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music. In addition to making music, Ariana is a certified yoga teacher and loves the outdoors.
Hailed by the London Times as a “pianist of powerful physical and imaginative muscle”, Tanya Gabrielian has performed on five continents in acclaimed venues including Carnegie Hall in New York, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Sydney Opera House, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, and the Salle Cortot in Paris, with such orchestras as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Boston Pops.
Tanya shot onto the international stage at the age of twenty with back-to-back victories in the Scottish International Piano Competition and Aram Khachaturyan International Piano Competition. Since then, performance engagements have included Alice Tully Hall and the 92nd Street Y in New York, Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, Seoul Arts Center in Korea, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, an fourteen-city tour of China, and a return recital engagement at Wigmore Hall in London. Tanya’s latest recording, Remix: Bach Transcriptions, was selected as Album of the Week by radio stations in Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. She has also been featured on the cover of the magazine Clavier.
In addition to the traditional concert stage, Tanya is passionate about inspiring new generations of musicians and music lovers in diverse settings, dedicated to community engagement, education, and activism through art. She was awarded the Pro Musicis International Award, McGraw-Hill Robert Sherman Award for Music Education and Community Outreach, Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and the S&R Washington Award for her work.
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