About 2022-23 CONTRASTS
PhiloSonia's 2022-23 Season, "CONTRASTS" explores the extremes
of emotions, elements, experiences and time.
This season we are collaborating with the Latin GRAMMY award-winning ensemble the Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet as we feature them as our Guest Artists. We are also presenting a co-commisioned work with the Brooklyn Art Song Society "Kinderlebenlieder" an arrangement by Jorell Williams of Ilse Weber songs.
The seven installments of the season are: Impulse, Chiaroscuro, Joy & Sorrow,
Noble & Rustic, Elements, Temporum, and Bookends.
To celebrate this time of reconnecting PhiloSonia invites you to join our community through two different initiatives - "Underwrite a Concert" and "Underwrite a PhiloSonia Artist".
These give you an opportunities to become an even more integral part of our concerts.
Click HERE to find out more.
Stanichka Dimitrova
Founder & Artistic Director of PhiloSonia
CONTRASTS I: Impulse
Opening Night Gala
Thursday, October 20, 7:30p.m.
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music | 58 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Guest Ensemble
Pedro Giraudo Tango Quartet
Pedro Giraudo, double-bass | Nick Danielsen, violin | Rodolfo Zanetti, bandoneón | Ahmed Alom, piano |
PhiloSonia Artists: Stanichka Dimitrova violin |
Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola | Ani Kalayjian, cello |
Works by: L. van Beethoven, Pedro Giraudo,
A. Piazzola, D. Shostakovich
CONTRASTS II: Chiaroscuro
Friday, November 18 at 7:30p.m.
Old Stone House of Brooklyn | 336 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
PhiloSonia Artists:
Ji in Yang, violin | Stanichka Dimitrova violin
Luke Fleming, viola | Michael Katz, cello
PhiloSonia’s second installment presents some of the most beloved works of the String Quartet repertoire as we’re exploring light and dark as captured through music
in both their literal and metaphorical meaning.
Works by: Charles Peck, A. Borodin,
D. Shostakovich
CONTRASTS III: Joy & Sorrow
Saturday, Dec 17, 7:30p.m.
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music | 58 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
PhiloSonia Artists:
Stanichka Dimitrova violin | Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola | Michael Katz, cello | Nana Shi, piano
In this next program we explore the joy we often associate with the holidays, and its contrasting emotion, sorrow,
as captured through music.
Works by: A. Piazzola, J. Suk, S. Rachmaninoff, R. Schumann
CONTRASTS: Noble & Rustic
Thursday, Feb 9, 7:30p.m.
Old Stone House of Brooklyn | 336 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
PhiloSonia Artists:
Kinga Augustyn, violin | Stanichka Dimitrova violin Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola | Adrian Daurov, cello
PhiloSonia’s second installment presents some of the most beloved works of the String Quartet repertoire as we’re exploring light and dark as captured through music
in both their literal and metaphorical meaning.
Works by: E. von Dohnanyi, A. Dvořák, F. Kreisler
CONTRASTS IV: Elements
Saturday, March 18, 7:30p.m.
Old Stone House of Brooklyn | 336 3rd St, Brooklyn, NY 11215
PhiloSonia Artists:
Yezu Elizabeth Woo, violin| Stanichka Dimitrova violin | Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola | Adrian Daurov, cello Moran Katz, clarinet | Thomas Sauer, piano
In this concert we're exploring two contrasting elements - Earth and Air. With this eclectic program I wanted to recreate a visceral experience of what these elements feel like, and showcase how these four brilliant composers help us get transformed to a different environment through music.
Works by: B. Bartók, J. Haydn, Steven Snowden, Paul Wiancko
CONTRASTS V: Temporum
Thursday, April 20, 7:30p.m.
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music | 58 7th Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
PhiloSonia Artists:
Ariadne Greif, soprano | Yezu Elizabeth Woo, violin | Stanichka Dimitrova violin | Chieh-Fan Yiu, viola Michael Brofman, piano |
In this concert we're exploring the different stages of life and the different ways music can capture and express rebirth and crisis, as well as youth, middle age and old age.
Works by:
Ilse Weber/Jorell Williams*, Libby Larsen,
Dobrinka Tabakova, D. Shostakovich
*Co-commissioned work by PhiloSonia and the Brooklyn Art Song Society
