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Season Premiere: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A Minor

April 4, 2024, 9:00 pm

Zoltán Fejérvári, piano; Chad Hoopes, violin; Eric Kim, cello. (Photo: Steve Ovitsky)

The 2024 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival radio series begins with two gorgeous Romantic works: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio, Op. 50, “In Memory of a Great Artist,” a beautiful homage to his friend and mentor Nicolai Rubenstein, preceeded by Norwegian composer Johan Halvorsen’s Passacaglia.

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Johan Halvorsen: Passacaglia in G Minor for Violin & Viola (1894)
Written on a theme by George Frideric Handel
Adam Barnett-Hart, violin; Pierre Lapointe, viola

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 50
Zoltán Fejérvári, piano; Chad Hoopes, violin; Eric Kim, cello

Meet the Host

Kerry is a regular host of live concert broadcasts including Live from WFMT, concerts from the Ravinia Festival, and WFMT’s premiere visiting artist series, Impromptu. Kerry hosts many WFMT Radio Network broadcasts from such locations as the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival and the Salzburg Festival. A native Chicagoan, Kerry grew up with WFMT. His love of music and radio played an important part in his life at Northwestern University and the University of Wisconsin, where he eventually became program director of Wisconsin Public Radio. He’s always been a strong advocate of live music broadcasts, and cherishes having interviewed many of the performers he admires including Itzhak Perlman, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, John Adams, Leif Ove Andsnes – even the award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.

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Season Premiere: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A Minor

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