Discover the heart of classical music in a program of music by some of the greatest composers of all time.
DETAILS
Tickets: SOLD OUT
7:30pm Performance
8:30pm Private reception with the artists
ARTISTS
Evin Blomberg, violin
Christian Colberg, viola
Ilya Finkelshteyn, cello
PROGRAM
Selections from Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 arranged for string trio • Bach/Sitkovetsky
Duo in G Major for violin and viola, K. 423 • Mozart
String Trio in D Major, Op. 9 No. 2 • Beethoven
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Violinist Evin Blomberg currently plays in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and is the Founder & CEO of the Soli Music Society. Previously, Evin worked in London, England, playing in both the London Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras. Evin studied with Pinchas Zukerman at the Manhattan School of Music in New York, and before that studied with Robert Lipsett at The Colburn School Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. Recently, Evin won the Bronze Award at the 2022 Singapore International Music Competition, was a Laureate at the 2021 Chicago Violin Competition, and was a "Next Up" Alumni Grant winner in 2021 and 2022 in a proposal competition held by The Colburn School.
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Christian Colberg is currently the Principal Viola of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Prior to joining the CSO, he was the Assistant Principal Viola of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Colberg is also an Artist-Faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival and School, a Valade Fellow at the Interlochen Center for the Arts and is Principal Viola at the Bellingham Festival of Music.
Colberg began his musical studies at the age of four in his native Puerto Rico. Recipient of numerous awards including the Alpha Delta Kappa Foundation Fine Arts grant, Colberg was honored by the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico in 1985, and again by the Senate in 1994 for his achievements in the classical music field. He is a graduate of the Peabody Institute of Music, His main teachers include Alexander Schneider, Saul Ovcharov, Charles Libov and Shirley Givens. Mr. Colberg has also been on the violin faculty of the Peabody Institute of Music and on the viola faculty of the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
As an active chamber musician, Mr. Colberg has collaborated with such artists as, Marvin Hamlish, Gary Karr, Milton Katims, Augustin Hadelich, Samuel Sanders, Joseph Silverstein, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, the Muir, Cypress and Ariel String Quartets and with the Silk Road Festival in China.
In October 2018, Mr. Colberg performed his own Viola Concerto, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He has performed this work with numerous orchestras, including the Puerto Rico Conservatory Orchestra and Música de Cámara in New York City. The second movement of his concerto was used as the competition piece for the 2014 Primrose International Viola Competition and the third movement was used in the Sphinx competition of 2023. In June of 2018, The Rant - For Two Violas, was also premiered at the International Viola Congress in Los Angeles. His newest compositions for string quartet and drums was released in September of 2022 on a new album titled Talking to Myself in which he also played all the parts.
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Ilya Finkelshteyn is Principal Cellist of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and teaches at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Ilya was previously Principal Cellist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and played in the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for five seasons. Ilya started his education at the Special Music School at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under the tutelage of Sergei Chernyadiev. After immigrating to the United States, Ilya studied with Tanya Remenikova at the University of Minnesota School of Music and then with Harvey Shapiro at The Juilliard School in New York City. Ilya plays on a 1730 Domenico Montagnana cello courtesy of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.