Praised for her “hypnotic lyricism, causing listeners to forget where they were for a moment” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker), Hochstein alum cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins returns to Rochester for a solo concert.
You're invited to hear this music on Live from Hochstein on Wednesday, March 26th at 12:10pm, in person at the Hochstein Performance Hall (50 N. Plymouth Avenue, downtown Rochester) or by listening to the live broadcast on WXXI Classical.
Annie is the Artist-in-Residence of the Austin Chamber Music Center in Texas as well as the cellist of the acclaimed Berlin-based ensemble Trio Brontë. Annie regularly participates in international festivals, with performances in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Konzerthaus Berlin, The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and London’s Wigmore Hall. She is a graduate of Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, New England Conservatory, and the University of Southern California. At Hochstein, she studied with Kathy Kemp.
The program includes selections from Sept Papillons by the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho in which she searches for something ephemeral and fleeting and hunts for a new world. Originally written for the viola da gamba, Les Voix Humaines by the French Baroque-era composer Marin Marais features music that mimics the sound of the human voice. Benjamin Britten wrote his Cello Suite No. 3 for Mstislav Rostropovich, a backwards theme and variations with themes based on Russian folk songs and a hymn that appears at the very end.
Live from Hochstein with host Mona Seghatoleslami is a series of midday concerts by some of the finest artists in our area broadcast live from The Hochstein Performance Hall. Each of these free concerts runs from 12:10-12:50 p.m., giving downtown business people, teachers, families, students, and friends an opportunity to enjoy classical music by outstanding musicians, including soloists, duos, and vocal and chamber ensembles. You can also hear an encore broadcast of Live from Hochstein later the same day at 10 p.m. on WXXI Classical.
