Parry Karp

202120nov7:30 pm9:00 pmParry Karp

Time

(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm CST

Location

Hamel Music Center - Collins Recital Hall

740 University Avenue

Event Details

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Students: Free (ticket required)

Mead Witter School of Music Faculty Artist Series

Parry Karp, violoncello
Thomas Kasdorf, piano
Eli Kalman, piano

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Program 

Sonata for Piano and Cello, Op. 15 (1868)       Albert Dietrich (1829-1908)
Moderato espressivo, non troppo lento
Allegro con fuoco
Poco adagio-Adagio-
Allegro con spirito

Thomas Kasdorf, piano

Impressions for Violoncello and Piano (1926)      Henriette Bosmans (1895-1952)
Cortege
Nuit calme
En Espagne

Eli Kalman, piano

Intermission

Sonata for Violoncello and Piano in A Minor (1894)     Alexander Zemlimsky (1874-1942)
Mit Leidenschaft
Andante
Allegretto

Eli Kalman, piano

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Cellist Parry Karp is Artist-in Residence, and the Robert and Linda Graebner Professor of Chamber Music and Cello, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is director of the string chamber music program. He has been cellist of the Pro Arte Quartet for the past 45 years, the longest tenure of any member in the quartet’s over 100-year history.

Parry Karp is an active solo artist, performing numerous recitals annually in the United States with pianists Howard and Frances Karp, and Eli Kalman. Mr. Karp has played concerti throughout the United States and gave the first performance in Romania of Ernest Bloch’s Schelomo with the National Radio Orchestra in Bucharest in 2002.

He is active as a performer of new music and has performed in the premieres of dozens of works, many of which were written for him, including concerti, sonatas and chamber music. As a solo recording artist, he has recorded the solo cello works of Ernest Bloch, and works of Frank Bridge, Rebecca Clarke, Ernest Chausson, Edward Collins, Georges Enesco, John Ireland, Alberic Magnard, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Miklos Rosza, and Richard Strauss. Unearthing and performing unjustly neglected repertoire for cello is a passion of Mr. Karp’s. In recent years he has transcribed for cello many masterpieces written for other instruments. This project has included performances of all of the Duo Sonatas of Brahms, as well as compositions of Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Hindemith, Strauss, Schumann, Stravinsky and Szymanowski.

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