On Sunday March 24th at 2pm, the Newport String Project will present a free community concert featuring its resident ensemble the Newport String Quartet, alongside internationally acclaimed guest musicians in the stunning setting of Ochre Court at Salve Regina University. The centerpiece of the program will be a performance of Ernst Chausson’s rarely performed Concerto for Piano, Violin and String Quartet, featuring guest soloists Elise Kuder (violin) and Philip Solomonick (piano).
This concert is the first of a series of Newport String Project events supported by a Challenge America grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Event Details
Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Adagio and Fugue, K. 546
Ernst Chausson – Concerto for Piano, Violin and String Quartet
Meet the Guest Artists
Elise Kuder, violin
Called “first-rate” by the Boston Globe, Elise Kuder is the first violinist of the Apple Hill String Quartet and a Co-Artistic Director of the Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music where she has been a resident musician since 1998. With Apple Hill, Elise has performed and taught in venues as diverse as the Curtis Institute of Music, Moscow Conservatory, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Zipper Hall at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, the Institutes of Music in Damascus and Aleppo, Gitameit Music Institute in Burma, the Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in Lima, Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, the Ketermaya refugee camp outside of Beirut, and the General Store in Harrisville, New Hampshire. With the Apple Hill String Quartet, described as “dashing and extraordinary” by The Strad magazine, recent studio recordings include a premiere of Dana Lyn’s Suite for Fiddler and String Quartet, a revival of Ahmed Adnan Saygun’s String Quartet No. 1, and transcriptions of Purcell Fantasias.
Philip Solomonick, piano
Philip Solomonick, piano, won numerous awards, including a ‘Grand Prix’ at the Art towards the 21st Century Competition (Ukraine), 1st prize at the Chopin competition (Tel-Aviv), and 1st prize at The Pnina Zaltzman Competition. His first two degrees are from the Music Academy (Jerusalem), under professor Irina Berkovich, where he received the Dean’s Award after winning the Haim Kalmi Competition and the Academy’s Concerto Competition. In 2016, Solomonick made his debut at the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie, and in 2017 became a semi-finalist at the NYCA Worldwide Debut Audition. He earned his DMA at the University of Michigan under professor Arthur Greene, during which he became a finalist at the American International Piano Competition in Washington DC. Some of the highlights of his career thus far include numerous solo recitals in remembrance of Yuri Lyubimov, and the various times he played as a soloist with orchestras in Israel, France, Russia and the USA.
