Angela Wright, Ben’s piano teacher until a few months ago, invited him to be a guest on her December recital. He played Chopin Etudes Op. 10 no. 3 and 4. Here’s a video of his performance: Download Chopin Ben will be playing the first movement of Tchaikowsky’s first piano concerto with Angela Wright in March in her duet and concerto recital.
The Windy City String Ensemble’s year end concert was on Friday. Ben and Esther had short solos in the Corelli – here’s a video of it: Download Corelli
Download Mendelssohn Esther played the first movement of the Mendelssohn Violin concerto in E Minor for the Oak Park River Forest Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition yesterday. As always, the issue with competitions is the competition; she was up against some other excellent violinists and one of them won. I thought it was some of Esther’s best violin playing ever and the chair of the orchestra [more]
Esther and Ben both appear very briefly in this video about the White House classical music workshops on Nov 4. The violinists are shown tuning at about 0:15 and 1:15; Esther is in the first shot and Ben is in the second.
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