Concerts | Summer 2022
Friday, July 29 | 8 PM
It’s About Time | Norfolk Then and Now
KRISTS AUZNIEKS Brass
JEAN SIBELIUS Finlandia, Op. 26 for Solo Piano
SIBELIUS Pieces for Violin and Piano, Op. 79
SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Nonet
Melvin Chen piano
with Norfolk Fellows
Tickets: $60 – $20, $10 Young Adults (19-35),
Kids Come Free! (under 19)
As the oldest chamber music festival in America, Norfolk has always been a place where the world’s highest profile composers and performers regularly gathered. Composers in this concert are associated with the early Norfolk Festival—Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (in 1910) and Jean Sibelius (in 1914), who were both in attendance when their works were performed at the Music Shed—and Krists Auznieks, a Latvian composer whose work Brass premiered at Norfolk in 2018 when he was a Fellow.
PRE-CONCERT CONVERSATION
7–7:40 PM | BATTELL RECITAL HALL
Join Yale School of Music professor Stephanie Venturino before the Friday's concerts to learn about the weekend’s programs. We know you will enjoy the fascinating insights to be shared.
Free and open to the public.
Krists Auznieks: Composing and the Creative Process
Krists Auznieks was only about five when he started creating his own music. “I liked playing things that were not on the page rather than what was on the page always,” he says. “I was always trying to improve what was on the page.”
“Altering the world — that’s what you do,” Auznieks adds of working as a composer. “It’s my way to be myself and find myself and discover my relationship with the world. Composing came to me more than I came to it.”
And come to him it has. Auznieks is working on multiple commissions when we speak from Europe where he is now located. Recent commissions have included works for the Atlanta Symphony, a guitar concerto for Sinfonietta Riga, and a piece for the Los Angeles-based Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra. In 2021, he received the main prize from the International Rostrum of Composers in the Composers Under 30 category. His works have been performed at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Prague Quadrennial, and the Beijing National Arts Centre, to name just a few. MORE
For All Events Patrons Must...
• Be fully vaccinated for Covid-19 including any booster dose(s) when eligible.
• Show their vaccination card and photo ID at the door.
• Wear ASTM or N95-equivalent mask at all times inside the building.
Cloth masks alone are not permitted.
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