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About The Indianapolis REMARKABLE PERFORMANCES, extraordinary prizes and a festival atmosphere characterize the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (IVCI) as “the ultimate violin contest…” writes the Chicago Tribune. Laureates of The Indianapolis have emerged as outstanding artists in concert halls across the globe.

For 17 days every four years, 40 of the world’s brightest talents come here to perform some of the most beautiful music ever written before enthusiastic audiences in venues throughout the city including the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, the Howard L. Schrott Center for the Performing Arts and the Hilbert Circle Theatre, where the finalists collaborate with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Of the prizes awarded, one of the most significant is the four-year loan of a concert instrument from the Competition collection which comprises the 1683 “ex-Gingold” Stradivari violin and several modern instruments. Under the guidance of Thomas J. Beczkiewicz, Founding Director, and the late Josef Gingold, who had served on the juries of every major violin competition in the world, the IVCI became known by the musical and media communities as one of the world’s most compelling competitions. In 1994, the artistic leadership of this Competition passed from Gingold to his most famous pupil, Jaime Laredo, one of the master musicians of our time.

Since 1982, Indianapolis has hosted 11 Competitions. It is a unique showcase for the world’s most gifted young violinists and a demonstration of Hoosier hospitality and American volunteerism.

Regarded as the “Olympics of the Violin,” each Competition generates significant national and international media coverage for the artists and the state. Hundreds of volunteers work tirelessly to make this event possible. Through the performances of its Laureates, the influence of the Competition continues for years afterward in cities of the world far from Indianapolis. These Laureates uphold the tradition of quality and excellence which has made the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis one of the most prestigious music competitions in the world.

The 12th Quadrennial will take place September 17 - October 4, 2026.

IVCI Board of Directors Steve Hamilton, President Mike MacLean, Vice President Kurt Tornquist, Treasurer Dawn Bennett, Secretary Christina Abossedgh Mario Arango Sonja Chen Arnold Andrew Dunham, Ph.D. Julia Gard

Toby Gill Stanton Jacobs Daniel Kim Tibor Klopfer Deborah Loughrey

Roxanne McGettigan Monica Peterson Gary J. Reiter Susan Brock Williams

IVCI Ex-Officio Directors Donna L. Reynolds, Past President Louis E. Daugherty, Past President Thomas R. Neal, Past President Alan Whaley, Past President

Gingold Fund Board of Directors Daniel C. Appel, President Alan Whaley, Treasurer Glen Kwok, Secretary Louis E. Daugherty Steve Hamilton

Marci M. Matthews Donna L. Reynolds

IVCI Administration Glen Kwok Executive Director

Petra Clark Director of Operations

Mary Jane Sorbera Director of Development

Zack French Director of Communications and Artist Advancement

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Laureates are listed in order of placement

Sirena Huang, United States Julian Rhee, United States Minami Yoshida, Japan Claire Wells, United States SooBeen Lee, South Korea Joshua Brown, United States

Richard Lin, Taiwan/United States Risa Hokamura, Japan Luke Hsu, United States Anna Lee, United States Ioana Cristina Goicea, Romania Shannon Lee, United States/Canada Jinjoo Cho, South Korea Tessa Lark, United States Ji Young Lim, South Korea Dami Kim, South Korea Yoojin Jang, South Korea Jiyoon Lee, South Korea

Clara-Jumi Kang, South Korea Soyoung Yoon, South Korea Benjamin Beilman, United States Haoming Xie, China Antal Zalai, Hungary Andrey Baranov, Russia Augustin Hadelich, Germany Simone Lamsma, The Netherlands Celeste Golden, United States Yura Lee, South Korea Ye-Eun Choi, South Korea Bella Hristova, Bulgaria

Barnabás Kelemen, Hungary Sergey Khachatryan, Armenia Soovin Kim, United States Frank Huang, United States Susie Park, Australia Alina Pogostkina, Germany

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Pavel Berman, Russia Marco Rizzi, Italy Ivan Chan, United States Virginie Robilliard, France David Kim, United States Martin Beaver, Canada

Kyoko Takezawa, Japan Leonidas Kavakos, Greece Andrés Cárdenes, United States Chin Kim, South Korea Sungsic Yang, South Korea Annick Roussin, France

Mihaela Martin, Romania Ida Kavafian, United States Yuval Yaron, Israel Olivier Charlier, France Nai-Yuan Hu, Taiwan Yuriko Naganuma, Japan

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2006 Gold Medalist Augustin Hadelich with pianist Chih-Yi Chen Friday, November 22, 2024 | 7:30 PM | Indiana Landmarks Center Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

Sonata, FP 119 Allegro con fuoco Intermezzo Presto tragico

David Lang (b.1957)

Before Sorrow from Mystery Sonatas

Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931)

Sonata for Solo Violin in D minor, Op. 27, No. 3 “Ballade”

Amy Beach (1867-1944)

Romance, Op. 23

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Louisiana Blues Strut: A Cakewalk

Sonata in G major Allegretto Blues. Moderato Perpetuum mobile. Allegro

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Augustin Hadelich Augustin Hadelich is one of the great violinists of our time. Known for his phenomenal technique, insightful and persuasive interpretations, and ravishing tone, he appears extensively on the world’s foremost concert stages. Hadelich has performed with all the major American orchestras as well as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, and many other eminent ensembles.

During the 2024 summer festivals season, Hadelich appeared at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Tanglewood Music Festival with the Boston Symphony, Bravo! Vail with the New York Philharmonic, Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony, Aspen Music Festival in Colorado and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería in Mexico City.

Highlights of the 24/25 season include returns to the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Vienna Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and The Cleveland Orchestra. Hadelich will also perform with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, TonhalleOrchester Zürich, Vienna Symphony, London Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony, New Zealand Symphony, Orquesta Nacional de España as well as the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Dallas and Seattle. As artist-in-residence, he will perform with the Dresden Philharmonic throughout the season, and will tour with the RSB Radio Orchestra Berlin, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Mozarteum

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Orchestra Salzburg, as well as the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. He will perform solo violin recitals in London, Barcelona, Gothenburg, Tallinn and Abu Dhabi, as well as duo recitals with the pianist Francesco Piemontesi in Budapest, Dresden, Katowice, Rome and Bologna. In the summer of 2025, he will perform extensively in Asia, including engagements with the Seoul Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra, and tour in Taiwan with the Berliner Barocksolisten.

Hadelich received a Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo in 2016 for his recording of Dutilleux’s Concerto L’Arbre des songes with the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot. A Warner Classics Artist, his most recent album “American Road Trip,” a journey through the landscape of American music with pianist Orion Weiss, was released in August 2024. Other albums for Warner Classics include Paganini’s “24 Caprices” (2018); “Brahms and Ligeti Violin Concertos” (2019); the Grammy-nominated “Bohemian ˇ Violin Concerto with the Bavarian Tales,” which includes the Dvorák ° Radio Symphony Orchestra and Jakub Hruša (2020); the GRAMMYnominated recording of Bach’s complete Sonatas and Partitas (2021); and “Recuerdos,” a Spain-themed album featuring works

by Sarasate, Tarrega, Prokofiev and Britten (2022).

Augustin Hadelich, a dual American-German citizen born in Italy to German parents, rose to fame when he won the Gold Medal at the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Further distinctions followed, including an Avery Fisher Career Grant (2009), U.K.’s Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship (2011), and an honorary doctorate from the University of Exeter in the U. K. (2017).

In 2018, he was named Instrumentalist of the Year by the influential magazine Musical America. Hadelich holds an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Joel Smirnoff, and in 2021, was appointed to the violin faculty at Yale School of Music.

He plays a 1744 violin by Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesù, known as “Leduc, ex-Szeryng,” on loan from the Tarisio Trust.

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Chih-Yi Chen, piano Pianist Chih-Yi Chen’s versatile qualities as a collaborative partner, chamber musician and teacher have contributed to a distinguished international career.

Chen has been on the faculty of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music since 2003 and is the Associate Chair of the Chamber and Collaborative Music Department. She was a recipient of the 2023 Indiana University Trustees Teaching Award. She has also been on the faculty of the Indiana University Summer String Academy for more than two decades.

Chen has been performing with International Violin Competition of Indianapolis Laureates since 2003 when she was first invited to perform with Barnabás Kelemen. She has served as an official pianist for the competition since the 9th Quadrennial in 2014 and was awarded special recognition at the 2018 Competition for “Best Performances” of the Beethoven and Mozart sonatas. She has also served as an official pianist for the China International Music Competition in Beijing. Her early work with the talented young violinists of the Indiana University Violin Virtuosi directed by renowned pedagogue Mimi Zweig led to performances in France, Spain, Sweden, Italy, Japan and throughout the United States.

Among the numerous musicians with whom Chen has collaborated are Jaime Laredo, Mihaela Martin, Kyoko Takezawa, Sirena Huang, Richard Lin, Luke Hsu, Liviu Prunaru, Augustin Hadelich, Clara-Jumi Kang, Kerson Leong, Svetlin Roussev, Atar Arad, Sharon Robinson, and Gabor Varga. She has also performed with the Michelangelo, Pacifica, Rubens, Verona and Balourdet string quartets.

Chen has served as an adjudicator for competitions and given masterclasses in the United States, Taiwan, Argentina and China.

Born in Taipei, Chih-Yi Chen received her Bachelor, Master and Doctor of Music degrees from Indiana University where she studied with Lev Vlasenko, and with Luba Edlina-Dubinsky, pianist of the Borodin Trio.

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Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) Sonata, FP 119 (1942-43, revised 1949) Poulenc’s sonata for violin is a bit of an enigma in the world of chamber music, in that it was largely disliked at the time of its premiere, including by the composer himself. Poulenc had attempted several violin sonatas previously, sketching at least three prior drafts, although he claimed he did “not like the violin in the singular.” He finally completed a sonata at the insistence of violinist Ginette Neveu. Upon the work’s completion, Poulenc claimed the “few delicious violinistic details” were due to Neveu’s suggestions.

Critics at the time were disappointed, one writing “Poulenc is no longer quite Poulenc when he writes for the violin.”

The reputation of this sonata, however, has grown steadily over time, perhaps as modern listeners are further from specific expectations placed on Poulenc and his style; at the time he was better known as a composer for woodwinds. Also, despite the initial negative reception, many of Poulenc’s best hallmarks, such as his unique ability to blend melancholic brooding with whimsy, are on full display in this piece.

The first movement opens with a furious rollicking statement that is carried by both voices equally. It is as if Poulenc’s pen erupted onto the page once the dam had finally broken regarding writing for the violin. Piano and violin converse throughout the rest of the movement with occasional moments of glittering tenderness.

The second movement feels more characteristic of Poulenc’s style.

Unusual timbres and harmonies summon French impressionism, but aged for several decades with cracks beginning to show in the veneer. The final movement returns to the energetic pace of the opener. The music is a bit more playful though, and at times almost carnivalesque. The finale includes several exclamations, as if not fully sure when to end.

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David Lang (b. 1957) Before Sorrow from Mystery Sonatas (2014) David Lang is a Pulitzer Prize and Grammy winning composer perhaps best known as a co-founder of the sometimes eccentric and experimental musical collective Bang on a Can. He is known for a cutting style that blends elements of minimalism and modernism to create unique sounds. Sometimes, as in tonight’s piece, he achieves this by drawing on musical impulses that feel almost ancient or ethereal.

Lang’s Mystery Sonatas draws inspiration from a piece of the same name by H.I.F. Biber from around 1676. Sometimes known as the Rosary Sonatas, Biber’s set includes 15 short pieces for violin and continuo. These works are all overtly religious and are centered on either the life of Jesus, the Crucifixion, or the Resurrection.

Lang uses seven movements in his work that tell a loose story that he describes as far more internal and reflective. The first two consider joy, the middle three sorrow, and the final two center on glory. Each piece is an almost minimalistic contemplation of a deeply felt inner emotion. At times the work feels inspired by Arvo Pärt’s spiritual minimalism, but Lang’s piece is not bound by predefined parameters or text and feels less predictable in its musical introspection.

Before Sorrow is the third in the set. The solo violin meanders and considers the same musical pitches from different angles, never straying too far from an oft-repeated home pitch. At first the work seems constrained, if not tedious, but over time the listener adjusts to the struggle. The subsequent moment when the violinist reaches its upper register sounds euphoric. As the work draws to a close, like many minimalist-inspired pieces, the music feels even more profound in its absence.

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Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931) Sonata for Solo Violin in D minor, Op. 27, No. 3 “Ballade” (1923) Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe was a pioneer of the modern violin school who passed on the tradition of Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski to the twentieth century. He was uninhibited, poetic, and a musical story-teller of unsurpassed skill. However, he was not a prodigy, and rose to his status as a soloist through a slow and steady progression up the ladder from playing small concerts, to the position of concertmaster, then finally as a soloist at the ripe old age of 32. He was a fabulously flexible musician with a facile technique. His deeply emotive playing was achieved through an extraordinary palette of tone color and a sensitive vibrato of diverse speed. In 1894, Ysaÿe made his American debut. That year he also founded a concert series in Brussels in which he conducted. In 1898 he was offered the conducting post of the New York Philharmonic, but he declined. At age 60, his playing in decline, he finally did accept a conducting post with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, one he held from 1918 to 1922.

Ysaÿe, now retired from public concertizing, had always taken composition seriously. His output includes thirty instrumental works and an opera. The Six Sonatas for Solo Violin, Op. 27 were sketched out in a single day in 1923. The inspiration for this remarkable notion came from a performance Ysaÿe attended. The concert was by a young Joseph Szigeti on which he played Bach’s works for solo violin. Ysaÿe found an enormous depth of material to emulate in Bach’s works. He said, “Bach’s genius frightens anyone who might be tempted to follow the same path. We know that there is here a peak difficult to reach.” Each Sonata was dedicated to a great violinist of Ysaÿe’s time, the third sonata being dedicated to Romanian Georges Enesco. These works are full of technical difficulties, but these are not superficial gymnastics. The sensational aspects of the works all serve as musical communication.

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Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 3 entitled “Ballade,” is the shortest of the six sonatas, and the most well known. The free-composed onemovement work consists of three sections without break, each increasing in tempo. It is a fiery caprice full of gypsy temperaments beginning with a pensive recitative-like opening. It progresses to a peasant dance in 5/4 time and shows off a violinist’s prowess by putting them through a series of jaw-dropping technical demands.

A contrasting section separates the dance from the work’s closing, an impassioned coda that creates a tremendous buildup of power with a final dash to an explosive conclusion.

The “Ballade” received its premiere at the hands of IVCI Artistic Founder Josef Gingold at the Brussels Conservatory in 1928 while he was a student of Eugène Ysaÿe.

Ysaÿe and Josef Gingold, 1928

Note by Cathleen Partlow Strauss

Amy Beach (1867-1944) Romance, Op. 23 (1893) Amy Beach was one of the first American composers who had been fully trained outside of Europe to receive international acclaim.

She was also the first successful American female composer of large-scale works, and her Gaelic Symphony of 1896 was the first published symphony by an American woman. She was the only female member of the “Second New England School” of composition, which concentrated on late romanticism in music.

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of a woman married to a member of high society. She focused much of her creative energy during this time, therefore, on composition.

She was mostly self-taught as her husband disapproved of her having a tutor, also an unfortunate commonality of the time.

Romance, Op. 23 was composed relatively early in Beach’s career.

She dedicated this luxurious piece to Maud Powell, a famous American violinist, and then premiered the work alongside Powell at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

It is a short and thoroughly charming piece that offers a simple aching melody that swells with emotions. The piano and violin interact seamlessly, each adding to the passionate dialogue that pushes to the gentle pianissimo ending.

Note by Nicholas Johnson, Ph.D. Butler University

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (1932-2004) Louisiana Blues Strut: A Cakewalk Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson lived in New York City and Chicago, working as a composer, arranger and conductor in relative obscurity.

His violin music sounds as if Eugène Ysaÿe had grown up with Blues music! Louisiana Blues Strut: A Cakewalk is a complex composition full of irregular meters, surprising the listener’s expectations at every turn.

It requires the rhythmic precision of a jazzer in order to “swing,” and yet still play the syncopations without ever losing the groove. Swing, the Jazz performance practice of playing notes unevenly (longer or shorter), is something 2024/2025 Laureate Series

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that must be learned by ear. Since it is impossible to notate precisely, most composers and jazzers notate music without the swing rhythm and leave it to the performer to swing depending on what is appropriate in the moment.

Note by Augustin Hadelich

Maurice Ravel (1875-1927) Sonata in G To my mind, the ‘blues’ is one of your greatest musical assets...truly American despite earlier contributory influences from Africa and Spain...

While I adopted this popular form of your music, I venture to say that nevertheless it is French music, Ravel’s music, that I have written.

— Maurice Ravel In the annals of classical composers, Maurice Ravel belonged to a fortunate minority. Born into a cultured middle-class family, he is one of the few composers whose parents encouraged his professional musical ambitions from the start. When he was seven, his father provided him with the best private musical instruction; at 12, he went on to the preparatory school for the Conservatoire de Paris, graduating into the regular course of study at fourteen. In a surprisingly single-minded manner, the youthful Ravel marched to his own drum in terms of his musical language. He could not —or would not — conform to the rigorous, and by then dated, traditions of the Conservatoire and was repeatedly beaten out for the coveted Prix de Rome, creating a scandal when it was revealed during his last attempt that all the finalists were composition students of one professor, all of whom have now pretty much lapsed into oblivion.

Even in his earliest compositions, Ravel incorporated musical forms and styles from other—usually earlier—periods. Then, in the early 1920s, he became familiar with African-American music, especially jazz, which had become all the rage in Paris where 16

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everything from solo piano to big band jazz could be heard in the finest salons. Ravel exploited jazz’s “exoticism” and, beginning with the Sonata for Violin and Piano, made it an integral part of the musical language of his later years.

Ravel began work on the Sonata in 1923 but did not finish it until 1927. In many ways, its idiom and themes, especially in the second movement, Blues, are a forerunner for the Piano Concerto in G — which was finished four years later and whose first movement prominently features a “blue-note” motive — and the Concerto for the Left Hand.

Shortly after finishing the Sonata, Ravel set out on an extended visit to the United States, where he performed it with violinist Joseph Szigeti. In an article (quoted above) the composer alludes to his adaptation of the jazz idiom into classical forms and cites the jazz imitations of his contemporaneous European colleagues, among them Darius Milhaud, Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith.

The first movement, a sonata allegro form, introduces material that recurs in the finale. The Violin Sonata is more lyrical than jazzy but nevertheless contains a short bluesy “exclamation” that periodically interrupts the more conventional themes and almost romantic treatment.

The Blues movement is literally and figuratively the centerpiece of the Sonata, from its principal theme to the imitation of other quintessentially American sounds such as the banjo and the jazz trombone.

The Finale is a virtuosic romp, a perpetual-motion piece that comes across in places as a sophisticated “Flight of the Bumblebee.”

This was not Ravel’s first violin sonata. He composed a Sonate pour piano et violon in 1897, ironically his first venture into chamber music, but considered it unsuited for publication.

Note by Joseph & Elizabeth Kahn

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Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Gross Jr. Mr. Thomas P. Murphy Jim and Cheryl Strain Alan and Elizabeth Whaley

THE JOSEF GINGOLD SOCIETY The Josef Gingold Society has been created in order to recognize kind supporters who have included The Josef Gingold Fund in their estate plans.

Anonymous (3) Bob and Pat Anker Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Beczkiewicz Suzanne Blakeman Donald P. Bogard Anita and Bill Cast Mrs. Chris J. Christy

Lou and Kathy Daugherty Don Earnhart Rosalie Held Kay Koch Glen Kwok and Chih-Yi Chen Deborah and Joe Loughrey Cynthia Parker Matthews Family Foundation

Laura and Alan Mendelsohn Melinda J. Miller Ina Mohlman Peggy and Byron Myers Jane and Andrew Paine Nancy J. Schmidt Alan and Elizabeth Whaley Anna S. and James P. White

IVCI Education Outreach is supported by the Christel DeHaan Sub-Fund of the Josef Gingold Fund.

2024/2025 Laureate Series

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PAVEL HAAS QUARTET

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 11 7:30 PM I N D I A N A H I S TO RY C E N T E R

Winner of five Gramophone Classical Music Awards, the Pavel Haas Quartet is firmly established as one of the world’s foremost ensembles.

IMANI WINDS WITH MICHELLE CANN, PIANO

JANUARY 15, 2025 | INDIANA HISTORY CENTER

GOLDMUND STRING QUARTET

FEBRUARY 26, 2025 | INDIANA HISTORY CENTER

JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET

APRIL 23, 2025 | INDIANA HISTORY CENTER

1944 - 2024

Tickets & More Info available at

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YEARS TOGETHER

Carnegie Hall Recital Debut

Sirena Huang 2022 IVCI Gold Medalist

Saturday, April 26, 2025 | 7:30 PM Zankel Hall 57th Street & Seventh Avenue New York, NY

Join us for the Carnegie Hall debut of 2022 IVCI Gold Medalist Sirena Huang with Official IVCI Pianist Chih-Yi Chen – a quadrennial tradition!

For more information:

ivci@violin.org

International Violin Competition of Indianapolis 2024-2025 Laureate Series Saturday, February 1 | 7:30 PM | Schrott Center for the Arts

2022 Gold Medalist Sirena Huang performs Beethoven Concerto with ICO Presented in collaboration with Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, 2022 Gold Medalist Sirena Huang performs the breathtaking violin concerto by Beethoven with the ICO, led by Music Director Matthew Kraemer. The evening also includes a work by Brian Raphael Nabors, and a world premiere by Jorge Muñiz.

Tickets available at icomusic.org.

Tuesday, April 8 | 7:30 PM | The Cabaret Wednesday, April 9 | 7:30 PM | Hendricks Live! (Plainfield)

Take3 - Where Rock Meets Bach!

Born out of practice rooms of the country’s top conservatories, Take3 lives at the intersection where pop, rock and classical fusion collide. Their unmistakable style and infectious joy in music making can be witnessed in two performances in Central Indiana: April 8 in the intimate setting of The Cabaret with catering provided by the Jazz Kitchen; and April 9 in Plainfield’s newly-constructed Hendricks Live! Performing Arts Center, just 25 minutes west of downtown.

Tuesday, May 6 | 7:30 PM | Indiana History Center

2022 Silver Medalist Julian Rhee with pianist Chelsea Wang 2022 IVCI Silver Medalist Julian Rhee collaborates with guest pianist Chelsea Wang as they close out the season in a recital at the Indiana History Center.

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