Program
| Composer | Work | Year |
|---|---|---|
| George Gershwin | Selections from "An American in Paris" (arr. J. Heifetz) | 1928 |
| György Kurtág | Tre pezzi per Violino e Pianoforte, Op. 14e | 1979 |
| Claude Debussy | Violin Sonata, L. 140 | 1917 |
| Intermission | ||
| Robert Schumann | Three Romances, Op. 94 | 1849 |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Violin Sonata No. 7 in C minor, Op. 30 No. 2 | 1802 |
About the Artists
Joshua Brown
Violinist Joshua Brown has been praised by audiences and critics worldwide for his “richness of sound, elegance of reading…commitment of every moment at the service of the work…” (La Libre). Joshua was awarded a 2025 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and gained international attention after winning the 2nd Prize and both Audience Awards at the 2024 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. Other international competition successes include 1st Prizes at both the inaugural 2023 Global Music Education International Violin Competition in Beijing, China, as well as the 2019 International Violin Competition of Leopold Mozart in Augsburg, Germany.
Joshua was first recognized for his debut performance with the Cleveland Orchestra and has gone on to perform regularly with orchestras around the world, including the Munich Radio Orchestra, MDR Sinfonieorchester, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Civic Orchestra, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, and Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege. A passionate recitalist and chamber musician, Joshua has appeared regularly in series such as Chicago’s Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Festival Musiq3 in Brussels, the Tchaikovsky Festival in Moscow, the Pro Musica series in Mexico, the Matinée Musicale series in Cincinnati, the Jupiter Chamber Players series in New York City, and the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Chicago.
Joshua is grateful to be playing a Nicolo Amati violin from Cremona, circa 1635-1640, on extended loan through the generosity of the Mary B. Galvin Foundation and the efforts of the Stradivari Society, a division of Bein & Fushi, Inc. Professional development activities for Joshua Brown are generously supported by Marilyn G. and Joseph B. Schwartz.
Dina Vainshtein
Pianist Dina Vainshtein collaborates with some of the most promising musicians of our time. Now based in Boston, she is the daughter of two pianists, and studied with Boris Berlin and Arthur Aksenov at the prestigious Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow. At the 1998 International Tchaikovsky Competition, she received the Special Prize for the Best Collaborative Pianist.
In recent concerts Ms. Vainshtein has collaborated with violinists Miriam Fried, Yura Lee, Karen Gomyo, Chad Hoopes, Caroline Goulding, Zina Schiff, Alexi Kenney, and Angelo Yu; cellists Natasha Brofsky and Amit Peled; as well as the Borromeo String Quartet.
Dina Vainshtein came to the United States in 2000 to attend the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she worked with Vivian Hornik Weilerstein and Donald Weilerstein. For nearly a decade, Vainshtein has been affiliated with the New England Conservatory and the Walnut Hill School, where she teaches chamber music.