Lyrica Chamber Music

Cellist Ani Kalayjian and pianist David Kaplan, Co-Artistic Directors of Lyrica Chamber Music, curate a program featuring the triumphant A major Dvorak piano quintet and more. Join an ensemble of world-class chamber musicians for a performance you will not want to miss!

This is a co-presentation with Lyrica Chamber Music, which has brought chamber music to Morris County since 1987.

About the Performers

Violinist Kobi Malkin is known for his expressive artistry and compelling performances as both a soloist and chamber musician. Praised by The New York Times for his “gorgeous tone and edge-of-seat intensity,” he has appeared with the Saint Louis Symphony, Chicago Philharmonic, and Jerusalem Symphony, and has performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and other major venues. A passionate chamber musician, Malkin has collaborated with artists such as Mitsuko Uchida, Itzhak Perlman, and Kim Kashkashian, and has appeared at Marlboro, Ravinia, Yellow Barn, and Music@Menlo. He is a winner of the Aviv Competitions and other international awards, and a recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarships. He currently serves as concertmaster of the American Ballet Theatre Orchestra and is an alumnus of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect. Malkin holds degrees from The Juilliard School and the New England Conservatory.

Born in Orange, CA in 1993, Violist Tanner Menees is forging a robust career as a chamber musician. Mr. Menees has collaborated in chamber music performances with a range of notable artists including Miriam Fried, Susan Graham, Lynn Harrell, Frans Helmerson, Gary Hoffman, Kim Kashkashian, Laurence Lesser, Mitsuko Uchida, and Donald Weilerstein. Tanner is a new member of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and also regularly plays with NOVUS of Trinity Church and A Far Cry. As a soloist Tanner has performed with the Colburn Orchestra, Symphony New Hampshire, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. As a proponent of new American music, he regularly performs and records with Copland House. Mr. Menees has performed internationally at festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, Caramoor’s Evnin Rising Stars and Chamber Feast, Chamberfest Cleveland, Edinburgh Music Festival, Festival Mozaic, Juilliard String Quartet Seminar, and with NEXUS Chamber Music Chicago among many others. Tanner received his Bachelor of Music degree and Artist Diploma from the Colburn School, where he studied with Paul Coletti. Later he studied with Kim Kashkashian at the New England Conservatory where he earned a Master of Music degree. Tanner plays on a viola of the Tarasconi school made in Milan, Italy c. 1880.

Siwoo Kim is an “incisive” and “compelling” violinist (The New York Times) who “plays with stylistic sensitivity and generous tonal nuance.” (The Chicago Tribune) Siwoo actively performs as soloist & chamber musician and he is the founding co-artistic director of VIVO Music Festival in his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.

Since his Carnegie Hall debut with the Juilliard Orchestra, he has gone on to perform as soloist with orchestras in four different continents. As chamber musician, he performs at festivals such as the Marlboro Music Festival, collaborating with revered artists including Mitsuko Uchida, Denes Varjon and Susan Graham. An advocate of new music, Siwoo premiered and recorded Samuel Adler’s only violin concerto on Linn Records and VIVO Music Festival annually co-commissions new chamber music works with Paris-based Ensemble Intercontemporain. This season, Siwoo recorded and released the premiere recording of Michael Torke’s “Last” on Ecstatic Records with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO).

Siwoo received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Juilliard School where he studied with Robert Mann and Donald Weilerstein. He went on to complete a two-year fellowship at Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect program.

Ticket & Visitor Information

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