Heifetz Videos of the Week
Video of the Week: Angela Chan’s Wider Horizon
Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition finalist Angela Sin Ying Chan and pianist Miki Aoki perform the final two movements of Grieg’s Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor.
Video of the Week: A Bass Exploration from Corelli to Daft Punk
Faculty bassist Sam Suggs offers a mesmerizing solo performance ranging from Corelli to Daft Punk at a 2021 Heifetz Hootenanny.
Remembering Carmen Balthrop (1948 – 2021)
We remember soprano Carmen Balthrop, a longtime Heifetz Institute teacher and inspirational force, with a performance she gave of the serene “Ave Maria” by Gounod.
Video of the Week: Remembering 9.11: Thoughts & Aftershocks in a Solitary Voice
Nahar Eliaz performs Ayala Asherov’s “Yizkor (Remember),” a solo cello piece written in remembrance of 9/11.
Video of the Week: Alumni Connection
Cellist Tommy Mesa returned to the summer Institute in 2021 to introduce and perform a new composition, SEVEN, by fellow Heifetz alum Andrea Casarrubios.
Video of the Week: Spins and Spells from a Staunton Gallery
Heifetz Ensemble In Residence [HEIR] cellist Coleman Itzkoff performs “Spins and Spells,” captured against the backdrop of the Staunton Augusta Art Center gallery.
Video of the Week: A New Rhapsody
Heifetz Ensemble In Residence [HEIR] violinist Noelle Naito performs the solo Rhapsody No. 1 by the contemporary composer Jessie Montgomery, which “draws effortlessly on wildly varying registers and influences.”
Video of the Week: A Marvelous Mozart to Introduce our 2021 Summer Season
Violinist Angela (Sin Ying) Chan and pianist Beilin Han perform the opening movement of the Violin Concerto No. 5 (“Turkish”) by Mozart.
Video of the Week: Love, Jokes & Humor: Chad Hoopes Plays Fritz Kreisler
Chad Hoopes performs two of the most well known works by Fritz Kreisler, and shares his thoughts on the character of the music by the master violinist and composer.
Video of the Week: Moving Pictures
Artist Lyndi Angermeier’s paintings provide the perfect backdrop to Julia Angelov’s performance of by Eugène Ysaÿe’s Sonata No. 3 in D minor, “Ballade” at Staunton-Augusta Arts Center
Video of the Week: Celebrating The Thaw, with Dvořák
“This is one of the most joyful pieces of Dvořák to me… In this piece I hear the joy of the first thaw. That we can start moving again and life starts blossoming.“ – Bassist Sam Suggs
Video of the Week: A Moment of Hope
A glimmer of hope in the otherwise mournful Adagio makes this a fitting piece for out times, as Heifetz Institute Ensemble in Residence members Jared Blajian and Jingxuan Zhang play von Weber’s Adagio & Rondo