Heifetz Videos of the Week
Video of the Week: A Stranger in Chopin’s Cello Sonata
Composed in 1827, the year before Franz Schubert died at the age of just 31, Winterreise is made up of 24 songs, written to texts by Wilhelm Müller. Its story, told in fragments and references...
Video of the Week: The Clock Stops for CPE Bach
In his lifetime, Carl Philip Emanuel Bach, the eldest of Johann Sebastian Bach’s composing sons, was far more famous, prosperous, and influential than his illustrious father.
Video Of The Week: Manuel Quiroga – The Forgotten Spanish Virtuoso
The story behind the last of the six Op. 27 solo violin sonatas by Eugène Ysaÿe, dedicated to the Spanish violinist Manuel Quiroga.
Video of the Week: Variations On The Theme of Love
“One cannot easily overlook the indelible love story that Messiaen shared with Claire. And all musicians — violinists in particular — are indebted…
Video of the Week: Strum
The Borromeo String Quartet performs Jessie Montgomery’s “Strum” at the Heifetz Institute—”a piece that pulsates with pure energy and salutes American folk idioms and the spirit of dance and movement.”
Video of the Week: All Hail Hailstork!
“Hailstork pulls out all the stops here, literally (in the playing of the strings) and figuratively, turning the simple tune into something quite complex. In his very brief comments on this piece,...
The 2022 Heifetz Memory Book
The year in images from the Heifetz Institute 2022, a year that saw the resumption of our new Ensemble in Residence Program and our 6-week summer program
The Heifetz Holiday Homecoming 2022
Our year-end “Heifetz Holiday Homecoming,” featuring Minchae Kim, SoHyun Ko violins; Jerome McCoy, viola, and Dilshod Narzillaev, cello and faculty pianist Allison Freeman
Video of the Week: A Picture Painted Without a Model
Violist Joseph Skerik and faculty pianist Tae Kim perform Eugène Ysaÿe’s passionate Extase, Op. 21 in concert at the Heifetz Institute’s 2022 Festival of Concerts
Video of the Week: Vivaldi’s Take on a Tune for the Ages
Dating from the 1600s, La Folia, translated as “folly,” or “madness,” is one of the most durable and downright maddening tunes in all of Western music.
Video of the Week: Join The Band!
The full student body of Heifetz2022 join together with faculty for the “Heifetz Band” performance of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3
Video of the Week: Bottesini’s Gran Duo: A Finish With a Flourish
Violinist SoHyun Ko and bassist Julide San with a bravura performance of Bottesini’s Grand Duo Concertante.