Heifetz Videos of the Week
Video of the Week: A Brahms Song Bouquet
For our Video of the Week, Heifetz 2020 student Mac Taback and faculty pianist Dina Vainshtein perform a revalatory remote collaboration of two profound – and aptly appropriate for our times – songs...
Video of the Week: A Heifetz 2020 Havanaise!
French composer, organist, conductor and pianist Camille Saint-Saëns is perhaps most widely known for his orchestral suite The Carnival of the Animals and his Symphony No. 3 in C minor Op. 78, more...
Video of the Week: From Prussia with Love
It would have so easy for Beethoven to be discouraged; he can’t even hear the thing he loves most. But he actually accelerated, he pushed himself even harder, he absolutely redefined what music can...
Video of the Week: Romance in the Digital Age
Our Video of the Week comes from Seoul, South Korea, where fourteen year old #Heifetz2020 student SoHyun Ko is joined (in person, no less) by pianist Seonmi Lee for a stunning performance of...
Video of the Week: A Catchy, Complex Caprice
The Caprice Viennois is just a good three and a half minutes of well-crafted gemütlichkeit with which Kreisler could charm his audiences.” – Blair Johnston, All Music Guide No less of a figure than...
Video of the Week: Batter Up!
Our Video of the Week is a throwback of our annual tradition of sending two of our best up to the nation’s capital to “throw the first bow” by playing the National Anthem for the Washington Nationals.
Video of the Week: A “Souvenir de Francis”
In the early 1850s, Henryk Wieniawski was an unknown teenage violinist just starting out on his many years of wandering across Europe, giving concerts wherever there seemed to be anybody to listen....
Answering the Call, with SoHyun Ko
On May 1 and 2, spiritual leaders, front-line workers, storytellers, artists, activists all came together in a 24-hour global livestream titled “The Call to Unite.“ Guests included three former US...
Video of the Week: Remembering Lynn Harrell
Those who delight in the music; in never failing to find refreshment in it; who rejoice in their gift… those are the musicians who have lasted, whose way has been lit by this special lantern of our art.” – Cellist Lynn Harrell
Video Of The Week: A Terzetto in Triplicate
Our Video of the Week is the first of our Virtual Heifetz era, with our Artistic Director Nicholas Kitchen modeling the way. As part of a step-by-step demonstration of what Nick describes as “checkerboard chamber music,”
Video of the Week: A Bernstein Ballad
“The fourth movement of [Bernstein’s] concerto, dedicated to Agathon, contains some of the most beautiful music of any 20th-century score.” – Leonard Bernstein biographer Humphrey Burton
Video of the Week: Sí Bheag, Sí Mhór
With the world in the midst of the “Coronavirus Cancellation” St. Patrick’s Day 2020 is more of a day for contemplation than celebration, and we’ve got just the musical prescription to take your...