Heifetz Videos of the Week
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
Video of the Week: An American in Staunton
Heifetz Ensemble in Residence (HEIR) members Julia Angelov and Yezu Woo, violin, Matt Cohen, viola, and Coleman Itzkoff, cello, perform the String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96, the “American” quartet by Antonín Dvořák.
Video of the Week: A Symbiotic Sonata
Violinist Julia Angelov, a member of the Heifetz Ensemble in Residence program, and pianist Miki Aoki perform the “Sonatensatz” by Johannes Brahms, a work originally composed for the Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim
Video of the Week: A Staunton Harmonium Comes Home to Heifetz
Staunton’s storied musical past and vital present come together through a century old organ in a performance of The Bagatelles Op. 47 by Antonín Dvořák
Video of the Week: Dissonance by Design
The Heifetz Ensemble in Residence (HEIR) marks the return of live performances to Staunton with a stunning interpretation of Mozart’s landmark first movement of the “Dissonance” Quartet.