Heifetz Videos of the Week
Video of the Week: A Miss & A Hit from Grieg
Grieg’s miniature masterpiece is performed ‘midst the masterworks hanging in the collection of the renowned Kreeger Museum of Art in Washington, DC, a frequent Heifetz on Tour destination.
Video of the Week: Beethoven’s Tears of Gold
Our latest Video of the Week features one of the most extraordinary movements in all of Beethoven’s string quartets…the “Cavatina” from the String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat, Op. 130., which ends with the Grosse Fuge…
Video of the Week: A Devilishly Difficult Dance
Hector Berlioz gave us the Symphonie Fantastique, with its spooky “Witches Sabbath” movement; today’s Video of the Week (just in time for Hallowe’en), is the terrifyingly difficult Scherzo Fantastique,…
Video of the Week: A Versatile Viola Sonata
The Viola Sonata Op. 120 No. 1 by Johannes Brahms is today a staple of the viola repertoire, though in fact it was the brilliance of a 19th-century clarinetist that spurred its creation. Hear it in the hands of violist Jacob Shin…
Video Of the Week: A Star-Spangled Soloist
A performance for our times: No partner – no problem! #Heifet2020 student Kayleigh Kim steps up to the plate to play both parts of a dazzling duo at Washington Nationals parks. See it to believe it!
Video of the Week: Mozart’s Double Play
One of the few in-person collaborations from the Heifetz 2020: An energetic performance of Mozart’s Duo in B-flat major for Violin & Viola, K. 424 by Heifetz alums violinist Rachell Ellen Wong and violist Andrew Gonzalez .
Video of the Week: Variations on a Variation
Our Video of the Week features a bravura piece for cello and piano by the prolific 20th century Czech composer Bohuslav Jan Martinů, performed by #Heifetz2020 student Boubacar Diallo and pianist Yoon Lee..
Video of the Week: Beethoven’s Game of Cat and Mouse
17-year-old violinist Suet Yin (Athena) Shiu in Kowloon, Hong Kong, collaborates with faculty pianist Seonmi Lee from Seoul, South Korea to perform the opening movement from Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30, No. 3.
Video of the Week: Making the Most of Mozart
"Treat the recording studio as a laboratory for conceptual thinking — rather than as a mere tool." – Record Producer Brian Eno From the outset of #VirtualHeifetz2020, we were determined to put...
Video of the Week: From Our Chambers to Yours!
Check out this performance across continents and time zones of Mozart’s K. 387 string quartet played by violinists Carlos Arroyo (Spain), Minji Lee (South Korea), violist Tal McGee (Texas), and cellist Caroline Paulsen (Illinois)…
Video of the Week: Dvořák – The Hopeless Romantic
From a Summer 2020 concert on Heifetz Rubato: The Virtual Concert Hall, 16-year old violin student Clara Kim (Frisco, TX) is joined by pianist Beilin Han (Chicago, IL) for a performance of Dvořák’s Romance in F, Op. 11.
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...