Heifetz Videos of the Week
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 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...
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.