Heifetz Videos of the Week
Mozart’s “Spirit of Smiling Understatement.”
Our latest Video of the Week is the epitome of Mozartian charm and elegance, all the more remarkable for its rough-and- tumble origins: a last-minute rewrite for a performer the composer could not...
A Hebrew Melody in A New Voice
He is one of our foremost modern composers and I cannot say enough on his behalf both as a musician and as a man.” — Jascha Heifetz (1935) Violin virtuoso, Jewish folklorist, Yiddish Theatre...
A Breakthrough to Begin the Beethoven Year
"There was never any question that the first movement of the F major String Quartet (Op. 59, No. 1) had to be included…The movement represents so crucial a page of Beethoven’s work for chamber...
The 2019 Heifetz Memory Book Is Here!
From a January house concert in southern California, to the December cheer of our longest-ever Heifetz Holiday Tour, 2019 was a year for the record books at the Heifetz Institute. Particularly...
SoHyun Ko & The Lighter Side of Shostakovich
“…In these five violin pieces, we hear a less familiar Shostakovich: this music is beautiful and straightforward—joyful and sorrowful in turn, but uncut by the fear and anger evident in so much of his other work.” – Benjamin Pesetsky
Video of the Week: Handel’s Heavenly Heartbreak
"A noble, disquieting examination of man’s response to God’s inscrutable nature, [Jephtha’s] dark tone and at times troubling emotional depth are widely taken to reflect the fact that Handel’s sight...
Strum and Dannng! Dvořák for Viola & Guitar
Antonín Dvořák was headed to America, but before departing his Czech homeland for the New World, he signed up for a 40-concert “farewell” tour of his native land with two of the biggest stars of his...
Video of the Week: Sarasate’s Navarra!
“A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius!” – Pablo de Sarasate. It takes a lot of practice, too, to make it into the Heifetz Institute, so perhaps that’s one of the reasons
Video of the Week: Beethoven’s Flesh, Blood, and Soul
Beethoven’s output tends to lumped into ‘Early, Middle, and Late’ periods. To me, the Early period sounds like flesh; the Middle period is blood, and the Late period is soul. This trio is...
Stravinsky’s Sprightly Suite Italienne
The charm of Pergolesi‘s melodies and the piquant flavor of Stravinsky‘s rewriting makes his Suite italienne one of his most enjoyable works and certainly the most popular of his works
Video of the Week: SoHyun Ko’s Stunning Sarasate
Talk about a debut! Fresh off a plane from London after performing with her mentor Pinchas Zukerman, 12-year-old HeifetzPEG student SoHyun Ko made a dazzling debut on the Heifetz Stars of...
Deconstructing Vivaldi’s “Winter” Concerto
Antonio Vivaldi’s ‘Four Seasons” is one of the best-known pieces of music in the world. But did you know that Vivaldi himself wrote his own poetry that the music is designed to illustrate? Take a...