Looking ahead to a mini-tour and full-length 2025 season, this episode featuring four outstanding Heifetz alums – all returning on full scholarships to Heifetz 2025. Featuring fiddle tunes, ballet transcriptions, and a gripping quartet by Shostakovich.
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Our four returning Heifetz 2025 students featured in this program —violinists Kitty Amaral and Runa Matsushita, violist Steven Baloue, and cellist Amelia Zitoun—will be taking this show on the road for a series of “Play It Forward” concerts in Washington, DC, Maryland, and Virginia. Faculty pianist Andrew Rosenblum joins our troupe for an intimate evening previewing the 2025 Festival of Concerts. Click on the images above for tickets and details!
The “Play It Forward” tour will showcase the talents of all four of our performers in solo both scintiallting and soulful, as well as a great chamber work – Dvořák’s radiant Piano Quintet No. 2. All proceeds from the tour go to support the Heifetz Institute’s 2025 Student Scholarship Fund. Make a donation or sponsor a concert!
A new series of Sunday Matinees at the Forbes Center, the return of free afternoons of chamber music at the iconic Blackfriars Playhouse, and the Junior Division showcases ‘grow up’ into the Heifetz main stage of Francis Auditorium are among the highlights of the 2025 summer season of the our Festival of Concerts. The Institute returns for its 29th season with an ambitious lineup of no fewer than 63 concerts and special events. Read more about our 2025 season.