Tickets in advance: $25

Tickets at the door: $30

Hunter Hall presents the renowned international clarinetist Medina accompanied by international pianist Margrit Zimmermann in our intimate concert setting.

Enjoy our relaxed reception afterwards. (Finger food and wine will be provided).

Program:

Sicilienne, Op. 78 (1893) by Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)

Premiére Rhapsodie (1910) by Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

Images for solo piano from book 1: Reflets dans l'eau (1905)

Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 (1849) by Robert Schumann (1810–1856)

-Zart und mit ausdruck

-Lebhaft leicht

-Rasch und mit feuer

Sonata No. 1 in f-minor, op. 120 (1894) by Johannes Brahms (1833–1897)

-Allegro appassionato

-Andante un poco adagio

-Allegretto grazioso

-Vivace

MEDINA

Medina is a contemporary and classical chamber musician and clarinetist based in New York City.  Medina has performed in New York’s most prestigious halls ranging from Avery Fisher to Carnegie Hall. Medina’s playing has been described as: “…dynamic and exotic with the virtuosic writing pulled off flawlessly.” by the Examiner, “ethereal” by Sound Word Sight, and has been recognized for her “…extraordinary breath control” by the Classical Voice of North Carolina.  Medina has collaborated with Chamber Music Silicon Valley’s Primal Reboot Summer Festival, Chamber Music Society of New Paltz, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, and Capital City Concerts of Vermont and is the recipient of the City Corps Grant with composer Rachel Fogarty. Medina’s expertise has brought her to both coasts of the United States working with musicians as a concert clinician and teaching artist. Her mission as an educator is to guide her students in discovering their musical voice.  Medina has served as faculty in the woodwind department at Alliance University School of Music in Manhattan and has presented entrepreneurship to musicians at West Virginia University and The University of North Carolina at Greensboro College of Visual and Performing Arts

MARGRIT ZIMMERMANN

Margrit Julia Zimmermann, pianist, is an artist with uncommon poetic talent. Her special contact with the piano—her fine, gentle touch represents the best tradition of European and Russian piano schools. She possesses an unusual musical creative ability and virtuosity that flourishes in her interpretations of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and Rachmaninov, described by one reviewer as having " fascinating intensity and highly poetic play." 

Ms. Zimmermann is a prizewinner of International Johannes Brahms Piano Competition in Austria and the Roma International Piano Competition in Italy. Her recordings on major labels such as ASV and BIS in England and Sweden were highly praised in Gramophone magazine (England): ‘’It’s finely chiseled offering that suggests light on glistening crystals, the sort of piece Manfred Eicher might cull for his ECM label-although I doubt that even he could commission a better performance that one recorded here’’. 

Das Orchester (Germany) and Penn Sounds (USA) for revealing a “deep musical sense and technical perfection.” 

Margrit Julia is maintaining two homes: in New York (USA) and in Hamburg (Germany), where she received the Art Prize of the Wolfgang-Zippel Foundation. Ms. Zimmermann was a founder and for many years Artistic Director of the International Music Festival "Cascades" in Germany. She has performed in major music centers worldwide such a Carnegie Hall, Weill Recital Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, Moscow Conservatoire Hall, Hall of Vilnius Philharmonie, Philharmonie Hall in Kaunus, Organ Hall in Kishinev, Vienna Hall of the MusicTheater Society, Graz Music Hall, Kaliningrad Philharmonic Hall, Sala Beethoven, and Teatro Isauro Martinez among others. 

Her concerts have frequently been televised throughout Russia, Lithuania and Germany, where she continues to perform as a soloist with recitals and orchestra, as well as in England, Austria, Holland, the United States, Switzerland, Baltic Republics, Peru, the Caribbean Islands, and Mexico. 

Margrit Julia Zimmermann completed her studies at the world-renowned Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow with Dmitri Bashkirov, where she studied with Lev Naumov, Vera Gornostaeva, and Vadim Sukhanov. Since 2010 Margrit Julia Zimmermann was an Artist-in-Residence at the Alliance University in NYC.