BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Acme Widgets\, Inc.//NONSGML ExportToCalendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Groupmuses near X-WR-NAME:Groupmuses near BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260608T165417Z UID:2eb3a3fd-21ae-45a3-b5cb-f4ed487b57e4 DTSTART:20260607T210000Z DTEND:20260607T233000Z DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jonathan D.\nMusicians: Asiya Korepanova and Milena P ajaro-van de Stadt\n\n5 PM Doors & Pre-Reception\n6 PM Performances\n8 PM Post-Reception\n\n_____\n\n[Gotham Arts](https://gothamarts.net) is thrill ed to host the [Flatiron Festival](https://www.flatironfestival.com/)\, a chamber music series directed by pianist and composer [Asiya Korepanova](h ttps://www.asiyakorepanova.com/)\, featuring seven "offerings" between May 31 and June 14\, 2026.\n\n**Flatiron Festival**\n**Offering IV**\n\n**Sho stakovich: A Life in Three Sonatas**\n\n**Irina Muresanu\, violin**\n**Mil ena Pajaro-van de Stadt\, viola**\n**Julian Schwarz\, cello**\n**Asiya Kor epanova\, piano**\n\nViolinist [Irina Muresanu](https://www.irinamuresanu. com/)\, violist [Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt](https://milenapvds.com/)\, an d cellist [Julian Schwarz](https://www.julianschwarz.com/) join forces wit h pianist [Asiya Korepanova](https://www.asiyakorepanova.com/) to perform Shostakovich's sonatas for their respective instruments\, constituting som e of the most intense works in that form composed in the 20th century.\n\n These three sonatas comprehensively span Shostakovich's entire life and cr eative development from early to late and are very rarely performed togeth er on the same program.\n\nWine will be served.\n\n**Program**\n\n**Dmitry Shostakovich** (1906–1975)\nSonata for Cello and Piano in d minor\, Op. 40 (1934)\nSonata for Violin and Piano\, Op. 134 (1968)\nSonata for Viola and Piano\, Op. 147 (1975)\n\n_____\n\n**About the Artists**\n\n[Watch Mi lena and Asiya perform Brahms' Sonata for Viola and Piano No. 2 in E-Flat Major](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6Dp6W8UBPM)\n\n**About Irina Mures anu**\n\nRomanian-born violinist **Irina Muresanu** is an artist equally i n demand on both sides of the Atlantic\, as she has appeared throughout th e United States\, Canada\, Europe\, Asia and South Africa. Ms. Muresanu ha s firmly established herself as a successful recording artist\, and her bo ld programming with exciting thematic concepts define her as a versatile a nd innovative performer.\nA laureate and winner of top prizes in several p restigious international violin competitions including the Montreal Intern ational\, Queen Elisabeth\, UNISA International String\, Washington Intern ational\, and the Schadt String Competition\, Muresanu achieved internatio nal acclaim early on. Muresanu’s awards also include the Presser Award\, the Arthur Foote Award from the Harvard Musical Association\, the Creativ e and Performing Arts Award from the University of Maryland\, a prestigiou s New Music USA Grant\, a Pro Musicis International Award.\n\nMs. Muresanu 's 2025-26 season includes solo\, recital and chamber music appearances in renowned venues and festivals. As part of her commitment to innovative re pertoire\, Muresanu has commissioned from Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichc haachaaha’ Tate the first American Indian violin concerto in history. T he exciting world premiere of the work titled “Hattak Hiloha” (Thunder Beings)\, will take place in June 2026 with the National Orchestra Instit ute\, followed by performances in the Cabrillo Festival (August 2026) and with the National Philharmonic (November 2026)\, amongst many others. Solo appearances also include a performance and recording of the Elena Ruehr ’s Violin Concerto (written for Muresanu) with the Lviv National Philhar monic Orchestra of Ukraine\, an extensive tour of Bosnia and Herzegovina a s soloist of the Profundis Orchestra from Skopje\, North Macedonia\, as we ll as appearances with the Boulder Chamber Orchestra\, Symphonicity Orches tra (Virginia)\, and the Cayman National Orchestra.\n\nHighlights of Mures anu’s season also include concerts in the United States\, France\, Spain and Romania as recitalist and chamber musician. Muresanu has recently lau nched a project called “Itineraries”\, which follows a geographical tr ajectory through composers from the respective countries. This season’s journeys are: “From Madrid to Bucharest” (with pianist Daniel del Pino ) and “From Tel Aviv to New York” (with cellist Julian Schwarz)\, with more to follow in future seasons. The acclaimed violinist is an ambassado r of Romanian music\, which she promotes on a regular basis\, often in pro grams with her long-term duo partner\, the pianist Dana Ciocârlie.\nIn pa rallel\, Muresanu's acclaimed solo violin multi-media program “Four Stri ngs Around the World - which celebrates the diversity of music cultures wo rldwide through works of composers from five continents - continues to evo lve. At the present moment\, it includes composers from 5 continents and 1 8 countries. The ever-evolving project includes staple masterpieces for so lo violin such as the Bach Chaconne\, alongside commissioned new works of Indian composer Shirish Korde\, Native American composer Jerod Impichchaac haaha’ Tate\, Nigerian composer Fred Onovwerosuoke\, Iranian composer Sa nam Gharacheh\, and Jamaican composer Mikhail Johnson. Released as a solo violin CD in 2018 by the Grammy-nominated Sono Luminus label\, the CD has been called an "illuminating release" by the Boston Globe. The program was highlighted in a Virtual Reality collaboration with the University of Mar yland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.\n\nMuresanu has recently be en awarded the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award and the Independen t Scholarship\, Research and Creativity Award from the University of Maryl and\, for her project “Infinite Strings”: the creation of a platform d esigned to promote violin music by Romanian composers. She is also the rec ipient of a three-year National Science Foundation grant and a “Grand Ch allenges” grant from the University of Maryland for the “Music Educati on for All through AI and Digital Humanities” research she is conducting at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies\, w here she has recently been named Affiliate Faculty.\n An active chamber mu sician and recitalist\, Ms. Muresanu is a member of the Boston Trio and ha s appeared as guest artist in such festivals and venues as New York City ’s Bargemusic\, Massachusetts’ Rockport Festival\, Maine’s Bay Chamb ers concert series and Bowdoin Festival\, Colorado’s Strings in the Moun tains and San Juan Music Festival\, Hawaii’s Maui Chamber Music Festival \, The Netherland’s Reizend Music Festival\, Belgium’s Festival van de Leie\, and the Rencontres des Musiciennes Festival in France and the Guad eloupe island.\n \nMs. Muresanu is an avid performer of new music\, having had numerous works written and dedicated to her. Her most recent releases are “Irina Muresanu plays Violeta Dinescu” of solo violin works by Vi oleta Dinescu (September 2023) and “Hybrid\, Hints and Hooks” of solo and violin/piano works by Romanian composer Dan Dediu (October 2021)\, bot h on Métier label. Other recent recordings include Thomas Oboe Lee’s Vi olin Concerto (also dedicated to Ms. Muresanu) on the BMOP label\, and wor ks by Elena Ruehr for the Avie Records CD “Lift\,” included on Keith P owers’ 13 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2016. She has also recorded the complete William Bolcom sonatas on the Centaur label with pianist Mic hael Lewin\, funded by the Copland Recording Grant\, and the Guillaume Lek eu and Alberic Magnard late Romantic Violin and Piano Sonatas with pianist Dana Ciocarlie for the French label AR RE-SE (“singing and soaring…[a ] sizzling performance.” Fanfare). Of note among additional recordings i s the world premiere recording of Marion Bauer’s Sonata for Violin and P iano\, with pianist Virginia Eskin for Albany Records.\nIrina Muresanu is a Professor in the School of Music\, Affiliate Faculty in the Institute fo r Advanced Computer Studies\, and Affiliate Faculty in the Artificial Inte lligence Interdisciplinary Institute at the University of Maryland\, and h as been on the faculties of Boston Conservatory at Berklee. She has been p reviously on the faculties of Harvard and MIT Music Departments. She holds a prestigious Artist Diploma degree and a Doctor in Musical Arts degree f rom the New England Conservatory\, where she studied with the legendary Fr ench violinist Michèle Auclair. Muresanu plays an 1849 Giuseppe Rocca vio lin and an Étienne Pajeot bow.\n\n**About Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt**\n\ nPraised by Strad magazine as having "lyricism that stood out...a silky to ne and beautiful\, supple lines\," **Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt** has esta blished herself as one of the most sought-after violists of her generation . In addition to appearances as soloist with the New York String Orchestr a at Carnegie Hall\, theTokyo Philharmonic\, the Jacksonville Symphony\, t he Sphinx Chamber Orchestra\, and Symphony in C\, she has performed in rec itals and chamber-music concerts throughout the United States\, Latin Amer ica\, Europe and Asia\, including an acclaimed 2011 debut recital at Londo n’s Wigmore Hall\, which was described in Strad as being "fleet and ener getic...powerful and focused."\n\nMs. Pajaro-van de Stadt was the founding violist of the twice-Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet\, and played in the g roup from 2008-2022. During her time in the group\, the Dover Quartet was the First Prize-winner and recipient of every special award at the Banff I nternational String Quartet Competition 2013\, and winner of the Gold Meda l and Grand Prize in the 2010 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition. Also dur ing her tenure\, the Dover Quartet received the Cleveland Quartet Award an d an Avery Fisher Career Grant. Her numerous awards also include First Pri ze at the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and top prizes at the the Sphinx Competition and the Tokyo International Viola Competition. While in the Dover Quartet\, Ms. Pajaro-van de Stadt was on the faculty at The Curtis Institute of Music and Northwestern University’s Bienen Scho ol of Music\, and a part of the Quartet in Residence of the Kennedy Center in Washington\, D.C. She is now a member of the newly formed piano quarte t “Espressivo!” along with acclaimed artists Jaime Laredo\, Sharon Rob inson\, and Anna Polonsky.\n\nA violin student of Sergiu Schwartz and Meli ssa Pierson-Barrett for several years\, she began studying viola with Mich ael Klotz at the Bowdoin International Music Festival in 2005. Ms. Pajaro- van de Stadt graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music\, where she stud ied with Roberto Diaz\, Michael Tree\, Misha Amory\, and Joseph de Pasqual e. She then received her Master's Degree in String Quartet with the Dover Quartet at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music\, as a student of Ja mes Dunham.\n\n**About Julian Schwarz**\n\n**Julian Schwarz** has been her alded from a young age as a cellist destined to rank among the greatest of the 21st century\, Julian’s powerful tone\, effortless virtuosity\, and extraordinarily large color palette are hallmarks of his style. \n\nAfter making his concerto debut at the age of 11 with the Seattle Symphony\, he made his US touring debut with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra in 201 0. Since being awarded first prize at the inaugural Schoenfeld Internation al String Competition in Hong Kong\, he has led an active career as solois t\, performing with the symphony orchestras of Annapolis\, Arizona\, Boise \, Buffalo\, Charlotte\, Columbus\, Delaware\, Des Moines\, Hartford\, Jac ksonville\, Louisville\, Memphis\, Modesto\, Omaha\, Puerto Rico\, Richmon d\, Rochester\, San Antonio\, San Jose\, Sarasota\, Syracuse\, Toledo\, Tu cson\, Virginia\, West Virginia\, Wichita\, and Winston-Salem\, among many others. Internationally\, he made his Australian debut with the Queenslan d Symphony\, his Mexican debuts with the Boca del Rio Philharmonic in Vera cruz and the Mexico City Philharmonic with frequent collaborator Jorge Mes ter.\nAs a chamber musician\, Mr. Schwarz performs extensively in recital with pianist Marika Bournaki. In 2016 Schwarz & Bournaki were awarded firs t prize at the inaugural Boulder International Chamber Music Competition ’s “The Art of Duo”\, and subsequently embarked on an extensive 10-r ecital tour of China in March 2017. Mr. Schwarz is a founding member of th e New York based touring ensemble “Frisson” and was recently appointed the newest core member of the Olmos Ensemble in San Antonio\, TX. He is a member of the Palladium Chamber Players (St Petersburg FL)\, the Alaria E nsemble (New York NY)\, and has given over 100 performances at Brooklyn’ s Bargemusic. He has appeared at the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival\, Orc as Island Chamber Music Festival\, Seattle Chamber Music Festival\, Josef Gingold Chamber Music Festival\, Verbier Festival\, and the Salzburg Mozar teum. In addition\, he runs programming for the Tuesday evening chamber mu sic series at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro\, NC.\n\nMr. Schwar z is deeply committed to the future of American music\, and will present t he world premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s first Cello Concertro with a larg e consortium of orchestras spring 2026. His championing the cello music of Arthur Foote will result in the first commercial recording of Foote’s C ello Concerto (1894) with the Buffalo Philharmonic\, to be released on the Delos label. Past commissioning projects include concertos by Lowell Lieb ermann (recorded with the Annapolis Symphony for release in 2025)\, Richar d Danielpour\, and Samuel Jones (recorded with the All Star Orchestra for public television in 2012\, subsequently released as a DVD on Naxos). Othe r premieres include recital works by Paul Frucht\, Scott Ordway\, Jonathan Cziner\, Gavin Fraser\, Alex Weiser\, Ofer Ben-Amots\, Michael Ippolito\, chamber music by Adolphus Hailstork\, Henri Lazarof\, Jonathan Newman\, B right Sheng\, and the US Premiere of Dobrinka Tabakova’s Cello Concerto. Of special note is Mr. Schwarz’s ongoing commitment to the music of Jew ish experience\, including projects with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Res earch (music of Joachim Stutschewsky and his circle)\, the Defiant Requiem Foundation (music of Holocaust composers and their influence) Central Syn agogue (yearly feature on Jewish Broadcasting)\, the Milken Archive of Ame rican Jewish Music—for which he has recorded the complete cello/piano wo rks of Ernest Bloch\, and a new association with South Florida Public Broa dcasting to raise awareness of the history of Jewish music.\n\nA devoted t eacher\, Mr. Schwarz serves as Associate Professor of Cello and String Are a Coordinator at Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University (Winches ter\, VA)\, and on the artist faculty of NYU’s Steinhardt School of Musi c. In the summer\, he teaches and performs at the Eastern Music Festival a nd the Josef Gingold Festival. In 2023\, he was one of the first cellists to record pedagogical tutorials for the online teaching platform Tonebase\ , including comprehensive examinations of the Elgar Concerto\, Piatti Capr ices\, tone production\, and vocal elements in cello playing. As a writer\ , he has contributed frequently to Strings Magazine’s Artist Blog\, has written learner’s guides for The Violin Channel\, and has edited a serie s of Ernest Bloch editions with written prefaces for Carl Fischer Publishi ng. Past faculty appointments include artist-in-residence at the Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance (Nova Scotia\, Canada) and faculty teaching assistant to Joel Krosnick at The Juilliard School.\n\nBorn in Seattle\, W A in 1991 to a multigenerational musical family\, Mr. Schwarz studied at t he Academy of Music Northwest and the Lakeside School. He continued to the Colburn School in Los Angeles under Ronald Leonard\, and then moved to Ne w York City to study with mentor Joel Krosnick at The Juilliard School (BM 14\, MM 16). Other influential teachers include the late David Tonkonogui \, the late Toby Saks\, the late Lynn Harrell\, Neal Cary\, and chamber mu sic mentors Andre Roy\, Arnold Steinhardt\, Jonathan Feldman\, Toby Appel and Paul Coletti. Julian plays a Neapolitan cello made by Gennaro Gagliano in 1743 and American bows by Paul Martin Siefried. A Pirastro and Melos a rtist\, he endorses and plays the "Perpetual" medium and edition sets of c ello strings and Melos light rosin. LOCATION:Flatiron\, New York SUMMARY:Flatiron Festival\, Offering IV: Shostakovich: A Life in Three Sona tas: Irina Muresanu\, Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt\, Julian Schwarz\, & Asiy a Korepanova URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/16356-flatiron-festival-offering-iv-sh ostakovich-a-life-in-three-sonatas-irina-muresanu-milena-pajaro-van-de-sta dt-julian-schwarz-asiya-korepanova END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR