St. Ann DC Concert Series 2024-2025: Amit Peled and Martin Labazevitch

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Sunday, November 17, 3 PM

Amit Peled, Cello
Martin Labazevitch, Piano

Grieg, Gulda & Cassadó

Program

Grieg
Sonata for Cello and Piano in A minor Op.36

∼ Allegro agitato

∼ Andante molto tranquillo

~ Allegro molto e marcato

Gulda
Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra 
(cello and piano version)

∼ Ouverture

∼ Idylle

∼ Cadenza

∼ Menuett

∼ Final alla Marcia

Cassadó
Requiebros

Amit Peled, Cellist

Praised by The Strad magazine and The New York Times, internationally renowned cellist Amit Peled is acclaimed as one of the most exciting and virtuosic instrumentalists on the concert stage today. Having performed in many of the world’s most prestigious venues, including Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C., Salle Gaveau in Paris, Wigmore Hall in London, and the Konzerthaus Berlin, Peled has released over a dozen recordings on the Naxos, Centaur, Delos, and CTM Classics labels. A professor since 2003 at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University, he has performed and presented master classes around the world including at the Marlboro and Newport Music Festivals and the Heifetz International Music Summer Institute in the U.S., the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany, International Musicians Seminar Prussia Cove in England, and Keshet Eilon in Israel. Peled performs on a cello made by Carl Becker, Sr., from 1931. He is represented worldwide by CTM Classics. For more information, visit amitpeled.com.

Martin Labazevitch, Pianist 

Praised by critics in Europe and the United States for his lyricism, virtuosity and an intensity of performance, pianist Martin Labazevitch appeared in many concert halls and festivals in Poland, Ukraine, Finland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Spain, Israel, Japan, South Korea and the United States. Born in Poland, Mr. Labazevitch studied at the Odessa Conservatory in Ukraine and at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. In 2019, he received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the Rome School of Music, Drama and Art in Washington, D.C.

He has been a soloist with leading orchestras in Spain, Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and the United States. Of his debut album release of the Chopin Concerto with the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, ConcertoNet wrote, “. . . he pleasantly refrains from overtaxing Chopin’s conclusive Allegro vivace with shimmering grandeur and eloquent precision that could even rival that of Arthur Rubinstein.”

An enthusiastic educator, Mr. Labazevitch has been sharing his passion for teaching with students at the Levine School of Music in Washington D.C. He is also the Co-Founder of the Puerto Rico International Piano Festival, in San Juan as well as the Artistic Director of the Kosciuszko Foundation Chopin Piano Competition and Chopin Piano Academy in Washington D.C. In 2022, Mr. Labazevitch co-founded The Paderewski Academy, a pioneer hybrid piano academy based in Zurich, Switzerland.

Mr. Labazevitch is a Steinway Artist.