From Paris to Romania: Music of George Enescu

Violinist Kevin Matheson and pianist Tim Fuller will present music by the Romanian composer and virtuoso George Enescu at Taplin Auditorium on the Princeton University campus.

Their program begins with the Second Sonata, composed in Paris and considered one of the most affecting and technically challenging in the repertoire. From Paris, the program moves to Bucharest and the Third Sonata, cast in a haunting, nostalgic, and estranged “Romanian folk style.”

Violinist Kevin Matheson was awarded first prize in the Charleston International Music Competition.  He has performed as soloist with Orchestra Manhattan, conducted by Karim Said at Carnegie Weil Recital Hall, and with the Tahoe Philharmonic. He has recorded with the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra in the Czech Republic.

After highly-praised concerts in the U.S. and the Middle East, Tim Fuller was forced by tendinitis to abandon a performing career, but thirty years later he re-taught himself and returned to the concert stage. His interpretations of Enescu are informed by a background in ethnomusicology and experience in Romanian dance.

The event is presented by the Princeton University Humanities Council and the Department of Music, with co-sponsorship from the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, the Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, the Department of French and Italian, the Program in European Cultural Studies, and the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. 

Admission/Tickets: Free and open to the public. No tickets or registration required.

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