Eleni’s romantic sounding bassoon was the perfect foil for the piano in Weber’s Andante and Hungarian Rondo. Country versus town living – for Eleni lives in Florida and Llewellyn in New York – was the subject of modern composer Cindi Hsu’s Spring Fever, which closed the first half.
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De Falla’s score crosses Andalusian folk influences with impressionism gleaned from the composer’s pre–World War I sojourn in Paris. Despite fine playing, (especially Eleni Katz’s many potent and agile bassoon solos), Prieto’s blunt, blatant approach failed to mine much of the work’s gleam. Too often heavy volume substituted for subtlety.
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Bassoonist Eleni Katz ’20MM ’21MMA, soprano Magdalena Kuźma ’22MM, and pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner ’20AD were named winners of the Concert Artists Guild’s virtual 2022 Victor Elmaleh Competition. Each will receive a U.S. management contract and professional development and networking opportunities from CAG and will appear in recital at Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Music Center in New York. Clarinetist Jonathan Lebovitz and the Galvin Cello Quartet were also named winners of the annual competition. Kuźma and Lebovitz will receive European management through CAG’s partner organization, Young Classical Artists Trust, and will appear in concert at London’s Wigmore Hall.
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