On Sunday, March 31, at 4 pm, the West Tisbury library will host a spring concert featuring Music Street musicians. This concert, “A Program of Russian Romantic Masters,” features duos, trios, and solos of composers from around the turn of the 20th century. According to a press release, pianist Diane Katzenberg Braun will be joined by violinist Danny Koo and cellist Eunghee Cho. The music of composers Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Glazunov, Glière, Rachmaninoff, and Gershwin will be combined in a fascinating web of Russian music and cultural life. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public. This event is made possible by the generous support of Max Skjöldebrand and Jane Coakley, Leigh Smith, the West Tisbury Library Foundation, and the Friends of the West Tisbury Library.
Music Street founder and pianist Diane Katzenberg Braun is a graduate of Oberlin College and New England Conservatory. She enjoyed a wide range of musical collaborations, both instrumental and vocal, in her life in Boston and as an accompanist at the New England Conservatory. As founder of Music Street, her mission has been to bring the highest-quality live music performances to underserved areas, including homeless shelters and hospitals, as well as to facilitate piano donations where they are welcome. Bringing concerts in the off-season to the inviting space at the West Tisbury library has been a special pleasure for Music Street musicians.
“Unstinting in energetic projection every step of the way” (Calgary Herald), violinist Danny Koo has appeared as chamber musician, soloist, and recitalist all around the world. An avid and sought-after chamber musician, Koo has recently collaborated with Soovin Kim, Randall Scarlata, Johannes Moser, Lluis Claret, Kim Kashkashian, Jaime Laredo, Sharon Robinson, Joseph Kalichstein, Barry Shiffman, Vivian Weilerstein, Burt Hara, and Donald Weilerstein. He performs with Music Street, Wellesley Chamber Players, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, Constantia, and Chameleon Arts Ensemble, and as part of the First Monday at Jordan Hall series, and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society.
Cellist Eunghee Cho has been awarded second prize and the special award for Outstanding Chinese New Piece Performance at the Alice and Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition in Harbin, China. He graduated magna cum laude and as a Steven and Kathryn Sample Renaissance Scholar from the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. He has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras around the country, including the Sacramento Philharmonic, Atlantic Symphony, Davis Symphony, and Sacramento State Symphony Orchestras. He currently holds the Joyce & Donato Steele Chair as principal cello of the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra, and frequently performs as principal cello with Cape Symphony, Unitas Ensemble, and Symphony by the Sea. Eunghee has participated in classes at the Piatigorsky International Cello Festival and Académie Musicale de Villecroze in France.