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Treefalls is proud to present GRAMMY-winning violinist and producer, Johnny Gandelsman performing a fascinating blend of new music for solo violin.  Set against the photography of local artist Peter L. Schmunk, the program combines music by today's composers Akshaya Avril Tucker and Dana Lyn with a brand-new adaptation of J.S. Bach's Cello Suites created by Johnny Gandelsman himself.

 

Johnny’s musical voice reflects the artistic collaborations he has been a part of since moving to the United States in 1995. Richard Brody of The New Yorker has called Johnny Gandelsman “revelatory” in concert, placing him in the company of “radically transformative” performers like Maurizio Pollini, Peter Serkin, and Christian Zacharias.

As a founding member of Brooklyn Rider and a member of the Silkroad Ensemble, Johnny has closely worked with such luminaries as Yo-Yo Ma, Béla Fleck, Abigail Washburn, Alim Qasimov & Fargana Qasimova, Joshua Redman, and dozens more. He has appeared with Bono, David Byrne, Renee Fleming, Rhiannon Giddens, I'm With Her, Christian McBride, and many others.

 

Gandelsman integrates a wide range of creative sensibilities into a unique style amongst today's violinists, one that according to the Boston Globe, possesses "a balletic lightness of touch and a sense of whimsy and imagination".  Johnny's recording of the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, which reached #1 on the Billboard Classical Chart, and made it onto NY Magazine and NY Times Best of the Year lists, was described by the Boston Globe as "Sparklingly personal Bach, shorn of grandeur, lofted by a spirit of dance, and as predictable as the flight of a swallow."

Located in the lower level of the Richard Family Art Museum, the concert will be paired with an exhibit of Peter L. Schmunk’s photography from 2010 to 2020.  Heavily influenced by music – especially the music of J.S. Bach – Peter’s work has developed a strong interest in the ephemera of signage, graffiti, and advertising, especially as found in layered, timeworn condition in urban and industrial sites. His close viewing and tight framing of these subjects is highly selective and often results in images of purely abstract character. The seemingly insignificant marks they contain, however, often suggest meaning through allusion and metaphor.

A retrospective of the photographer’s creative interests and projects over the past ten years, the exhibition explores the different forms a photograph may take and the ways that photographic images may communicate meaning.

Friday  //  March 13  //  2020

7:00 @ Richardson Art Museum, Wofford College

As always, this concert is FREE and Open to the Public - all are welcome! But due to venue capacity, seating is limited.  To save your seat* to this intimate and exciting event:

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With sincerest thanks to:
John Fitz Rogers, Robert Kyr, and Michael Harley
for inspiring this New Music concert series, for their advice and help in building this flourishing program, and for their ongoing support of New Music in our time.