This virtual event is available for ticket holders to replay for one week
SUMMARY
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Two of Today’s Most Exciting Classical Musicians
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Includes a program featuring Manuel De Falla’s Suite Populaire Espagnole, inspired by beloved Spanish folk songs and Rachmaninoff’s rapturous Cello Sonata
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This performance will be followed by a Q&A with Alisa Weilerstein moderated by Charles Donelan, Executive Arts Editor for The Santa Barbara Independent
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Acme Hospitality brings custom-crafted meals to your House Calls experience! Toast your Valentine with a decadent dinner from La Paloma Cafe – classic cuisine of the Californios to accompany these classical music masters! Order by 5 PM on Wednesday, Feb. 10; available while supplies last
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A part of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Winter 2021 House Calls series
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Ticket holders will be able to replay this event for one week
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Friday, Feb. 12 / 5 p.m. Pacific / Virtual
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$10 General Public and FREE for UCSB Students (registration required)
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Tickets/Info: (805) 893-3535, www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
“As always, [Weilerstein’s] playing was technically flawless and deeply expressive.”
The New York Times
“[Barnatan is] one of the most admired pianists of his generation.”
The New York Times
UCSB Arts & Lectures celebrates Valentine’s Day with Two of Today’s Most Exciting Classical Musicians Alisa Weilerstein, cello and Inon Barnatan, piano on Friday, Feb. 12 at 5 p.m. Pacific.American cellist Alisa Weilerstein and Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan have come together for a bracing and beautiful recital filmed at La Jolla’s Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center. Weilerstein is a MacArthur Foundation “Genius,” widely acclaimed for the precision and passion of her playing, while Barnatan is regarded as “a true poet of the keyboard” (Evening Standard, U.K.).
Celebrate Valentine’s Day with two musical masters and a program featuring Manuel De Falla’s Suite Populaire Espagnole, inspired by beloved Spanish folk songs and Rachmaninoff’s rapturous Cello Sonata. This performance will be followed by a Q&A with Alisa Weilerstein moderated by Charles Donelan, Executive Arts Editor for The Santa Barbara Independent.
Program
Manuel de Falla: Suite populaire Espagnole
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Cello Sonata, op. 19
Acme Hospitality brings custom-crafted meals to your House Calls experience! Toast your Valentine with a decadent dinner from La Paloma Cafe – classic cuisine of the Californios to accompany these classical music masters! Order by 5 PM on Wednesday, Feb. 10; available while supplies last.
This virtual event is a part of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Winter 2021 House Calls series.
ABOUT
ALISA WEILERSTEIN
Alisa Weilerstein is one of the foremost cellists of our time. Since making her professional and Carnegie Hall debuts in her early teens, she has been in high demand as a solo recitalist, chamber musician and concerto soloist with leading orchestras worldwide. She was recognized with a MacArthur Fellowship in 2011.
One of today’s foremost exponents of Bach’s six suites for unaccompanied cello, Weilerstein recently released a best-selling recording of his solo suites on the Pentatone label that became a Billboard bestseller, was named Album of the Week by the Sunday Times, UK and hailed as “a recording that stands up with the best” (The Guardian). She streamed Bach Cello Suites in her innovative #36DaysOfBach project and deconstructed his beloved G-major prelude in a Vox.com video, viewed more than 1.5 million times. Her discography also includes chart-topping albums and the Elgar & Carter Cello Concertos with Daniel Barenboim, winner of BBC Music’s Recording of the Year award.
As Artistic Partner of the Trondheim Soloists, Weilerstein regularly tours and records with the Norwegian orchestra. She is an ardent champion of contemporary music and has premiered and championed important new works by composers including Pascal Dusapin, Osvaldo Golijov and Matthias Pintscher. Other career milestones include a performance at the White House for President and Mrs. Obama.
INON BARNATAN
“One of the most admired pianists of his generation” (The New York Times), Inon Barnatan is celebrated for his poetic sensibility, musical intelligence and consummate artistry. He inaugurated his tenure as Music Director of California’s La Jolla Music Society Summerfest in 2019.
Barnatan is a regular soloist with many of the world’s foremost orchestras and conductors. He recently served for three seasons as the inaugural Artist-in-Association of the New York Philharmonic and recreated Beethoven’s legendary 1808 concert with the Cincinnati Symphony. The recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant and Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, Barnatan is also a sought-after recitalist and chamber musician. He recently made his solo recital debut at Carnegie’s Zankel Halland reunited with frequent cello partner Alisa Weilerstein.
Passionate about contemporary music, Barnatan has commissioned and performed works by many living composers, premiering pieces by Thomas Adès, Sebastian Currier, Avner Dorman, Alan Fletcher, Joseph Hallman, Alasdair Nicolson, Andrew Norman and Matthias Pintscher. This season he released Beethoven’s complete piano concertos, recorded with Alan Gilbert and Academy of St Martin in the Fields on Pentatone. Barnatan’s acclaimed discography also includes; Rachmaninov & Chopin: Cello Sonatas, recorded with Weilerstein for Decca Classics and Darknesse Visible, named one of The NewYorkTimes’ Best of 2012.
HOUSE CALLS
House Calls: delivers performance, conversation, thoughtful analysis and witty commentary streaming right to your living room. Featuring the creative thinkers and doers that you’ve come to expect on the A&L stage – environmentalists, musicians, novelists, chefs, humanitarians, Grammy winners and more – most programs are 60-minutes, combining what our guests excel at with an informal talk back session and other elements that would rarely happen on stage. It’s better than front row seats!
UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
Founded in 1959, UCSB Arts & Lectures is the largest and most influential arts and lectures organization between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Arts & Lectures annually presents more than a hundred events, from critically acclaimed concerts and dance performances by world-renowned artists to talks by groundbreaking authors and film series at UCSB and Santa Barbara-area venues. With a mission to “educate, entertain and inspire,” A&L also oversees an outreach program that brings visiting artists and speakers into local classrooms and other venues for master classes, open rehearsals, discussions and more, serving K-12 students, college students and the general public.
Alisa Weilerstein, cello and Inon Barnatan, piano is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures. Part of the House Calls series.
House Calls Media Sponsors: Santa Barbara Independent, KCRW, Voice Magazine, Noozhawk.
Most House Calls events are hour-long programs. This performance will be followed by a moderated Q&A with Alisa Weilerstein.
Tickets are $10 for the general public and FREE for UCSB students (registration required).
For tickets and more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535 visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
UCSB Arts & Lectures gratefully acknowledges our Community Partners the Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli for their generous support of the 2020-2021 season