Chamber Music of Johannes Brahms
Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center
Piano Trio in C Major, op. 87
String Sextet in G Major, op. 36
Anna Presler and Chase Spruill, violin
Jim Een and Kurt Rohde, viola
Susan Lamb Cook and Leighton Fong, cello
Andrei Baumann, piano
Free, no tickets necessary (a Shinkoskey Noon Concert)
Andrei Baumann, piano, has performed extensively in the USA, Europe, Canada and Venezuela. As a winner of the 2009 Borromeo String Quartet Guest Artist Award, he performed in Jordan Hall in 2009. He made his Carnegie Hall debut at Weill Recital Hall in 2008 with violinist Lily Francis as part of the Distinctive Debuts series. Other notable performances include a solo recital on the Sundays Live Concert Series at Los Angeles County Arts Museum, solo recitals at the Crocker Art Museum Classical Music Series in Sacramento, performances at Caramoor Festival, and with Itzhak Perlman at the Perlman Music Program. He is a faculty member at the Rivers School Conservatory in Weston and the Lexington Music School in Lexington (both in Massachusetts). He is also head of the piano department at Camp Encore/Coda in Sweden, Maine. In 2013 Baumann released his first solo recording, From the Mountain Top! He earned a Master of Music degree in piano performance from the New England Conservatory, a Künstlerischer Ausbildung Diploma from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany, and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Glenn Gould School of The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto, Canada.