Kaufman Music Center & Concert Artists Guild co-present

Nina Bernat, double bass & Evren Ozel, piano

Friday | May 9 2025 | 7:30 pm

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MUSICIANS ON THE RISE
LAURA POE  –  World Premiere
ALAN BLANK  –  Poems from the Holocaust
J.S. BACH  –  Cello Suite No. 2 in D Minor TBD
GABRIEL FAURÉ  –  Sonata G major
SERGEI PROKOFIEV  –  Five Melodies
FELIX MENDELSSOHN  –  Su Leika
L.V. BEETHOVEN  –  Cello Sonata No. 5

The acclaimed double bassist Nina Bernat and pianist Evren Ozel, both 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipients, perform a recital celebrating female strength and empowerment through music for piano, mezzo-soprano and bass accompanied by images from Bernat’s grandmother’s post-war life. It features a world premiere by Lara Poe and Alan Blank’s Poems from the Holocaust, plus music by Gabriel Fauré, Felix Mendelssohn and Sergei Prokofiev, culminating in Beethoven’s Cello Sonata No. 5.

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