Mannes Sounds Festival: 30 Years of Freedom

[4th Floor] A concert featuring the music of Dvořák, Smetana, Janáček, Martinů, Fišer, and an original composition “A Musical Tribute to Václav Havel” for cello and pianoby Lora Al Ahmad.

Since 1999, Mannes has presented a year-long music festival every year. Each festival has a theme and a program of more than 20 concerts, performed by the Mannes School of Music’s gifted young student artists, distinguished faculty members, and renowned guests, and held at prestigious New York City concert venues and cultural institutions. The festivals are an outstanding component of the overall Mannes program.

As part of the 2019 “Mannes Sounds” festival, Mannes School of Music at the New School presents a concert in collaboration with the Czech Center featuring Mannes’s talented young artists. This concert is part of the Czech Center New York’s Celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution.

PROGRAM
Lora Al Ahmad: A Musical Tribute to Václav Havel for cello and piano
Bedrich Smetana: selected songs
Luboš Fiser: Sonate #8 for piano solo, Yanran Li, piano
Leos Janacek: Pohádka for cello and piano
John Califra: Petr Ginz piano quintet Intermission

Antonin Dvorak: Selected songs
Bohuslav Martinu: Bergerette for piano trio

For more information, visit www.czechcenter.com.

Free and open to the public. Seats are on first-come, first-served basis. RVSP online through Eventbrite.

This event is organized by Mannes School of Music at the New School and Czech Center New York.

From Bohemian National Hall.