Fifty-seventh Season at the National Gallery of Art

1998-1999

Under the Direction of George Manos

December 1998

6 Nai-Yuan Hu, violinist

Nelson Padgett, pianist

13 Mia Chung, pianist

Mozart:

R. Strauss: 

Korngold:

Mendelssohn:

Sonata, K. 311

Sonata, Op. 18

Much Ado About

Nothing, Op. 11

Sonata in FMajor

Beethoven: 

Lee Hyla:

Chopin:

Seven Bagatelles

Sonata, Op. 110

Riffand Transfiguration

Fantasy in FMinor

20 Washington Men’s Camerata Christmas concert

Thomas Beveridge, conductor

27 The Leonardo Trio

Cameron Grant, piano

Erica Kiesewetter, violin

Jonathan Spitz, cello

Beethoven:

Rihm:

Schumann:

Trio in G Major,

Op. 1, No. 2

Fremde Szene III

Trio in D Minor

January 1999

3 Brett Polegato, baritone

Iain Burnside, pianist

Schumann: Five Songs, Op. 40

Ki 1 pinen: Songs ofDeath

Selected songs by Beethoven,

Finzi, Ives, and Copland

10 National Gallery Orchestra Gala Viennese New Year Concert

George Manos, conductor

The use ofcameras orrecording equipment

during theperformance is not allowed.

Forthe convenience ofconcertgoers

the Garden Cafe remains open until 6:30p.m.

The Fifty-seventh Season of

THE WILLIAM NELSON CROMWELL and

F. LAMMOT BELIN CONCERTS

National Gallery of Art

2281th Concert

STELLA SIMAKOVA, pianist

Sunday Evening, November 29, 1998

Seven O’clock

West Building, West Garden Court

Admissionfree

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PROGRAM

Ludwig van Beethoven Sonata in C-sharp Minor

(1770-1827) (“Moonlight")

(1804)

Adagio sostenuto

Allegretto

Rondo: Allegro assai

Frederic Chopin Ballade No. 4 in F Minor

(1810-1849) Opus 52 (1842)

INTERMISSION

Johannes Brahms

(1833-1897)

Klavierstiicke, Opus 118

(1892)

Intermezzo in A Minor

Intermezzo in A Major

Ballade in G Minor

Intermezzo in F Minor

Romanze in F Major

Intermezzo in E-flat Minor

Sergei Rachmaninoff Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor

(1873-1943) Opus 36 (1913)

Allegro agitato

Non allegro; lento

Listesso tempo; allegro molto

When pianist Stella Simakova gave a critically acclaimed

recital on twenty-four hours’ notice at the Caramoor Center

for Music and the Arts in Katona, New York, it triggered a

chain reaction that launched her United States career. After

the recital, Sir Andre Previn invited her to play Saint-Saens’

Second Piano Concerto with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Soon

thereafter, she was invited to offer a recital in Avery Fisher

Hall as part of Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. That

performance led to a live recording at new York’s classical radio station, WQXR, which was later broadcast.

Stella Simakova has performed as soloist with the St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Radio and Television Orchestra, the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, and the

New York Metamorphoses Orchestra. She has also performed

at the Kennedy Center, Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall,

and St. Petersburg’s Bolshoi Philharmonic Hall and State

Cappella Hall. Her concerts have been broadcast on WNYC

and WQXR.

A first prize winner at the 1993 East and West Artists International Competition and the 1993 Gina Bachauer Piano

Scholarship Competition, Simakova also took First prize at the

1989 Concerto Competition and the 1990 Chopin National

Competition, both held in Russia. That same year, she went

on to win the special prize in the International Chopin Competition in Poland.

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Stella Simakova received

bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Upon winning the Vladimir Horowitz Scholarship,

she attended the Juilliard School of Music, where she studied with Bella Davidovich. She received the master’s degree

from Juilliard in 1995 and currently pursues her performance

career in New York. Stella Simakova appears at the National

Gallery by arrangement with Musicians’ Corporate Management, Limited, of Millbrook, New York. The Gallery is grateful to her for agreeing to perform on short notice, replacing

pianist Joao Carlos Martins, who was obliged to cut short his

current United States recital tour due to illness.