at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and an artist-in residence and

artistic director of the Music at the Institute series at the Ukrainian

Institute of America in New York City. He has recorded for the

Melodya, Russian Disc, Hungaraton, Meldac, and Troppe Note/Cambria 

labels and appears at the National Gallery by arrangement with Shupp

Artists Management of Port Jefferson, NY.

Concerts at the National Gallery of Art

Under the direction of George Manos

February

9 Christopher Parkening,

guitarist, and

Jubilant Sykes, baritone

16 Ani Kavafian, violinist

Ida Kavafian, violinist

Jonathan Feldman, pianist

Music for voice and guitar by Villa

Lobos, Piazzolla, and other Latin

American composers

Works for two violins

and piano by Moszkowski,

Mozart, Augusta Reed Thomas,

and Pablo Sarasate

23 Julia Anne Wolf, mezzo- Songs and arias by Handel,

soprano Donizetti, Haydn, Bellini, and

Marie-France Lefebvre, Saint-Saens

pianist

Presented in honor of the exhibition

Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788

The use of cameras or recording equipment

during the performance is not allowed. Please be sure that cell phones,

pagers, and other electronic devices are turned off.

For the convenience of concertgoers

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

The Sixty-first Season of

THE WILLIAM NELSON CROMWELL and

F. LAMMOT BELIN CONCERTS

National Gallery of Art

2445th Concert

MYKOLA SUK, pianist

Sunday Evening, 2 February 2003

Seven O’clock

West Building, West Garden Court

Admission free
Program

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Sonata No. 8 in A Minor

(1756-1791) K. 310

Allegro maestoso

Andante cantabile con espressione

Presto

Ludwig van Beethoven Seven Bagatelles

(1770-1827) Op. 33

No. 1 in E-flat major - Andante grazioso quasi allegretto

No. 2 in C major - Scherzo allegro

No. 3 in F major - Allegretto

No. 4 in A major - Andante

No. 5 in C major - Allegro ma non troppo

No. 6 in D major - Allegretto quasi andante

No. 7 in A-flat major - Presto

Intermission

Franz Liszt Funerailles

(1811-1886)

Fountains of the Villa d’Este

Fantasia quasi sonata: Apres une lecture du Dante

The National Gallery wishes to thank Mykola Suk

for agreeing to perform on short notice, replacing Navah Perlman,

who is unable to appearfor health reasons.

Pianist Mykola Suk gained international recognition as the winner of the

first prize and Gold Medal at the 1971 International Liszt-Bartok 

Competition in Budapest. He has concertized to great acclaim as both

soloist and chamber musician on all the major concert stages throughout

the former USSR, the United States, Canada, and Europe as well as in

Australia, the Middle East, and Asia. About his performance of Liszt’s

“Dante” Sonata during the Liszt Festival in Ontario, The American

Record Guide wrote: “Nothing could have prepared us for the

performance of the notorious Dante Sonata by Mykola Suk. It was some

of the finest Liszt playing I have ever heard...an astonishing blend of

muscular power, poetry, and utter control....He will surely prove to be

one of the more formidable talents to have appeared in this country in

years.”

This concert marks Mykola Suk’s second appearance at the

National Gallery. Writing about his March 2001 Gallery concert in the

Washington Post, Joseph McLellan said: “Suk’s interpretation was

subtle, powerful, [and] superbly controlled over a wide range of

expression [in the Liszt B Minor Sonata]. The tumultuous applause

demanded an encore....Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 nearly set the

keyboard on fire.”

Since his American debut at Weill Recital Hall in 1991, Mykola

Suk has been giving solo performances throughout the United States and

Canada, including recitals at New York’s Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie

Hall. His more recent appearances with orchestras in the United States

and Europe include performances with the National Symphony under

Mykhail Pletniev, a tour of Germany as soloist with the Kiev

Philharmonic Orchestra, and concerts with the San Diego and New

Haven Symphonies. A performer of both traditional and contemporary

music, he has premiered concertos and solo works by Ukrainian 

composers such as Valentin Silvestrov, Ivan Karabyts, and Myroslav

Skoryk.

Mykola Suk studied at the Kiev Special Music School and the

Moscow Conservatory with Lev Vlasenko. He was awarded the title of

Outstanding Artist of the Ukraine. He is a member of the music faculty