Violinist Yevgeny Kutik is Guest Soloist with Traverse Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Maestro Kevin Rhodes
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Violinist Yevgeny Kutik is Guest Soloist
with Traverse Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Maestro Kevin Rhodes
Featuring Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 3pm
Corson Auditorium | 4000 M-137 | Interlochen, MI
Tickets and Information:
http://traversesymphony.org/concert/beethoven/
“polished dexterity and genteel, old-world charm”
– WQXR
Traverse City, MI — On Sunday, October 22, 2023 at 3pm, violinist Yevgeny Kutik, known for his “dark-hued tone and razor-sharp technique,” (The New York Times) will be presented in concert as the featured soloist with the Traverse Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Kevin Rhodes. The performance will take place in Corson Auditorium (4000 M-137).
A longtime collaborator of the Traverse Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Kevin Rhodes, Kutik reunites once again with Rhodes and the TSO after a 2022 performance in the TSO’s Maestro Series. For this concert, Kutik and the TSO will perform Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 as part of a program that also includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36. In this performance of Beethoven’s sole violin concerto, audiences can enjoy Kutik’s refined solo artistry alongside a musical conversation fostered with the TSO. The work embraces a more collaborative approach to the concerto form that connects the soloist and orchestra through a melodic dialogue.
Of this next collaboration with Maestro Kevin Rhodes and the TSO, Kutik says:
“I am so delighted to return back to Traverse to perform with Kevin Rhodes and the TSO. The Beethoven Violin Concerto is a stunning piece, without a doubt one of the most important violin concertos ever written. One of the greatest joys in music making is when a piece is a true collaboration between instruments, and this piece is a great example of this. Often, it can feel like a gathering of friends, together on stage, making music for the purpose of something much larger than themselves.”
About Yevgeny Kutik: With a “dark-hued tone and razor-sharp technique” (The New York Times), violinist Yevgeny Kutik has captivated audiences worldwide with an old-world sound that communicates a modern intellect. Praised for his technical precision and virtuosity, he is also lauded for his poetic and imaginative interpretations of both standard works and newly composed repertoire. Kutik is also Artistic Director and co-founder of The Birch Festival.
A native of Minsk, Belarus, Kutik began violin studies with his mother, Alla Zernitskaya, and immigrated to the US with his family at the age of five. An advocate for the Jewish Federations of North America, the organization that assisted his family in coming to the US, he regularly speaks and performs across the country to promote the assistance of refugees from around the world. Kutik’s discography, all on Marquis Classics, includes The Death of Juliet and Other Tales (2021), Meditations on Family (Marquis Classics 2019), Words Fail (2016), Music from the Suitcase (2014), and Sounds of Defiance (2012). Music from the Suitcase is being developed into an immersive stage and performance production for the 2024-2025 season.
Yevgeny Kutik was a featured soloist in Joseph Schwantner’s The Poet’s Hour – Soliloquy for Violin on episode six of Gerard Schwarz’s All-Star Orchestra, a made-for-television classical music concert series released on DVD by Naxos and broadcast nationally on PBS. In 2021, Kutik made his debut with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra led by Leonard Slatkin, performing the world premiere of Schwantner’s Violin Concerto, an expansion of The Poet’s Hour, written specifically for Kutik. Kutik gave the world premiere of Cântico, a work for solo violin by Andreia Pinto Correia, at the Tanglewood Music Festival in August 2022. The work was co-commissioned for Kutik by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. In 2019, he made his debuts at the Kennedy Center, presented by Washington Performing Arts, and at the Ravinia Festival. Kutik made his major orchestral debut in 2003 with Keith Lockhart and The Boston Pops as the First Prize recipient of the Boston Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition. In 2006, he was awarded the Salon de Virtuosi Grant as well as the Tanglewood Music Center Jules Reiner Violin Prize.
Kutik holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a master’s degree from the New England Conservatory and currently resides in Boston. Kutik’s violin was crafted in Italy in 1915 by Stefano Scarampella.
For more information, please visit www.yevgenykutik.com.
About Traverse Symphony Orchestra: The Traverse Symphony Orchestra (TSO), founded in 1952 by community leader Elnora Milliken as The Northwestern Michigan Symphony Orchestra, has grown from a small group of volunteer musicians to a paid professional orchestra of 60 contracted members, with a commitment to presenting the finest in musical entertainment and quality educational programs.
Tickets for this performance are $25.50, $38.50, $45.50, and $61.50 and available now at www.traversesymphony.org/concerts-tickets
For more information about the 2023-23 Season concerts including the complete lineup of guest artists and repertoire, please visit our website at www.TraverseSymphony.org or call our Box Office 231-947-7120, 10-3pm Monday-Friday.
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Description: Violinist Yevgeny Kutik, described by The New York Times as having a “dark-hued tone and razor-sharp technique,” is presented as the featured soloist with the Traverse Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, October 22, 2023 at 3pm. Together with the Symphony, Kutik will perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, under the direction of Maestro Kevin Rhodes.
Short description: Violinist Yevgeny Kutik, known for his “dark-hued tone and razor-sharp technique,” (The New York Times), is presented by the Traverse Symphony Orchestra on October 22, 2023 as the featured soloist in a performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto in D major led by Maestro Kevin Rhodes.
Concert details:
Who: Yevgeny Kutik
Presented by Traverse Symphony Orchestra
What: Music by Ludwig van Beethoven
When: Saturday, October 22, 2023 at 3pm.
Where: Corson Auditorium, 4000 M-137, Interlochen, MI
Tickets and information: www.traversesymphony.org/concert/beethoven/