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DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jonathan D.\nMusicians: Asiya Korepanova\n\n7 PM Door
 s & Pre-Reception\n8 PM Performances\n9:30 PM Post-Reception\n\n_____\n\n[
 Gotham Arts](https://gothamarts.net) is thrilled to host the [Flatiron Fes
 tival](https://www.flatironfestival.com/)\, a chamber music series directe
 d by pianist and composer [Asiya Korepanova](https://www.asiyakorepanova.c
 om/)\, featuring seven "offerings" between May 31 and June 14\, 2026.\n\n*
 *Flatiron Festival**\n**Offering III**\n\n**Clarinet Masterpieces**\n\n**A
 lexander Fiterstein\, clarinet**\n**Asiya Korepanova\, piano**\n\nClarinet
 tist [Alexander Fiterstein](https://www.fiterstein.org/) and pianist [Asiy
 a Korepanova](https://www.asiyakorepanova.com/) perform a program that com
 bines the most heart-melting and iconic works for clarinet and piano with 
 music of unparalleled brilliance and virtuosity.\n\nSchumann's _Fantasiest
 ücke_ and both of Brahms' clarinet sonatas are followed by Weber's rarely
 -performed\, brilliant\, and highly virtuosic _Grand Duo Concertant_.\n\nW
 ine will be served.\n\n**Program**\n\n**Robert Schumann** (1810–1956)\n3
  Fantasiestücke\, Op. 73\n\n**Johannes Brahms** (1833–1897)\nSonata for
  Clarinet and Piano in f minor\, Op. 120 No. 1\nSonata for Clarinet and Pi
 ano in E flat major\, Op. 120 No. 2\n\n**Carl Maria von Weber** (1786–18
 26)\nGrand Duo Concertant\, Op. 48\n\n_____\n\n**About the Artist**\n\n[Wa
 tch Alexander perform Poulenc's Clarinet Sonata](https://www.youtube.com/w
 atch?v=IMZwgC1Ky4A)\n\nClarinetist **Alexander Fiterstein** is considered 
 one of today’s most exceptional artists. Fiterstein has performed in rec
 ital\, with distinguished orchestras\, and with chamber music ensembles th
 roughout the world. He won first prize at the Carl Nielsen International C
 larinet Competition and received the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant
  Award. The Washington Post has described his playing as “dazzling in it
 s spectrum of colors\, agility\, and range. Every sound he makes is finely
  measured without inhibiting expressiveness” and The New York Times desc
 ribed him as “a clarinetist with a warm tone and powerful technique.”\
 n\nAs soloist he has appeared with the Czech\, Israel\, Vienna\, and St. P
 aul Chamber Orchestras\, Belgrade Philharmonic\, Danish National Radio Sym
 phony\, Tokyo Philharmonic\, China National Symphony Orchestra\, KBS Orche
 stra of South Korea\, Jerusalem Symphony\, Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Li
 ncoln Center\, Kansas City Symphony\, and the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orche
 stra of Venezuela. He has performed in recital on the Music at the Supreme
  Court Series\, the Celebrity Series in Boston\, the Isabella Stewart Gard
 ner Museum\, the Kennedy Center\, the Louvre in Paris\, Suntory Hall in To
 kyo\, Tel Aviv Museum\, and NYC’s 92d Street Y.\n\nA dedicated performer
  of chamber music\, Fiterstein frequently collaborates with distinguished 
 artists and ensembles and regularly performs with the prestigious Chamber 
 Music Society of Lincoln Center. Among the highly regarded artists he has 
 performed with are Daniel Barenboim\, Yefim Bronfman\, Mitsuko Uchida\, Ri
 chard Goode\, Emanuel Ax\, Marc-Andre Hamelin\, Pinchas Zukerman\, and Ste
 ven Isserlis. Fiterstein performed with the Dover\, Pacifica\, Jerusalem\,
  and Shanghai String Quartets as well as with Ensemble Wien-Berlin. He spe
 nt five summers at the Marlboro Music Festival and appeared at the Caramoo
 r\, Moab\, Music@Menlo\, Montreal\, Toronto\, Jerusalem\, and Storioni Cha
 mber Music Festivals.\n\nFiterstein is a founder of the Zimro Project\, a 
 unique ensemble dedicated to incorporating Jewish art music into chamber m
 usic programs. He performed as principal clarinet of the West-East Divan O
 rchestra at the invitation of Daniel Barenboim and has appeared as guest p
 rincipal clarinet with the Israel Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta\, KBS Orch
 estra with Yoel Levi\, and with the St. Paul and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
 s.\n\nFiterstein has a prolific recording career and has worked with compo
 sers John Corigliano and Osvaldo Golijov and had pieces written for him by
  Samuel Adler\, Mason Bates\, Paul Schoenfield\, and Chris Brubeck\, among
  others. Fiterstein was born in Belarus and immigrated to Israel at the ag
 e of 2 with his family. A Juilliard graduate\, he won first prize at the Y
 oung Concert Artists International Auditions and received awards from the 
 America-Israel Cultural Foundation. He is currently Professor of Clarinet 
 and Chair of Winds at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins Universit
 y. Fiterstein is a Buffet Crampon and Vandoren Performing Artist.
LOCATION:Flatiron\, New York
SUMMARY:Flatiron Festival\, Offering III: Clarinet Masterpieces: Alexander 
 Fiterstein\, clarinet & Asiya Korepanova\, piano
URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/16355-flatiron-festival-offering-iii-c
 larinet-masterpieces-alexander-fiterstein-clarinet-asiya-korepanova-piano
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