An Autumn Tradition
We are delighted to invite you to this year’s HVCMC Fall Benefit. Please join us for a selection of works by Bach and Kreisler performed by the wonderful, award-winning violinist, Mira Wang (click “Learn More” for Ms. Wang’s biography). As this is an intimate gathering in a historic venue of limited capacity, we encourage guests to reserve their places early. Tickets will allow you to enjoy Ms. Wang’s performance, champagne, refreshments, the lovely estate grounds, and the company of your fellow chamber music lovers, all while helping us make chamber music accessible to our beloved Hudson Valley community.
Sunday, October 25 |
4pm |
Holcroft-on-Hudson
$250
©PETER RIGAUD Shotview Decca Gold
We are delighted to welcome the wonderful violinist Mira Wang, who will perform a selection of works by Bach and Kreisler.
Ms. Wang has built a remarkable bridge from her time as a child prodigy in Beijing, where she studied at Central Conservatory, to her position as an acclaimed soloist on the world stage today. She was sponsored by renowned violin teacher, the late Roman Totenberg, to further her studies at Boston University, where she graduated summa cum laude and received the prestigious Kahn Award given to outstanding performers. She has won first prizes in several international violin competitions including the Geneva Competition.
A committed educator and arts advocate, Ms. Wang founded the Model Room Musicales concert series at the New York Yacht Club and has served as its Artistic Director since 2005. Beginning in 2013, she has directed the Moritzburg Festival Academy in Germany, and in 2022 joined the faculty of Bard Conservatory.
Ms. Wang has appeared as a soloist with many prestigious orchestras all over the world including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Saarbrücken Radio Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic and NDR Philharmonic Hannover.
An avid chamber musician, Ms. Wang’s partners include Hélène Grimaud, Olli Mustonen, Alice Sara Ott, Louis Lortie, Jeremy Denk, Pamela Frank, Daniel Müller-Schott, Gautier Capuçon, Jan Vogler and Lawrence Power.
She is an enthusiastic exponent of contemporary music, premiering the violin concerto Spring in Dresden by Chinese-American composer Chen Yi with the Staatskapelle Dresden conducted by Iván Fischer, and John Harbison’s Double Concerto for Violin and Cello with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Carlos Kalmar. In 2015 she premiered the Duo Concerto by Wolfgang Rihm with Jan Vogler and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. In 2018, she premiered the triple concerto Alisma by Swiss composer William Blank with Jan Vogler, Daniel Ottensamer and the Philharmonische Staatsorchester Hamburg conducted by Kent Nagano at Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
Ms. Wang has recorded extensively for many labels including Sony Classical and Edel Classics. Her discography includes Violin Concerto No. 2 by Prokofieff with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony, the Violin Concerto No. 3 by Saint-Saëns with NDR Philharmonic Hannover, a duo album with cellist Jan Vogler, and several chamber music recordings with Artists of the Moritzburg Festival.
Ms. Wang has toured the world with famous Hollywood actor Bill Murray, cellist Jan Vogler, and pianist Vanessa Perez in a project called “New Worlds,” an innovative program with unexpected and exciting exploration of the relationship between literature and music. A live documentary movie of the show was premiered in movie theaters around the world in the spring of 2022. The recording of “New Worlds” can be found on the Decca Gold label.
We are thrilled to have Ms. Wang perform a selection of works by Bach and Kreisler at our 2026 Fall Benefit.