Join the upper string faculty members, Professors Isabel Ong, Jessica Tong and David Rose, for a special marathon evening featuring a performance of the complete Solo Violin Sonatas and Partitas by J.S. Bach. 

This collection of six pieces represent masterpieces of composition, innovation, and remain monumental pieces in the traditional canon of violin repertoire. 

As described by violinist Midori Goto, 

"At first hearing, the listener could be completely taken by the timelessness, the apparent contemporaneous feel, of each of these works, and in practicing them, one loses oneself in the passing of time. From a compositional perspective, the mastery of counterpoint and thematic writing has not lost its mystery; the perfection of the compositional techniques employed has superseded the passage of time... This is music that presents each listener and performer with an intense experience that cannot be replicated; requiring complete abandonment to the music and the workings of a mind so transcendent.

These compositions place huge organizational demands on a player, who is required to execute a multitude of voices, lines, melodies, counterpoint, and within all that convey the music’s character and impressions. At first, Bach’s individual line is simple, but then, when presented in multiple voices, complexities emerge, and it becomes the greatest of challenges to simultaneously render differing lines while retaining their underlying simplicity."