Ticket Information:
$10 students
$20 general admission
Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets

Description:

After twenty acclaimed seasons in one of Europe’s musical capitals, Spectrum Concerts Berlin has found itself getting younger: younger and more energetic in its adventurous chamber music repertory, alongside the players’ great breadth and reach of musical interpretation. So in 2005, the group’s American-born founder and artistic director Frank Dodge established a transatlantic sister organization, Spectrum Concerts Berlin-USA, Inc. which is following the same path of accomplishment on the American musical scene.

Spectrum’s first USA appearance, in 2006, featured two mem-orable concerts at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall. A second tour, in 2008, demonstrated Spectrum’s virtuosity in the powerful but little known works of Ernst Toch, the brilliant self-taught Austrian composer whose reputation was eclipsed by exile in America. Spectrum gave all-Toch performances at The Times Center and the College of Staten Island in New York City, and at the Villa Aurora and Goethe Institut in Los Angeles.

For Spring 2009 Spectrum brings the moving and masterful music of Beethoven, Brahms, Helps and Toch, performed by pianist Naomi Niskala with Frank Dodge as cellist. They will play in New York on the evenings of April 20, at the College of Staten Island, and April 21, at Baruch College’s Engelman Recital Hall. There will also be a bonus viewing of Renate Lie- berenz and Petra Koelsch’s recent documentary, “Next Stop Manhattan,” which offers a glimpse of the ensemble’s 20 year history and development.