Tommy Mesa, cello +

Michelle Cann, piano

Project description:

Exclusively for the 2024-25 season, Cellist Tommy Mesa and pianist Michelle Cann are offering an exciting collaboration on the heels of this recent recording they made together.

Program:

These core programs combine cello/piano masterworks with music by Black and Latinx composers they discovered and recorded (above) in collaboration with Parma Recordings and the Sphinx Organization. Tommy received the Sphinx Organization’s 2023 Medal of Excellence.

Program with Piano 1: The Cello and Piano Masterpieces

Claude Debussy: Sonata in D minor (11’)

Robert Schumann: Fantasy Pieces (11’)

Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 3 in A major

INTERMISSION

Sergei Rachmaninoff: Sonata in G minor (30’)

Program with Piano 2: The New Cannon

Nadia Boulanger: 3 Pieces for cello and piano (8’)

Andrea Casarrubios: Mensajes del agua (4’)

Claude Debussy: Sonata in D minor (11’)

Kevin Day: Sonata for cello and piano (18’)

INTERMISSION

Nikolai Kapustin: Elegy (4’)

Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40