About this Event
Fantasie in Sounds with Constantine Firehouse and Victoria Schwartzman
Sunday, October 11
4:30pm - 6:30pm
$20.00
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Enjoy 4 of our upcoming performances - two distinct evenings of artistry featuring world-class musicians, intimate programming, and Kaleidoscope’s signature approach to vibrant, thoughtfully crafted performance.
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It’s the perfect way to immerse yourself in chamber music, song, and seasonal expression all in one curated experience.
Victoria Schwartzman, Piano
Artist Director of Kaleidoscope Arts
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Victoria Schwartzman performs regularly as a soloist, chamber musician, and collaborative pianist. She has appeared with the Bavarian Radio Orchestra Chamber Players and at the Bard Music Festival, Music Mountain Festival, Bargemusic, Summit Music Festival, the New York Philharmonic Ensembles series at Merkin Hall, the Gessner-Schocken Concert Series in Cambridge, WMP Concert Hall, and the Nicholas Roerich Museum Concert Series in New York City.
As a member of the Yanvar Trio, Victoria was a prizewinner at the Val Tidone International Chamber Music Competition and a finalist at the Zinotti International Chamber Music Competition, both in Italy. As a soloist with orchestra, she has performed with the Jerusalem Chamber Orchestra, the Longy School of Music Chamber Orchestra, the Riverside Orchestra, and the New Westchester Symphony Orchestra. She has also appeared at the Quartet Program in Pennsylvania and participated in the Tel-Hai International Piano Festival in Israel and the Lyrica Chamber Music Festival in New Jersey.
After graduating from the Jerusalem Conservatory, Victoria continued her studies at the Longy School of Music and the New England Conservatory. While pursuing graduate degrees in piano and chamber music performance, she was selected to perform in masterclasses with Dmitri Bashkirov, Menahem Pressler, Richard Goode, and other distinguished artists. Her principal teachers include Irina Kivaiko, Issak Kossov, Victor Rosenbaum, Sally Pinkas, Eda Shlyam, and Eteri Andjaparidze.
Equally at home in opera and art song, Victoria has served as a vocal coach and collaborative pianist at the Boston Lyric Opera, Glimmerglass Opera, the Bard Music Festival, the Brevard Music Center, the Queens Summer Vocal Institute, and the American Institute of Musical Studies (AIMS) in Graz, Austria. She joined the AIMS faculty in 2024.
Deeply committed to education, Victoria has presented masterclasses for pianists and singers, including sessions devoted to Russian vocal repertoire. She is a member of the coaching faculty at Montclair State University and the piano faculty of the Bard College Preparatory Division. In addition, she maintains an active private piano studio in Northern New Jersey and Manhattan.
Victoria served as Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Newburgh Music Festival, a ten-day Young Artist Program devoted to the study and performance of solo repertoire, chamber music, and art song.
Victoria is Co-creator and Artistic Director of Kaleidoscope Arts, a newly established organization dedicated to making world-class classical music accessible to audiences of all ages by bringing exceptional performances to communities across the country.
Constantine Firehouse, Piano
Constantine Finehouse has performed extensively in the US and abroad, including in Salzburg, Trieste, London, Ghent, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Odessa. His 2009 solo release, "Backwards Glance," interweaves works by Brahms and Richard Beaudoin. “The Bolcom Project”, made in collaboration with his American Double partner, violinist Philip Ficsor, included an Albany Records two-CD album and a national tour with concerts in Boston, New York, Denver, Santa Barbara, Spokane and at Yale University. Fanfare praised the recording as “indispensable to any serious collector with an interest in later 20th-century duo repertoire for violin and piano.” The American and European premieres of William Bolcom's Horn Trio, in collaboration with Ficsor and Steven Gross took place in the summer and fall of 2018. The work, commissioned by the group, was recorded at the Martinu Hall in Prague and released on Naxos Records in December 2021. Finehouse's recording of Bolcom’s piano solo works for Naxos saw its world-wide launch in December 2017. His latest album "The Brahms Age" on Hänssler Classic with violinist, Daniel Kurganov, follows their 2021 release "Rhythm and the Borrowed Past" on Orchid Classics and "Between the Notes" on Spice Classics in 2018. "Settling Old Scores" with cellist, Sebastian Bäverstam, duo's second release, features sonatas by Brahms and Shostakovich. During recent concert seasons Finehouse has performed at the Mozarteum (Salzburg), Miaskovsky Hall (Moscow Conservatory), Merkin Recital Hall, Weill Recital Hall (Carnegie Hall) and Jordan Hall (Boston), as well as at Harvard, Yale, and Emory universities, and St. Vincent's and Elmira colleges, among others. With degrees from Juilliard and Yale, Finehouse had taught at New England Conservatory, and served as Visiting Artist/Faculty at Westmont College, CA.
Event venue & nearby stays
Newton Highlands Congregational, 54 Lincoln Street, Newton, United States
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