Music Middays is a program of Music Mondays, featuring emerging musicians performing one-hour programs at noon on select Tuesdays. Admission is FREE.

Presented by Serena Canin

October 22, 2024
Chaeyoung Park, piano

Chaeyoung Park has been praised as a passionate pianist who “does not play a single note without thought or feeling.” (New York Concert Review)  Her wide-ranging program features works from Bach to Messiaen, reaching from the sober to the ecstatic, with heart-warming works of Rachmaninoff and Franck in between.

PROGRAM
Vivaldi, arr. J. S. Bach — Sicilienne from Concerto in D minor, BWV 596 
Rachmaninoff — Prelude in G Major, Op. 32, No. 5
Messiaen — “Le Baiser de l’enfant Jesu” from Vingt regards sur l’enfant-Jésus
J. S. Bach — “Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne” from Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147
Franck — Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue, FWV 21

December 10, 2024
Stephanie Zyzak, violin
Sahun Sam Hong, piano

Praised for her sensitive musicianship and heartfelt playing, violinist Stephanie Zyzak is quickly gaining a reputation as one of the most soulful and profound musicians of her generation.  She joins award-winning pianist Sahun Sam Hong, praised as an “artist of enormous prowess” (Verbier Festival Newsletter) for a compelling Sonata program including works by Mozart, Janacek, and the sublime Op. 96 of Beethoven.

PROGRAM
Mozart — Sonata for Violin and Piano in E minor, K. 304
Janáček — Sonata for Violin and Piano
Beethoven — Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major, Op. 96

March 18, 2025 
The Abeo Quartet

Njioma Grevious, violin
Rebecca Benjamin, violin
James Kang, viola
Macintyre Taback, cello

Taking the name “Abeo “(ah-bey-oh) from an expression of joy in a Nigerian dialect, the Abeo Quartet love playing chamber music and sharing it with others. Their eclectic program features a new work by the popular Indian-American composer Reena Esmail alongside Schubert’s beloved masterpiece, the Quartet in D minor, “ Death and the Maiden.”

PROGRAM
Reena Esmail — Ragamala (2013)
Schubert — String Quartet in D minor, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden”

May 6, 2025
Daniel McGrew, tenor
Sophia Zhou, piano

Praised for his “intense concentration,…clarity, and ferocity,”(Classical Scene) tenor Daniel McGrew is a versatile performer of a broad range of repertoire, but at the heart of Daniel’s musical passion is the performance of song. Together with the dynamic pianist Sophia Zhou the duo will perform on May 6th, 2025.

PROGRAM TBA