29 April —10 May 2019

Valletta

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  Ms. Zilberquit made an arrangement of Shostakovich’s Concertino for piano and orchestra and premiered it at Carnegie Hall. She performed it worldwide to critical acclaim and recorded the Concertino with Vladimir Spivakov and the Moscow Virtuosi.

  Julia Zilberquit’s other recordings include a solo recording, The Mystery of Bagatelles, released by Naxos. The CD was praised as a “superb performance” by The Washington Post, and described as an “adventurous program, sparkling with unusual clarity and pointalistic luminescence” in London’s Piano Magazine.

  Ms.Zilberquit has also recorded Jewish Music from Russia, featuring works by Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Slonimsky on the Harmonia Mundi label.

  Ms. Zilberquit premiered Slonimsky’s, The Jewish Rhapsody for Piano and Orchestra, which she commissioned. Slonimsky dedicated the piece to Julia Zilberquit and she performed it with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, in commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the State of Israel.

  Julia Zilberquit has performed under the baton of Sir Yehudi Menuhin at the Beethoven Festival in Vienna.  Ms. Zilberquit discovered a virtually unknown early piano concerto by Beethoven and performed it in Moscow with Yuri Bashmet and the “Young Russia” orchestra. She has been a guest soloist with numerous orchestras, including Russian State Orchestra, Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Deutsche Symphony, Moscow Soloists, Cairo Symphony, Moscow Virtuosi, Bolshoi Orchestra, “I Musici de Montréal”, The Russian Philharmonia, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Sinfonietta Cracovia, and Sinfonia Varsovia.

  Ms. Zilberquit has performed at the world's major halls including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, 92nd Street Y, and the Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln centre. Her engagements at major international music festivals include appearances in Colmar (France), Klangbogen (Vienna), Valery Gergiev's “White Nights” Richter's “December Nights”, Bard Music Festival and the Penderecki Festival (Poland).

  Highlights of the last season included performance of Beethoven Easter Festival in Warsaw under the baton of Mikhail Jurowski and appearance with Russian State Orchestra and Marius Stravinsky in Moscow. In 2018 Julia Zilberquit made a Maltese premiere of her arrangements of Vivaldi- Bach concertos at the Malta International Festival.

  A native of Moscow, Julia Zilberquit was born into a family of musicians. She graduated from Moscow Gnessin School of Music and The Juilliard School (class of Bella Davidovich). She lives in New York City with her husband, son, and daughter.

PROGRAMME

Johann Sebastian Bach

(1685–1750)

Piano concerto in F minor BWV1056

 

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich

(1906–1975)

Concertino for piano and chamber orchestra Op.94

(arr. J. Zilberquit, Maltese premier)

 

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Pjotr Iljitsch Tchaikovsky

(1840–1893)

Souvenir de Florence Op. 70
for string orchestra