Stephen Waarts - Violin
Concert Ford Amphitheater - Los Angeles, CA
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco:
Prophets Violin Concerto
...brilliant and seldom-played Violin Concerto #2, subtitled “The Prophets”...
...“This virtuoso violinist delighted us with a three-part concerto that if one could explain the feeling it would have to be the sensation of a journey while traveling to an ethereal world created through a poetic imagination as he played the violin.”
B.Quintanilla - SOCAL
...Hands-down hit of the evening was the young violinist Stephen Waarts....delivered a masterful performance of a complex and demanding work...With his first sonorous notes, Stephen Waarts grabbed our respect. Then came the challenging virtuoso runs and harmonics, the impeccable cues,...
Baruch Cohon
Audio - Video
“...Waarts stunned the audience with his dark, mature tone and his assured and confident approach to the music... No mindless trick performer, he brought out such beauty in the melodic line as could be found. “
“From the first note of his Brahms Sonata I was hooked, and within a few bars I was moved to tears. I don’t have this response very often…”
“and although it is possible to analyse it…, perhaps it is better not to try.”
“Music is at his best when it’s below the belt like this… such an experience is so rare...”
“spun a truly poetic and sincere Poeme”
Strad magazine editor (Menuhin Competion Oslo 2010)
Critical reviews
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“...the most engaging (and curious) figure in the whole competition...”
“....something special: not just the mechanical wonder that some of his fellow entrants were, running through a repertoire of immaculately learnt tricks, but a soul.
Michael White Music, leading British music critic - Telegraph - Menuhim competition Oslo 2010
“heartfelt, vulnerable…I stopped noticing his playing…what soul!”
Philadelphia
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Walton: Violin Concerto
Hugh Sung, piano
Venue: Field Concert Hall
This performance with be recorded and/or broadcast by WHYY
Fairfield and Vacaville, CA
Sat, March 24, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Venue: Fairfield Center for the Creative Arts
Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 2 pm
Venue: Vacaville Performing Arts Center
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Solano Community Orchestra
(Note the change in program: this will be instead of previously announced Saint Saens Violin Concerto)
With Silicon Valley Orchestra Nov 2011
In these concerts Stephen performed on the exceptional 1732 “Ferni” Guarneri Del Gesu violin, courtesy of Peter Prier and Sons Violins and Robert Maltz, Palo Alto
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