Those performances for the Classical Finals began Wednesday night at Butler University's Schrott Center for the Arts, with violinists Yesong Sophie Lee, Elli Choi and Lina Nakano. They performed with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), a New York-based conductor-less ensemble founded in 2001.
Those performances for the Classical Finals began Wednesday night at Butler University's Schrott Center for the Arts, with violinists Yesong Sophie Lee, Elli Choi and Lina Nakano.
They performed with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), a New York-based conductor-less ensemble founded in 2001.
Beyond leading the orchestra, another feature of these performances was the cadenzas, the virtuosic solo "improvisations" played at a number of cadences throughout the concerto.
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Those performances for the Classical Finals began Wednesday night at Butler University's Schrott Center for the Arts, with violinists Yesong Sophie Lee, Elli Choi and Lina Nakano. They performed with the East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO), a New York-based conductor-less ensemble founded in 2001. Beyond leading the orchestra, another feature of these performances was the cadenzas, the virtuosic solo "improvisations" played at a number of cadences throughout the concerto.
Back in Mozart's day, it was customary for a violinist. Bringing that history to the modern stage, the six finalists in the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, were required to take on that leadership role in giving a performance of a full violin concerto by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Going back again to Mozart's day, cadenzas were written.
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