Tai Murray, violinist with Gilles Vonsattel, pianist Sunday, November 12, 2006 at 3 p.m. NAS Auditorium Entrance at 2100 C Street, NW
Tai Murray made her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the age of nine, has given countless concerto performances with orchestra across the United States and Europe, and has toured with Music from Marlboro, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center II – and is now just 24. Her recent concerto performances include appearances with the symphonies of Baltimore, Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Utah and here in Washington with the National Symphony Orchestra. Murray was the only solo artist invited by the Chicago Symphony to perform in the Rotunda of Chicago’s Symphony Center during its Inaugural Festival. Hear her at the National Academy of Sciences on the heels of recitals for distinguished series in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Louisville, and beyond. Swiss-born pianist Gilles Vonsattel, winner of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation's 2002 International Piano Competition, made his Lincoln Center debut that year at Alice Tully Hall, and has performed with the Utah Symphony, Santa Fe Symphony, the Fort Worth Chamber Orchestra, and the Boston Pops. His repertoire ranges from J.S. Bach's Art of the Fugue to Xenakis.

Program: Sonata #7 for Violin and Piano in C Minor, Op. 30/2 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770– 1827) Sonata for Violin & Piano (1916–1917) Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Sonata #6 from Op. 27 for Unaccompanied Violin (1924) Eugéne Ysaÿe (1858–1931) INTERMISSION Sonata in Eb for Violin and Piano, Op. 18 Richard Strauss (1864–1949) Rhapsody #1 for Violin and Piano Béla Bartók (1881–1945) ***** All concerts are free and open to the public. Doors to the auditorium open 30 minutes prior to the performance. Directions to the National Academy of Sciences For more information, email arts@nas.edu or call (202) 334-2436