Violinist Rolf Schulte and Pianist James Goldsworthy To Appear
Sunday, April 17, 2011
4 p.m.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
4 p.m.
Rolf Schulte, violin, and James Goldsworthy, piano, two internationally known artists, will open the Chapel Restoration’s new music season on Sunday, April 17, at 4. They will play Brahms’ Sonata in A Major, and Schumann’s Fantasiestücke and Sonata in A Minor. As in the past, the concert is free.
Mr. Schulte made his debut with the Philharmonia Hungarica in Cologne at age 14. He has since performed with the Berlin and Munich philharmonics, Frankfurt Museums-Orchester, Stuttgart State Orchestra and Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, Venice, among others. In America he has performed with the Seattle, Vermont and New Hampshire symphonies and has appeared with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society. Born in Germany, he started playing at age five under his father's tutelage. He later studied at Robert Schumann Conservatory, Dusseldorf, and Accademia Chigiana, Siena, Italy, before moving to the United States to study at Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia. He plays a 1780 instrument by Lorenzo Storioni. Recordings include a number of works by Arnold Schoenberg, among them the Violin Concerto, with the London Philharmonia.
Mr. Goldsworthy has appeared in concert with violinist Lilo Kantorowicz-Glick and violist Jacob Glick and accompanied singers in recital, including Judith Bettina, Benjamin Luxon and Véronique Dubois. He has also performed as soloist throughout Europe, Japan, Israel, Canada and the United States, including broadcasts on Austrian National Television, the California cable television show "Grand Piano," Vermont Public Television, BBC Radio and Minnesota Public Radio. He has premiered works by Milton Babbitt, Chester Biscardi, Cheng Yong Wang and a host of other composers.
While a Fulbright scholar in Vienna, James performed in a Musikverein 175th Anniversary Celebration concert in the Brahms Saal, and in Vienna, Baden, and Spital am Semmering, Austria. More recently, he has performed in recitals at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris, and Le Sax concert hall, Achère, France. He has taught at Stanford University, the University of St. Thomas and Goshen College, and is now a full-time associate professor in the piano department at Westminster Conservatory of Rider University. His recordings are on the CRI label.
