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Apex Concerts opens its Fourteenth Season with a sensational program, in the hands of legendary pianist Gilbert Kalish, the violin virtuoso Chad Hoopes, alonside Apex Co-Directors Dmitri Atapine and Hyeyeon Park. A program of anniversaries, 2024 marks 200 years since the birth of BedÅ™ich Smetana and 150 since the birth of Charles Ives. Both composers were revolutionary and philosophically connected on multiple levels: Smetana searching for Czech identity, while Ives discovering the American one as a true “American Original.” A world of influences and circumstances surrounds these names. The sunny inventiveness of Mozart measured against the turbulent passion of Smetana, the poetic lyricism of DvoÅ™ak (so inspired by Smetana) streaming directly to the groundbreaking ingenuity of Ives.

• Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791): Piano Trio in G Major, K. 496 (1786)
• Charles IVES (1874-1954): Piano Sonata No 1 (1902-10, rev. 1919)
• Claude DEBUSSY (1862-1918): Petite Suite for Piano Four-Hands (1891)
• BedÅ™ich SMETANA (1824-1884): Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 15 (1855)

Performers

• Gilbert Kalsih, piano
• Hyeyeon Park, piano
• Chad Hoopes, violin
• Dmitri Atapine, cello