The Harmonious Hadelich

Violinist extraordinaire Augustin Hadelich was back in our Eden by the Beach for the second time in two months when he performed at the Lobero as part of the Music Academy’s summer fest.

Grammy Award winner Hadelich, who I saw at a CAMA Masterseries concert in April, his fifth appearance for the organization since 2015, was accompanied this time by pianist Jonathan Feldman, chairman of Juilliard’s collaborative piano department, playing works by Schubert, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Ysaÿe, and Prokofiev, either as a solo or in a duet.

Just before the intermission, they unfortunately found themselves with a cell phone accompaniment with Ravel’s “Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano in G Major.”

Hadelich, playing a 1744 instrument, one of the last made by master luthier Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu, smiled benignly while the irksome ringing continued, while Feldman looked ready to explode.

Just 24 hours later I was at Lehmann Hall for Chamber Night with works by Coleman, Prokofiev, and Mendelssohn’s “Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor” with violinist Steven Song, cellist Alexander Wu, and pianist Szuyu Su.

The following night I was at Hahn Hall’s X2 series with works by Plog, Couperin, and Klughardt, culminating with Bach’s magnificent “Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major” with 13 excellent musicians, mostly students, in the spotlight.

A memorable evening…