Grinberg Classical Salon Series
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Dear Friends!
This 2024-25 Season, I am thrilled to host the 12th year of the Grinberg Classical Salon Series on New York’s Upper West Side – a one-of-a-kind, intimate salon concerts in revival of the old and elegant European tradition of Hausmusik. This Spring season, inspired by Maurice Ravel’s 150th birthday anniversary, will feature a number of Ravel’s masterworks, including both of his Violin Sonatas, his delightful Mother Goose Suite for piano four-hands, and his epic Piano Trio in A minor. The Season will also include Debussy’s Impressionistic Cello Sonata and Violin Sonata, Faure’s fantastically mercurial Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Poulenc’s witty and sophisticated Violin Sonata, Cello Sonata and Flute Sonata, Saint-Saens’s two majestic Violin Sonatas, his two rhapsodic Cello Sonatas, and both of his Piano Trios, alongside rarely-heard French masterworks, such as Chausson’s celestial Piece in C Major and his impassioned Piano Trio in G minor, and Messaien’s coloristic Fantasie for violin and piano. To learn more about the upcoming Spring 2025 salons, scroll down below.
Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Warmest wishes,
Dr. Yelena Grinberg, the artistic director and founder of Grinberg Classical Salon Series
PS: To register for the salon e-newsletter, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at ygpiano@gmail.com or sign up here.
SALON VIDEO CLIP:
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SALON REVIEWS & INTERVIEWS:
Salon Interview with cultural critic, Maya Pritsker – RTN – December 13th, 2023
New York’s Great Champion of Undeservedly Obscure Classical Repertoire Shares These Treasures at Her Magical Salon Series – Lucid Culture – October 24th, 2021
Musical Salons for the Book of Guinness Records – Etazhi, journal – July 19th, 2021
Yelena Grinberg Rescues Rare Classical Treasures from Obscurity – New York Music Daily – June 4th, 2019
Live from the Living Room – West Side Spirit – February 4th, 2015
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Dr. Yelena Grinberg, the founder and the artistic director of Grinberg Classical Salon Series
PS: To be added to the salon email list, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at ygpiano@gmail.com or sign up here.
SUPPORT GRINBERG CLASSICAL SALON SERIES
RAVEL AND HIS WORLD I
Sunday, March 23rd, 2025, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 26th, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
G-SHARP DUO
EMILIE-ANNE GENDRON, violin
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
COUPERIN – Select Pieces, arr. for violin and piano (ca. 1716-17)
RAVEL – Violin Sonata No. 1 in A minor (“Sonate Posthume“) (1897)
POULENC – Sonata for violin and piano (1942-43)
FAURE – Berceuse in D Major for violin and piano, op. 16 (1878-79); Romance in B-flat Major for violin and piano, op. 28 (1883)
SAINT-SAENS – Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, op. 75 (1875)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at ygpiano@gmail.com
FRENCH GEMS FOR PIANO FOUR-HANDS
Sunday, April 6th, 2025, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 9th, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
ELENA KUSCHNEROVA, piano
DEBUSSY – Petite Suite for piano four-hands (1888)
FAURE – Dolly Suite for piano four-hands, op. 56 (1893-96)
RAVEL – Ma Mere L’oye (“Mother Goose”) for piano four-hands (1910)
POULENC – Sonata for piano four-hands (1918 / rev. 1939)
SATIE – Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire (“Three Pieces in form of a Pear”)(1903)
BIZET – Jeau d’enfants (“Children’s Games”) for piano four-hands, op. 22 (1871)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at ygpiano@gmail.com
FRENCH MASTERWORKS II
Saturday, April 19th, 2025, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
JOSEPH STATEN, cello
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
FAURE – Romance in A Major for cello and piano, op. 69 (1894)
FRANCK – Melancolie in E minor for cello and piano (1885)
POULENC – Sonata for cello and piano (1948)
MASSENET – Melodie-Elegie for cello and piano, op. 10, no. 5 (1872)
SAINT-SAENS – Cello Sonata No. 2 in F Major, op. 123 (1905)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at ygpiano@gmail.com
RAVEL AND HIS WORLD II
Sunday, May 4th, 2025, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, May 7th, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
G-SHARP DUO
EMILIE-ANNE GENDRON, violin
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
DEBUSSY – Sonata in G minor for violin and piano (1917)
SAINT-SAENS – Sonata No. 2 in E-flat Major for violin and piano, op. 102 (1896)
MESSIAEN – Fantasie for violin and piano (1933)
RAVEL – Sonata No. 2 in G Major for violin and piano (1923-27)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at ygpiano@gmail.com
FRENCH FLUTE
Sunday, May 18th, 2025, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, March 21st, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
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JESSICA TASKOV, flute
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
COUPERIN – Select Pieces, arr. for flute and piano (ca. 1717)
BLAVET – Flute Sonata in G Major (“L’Henriette”), op. 2, no. 1 (1732)
SAINT-SAENS – Romanze in D flat Major for flute and piano, op. 37 (1871)
FAURE – Sicilienne in G minor for flute and piano, op. 78 (1893)
CHAMINADE – Concertino in D Major for flute and piano, op. 107 (1902)
ANDRIESSEN – Variations on the Theme by Couperin (1944)
RAVEL – Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin (1914-17)
POULENC – Sonata for flute and piano (1957)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at ygpiano@gmail.com
FRENCH PIANO TRIOS I
Sunday, June 1st, 2025, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 4th, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
GRETA MYATIEVA, violin
JOSEPH STATEN, cello
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
LILI BOULANGER – Deux morceaux for violin and piano (1911 / 1914)
CHAUSSON – Piano Trio in G minor, op. 3 (1881)
RAVEL – Piece en forme de Habanera, arr. for cello and piano (1907)
SAINT-SAENS – Piano Trio No. 1 in F Major, op. 18 (1864)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at ygpiano@gmail.com
FRENCH PIANO TRIOS II
Sunday, June 15th, 2025, at 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 18th, 2025, at 6:00 p.m.
GRETA MYATIEVA, violin
JOSEPH STATEN, cello
YELENA GRINBERG, piano
FAURE – Elegie for cello and piano, op. 24 (188)
SAINT-SAENS – Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, op. 92 (1892)
MASSENET – Meditation from Thais, arr. for violin and piano (1893)
RAVEL – Piano Trio in A minor (1915)
To learn more and to register, contact Dr. Yelena Grinberg at ygpiano@gmail.com
