Annie Jacobs-Perkins & Katelyn Vahala: "Breath in Music"

As a part of the Contemporary Music Festival @ Goethe-Institut Boston, Pianist Katelyn Vahala and cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins perform a recital of brand new and contemporary “standard” repertoire for cello and piano by Stratis Minakakis, Daniel Temkin, Octavio Vazquez, Michael Essl, Helmut Lachenmann, and B.A. Zimmermann. Four of the compositions were written for the performers, and this concert at the Goethe-Institut will be the world premiere of two of them.

Program (Order TBC)

Stratis Minakakis: Phoni Avras Leptis (2022)
Daniel Temkin: Rise (2024)
Bernd Alois Zimmermann: Sonata for Solo Cello (1960)
Michael Essl: new solo work (2025, World premiere)
Octavio Vazquez: Sonata for Cello and Piano "The Fool" (2024, World premiere)
Jeffrey Mumford: Let Us Breathe (2020)
Helmut Lachenmann: Pression (1969)

About Annie Jacobs-Perkins
Praised for “hypnotic lyricism, causing listeners to forget where they were for a moment,” (The New Yorker), cellist Annie Jacobs-Perkins is the 1st prize winner of the Pierre Fournier Award, Buchet International Cello Competition, Chamber Orchestra of the Springs Emerging Soloist Competition, Father Merlet Award from the Pro Musicis Foundation, New England Conservatory Concerto Competition, and Hennings-Fischer Young Artist Competition. She is Artist-in-Residence of the Austin Chamber Music Center and cellist of Trio Brontë, winner of the 2023 Ilmari Hannikainen International Chamber Music Competition. She regularly performs at venues such as the Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Berliner Philharmonie, Krzyzowa Music, Ravinia Steans Institute, Yellow Barn Festival, and Marlboro Music.

About Katelyn Vahala
Praised as a “highly accomplished pianist…with wonderfully rhythmic and robust playing” (New York Concert Review), Katelyn Vahala’s recent highlights include being a 2023-24 Piano Spheres Emerging Artist and a 2022 Leipzig International Bach Competition finalist. Other awards include first place at the 2021 USC Thornton Concerto Competition, first prize at the 2019 Rosalyn Tureck International Bach Competition, and Bronze Medal at the 2016 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. 

Katelyn is on faculty at the USC Thornton School of Music, where she teaches Keyboard Literature, and at the Pasadena Conservatory of Music. Her past mentors include Dr. Lucinda Carver and Jeffrey Kahane.

About Goethe-Institut
The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany and is dedicated to promoting international cultural dialogue and exchange. The Goethe-Institut Boston was the first Goethe-Institut in the United States and founded in 1967. It is located in the historic Back Bay/Beacon Hill area and provides services for the six New England states of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The Goethe-Institut Boston is the contact point for anyone interested in German culture and for those who want to study or teach German.

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