Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg performs with L.I. Philharmonic

World-renowned violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg joins forces with Music Director David Wiley and the Long Island Philharmonic for a lively concert at Tilles Center on Sunday. The program, entitled “The Passionate Strings of Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg” features the violinist in the virtuosic and popular Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, a set of four tango compositions, originally conceived and treated as different works, then combined into one suite.
This masterwork, the Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, by famed Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla will showcase Salerno-Sonnenberg’s artistry. Her extroverted and individualistic style brings a new perspective to classical music, for which she has achieved worldwide fame.
Salerno-Sonnenberg has been praised as “a breathtakingly daring and original artist” (The Washington Post); “Brilliant…a performer of splendid technical accomplishment and an artist of deep feeling informed by a subtle intelligence…a performer in full command of her gift,” (Vancouver Sun). She last performed with the Philharmonic in 1992.
Salerno-Sonnenberg’s exceptional artistry is paired with great musical intelligence which, along with her unique personality, have taken her from stage to screen and television. She was the subject of the 2000 Academy Award-nominated film, “Speaking in Strings,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. She has appeared on ABC’s prime time comedy Dharma & Greg in 2001, and she has been interviewed and profiled extensively, on the major networks, and PBS, Bravo, PBS' Live from Lincoln Center, and The Charlie Rose Show.
In addition to the Piazzolla work, the Philharmonic performs the exciting “Bacchanale” from Saint-Saëns’ opera Samson et Delilah; the moving symphonic poem “The Moldau” from Smetana’s Má Vlast; and Gabriel Fauré’s gorgeous Pavane; The program finishes with the Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture by Tchaikovsky.

When: Sunday, May 16, 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $85, $68, $50, $38; available at (631) 293-2222 or www.liphiharmonic.org.
Where: Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, C.W. Post Campus, Rte. 25A, Brookville.