MARCY ROSEN &
DIANE WALSH

Featuring music for cello and piano by Schumann, Barber, and Chopin.

Marcy Rosen, cello
Diane Walsh, piano

Robert Schumann – Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Samuel Barber – Sonata in C minor, Op. 6
Frédéric Chopin – Sonata in G minor, Op. 65

Marcy Rosen, cello, has established herself as one of the most important and respected artists of our day. The New Yorker magazine dubbed her “a New York legend of the cello,” and the Los Angeles Times has called her “one of the intimate art’s abiding treasures.” She has performed throughout the world and in all 50 of the United States. Sought after for her riveting and informative Master Classes, she has been a guest of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory, the San Francisco Conservatory, the Central Conservatory in Beijing, China, the Seoul Arts Center in Korea and the Cartagena International Music Festival in Colombia. She is a founding member of the Mendelssohn String Quartet and has been co-artistic director of the Chesapeake Chamber Music Festival in Maryland since 1986.

Since first attending the Marlboro Music Festival in 1975, she has taken part in 25 Musicians from Marlboro tours and performed in concerts celebrating the 40 th , 50 th , and 60 th anniversaries of the festival. A graduate of the Curtis Institute, Ms. Rosen is currently Professor of Cello at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College, also serving as artistic director of the Chamber Music Live concert series. In 2024, she was appointed Artistic Director of the Evnin Rising Stars program at the Caramoor Center for the Arts.

The award-winning Steinway Artist Diane Walsh has toured the globe, with performances in forty-six of the fifty States and twenty-three other countries. Highlights include recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Orchestra Hall in Chicago, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Philharmonia in St. Petersburg, and Dvorak Hall in Prague.

Ms. Walsh has appeared as piano soloist with the San Francisco, Indianapolis, Portland, Austin, Springfield, Rochester, New Bedford, Delaware, Syracuse and American symphonies. She has toured the United States with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, toured Europe with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and soloed with orchestras in Germany, Brazil, Russia, the Netherlands and Czechia. Conductors with whom she has collaborated include David Zinman, Seiji Ozawa, Kazuyoshi Akiyama, Leon Botstein, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Eliahu Inbal, John Giordano, Kevin Rhodes, John Nelson, and Peter Bay.

RUN TIME: 80 mins, with intermission