Cellist Alexander Hersh has quickly established himself as one of the most exciting and creative talents of his generation. Alexander is a top prize winner of the: Walter W. Naumburg International Cello Competition (2024), Pro Musicis International Award (2022), Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant (2020), Astral Artists National Auditions (2019), National Federation of Music Clubs Biennial Young Artist Competition (2019), New York International Artists Association Competition (2017), Schadt String Competition (2016), Hellam Young Artists Competition (2015), and the Luminarts Classical Music Fellowship (2016). Recent and upcoming concerto engagements include the Houston Symphony, Boston Pops, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Rockford Symphony Orchestra, Allentown Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra, Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra, Jefferson Symphony orchestra, Symphony Parnassus, Saint Paul Civic Symphony, and the Dupage Symphony Orchestra. Recital and chamber music engagements, past and present, include Carnegie Weill Hall, Marlboro Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Ravinia, Caramoor, Music@Menlo, Pro Musica San Miguel de Allende, Miami Chamber Music Society, Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series, Tri-County Concerts, Perlman Music Program, Lucerne Festival Academy, I-M-S Prussia Cove, Amsterdam Cello Biennale, Kneisel Hall, and Domaine Forget.
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NEXUS Chamber Music’s ambitious ninth season presents a dynamic program for string octet, promising an exhilarating and fresh sonic experience for Guarneri Hall. Eight world-renowned musicians will gather in Chicago to collaborate on Shostakovich’s haunting and electrifying Two Pieces for String Octet, concluding the program with the beloved String Octet by the young genius Felix Mendelssohn. In true NEXUS fashion, the program’s centerpiece focuses on the fresh and contemporary with master pianist and composer John Novacek’s Music for 8, which has already gained a foothold as a powerful new standard in the genre.
Hidden deep in the archives of the Library of Congress lay an octet, unpublished, unrecorded, and unheard since 1897, until clarinetist Graeme Steele Johnson rediscovered it in 2020. Once hailed as “the dean of American composers,” Charles Martin Loeffler’s music is brought back to life as Johnson and his ensemble reveal an octet more than worthy of resurrection.
Alexander Hersh joins Maestro David Commanday and the Carmel Symphony Orchestra to perform Dvořák's beloved Cello Concerto in B minor, celebrating the opening night of the orchestra's landmark 50th Anniversary Season.