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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Upcoming Performances
Buster Keaton’s “College”, performed by Stephen Prutsman, Kenneth Renshaw, Rannveig Marta Sarc, and Brian Hong
Piano Quintets by Franck and Fauré with Frank Almond, violin, Carlene Klugal, violin, Toby Appel, viola, and Adam Neiman, piano
ROMANTIC CROSSROADS is an evening of dazzling chamber music to conclude the 25-26 season, tracing the expressive breadth of Romanticism through a variety of works for piano and strings. ACMS welcomes three artists making their series debuts: violist Joseph Skerik of the Vega Quartet, captivating cello soloist Alexander Hersh, and GRAMMY-nominated pianist Marta Aznavoorian. They join Eric Gratz, ACMS Director and international prizewinning violinist.
This richly varied program features music by Debussy, Webern, Turina, and Schumann—composers writing into, within, and beyond the Romantic era. Spanning France, Germany, Austria, and Spain, these contrasting voices converge in a program that is as searching as it is expressive, drawing the listener into a world of shifting emotion and perspective.
ACMS performs all concerts at PianoForte, an intimate 75-seat concert hall with spectacular acoustics in downtown Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood. A reception and meet-and-greet with the performers will follow the program.