The Grammy-winning cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio and Min Kwon, pianist and head of the Rutgers keyboard program, will perform a joint recital Feb. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Nicholas Music Center at Rutgers.
Pianist Min Kwon will perform at Rutgers University with Grammy-winning cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio. NEW BRUNSWICK -- The Grammy-winning cellist Sara Sant'Ambrogio and Min Kwon, pianist and head of the Rutgers keyboard program, will perform a joint recital Feb. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Nicholas Music Center at Rutgers.
The program will feature works by Frederic Chopin, Astor Piazzolla, Robert Schumann and Gaspar Cassado.
Kwon, a Harding resident, will make her Paris recital debut this year and is set to appear as a soloist at the Alice Tully Hall "Gloria!" concert in New York City to mark the 250th anniversary of Rutgers University.
Kwon was initially doubtful about performing arrangements of Chopin solo piano music with a cellist, until she heard Sant'Ambrogio.
"The sound of the cello has a uniquely human character, given that all the notes on the instrument are in the human voice range," Sant'Ambrogio said. "That allows the cello almost to 'speak' to the audiences--and makes it perfect for Chopin's human frailty."
Sant'Ambrogio and Kwon will play both together and separately.
Tickets are $15 for the general public, $10 for Rutgers alumni, employees and seniors and $5 for students.
Nicholas Music Center is in the Mason Gross School of Performing Arts Center located at 85 George St. on the Douglass Campus.
For more information or to purchase tickets, visit masongross.rutgers.edu or call 848-932-7511.
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