Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein Performs at BargeMusic Today

Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein will perform chamber works by Beethoven, Brahms, Lutoslawski, Milhaud, and Ofer Ben-Amots with cellist Nicholas Canellakis and pianist Steven Beck as part of the Masterworks Series at Bargemusic today, June 30, 2013 at 2:00 pm. This is the first time the trio has performed together since their eight-city tour of the Midwest in March.

The concert will take place at Bargemusic, located at Fulton Ferry Landing near the Brooklyn Bridge. Tickets for the performance, priced at $35 ($30 for seniors, $15 for students), are available atwww.bargemusic.org, by phone at 800-838-3006, or in person at the box office, which opens one hour prior to the performance.

Mr. Fiterstein was recently featured on the new album "Sean Hickey: Concertos" released by Delos on May 28. The album includes the world premiere recordings of Mr. Hickey's Concerto for Cello and Orchestra and Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, with conductor Vladimir Lande and the St. Petersburg State Symphony. The clarinet concerto was reviewed in NewMusicBox describing it as a "formidable work chock full of instantly appealing melodies-including fragments of several traditional Scottish airs-that is a significant contribution to the concerto literature for this most malleable of reed instruments...this piece could actually become standard repertoire one day."

Mr. Fiterstein is recognized for playing that combines flawless technique and consummate musicianship with graceful phrasing and a warm soulful tone. Considered one of today's most exceptional clarinet players, he has performed in recital and with prestigious orchestras and chamber music ensembles throughout the world. Recipient of a prestigious 2009 Avery Fisher Career Grant, Mr. Fiterstein has been praised by The New York Times for possessing a "beautiful liquid clarity," and the Washington Post wrote, "Fiterstein treats his instrument as his own personal voice, dazzling in its spectrum of colors, agility and range. Every sound he makes is finely measured without inhibiting expressiveness."

In the 2013-14 season Mr. Fiterstein will perform the Nielsen Clarinet Concerto with conductor Michael Stern and the IRIS Orchestra, and will perform with the Pacifica Quartet in Toronto in July. In December he will perform at the Kennedy Center with his ensemble, the Zimro Project, in a concert of rarely performed Russian Jewish chamber music, some of which has not been performed in public for close to 100 years. Mr. Fiterstein was also named Co-Artistic Director of the new Sedona Winter Musicfest, taking place in January in Carefree, Arizona. He will return to New York in April to perform with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Mr. Fiterstein will also perform the Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1 with the Minnesota Sinfonia, and will travel to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem to perform the Brahms Clarinet Quintet. He will perform with his Goldstein-Peled-Fiterstein trio for University of Chicago Presents and the Civic Music Association in Iowa. Mr. Fiterstein will also perform with the Daedalus Quartet in Reading, Pennsylvania in January.