Concert | Sergiu Schwartz, violin; Peter Basquin, piano

Sergiu Schwartz's international concert appearances have taken him to major music centers on three continents, including twenty European countries, Israel, and over forty U. S. states, as soloist with over two hundred leading orchestras, in recitals and chamber music concerts. "Following in the footsteps of his fellow countrymen Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman, he is a product of the best of European romantic interpretative style and 20th-Century American technical acuity," states New York's Newsday, while Le Soleil (Canada) notes that "he stands out as one of the best violinists of his generation." Comparing him to the greatest violinists, Fanfare - The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors, writes: his "warmth of sound and insight into the music raise to the level of expression achieved by Oistrakh" and his "tonal sheen approaches Milstein's." Recent solo orchestral engagements include the Dresden Staatskapelle, Jerusalem Symphony, London Symphony, and Dresden Philharmonic, among numerous others. He has performed in major concert halls, including New York's Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall; Kennedy Center (Washington); Barbican Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, and Wigmore Hall (London); Royce Hall (Los Angeles); and Academia Santa Cecilia (Rome), among many others. He has been featured in broadcasts for major radio and TV stations, including the BBC, NPR and CNN, and WXEL-TV's "Great Performances".

Pianist Peter Basquin has performed throughout the United States with appearances at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, since winning the Montreal International Competition. His orchestral appearances include solos with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Westchester Philharmonic, the Hunter Symphony, and the Montreal, Quebec, and Boston symphonies. He was a featured artist at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.