“The performance…left the audience in stunned silence. The Miró's exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity kept the music's various subtexts in urgent perspective.Especially in the elegiac Adagio, the players held phrases and gauged dynamics for all their expressive worth. You could feel the anguish in your bones. No one moved after the final notes of the last movement slowly died away.”
Cleveland Plain-Dealer

“The unassuming pianist gave a winning performance of the monster hit [Grieg Piano Concerto], with each movement more engaging than the one before. He offered tasteful drama in the thundering first-movement cadenza, understated lyricism in the slow movement and nimbly dancing runs in the finale.”
The Salt Lake Tribune ... read full bio

Be sure to Czech out this stirring evening of works by Avery Fisher Career Grant winners the Miró Quartet and Shai Wosner. In a collaboration noted by the Montreal Gazette as a "a marvel of gracious levity" and "the sort of performance you carry happily in your head for the rest of the day," the highly-skilled string quartet and elegant pianist perform works by Czech composers Janacek, Smetana and Dvorak as well as Brahms' Piano Quintet, widely recognized as a chamber music masterpiece.

Shai Wosner continues to attract international recognition for his exceptional artistry, musical integrity and creative insight. With imaginative programming that communicates his intellectual curiosity, Wosner performs a wide-ranging repertoire from Mozart and Beethoven to Ligeti and composers of his own generation. Hailed by the Financial Times as "an artist to follow keenly", Wosner’s virtuosity and perceptiveness have increasingly made him a favorite among audiences and critics alike.

Hailed by the New York Times as possessing “explosive vigor and technical finesse”, the colorful and dynamic Miró Quartet, one of America’s highest profile chamber groups enjoys its place at the top of the international chamber music scene. Now in its second decade, the quartet continues to captivate audiences and critics around the world with its startling intensity and fresh perspective.