Nurit Pacht, Violin
Performances by Nurit Pacht
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| Camille Saint-Saëns | Sonata No. 1 in d minor for Violin and Piano, Op. 75 | 03/01/2009 |
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| Johannes Brahms | Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano, Op. 78 in G Major | 01/22/2009 |
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| George Gershwin | Prelude 3, Allegro ben ritmato e deciso | 01/15/2009 |
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| George Gershwin | Prelude 2, Andante con moto e pocco rubato | 01/13/2009 |
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| George Gershwin | Prelude 1, Allegro ben ritmato e deciso | 01/19/2009 |
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| Manuel de Falla | Suite Populaire Espagnole | 03/01/2009 |
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| Bela Bartok | First Rhapsody: Prima parte, “Lassu” | 03/01/2009 |
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Nurit Pacht, Violin
Biography
Chosen by director Robert Wilson to be the featured musician in his multi-media piece Relative Light, Nurit Pacht is equally at home in the standard repertoire as in the contemporary. She was selected as one of the "Stars of the Year 2000" by Le Monde de la Musique and since then has appeared in London's Wigmore Hall, Vienna's Musikverein, Moscow's Great Hall, Washington's Kennedy Center, Carnegie's Weill Hall, and at Ravinia's Rising Stars Series.
This season she performed in collaboration with dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones in the Duomo in Milan. It is also her first season as artistic director of "From Proust to Boulez" at New York's Florence Gould Hall and her debut recital CD was released on the Quartz label. This summer she performed in Sicily as a member of the Flatiron Trio.
In the United States she has soloed with the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, Des Moines Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic and Santa Rosa Symphony. Internationally, she has performed in Italy, Poland, Germany, and Romania. She performed at the inauguration of the European Monetary Union in Bruxelles. Her festival appearances have included Mecklenberg Vorpommern, Divonne, Stresa, Kfar Blum, George Crumb, Monadnock and in the Ravinia Festival's Rising Stars Series.
Nurit Pacht grew up in Texas. At age seventeen, she made her U.S. solo debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra and has since won top prizes in international competitions in Europe and the United States, including the Tibor Varga International Violin Competition in Switzerland.