Israeli Chamber Project with Antje Wiethass, violin

Countdown to 100: Five…

In 2029-30, Chamber Music Cincinnati will celebrate its 100th Anniversary. Only four other U.S presenters will have reached that milestone. (Kudos to St. Paul’s Schubert Club, the first to do so, in 1983!)

The six 2025-26 concerts comprise the first of five celebratory seasons that will culminate in a landmark.

Chamber Music Cincinnati and Memorial Hall welcome you to them all!

“…riveting and intelligently conceived.” – New York Times

“…made you want to rush home and discover more.” – New York Times

“A sparkling concert of music for mixed ensembles.” – The New York Times

Israeli Chamber Project. Based both in Israel and in New York, the ensemble was created as a means for its members to give something back to the community where they began their musical education and to showcase Israeli culture, through its music and musicians to concert goers overseas. Now in its second decade, the Israeli Chamber Project is a dynamic ensemble comprising strings, winds, harp, and piano, that brings together some of today’s most distinguished musicians for chamber music concerts and educational and outreach programs both in Israel and abroad.

The Israeli Chamber Project has appeared at venues including London’s Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center, Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall, and Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center, as well as Carnegie Hall, the Morgan Library & Museum, Town Hall and Merkin Concert Hall in New York City. Guest artists on their tours have included Tabea Zimmermann, the Guarneri String Quartet’s Michael Tree and Peter Wiley, as well as international soloists Liza Ferschtman and Antje Weithaas.

Ms. Weithass performs with the ICP on this tour, was first violin in the legendary Arcanto Quartet with Ms. Zimmerman, Daniel Sepec, and Jean-Guihen Queyras. They performed on CMC’s series in 2016. No one present has ever forgotten her performance. In 2024, Gramophone named her recording of Beethoven piano sonatas with pianist Dénes Várjon one of the “50 Greatest Beethoven Recordings.” Weithaas studied at Berlin’s Hochschule für Musik “Hanns Eisler,” where she now teaches. An International Joseph Joachim Violin Competition winner, she became its artistic director in 2019.

Repertoire

Bernard Herrmann: Souvenir de Voyage for clarinet and string quartet

Erwin Schulhoff: Sonata for Flute and Piano [short, quite jazzy and engaging] Intermission

Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 Eroica (arranged for flute, clarinet, piano and string quartet by Yuval Shapiro)