Fall Music at The Parrish

Salon Series, the Parrish Art Museum’s classical music program featuring world-class artists performing in an intimate, casual setting, presents a new roster of diverse music and musicians this fall on Fridays at 6 p.m., including the piano/violin duo of Niccolò Ronchi and Anastasiia Mazurok on October 7; pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner on October 14; and pianist Wynona Wang on October 28.

The series kicks off on October 7, with the program “Music That Made Us,” featuring Ronchi and Mazurok who will perform works by César Franck, Johannes Brahms, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Claude Debussy, among others.

Ronchi has won 51 first prizes at national and international piano competitions, including the International Chopin Piano Competition in Rome in 2010. That catapulted him onto the international concert stage with more than 200 solo performances at venues in Italy (Teatro la Fenice, Auditorium Parco della Musica, and Sala Verdi), Germany, France, Spain, England, the U.S., Japan, China, Russia, and Australia. His repertoire ranges from the Baroque to the late 20th century, with a particular sensitivity for music of the Romantic period and 20th century Russian repertoire. A frequent collaborator with contemporary composers, he recently debuted at the Monfalcone Municipal Theatre with the opera Palinodia Terza by Riccardo Fabris. Ronchi earned his Diploma at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome.

Mazurok is an award-winning violinist, D’Addario artist and ambassador, GEWA official artist, and TEDx speaker. A native of Saint Petersburg, Russia, she won top prizes at The Petersburgian Spring International Competition of the Arts and Georgy Sviridov International competition. Mazurok gave her concerto debut at 13 and has performed extensively throughout Russia, the U.S., France, and Austria. As a recipient of the Emerging Artists Foundation award, she was a soloist at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Mazurok graduated with honors from the Rimsky Korsakov Musical College, received a bachelor’s degree as a Garrigues award winner from Boyer College of Music, and a master’s from The Juilliard School as the Rockefeller Foundation and Irene Diamond fellow. She has performed within the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg and collaborated in masterclasses with musicians including Qian Zhou, Sergey Kravchenko, Takashi Shimizu, and Aaron Rosand. She performed with Anne-Sophie Mutter at Boston Symphony Hall and multi-Grammy award winner Lambert Orkis.

Salon Series continues on October 14, with virtuoso pianist Llewellyn Sanchez-Werner’s program “Innovators,” featuring “Humoreske” by composer/pianist Robert Schumann, “Widmung” by Schumann/arranged by Franz Liszt, and Liszt’s Transcendental Etude No. 4 in D Minor, “Mazeppa.” The second act opens with a piece by 21st century composer Frederic Rzewski, followed by “Barcarolle” by Frederic Chopin, “Hoja de Álbum” by Mexican composer Carlos Chávez, and ending with selections form Igor Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” ballet and orchestral work arranged by Guido Agosti.

Sanchez-Werner holds multiple degrees from Juilliard and Yale, was named a Gilmore Young Artist, an honor awarded to the most promising American pianists. He has performed at the White House and Kennedy Center for Presidents Obama and Biden, and has been featured on NPR, PBS, CNN International, the Wall Street Journal, and WDR-Arte. Sanchez-Werner’s recent international performances include The Royal Concertgebouw in the Netherlands, CultureSummit Abu Dhabi, the Louvre and Grenoble Museums in France, among other prominent venues.

The series concludes on October 28 with a solo performance by pianist Wynona Wang. Born in Beijing, Wang is an active performer in China, Europe and the United States, recently earning her Performer’s diploma under the tutelage of the eminent pianist Alessio Bax at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Wang currently lives in New York and is pursuing an undergraduate degree at The Juilliard School as a student of Dr. Robert McDonald.

Wang’s recent North American performances include the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra, the Meadows Symphony Orchestra of SMU Dallas, and major festivals including Piano Texas, Morningside Music Bridge in Calgary, Canada, the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in New York City, and the Chautauqua Institution.

The concerts will be held in the Lichtenstein Theater. Tickets are $25 ($15 members, students and children). Advance ticket purchase is recommended at parrishart.org. The Parrish Art Museum is at 279 Montauk Highway, Water Mill.