Guest Artist and Faculty Recital: Ari Streisfeld, violin and Lev Ryabinin, piano

Tuesday, Feb. 24 A Guest Artist Recital, featuring violinist Ari Streisfeld and faculty member Lev Ryabinin, piano, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Max Noah Recital Hall at Georgia College & State University.  This program explores the remarkable stylistic breadth of European violin music in the first half of the twentieth century, moving between spiritual introspection, modernist intensity, and postwar reflection. Ernest Bloch’s Baal Shem opens the concert with music rooted in Jewish spiritual tradition, blending rhapsodic lyricism and raw emotional depth shaped by Central and Eastern European influences. Grażyna Bacewicz’s Solo Sonata No. 2 pivots toward Polish modernism—taut, rhythmically driven, and uncompromising in its virtuosity. The concert concludes with Edward Elgar’s Violin Sonata, a deeply reflective English work that merges late-Romantic warmth with an inward, elegiac tone born of the post–World War I era. Together, these works trace a wide geographical and expressive arc across Europe, united by the violin’s evolving voice.  This concert will also be livestreamed at www.facebook.com/GCMusicDepartment.  A $5 donation is encouraged. Online donations can be made at give.gcsu.edu/g/department-of-music/. All proceeds benefit music scholarships or the GCSU Department of Music through GCSU Foundation, Inc. For more information, please email music@gcsu.edu or call 478-445-8289.

Max Noah Recital Hall