Review of Our Latest Concert

© Sim Canetty-Clarke

Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin played an intimate and engaging concert

  • By Anne Midgette, The Washington Post
  • April 3, 2012

  • “Hamelin did an outstanding job bringing across a lot of unfamiliar music to the audience.”

    “Aching melodies and long arcing lines, constantly emerging before sinking again into clouds of bristling notes.”

    “Hamelin proceeded to play [the second encore] so engagingly that the audience was laughing along with some of the more extreme variations…and jumped to its feet when he was done.”

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The Apollo Ensemble of Amsterdam
An Evening of Baroque Jewish Music

  • Terrace Theater
  • The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  • Washington, D.C.
  • November 5th, 2009
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The Music and the Musicians

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Musicians

Marc-André Hamelin

Pianist Marc-André Hamelin’s unique blend of musicianship and virtuosity brings forth interpretations remarkable for their freedom, originality, and prodigious mastery of the piano’s resources. Long known for his bold exploration of unfamiliar pianistic terrain, Mr. Hamelin has increasingly turned his attention t... Continue Reading »

Introducing the St. Petersburg School
The Musical Tradition

Introducing the St. Petersburg School

Today when we hear the phrase "Jewish classical music," we often think of composers such as Leonard Bernstein or Arnold Schoenberg. But the true modern history of Jewish art music begins more than 100 years ago in the city of St. Petersburg, then the cultural and political heart of Tsarist Russia. It was there, begi... Continue Reading »

  • About Pro Musica Hebraica

    In the three years since its founding, Pro Musica Hebraica, an organization dedicated to bringing neglected Jewish music to the concert hall, has produced two concerts a year of uncommon interest.

    The Washington Post
    April 29, 2010

    Our first seasons at Washington’s Kennedy Center featured critically-acclaimed performances by Itzhak Perlman, the ARC Ensemble of Canada, and the Apollo Ensemble of Amsterdam, among others.

    Board of Directors

    Charles Krauthammer
    Chairman of the Board
    James Loeffler
    Research Director
    Robyn Krauthammer
    Chief Executive Officer
    James Conlon
    Artistic Advisor