May is the time to experience beautiful blooms and beautiful music at Old Westbury Gardens. On Saturday, May 7th, Poetica Musica, Artists in Residence, will present their second concert of the 2022 season in the Red Ballroom entitled One Piano, Four Hands.
Featuring pianists Hayk Arsenyan and Junko Ichikawa, works will include piano duets and solos including an arrangement of selections from West Side Story for one piano, four hands by Leonard Bernstein, Souvenirs for piano, four hands, Op. 28 by Samuel Barber, and Fantasia for piano, four hands in F minor, D.940 by Franz Schubert.
JUNKO ICHIKAWA earned her Bachelor’s degree at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, her Master’s degree at New York University, her Professional Studies Diploma from Mannes College of Music and her D.M.A. from Rutgers University.
She has given recitals as both a soloist and chamber musician, and has performed with many orchestras in the US, Europe and her native Japan. She also appeared in the film Seymour: An Introduction directed by Ethan Hawke.
Junko Ichikawa, Pianist
Hayk Arsenyan, Pianist
HAYK ARSENYAN, a native of Armenia, has appeared in numerous recitals throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Americas, in venues such as Carnegie Hall (New York), Palace of UNESCO and Salle Cortot (Paris), Tchaikovsky Hall and the Kremlin (Moscow), Cadillac-Shanghai Concert Hall (China), Kumin Hall (Tokyo), Petranka Mozarteum (Prague), Auditorio Delibes (Valladolid), Dar-Al-Assad Opera House (Damascus), Sala Cervantes (Havana), MoBU (Sao Paolo), Philippines National Museum (Bacolod), the Concourse (Sydney), and the Auckland Museum (New Zealand). He has also appeared in televised recitals at the Dame Myra Hess Concert Series in Chicago, the Phillips Collection Series in Washington DC and the Nixon Presidential Museum in Los Angeles.
TICKETS: $25.00 Members, $30.00 Non-Members; Tickets must be purchased in advance. )
The concert is supported in part the IBM Matching Grant program.
For more information, please call (516) 333-0048 ext. 301.