OF SORROW BORN – Michael Hersch’s works for solo instruments

A composer of “uncompromising brilliance” (The Washington Post) whose work has been described by The New York Times as “viscerally gripping and emotionally transformative music … claustrophobic and exhilarating at once, with moments of sublime beauty nestled inside thickets of dark virtuosity,” Michael Hersch appears as both composer and pianist in NYC for the first time in over seven years along with two of his closest collaborators, violinist Miranda Cuckson and cellist Coleman Itzkoff. The program includes the world premiere of “Es beginnt” after poetry of another close Hersch collaborator, poet Anja Utler.

When Hersch last performed his own music in New York, the event was named among the “Top Ten Performances” of the year by New York Classical Review.