Ohio Wesleyan guest recital featuring Mariko Kaneda, piano, and Alex Goldberg, violin, in Jemison Auditorium inside Sanborn Hall, 23 Elizabeth St., Delaware. Admission is free. For more information, visit owu.edu/PerformingArts.
Please join Mariko Kaneda, piano, and Alexander Goldberg, violin, for the opening concert of the 2026-2027 Performing Arts season (Jemison Auditorium).
Mariko and Alexander will present a recital of two titans of the violin-piano duo repertoire, Franz Schubert's "Grand Duo" sonata in A major, D. 574, and Ludwig van Beethoven's Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47—the "Kreutzer Sonata." Despite sharing the key of A major, the two works present very different emotional worlds. Schubert, ever the Lieder-writer, combines melancholy cantilenas with folkish dance; Beethoven, firmly in his heroic period, conjures firy virtuosity, spinning an epic sonata of symphonic scale from a primordial introduction deceiving in its simplicity.
Mariko (Music Faculty 2004-2018) has been collaborating with the Performing Arts Department, and Alexander Goldberg (violin), a Yale graduate pursuing a Doctorate in Violin Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center, will be based in Norway as part of the Musikk i Nordland quintet from this fall.