Soovin Kim & Ieva Jokūbavičiūtė: Beethoven Sonatas

ELECTRIFYING LITHUANIAN PIANIST BACK IN PORTLAND

After wowing us all at the beginning of the 2023 Summer Festival, the dynamic Lithuanian pianist Ieva Jokūbavičiūtė returns to Portland with Artistic Director and violinist Soovin Kim for a night of Beethoven’s most intimate chamber works—his sonatas for violin & piano. Beethoven’s sonatas established a new sonata form wherein the violin and piano are equal partners, with neither dominating the musical “conversation.” From his early Sonata No. 3 that embodies his revolutionary melodic and rhythmic inventiveness, to his elegantly refined Sonata No. 10 and his bold and heroic “Kreutzer” Sonata, you’ll experience a full range of Beethoven’s genius brought to life by just these two incredible artists.

Program

BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 12, No. 3
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96
BEETHOVEN Violin Sonata No. 9 in A Major, Op. 47 (“Kreutzer”)
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Soovin Kim, violin
Ieva Jokūbavičiūtė, piano