Sun October 4, 2026
Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot Sounds of California
at Bing Concert Hall
(2:30pm)
Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot
Hsin-I Huang, piano
Longtime friends Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot come together for a program of works for the violin, all by composers with California connections. Pouliot has been called "immaculate, at once refined and impassioned" by ArtsAtlanta, while Porter has been noted in the Los Angeles Times as "lovingly lyrical, occasionally frisky... on the cusp of a major career."
Program
* THE EAGLES (arr. O. Marckx) Hotel California
* ERNEST BLOCH Nigun
* IGOR STRAVINSKY (arr. S. Dushkin) "Danse Russe" from Petrushka
* MIKLOS ROZSA Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song for Violin and Piano, Op. 4
* ANDREW NORMAN Sabina for Solo Violin
* ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD Suite from Much Ado About Nothing
* MIKLÓS RÓSZA Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 15
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Hsin-I Huang, piano
Longtime friends Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot come together for a program of works for the violin, all by composers with California connections. Pouliot has been called "immaculate, at once refined and impassioned" by ArtsAtlanta, while Porter has been noted in the Los Angeles Times as "lovingly lyrical, occasionally frisky... on the cusp of a major career."
Program
* THE EAGLES (arr. O. Marckx) Hotel California
* ERNEST BLOCH Nigun
* IGOR STRAVINSKY (arr. S. Dushkin) "Danse Russe" from Petrushka
* MIKLOS ROZSA Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song for Violin and Piano, Op. 4
* ANDREW NORMAN Sabina for Solo Violin
* ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD Suite from Much Ado About Nothing
* MIKLÓS RÓSZA Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 15
Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot
Hsin-I Huang, piano
Longtime friends Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot come together for a program of works for the violin, all by composers with California connections. Pouliot has been called "immaculate, at once refined and impassioned" by ArtsAtlanta, while Porter has been noted in the Los Angeles Times as "lovingly lyrical, occasionally frisky... on the cusp of a major career."
Program
* THE EAGLES (arr. O. Marckx) Hotel California
* ERNEST BLOCH Nigun
* IGOR STRAVINSKY (arr. S. Dushkin) "Danse Russe" from Petrushka
* MIKLOS ROZSA Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song for Violin and Piano, Op. 4
* ANDREW NORMAN Sabina for Solo Violin
* ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD Suite from Much Ado About Nothing
* MIKLÓS RÓSZA Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 15
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Hsin-I Huang, piano
Longtime friends Simone Porter and Blake Pouliot come together for a program of works for the violin, all by composers with California connections. Pouliot has been called "immaculate, at once refined and impassioned" by ArtsAtlanta, while Porter has been noted in the Los Angeles Times as "lovingly lyrical, occasionally frisky... on the cusp of a major career."
Program
* THE EAGLES (arr. O. Marckx) Hotel California
* ERNEST BLOCH Nigun
* IGOR STRAVINSKY (arr. S. Dushkin) "Danse Russe" from Petrushka
* MIKLOS ROZSA Variations on a Hungarian Peasant Song for Violin and Piano, Op. 4
* ANDREW NORMAN Sabina for Solo Violin
* ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD Suite from Much Ado About Nothing
* MIKLÓS RÓSZA Sonata for Two Violins, Op. 15
show less
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