January 22 & 23, 2010

Masterpieces from the greatest
of all Czech composers

Dvorák

Carnival, Op. 92

Dvorák

Cello Concerto, Op. 104
Gabriel Cabezas, cello

Smetana

Die Moldau (Vltava) from Ma Vlast (My Fatherland)

Suk

Fantastic Scherzo, Op. 25

 

Gabriel Cabezas, violoncello

Born in Chicago in 1992, Gabriel Cabezas commenced his music studies at age four. He has performed as a guest soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the New World Symphony,. the Florida Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Nashville Symphony, the Rackham Symphony Choir and the Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, among others.

A zealous chamber musician, Cabezas has performed with artist Béla Fleck in the televised program “From the Top - Live From Carnegie Hall” and with the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra at “The Sphinx Gala Concert,” both at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Cabezas is a Second Prize Winner of the prestigious 2008 and 2009 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, the recipient of the First Prize Award of the 2008 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Youth Auditions, the winner of the First Prize of the Low Strings Concerto Competition of the 2008 Aspen Music Festival and School, as well as the recipient of the Gold Medal of the Junior Division of the 2008 Fischoff Chamber Music National Competition (The Quartet Polaris).

Cabezas has studied under the tutelage of Professor Hans Jørgen Jensen of the Academy of the Music Institute of Chicago, and was invited to join the studio of Artist Faculty Carter Brey at the Curtis Insitute of Music in the fall of 2009. Cabezas plays a distinctive violoncello crafted in 1934 by Chicago’s legendary luthier Carl G. Becker.