Join us in the Wharton Black Box Theater for the first Salon Series of the season! Featuring violinist Robert Radliff and pianist Anna Keiserman, the concert includes works by Medtner, Beethoven, and Debussy. Wine and cheese will be served in an intimate setting where the audience is seated on stage with the performers.
$12/Adults
$6/Students & Seniors
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Robert Radliff has appeared as guest soloist with numerous orchestras in Florida, New York, and New Jersey and has collaborated with some of the world’s most iconic musical figures including Yo-Yo Ma, Itzhak Perlman, and Jamie Laredo, among others. He is currently the concertmaster of the South Orange Symphony and performs as section violinist with the New England Symphonic Ensemble, an orchestra-in-residence at Carnegie Hall, and the Berkshire Opera Festival in Great Barrington, MA. Radliff has a B.A. in Violin Performance from the Peabody Conservatory and M.A. and Graduate Artist Diploma in Performance from Montclair State University.
Russian-born and New York-based pianist Anna Keiserman is known for her creative programming, expressive freedom, and singular vision. Performance credits in New York City include performing at Le Poisson Rouge, the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, and the Fête de La Musique at the invitation of the French-American Piano Society. Other notable venues include the Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts (Toms River, NJ) and the Strand Theater (Hudson Falls, NY), Ateneu Barcelonès (Barcelona, Spain). In the summer of 2019 Anna embarked on a concert tour through Spain, premiering the Sonata Cerdanyenca for Cello and Piano by Marc Migó Cortes. As a soloist, she has performed concerti with the Volgograd Symphony Orchestra (Volgograd, Russia), University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra, Somerset Symphony Orchestra among others, and also toured through Italy, Spain and Russia. Among Dr. Keiserman’s awards are top prizes in international piano competitions in Russia, as well as second place in the 2019 American Prize Competition. In 2017, she received the “Culture and Art Award” from the New Russia Cultural Center in Rensselaer, NY, for her dedication to promoting arts and culture in the community. Anna Keiserman has served as faculty at the NYU Steinhardt School of the Arts, at the Rutgers University Extension Division, and at William Paterson University. Having earned degrees from the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music in Moscow and the University of Minnesota, Dr. Keiserman completed her Doctorate in Piano Performance at Rutgers University, where she earned the Elizabeth Wyckoff Durham Award for academic distinction and excellence in piano performance. In September 2020, she joined the faculty of Raritan Valley Community College as an Assistant Professor of Piano.