Benett Tsai, cello, and Noreen Polera, piano

Friends of Music Concerts presents rising cellist Benett Tsai, joined by acclaimed pianist Noreen Polera. Tsai brings both youthful energy and remarkable artistry to the stage. Known for his expressive musicality and technical finesse, he appears as a recipient of the Friends of Music Concerts YCA Performance Award and in 2023 won the Susan Wadsworth International Auditions in New York. Polera’s mastery of the complete cello-piano repertory is widely known.
The concert program is: Claude Debussy, Cello Sonata, L. 135; Marin Marais, La Folia; Dmitri Shostakovitch, Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40; Ernest Bloch, From Jewish Life, B. 54; Krzysztof Penderecki, Cappriccio per Siegfried Palm; Nadia Boulanger, Trois Pièces for Cello and Piano; Bohuslav Martinů, Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H. 290. Meet the artists at a festive post-concert reception!
Tickets are $40, under age 18 admitted free. Buy four or more admissions, good at any concert in the season, in a FlexSub and pay $35 per ticket.