Bach Cello Suites with Johnny Gandelsman, violin

Grammy award-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman presents Bach’s complete cello suites on the violin.  Gandelsman will perform all six Cello Suites in a solo performance in Kresge Auditorium.

Richard Brody of The New Yorker has called Johnny Gandelsman “revelatory” in concert, placing him in the company of “radically transformative” performers like Maurizio Pollini, Peter Serkin, and Christian Zacharias.

Gandelsman integrates a wide range of creative sensibilities into a unique style amongst today’s violinists, one that, according to the Boston Globe, possesses “a balletic lightness of touch and a sense of whimsy and imagination.” Gandelsman’s recording of the complete Bach Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, which reached #1 on the Billboard Classical Chart, and made it onto NY Magazine and NY Times Best of the Year lists, was described by the Globe as “…sparklingly personal Bach, shorn of grandeur, lofted by a spirit of dance, and as predictable as the flight of a swallow.”

General Admission $20; Students $10; MIT community Free.  Tickets available on-line for advance purchase and at the door if available.