‘Music for a Sunday Afternoon' will feature violin and piano

Tuxedo Park — The Malkin Duo, sisters Anat Malkin-Almani and Bracha Malkin, accompanied by pianist Eduard Laurel, will offer a recital at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 29, at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church at 6 Fox Hill Road in Tuxedo Park. The concert will feature works by Handel, Vivaldi, Moszkowski, Shostakovich, and Sarasate for two violins and piano. The Malkin Duo, formed in 1996, were winners of that year’s Artist International Series Auditions, entitling them to a debut recital at Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall. They have performed there since, as well as in Israel, Italy, and throughout the U.S. In 2003, the sisters were winners of the Trinity Concert Series Auditions. In his book, “Violin Virtuosos from Paganini to the 21st Century,” Henry Roth named both sisters as “gifted young violinists who are among the vanguard leading the march of violin art into the 21st century.” Almani began her violin studies at the age of five with her father, Isaac Malkin, and made her Carnegie Hall debut at 16 under the baton of Alexander Schneider. Concert tours have taken her throughout Holland, Israel, Italy, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States. She is now a member of the violin faculty at the Manhattan School of Music. Malkin began studying the violin at the age of four under the tutelage of her father. She continued her studies at the Manhattan School of Music, and graduated from The Curtis Institute. She has been heard in numerous performances worldwide, both with orchestras and in solo recital, including the St. Petersburg State Academy Symphony, Ural Philharmonic, Westchester Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Hall in Amsterdam, St. Petersburg’s Kapella Hall, in Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem, and toured in Japan, Brazil, Italy and the United States. Laurel, a pianist and native Texan, studied at the University of Texas. A member of the Easternmost Piano Quartet, he also works as a freelance pianist in New York City, and is on the staff at the Julliard School and Mannes College of Music. The program is sponsored by St. Mary’s-In-Tuxedo.Advance tickets, at $25 for general admission and $15 for students and seniors, can be purchased at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Tuxedo Wine and Liquors, Tuxedo Park School, and Tuxedo Park Estates. For more information, call 351-5122.