Washington Performing Arts presents Kian Soltani, cello, with Julio Elizalde, piano
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts 2700 F Street NW, District of Columbia 20566
Kian Soltani is a familiar face to many Washington Performing Arts patrons, having appeared in November of last season as a soloist in the “title role” of Strauss’s Don Quixote with Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra—earning praise from the Washington Post as “a wonderful cellist with dazzling intonation and clarity of sound extending to the instrument’s highest register.” In this much more intimate performance, he joins acclaimed pianist Julio Elizalde for a program that ranges from Beethoven’s noble third cello sonata to Arvo Pärt’s mesmerizing Fratres.
“A remarkable cellist, with a piercingly beautiful tone and utterly pure intonation” (The Times of London)