Lee and Graber and the Complete Beethoven Sonatas

Michael Zwiebach on July 13, 2010

San Francisco native and Julliard grad Wayne Lee returns to his old stomping grounds to join pianist Miles Graber in a complete traversal of the Beethoven violin sonatas in three concerts, beginning on Friday July 19 at the Crowden School in Berkeley. Lee is an up-and-comer who performs with several ensembles in NYC, as well as the Orchestra of St. Luke's and Orpheus. His Manhattan Piano Trio competed for last year's Naumburg Foundation Chamber Music Award. When a young musician gives this much of himself, he deserves to be heard. Here's betting that the concerts are a hidden summer treat, particularly the last one, on Friday, July 23, pitting the “Kreutzer” Sonata (No. 9), which is one of the early “heroic period” works, against the reflective, autumnal, G-Major Sonata (No. 10).