Chloé Kiffer to Perform with the Lyceum Mozartiano Orchestra of Havana
A special concert will take place this Friday, September 20, at the San Felipe Neri Oratory, featuring guest soloist Chloé Kiffer, a renowned Franco-American violinist, performing with the Lyceum Mozartiano Orchestra of Havana, conducted by maestro José Antonio Méndez Padrón.
The program in the welcoming hall of Havana’s Historic Center will include the Overture from the opera suite Alcide by Dimitri Bortniansky; Violin Concerto by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; and two world premieres by contemporary Cuban composers: Darbuquena, a fantasy for violin and orchestra by virtuoso violinist Jenny Peña; and Kalimotxo. A mambo in San Fermín, by talented pianist Ernesto Oliva.
Chloé Kiffer is a prolific performer who has given solo recitals and concerts with orchestras throughout Europe, North and South America, the Middle East, and Asia, appearing on prestigious stages such as the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, Beethoven Hall in Bonn, the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Hall, the Tel Aviv Opera, and the National Center for the Performing Arts in Beijing.
Other highlights of her career include her October 2015 Carnegie Hall debut, where she performed Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, at the Stern Auditorium. She has collaborated with artists like Philippe Muller, Shmuel Ashkenasi, Timothy Eddy, the Emerson String Quartet, and pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine.
Kiffer is on the violin faculty at the Manhattan School of Music and previously taught at the University of North Texas. Her students have won prizes in national and international competitions.
This exceptional violinist is in high demand as a guest professor and faculty member at conservatories and festivals worldwide, including the Heifetz International Music Institute, Miami Music Festival, Beijing International Music Festival and Academy, Chamber Music International in Texas, MusicFest Perugia in Italy, Paris International Music Academy, and MusicAlps in France.
In 2019, she released an album of Maurice Ravel’s violin sonatas on the Steinway & Sons label with pianist Alexandre Moutouzkine, well known to Cuban audiences for his participation in several Young Pianists Encounters organized by the late maestro Salomón Gadles Mikowsky and the Office of the Historian of Havana.
Chloé Kiffer is a laureate of the Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation. She graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and earned postgraduate degrees from the Manhattan School of Music under Patinka Kopec and Pinchas Zukerman. She also holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Stony Brook University.
Translated by Luis E. Amador Dominguez
