Listen to this virtual performance presented by the Great Composers Chamber Music Series as part of the Sacramento Summer Music Virtual Festival of Concerts on August 27, 2020.
This program included:
- Sonata in G Major, BWV 1021 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750)
- Adagio – Vivace – Largo – Presto
Performers
- Nancy Wu, violin
- Susan Lamb Cook, cello
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Susan Lamb Cook is an active performer and educator both nationally and internationally. She has performed as soloist with the Sacramento Philharmonic, the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, the Reno Philharmonic, the Cairo Symphony (Egypt), the Paradise Symphony, the Camellia Symphony, the American River College Orchestra, and in 2015 was featured as soloist in a Gala Concert in the Esterhazy Palace, Eisenstadt, Austria with the Classical Music Festival Orchestra. Currently artist in residence at the Saarburg International Music Festival in Germany, she has also served on the artistic staff for the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria, and the Vianden Festival, Luxembourg. Her tours of China have included performances and master classes at the prestigious Shanghai Conservatory and in the cities of Jinan, Liaosheng, Dezhou, Qilu, Hangzhou and Xiamen. She has performed and given master classes at San Francisco State University, Scripps College, Harvey Mudd College, Marshall University in West Virginia, and Austin College in Texas. Her recordings include works by Dan Kingman on the Innova label, a CD of works by Rachmaninoff for Cello and Piano, and a CD of works by Beethoven, Beach, and Bernstein with the Gold Coast Trio. Her performances have been featured on National Public Radio and Austrian National Television. Ms. Lamb Cook is Lecturer in cello and chamber music at the University of California, Davis, and a member of the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera and the Sacramento Choral Society and Orchestra. Her principal teachers include Angelica May at the Academy of Music in Vienna, Austria, and Charles Wendt at the University of Iowa.
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Nancy Wu has served as Associate Concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra since 1989. As concertmaster, she has led performances with James Levine, Simon Rattle, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Seiji Ozawa, Valery Gergiev and Gianandrea Noseda, and has performed chamber music with the MET Chamber Ensemble, at the Verbier Festival and the Fondation Pierre Giannada. She graduated with honors from Stanford University, and studied in Vienna on a Fulbright scholarship at the Hochschule für Musik. Ms. Wu has been a coach for the Verbier Festival Orchestra since its founding in 2000, is on the faculty for the Mannes School of Music, the Round Top Summer Music Institute, and the Tsinandali Festival. She is an exclusive artist for Thomastik-Infeld Strings. Ms. Wu lives in Pleasantville, NY, with her husband, double bassist Leigh Mesh and her two children, Guinevere and Wolfie.