Acclaimed violinist, pianist to perform Beethoven in Marion

Feb 22, 2015

Famed violinist Ariadne Daskalakis will return to Marion alongside pianist Miri Yampolsky on March 7 to perform Ludwig van Beethoven: The 10 Sonatas for Violin and Piano.

Daskalakis, the creator of the Music from Land’s End Wareham festival series, added a Marion concert last year for the first time.

That event, which was scheduled in the summer, competed with a crowded arts schedule. Hosting Daskalakis and Yampolsky in late winter will hopefully draw a larger crowd, said Patty Wylde.

“Daskalakis is incredibly popular and more and more people have heard her play with the New Bedford Symphony Orchestra,” Wylde said. “Concertgoers see just how good her musicianship is and how polished her skills are.”

Daskalakis has performed on stages on Boston, Lisbon, Berlin and elsewhere.

Wylde, the festival coordinator for Music from Land’s End, has known Daskalakis since the latter was child living in Wareham. The goal of the concert series is to offer exceptional classical music available to local audiences, she said.

The Marion show is one of three scheduled across Eastern Massachusetts. The duo will also perform in Boston and Wareham. Daskalakis and Yampolsky gave their debut recital together at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and have performed across the globe as soloists and as a duo since 1998.

The concerts will take place on the following dates:

  • Thursday, March 5, 7:30 p.m. at the Goethe Institute, 170 Beacon St., Boston. Tickets will be sold at the door for $25 and $15.
  • Saturday, March 7, 5 p.m. at St. Gabriel’s Church, 124 Front St., Marion. The admission is a donation at the door.
  • Sunday, March 8, 3 p.m. at the Church of the Good Shepherd, 74 High St., Wareham. The admission is a donation at the door.