In 2023-2024, The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience examined a little-known but seminal artistic movement that profoundly influenced the development of Jewish art music in the 20th century, the St. Petersburg Society for Jewish Folk Music (1908-1917). Pianist, Milken Center artistic director and UCLA director of orchestral studies Neal Stulberg curates this series of rarely-performed works. Part I of these rarely-performed works focused on pairs of contrasting piano and chamber works by Society composers:

Alexander Krein Poème, Op. 10 for cello and piano (1907-1910)

Alexander Krein Aria, Op. 41 for violin and piano (1927)

Alexander Veprik Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 3 (1922)

Alexander Veprik Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 5 (1924)

Mikhail Gnessin “Requiem” for Piano Quintet, Op. 11 (1914)

Mikhail Gnessin Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano (“Requiem for our Lost Children”), Op. 63 (1943)