Cañón-Valencia & Asuncion

Santiago Cañón-Valencia (cello) with Victor Santiago Asuncion (piano)

Superstar cellist Santiago Cañón-Valencia returns to open our season with a dreamy duo program of French sonatas, unique transcriptions, and Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne (adapted from his ballet Pulcinella). Cañón-Valencia is a BBC Next Generation Artist and Tchaikovsky Competition silver medalist; his skill is hailed by The Strad as “technically flawless … totally under the skin of the composers’ idioms.”

Henri Duparc (1848–1933)
Lamento from Melodies

Claude Debussy (1862–1918)
Cello Sonata

Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
“Posthume” Sonata

Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)
Suite Française

Ravel
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Pièce en forme de Habanera

Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
Suite Italienne