While Kendal is precluded from having in-person concerts, it will have a special New Year’s Day Concert on its internal TV channel— Channel 970.
Pianist Solomon Eichner was to make his Kendal debut on November 24. Unfortunately, plans changed due to COVID. So, at 3 pm on New Year’s Day on Channel 970, the Music Committee will sponsor a concert performed by Mr. Eichner at the Polish Embassy in Washington D.C. in 2017.
The one-hour program includes works by Rachmaninoff, Paderewski, Brahms, Debussy, Chopin and Kapustin.
Mr. Eichner has performed throughout Europe and the U.S. He debuted at Carnegie Hall in April 2016 after winning the “Golden Key Debut” International Competition in New York City. Originally from Baltimore, he received his Bachelor’s from the Manhattan School of Music, Master’s from Peabody Conservatory, and Doctorate from the University of South Carolina. His dissertation was on the Jewish Soviet repressed pianist/composer Samuil Feinberg.
Mr. Eichner lives in Chapel Hill, N.C.