Eric Pritchard, violin, and Carl Banner, piano, perform Sonatas of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms

Washington Musica Viva and Episcopal Church of the Ascension present Eric Pritchard, violin, and Carl Banner, piano, in a program of Sonatas for violin and piano by Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. From livestream May 12 2024. (Video courtesy of Church of the Ascension, Bailey Joy Myers, music director).

Bach - Sonata in E, BWV 1016
Adagio
Allegro
Adagio ma non tanto
Allego

Beethoven - Sonata #8 in G, Op. 30 #3
Allegro assai
Tempo di Minuetto
Allegro vivace

Brahms - Sonata #3 in D minor, Op. 108
Allegro
Adagio
Un poco presto e con sentimento
Presto agitato

Eric Pritchard is first violinist of the Ciompi Quartet of Duke University. He studied at the New England Conservatory, the Indiana University School of Music and the Juilliard School, where he received a Master of Music in 1985. His principal teachers were Josef Gingold, Ivan Galamian, Eric Rosenblith and Giorgio Ciompi. Pritchard was awarded First Prizes at the London International String Quartet Competition and at the Coleman and Fischoff national chamber music competitions.

Pianist Carl Banner is co-founder and director of Washington Musica Viva. A musician since childhood, he studied with, among others, Harold Zabrack, Leon Fleisher, Leo Smit, and Leonard Shure, and performed in numerous solo and chamber concerts from the age of 14. He was awarded a PhD in cell biology from Harvard University in 1983, and pursued a 20 year career in biomedical research. In 2004, Banner retired from the National Institutes of Health in order to devote full time to producing and performing concerts with Washington Musica Viva.