Whidbey Island Music Festival 2021
Between Heaven and Earth: A Year with Brahms
Sunday June 27 2021 at 4 pm, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley, WA

Violinist Tekla Cunningham and pianist Sheila Weidendorf have spent this past year and more immersed in the violin sonatas of Johannes Brahms, meeting weekly during the pandemic to form a micro-music pod. The lockdown has forced all of us indoors and inwards, and this time of reflection and deepening has been transformative one both personally and musically for this project. What began as personal exploration quickly became a chrysalis for transformation as the musical journey deepened over the course of the year together. Tekla and Sheila will be playing the complete Brahms sonatas this summer at outdoor events through the Whidbey Island Music Festival, and are embarking on a recording project as well.