
Tsai appears as a recipient of the Friends of Music Concerts Performance Award and in 2023 won the Susan Wadsworth International Auditions in New York. Polera’s mastery of the complete cello-piano repertory is widely known. The concert program is: Claude Debussy, Cello Sonata, L. 135; Marin Marais, La Folia; Dmitri Shostakovitch, Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40; Ernest Bloch, From Jewish Life, B. 54; Krzysztof Penderecki, Cappriccio per Siegfried Palm; Nadia Boulanger, Trois Pièces for Cello and Piano; Bohuslav Martinù, Variations on a Theme of Rossini, H. 290.
Tickets are $40, under age 18 admitted free.