In addition to being its namesake, Franz Kneisel’s passion for chamber music is the heart and soul of Kneisel Hall.
Kneisel Hall offers two distinct programs for music students and young professional artists.
Kneisel Hall offers two distinct programs for music students and young professional artists.
The 2025 season offers another summer with the best of chamber music. Join us from June 27 to August 24.
With more than 50 opportunities to enjoy a performance, we look forward to sharing a full slate of Friday and Sunday concerts, Open Rehearsals, Master Classes, the ever-popular Young Artist Concert series, and more!
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This season, he makes solo appearances with Mason Bates’s Piano Concerto in Italy and Vijay Iyer’s ‘Handmade Universe’ with East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) in Seattle. Other highlights include a program with the JACK Quartet at the Frick Collection in New York, the 3 Brahms Sonatas with Pinchas Zukerman, and a U.S. tour with Joshua Bell.
Shai’s chamber arrangements of various Beethoven Symphonies have been premiered and toured by Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma and are available in GRAMMY-nominated recordings released by Sony Classical. His own recordings for Onyx Classics range from Schubert sonatas, to chamber works by Bartók and Kurtág, to concerti by Haydn and Ligeti.
He has received Lincoln Center’s Martin E. Segal Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.