Having a Lark on Stage

The Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall was totally energized when UCSB Arts & Lectures hosted captivating violinist Tessa Lark in her Santa Barbara debut with pianist Amy Yang, director of chamber music and piano studies at the Curtis Institute of Music.

Béla Bartók’s “Romanian Folk Dances” kicked off the concert also featuring Eugène Ysaÿe’s “Sonata No. 4 in E Minor” and two eponymous works by Lark, including “Jig and Pop.”

Two Fritz Kreisler pieces ended the entertaining performance, including “Chanson Louis XIII et Pavane,” and John Corigliano’s “Sonata for Violin and Piano.”

A delightful show…