Journey of 100
In May 2012, at Lincoln Center in NYC, I set out on a journey to share myself as an equal partner with listeners in experiencing the Chaconne: a profound work of solo violin music that is the culminating movement of the Partita in D Minor byJ. S. Bach. Player, Listener and Music coming together as a Trinity.
100 performances provide a long-term focus to refine my capacity to connect all the parts of this Trinity, and develop a violin technique that creates clear musical independence of the three and sometimes four voices that Bach uses in his works for solo violin.
I write today having recently passed the half-way mark of the Journey of 100. I am more certain than ever that this entire Partita is one of his rare, personal expressions, the five movements forming a continuous story of his personal experience of the Soul’s journey and his questions of Life and the Beyond.
Croton-on-Hudson, NY January 18, 2026
Upcoming Journeys
Chaconne #44 – Vibrational Healing Webcast #5 – SUN MAY 17 12pm ET
This 44th performance of the Journey of 100 is dedicated to the memory of Violist/Conductor Vincent J. Lionti, who passed away last April from COVID19 related illness. Free Zoom Webcast featuring Vocalist David J Kennet, Sound Healer Serena Buschi, and Qigong Practitioner Phillip J. Coyle Space is limited, so please sign up here More info: www.runningwolf.cloud/transformfear
Read MoreSecret Messages and Shostakovich’s Music – Nov. 9th, 8pm NYC
Hi everyone – I collaborated in the creation of this new and exciting ballet that reveals some of the “secret messages” long attributed to Shostakovich’s music. Injury castillejo, the milan press release: low-grade hamstring injury sustanon 350 10ml vial 350mgml how to train the bodyweight biceps bar brothers italia. Messages In Time Saturday November 9, 2019 8pm Capezio Theater at Peridance, 126 East 13th Street, just off Union Square. BUY TICKETS HERE Photos, the music, and the creative process
Read MoreChaconne #43 – Spring Hill Farm Artists’ Retreat
This performance, arranged at the last minute, was somewhat raw from my point of view, yet (seemingly) extraordinarily powerful for the artists and their companions who were attending. In our training as violinists, polished performance is a professional essential. However I am reminded by this evening that the spiritual and emotional power of Music transcends all the notions of “polished performance” we are trained to set as standards and goals. In fact, without it we accomplish little for others, and diminish the return for ourselves. I feel privileged to have been invited by retreat leaders Tim Hawkesworth and Lala Zeitlin,…
Read MoreIt’s All About Love – Feb 16, 2019, 7:30 pm
Robert Burkhardt, Oxana Mikhailoff, Shem Guibbory Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Gershwin/Heifetz and Beethoven Bronxville Womens Club – 7:30pm Saturday February 16thhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/all-about-love-robert-burkhart-cello-oxana-mikhailoff-piano-shem-guibbory-violin-tickets-54664370604
Read MoreChaconne #42 – December 20, 2018 NYC – Private performance
This performance was a home-coming for me – so many colleagues and friends from early on in my career, folks to whom I have looked up all my life. Although I wasn’t nervous, I do want to say that I had some trepidation about presenting to these superbly knowledgeable musicians my intensely personal artistic vision of J.S. Bach and his music. Somehow it seemed to go well and all were enthusiastic in their appreciation – phew! In talking afterwards with my life-long friend Earl Howard – composer, instrumentalist – I started to get an idea of a new kind of…
Read MoreChaconne #41 – Oct 17, 2108 Jr. B# Musical Club
At the Jr. B# Musical Club of Central New York, 7 pm My performance tonight is part of an evening that includes Helden Tenor Jon Frederik West giving a talk about the role of Samson in Camille Saint-Saens’ Samson and Dalilah – a MET Opera HD world-wide theatrical broadcast this Saturday afternoon. What a great night. My friend and colleague Jon Frederick West started the evening out with a super presentation on Samson and Dalilah – MET’s upcoming HD Theatrical Broadcast, this Saturday afternoon. The tiny room was packed with young musicians, some of whom I have coached in the past…
Read MoreJanuary 7, 2019 – Musical Responses to Oppression – JCC in Tarrytown, NY
10:00-11:30am Lecture-Performance Musical Responses to Oppression through the music of Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Gershwin In this lecture program we explore three astonishingly different works: Prokofiev’s Sonata in D Major Op.94a written during the middle of WWII when he was protectively sequestered by Soviet Bodybuilding Motivation – Your Game kvalitet doxycycline med forsendelse er kroppsbygging sunt? authorities, deep in the Ural Mountains; Preludes Op. 34 by Shostakovich, written when his life seemed to be hanging by a thread under Stalin’s displeasure; and Jasha Heifetz’s arrangements from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. with Oxana Mikhailoff, Piano JCC on Hudson 371 S Broadway, Tarrytown,…
Read MoreFebruary 17, 2018 3pm – It’s all about Love!
You will love this program! In fact, we feel that the music on this program really is all about Love. There is something for everyone: Rachmaninoff’s expression of Romantic Love, Beethoven’s Love from the Celestial Realms, Jascha Heifetz’s beloved transcription of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Shostakovich’s almost painfully beautiful Preludes. And, yes, we agree with you: opposites attract! Shem Guibbory, Violin with Oxana Mikhailoff, Piano and Robert Burkhart, Cello Rachmaninoff Cello Sonata Gershwin/Heifetz Porgy and Bess Shostakovich/Tziganov Preludes from Op. 34 Beethoven Trio Op 97 Archduke Sparkill Concert Series Oxana Mikhailoff and Vassily Primakov, Artistic Directors Union Arts Center Sparkill, NY
Read MoreChaconne #40 – Utica College, October 17, 2018 12:30 PM
Program opens with Schumann Sonata #1 in a, Op. 105, with Sar-Shalom Strong, Piano Utica College Jackson Lunch Hour Series. 12:30P.M. In my most recent post, I wrote about seeking the balance between pulse and freedom – between expressing Bach’s internal structure and the freedom of flow, in doing so. I decided for today’s performance to allow my impulse for flow to lead the way. To be honest I am not certain how I feel about the results, there was a recording made and I will listen – I was deep into flow most all of the way through. I…
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