The Classics

**Seasonal concert performances playing viola in DCINY Orchestra at Carnegie Hall**

After graduating with her master’s degree from Juilliard in NYC, Heffter toured France as violist with the award winning Manfred String Quartet. With her travels came an appetite to write, and Heffter composed Eschapé, an impressionist flute quartet, premiered at Carnegie Recital Hall, reviewed by the New York Times as “astonishingly beautiful … an homage to Ravel.” This success paved the way for Heffter’s ambitions as a composer, positioning her for an eternal conflict between desires to both perform and create. Shown above is Heffter in viola section of the DCINY orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

SOLO VIOLA

VIOLA SUITES
^{Heffter’s Suites} ^{for Unaccompanied Viola}

^{Video performances by the extraordinary Jordan Bak, branded}
^{“A star in the making” by CAG}

Click to see Video of Jordan Bak playing Viola Suite in G

_{Opposite: Violist Jordan Bak, winner of Concert Artists Guild 2019 Victor Elmaleh Competition, plays 1st and 4th movements of Heffter’s Second Viola Suite in C}

Despite the pandemic of 2020, Rudin Management sponsored a carefully social distanced public concert in NYC on Park Avenue, as a tribute to 9/11

STRING QUARTET

“A Beautiful Life” by Lisa Heffter, for a somber day of Remembrance.

VIOLIN & PIANO

RAGE
^{_{Heffter’s fury for violin & piano}}

_{Laura Goldberg and Jeremy Reger}

!st movement: RAGE

2nd Movement : LIBERTY

3rd Movement: BRUTAL

_{Jeremy and Laura in rehearsal for RAGE}

OPERA

Illuminations
^excerpt

“ILLUMINAZIONE”

^{sung by Lea Friedman w/Esoterica String Quartet}

_{An Italian woman, once a scientist in her own country, has fled to America, and finds work as a house cleaner. One day she is hired by a five star high rise hotel; in a moment of despair, she steps out onto the balcony for some fresh air, and ….is illuminated.}

_{opposite: Soprano Lea Friedman}

STRING QUARTET

Carbon Fiber
String Quartet

recorded by Laura Goldberg, Kristi Heidleberg, Annabel Hoffman, Lisa Heffter

1st Movement

2nd Movement

3rd Movement

_{Opposite: premier performance NYC
L.Goldberg, S. Nelson, B. Clinesmith, L. Heffter}

Cello & Piano

FLIGHT INTO THE STARS of INFINITY

“Flight into the Stars of Infinity”

recorded live performance
^{played by Misha Veselov , cello & Eri Nakamura , piano}

_{Commission from Porto Alegre, Brazil in honor of Eva Sopher; premiered by cellist Marjana Rutkowski “..even the most taciturn man in the audience came to us very moved after listening to Lisa’s creation.”}