Thursday, October 23, 2025
7:30 p.m.
1900 Building, 1900 Shawnee Mission Parkway, Mission Woods, Kansas 66205
This side-by-side concert will feature International Center for Music cellist Daniel Veis, pianist Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich and violist Christine Grossman performing with the Kanas City Symphony’s first violinist and concertmaster Jun Iwasaki, principal cellist Mark Gibbs and acting associate principal double bassist Richard Ryan. They will present a masterful chamber music program that will include Mendelssohn’s “Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49,” and Schubert’s “Trout Piano Quintet (Forellenquintett) in A Major, D. 667” on Thursday, Oct. 23, starting at 7:30 p.m., at the 1900 Building in Mission Woods, Kan.
Program
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
I Molto allegro agitato
II Molto allegro agitato
III Scherzo. Leggiero e vivace
IV Finale. Allegro assai appassionato
Jun Iwaski, Violin
Mark Gibbs, Cello
Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich, Piano
Intermission
The Trout Piano Quintet (Forellenquintett) in A Major, D. 667 by Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828)
I Allegro vivace
II Andante
III Scherzo: Presto
IV Andantino – Allegretto
V Allegro giusto
Jun Iwasaki, Violin
Christine Grossman, Viola
Daniel Veis, Piano
Richard Ryan, Double Bass
Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich, Piano
Biographies
Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich
Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich Born into a Tashkent (Uzbekistan) musical family, Lolita Lisovskaya-Sayevich began studying piano at the age of 4. In 1985 she entered the Uspensky Central Music School in Tashkent. In 1993 she started attending a private school for young musicians in Moscow, and that same year received the first prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition in Göttingen, Germany. She entered the Tchaikovsky Special Music School in 1995, and two years later was accepted to the Tchaikovsky Moscow Conservatory under the tutelage of Vera Gornostaeva, with whom she continued postgraduate study from 2002 to 2004. Lisovskaya-Sayevich also studied with Stanislav Ioudenitch at Park University. Read Full Biography Here
Daniel Veis
Daniel Veis has been widely recognized as the finest Czech cellist since winning the Silver Medal at the prestigious 1978 Tchaikovsky International Competition, Moscow, and the First Prize at the 1976 Prague Spring International Competition.
He started his musical studies in his native Prague and proceeded to the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire furthering his studies with the famous Natalia Shakhovskaya, graduating with full distinction.
Since 1979 he has performed regularly as a soloist with many major orchestras in such respected venues as Avery Fisher Hall and Carnegie Hall NY, Royal Albert Hall, Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall and Kings Place (London), Orchard Hall (Tokyo), Auditorí de Barcelona, Auditorio National de Madrid, Neues Gewandhaus Leipzig and Festsaal Dresden and all major halls in Czechoslovakia including Rudolfinum and Smetana Hall in Prague.
Christine Grossman
Born to a musical family and raised in New York City, Christine Grossman began playing the violin at the age of 5, piano at the age of 10 and viola at 16. She received both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in viola performance from the Juilliard School.
Before moving to Kansas City, Grossman previously held positions with the Pacific Symphony in Southern California, Delaware Symphony and the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Fla. She has also performed as a substitute violist with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Richard Ryan
