Michelle Makarski
Michelle Makarski is an American violinist born in Michigan. She studied in Detroit with Mischa Mischakoff and took masterclasses with Nathan Milstein. Recordings for ECM include To Be Sung on the Water, which pairs Tartini with the American composer Donald Crockett, the duo album Elogio per un'ombra with Thomas Larcher, and Bach's six sonatas for violin and keyboard, recorded with Keith Jarrett in 2010.
Violin Works
Modern music－especially American music, with its tendency to invite various traditions to share the same compositional space－can be a generous art, an art which welcomes inclusivity. Here are works by John Cage (b 1912), Yehudi Wyner (b 1929), John Harbison (b 1938), and Stephen Hartke (b 1952)－four American composers from different generations with different sensibilities, representing very different approaches to writing for the violin. Yet however much these works represent various facets of …
Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano
Michelle Makarski (violin) and Keith Jarrett (piano) in Bach's six sonatas for violin and keyboard, BWV 1014-1019. Recorded November 2010 at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.
to be sung on the water
Michelle Makarski plays three solo violin sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini and two works by Donald Crockett, one with violist Ronald Copes, recorded in March 2004 at Radio Studio DRS, Zürich.
Elogio per un'ombra
Violin recital by Michelle Makarski, with Thomas Larcher on piano in Dallapiccola and Berio, setting Tartini's Sonata No. 7 among works by Petrassi, Carter, Rochberg and a 14th-century Lamento. Recorded May 1999 at Radio DRS, Zürich.