Chamber Music Milwaukee – Florestan Duo
March 19 | 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Date & Time
Thursday, March 19, 2026 (7:30–9:30 p.m.)
Location
Music Building, Recital Hall and Virtual
The Florestan Duo, Stefan Kartman, collo and Jeannie Yu, piano perform an exciting program as part of the Chamber Music Milwaukee series featuring music from Bach and Rachmaninoff.
Founded in 2001 and based at UWM, Chamber Music Milwaukee has collaborated with many of today’s most exciting and important performers and composers. The series presents thematic programming that introduces innovative concert formats while exploring a broad diversity of repertoire. Featuring UWM music faculty and guest artists, the season typically presents five unique concerts. Join us as we engage with artists in imaginative and interactive experiences through ensemble performances and education.
About The Florestan Duo
Stefan Kartman and Jeannie Yu began performing together as a duo during their studies at The Juilliard School of Music in 1987. As like-minded musicians with common pedagogical lineage, they shared the same concept of an ideal sound, musical expresiveness, and excellence as they began to carry on a tradition reaching back to the formation of the genre of cello and piano duo. This tradition is the basis of inspiration for their shared ideals.
Stefan and Jeannie have performed to critical acclaim in concert halls and educational institutions throughout the United States, Europe, and the Far East. Recordings of their performances have been aired on WQXR in New York, WFMT in Chicago, and Iowa Public Radio, and Wisconsin Public Radio.
Their recording of The Complete Works of Beethoven received many positive reviews including this from Fanfare Magazine…
“Stefan Kartman, cellist, and Jeannie Yu, pianist, the members of the Florestan Duo play them (Beethoven Works) with intensity, emotional gravitas, and technical brilliance…Kartman’s instrument sings with a warm vibrant voice…both Kartman and Yu play brilliantly…The sound on the disc is state of the art.”
Maria Nockin, Feature Review – Complete Works of Beethoven for Cello and Piano – Fanfare Magazine
Both members of the Florestan Duo are accomplished teachers and performers of chamber music and solo repertoire, having served on the faculties of Drake University, Illinios Wesleyan University, the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, the MidAmerica Chamber Music Institute, the Alfred University Summer Chamber Music Institute, the Milwaukee Chamber Music Festival, the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, the Madeline Island Chamber Music Festival, Rembrandt Chamber Players, Midsummers Music Festival, and the Vianden Chamber Music Festval among many others.
Dr. Kartman is currently Professor of Cello and Chamber Music at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee and Dr. Yu teaches and freelances in the Milwaukee and Chicago metropolitan areas.
Program Detail
- Suite in D minor J.S. Bach
- Prelude
- Allemande
- Courante
- Sarabande
- Menuetto I and II
- Gigue
- Requiebros Gaspar Cassado
Intermission
- Sonata in G minor. Op. 19 Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Lento – Allegro moderato
- Allegro scherzando
- Andante
- Allegro mosso