Despite different musical backgrounds, clarinetist Sam Sadigursky and pianist Vered Reznik discovered an instant connection upon first playing together in 2017.

Sadigursky and Reznik are both committed to interesting programing that is both personal to them and accessible to diverse audiences. In addition to performing many of the staples of the clarinet and piano repertoire, including extended works by Brahms, Schumann, Poulenc and Bernstein, they have also performed 20th century pieces by composers such as Lutoslawski, Ben-Haim, Horovitz, Bartok and Finzi. They are currently exploring programs dedicated to Jewish composers from around the world, both known and unknown, and are also digging their way through a trove of unrecorded and largely unpublished music that Sadigursky recently discovered in his father’s garage that was brought over from the USSR, written by a number of composers isolated by communism whose music never made it to the West.

Both players are both passionate and experienced music educators as well, and are currently assembling an energetic one hour family program which will highlight their instruments and illustrate basic musical concepts through vivid and playful examples from their repertoire.

Sam Sadigursky, who is primarily known as an improviser, has always had a passion for classical chamber music, and although he’s also known as a saxophonist and flutist, he has primarily focused on the clarinet for the past decade. The son of two Soviet-born classical musicians who met in conservatory in the USSR, as a child he was exposed to a wide array of classical music and opera, and spent countless hours playing from piano scores over his mother’s shoulder.

As a composer, Sadigursky’s work has always showed deep classical influence - he is the recipient of a Chamber Music America grant in 2009, and four of his solo albums are released on New Amsterdam Records, which is primarily a label for new, original classical music. Sadigursky has performed extensively in Europe, Japan, South America and Australia with artists as diverse as Brad Mehldau, Gabriel Kahane, Edmar Castaneda, Darcy James Argue, Fred Hersch and the Mingus Orchestra. He was also recently featured as the onstage clarinetist in the Tony and Grammy Award winning Broadway show The Band’s Visit.

Selected Repertoire List

Fantasy Pieces Op. 73 - Robert Schumann
Clarinet Sonata - Francis Poulenc
Clarinet Sonata - Leonard Bernstein
Dance Preludes - Witold Lutoslawski 
Songs Without Words - Paul Ben Haim
Scaramouche - Darius Milhaud
Clarinet Sonata - Joseph Horovitz 
Five Bagatelles Op. 23 - Gerald Finzi
Ballade for Bass Clarinet and Piano - Eugene Bozza
Five Romanion Folk Dances - Bela Bartok
Little Suite - Jiri Kratochvil
Clarinet Sonata in F minor - Johannes Brahms
Hassidic Suite - Joachim Stutschewsky
Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano - Antoni Szalowski