Repertoire (Solo violin)
*-for commission
L. Auerbach: Lonely Suite and Postlude
K. Agocs: Vesprechen
JS Bach: Six Sonatas and Partitas
B. Bartok: Solo Sonata Sz. 117, BB 124 (1944)
Paul Ben-Haim: Sonata in G major
C. E Beriot: Prélude ou Improvisation, post.
L. Bernofksy: Sonata
H. I. F Biber: Passacaglia
E. Bloch: Suite No. 1 (1977)
Suite No. 2 (2011)
J. Corigliano: Red Violin Caprices (1999)
“STOMP” (2011)
W. H. Ernst: Grand Caprice on Schubert's Der Erlkönig, D. 328, Op. 26 (1854)
G. L. Frank: Khazn’s Recitative: Elu D’vorim
J. F Friedman: Uncle Hokum's Fiddle for solo violin (2013)
D. Grantham: Black Eyed Suzy (2014)
A. Gusev: Four Inventions
P. Hindemith: Violin Sonata, Op. 31 No. 2 (1924)
A. Honneger: Sonata for solo violin (1940)
J. Ibert: Caprilena, for solo violin (1950/51)
H. Forrester (Arr. Augustin Hadelich): Wild Fiddler’s Rag (2024)
John Phillip Friedman: Uncle Hokum’s Fiddle (2013)
A. Igudesman: Funk the String
S. Jani: Six Pieces for Solo Violin (2024)
Brannon Warn-Johnston: A Year with Cancer (2024)*
F. Kreisler: Recitative and Scherzo
A. J. Kernis: The Dance of Life
A. Levin: Videogame Vespers*
P. Long: Shadow Steps (2011)*
F. Liszt: Mephisto Waltz (arr. Nathan Milstein)
W. Marsalis: Fiddle Dance Suite (2020)
D. Milhaud: "Sonatina pastorale" Op.383 (1960)
N. Milstein: Paganiniana
H. Morozomi: Real Phone Key
L. Meretzky: Red Hands
J. Montgomery: Rhapsody #1 and #2
S. Prokofiev: Solo Sonata
S. Reich: Violin Phase
E. Schulhoff: Sonata for Solo Violin (1927
R. Schumann: Widmung (arr. Alexi Kenney)
A. Smith: Metamorphosis (2017)*
P. McCartney-G. Braunstein: Blackbird Variations
N. Paganini: 24 Caprices
Introduction/Variations on "Nel cor più non mi sento" from La molinara
L. Quillin: Love Triangle (2014)
G. Tartini: Devil’s Trill Sonata
P. Telemann: 12 Fantasias
C. T. Perkinson: Blue/s Forms and Louisiana Blues Strut
A. Piazzolla: 6 Tango Etudes
K. Saariaho: Nocturne (1994)
F. Vecsey: Preludio e Fuga in C minor (1914 - dedicated to Jenő Hubay)
H. Wieniawski: "L’École Moderne", (9) Études-Caprices for Violin Solo, Op.10
8 Etudes-Caprices, Op.18
Eugene Ysaye: 6 Sonatas
Isang Yun: Li-Na im Garten / Li-Na in the Garden. Five pieces for violin solo (1984-85)
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“She [Ilana] played beautifully, and was generous with her music, poised, forgiving of interruptions by latecomers and appreciative of the riveted attention of the audience. All her selections were difficult, but she made them sing and her commentary was enlightening. -audience member
Repertoire
With Orchestra (Updated May 2025)
D. Alard: Fantasie sur ‘La Traviata’ Op. 38
JS Bach: Double Concerto for two violins, Concerto #3 in E Major
Baker: Concerto for Violin and Jazz Band
Barber: Violin Concerto
Bartok: Violin Concerto #2 in b minor
Beethoven: Violin Concerto op 61, Romance No. 2 in F Major, Op. 50
Bernstein: Serenade after Plato’s Symposium; West Side Story Suite (Arr. Czarnecki/Brohn)
Bruch: Violin Concerto #1 in g minor and #2 in D minor Op. 44
Brahms: Violin Concerto Op. 77, Double Concerto in A minor, Op 102
Britten: Violin Concerto Op. 15
Beriot: Violin Concerto 9 in A minor
Chausson: Poème, Op. 25
Corigliano: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (“The Red Violin”) (2003)
Donizetti's "Una furtiva lagrima" from the opera "L'elisir d'amore"
Dvorak: Romance in F minor, Op 11, Humoresque and Violin Concerto
Frolov: Fantasy on Themes from the opera “Porgy and Bess” (orchestra arr. Ilana Zaks)
Glass: Violin Concerto #1
Glazunov: Violin Concerto
Harrison: Violin Concerto with Percussion Ensemble
Jennifer Higdon: Violin Concerto; The Singing Rooms
Hubay: Carmen Fantasie
Kreisler: Liebesleid, Liebesfreud, Schon Rosmarin, Präludium and Allegro, Tambourin Chinois, Caprice Viennois, Viennese Rhapsodic Fantasietta
Korngold: Violin Concerto in D Major
Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole, Op 21
Marsalis: Violin Concerto (2020)
Mendelssohn: Concerto in E minor op. 64
Mozart: Concerto’s #3, 4, 5; Sinfonia Concertante in E flat Major K364
Mark O’Connor: The American Seasons: Seasons of an American Life Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra.
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 19; Violin Concerto No. 2 in g minor Op. 63
Piazzolla: The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
Price: Violin Concerto #1
Ravel: Tzigane
Rosenblatt: Carmen Fantasy (arr. For orchestra by Ilana Zaks)
Rimsky Korsakov: Concert Phantasy on ‘Le Coq d’or’ (arr. E. Zimbalist)
Saint Saens: Concerto No. 3 in b minor Op 61; Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, Havanaise. Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy, Op. 25; Caprice Basque; Zigeunerweisen Op. 20; Introduction and Tarantella; Concert Fantasy on Don Juan, Op. 51 Massenet: Meditation from opera “Thais” Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, op 47
Schwantner: Angelfire
Schumann: Violin Concerto in d minor
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1 in a minor op. 77
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto in D Major
Szymanowski: Violin Concerto #1
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35; Valse Scherzo in C major, Op 34
Vivaldi: Four Seasons
Vieuxtemps: Souvenir D’Amerique; Fantasia Appassionata; Violin Concerto #5; Air varié op. 6 - "Il Pirata"
Waxman: Carmen Fantasie
Wieniawski: Violin Concerto #2 in D minor op.22; Polonaise de Concert No. 1 in D Major op. 4; Fantasie Brillante on Gounod’s Faust; Scherzo Tarantella
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