A rising star of historically informed performance, Rachell Ellen Wong brings rare expressive nuance and refreshing vitality to her famously soft-spoken instrument of choice, the Baroque violin. Wong is a recipient of a prestigious 2020 Avery Fisher Career Grant, and the only early-music specialist recognized in the award’s history. In her Cal Performances debut, she performs a signature work, Biber’s Sonata No. 5; a solo arrangement of Tartini’s fiery The Devil’s Trill; and dazzling sonatas by Corelli, Herrando, Veracini, and Bach, accompanied by harpsichordist David Belkovski and cellist Coleman Itzkoff.

This performance is made possible, in part, by Nadine Tang and an Anonymous Patron Sponsor.