At UVa, duo explores power of sonata

Violinist Max Rabinovitsj and pianist Mimi Tung will present an afternoon of sonatas for violin and piano at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Cabell Hall Auditorium.

The program will feature Beethoven’s “Sonata in C minor,’’ Prokofiev’s “Sonata in D Major’’ and Schubert’s Sonata in D Major.’’ All three works are technically and musically complex.

Rabinovitsj was trained at the Royal Brussels Conservatory of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music. He has served as concertmaster of the Gulbenkian (Portugal) Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony, the Nice (France) Orchestra and the New Orleans Symphony, among others.

He has taught at the University of Texas, the University of Evora in Portugal, the Nice Conservatory and Washington University, where he founded the St. Louis String Quartet.

His chamber ensemble, the Trio da Vinci, has been successful throughout Europe.

Tung, a member of the University of Virginia’s McIntire Department of Music, also has taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the St. Louis Music Conservatory and the University of California.

She graduated from the Juilliard School of Music and has studied with Edward Steuermann, Aube Tzerko and Leon Fleischer.

Admission is free. For details, call 924-3984.