Two nights before playing the Schoenberg Violin Concerto with the Utah Symphony at Abravanel Hall, Kopatchinskaja will perform Arnold Schoenberg’s seminal song cycle “Pierrot Lunaire” — usually translated as “Moonstruck Pierrot” or “Pierrot in the Moonlight” — at the nearby SKY SLC nightclub with five Utah Symphony musicians and music director Thierry Fischer.
“I played [‘Pierrot’] several times as a violinist and always longed to do it as a vocalist,” Kopatchinskaja said in an email to The Salt Lake Tribune. She’s getting her chance in Salt Lake City, though she’s already tried out the piece at a private gathering in Switzerland.