SAKURA Cello Quintet
September 24, 2021 at 8:00 PM PDT – Los Angeles Harbor College
September 26, 2021 at 3:00 PM PDT – Pacific Unitarian Church
Stella Cho, Michael Kaufman, Benjamin Lash, Peter Myers, and Ben Solomonow; celli
Orlando Gibbons: Silver Swan
John Dowland: M. George Whitehead his Almand
John Dowland: The Earle of Essex Galliard
Carlo Gesualdo: Moro, Lasso, al mio duolo
Manuel de Falla: Ritual Fire Dance (arr. Peter Myers)
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Vocalise (arr. Peter Myers)
Johannes Brahms: Scherzo from FAE sonata (arr. Michael Kaufman)
Antonin Dvořák: Silent Woods (arr. Michael Kaufman)
Leonard Bernstein: “Somewhere” and “Mambo” from West Side Story (arr. Simon Parkin)
Johannes Brahms: Intermezzo, Op. 117/1 (arr. Peter Myers)
Chick Corea: Spain (arr. Peter Myers)
New Hollywood String Quartet with guest cellist, Antonio Lysy
October 22, 2021 at 8:00 PM PDT – Los Angeles Harbor College
October 24, 2021 at 3:00 PM PST – Pacific Unitarian Church
Tereza Stanislav, violin; Rafael Rishik, violin; Robert Brophy, viola; Andrew Shulman, cello
Mozart: Quartet No. 14 in G Major, K. 387
Schubert: String Quintet in C Major, D. 956
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The Thies Consort
December 3, 2021 at 8:00 PM PST – Los Angeles Harbor College
December 5, 2021 at 3:00 PM PST – Pacific Unitarian Church
Robert Thies piano
Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87 (1883)
Dvořák : Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65 (1883)
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Lyris Quartet
January 14, 2022 at 8:00 PM PST – Los Angeles Harbor College
January 16, 2022 at 3:00 PM PST – Pacific Unitarian Church
Alyssa Park violin; Shalini Vijayan violin; Luke Maurer viola; Timothy Loo, cello
Caroline Shaw: Blueprint
Mozart: Quartet No. 19 in C Major, K. 465 “Dissonance”
-intermission-
Sergei Prokofiev: String Quartet No. 1 in B minor, Op. 50
Jessie Montgomery: Strum
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Trio Celeste
February 18, 2022 at 8:00 PM PST – Los Angeles Harbor College
February 20, 2022 at 3:00 PM PST – Pacific Unitarian Church
Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 32 (1894)
Mendelssohn: Piano Trio no. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 (1839)
Los Angeles Reed Quintet
March 11, 2022 at 8:00 PM PST – Los Angeles Harbor College
March 13, 2022 at 3:00 PM PST – Pacific Unitarian Church
Mendelssohn (arr. Jelte Althuis): The Hebrides, Op. 26 (1830)
Mahler (arr. Trevor Cramer): Three Songs from ‘Des Knaben Wunderhorn’
Rheinlegendchen (1893)
Wer hat dies Liedlein erdacht? (1892)
Lob des hohen Verstandes (1899)
Ligeti: Six Bagatelles (1953)
Nina Shekhar Red (2018)
Yanjun Hua (arr. Oliver Boekhoorn): The Moon’s Reflection on the Second Spring (1949)
Corelli (arr. Raaf Hekkema): Sonata no. 5 ‘La folia’ op. 5 no. 12 (1700)
Nina Simone (arr. Jelte Althuis): For All We Know
Charlie Parker: Piece TBA
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Vanhauwaert / Byers Duo
April 22, 2022 at 8:00 PM PST – Los Angeles Harbor College
April 24, 2022 at 3:00 PM PST – Pacific Unitarian Church
Webern: Two Pieces (1899)
Schumann: Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70 (1849)
Bernstein: Three Meditations from MASS (1971)
Debussy: Sonata for Cello and Piano (1915)
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Webern: Three Little Pieces, Op. 11 (1914)
Brahms: Sonata for Piano and Cello in F major, Op. 99 (1886)
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