Current Concert Schedule

The South Bay Chamber Music Society annually presents seven or eight pairs of concerts, free to the public.

 The free performances are held at Harbor College in Wilmington, Friday Evenings at Eight and at the Pacific Unitarian Church in Rancho Palos Verdes, Sunday Afternoons at Three.


Friday Evenings at Eight
Los Angeles Harbor College
Music Department–Recital Hall
1111 Figueroa Place
Wilmington, California
 

Sunday Afternoons at Three
Pacific Unitarian Church
5621 Montemalaga
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
 

  • Patrons attending the South Bay Chamber Music Society concerts at Harbor College on Friday evenings will have free parking on the college campus.
  • Free parking does not apply to the lot across L Street from the auditorium near the sports playing fields.

Thies Consort

December 2, 2016 — Los Angeles Harbor College — 8 p.m.

December 4, 2016 — Pacific Unitarian Church — 3 p.m.

Robert Thies piano; Elizabeth Hedman violin; Jessica Guideri violin; Shawn Mann viola; Jacob Braun cello

Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44 (1842)                                  Robert Schumann

Piano Quintet No. 2 in E flat minor, Op.26 (1914)                              Erno Dohnányi

Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 (1940)                                    Dmitri Shostakovich

Bach’s Circle

January 20, 2017 — Los Angeles Harbor College — 8 p.m.

January 22, 2017 — Pacific Unitarian Church — 3 p.m.

Janice Tipton flute; Allan Vogel oboe; Elizabeth Baker violin; Julie Feves bassoon; Erika Duke Kirkpatrick cello; Patricia Mabee harpsichord

Trio Sonata in C major, BWV 1037                                                           Johann Sebastian Bach

Trio for 3 treble instruments without bass, Op. 7, No. 1 (1725)       Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

Concerto in G minor, RV 105 (1724)                                                                    Antonio Vivaldi

Pièce de clavecin en Concert No. 3 in A major (1741)                               Jean-Philippe Rameau

Two Solo Keyboard Sonatas                                                                              Domenico Scarlatti

Concerto for flute, oboe, violin & continuo in A minor, TWV 43:a3       Georg Philipp Telemann

 

Piano-Wind Trio

February 24, 2017 — Los Angeles Harbor College — 8 p.m.

February 26, 2017 — Pacific Unitarian Church — 3 p.m.

Jennifer Johnson oboe; Judith Farmer bassoon; Robert Thies piano

Sonata in B minor for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano                              Jean-Baptiste Loeillet

Sonatine for Oboe and Piano (Arr. David Walter)                                        Maurice Ravel

Trilogy for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano                                                       Gernot Wolfgang

Reflets dans l’eau (from Images, Bk. 1)                                                     Claude Debussy

Sarabande et Cortege for Bassoon and Piano                                             Henri Dutilleux

Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano                                                             Francis Poulenc

California String Quartet

March 31, 2017 — Los Angeles Harbor College — 8 p.m.

April 2, 2017 — Pacific Unitarian Church — 3 p.m.

Katia Popov violin; Luanne Homzy violin; Zach Dellinger viola; Benjamin Lash cello

Divertimento in B-flat major, K. 137 (1772)                         Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

String Quartet No. 1 in E minor (From My Life, 1876)                         Bedrich Smetana

String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3 (Eroica, 1806)             Ludwig van Beethoven

Pacific Trio

April 21, 2017 — Los Angeles Harbor College — 8 p.m.

April 23, 2017 — Pacific Unitarian Church — 3 p.m.

Roger Wilkie violin; John Walz cello; Edith Orloff piano               

Trio in D minor, Op. 3 (1896)                              Alexander von Zemlinsky

Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 100, D. 929 (1828)               Franz Schubert