The Artist Series of Tallahassee presents the Amernet String Quartet as Artists in Residence from January 19-23. The residency includes performances, masterclasses, and a musical outreach program for underserved youth. A final public concert will take place in Opperman Music Hall at the FSU College of Music on January 23. Additional details about the residency can be found here. Details regarding the concert at FSU can be found here.
Read MoreThe Verona Quartet will be featured at Town Hall Seattle on January 13 in collaboration with Joshua Roman, cellist and Artistic Director of Town Music. The program includes Teen Murti by Reena Esmail and Schubert’s String Quintet in C (both configured for string quintet with two cellos) as well as the US premiere of Blank Canvas by Canadian-Chinese composer, Roydon Tse. The program will be in-person and live-streamed. Full program information can be found here.
Read MoreThe Lysander Piano Trio will appear at Chamber Music America’s 2022 Virtual Conference on Friday, January 7 at 4:30pm. The showcase presents a brief explanation of upcoming programs and works by Brian Raphael Nabors, Johannes Brahms, and the Trio’s new tango-infused collaboration with JP Jofre on bandoneon. An opportunity to meet the artists virtually will follow at 7:00pm. More details can be found here.
Read MoreDanbi Um will present a duo program with guitarist Jiji at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts on December 18. Having performed together frequently in concert, the pair curates a program of solo and collaborative works ranging from traditional and contemporary classical music to free improvisation and virtuosic showpieces. All details for the performance can be found here.
Read MoreThe Lysander Piano Trio will be featured at the Hayden’s Ferry Chamber Music Series in Tempe, AZ on December 5. Works on the program include Joaquin Turina's "Circulo", Haydn's Piano Trio in E flat, Brian Raphael Nabors’s Piano Trio (2019), and Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat. The afternoon performance will take place in the beautiful Lakeside Room at Tempe Center for the Arts. Tickets and program details are available here.
Read MorePianist David Fung will join violinist Tessa Lark and cellist Joshua Roman for a performance of Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with the Las Vegas Philharmonic on November 20. Additional orchestral works by Beethoven and Missy Mazzoli will be featured on the program under the baton of Donato Cabrera. Full program and additional details can be found here.
Read MoreThe Verona Quartet will return to residency at the Lunenberg Academy of Music Performance in Nova Scotia, Canada. An international center for advanced studies in performance and interpretation, LAMP invites premiere artists and ensembles to perform on their concert series and provide personal instruction and performance feedback for students at the Academy. The Verona will present three programs from November 9 to December 5, with works ranging from quartets by Beethoven and Schubert to contemporary pieces by Jessie Montgomery and Roydon Tse. More concert info here.
Read MoreOn November 8, the Amernet String Quartet will be among the featured artists in a celebration of Judith Lang Zaimont’s music at Merkin Hall in New York City. Originally intended. as a 75th birthday celebration of the internationally regarded composer in 2020, this 75+1 event features the Amernet performing Zaimont’s second quartet, “A Strange Magic.” More details can be found here: www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/75-1-a-celebration-of-judith-lang-zaimont
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The Verona Quartet will appear in concert at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois on October 14. The program’s title, “What is Left for Us to Write,” takes inspiration from a remark by Schubert upon hearing Beethoven’s Quartet No. 14, Op. 131. Alongside this late Beethoven quartet, the Verona will perform Schubert’s Quartettsatz in C minor, D. 703 and Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout by Gabriela Lena Frank.
Just three days later, the Quartet will bring the same program to Mobile, Alabama for a performance with Mobile Chamber Music on October 17. Details for the Illinois concert can be found here. Details for the Mobile concert can be found here.
On October 15-16, David Fung makes his debut with the Charleston Symphony on not one work, but two! On a program exclusively of works by Maurice Ravel and Richard Strauss, David will perform Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major and Strauss’ Burleske together with conductor Ken Lam. More info here.
Read MoreOriginally scheduled for 2020, Friends of Chamber Music Denver welcomes violinist Arnaud Sussman and pianist Anna Polonsky for a long-awaited appearance on their Chamber Series. The evening recital on October 6 at Gates Hall, Newman Center includes violin sonatas by Janáček, Dvořák, and Brahms, concluding with the Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes by Mieczyslaw Weinberg. More info here.
Read MoreChamber Music Raleigh presented the Lysander Piano Trio as part of their Sights and Sounds Concert Series on September 18 and 19, comprising two different programs, two cities, and a total of four concerts. The first two concerts in Charlotte offered Trio selections by Boulanger, Turina, and Schubert; Sunday’s performances at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh exchanged the Turina for a Piano Trio by young American composer Brian Raphael Nabors.
Geoffrey Simon of the Classical Voice of North Carolina commends the ensemble for "the Trio's ability to immerse themselves into stylistically-disparate musical works and become extensions of the composers' creative minds...the Lysander are totally 'in sync' with each other and with the music."
Read the full review here: https://cvnc.org/articleprint.cfm?articleid=10062#current_protocol#://cvnc.org
Read MoreThe Verona Quartet returns to Durham to open the second season of their residency with Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle on September 22. Visiting several times per season, the Quartet curates the UpClose Chamber Music Series, which brings chamber music to venues throughout the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area. The first concert of the season on September 24 will include works by Beethoven, Schubert and Lena Frank in a new collaboration with Om Grown Dancers, a Durham-based contemporary dance troupe.
Read MoreFollowing her appearance with Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth on September 11, Danbi Um has received positive recognition from the Texas Classical Review. Critic Richard Sylvester Oliver writes of her playing:
"Korngold distilled a delightful range of moods—from excitement to intimacy—in his Suite from the Incidental Music to Much Ado About Nothing, arranged for violin and piano. Young violinist Danbi Um made an exemplary Fort Worth debut in this alluring opener, accompanied by pianist Baya Kakouberi."
A link to the full review can be found here.
Read MoreDavid Fung will perform with Friends of Music in Stamford, NY on Sunday, September 19th for a solo recital at the Stamford United Methodist Church. The program, spanning almost 300 years of music, was specially dedicated to those unseen and unheard, and all affected by the pandemic. Fung performed piano works by J.S Bach, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Florence Price, Reena Esmail, and Frederic Chopin.
Read MoreJust months after release, the Verona Quartet has received sweeping recognition for their debut album ‘Diffusion’, comprising three quartets by Janáček, Szymanowski, and Ravel. Textura commends the ensemble as “executing the pieces with consummate poise and technical precision...the four generate a collective luscious sound that makes the group an ideal match for material of the kind featured on the album.” Grego Applegate Edwards of the Classical-Modern Music Review writes that the Verona’s performances reveal “detailed finessing of all the motifs and their seamless juxtaposition of all perhaps like never quite heard in this way.” The album has further been recognized internationally by Lark Reviews of the United Kingdom, citing “fine performances from this well-travelled and experienced Quartet who champion this repertoire.”
Diffusion has also been broadcast widely on radio, including features on Performance Today, WFMT, Classical WETA, and WWFM The Classical Network.
Read MoreViolinist Danbi Um will make her first appearance at the Chamber Music Society of Fort Worth on September 11, performing a selection of solo and chamber works. The matinee concert, “So Much More than Tinseltown,” opens the 34th Season of the series after a year of virtual programming. The concert will include Danbi’s signature solo work, Korngold’s Much Ado About Nothing Suite, in addition to chamber music by Martin and Korngold. Learn more about the concert here.
Read MoreThe Amernet String Quartet returns to New York in late August, presenting programs in Brooklyn and Woodstock. On August 20 and 21, the Amernet will perform quartets by Schubert, Dvorak and Daron Hagen at Bargemusic as part of their “Eclectic Series.” The quartet will travel up to Woodstock for an afternoon performance on Sunday, August 22nd at Maverick Concert Hall, presenting the same three string quartets with the addition of Hagen’s Suite for Viola, “in dialogue” and the beloved Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major by J.S. Bach.
Read MoreViolinist Arnaud Sussmann will be featured at New Canaan Chamber Music’s first in-person concert since Covid-19 took hold. Joined by NCCM’s Artistic Director, pianist Andrew Armstrong, and R.J. Kelley on French horn, the program will include Brahms’s Trio in E-flat Major for Violin, French Horn, and Piano and Janácek’s Sonata for Piano and Violin. More info here.
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