The Lysander Trio will set off for a tour of Florida at the end of this month, stopping in the Florida Keys and West Palm Beach. On January 31 and February 1, the Lysander Trio will present concerts in Marathon and Tavernier with the Florida Keys Concert Association, performing works by Granados, Haydn, Nabors, and Schubert. The last stop of the tour will include a concert at Palm Beach State College’s Classical Café Series. Details for Florida Keys here and here. Details for Palm Beach here.

The Verona Quartet embarks on a tour of North Carolina from January 22-31. First stopping in Asheville from January 22-23 for outreach and a performance with Asheville Chamber Music Series, the Quartet will continue on to present concerts with the American Music Festival in Beaufort and Morehead City and then Chamber Music Wilmington. Programs on these visits include works by Schubert, Beethoven, Puccini, and Lena Frank. Details for Asheville can be found here. Details for Wilmington and Beaufort can be found here and here.

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.

The 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.

The 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.

Danbi 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.

The 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.

Pianist 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.

The 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.

On 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

The Verona Quartet received a fantastic review following their performance at the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois on October 14. Read it here.

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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.