The new Salon de Musiques season begins! This unique chamber-concert series in the heart of La Jolla offers an intimate musical experience with close-up seating, a Q&A with me and the performing artists, and a delicious post-concert buffet with French champagne.

The opening program features the Quartet Integra—first violinist Kyoka Misawa, second violinist Rinato Kikuno, violist Itsuki Yamamoto, and cellist Anri Tsukiji—in a program featuring a Chaconne by Purcell, Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 18, No. 4 and Schubert’s riveting Quartet No. 14, “Death and the Maiden.”

Among the quartet’s many awards are Second Prize and the Audience Award at the 2022 ARD International Music Competition; First Prize at the 2021 Bartók World Competition; and First Prize, the Beethoven Prize, and the Grand Prix Award at the 2019 Akiyoshidai Music Competition.