A new season of Le Salon de Musiques in lovely La Jolla opens with a top-shelf group of chamber musicians: former LA Phil concertmaster Martin Chalifour, violist Carson Rick, cellist Allan Hon, and Xiao Chen at the piano. I will introduce the enticing program of piano quartet repertoire with favorites by Beethoven and Schubert as well as a one of those lost treasures that Artistic Director François Chouchan is so good at finding: Ferdinand Hiller’s Piano Quartet No. 3  in A Minor.

As always, the magic of this series is the combination of intimate musical performance, interactive education, and great food and drink! As musicological “co-host,” I will also  moderate the post-concert Q&A with the artists, champagne glass in hand!