Chamber Music
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesIt's the opening of a new season with Le Salon de Musiques! The program features two perennial favorites—piano quartets by Mozart and Brahms—and the Duo for violin and viola by Find out more »
Prelude Lecture: “Resilience” (La Jolla Music Society SummerFest 2024)
The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center 7600 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesAnother wonderful concert at the SummerFest! The theme of resilience connects the works on this unusual program featuring Fanny Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor, Maio Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Guitar Quintet, Erwin Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe finale of the 2023-24 Salon de Musiques season, featuring an extraordinary trio of artists: Vijay Gupta (Street Symphony Founder, MacArthur Fellow, and first-class violinist!), pianist Dominic Cheli, and cellist Find out more »
Mason Home Concerts: Program Intro and Interview (Zelter Quartet)
Mar Vista, CAAnother beautiful offering from the Mason Home Concert Series: the fabulous Zelter Quartet playing string quartets by Beethoven, Todd Mason, and Erich Korngold. I'll be talking with composer Todd Mason Find out more »
Mason Concert
Mar Vista, CAThis concert is going to be FUN! The Mason Concert series presents the Los Angeles Wind Sextet in a wonderfully variegated program featuring works by Blümer, Ligeti, Poulenc, Falla, Chabrier, Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe first Salon de Musiques of the spring season offers two of my favorites works: Mozart's String Quartet in C Major ("Dissonance") and Beethoven's Emperor Concerto (in an arrangement for Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe March concert of the Salon de Musiques concert series features two celebrated works by Edvard Grieg: the impassioned String Quartet in G Minor and the Concerto in A Minor Find out more »
Mason Concert
Mar Vista, CAWhat's better than ONE fabulous pianist? Why, TWO fabulous pianists, of course! Mason Home Concerts welcomes the exuberant Vieness Piano Duo—wife and husband, Eva Schaumkell and Vijay Venkatesh—in a "beast" Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesVive la France! The February Salon spotlights two French composers of the later Romantic era: Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré. My preconcert introduction will explore the importance of chamber music Find out more »
Le Salon de Musiques: Concert Intro and postconcert Q&A
La Jolla Women's Club 7791 Draper Avenue, La Jolla, CA, United StatesThe music of Robert Schumann, one of the most literary of canonic composers, headlines this Salon program: the gorgeous song cycle "Dichterliebe" (Poet Love) and the dramatic Piano Quintet. Also Find out more »