Dilijan Chamber Players with Armen Guzelimian at Segerstrom Center for the Arts

In its Center debut, Los Angeles’ Dilijan Chamber Players offers an exciting program of Russian music from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Of particular note, in a Center premiere, is the Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30 by composer and concert pianist Sergei Taneyev, a close associate of Tchaikovsky and teacher of Rachmaninov and Scriabin. Though rarely performed, the Taneyev quintet is a marvelous work by a composer acclaimed for his mastery of counterpoint.

The Dilijan Chamber Players is a group of musicians who have a long-standing connection with the Dilijan Chamber Music Series, directed by Movses Pogossian. For the Segerstrom Center concert, the musicians include Movses Pogossian, violin, Varty Manouelian, violin; Guillaume Sutre, violin; Armen Ksajikian, cello and Armen Guzelimian, piano.

Rachmaninov: Trio Élégiaque No. 1 in G minor
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 7 in F-sharp minor
Scriabin: Prelude in D-flat Major, Op.17, , No. 3 and Op. 59 No. 1 and No. 2
Taneyev: Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30