Chamber Music Palisades Announces 2010-11 Season

Chamber Music Palisades (CMP) - the noted Pacific Palisades-based music series described as a "soaring crowd-pleaser," "a transcendent musical experience," "exquisite and breathtaking," and "music of the highest order" - presents nearly two dozen leading musicians in a compelling four-concert series during its 14th season at St. Matthews Parish in Pacific Palisades, with programs October 19, 2010, February 1, 2011, March 29, 2011, and May 3, 2011.

Among the 2010-11 Season highlights are two commissioned world premieres, Quintet for Oboe, Strings and Piano by eminent concert, film and stage composer Peter Golub, director of the Sundance Film Music Program, and a trio by critically applauded Los Angeles-based composer and bassoonist Damian Montano. Also featured are chamber music gems, both rare and well known, by contemporary Japanese composer Yuko Uebayashi, Romantic-era composer Johann Nepomuk Hummell, Mozart, Ginastera, Schumann, Novak, and many others, as well as a birthday tribute to Robert Schumann and Samuel Barber.

The season's stellar line up of guest artists includes Lyris String Quartet - Alyssa Park, violin, Shalini Vijayan, violin, Luke Maurer, viola, and Timothy Loo, cello - which makes its Chamber Music Palisades debut. Also featured are violinists Ida Levin, Sarah Thornblade and Sara Parkins; violists Robert Brophy and Helen Callus; cellists Armen Ksajikian, John Walz and Ronald Leonard; Nico Abondolo, bass; Donald Foster, clarinet; oboists JoNathan Davis and Anne Gabriele; Danielle Ondarza, horn; and CMP Co-Founders/Co-Artistic Directors Susan Greenberg, flute, and Delores Stevens, piano. KUSC announcer Alan Chapman provides commentary at each concert.

Chamber Music Palisades was founded in 1997 by Pacific Palisades residents Stevens and Greenberg. They draw guest artists from their vast pool of talented colleagues in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Opera, plus other leading instrumentalists from the U.S. and Europe. In addition to presenting established chamber works, to date Chamber Music Palisades has commissioned 13 compositions by such renowned composers as Paul Chihara, Jane Brockman, Henri Lazarof, Adrienne Albert, Maria Newman, Gernot Wolfgang and Joel McNeely.

SEASON DETAILED

October 19, 2010, 8 PM - The captivating Lyris String Quartet makes its Chamber Music Palisades debut, appearing with Anne Gabriele, oboe, and series Co-Founders/Co-Artistic Directors Susan Greenberg, flute, and Delores Stevens, piano, to perform the world premiere of Peter Golub's Quintet for Oboe, String Trio and Piano, one of two works commissioned by CMP this season. Also on the season opening program are Ginastera's Impressiones de la Puna, and a birthday tribute to two legends - Samuel Barber and Robert Schumann - featuring Barber's Songs for Flute and Piano, and Schumann's Piano Quintet, Op. 44.

February 1, 2011, 8 PM - Celebrated artists Sarah Thornblade, violin, Robert Brophy, viola, Armen Ksajikian, cello, join Stevens and Greenberg for four mesmerizing chamber music gems, Quartet in D Major, K. 285 by Mozart, Novak's Sonata Tribute for Flute, Violin and Piano, Schubert's Adagio & Rondo in F Major for piano quartet, and Franck's Sonata in A Major.

March 29, 2011, 8 PM - Suite for Flute and Cello, an exciting, rhythmic and virtuosic piece, by Contemporary Japanese composer Yuko Uebayashi provides a delightful contrast to Haydn's compelling Trio in C for Violin, Cello Piano, HOB xv:27, and Brahms' thought-provoking Trio in A Minor, Op. 114 in this colorful program featuring Sara Parkins, violin, John Walz, cello, Donald Foster, clarinet, Greenberg and Stevens.

May 3, 2011, 8 PM - Chamber Music Palisades concludes the 2010-11 Season with the world premiere of a dazzling new Trio for Alto Flute, English Horn and Bass Clarinet by Damian Montano, hailed for his "lush orchestrations," "sweeping themes" and "intricate variations." Beethoven's String Trio in G Major, Op. 9 #1, Martinu's Trio in F Major for Flute, Cello and Piano and Hummel's rarely performed Grand Septet, Op. 74 cap the program with lively performances by internationally acclaimed artists Ida Levin, violin, Helen Callus, viola, Ronald Leonard, cello, Danielle Ondarza, horn, Nico Abondolo, bass, Greenberg and Stevens.

Chamber Music Palisades series subscriptions are $90; single tickets are $30. St. Matthew's Parish is located at 1031 Bienveneda in Pacific Palisades, CA 90272. For tickets or a free season brochure, please call 310-463-4388 or visit www.cmpalisades.org.

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