Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Trio in E-flat Major, K. 498 “Kegelstatt”
Gabriela Lena Frank, Hilos
Xavier Foley, An Ode to Our Times
Antonin Dvořák, String Quintet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 77
York Bowen, Clarinet Sonata, Op. 109
Franz Joseph Haydn, Piano Trio in C Major, Hob. XV: 27
Augusta Read Thomas, Rumi Settings
Libby Larsen, Black Birds, Red Hills
Ernst von Dohnányi, Piano Quintet No. 1, Op. 1
James Simon, Arioso
Aftab Darvishi, The Ashes are in Flames
Rene Orth, Resig Nation for Solo Cello
Hilary Purrington, Spine
Kian Ravaei, Three Nothings
Derrick Skye, Wounds from Roses
James Simon, Arioso
Franz Schubert, Auf dem Strom (On the River) for soprano, French horn & piano, D. 943, Op. 119
Stacy Garrop, Postcards from Wyoming for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
Charles Ives, The Housatonic at Stockbridge and other songs for soprano & piano
Ernest John Moeran, Fantasy Quartet for oboe & strings (1946)
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quintet in C Major, Op. 29, “Storm”
They say home is where the heart is… Faced with impending deafness, Beethoven leans into the storm of his inner vistas with a soaring masterpiece of vitality and richness, while Schubert envisions his hero’s final journey to the spirit realm. Ernest Moeran recalls the reedy waters, country lanes, and rolling hills of his youth, Stacy Garrop celebrates the grandeur of the American west, and Charles Ives amplifies the little moments from cities and towns across New England, reminding us that no matter where we are, music always brings us home.
Franz Schubert, Auf dem Strom (On the River) for soprano, French horn & piano, D. 943, Op. 119
Stacy Garrop, Postcards from Wyoming for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
Charles Ives, The Housatonic at Stockbridge and other songs for soprano & piano
Ernest John Moeran, Fantasy Quartet for oboe & strings (1946)
Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quintet in C Major, Op. 29, “Storm”
They say home is where the heart is… Faced with impending deafness, Beethoven leans into the storm of his inner vistas with a soaring masterpiece of vitality and richness, while Schubert envisions his hero’s final journey to the spirit realm. Ernest Moeran recalls the reedy waters, country lanes, and rolling hills of his youth, Stacy Garrop celebrates the grandeur of the American west, and Charles Ives amplifies the little moments from cities and towns across New England, reminding us that no matter where we are, music always brings us home.
Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony No. 1
Julia Wolfe, Singing in the dead of the night
Caroline Shaw, Limestone and Felt
Johannes Brahms, Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio in D Major, Op. 70, No. 1, “Ghost”
Lera Auerbach, Piano Trio No. 2, This Mirror Has Three Faces
Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Trio No. 2 in e minor, Op. 67
There are few works as earth-shattering and soul-stirring as Shostakovich’s second piano trio. He brings together the personal, the political, and the unknowable with hypnotic, frenzied rhythms, coded messages of protest, and searing emotional impact. Gutsy and theatrical, Lera Auerbach takes us on a wild ride of mirror images and musical sleights of hand, and Beethoven shows us that he is the king of drama with a whirlwind of ghostly tension and electrifying contrast.
with Elizabeth Fayette, violin and Xiaohui Yang, piano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Souvenir d’un lieu cher for violin & piano, Op. 42
Herbert Howells, Rhapsodic Quintet for clarinet & strings, Op. 31 (1919)
Stephen Albert, To Wake the Dead: Six Sentimental Songs and an Interlude after Finnegans Wake for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Louis Vierne, Piano Quintet in c minor, Op. 42 (1917)
Tchaikovsky shares misty reflections of a dear place, and Howells contemplates an England, and a way of life, destroyed by the First World War. Vierne’s epic, late-Romantic treasure is a powerful and emotionally charged work conceived as a votive offering for his son who was killed in action. Stephen Albert adapts James Joyce’s nearly incomprehensible text – with its wordplay, dreamlike ambiguity, and half-remembered fragments – into a moving exploration of love, loss, and the cyclical nature of life itself.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Souvenir d’un lieu cher for violin & piano, Op. 42
Herbert Howells, Rhapsodic Quintet for clarinet & strings, Op. 31 (1919)
Stephen Albert, To Wake the Dead: Six Sentimental Songs and an Interlude after Finnegans Wake for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Louis Vierne, Piano Quintet in c minor, Op. 42 (1917)
Tchaikovsky shares misty reflections of a dear place, and Howells contemplates an England, and a way of life, destroyed by the First World War. Vierne’s epic, late-Romantic treasure is a powerful and emotionally charged work conceived as a votive offering for his son who was killed in action. Stephen Albert adapts James Joyce’s nearly incomprehensible text – with its wordplay, dreamlike ambiguity, and half-remembered fragments – into a moving exploration of love, loss, and the cyclical nature of life itself.
Sarah Gibson, I prefer living in color
Nancy van der Vate, Music for Viola, Percussion, and Piano
Kay Rhie, Cereus: Night Blooms
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70
Mendelssohn, Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 49
Erik Satie, Choses vues à droite et à gauche (sans lunettes) for violin & piano
Michael Stephen Brown, The Lotos-Eaters for flute, cello, piano & percussion
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Phantasy Quintet
Reena Esmail, Jhula Jhule (Back and Forth) for clarinet & piano
Maurice Ravel, Piano Trio in a minor
Vaughan Williams enthralls with a vivid, impressionist daydream of the English countryside, and Reena Esmail weaves a tapestry of sound and memory from her ancestral home. Michael Stephen Brown brings Tennyson’s mariners and their psychedelic voyage to life, while Ravel the illusionist challenges our perceptions with a dazzling tour de force of color and texture. We close our 28th season with a phantastic trip down the rabbit-hole where up is down, black is white, and left is right (with…or without glasses).
Erik Satie, Choses vues à droite et à gauche (sans lunettes) for violin & piano
Michael Stephen Brown, The Lotos-Eaters for flute, cello, piano & percussion
Ralph Vaughan Williams, Phantasy Quintet
Reena Esmail, Jhula Jhule (Back and Forth) for clarinet & piano
Maurice Ravel, Piano Trio in a minor
Vaughan Williams enthralls with a vivid, impressionist daydream of the English countryside, and Reena Esmail weaves a tapestry of sound and memory from her ancestral home. Michael Stephen Brown brings Tennyson’s mariners and their psychedelic voyage to life, while Ravel the illusionist challenges our perceptions with a dazzling tour de force of color and texture. We close our 28th season with a phantastic trip down the rabbit-hole where up is down, black is white, and left is right (with…or without glasses).
Gabriel Fauré: “La Bonne Chanson,” Op. 61
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major D. 667 “The Trout”
Gabriel Fauré: “La Bonne Chanson,” Op. 61
Franz Schubert: Piano Quintet in A Major D. 667 “The Trout”
Arvo Pärt, Fratres for violin & piano
York Bowen, Phantasy Quintet for bass clarinet & string quartet, Op. 93 (1932)
Kevin Puts, Seven Seascapes for flute, French horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass & piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 97 “Archduke”
Composed during Beethoven’s final descent into deafness and the beginning of his singular inward odyssey, the Archduke is a crowning achievement of the repertoire, a work of bountiful beauty and sweeping grandeur for a trio of virtuosos. Arvo Pärt’s bells fill us with reverence and elation, and Kevin Puts gives voice to the wonders of the ocean. We close our 27th season with an ecstatic meditation at the intersection of heaven and earth, sea and sky.
Arvo Pärt, Fratres for violin & piano
York Bowen, Phantasy Quintet for bass clarinet & string quartet, Op. 93 (1932)
Kevin Puts, Seven Seascapes for flute, French horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass & piano
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 97 “Archduke”
Composed during Beethoven’s final descent into deafness and the beginning of his singular inward odyssey, the Archduke is a crowning achievement of the repertoire, a work of bountiful beauty and sweeping grandeur for a trio of virtuosos. Arvo Pärt’s bells fill us with reverence and elation, and Kevin Puts gives voice to the wonders of the ocean. We close our 27th season with an ecstatic meditation at the intersection of heaven and earth, sea and sky.
Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time
with Cameron Daly, violin, Jose Franch-Ballester, clarinet, and Benjamin Hochman, piano
Darius Milhaud, La création du monde – Suite de concert pour piano et quatour à cordes, Op. 81b
George Rochberg, Between Two Worlds (Ukiyo-e III) for flute & piano
Pavel Haas, Wind Quintet, Op. 10
Alban Berg, Adagio from Kammerkonzert for violin, clarinet & piano
Erich Korngold, Suite for two violins, cello & piano left-hand, Op. 23
The period between the wars was a hotbed of innovation bustling with new styles and means of expression. Korngold straddles the line between golden lyricism and unbridled bravado with a rare late Romantic treasure, and Haas mingles Czech folk songs with fanciful dances and prayerful synagogue music. Milhaud offers a joy-filled homage to the Jazz Age, and Rochberg paints a shimmering portrait of the floating world…between then and there, here and now…
Darius Milhaud, La création du monde – Suite de concert pour piano et quatour à cordes, Op. 81b
George Rochberg, Between Two Worlds (Ukiyo-e III) for flute & piano
Pavel Haas, Wind Quintet, Op. 10
Alban Berg, Adagio from Kammerkonzert for violin, clarinet & piano
Erich Korngold, Suite for two violins, cello & piano left-hand, Op. 23
The period between the wars was a hotbed of innovation bustling with new styles and means of expression. Korngold straddles the line between golden lyricism and unbridled bravado with a rare late Romantic treasure, and Haas mingles Czech folk songs with fanciful dances and prayerful synagogue music. Milhaud offers a joy-filled homage to the Jazz Age, and Rochberg paints a shimmering portrait of the floating world…between then and there, here and now…
Boccherini, Sonata in E-flat Major
Imogen Holst, The Fall of the Leaf
Evan Williams, Cantigas
Reena Esmail, Varsha
Poulenc, Cello Sonata
with Steven Beck, piano
Boccherini, Sonata in E-flat Major
Imogen Holst, The Fall of the Leaf
Menotti, Suite for Two Cellos and Piano
Reena Esmail, Varsha
Poulenc, Cello Sonata
with Wesley Baldwin, cello and Katherine Benson, piano
Imogen Holst, The Fall of the Leaf
Reena Esmail, Varsha
Boccherini, Sonata in E-flat Major
with Ellie W. McCormack, cello
Imogen Holst, The Fall of the Leaf
Reena Esmail, Varsha
Boccherini, Sonata in E-flat Major
with Erin Ellis, cello
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Major, WoO 36
Leonard Bernstein, Sonata for clarinet & piano
Chinary Ung, Child Song for flute, violin, cello & piano
George Enescu, Octet in C Major, Op. 7 (1900)
Every superhero has an origin story, a beginning that illustrates their character and sets them on the path ahead. Bernstein’s first published work offers glimpses of the giant he would become. Chinary Ung unleashes his creativity, drawing on traditional Cambodian music to push his art form forward. Beethoven takes his first steps to break free from Classical constraints, and Enescu displays feats of strength with an epic, wildly ambitious work of voluptuous romanticism, Romanian flavor, and near-impossible virtuosity.
Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Quartet No. 3 in C Major, WoO 36
Leonard Bernstein, Sonata for clarinet & piano
Chinary Ung, Child Song for flute, violin, cello & piano
George Enescu, Octet in C Major, Op. 7 (1900)
Every superhero has an origin story, a beginning that illustrates their character and sets them on the path ahead. Bernstein’s first published work offers glimpses of the giant he would become. Chinary Ung unleashes his creativity, drawing on traditional Cambodian music to push his art form forward. Beethoven takes his first steps to break free from Classical constraints, and Enescu displays feats of strength with an epic, wildly ambitious work of voluptuous romanticism, Romanian flavor, and near-impossible virtuosity.
Week-long residency at the University of Maine featuring a masterclass and recital:
Boccherini, Sonata in E-flat Major
Imogen Holst, The Fall of the Leaf
Menotti, Suite for Two Cellos and Piano
Reena Esmail, Varsha
Poulenc, Cello Sonata
with Noreen Silver, cello and Phillip Silver, piano
PROGRAM
Luigi Boccherini, Sonata in E-flat Major
Evan Williams, Cantigas
Reena Esmail, Varsha
Francis Poulenc, Sonata for Cello and Piano, FP 143
with Carlin Ma, piano
Ernest Bloch, Three Nocturnes for violin, cello & piano (1924)
Arnold Schoenberg, Ein Stelldichein (A Rendezvous) for oboe, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Earl Kim, Exercises en Route for soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello & 2 percussion
Franz Schubert, String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956
Interior passion meets exterior beauty in a program of poetic resonance, legacy, and memory. Earl Kim examines the passage of time and the nature of our existence through the arresting poetry of Samuel Beckett, and Kim’s teachers, Bloch and Schoenberg, share miniature twilight journeys of color and character. Composed in the final weeks of his life, Schubert’s Cello Quintet closes the circle on our exercises in living, remembering, and feeling.
Ernest Bloch, Three Nocturnes for violin, cello & piano (1924)
Arnold Schoenberg, Ein Stelldichein (A Rendezvous) for oboe, clarinet, violin, cello & piano
Earl Kim, Exercises en Route for soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, cello & 2 percussion
Franz Schubert, String Quintet in C Major, Op. 163, D. 956
Interior passion meets exterior beauty in a program of poetic resonance, legacy, and memory. Earl Kim examines the passage of time and the nature of our existence through the arresting poetry of Samuel Beckett, and Kim’s teachers, Bloch and Schoenberg, share miniature twilight journeys of color and character. Composed in the final weeks of his life, Schubert’s Cello Quintet closes the circle on our exercises in living, remembering, and feeling.
String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74 “Harp”
The Cello Festival of Southern Utah will be held on September 13-14, 2024 in Utah Tech University’s Eccles Fine Arts Center. Dedicated to promoting the learning, enjoyment, and community-involvement in cello playing, the two-day Festival will offer a lots of wonderful opportunities for cellists of all ages and all levels.
The festival events include large cello ensemble sessions and guest-artist and faculty performances, chamber music, cello master classes, the ASTA Cello Lecture Series, and other workshop and performance opportunities.
SCCS favorites Rachel Lee Priday, Mara Gearman, and Sarah Rommel perform Dmitry Sitkovetsky’s arrangement of Bach’s Goldberg Variations for string trio. They are then joined by SCCS’s Artistic Director Svend Rønning in Bedřich Smetana’s String Quartet No.1 to honor Smetana’s 200th birthday.
J.S. Bach/Dmitry Sitkovetsky: Goldberg Variations for String Trio
Bedřich Smetana: String Quartet No.1 in E-minor “From my Life”
Guy Ropartz, Prélude, Marine et Chansons for flute, violin, viola, cello & harp (1928)
Hanns Eisler, Fourteen Ways to Describe the Rain for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello & piano (1941)
David Bruce, The Consolation of Rain for oboe, cello, percussion & harp
Franz Schubert, Quintet in A Major for piano & strings, D. 667, “Trout”
There are few works as spirited and carefree as Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet, with its beguiling brook, darting fish, and sparkling waters. David Bruce muses on the life-affirming power of rain, and Eisler captures the moods and textures of a storm, from first drops until the sun breaks through. Rippling, rumbling, streaming, showering…we close our 26th season with a splish, a splash, and a buoyant encounter with nature.
Guy Ropartz, Prélude, Marine et Chansons for flute, violin, viola, cello & harp (1928)
Hanns Eisler, Fourteen Ways to Describe the Rain for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello & piano (1941)
David Bruce, The Consolation of Rain for oboe, cello, percussion & harp
Franz Schubert, Quintet in A Major for piano & strings, D. 667, “Trout”
There are few works as spirited and carefree as Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet, with its beguiling brook, darting fish, and sparkling waters. David Bruce muses on the life-affirming power of rain, and Eisler captures the moods and textures of a storm, from first drops until the sun breaks through. Rippling, rumbling, streaming, showering…we close our 26th season with a splish, a splash, and a buoyant encounter with nature.
Clara Schumann, Piano Trio in g minor, Op. 17
Joan Tower, Big Sky
Franz Schubert, Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, Op. 100, D. 929
At its best, chamber music is a conversation between friends, and nowhere is that more apparent than within the piano trio genre: grand canvases painted with intimate expression. Clara Schumann’s under-appreciated gem embodies the drama of the Romantic era with transparency and grace, Joan Tower contemplates the expansive beauty of the Andes, and Schubert, at the end of his life, stretches to the horizon with a monument of the repertoire.
Felix Mendelssohn, Lieder ohne Worte for cello & piano, Op. 109
Sebastian Currier, Vocalissimus for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
Johannes Brahms, Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34
A notorious perfectionist and restless spirit, Brahms was his own harshest critic, writing and rewriting his scores with the precision of a poet. His piano quintet underwent three major transformations on the way to becoming the sublime essay we know today. Similarly, Vocalissimus is a tour de force of expressive possibility, as Currier interprets – and reinterprets – a single poem through a prism of 18 different characters.
Felix Mendelssohn, Lieder ohne Worte for cello & piano, Op. 109
Sebastian Currier, Vocalissimus for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & percussion
Johannes Brahms, Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34
A notorious perfectionist and restless spirit, Brahms was his own harshest critic, writing and rewriting his scores with the precision of a poet. His piano quintet underwent three major transformations on the way to becoming the sublime essay we know today. Similarly, Vocalissimus is a tour de force of expressive possibility, as Currier interprets – and reinterprets – a single poem through a prism of 18 different characters.
Chamber group Frequency—violinists Michael Jinsoo Lim and Jennifer Caine Provine, violist Melia Watras, and cellist Sarah Rommel—performs works by Benjamin Britten, Felix Mendelssohn, Kaija Saariaho and the world premiere of a new work by Melia Watras in this exploration of the musical form of theme and variations.
Violinist Rachel Lee Priday, violist Mara Gearman, and cellist Sarah Rommel join to perform Sitkovestsky’s acclaimed arrangement of Bach’s monumental Goldberg Variations.
Beethoven: Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 1, No. 3 with Elisa Barston, violin and Amy Yang, piano
