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INSPIRED BY SONG
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2022, 7:30 PM
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse
We continue our tradition of bringing some of Central New York's finest musicians together for a midwinter night of great music. This year we feature strings with piano, clarinet, and horn, playing pieces inspired by song.
Vaughan Williams: Quintet in D Major
Wolf: Italian Serenade
Schubert: Piano quintet in A Major, D. 667, "Trout"
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Photo: Lucia Macedo
FRISSON ENSEMBLE
SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 2022, 7:30 PM
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse
Frisson is explosive! The ensemble features the best and brightest of classical music's young talents in programs of rarely performed masterworks for various combinations of instruments. Six string players and an oboist will join us.
Britten: Phantasy Quartet
Piazzolla: Oblivion
Françaix: Quartet for English Horn and String Trio
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence
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Photo: Dorothy Shi
HARLEM QUARTET
SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2022, 7:30 PM
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 310 Montgomery St, Syracuse
Harlem Quartet engages new audiences with a varied repertoire that includes many works by minority composers. Their mission to share their passion with a wider audience has taken them around the world—from the White House to a highly successful tour of South Africa and numerous venues in between.
Joseph Bologne: String Quartet Concertante no. 5 in G Major
William Grant Still: Lyric Quartette
Jessie Montgomery: Strum
Adonis G. Matos: Fugato
George Walker: String Quartet no. 1
Wynton Marsalis: At the Octaroon Balls
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie: A Night in Tunisia
Billy Strayhorn: Take the "A" Train
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Photo: Amy Schroeder
VONSATTEL PIANO QUARTET
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2022, 7:30 PM
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse
Now a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, violinist Sarah Crocker Vonsattel grew up in Syracuse. She returns with multi award-winning pianist Gilles Vonsattel, fellow Met Orchestra member and co-artistic director of the Skaneateles Festival cellist Julia Bruskin, and GRAMMY-nominated violist Melissa Reardon for this concert of great works for strings and piano.
Mozart: Piano Quartet in G Minor, K. 478
Amy Beach: Piano Trio, op. 150
Dvořák: Piano Quartet no. 2 in E-flat Major, op. 87
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WU HAN-SETZER-FINCKEL TRIO
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2021, 7:30 PM
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse
Violinist Philip Setzer and cellist David Finckel, who played together in the GRAMMY Award-winning Emerson String Quartet for more than three decades, join pianist Wu Han in this spectacular trio of world-renowned artists. Wu Han and David Finckel are co-artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and they jointly received Musical America’s Musician of the Year award in 2012.
Beethoven: Trio in G Major, op. 1, no. 2
Mendelssohn: Trio in D Minor, op. 49
Dvořák: Trio in E Minor, op. 90, "Dumky"
Photo: Christian Steiner
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ULYSSES QUARTET
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2021, 7:30 PM
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse
Winner of top awards at major chamber music competitions, the young Ulysses Quartet, founded in 2015, is now in residence at the Juilliard School.
Haydn: Quartet in B-flat Major, op. 76, no. 4, "Sunrise"
Janáček: Quartet no. 1, "Kreutzer Sonata"
Richter: On the Nature of Daylight
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 44, no. 3
IMANI WINDS
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2021, 7:30 PM
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 310 Montgomery St., Syracuse
Sponsored by Dr. Joseph W. Flanagan, M.D.
One of the most successful chamber ensembles in the country, the Imani Winds bring their outstanding skill and musicality to classics of the wind quintet literature, to newly commissioned works, and to their own compositions, while bridging European, American, African, and Latin American traditions.
Eugene Bozza: Scherzo
Elliott Carter: Quintet for Winds
Henri Tomasi: Cinq Danses Profanes et Sacrées
Paquito D'Rivera: Wapango
Anders Hillborg: Six Pieces for Wind Quintet
Valerie Coleman: Afro-Cuban Concerto
Photo: Shervin Lainez
Performers include violinists Edgar Tumajyan and Noemi Miloradovic, violist William Ford-Smith, cellist Lindsay Groves, bass player Spencer Phillips, clarinetist Allan Kolsky, horn player Jon Garland, and pianists Steven Heyman and Ida Tili-Trebicka