Annual Holiday Concert

From New York City, Frisson features the best and brightest of classical music's rising stars. Frisson showcases a myriad of rarely performed masterworks, and the group expands and contracts into a variety of ensembles, including quintets, sextets, and nonets. This holiday program features instrumental works from Bach to Vivaldi and an audience singalong of traditional songs including “Come all Ye Faithful,” “Hark the Herald Angel’s Sing” and “Silent Night.”

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Igor Stravinsky Violin Concerto
Florence Price Ethopia’s Shadow in America
Valerie Coleman Fanfare for Uncommon Times (New England Premiere)

Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1
Felix Mendelssohn Violin Concerto
Joan Tower Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1

• Mozart: Quintet for Piano and Winds in E-flat Major, K. 452

• Holst: Sextet in E Minor for Winds and Strings, H. 10

• Schubert: Quintet in A Major, Op. 114, D. 667, “Trout”

Thrill seekers take note. The Frisson Ensemble describes itself as “explosive” and implies, by its name, the delivery of strong feeling and sudden excitement. The nine individually electrifying musicians assembled from some of the best music schools in the United States (Juilliard, Curtis, Yale, etc.) seem well positioned to make good on that promise.

Frisson’s core string and wind ensemble comprises nine instruments: a violin, viola, cello, double bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and French horn, although the group also performs in pared down sets of five or six and can beef up to a small chamber orchestra on occasion. The Frisson repertoire is similarly flexible, sometimes broodingly classical (think Beethoven, Brahms, and Barber), at other times broadly popular (from Celtic tunes to film scores). It prides itself on featuring “rarely performed masterworks.”

Frisson is helmed by artistic director Thomas Gallant, veteran oboist and managing director of the General Arts Touring musician agency, along with associate director Caeli Smith, a rising violinist/violist, teacher, and writer with a penchant for jazz and tango. The ensemble was formed in 2017 and has been touring widely throughout the United States (and Bermuda) since then. In fall 2020, the group heads for Germany.

The Season Finale celebrates New Haven’s beautiful shoreline with one of the great masterpieces about the ocean, Debussy’s La Mer. Electronica DJ Mason Bates’ Liquid Interface inhabits an increasingly hotter world in each progressive movement, taking the audience through a futuristic journey combining acoustic orchestra instruments with computer-generated electronics. Pianist Jeremy Adjani Jordan makes his NHSO debut single-handed in Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand.

Program:DEBUSSY La Mer
BATES Liquid Interface
RAVEL Piano Concerto for Left Hand
RAVEL (Orch. Neale) “Minuet” from Piano Sonata No. 2

Featuring:
Alasdair Neale music director
Jeremy Ajani Jordan piano

Tickets: $15 – $74; KidTix Free with Adult; College Students $10

• BRAHMS: Serenade Op. 11, for nonet

• DEBUSSY: Syrinx, for solo flute

• BRITTEN: Phantasie Quartet, Op. 2, for oboe and strings

• GERSHWIN: Three Preludes, for clarinet and strings

• JANACEK: Mladi, for wind quintet

Led by Alasdair Neale, the NHSO tackles two titans of the Classical repertoire: Johannes Brahms and Felix Mendelssohn. The concert will open with Grammy-Award winning and Pulitzer Prize nominated composer Joan Tower’s take on the popular Fanfare for the Common Man. The NHSO also introduces violin virtuoso Alexi Kenney, recipient of the 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant who the NY Times calls “a talent to watch.

Program:
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
TOWER Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1

Featuring:Alasdair Neale music director
Alexi Kenney violin

Tickets: $15 – $74; KidTix Free with Adult; College Students $10

Ravel--Tombeau de Couperin for winds
Poulenc – Sextet for piano and winds
Stravinsky – Three pieces for clarinet
Beethoven – Quintet for piano and winds

The Winds of Frisson will provide a rich and rewarding chamber music concert presented by Stockton’s Friends of Chamber Music. Come enjoy the concert.

Tickets are $25 and are available in the lobby of Faye Spanos Concert Hall at UOP starting at 2:00 pm, 30 minutes before the concert. Students of any age are admitted free.

The audience is invited to meet the musicians at a reception following the concert.

Friends of Chamber Music concerts are presented in cooperation with Pacific and its Conservatory of Music. For a brochure or more information about the FOCM annual series, please call 209-956-2868 or visit www.chambermusicfriends.org.

• Venue: Faye Spanos Concert hall

• Date: Sun April 5, 2020 2:30pm

• City: Stockton

• Email: dwane.milnes@gmail.com

• Price Range: $25 Students are free

• Tickets: 209-931-4243

The famous Schwarzes appear together as father and son, combining their prodigious talents with the Mozart Orchestra of New York in an exciting program of cello masterpieces from composers Haydn and Vivaldi. Of particular excitement is the rarely performed Vivaldi Double Cello Concerto, which Julian Schwarz will perform with Armstrong’s own father-son team, Seth Malone on cello, and Ryan Malone on harpsichord.

PROGRAM

Haydn Symphony No. 22 in E-Flat Major (“The Philosopher”) 

Haydn Cello Concerto in C Major Vivaldi Concerto for Two Cellos in G Minor 

Mozart Symphony No. 33 in B-flat major, K. 319

Stacy Garrop: Postcards from Wyoming

John Musto: Sonata for cello and piano

David Fulmer: Sky's Acetylene

Wynton Marsalis: Suite from 'The Fiddler's Tale'

Florence Price, the first African American female composer to have a symphonic work performed by a major national orchestra, is often compared musically to Dvořák, who also employed sweeping melodies and sampled from African American and Native American music traditions. Along with Rossini’s William Tell Overture, this aesthetically beautiful concert experience will be underscored by a reexamining of our classical music roots.

Program:
DVORAK Cello Concerto
PRICE Symphony No. 1
ROSSINI William Tell Overture

Featuring:Alasdair Neale music director
Oliver Herbert cello

Tickets: $15 – $74; KidTix Free with Adult; College Students $10

WHEN: Sunday, February 23rd, 2020, at 5 p.m.

          Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. 
          Food-and-wine reception with guest Artists to follow the salon

WHERE: Private Residence on the Upper West Side (West 90s)

          The exact address of the salon will be disclosed after you register through Eventbrite

ADMISSION: $38

          Admission price includes reception with the guest Artist(s)
          Attendance is limited to just 21 seats!          Advance ticket purchase through Eventbrite is required. NO tickets sold at the door!

CONTACT: Dr. Yelena Grinberg - ygpiano@gmail.com 

PROGRAM: 

MUSIC FOR OBOE, BASSOON, AND PIANO

BEETHOVEN - Six Variations on an Original Theme, op. 34 (1802)
SCHUMANN - Drei Romanzen for oboe and piano, op. 94 (1849)
HINDEMITH - Sonata for bassoon and piano (1938)
SAINT-SAENS - Sonata for oboe and piano, op. 166 (1921)
JOLIVET - Sonatina for oboe and bassoon (1963)
POULENC - Trio for oboe, bassoon, and piano (1926)

WHEN: Sunday, February 23rd, 2020, at 5 p.m.

          Doors will open at 4:30 p.m. 
          Food-and-wine reception with guest Artists to follow the salon

WHERE: Private Residence on the Upper West Side (West 90s)

          The exact address of the salon will be disclosed after you register through Eventbrite

ADMISSION: $38

          Admission price includes reception with the guest Artist(s)
          Attendance is limited to just 21 seats!          Advance ticket purchase through Eventbrite is required. NO tickets sold at the door!

CONTACT: Dr. Yelena Grinberg - ygpiano@gmail.com 

PROGRAM: 

MUSIC FOR OBOE, BASSOON, AND PIANO

BEETHOVEN - Six Variations on an Original Theme, op. 34 (1802)
SCHUMANN - Drei Romanzen for oboe and piano, op. 94 (1849)
HINDEMITH - Sonata for bassoon and piano (1938)
SAINT-SAENS - Sonata for oboe and piano, op. 166 (1921)
JOLIVET - Sonatina for oboe and bassoon (1963)
POULENC - Trio for oboe, bassoon, and piano (1926)

Wind Classics, Romantic to Contemporary

Cobus du Toit, flute; Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet; Jonathan Hulting-Cohen, saxophone; Josh Michal, horn; Rémy Taghavi, bassoon & Nadine Shank, piano

Music by Rimsky-Korsakov, Chick Corea, Amanda Harberg and Henri Tomasi

Pre-concert conversation at 6:30PM in Reynolds Hall

DONATO CABRERA, CONDUCTOR
ALBERT CANO SMIT, PIANO

SMETANA Overture to The Bartered Bride
DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 2

Visit three sweeping musical vistas in this powerful concert that pays homage to Bohemian folk music, Hungarian dances, the Eastern European countryside and many other spacious themes that celebrate the joy and romantic nature of life.

Sound of 7 | Chroma
Saturday, December 14, 2019 | 8:00PM
Doors open 7:30PM

Monument SF
140 9th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Francis Poulenc | Suite Française
Leoš Janáček | Mládí, “Youth”
Igor Stravinsky | Symphonies of Wind Instruments

***FREE DRINKS all night included with your ticket!***

Buy your tickets now! Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door.

Featuring Nadine Shank, piano, and Bixby Kennedy, clarinet, with works by Poulenc, Zaninelli, Hersant, Schumann, and Devienne.