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TOKYO STRING QUARTET
with DESMOND HOEBIG
7:30pm, Thursday, September 16, 2010

Haydn  String Quartet #67 in F op 77/2 ("Lobkowitz")
Barber  String Quartet, Op 11
Schubert  String Quintet in C (with Desmond Hoebig, cello)

 

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CHIARA STRING QUARTET
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Beethoven  String Quartet in A op 18/5
Gabriela Lena Frank  New work – title TBA(World Premiere)
Brahms  String Quartet in c, op 51/1

 

PRAZAK STRING QUARTET
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Haydn  String Quartet in g op 74/3 ("Rider")
Erwin Schulhoff  Five Pieces for String Quartet 
Smetana  String Quartet #1 in e ("From My Life")

 

THE KING'S SINGERS
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

"JOY TO THE WORLD"

Arr. Carl Davis	Rise up, shepherd, and follow
Poem:	Christina Rossetti - Christmas Eve
Edgar Pettman	The angel Gabriel
Arr. Philip Lawson	Noel nouvelet
Arr. Bob Chilcott	What child is this?
Poem:	Charles Causley- Ballad of the Bread-Man
Arr. Jeremy Lubbock	The Crown of Roses
J. S. Bach	O little one sweet
Philip Lawson	Lullay my liking
Reading:	Christmas 1915
Arr. John Rutter	Stille Nacht
June Collin	The Quiet Heart
Poem:	Rudyard Kipling - Eddi's Service
John Rutter	There is a flower
Arr. Philip Lawson	Joy to the world
*****	*****
Camille Saint-Saens	Serenade d'Hiver
Reading:	John Julius Norwich - A correspondence
Arr. Geoffrey Keating	The Twelve Days of Christmas

 

MIAMI STRING QUARTET
with ARIANNA ZUKERMAN
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Schubert  Salve Regina (from Mass in A D.676)
for Voice and string quartet
Ginastera  String Quartet #3 op 40 for Soprano & String Quartet
Respighi   Il Tramonto (The Sunset) for Voice & String Quartet
Schumann  String Quartet in A op 41/3

 

ACADEMY of ST. MARTIN in
the FIELDS CHAMBER ENSEMBLE
Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Shostakovich  Prelude and Scherzo for String Octet op 11
Johan Svendsen  Octet for strings in A op 3 (1866)
Mendelssohn  Octet for strings in Eb op 20

 

AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

The American Brass Quintet, celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2010, performs a diverse program including 17th-century canzoni of Widmann,Troilo, and Brade, a 2009 ABQ commission from composer Shafer Mahoneycharming 19th-century gems of Ludwig Maurer, and Eric Ewazen's 1987 brass quintet masterpiece Colchester Fantasy.

 

EROICA TRIO
Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Mozart  Trio in C, K.548
Ireland  Phantasie in a
Higdon  Piano Trio (2003)
Brahms  Trio in B op 8

 

EMERSON STRING QUARTET
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Mozart   String Quartet in C, K.465 ‘Dissonance’
Jalbert   String Quartet #5 (World Premiere)
Commissioned by the Houston Friends of Chamber Music, Inc. and
the Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University
Beethoven  String Quartet in c# op 131

 

 

All performances begin at 8pm (except Tokyo String Quartet)
 in the Stude Concert Hall at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University.