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2019 - 2020 Season
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee, 2810 N. Meridian Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312
Purple Martin String Quartet
PROGRAM:
Philip Glass String Quartet No. 3, “Mishima” (1985)
Robert Schumann String Quartet in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1 (1842)
The magic of chamber music performance continues when Music for Food Tallahassee presents the Purple Martin String Quartet playing quartets by Philip Glass and Robert Schumann. The concert will be at 4 PM on Sunday, July 21 at the beautiful Unitarian Universalist Church on North Meridian Road in Tallahassee.
This concert is the second “Music for Food” Tallahassee event, a musician-led initiative to fight hunger in our communities. The members of the Purple Martin String Quartet are local professional musicians in our community, performing to raise funds that will go directly to our local food pantry partner, America’s Second Harvest of the Big Bend. The musicians are Caroline Holden and Ken Davis on violin, Miriam Tellechea on viola, and Zlatina Staykova on cello.
The Philip Glass String Quartet Number 3 was written in 1985 and was composed as music for Paul Schrader’s film about the life of author, playwright and self-styled, latter-day Samurai, Yukio Mishima. The film, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, uses scenes for quartet shot in monochrome that are used to depict childhood flash-backs. Glass wrote this piece knowing that the string quartet might later be performed separately from the movie and in the concert hall.
Robert Schumann wrote only three quartets which he composed in just two months in 1842 following a period of depression. He often idolized his wife Clara in his works, and these pieces were first performed as a present for her on her 23rd birthday. The Purple Martin String Quartet will play the first of these three quartets. Schumann’s writing is lush and emotional and audience members will find that the music evokes a vocal quality to which they can connect emotionally.
In lieu of an admission fee, audience members are asked to give a donation of any amount or non-perishable food donations. All proceeds benefit our local Second Harvest of the Big Bend food bank. Please visit www.fightinghunger.org to learn more.
Monday, July 22, 2019
Mennonite Church of Normal 805 South Cottage Avenue Normal, IL 61761
Student and Faculty groups at the Illinois Chamber Music Festival perform a Music for Food concert to benefit the Home Sweet Home Bread For Life Co-Op, a locally owned organization that helps families struggling with chronic food security issues.
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2019
Kneisel Hall Concert Hall
Musicians from Kneisel Hall Summer Chamber Music Festival and School
Musicians from the Kneisel Hall Summer Chamber Music Festival and School will present a concert to benefit the Blue Hill Food Pantry on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, at 7:30PM in the Kneisel Hall Concert Hall.
Friday, September 6, 2019. 7:30pm.
Little Theater, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
Jennet Ingle, oboe, Jason Gresl, clarinet, Deborah Mayer, soprano, Daniel Stein, violin, Rose Wollman, viola, Lara Turner, cello, Paivi Ekroth & Geena Kam, piano
Debussy–Syrinx
Ivanka Loudova–“Aulos”
Wagner–“Du bist der Lenz” from Die Walküre
Korngold–“Marietta’s Lied” from Die Tote Stadt
Puccini–“Vissi d’arte” from Tosca
Bernstein–“Dream With Me” from Peter Pan
Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor, K 478
All proceeds benefit the Food Bank of Northern Indiana.
Sunday, September 8, 2019. 4PM
Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee, 2810 N. Meridian Rd, Tallahassee, FL 32312
Corinne Stillwell, Sommer Altier, and Megumi Terry, violins; Zoe Fernandez and Rossana Cauti, viola; Erica Kremer and Riley Beranak, cello.
Beethoven String Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 1;
Beethoven String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 74 “The Harp.”
Florida State University professor Corinne Stillwell and advanced FSU students present two of Beethoven’s string quartets at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Tallahassee. This Music for Food concert benefits Second Harvest of the Big Bend food bank.
Please bring cash or check donation made out to “Music for Food.” Non-perishable donations also welcomed.
Thursday, October 3, 2019 . 7:30 PM
Broadway Presbyterian Church, 114 Street and Broadway
Juilliard Quartet: Areta Zhulla and Ronald Copes, violins, Roger Tapping, viola, Astrid Schween, cello
Mozart “Hunt” Quartet in B flat Major, K458
Kurtág Six Moments Musicaux. Op. 44
Brahms Quartet in a minor, Op. 51,#2
Concerts benefit Broadway Community
Sunday, October 6, 2019. 7:30PM.
Theodore Parker UU Church, 1859 Centre Street. West Roxbury. MA
Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek, Sammy Andonian, Mari Nagahara, Audrey Chen
Trios of Schubert and Villa-Lobos
Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek and Music for Food Boston’s Interns present a concert of piano trios in West Roxbury as the opener to MFF’s church concert series.
Friday, October 11, 2019. 7:30PM
Sol Joseph Recital Hall 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Dimitri Murrath, viola
Jennifer Culp, cello
Tessa Lark, violin, guest artist
Kexin Ye ’21, violin
Alexandra Simpson ’20, viola
Christine Lee ’20, cello
Chloé Mendola ’21, cello
Jung-eun Kim ’20, piano
Heemin Park ’20, piano
Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio No. 39 in G Major, Hob. XV:25 (“Gypsy”)
Edvard Grieg
Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 45
Johannes Brahms
String Sextet No. 2 in G Major, Op. 36
Violinist Tessa Lark will have worked throughout the week with students and faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory. Together, they will present a concert of chamber music to support Starcross in northern Sonoma county. Starcross Community delivers food to people in their local community who are unable to make the trip to the store.
Sunday, October 20, 2019 . 7:30 PM
New England Conservatory, Brown Hall . 7:30 PM
Eureka Ensemble, Kim Kashkashian, Geneva Lewis, Maria Ioudenitch, Jing Peng, Andrew Samarasekara, Don Weilerstein, Vivian Weilerstein, Rachel Yi, Zhanbo Zheng
Telemann–Concerto for 4 Violins in G major, TWV 40:201
Betty Olivero–“Neharót Neharót”
Luke Hsu–Partita for violin and piano
Telemann–Viola Concerto in G major, TWV 51:G9
The Eureka Ensemble opens our 10th season of Music for Food concerts in Boston! Join us for an evening of Telemann concerti, Betty Olivero’s musical testament on war and women’s voices, and the premier of Luke Hsu’s “Partita,” written specifically for Music for Food.
All concert donations will support The Women’s Lunch Place.
Suggested donation: $30+; $10+ (students)
Saturday, October 26, 2019. 3 PM.
Campbell Memorial Chapel
Roy Sonne, violin
Kathy Melucci, cello
Yeeha Chiu, piano
Schubert’s Piano Trio in B flat major and other great chamber works
Sunday, October 27, 2019. 3PM
Rivera Hall. Rivers Conservatory. 331 Winter St, Weston, MA 02493
Ron Lowry, Cello
Lois Shapiro, Piano
Beethoven’s Complete Sonatas for Cello and Piano
This first concert of the year at Rivers Conservatory will feature highly-acclaimed chamber musicians Lois Shapiro (piano) and Ron Lowry (cello), as a Music for Food concert to benefit A Place to Turn. The program presents a rare opportunity to hear all five Beethoven cello sonatas in one afternoon. In Shapiro’s words, “Many consider Beethoven to have been a visionary who transformed the way we engage the musical experience. His music inspires us all to take risks and think ‘outside the box’ . . . His five remarkably diverse cello sonatas span his entire compositional output, and thereby afford an extraordinary overview of his evolving compositional process.”
Thursday, November 7, 2019 . 7:30 PM
Broadway Presbyterian Church, 114th Street and Broadway
Laurie Smukler and Emily Daggett Smith, violin;
Hannah Burnett, viola;
Natasha Brofsky, cello
Kristina Bachrach, soprano
Qing Jiang, piano
Clara Schumann Trio in g minor, Op. 17 and Two Songs
Schoenberg selections from Cabaret Songs (1901)
Mendelssohn Quartet in f minor, Op. 80
Concert benefits Broadway Community
Sunday, November 10, 2019.
Calgary, Alberta
Works by Mozart, Schnittke and Francaix
Friday, November 15, 2019
Walpole, MA
Students from Walpole Middle and High Schools
Concert benefits the Walpole Food Pantry
Saturday, November 16, 2019. 7PM.
Rivers School, Weston, MA
Chamber, Jazz, and Choir small ensembles from the Rivers School
Music ranging from Appalachian Folk Tunes to Mozart to Thelonious Monk
Concert Benefits A Place to Turn
Saturday, November 23, 2019.
St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 14 Cushing Ave. Dorchester, MA 02125
David Rivera Bozón, Ron Williams, Abigail Whitney Smith, Molly Crookedacre, and Miles Fellenberg
Concert Benefits St. Maryʼs Church Food Pantry
Sunday, November 24, 2019. 7 PM
James Laughlin Music Center
Sopranos Kathy Soroka, Kelly Lynch, and Desirée Soteres, among others
Celebrate the Thanksgiving Holiday with songs and arias!
Donations benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.
Sunday, November 24, 2019. 7 PM
Field Concert Hall, Curtis Institute of Music
Jonathan Biss, Roberto Diaz, Kim Kashkashian, and Steven Tenenbaum, and the Vera Quartet
Bartok Duos,
Beethoven String Quintet in C major, Op. 29,
Beethoven Piano Sonata (TBD)
Sunday, December 8, 2019 | 3:00pm
American Philosophical Society
Peter Wiley, Cello;
David Shifrin, Clarinet;
Anna Polonsky, Piano
Beethoven: Clarinet Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 11
Rota: Clarinet Trio
Poulenc: Trio [Arr.]
Brahms: Clarinet Trio in A Minor, Op. 114
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society’s Anna Polonsky, David Shifrin, and Peter Wiley perform trios for clarinet, cello, and piano at the American Philosophical Society. From PCMS:
“The Society is pleased to present these three celebrated musicians in their inaugural season as a trio. Highlighting an outstanding program of works for clarinet trio is a rarely-performed piece by Italian composer Nino Rota. Widely known for scoring films such as The Godfather, Rota also wrote highly sophisticated, inventive chamber music as is evidenced in his richly melodic Clarinet Trio”
Saturday, December 14, 2019. 7:30PM
Carriage House Violins
Sarah Haines, Flute. Kit Lau, Saxophone.
Two of our fellows perform chamber music for winds at Carriage House.
Sunday, December 15, 2019 . 7:30 PM
New England Conservatory, Brown Hall
Phoenix Ensemble, Michael Block, Sandeep Das, Janny Joo
Bach–Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050
“Masters of Tradition”–music for cello and tabla
Bach–Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
Our second concert of the season features the Phoenix chamber orchestra performing two Brandenburg Concerti and a cross-genre duo formed by Mike Block and Sandeep Das performing music for tabla (a pair of Indian drums used in Hindustani classical music) and cello (a bowed string instrument used in European classical music).
All concert donations will support The Women’s Lunch Place.
Suggested donation: $30+; $10+ (students)
Sunday, December 15, 2019. 3:00 PM
St Luke's Episcopal Church, 6030 Groversnor Lane, Bethesda, MD
Tempo Giusto Ensemble
Ji Won Song, Violin
Handel: Concerto grosso, Opus 6, No. 2
Bach: Concerto for violin and orchestra in E major
Schubert: Rondo for violin and orchestra in A major
Mendelssohn: Sinfonia No. 10
Concert benefits Bethesda Help
Sunday, December 29, 2019
Abril Bookstore, Glendale, CA
Varty Manouelian, violin; Anoush Pogossian, clarinet; Cara Pogossian, viola; Edvard Pogossian, cello; Movses Pogossian, violin;
Concert benefits the Women’s Lunch Place
Tuesday, January 7, 2020. 19:30.
National Taichung Theater Playhouse. No. 101, Section 2 Huilai Rd, Xitun District. Taichung City
Chi Yuan Chang, Conductor,
Albrecht Menzel, Violin,
Yi Fan-Chiang, Artemis Yen, Han-Wen Jennifer Yu, Wei-En Hsu, Piano;
Ensemble Taiwan
(台中場)
莫傑斯特．穆索斯基 – 展覽會之畫 (雙鋼琴)
Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at Exhibition (Two Piano)
尚．西貝流士 – D小調小提琴協奏曲，作品47
Jean Sibelius – Violin Concerto, Op.47
票價：300 (學生票)/ 500/ 800/ 1000/ 2000/ 3000
More information may be found at facebook.com/Ensemble-Taiwan.
Tickets may be purchased here.
Wednesday, January 8, 2020. 19:30.
Luzhou KHS Concert Hall. 24756, Taiwan, New Taipei City, Luzhou District, Zhongshan 2nd Rd, 162-2
Albrecht Menzel, Violin;
Yi Fan-Chiang, Artemis Yen, Han-Wen Jennifer Yu, Wei-En Hsu, Piano;
Ensemble Taiwan
安東尼．德弗札克 –第二號A大調鋼琴五重奏, 作品81
Antonín Dvořák – Piano Quintet No. 2, Op. 81
莫傑斯特．穆索斯基 – 展覽會之畫 (雙鋼琴)
Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at Exhibition (Two Piano)
路德維希·范·貝多芬 – 《D小調第九交響曲“合唱”》，作品125 – 第四樂章 (雙鋼琴)
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 – 4th mov.
票價
More information may be found at the Facebook event page.
Tickets may be purchased here.
Thursday, January 9, 2020. 5:30PM
401 S. Hope Street Los Angeles, CA 90071
Please come and enjoy a concert performed by some Ketchum Y members and friends, including performers from the highly acclaimed Los Angeles Philharmonic, Colburn School, UCLA Faculty members, and the LA Chamber Orchestra. They will be performing in support of the nonprofit, Music for Food, a musician-led initiative to fight hunger in local communities. Donations of money and food to the organization will be accepted at the concert and will be donated to The Midnight Mission food bank in downtown LA, Skid Row.
Sunday, January 12, 2020. 4PM.
Universalist Unitarian Church of Tallahassee, 2810 North Meridian Road, Tallahassee, FL 32312
Corinne Stillwell, violin, with selected Florida State University College of Music Students
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 18, No. 3 in D Major
Beethoven String Quartet Op. 135 in F Major
Concert benefits Second Harvest of the Big Bend
Facebook event may be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/596554097842248/
Sunday, January 26, 2020. 7PM
James Laughlin Music Center
Pauline Rovkah, piano
Yeeha Chiu, piano
Katherine Soroka, soprano
Guest Artists of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
All donations benefit the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
Sunday, February 9, 2020 . 3:00 PM
Lutheran Church of The Good Shepherd 7420 Fourth Avenue • Brooklyn, NY 11209
Arte Quartet: Harriet Langley and Amelia Dietrich violins, Emily Liu, viola, Matthew Chen, cello
Catherine Cho, viola
Natasha Brofsky, cello
Beethoven Quartet in B-flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6,
Brahms Sextet in G Major, Op.36
Concert benefits Reaching Out Community Services
Monday, February 10, 2020
College of Physicians, 19 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA
Marcy Rosen, Daniel Matsukawa, and students at the Curtis Institute of Music
Rasmussen Wind quintet and Beethoven Septet for Winds and Strings
All audience members’ donations to go to Broad Street Ministry.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020. 7:30PM.
Sol Joseph Recital Hall 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
Ian Swensen, Bonnie Hampton, Weicong Zhang and students of SFCM.
Mozart – Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat Major, K. 493
Takemitsu – A Bird Came Down the Walk
Beethoven – Piano Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97 “Archduke”
All proceeds will benefit Starcross Community.
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 . 8PM
First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland (main sanctuary), 3630 Fairmount Blvd, Cleveland, OH
Marquise Bradley, Jeanelle Brierley, Mary Kay Fink, Olga Dubossarskaya Kaler, Richard King, Corbin Krebs, Jaime Laredo, Rachel Lauson, Shannon Lee, Sarah Miller, Melivia Raharjo, Isaac Ripple, Sharon Robinson, Frank Rosenwein, Joseph Skerik, Barry Stees, James Thompson, Alyssa Warcup, Afendi Yusuf
Camille Saint Saëns – Havanaise, Op. 83
Charles Gounod – Petite Symphonie
Felix Mendelssohn – String Octet, Op. 20
Free parking available on site.
Thursday, February 20, 2020 . 7:30 PM
Broadway Presbyterian Church, 114 Street and Broadway
Deborah Buck, Kristin Lee, Kenneth Renshaw, and Carmit Zori, violin;
Roger Tapping and Carol Rodland, viola;
Natasha Brofsky and Julia Lichten, cello;
Marija Stroke, piano
Beethoven “Spring” Sonata in F Major , Op. 24
Ysaye String Trio
Dvorak Piano Quintet in A Major, Op.81
Concert benefits Broadway Community
Sunday, March 1, 2020 . 7:30 PM
New England Conservatory, Brown Hall
Palaver Strings, Triple Helix, Soovin Kim, Ayano Nimomiya
Vivaldi–Four Seasons: “Winter”
Arno Babadganian–Piano Trio
Bright Sheng–Piano Trio
Vivalidi–Four Seasons: “Spring”
Beginning in winter and ending in spring, our March 1st concert presents two piano trios from Armenia and China, respectively, nestled between two of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
All concert donations will support The Women’s Lunch Place.
Suggested donation: $30+; $10+ (students)
Monday, March 16, 2020. 7:30 PM
Broadway Presbyterian Church, 114 Street and Broadway
AIZURI QUARTET: Miho Saegusa and Emma Frucht, violins; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Karen Ouzounian, cello
Kim Kashkashian, viola
ARGUS QUARTET: Clara Kim and Giancarlo Latta, violins; Maren Rothfritz, viola; Joann Whang, cello
Mozart Viola Quintet in E-flat Major, K. 614
Knox Satellites for String Quartet
Mendelssohn Octet for Strings, Op. 20
Celebrating a special collaboration with Music for Food and Concert Artists Guild
Suggested donation at the door: $30/ $10 Seniors/Students
No Ticket Required
Concert benefits Broadway Community
Tuesday, March 24, 2020. 7:30PM
Capistrano Hall, California State University, Sacramento, 6000 J St, Sacramento, CA 95819
Sandra McPherson, Susan Lamb Cook, John Cozza, Sean Mori, Karina Tseng
An evening of music by Brahms, including the A minor Clarinet Trio, Op. 114, and the Violin Sonata in A major, Op. 100
A faculty and friends gala at CSU. All proceeds benefit the Sacramento State Associated Students Incorporated Food Pantry.
More info may be found at: https://www.csus.edu/administration-business-affairs/hornet-tickets/music-tickets.html#nms
Friday, March 27, 2020. 7:30 PM
Longy School of Music Pickman Hall 27 Garden St, Cambridge
Fermata Chamber Orchestra with soloists:
Thomas Cooper, Joy Kuo, Minji Lee, Rachel Lim, Mary O’Keefe, Ji Won Song
The Bach Violin Concerti
Sunday, March 29, 2020. 7:30 PM.
Theodore Parker UU Church, 1859 Centre Street. West Roxbury. MA
Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek, Mary O’Keefe, Sammy Andonian, Kevonna Shuford, Mari Nagahara
Music of Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Martinů
In MFF Boston’s second church concert, interns join Damien Francoeur-Krzyzek for a diverse program of chamber works.
Wednesday, April 1 and Tuesday, April 7
Masco Auditorium, Masconomet School District, 20 Endicott Rd, Boxford, MA
Masconomet High Band and Chorus
Masconomet School District Music Program presents two Music for Food concerts to benefit the Top Cupboard Food Pantry.
Sunday, April 19, 2020 . 7:30 PM
New England Conservatory, Brown Hall
NEC Strings–an orchestra of New England Conservatory faculty and students, with sections lead by Donald Weilerstein, Paul Biss, Kim Kashkashian, and Yeesun Kim–and Robert Levin, playing Mozart Concerti.
Calvin Chin Martial Arts Academy,
Shuishan Yu
Mozart–Piano Concerti, K. 414 and 449
Tai-Chi traditional exhibition performance
Pieces for Guqin:
Moon over the Mountain Pass關山月
Wild Geese Descending on the Beach 平沙落雁
Flowing Waters流水
Our season 10 finale presents a pair of Mozart Piano Concerti with Robert Levin and New England Conservatory musicians, a Tai-Chi performance, and a selection of folk songs from China played on Guqin (a plucked string-instrument used in Chinese classical music).
All concert donations will support The Women’s Lunch Place.
Suggested donation: $30+; $10+ (students)
Saturday, April 25, 2020 . 3:00 PM
Broadway Presbyterian Church, 114 Street and Broadway
Jo-Ann Sternberg, clarinet
Copland Clarinet Concerto,
Mahler Adagietto from Symphony No. 5,
Dvorak Serenade for Strings in E Major, Op. 22
Concert benefits Broadway Community
Thursday, May 7, 2020 . 7:30 PM
Broadway Presbyterian Church, 114 Street and Broadway
Daniel Phillips, violin
Natasha Brofsky, cello
Jeffrey Swann, piano
Tara Helen O’Connor, flute
Abeo Quartet: Ludvig Gudim and Njioma Grevious, violins, James Kang, viola, Drew Cone, cello
Mozart Quartet in D minor, K. 421
Faure Fantasie for Flute and Piano
Schwantner Black Anemones for Flute and Piano
Beethoven “Archduke” Trio in B-flat Major, Op. 97
Concert benefits Broadway Community
Sunday, May 17, 2020 . 3:00 PM
Lutheran Church of The Good Shepherd 7420 Fourth Avenue • Brooklyn, NY 11209
Students from the Juilliard School
Sposa Quartet: Todd Phillips and Catherine Cho, violins, Roger Tapping viola, Natasha Brofsky, cello
Program TBA
Concert benefits Reaching Out Community Services
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