The Clickable Chamber Music Newsletter from Southern California
No.1058 - Friday, May 30, 2025 - Sunday, June 29, 2025
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In This Issue
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Table of Contents
Quickly Scan the Newsletter Contents in This Section
Scroll down to the body of the newsletter for complete information
including performers’ bios and concert programs
I. Highlights and Hidden Gems
Select Live-Audience & Streamed Concerts
1. Reprise from Classical Crossroads’ Pandemic Archive
“First Fridays at First! ~ fff”
Winner of Peninsula Symphony’s
2022 Edith Knox Performance Competition
Cellist Mei Hotta with Pianist Eloise Kim
Videotaped in front of a live audience
and streamed Friday, June 3, 2022
from First Lutheran Church & School in Torrance CA
Watch the reprise by clicking:
https://youtu.be/UsnFFT7qy9w
2. Music at St Mary’s Perivale
St Mary’s Perivale - West London UK
Jim’s Picks of Two Recent Gems at St Mary’s Perivale
Livestreamed Thursday, May 22, 2025
Eva Zavaro violin, Simone Tavoni piano
Selections by Szymanowski, Eva Zavaro, Ravel, and Franck
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-05-22.shtml
Watch now:
https://youtu.be/pQ95LXjkXts?t=1059
Livestreamed Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Michal Szymanowski piano
Selections by Chopin, Rózycki, Debussy, and Liszt
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-05-27.shtml
Watch now:
https://youtu.be/ip8AHnE6fWc?t=1009
Upcoming Concerts
Sunday, June 1, 2025 - 3:00 PM London - 7:00 AM Pacific
Michael Petrov cello, Rosie Richardson piano
J.S. Bach: Sonata in G Minor, BWV1029
Chopin: Sonata in G Minor, Op.65
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-01.shtml
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
Roman Kosyakov piano
Selections by Beethoven, Blumenfeld, Chopin, and Ireland
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-03.shtml
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
Sébastien Van Kuijk cello, Robin Green piano
Sonatas by Fauré, Debussy, and Brahms
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-05.shtml
Sunday, June 8, 2025 - 3:00 PM London - 7:00 AM Pacific
The Waldstein Trio
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor, Op.50
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-08.shtml
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
Diana Cooper piano
An All-Chopin Recital.22
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-10.shtml
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
The Calathea String Quartet
Selections by Haydn, Caroline Shaw, and Grieg
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-12.shtml
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
The Bravi-Scapicchi Piano Duo
Francesco Bravi & Adriano Scapicchi
Paolo Catenaccio (1998): Visions from a dream
Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op.52
Stravinsky: Petrushka
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-17.shtml
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
The Invictus Piano Trio
Rosemary Gilbart-Smith violin, Catherine Brooker cello,
Tuck-Kay Loke piano
Selections by Bridge, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn.49
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-19.shtml
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
Dmitrii Kalashnikov piano
Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op.24
Liszt: Sonata in B Minor
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-24.shtml
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
Available afterward to stream-on-demand
Find the links to the upcoming and past livestreamed concerts by clicking:
https://www.youtube.com/@stmarysperivale2842/streams
3. First Congregational Church of Los Angeles
Organ Prelude Concert
UCLA Professor & First Church Organist Christoph Bull
on the Great Organs of First Congregational Church of Los Angeles
Every Sunday - 10:30-11:00 AM Pacific - Free
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
Available afterward to stream-on-demand at the link below.
Click at concert time to watch the livestream and find the program:
https://www.fccla.org/live
4. 2025 Cliburn Competition - Final Round
Bass Performance Hall - Fort Worth TX
Six competitors perform two concertos with
Marin Alsop and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Finals’ Schedule
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 7:30 PM Central - 5:30 Pacific
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:30 PM Central - 5:30 Pacific
Friday, June 6, 2025 - 7:30 PM Central - 5:30 Pacific
Saturday, June 7, 2025 - 3:00 PM - 1:00 Pacific
Awards Ceremony: 7:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
https://bit.ly/2025CliburnCompetition-Live
5. London’s Wigmore Hall Livestreamed Concerts
Pianist Boris Giltburg performing
the Beethoven Piano Sonata cycle
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:30 PM London
The livestream starts at 8:00 PM London - 12:00 PM Pacific
Wigmore Hall - London UK
36 Wigmore St,
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202506041930
6. 79th Ojai Music Festival
Thursday, June 5 through Sunday, June 8, 2025
2025 Ojai Music Festival artists and composers
https://www.ojaifestival.org/topic/2025-artists-composers/
Schedule of Concerts by clicking:
https://www.ojaifestival.org/2025-festival-schedule/
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
Find the livestream link at concert time on the Ojai Festival website:
https://www.ojaifestival.org/
7. 92NY Center for Culture & Arts presents
Berta Rojas guitar and Paquito D’Rivera clarinet & saxophone
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 7:30 PM ET - 4:30 AM Pacific
The 92nd Street Y - New York NY
Latin Grammy-winning Paraguayan guitar master Berta Rojas joins 11-time
Grammy Award-winning Cuban clarinetist & saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera.
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
Available for viewing 72 hours following the performance
In-person: from $40 - Single online tickets: $25
https://www.92ny.org/event/berta-rojas-and-paquito-d-rivera
8. UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music presents
UCLA Camarades
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 6:00 PM Pacific
Band Room, Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA
UCLA Camarades (“The Music of Friends”) is the
chamber music program guided by the String Department.
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
(available only during the performance)
Free in-person admission and free to livestream.
https://bit.ly/3FmAAKN
9. UCLA Milken Center Chamber Music Series presents
Composer Portrait: The Music of Paul Schoenfield
Sunday, June 8, 2025 - 4:00 PM Pacific
Ensemble Room - Ostin Music Center - UCLA
The Program - Selections by Paul Schoenfield
(see below in the main section of the newsletter)
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
(available only during the performance)
Free in-person admission and free to livestream.
https://bit.ly/UCLA-PaulSchoenfield
II. Reviews and Other Items of High Interest
on the Southland Chamber Music Scene
A. Music critic Harlow Robinson’s review on San Francisco Classical Voice
“Baroque Gems From Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Countertenor Reginald Mobley”
https://bit.ly/SFCV-ReginaldMobley001
Newsletter Begins
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Greetings, Chamber Music Aficionados
I. Highlights and Hidden Gems
Select Live-Audience & Streamed Concerts
for Chamber Music Aficionados
1. Reprise from Classical Crossroads’ Pandemic Archive
“First Fridays at First! ~ fff”
Winner of Peninsula Symphony’s
2022 Edith Knox Performance Competition
Cellist Mei Hotta
with Pianist Eloise Kim
Videotaped in front of a live audience
and streamed Friday, June 3, 2022
from First Lutheran Church & School in Torrance CA
The Program
J.S. Bach (1685-1750): Cello Suite No.6 in D Major, BWV1012
1. Prelude
4. Sarabande
6. Gigue
Gaspar Cassado (1897-1966): Requiebros (1934)
Alexander Glazunov(1865-1936): Chant du Ménestrel, Op.71
Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Adagio and Allegro, Op.70
originally for horn and piano
The Artists
Cellist Mei Hotta from Torrance, California, has been featured as a soloist on NPR’s From the Top and
subsequently was invited to collaborate with Pink Martini in a performance at the Hollywood Bowl. She
was invited back to From the Top to collaborate with pianist Peter Dugan and violinist Vijay Gupta. She
was also featured in USC’s Piatigorsky Festival’s Young Artist Workshop as its youngest member and
soloist. She studies with renowned cellist Clive Greensmith of the former Tokyo Quartet, pursuing her
Bachelor of Music degree at the Colburn Conservatory of Music.
As the winner of Peninsula Symphony’s 2022 Edith Knox Performance Competition, Mei Hotta performed
Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No.1 with the orchestra in Fall 2022.
Praised by The Columbian as a “musician with great poetic phrasing and poised lyrical nature,”
award-winning pianist Eloise Kim is a top-prize winner of numerous competitions. She earned her DMA at
the USC Thornton School with Daniel Pollack, her Master of Music at the Manhattan School, and her
Bachelor of Music at The Colburn Conservatory. Read about Eloise Kim by clicking:
http://www.eloisekimpianist.com/
Watch the reprise by clicking:
https://youtu.be/UsnFFT7qy9w
2. Music at St Mary’s Perivale
Chamber Music and Recitals
St Mary’s Perivale
Perivale Lane, Perivale, West London UK
For a Google map, click:
https://goo.gl/maps/KdaP2qduGyv8ccYV7
Jim’s Picks of Two Recent Gems at St Mary’s Perivale
Livestreamed Thursday, May 22, 2025
Eva Zavaro violin, Simone Tavoni piano
Szymanowski: Violin Sonata in D Minor, Op.9
Eva Zavaro: Spirale
Ravel: Tzigane
Franck: Violin Sonata in A Major
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-05-22.shtml
Watch now:
https://youtu.be/pQ95LXjkXts?t=1059
Livestreamed Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Michal Szymanowski piano
Chopin: Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op.27 No.2
Chopin: Scherzo No.2 in B-flat Minor, Op.31
Chopin: Impromptu No.2 in F-sharp Major Op.36
Chopin: Polonaise in F-sharp Minor, Op.44
Chopin: Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op.45
Chopin: Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op.60
Rózycki: Lagune, Op.36
Debussy: Two Preludes
La cathédrale engloutie
Minstrels
Liszt: Six Chants polonais de Frédéric Chopin, S480
1. The Maiden’s Wish
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-05-27.shtml
Watch now:
https://youtu.be/ip8AHnE6fWc?t=1009
Upcoming Concerts
Sunday, June 1, 2025 - 3:00 PM London - 7:00 AM Pacific
Michael Petrov cello, Rosie Richardson piano
J.S. Bach: Sonata in G Minor, BWV1029
Chopin: Sonata in G Minor, Op.65
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-01.shtml
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
Roman Kosyakov piano
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in E Major, Op.14 No.1
Blumenfeld: Three Etudes, Op.3
Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in B Minor, Op.20
Chopin: Three Mazurkas, Op.63
Ireland: Month’s Mind
Ireland: Ballade
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-03.shtml
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
Sébastien Van Kuijk cello, Robin Green piano
Fauré : Cello Sonata No.1 in D Minor, Op.109
Debussy: Cello Sonata
Brahms: Cello Sonata in E Minor, Op.38
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-05.shtml
Sunday, June 8, 2025 - 3:00 PM London - 7:00 AM Pacific
The Waldstein Trio
Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor, Op.50
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-08.shtml
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
Diana Cooper piano
An All-Chopin Recital
Ballade No.2 in F Major, Op.38
Etude in G-sharp Minor, Op.25 No.6
Nocturne in D-flat Major, Op.27 No.2
Waltz in A-flat Major. Op.42
Barcarolle in F-sharp Major, Op.60
Preludes, Op.28 Nos.13-18
Scherzo No.1 in B Minor, Op.20
Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op.22
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-10.shtml
Thursday, June 12, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
The Calathea String Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in D Minor, Op.76 No.2
Caroline Shaw: Valencia
Grieg: String Quartet no 1 in G minor Op.27
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-12.shtml
Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
The Bravi-Scapicchi Piano Duo
Francesco Bravi & Adriano Scapicchi
Paolo Catenaccio (1998): Visions from a dream
Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op.52
Stravinsky: Petrushka
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-17.shtml
Thursday, June 19, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
The Invictus Piano Trio
Rosemary Gilbart-Smith violin, Catherine Brooker cello,
Tuck-Kay Loke piano
Bridge: Three Miniatures for violin, cello, and piano
Shostakovich: Trio No.1 in C Minor, Op.8
Mendelssohn: Trio in D Minor, Op.49
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-19.shtml
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 - 2:00 PM London - 6:00 AM Pacific
Dmitrii Kalashnikov piano
Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a theme by Handel, Op.24
Liszt: Sonata in B Minor
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-2025-06-24.shtml
St Mary’s Perivale is a small church dating back to the 12th century, which was active until being declared
redundant in 1972. Since then, it has been operated by Friends of St Mary’s Perivale as a concert venue
and arts center. The UK and Europe’s classical artists typically appear in three in-person and livestreamed
concerts a week. Since 2006, the ancient venue has been transformed into a high-quality broadcasting
center. Explore and discover concert gems by clicking:
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/
Find upcoming artists and ensembles through November 2026 by clicking:
https://st-marys-perivale.org.uk/events-001.shtml
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
Available afterward to stream-on-demand
Find the links to the upcoming and past livestreamed concerts by clicking:
https://www.youtube.com/@stmarysperivale2842/streams
3. First Congregational Church of Los Angeles
Organ Prelude Concert
UCLA Professor & First Church Organist Christoph Bull
on the Great Organs of First Congregational Church
of Los Angeles
Every Sunday - 10:30-11:00 AM Pacific - Free
First Congregational Church of Los Angeles
540 S. Commonwealth Ave. (at Sixth St.), Los Angeles CA
For a Google map, click:
http://goo.gl/7g1N2f
The Program - for Sunday, June 1, 2025
Hymn Improvisation
Meditation on O filii et filiae
Anthony Giamanco: Easter Hymn and Improvisation
Robert Lind: Vruechten and Improvisation
Leonardo Antonio Di Chiara: Duke Street and Improvisation
ascribed to J.S. Bach: Short Prelude and Fugue in D Minor
Gustav Merkel: Praeludium in A-Minor and Improvisation
Postlude
ascribed to J.S. Bach: Short Fugue in D Minor - Reprise
The Organ Prelude Concert programs are posted a few days ahead in the Order of Worship. Check and
download by clicking:
https://www.fccla.org/live
Organist Christoph Bull’s free, half-hour, live-audience & live-streamed Prelude Concerts on Sunday
mornings, beginning at 10:30 AM on the Great Organs of First Church, are an inspiring way to start your
week of amazing musical offerings. Attend in person or stay tuned in for the live stream of the First Church
Sunday Service, featuring the superb professional chamber choir Laude and Cathedral Choir, directed by
David Harris, as well as the organ Postlude. Donations appreciated. Read about organist Christoph Bull
by clicking:
https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/people/christoph-bull/
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
Available afterward to stream-on-demand at the link below.
Click at concert time to watch the livestream and find the program:
https://www.fccla.org/live
4. 2025 Cliburn Competition - Final Round
Bass Performance Hall
4th & Calhoun Streets, Fort Worth TX
For a Google map, click:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eYkMdDfEhqzKMaDCA
Six competitors perform two concertos with
Marin Alsop and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra
Finals’ Schedule
Tuesday, June 3, 2025 - 7:30 PM Central - 5:30 Pacific
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:30 PM Central - 5:30 Pacific
Friday, June 6, 2025 - 7:30 PM Central - 5:30 Pacific
Saturday, June 7, 2025 - 3:00 PM - 1:00 Pacific
Awards Ceremony: 7:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific
From the Cliburn website:
“The Cliburn broadcast is the next best thing to being in the concert hall, with spectacular views that put
you right on stage; high-quality sound so you don’t miss a nuance; insightful commentary from our
experts—hosts Buddy Bray and Elizabeth Joy Roe, and our lead backstage host Greg Anderson; and
fun behind-the-scenes access to the Competition and its warm hometown.”
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
To watch live & on-demand, click:
https://bit.ly/2025CliburnCompetition-Live
5. London’s Wigmore Hall Livestreamed Concerts
Pianist Boris Giltburg performing
the Beethoven Piano Sonata cycle
Wednesday, June 4, 2025 - 7:30 PM London
The livestream starts at 8:00 PM London - 12:00 PM Pacific
Wigmore Hall
36 Wigmore St, London, UK
https://goo.gl/maps/yWjtaiJfc3MCJk4m8
The Program
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827):
Piano Sonata No.22 in F Op.54
Piano Sonata No.23 in F Minor, Op.57 “Appassionata”
Piano Sonata No.13 in E-flat Major, Op.27 No.1
“Quasi una fantasia”
Piano Sonata No.31 in A-flat Major, Op.110
The Artist
The Moscow-born, Israeli pianist Boris Giltburg has been praised his “singing line, variety of touch and
broad dynamic palette capable of great surges of energy” (Washington Post) and noted “the interplay of
spiritual calm and emphatic engagement is gripping, and one could not wish for a more illuminating, lyrical
or more richly phrased interpretation” (Suddeutsche Zeitung). Giltburg regularly plays recitals in the world’s
most prestigious halls, including the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Carnegie Hall, Hamburg
Elbphilharmonie, Wiener Konzerthaus, Southbank Centre, and Wigmore Hall. Read about Boris Giltburg
by clicking:
https://borisgiltburg.com/
Some of the world’s finest chamber music and recitals happen at Wigmore Hall. See the line-up of
livestream offerings by clicking:
https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/forthcoming-live-streams
Recent past concerts are available to stream on demand by clicking:
https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/video-library
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
Available to stream for 192 days afterward
In-Person: £18 - £40
Free to Livestream with a free account.
Watch the livestream or order live-audience tickets by clicking:
https://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/202506041930
Find upcoming and recent Wigmore livestreams on its YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@wigmorehall/streams
6. 79th Ojai Music Festival
Claire Chase 2025 music director
Ara Guzelimian Artistic & Executive Director
Thursday, June 5 through Sunday, June 8, 2025
Libbey Bowl, Ojai CA
For a Google map, click:
https://goo.gl/6MRukB
“The Ojai Music Festival has been raising a finely calibrated ruckus each spring since 1947"
- Alex Ross, The New Yorker
See this year’s Ojai Music Festival artists and composers by clicking:
https://www.ojaifestival.org/topic/2025-artists-composers/
And see the Schedule of Concerts by clicking:
https://www.ojaifestival.org/2025-festival-schedule/
From its founding in 1947, a healthy spirit of eclecticism and musical daring produced Ojai Music Festival
concerts that were fun and inspiring. That spirit was reinforced in 1954 with the appointment of Lawrence
Morton as the Festival’s artistic director, who was also the director of the historic Monday Evening
Concerts in Los Angeles. Under his leadership, the Ojai Music Festival developed an enduring concept
whereby the artistic director engages a different music director each year, around whose musical ideas
that year’s Festival is built.
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
Find the livestream link at concert time on the Ojai Festival website:
https://www.ojaifestival.org/
7. 92NY Center for Culture & Arts presents
Berta Rojas guitar and Paquito D’Rivera clarinet & saxophone
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 7:30 PM ET - 4:30 AM Pacific
The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Avenue, New York NY
(between 91st & 92nd street)
For a Google map, click:
https://bit.ly/GoogleMap-92NY
Latin Grammy-winning Paraguayan guitar master Berta Rojas joins 11-time Grammy Award-winning
Cuban clarinetist & saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera.
Individually beloved friends of 92NY and kindred musical spirits, the duo tour through Latin America and
record together. Rojas is widely considered the world’s leading interpreter of the music of her countryman,
Agustín Barrios. Hear these artists perform duets of music by Barrios, D’Rivera originals, and other works
blending Latin American classical, folk melodies, and jazz in an enchanting evening of music.
The 92nd Street Y, New York (aka. 92NY) is a world-class cultural and community center where people
worldwide connect through culture, arts, entertainment, and conversation. For over 150 years, it has
harnessed the power of arts and ideas to enrich, enlighten and change lives, and the power of community
to repair the world. For information, click:
https://www.92ny.org/
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
Available for viewing 72 hours following the performance
In-person: from $40
Single online tickets: $25
For concert information, click:
https://www.92ny.org/event/berta-rojas-and-paquito-d-rivera
8. UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music presents - Free
UCLA Camarades
Thursday, June 5, 2025 - 6:00 PM Pacific
Band Room, Schoenberg Music Building, UCLA
For directions and parking, click:
https://bit.ly/UCLA-SchoenbergMusicBuilding
UCLA Camarades (“The Music of Friends”) is the title given to the chamber music program that is guided
by the String Department. It offers superior coaching to all ensembles incorporating strings, from trios to
octets, with a special consideration to the string quartet literature. These endeavors of study and
instruction are crowned by quarterly concerts.
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
(available only during the performance)
Free in-person admission and free to livestream.
For concert information and the link to the livestream, click: https://bit.ly/3FmAAKN
9. UCLA Milken Center Chamber Music Series presents
Composer Portrait: The Music of Paul Schoenfield
Sunday, June 8, 2025 - 4:00 PM Pacific
Ensemble Room: Ostin Music Center, UCLA
For directions and parking, click:
https://bit.ly/UCLA-OstinCenter
The Program - Selections by Paul Schoenfield
Tales from Chelm for string quartet (1991)
Adam Millstein and Xenia Deviatkina-Loh violins
Ben Bartelt viola, Charles Tyler cello
Intermezzo No.2 for piano (2004)
Gaby Sipen piano
Carolina Réveille for violin, viola, cello, piano (1996)
Xenia Deviatkina-Loh violin (TBD)
Ben Bartelt viola
Charles Tyler cello
Alex Tchaykov piano
Four Motets from Psalm 86
for unaccompanied chorus (SSAATTBB) (1995)
UCLA Chamber Singers ensemble
Sopranos: Maddy Chamberlain, Mia Ruhman
Altos: Camryn Deisman, Sofia Dell’Agostino, Olivia Salazar
Tenors: Yani Araujo, Andres Delgado, James Scott
Basses: Kevin Cornwell II, Leland Smith
James Bass conductor
Camp Songs
for mezzo-soprano, baritone, violin, cello,
double bass, clarinet, piano (2001)
Michelle Rice soprano
Dominic Delzompo baritone
Adam Millstein violin
Charles Tyler cello
Skyler Lee double bass
Alexander Parlee clarinet
Austin Ho piano
The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience presents the Milken Center Chamber
Music Series, concerts of uplifting and distinctive chamber music curated by Neal Stulberg, Artistic
Director, who writes:
“Paul Schoenfield (1947-2024) was a unique and brilliant musician of decidedly American Jewish
Experience. A virtuoso concert pianist and hugely gifted composer who wrote for first-class performers
and ensembles, Paul was a devoutly orthodox Jew and a remarkable person. Retiring as professor of
composition at the University of Michigan in 2021, he split his time between the U.S. and Israel. His music
— a fascinating mashup of klezmer/Hasidic, liturgical, jazz, bluegrass, blues, and Americana, and by turns
intimate, frenetic, devotional, sardonic, and terrifying — is well represented in the Milken Archive.
“Paul and I both grew up in Detroit, and I intersected with him professionally through the years. One
chamber concert is hardly enough to do justice to his range and brilliance, but we’re going to try.
Performed by UCLA students, faculty and alumni, the concert concludes with his 2001 Pulitzer
Prize-nominated song cycle, ‘Camp Songs’ for mezzo-soprano, baritone, and instrumental ensemble.”
Read about Paul Schoenfield by clicking:
https://www.milkenarchive.org/artists/view/paul-schoenfield/
Read about UCLA Professor of Conducting, Director of Orchestral Studies, and Milken Center Artistic
Director Neal Stulberg by clicking:
https://schoolofmusic.ucla.edu/people/neal-stulberg/
Live-Audience & Simultaneously Livestreamed
(available only during the performance)
Free in-person admission and free to livestream.
For concert information and to watch the livestream, click:
https://bit.ly/UCLA-PaulSchoenfield
II. Reviews and Other Items of High Interest
on the Southland Chamber Music Scene
A. Music critic Harlow Robinson’s review on San Francisco Classical Voice
“Baroque Gems From Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and Countertenor Reginald Mobley”
https://bit.ly/SFCV-ReginaldMobley001
Music critic Harlow Robinson writes, “The star of the show, titled “Celestials: Mobley + Vivaldi,” was rising
American countertenor Reginald Mobley, an early-music specialist who has appeared at major festivals
around the world. He excelled on Thursday night, May 22, at The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall, . . .”
Best wishes and take care,
Jim Eninger, Editor-in-Chief
Clickable Chamber Music Newsletter from Southern California
“... invaluable ...” ~ Mark Swed, The Los Angeles Times