Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival: The Felici Piano Trio

• Ambroise Aubrun, viola

The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival is being held this summer in Lani Hall, a 133-seat auditorium located in the Schoenberg Music Building on the UCLA campus. All concerts are free of charge, and no reservations are required. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Lot 2 is the closest campus parking lot. Click here for full details on UCLA visitor parking, including campus parking maps and rates: https://transportation.ucla.edu/campus-parking/visitors.

This year's Festival will be livestreamed on the Center's YouTube Channel. Please subscribe to our channel to be notified when the concerts go live: https://www.youtube.com/@ucla-c1718cs.

About Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival

The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival was founded in 1988 by Professor Henry J. Bruman (1913–2005), who sought to introduce new audiences to chamber music at informal concerts on the UCLA campus. The artistic Director is Ambroise Aubrun, D.M.A.

About The Felici Piano Trio

The internationally renowned Felici Piano Trio has performed well over 400 concerts in Europe, South America, and the U.S. The ensemble has distinguished itself as a unique presence on the national music scene since coming to Mammoth Lakes as grantee of Chamber Music America’s Rural Residencies Program, and as a California Arts Council (CAC) Touring Roster Ensemble.

Through Chamber Music Unbound, a nonprofit arts organization based in the Eastern Sierra, Felici presents a full winter concert season (Felici & Friends), as well as an international summer festival and associated academy (Unbound Chamber Music Festival and Sierra Academy of Music.) The ensemble members direct a year-round community music school serving local students in weekly group and individual lessons, and perform "Kids Concerts" for elementary, middle, and high schools. In addition, they teach music appreciation classes and chamber orchestra in collaboration with Cerro Coso College.

The Felici Trio was a recipient of a Creating Public Value grant from the California Arts Council (CAC), a three-year Artists-in-Residence grant, a Youth Education in the Arts grant and an Exemplary Grant. In Germany, the ensemble has concertized under the auspices of the Kultursommer Festival, and appeared on 3SAT and ZDF television, as well as on German Southwest Radio (SWF). Felici has recorded four CDs: Chamber Music of Women Composers; Tchaikovsky’s Trio in A minor; Beethoven's "Ghost" Trio & Brahms' Trio, Op. 87; and the Ravel Trio coupled with Saint-Saëns' Op. 18.

About Ambroise Aubrun, viola

Hailed as a "marvelous violinist" (France Musique) with "sensitive tone" (Pizzicato Magazine) and "tremendous ease, suppleness and beauty of sound" (Nice-Matin), violinist Ambroise Aubrun has performed extensively in Europe and North America. His albums for the Editions Hortus and Navona Records have embraced a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Tanguy (b. 1968) and received praise of the highest caliber (5 stars Pizzicato Journal, "coup de coeur" France Musique, and a nomination for the 2021 International Classical Music Awards).

Aubrun’s performances and albums have been broadcast on CBS, WFMT, France Musique, Klara Radio (Belgium), KPFK, WTUL New-Orleans and K-USC Los Angeles.

He has served as guest concertmaster of the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the Las Vegas Philharmonic and the International Chamber Orchestra of Puerto Rico, and is a regular guest of the Los Angeles Philharmonic violin sections.

Aubrun studied at the Paris National Superior Conservatory, UCLA and the Colburn Conservatory of Music. He is the winner of the Charles Oulmont Prize of the Fondation de France and laureate of the Langart Foundation in Switzerland.

Currently Associate Professor of Violin at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Aubrun has served on the faculty of UCLA and UC Santa Barbara as well as several academies, and is regularly invited to give masterclasses around the world. He is the artistic director of the Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival at UCLA.