Cello – Upcoming Concerts

Come watch talented young professional musicians from across the country compete in the Frances Walton Competition Finals!

This event is FRE…

Don Freund — Gold
John Corigliano — Voyage for string orchestra
Yukiko Nishimura — River Stories
Frank Bridge — Suite for String Orchestra, H. 93
Pablo de Sarasate — Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20

George Walker — Lyric for Strings
Heitor Villa-Lobos — Assobio a Jato ("The Jet Whistle"), W. 493
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, K. 478

Florence Price — "Juba" from String Quartet No. 2 in A minor
William Grant Still — Lyric Quartette
Antonín Dvořák — String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 "American" ("II. Lento")
Rhiannon Giddens — At the Purchaser's Option
Gabriela Lena Frank — Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout
Paquito D'Rivera — Wapango

Dwight Banks — Tre
Richard Festinger — Tapestries
Curtis Hughes — Caduceus
Andre Myers — Falling Skyward
Kathryn Salfelder — Nocturno

Program includes works by Giovanni Battista Martini, Daniel Gawthrop, Hyeyoung Cho, Hong Nan-pa, Niccolò Paganini, Gioachino Rossini, Sun Ahn, Johann Sebastian Bach, Traditional, Clara Schumann, Pablo de Sarasate, TBA, Giacomo Puccini, and Giuseppe Verdi.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Divertimento in D major, K. 136 "Salzburg Symphony No. 1"
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — String Sextet in D minor, Op. 70 "Souvenir de Florence"
Clarice Assad — Bohemian Queen (West Coast premiere)

The final concert of the inaugural concert series for the Decatur Fine Arts Academy includes a series of chamber music duos. Featuring DFAA…

Johannes Brahms — Four Pieces for Piano (Intermezzi), Op. 119
Florence Price — Piano Quintet in A minor ("I. Allegro non troppo")
Sofia Gubaidulina — Chaconne
Stefania de Kenessey — Microvids: for Solo Piano and Poetry Recitation
Frédéric Chopin — Waltz No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2
Valerie Coleman — Portraits of Langston
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 (arr. for viola & piano)

Johannes Brahms — Four Pieces for Piano (Intermezzi), Op. 119
Florence Price — Piano Quintet in A minor ("I. Allegro non troppo")
Sofia Gubaidulina — Chaconne
Stefania de Kenessey — Microvids: for Solo Piano and Poetry Recitation
Frédéric Chopin — Waltz No. 7 in C-sharp minor, Op. 64, No. 2
Valerie Coleman — Portraits of Langston
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19 (arr. for viola & piano)

Ludwig van Beethoven — String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Op. 18, No. 3
Dmitri Shostakovich — String Quartet No. 3 in F major Op. 73

Ludwig van Beethoven — Selected works
Florence Price — String Quartet No. 1 in G major
Daniel Strong Godfrey / Traditional — Amazing Grace (from Three Encores for String Quartet)

Cello students of Sarah Rommel perform a year-end studio recital.

Gaspar Cassadó / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Cello Concerto (after Tchaikovsky's 18 Pieces, Op. 72) (Diane Chaplin, cello)
Johannes Brahms — Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Brian Prechtl — Selected works (world premiere)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — String Sextet in D minor, Op. 70 "Souvenir de Florence"

Arnold Schoenberg — Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21
Kaija Saariaho — Oi Kuu
Emily Cook — Nocturnes (world premiere)

Members of the Berwick Academy faculty and OBF Period Orchestra present an afternoon of free chamber music. Repertoire to be announced from…

Johann Strauss II — Wein, Weib, und Gesang ("Wine, Women, and Song"), Op. 333 (arr. Alban Berg for piano, harmonium, & string quartet)
Alban Berg — Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 5
P.D.Q. Bach / Peter Schickele — Schleptet in E-flat major (for flute, oboe, bassoon, French horn, violin, viola, & cello)
Johannes Brahms — Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25

Antonio Vivaldi — Violin Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269 "La primavera" ("Spring" from The Four Seasons)
Antonio Vivaldi — Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315 "L'estate" ("Summer" from The Four Seasons)
Jules Massenet — "Méditation" from Thaïs
Astor Piazzolla — "I. Verano Porteño" from Las cuatro estaciones porteñas ("The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires")
Antonio Vivaldi — Violin Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293 "L'autunno" ("Autumn" from The Four Seasons)
Antonio Vivaldi — Violin Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297 "L'inverno" ("Winter" from The Four Seasons)

Damien Geter — Neo-Soul for string quartet
Damien Geter — I Said What I Said
Louise Farrenc — Nonet in E-flat major, Op. 38