Konnect Club – Past Concerts

Program includes works by Johannes Brahms, Antonín Dvořák, & early African American guitarist Justin Holland; ancient melodies from Armenia; original musical reflections written during the pandemic; & more.

A concert from one of America's most innovative classical guitar virtuosos.

Alyssa Morris – Motion
Peter Tanner – Diversions
Jean Françaix – Divertissement pour hautbois, clarinette, et basson
Caroline Shaw – Boris Kerner

Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1 "Ghost"
John Zorn – Ghosts
Camille Saint-Saëns, arr. James Guthrie – Danse macabre, Op. 40

Rodion Shchedrin – Basso Ostinato
Johann Sebastian Bach – Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp minor, BWV 863 from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
Jan Freidlin – Ballade in Black and White
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Fantasia No. 3 in D minor, K. 397/385g
Franz Liszt & Frédéric Chopin – Six Chants polonais, S.480, No. 1: "Mädchens Wunsch (The Maiden's Wish)"
Franz Liszt – Grandes études de Paganini, S. 141, No. 3 in G-sharp minor: "La Campanella"
Ludwig van Beethoven – Bagatelles, Op. 126

Music from the masters of tango & milonga – including Carlos Gardel, Aníbal Troilo, & Astor Piazzolla – with original compositions integrating classical music, choro, tango, rock, & more.

Traditional Norwegian folk music & improvised tunes from Rachel Nesvig (Hardanger fiddle).

George Gershwin & Earl Wild – Fantasy on Gershwin's Porgy and Bess
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Lilacs, Op. 21, No. 5
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Daisies, Op. 38, No. 3
Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Ferruccio Busoni – Three chorale preludes TBA

Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat major, Op. 110
Frédéric Chopin – Works TBA
Scott Joplin – Works TBA

Concert presented by Bokyung Byun, winner of the JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition.

Domenico Scarlatti – 3 sonatas TBA
Franz Joseph Haydn – Piano Sonata in E minor, Hob. XVI/34, L. 53
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310 / 300d

Elliott Carter – Cello Sonata
Francis Poulenc – Cello Sonata, FP 143
Sergei Prokofiev – Cello Sonata in C major, Op. 119

Program of music for string quintet, performed before a live audience in the Berkeley Hills, California.

Works & transcriptions by Sergei Rachmaninoff, Leopold Godowsky, Arcadi Volodos, Felix Mendelssohn, George Gershwin, and Earl Wild.

Works by Domenico Scarlatti & W.A. Mozart; selections from Claude Debussy's Images & Estampes; & Franz Liszt's Dance of the Gnomes.

Music by Francesco Canova da Milano, Guillaume de Morlaye, Luis de Narváez, John Dowland, Nicolas Vallet, Gaspar Sanz, Élisabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Fernando Sor, & Justin Holland.

Music by Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Johannes Brahms, Nikolai Medtner, Claude Debussy, George Gershwin, & Radiohead are on this program from “vibrant and immensely musical" pianist Wayne Weng.

Andrei Andreev performs 3 Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti, the Sonata in E minor by Joseph Haydn, & Sonata in A minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, live from Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Sonata No. 8 in A minor, K. 310 / 300d
Frédéric Chopin – Works TBA

Seattle-based Brazilian choro trio plays music spanning 100 years of choro music, as well as original compositions.