MUSIC

Rice University Shepherd School of Music presents the Chamber Music Festival: Spotlight on Brahms and His Circle. Saturday, April 9, 10am to 10pm.  Duncan Recital Hall - Alice Pratt Brown Hall.

A date to clearly mark on your calendars! This semester's edition of the chamber music festival, "Brahms and his Circle," will showcase most of Brahms' major chamber music works. We will have all the piano trios, the piano quartets, and the piano quintet plus the string quartets of Op. 51, both viola quintets, the clarinet trio and quintet and the horn trio with the alto/viola songs.

Works by members of his "circle" will feature the Schumann Piano Quintet, the Dvorak "American" Quartet and Terzetto, plus the Schubert "Trout" Quintet and works by Loeffler, Reger, Schulhoff, Britten and Mozart. I can't imagine a more rich banquet of chamber music for a day, so bring your bright Viennese sensibilities to Duncan Recital Hall and enjoy the fruits of the labors of our talented Shepherd School students (under the guidance of our celebrated faculty!).

Scheduled Programs:

Program One 10:00 a.m.
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Sonata per due violini e basso continuo in G Minor
Meredith Peacock, violin
Vivian Fu, violin
Ian Hallas, bass
Dr. Philip Kloeckner, harpsichord

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Trio in B Major, Op. 8 (1891)
Jiyeon Min, violin
Annamarie Reader, cello
Shirley Jang, piano

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Quintet In G Major op. 111
Tian-Tian Xhang, violin
Myoung Ji-Jang, violin
Koko Dyulgerski, viola
Blake Turner, viola
Rosanna Butterfield, cello

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Piano Quintet in E-flat Major, Op. 44
Haerim Lee, violin
Seth Freeman, violin
Tatiana Trono, viola
Jesse Christeson, cello
Tom Robak, piano

Program Two 12:00 p.m.
Charles Rochester Young (b. 1965)
The Song of the Lark
Garrett Hudson, Flute
Meghan Elizabeth Caulkett, Harp

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Variations on a Theme By Josef Haydn
HanQing Zhou, piano
Zhu Zhu, piano

Max Reger (1873-1916)
Piano Trio Op. 2, No. 1
Gina Dyches, violin
Padua Canty, viola
Brian Cho, piano
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 114, D. 667, "Die Forelle" (1819)
Lijia Phang, violin
Jill Valentine, viola
Danielle Rossbach, cello
Daniel Smith, bass
Joseph Kingma, piano

Program Three 2:00 p.m.
Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756-1791)
Quintett in C for 2 Violins, 2 Violas, and Cello, KV 515
Robert Landes, violin
Sarah Arnold, violin
Andrew Griffin, viola
Rebecca Lo, viola
Benjamin J Whitman, cello

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Terzetto in C Major, Op. 74 (1887)
Emily Jackson, violin
Joanna Park, violin
Ashley Pelton, viola

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Two Songs for viola, alto, and piano, Op. 91
Erika Rodden, alto
Ilana Mercer, viola
Natalie Ormsby, piano

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Trio in E Flat Major for Piano, Violin and Horn, Op. 40
Joanna Becker, violin
Nick Wolny, horn
Todd Yaniw, piano

Program Four, 4:00 p.m.
Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
String Quartet No. 1 "From My Life" in E Minor
Mark Kagan, Violin
Genevieve Micheletti, Violin
Jules Sulpico, Viola
Sarah Stone, Cello

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 51 No. 2 (1873)
Heather Kufchak, violin
Andy Liang, violin
Timothy Rowland, viola
Matthew Kufchak, cello

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Quartet in G minor, Op 25 - (1861)
Meghan Nenniger, Violin
Maya Rothfuss, Viola
Allan Hon, Cello
Evelyn Hsu, Piano

Program Five 6:00 p.m.
Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Sonate pour flûte, alto, et harpe, L.137 (1915)
Natalie Zeldin, flute
Allyson Goodman, viola
Juliana Beckel, harp

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Clarinet Trio op. 114 in A minor (1891)
Nico Chona, clarinet
Ben Stoehr, cello
Daphne Honma, piano

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Phantasy for Oboe and Strings, Op. 2
Kevin Pearl, oboe
Chauncey Aceret, cello
Sol Jin, violin
Roberto Papi, viola

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
String Quintet No. 1 in F Major, Op. 88
Creston Herron, violin
Carmen Abelson, violin
Rachel Kufchak, viola
Meredith Kufchak, viola
Autumn England, cello

Program Six, 8:00 p.m.
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
String Quartet in G major "Compliments," Op. 18, No. 2 (1800)
Civetta String Quartet
Luke Hsu, violin
Tara Slough, violin
Yvonne Smith, viola
Coleman Itzkoff, cello

Johannes Brahms 1833-1897
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34
Hye Eun Yoo, piano
Alyssa Yank, violin
Jun Kim, violin
Tracy Wu, viola
Caroline Nicolas, cello

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Piano Trio in C Minor, Op. 101 (1886)
Chloé Trevor, violin
Brian Yoon, cello
Richard Marshall, piano

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Trio #2 in C Major for Violin, Cello, and Piano, Op. 87 (1882)
Kimia Ghaderi, violin
Sophie Benn, cello
Brian Connelly, piano

Pictured:  Johannes Brahms.