Chamber Music Palisades Concert January 27, 2009

INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED CLARINETIST DIMITRI ASHKENAZY
(SON OF FAMED PIANIST/CONDUCTOR VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY) AND
RENOWNED BOSTON-BASED VIOLIST SCOTT WOOLWEAVER MAKE RARE
WEST COAST JOINT APPEARANCE AT CHAMBER MUSIC PALISADES CONCERT

Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 8:00 PM, at St. Matthews Parish in Pacific Palisades

Joining them to Perform Works by Schumann, Schmitt, Villa-Lobos, Uhl, Bernstein
and Bruchare Are Series Co-Founders/Co-Artistic Directors Susan Greenberg,
Long-Time LACO Flutist, and Esteemed Pianist Delores Stevens

Chamber Music Palisades (CMP), one of the Southland's leading and most intimate chamber music series, continues its 12th season with blockbuster concert of music from the New and Old Worlds featuring a rare West Coast joint appearance by internationally renowned clarinetist Dimitri Ashkenazy, son of legendary pianist/conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, with whom he recently toured Chile, and celebrated Boston-based violist Scott Woolweaver on Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 8:00 p.m., at St. Matthew's Parish in Pacific Palisades. CMP Co-Founders/Co-Artistic Directors Susan Greenberg, long-time flutist with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and noted pianist Delores Stevens also perform with Ashkenazy and Woolweaver in a program of works by Schumann, Schmitt, Villa-Lobos, Uhi, Bernstein and Bruch. KUSC's Alan Chapman is the evening's host.

“Dimitri continues the amazing musical legacy of his father, who has been one of the biggest names in classical music for the past half century” says Stevens. “We are very pleased to present him in our chamber music series.”

Greenberg adds, “Scott is an inspiring musician and one of the busiest and best known chamber artists on the East Coast. This will be a wonderful opportunity for audiences to hear him perform locally.”

The concert opens with the lighthearted Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales), Op. 132, for clarinet, viola and piano, by German Romantic composer Robert Schumann 1810-1856). Florent Schmitt's (1870-1958) Sonatine en Trio for flute, clarinet and piano reflects the sensibilities of the “French School.” Choros No. 2 for flute and clarinet written in 1921 by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959), embraces the indigenous and folk music of the composer's native Brazil, perched on the tip of the New World.

Austrian composer Alfred Uhl,'s (1909-1992) unique and vibrant style synthesizing neo-classicism, atonality and serialism with traditional tonal and contrapuntal idioms is captured in his Kleines Konzert (Little Concerto) for viola, clarinet and piano, which continues the program. Adding another New World element is Sonata for clarinet and piano by multi-Emmy Award-winning conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), who remains one of America's most influential composers. Concluding the evening is German composer Max Bruch's (1838-1920) Four Pieces, Op. 83 for clarinet, viola and piano, which, like the concert's opening work, falls into the German Romantic musical tradition.

Greenberg and Stevens, both Pacific Palisades residents, founded Chamber Music Palisades in 1997. They draw guest artists from their vast pool of talented colleagues in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and other leading ensembles from across the country, as well as from Southland universities and the ranks of the Hollywood recording industry. In addition to presenting established chamber works, Chamber Music Palisades has commissioned nearly a dozen new pieces by such renowned composers as Paul Chihara, Jane Brockman, Henri Lazarof, Adrienne Albert and Joel McNeely.

Tickets are $25; students with ID are free. St. Matthew's Parish is located at 1031 Bienveneda in Pacific Palisades, CA 90272. For tickets and information, please call (310) 459-2070 or visit www.cmpalisades.org.
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Event:
Chamber Music Palisades
Susan Greenberg, flute
Dimitri Ashkenazy, clarinet
Scott Woolweaver, viola
Delores Stevens, piano
Date/Time:
Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 8 p.m.

Program:
ROBERT SCHUMANN Märchenerzählungen (Fairy Tales), Op. 132, for clarinet, viola and piano
FLORTEN SCHMITT Sonatine en Trio for flute, clarinet and piano
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS Choros No. 2 for flute and clarinet

ALFRED UHL Kleines Konzert (Little Concerto) for viola, clarinet and piano

LEONARD BERNSTEIN Sonata for clarinet and piano
MAX BRUCH Four Pieces, Op. 83 for clarinet, viola and piano
Venue:
St. Matthew's Parish
1031 Bienveneda
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

Admission:
$25; students with ID are free
Information:
(310) 459-2070 or www.cmpalisades.org

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PROGRAM AND ARTISTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Official Website: http://www.cmpalisades.org