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Concert 1

Join us for an evening of intense, Russian Romanticism


Program:Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19....Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 30....Sergey Taneyev


Performance:Saturday, November 11, 2023 - 7:30PM
St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church




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2023-24 Season Concerts

Concert 1Saturday, November 11, 2023St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church
Concert 2Saturday, December 9, 2023St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church
Concert 3Saturday, February 17, 2024St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church
Concert 4Saturday, March 16, 2024St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church
Concert 5Saturday, April 20, 2024St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church
Concert 6Saturday, May 18, 2024St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church


2023-24 Season Concert Details

Concert 1

Join us for an evening of intense, Russian Romanticism
Program:Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19....Sergei Rachmaninoff
Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 30....Sergey Taneyev

Performance:Saturday, November 11, 2023 - 7:30PM
St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church

Artists: Jun Iwasaki - Violin
Philip Setzer - Violin
Marcus Thompson - Viola
Anthony Elliott - Cello
Dmitri Vorobiev - Piano


Concert 2

Thrill to an evening of beauty and virtuosity performed by the recent Gold Medalist of the Indianapolis International Violin Competition and Superstar violinist Cho-Liang Lin
Program:Grand Duo Concertante in D Major, Op. 67 #2....Louis Spohr
Sonata for 2 Violins, Op. 56....Sergei Prokofiev
Three Duos for 2 Violins....Dimitri Shostakovich
Suite in G Minor for 2 Violins and Piano , Op. 71....Moritz Moszkowski
Navarra for 2 Violins and Piano, Op. 33....Pablo de Sarasate

Performance:Saturday, December 9, 2023 - 7:30PM
St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church

Artists: Serena Huang - Violin
Cho-Liang Lin - Violin
Yurie Iwasaki - Piano


Concert 3

Join us on a Romantic Journey through Germany, Hungary, and Bohemia
Program:Sonata #2 in F Minor, Op. 120 for Clarinet and Piano....Johannes Brahms
Serenade for String Trio, Op. 10....Ernő von Dohnanyi
Piano Quartet in E♭ Major, Op. 87....Antonin Dvořák's

Performance:Saturday, February 17, 2024 - 7:30PM
St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church

Artists: Nai-Yuan Hu - Violin
Susan Dubois - Viola
Ko Iwasaki - Cello
Joyce Yang - Piano
Kimberly Cole-Luevano - Clarinet


Concert 4

World renowned Sitkovetsky Trio in a concert of fun, beauty, and impeccable artistry
Program:Piano Trio “Freak Show”....Sam Perkin
Piano Trio in A Minor....Maurice Ravel
Piano Trio #2 in C Minor, Op. 66....Felix Mendelssohn

Performance:Saturday, March 16, 2024 - 7:30PM
St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church

Artists: Alexander Sitkovetsky - Violin
Isang Enders - Cello
Qian Wu - Piano


Concert 5

This concert features artists from France, Israel, Venezuela, and Russia performing works of composers from Germany, Israel, Armenia, and Russia. Well, we are Chamber Music International
Program:Sonata “Arpeggione” in A Minor for Viola and Piano, D. 821....Franz. Schubert
Caprice #7, “Franz” for Solo Viola....Atar Arad
Piano Trio in F# Minor....Arno Babadjanian
Piano Quartet No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 15....Gabriel Fauré

Performance:Saturday, April 20, 2024 - 7:30PM
St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church

Artists: Chloé Kiffer - Violin
Atar Arad - Viola
Horacio Contreras - Cello
Alexandre Moutouzkine - Piano


Concert 6

Two Jazz twin Superstars and Friends—an unforgettable evening that you won’t want to miss
Program:Program to be announced...
Performance:Saturday, May 18, 2024 - 7:30PM
St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church

Artists: Scott Tixier - Violin
Tony Tixier - Piano




Artists in the Concert

Jun Iwasaki - Violin
First prize winner of Coleman Chamber Music Competition, Los Angeles
Philip Setzer - Violin
Violinist Philip Setzer, a founding member of the Emerson String Quartet, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and began studying violin at the age of five with his parents, both former violinists in the Cleveland Orchestra. He continued his studies with Josef Gingold and Rafael Druian, and later at the Juilliard School with Oscar Shumsky. In 1967, Mr. Setzer won second prize at the Marjorie Merriweather Post Competition in Washington, DC, and in 1976 received a Bronze Medal at the Queen Elisabeth International Competition in Brussels. Currently serving as the Distinguished Professor of Violin and Chamber Music at SUNY Stony Brook and Visiting Faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music, Mr. Setzer has given master classes at schools around the world, including The Curtis Institute, London's Royal Academy of Music, The San Francisco Conservatory, UCLA and The Mannes School.
Marcus Thompson - Viola
Violist Marcus Thompson is serving his fifteenth season as Artistic Director of the Boston Chamber Music Society with a series of eight concerts at Sanders Theatre (Harvard University), Jordan Hall (Boston), and First Church, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has appeared in chamber music series and festivals throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and as guest of the Audubon, Borromeo, Cleveland, Da Ponte Endellion, Parker and Vermeer String Quartets, and with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Anthony Elliott - Cello
"His emotional communication is often profound, and his glittering, silvery tone captivates the ear."
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Dmitri Vorobiev - Piano
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1. Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor, Op. 19
2. Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 30


1. Sergei Rachmaninoff
2. Sergey Taneyev

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