St. Cecilia Music Center Celebrates 13 years of partnership with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presenting a program titled “Virtuoso Winds” on November 7, 2024
Virtuoso Winds will feature the wealth and variety of chamber music for winds and will introduce former Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic, Radek Baborák, to American audiences.
St. Cecilia Music Center (SCMC) opens its 13th season with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center featuring a program titled Virtuoso Winds on November 7, 2024.Chamber musicians performing will be Adam Walker, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; David Shifrin, clarinet; Marc Goldberg, bassoon; Radek Baborák, horn; and Anne-Marie McDermott , piano.
Executive & Artistic Director of SCMC Cathy Holbrook says, “St. Cecilia Music Center is honored to continue our partnership with the most important chamber music organization in the country, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Co-Artistic Director David Finckel and Wu Han plan unique programs and bring the most celebrated chamber musicians in the world to the Royce Auditorium stage every year for this stellar series.”
The first half of “Virtuoso Winds” will feature duos for clarinet and bassoon, bringing these orchestral neighbors to the stage in works that span more than 100 years. The duos are interspersed with pieces highlighting the soloistic nature of both flute and horn with piano. The second half brings together a trio, an unusual combination of oboe, horn, and piano, performing lyrical melodies in the Romantic style. All six artists will perform together on Poulenc’s Sextet, which the composer described as “an homage to the wind instruments I have loved from the moment I began composing.”
Individual tickets for the Chamber Music Society Virtuoso Winds concert are $55, $40, and $25 at scmcgr.orgor by calling 616-459-2224. (Single tickets have a $4.00 per ticket fee.)
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center series tickets are also available on the Chamber Series and Chamber & Jazz Series at scmcgr.org or by calling 616-459-2224. (Season Series Tickets offer a 15% - 20% discount off single ticket prices) All concerts start at 7:30pm.
There will be three concerts in the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Series in the 2024-25 season. Future Concerts with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Series include:
March 20, 2025 - “Schubert’s Trout Quintet”
Schubert’s Trout Quintet will feature artists Wu Han, piano, Arnaud Sussman, violin, Julian Rhee, violin, Paul Neubauer, viola, Sterling Elliott, cello, and Tony Manzo, bass. One of the most beloved chamber music works for strings and piano, Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet not only demonstrates his genius for melody and lyricism, but also features a distinct combination of instruments: only one violin and the addition of double bass. The richness of the lowest of the strings can also be heard in Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue, a piece that deepens the string quartet’s tonal range. Original instrumentation is also attributed to Mozart’s set of piano quartets, the first music written for this combination, which inspired future generations of composers.
April 24, 2025 - “Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence”
Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence will feature artists Paul Huang, violin, Danbi Um, violin, Timothy Ridout, viola, Matthew Lipman, viola, Sihao He, Cello, and David Finckel, cello. CMS Co-Artistic Director David Finckel is joined by colleagues from around the world in a program featuring string sextets, an ensemble comprised of pairs of violins, violas, and cellos. The expansiveness of the sextet provides a distinctive depth of sonority to the ensemble, equally balanced between the instruments, which will be heard in Bach’s ingenious six-voice fugue (on a theme given to him by Frederick the Great) to the sextet from Richard Strauss’s final opera to the ravishing Souvenir de Florence by Tchaikovsky. The multi-dimensional sextet allows for smaller subsets, notably the string trio, which has its own unique sonority and rounds out the program, including one of Schubert’s great early string works, the B-flat major String Trio.
Purchase Single Tickets online at www.scmcgr.org or by calling 616-459-2224. Contact the Box Office Manager at tickets@scmcgr.org or 616-459-2224 x201 with questions. Single tickets have a $4.00 per ticket fee. All concerts start at 7:30pm.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Series Tickets
Virtuoso Winds
Thursday, November 7, 2024
A section $55
B section $40
C section $25
Schubert’s Trout Quintet
Thursday, March 20, 2025
A section $55
B section $40
C section $25
Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence
Thursday, April 24, 2025
A section $55
B section $40
C section $25
