The phenomenal Dover Quartet is joined by Norway’s foremost pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who gave a masterful recital in Koerner Hall in January 2023.

Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the Grammy Award nominated Dover Quartet’s rise from up-and-coming young ensemble who swept all the prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition to occupying a spot at the top of their field has been “practically meteoric” (Strings). With its burnished warmth, incisive rhythms, and natural phrasing, the Quartet’s distinctive sound has helped confirm its status as “the young American string quartet of the moment” (The New Yorker). As Strad observes, “With their exceptional interpretative maturity, tonal refinement, and taut ensemble,” the Dover Quartet is “pulling away from their peers.”

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Dover Quartet with Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Experience intimate chamber music programs curated and performed by small ensembles of SF Symphony musicians.

Chamber Music at Davies Symphony Hall

Davies Symphony Hall

Kismarton String Trio

Ann E. Pitzer Center

Three exceptional artists comprise this brilliant trio, remarkable for its transparency and vibrancy of expression.  String trios are a far rarer species than string quartets and the Boccherini Trio is in the top rung of the breed, recently releasing much-acclaimed recordings of the complete string trios of Beethoven on the Genuin Classics label. The Trio performs in such venues as Wigmore Hall and Konzerthaus Berlin, as well as the most important festivals. The string trio repertoire, though small, is rich with masterpieces, and we will hear some of the best of the best.

Boccherini String Trio

Taube Koret Campus for Jewish Life

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Lesher Center for the Arts

Frisson features the best and brightest of classical music's stars! The group showcases emerging young artists as well as seasoned professionals and has skyrocketed to become one of the leading musical groups. Frisson performs engaging programs for winds, piano trio and piano quartet programs, as well as popular programs featuring music by such composers as Gershwin and Piazzolla. The ensemble performs in over 25 cities annually including appearances in such diverse venues as the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City, for the Da Camera Society in Los Angeles and at the Bermuda Festival.

Frisson Ensemble

United Methodist Church Ridgecrest

Scott Yoo and the visiting artists perform a culminating concert of the works featured on the Notable Encounters throughout the week.

Scott Yoo & Guests Chamber Concert

Cuesta College

Scott Yoo hosts an evening of culinary and musical adventures at the beautiful Pavilion at Cypress Ridge in Arroyo Grande.  Join Scott and the artists for a tour behind Mozart's Piano Trio and Dohnanyi's Piano Quintet.  Throughout the evening you will learn about the composers' lives and histories, their musical influences, and gain a deeper understanding of the works in advance of Sunday's chamber concert.  Then after the presentation, enjoy a three-course dinner complete with Central Coast wines.

Notable Dinner: Mozart & Dohnanyi

Cypress Ridge Pavilion

Renowned violinist Erin Keefe (’03), concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra and Curtis faculty member, joins dynamic conductor, clarinetist, and composer Osmo Vänskä and Curtis’s extraordinary emerging professional musicians for a tour of North America. Built around the octet version of Sibelius’s evocative tone poem En Saga, this eclectic program features cherished classics by Mozart and Sibelius, alongside striking early twentieth-century works such as Dohnányi’s string trio, Serenade in C major, and Schulhoff’s fiery, folk-influenced Concertino for flute, viola, and double bass.

Curtis on Tour in Corpus Christi, TX

Corpus Christi Chamber Music Society

Curtis on Tour in Wichita Falls, TX

Midwestern State University

Curtis on Tour in West Palm Beach, FL

Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts

Discover the versatility of violin, viola, and cello, as different versions of this mighty combination take you on a journey from Handel to the present.

Trio Reimagined

The Church of Bethesda-By-The Sea

The husband-and-wife duo of violinist Erin Keefe (concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra and a Curtis faculty member) and conductor, clarinetist, and composer Osmo Vänskä joins young musicians from the Curtis Institute of Music in this touring ensemble. Built around the septet version of Jean Sibelius’s evocative tone poem En Saga, this eclectic program features cherished classics and striking, early twentieth-century works such as Erwin Schulhoff’s fiery, folk-influenced Concertino for flute, viola, and double bass.

Curtis on Tour

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Ensemble Connect

The Juilliard School

Long ago, small groups of classical musicians entertained nobility in the elegant salons where they held court. The music was designed for the space – intimate, inviting, elegant in every detail.

Today, modern audiences can partake in this experience in a less formal setting, with a series of exquisite chamber concerts, each preceded by a wine reception.

Chamber Night #5: Dohnányi & Schumann

Music Academy of the West

2023 Summer Festival 1

Benaroya Hall

Dvořák's Symphony No. 9, Op. 95, "From the New World" and solo Congas with Samuel Torres

May 2023 Concert

Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew

Winds, strings, and piano comprise the chamber music family’s essential members. Combine them, and one hears chamber music at its richest, most multi- dimensional level. Brahms’s pairings of clarinet with cello, and horn with violin, create deeply inspired variations of the traditional piano trio format, each work a unique masterpiece of extreme beauty. Brahms serves as this program’s point of arrival and departure, as an outstanding work by the Hungarian Ernst Dohnányi gathers all the instruments for a dazzling close.

Brahms and Dohnányi

Lincoln Center

Johannes Brahms laid an inspirational groundwork for a generation of composers to come. One such composer was Hungarian Erno˝ Dohnányi, whose Sextet in C major owes its formative elements to Brahms. Pair this work with two Brahms trios of profound originality, and you will not be able to help but feel moved.

The Brahms Effect

University of Georgia Performing Arts Center

Sir András Schiff, this season’s Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, is the soloist in Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3, imbued with the spirit of Hungarian folk song. Iván Fischer leads the Orchestra in Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, Jupiter, his final and grandest. The program opens with Symphonic Minutes by Ernst von Dohnányi, a friend and compatriot of Bartók whose work was also influenced by Hungarian folk music.

Sir András Schiff Plays Bartók

Escape the mundane and experience the power of musical transformation. From Maurice Ravel’s compelling Bolero, which begins small and transitions into a sonic tidal wave, to Richard Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration about human transitions, to jazz saxophone legend Ted Nash’s personal journey as depicted on his newest composition Transformation for Symphony Orchestra and Narrator.  You’ll emerge refreshed, re-energized and ready for reality.

Transformation

Granada Theatre

The complex textures and rich harmonies characteristic of Richard Wagner’s compositions had a magnetic force on the composers featured on this afternoon’s program. From Strauss’ lusciously scored and radiantly colorful Sextet from his opera Capriccio and a string version of Berg’s intense Piano Sonata to arrangements and works in honor of Wagner by his own father-in-law, Franz Liszt, this program is a testament to the dominant force of this Romantic master. The program ends with the rarely heard, lushly exuberant Sextet by Hungarian composer Ernst Von Dohnányi for strings, clarinet, and horn.

Join us for the Musical Prelude with the Pelia Quartet for their performance of Bartók’s String Quartet No. 3 in C-sharp Minor, Sz.85

The Wagner Effect

Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

French Impressionism caps off this delightful afternoon with Ravel’s colorful and climatic piano trio. Before that, music by the Hungarian composer, Ernst von Dohnányi treats you to shifting chromatic tonality while Czech composer, Bohuslav Martinů, explores virtuosity between flute and viola. 

Ravel's Piano Trio

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

French Impressionism bookends this delightful afternoon: Debussy opens the program with the dreamy sounds that made him famous featuring the sounds of flute, viola and harp; concluding is Ravel’s colorful and climatic piano trio. Music by the Hungarian composer, Ernst von Dohnányi treats you to shifting chromatic tonality while Czech composer, Bohuslav Martinu, explores virtuosity between flute and viola.

Among Music@Menlo’s proudest achievements is the new generation of stellar chamber musicians which has emerged from its Chamber Music Institute. This program, conceived and curated by a quintet of extraordinary young artists, who are all Institute alumni, is the first of its kind, and not to be missed. The works chosen all relate to formative Music@Menlo experiences, a fitting and inspiring testament to the far-reaching influence of the Institute and its vital impact on the future of chamber music. The performance will be followed by a live Q&A with the artists on Zoom.

Inspired by Menlo: A Benefit

Featuring music by Dohnányi, Tchaikovsky & world premiere from 2019 — 20 Sound Investment composer Juan Pablo Contreras.

Ernst von Dohnányi

Events

Apr 28, 2024

Dover Quartet with Leif Ove Andsnes, piano · Royal Conservatory

Apr 21, 2024

Chamber Music at Davies Symphony Hall · San Francisco Symphony

Apr 11, 2024

Kismarton String Trio · UC Davis Arts

23 - 25 Mar, 2024

Boccherini String Trio · Chamber Music San Francisco

Mar 3, 2024

Frisson Ensemble · Ridgecrest Chamber Music Society

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