Pianist

Felici members are prize winners of the Los Angeles Liszt, Yellow Springs, and Osaka music competitions. The vibrant threesome has performed over 350 concerts in Europe, South America and the U.S. and has distinguished itself as a unique presence on the national music scene since coming to Mammoth Lakes as grantee of Chamber Music America's Rural Residencies Program and as a California Arts Council's (CAC) Touring Roster ensemble

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Felici Piano Trio

United Methodist Church Ridgecrest

Schoenberg’s Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23, which marks the crystallization of his twelve-tone technique is the launchpad. Other groundbreaking piano methods are heard in Leo Ornstein’s Suicide in an Airplane, distinctive for its tone clusters. Pierre Boulez’s fascinating 12 Notations uses the number 12 as a self-imposed structure with a 12-note row forming the basis of 12 solo piano pieces, each just 12 bars long. The indirect passing of the Schoenberg baton is heard in A Love Supreme, a progressive jazz masterpiece by the famed innovator John Coltrane, whose groundbreaking style is rooted in Schoenberg’s techniques, gleaned from his teacher Dennis Sandole, a Schoenberg student. Coltrane also studied with Ornstein as a teenager in Philadelphia.

Fierce Beauty Part I

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Vanhauwaert / Chalifour Duo

Los Angeles Harbor College

Pacific Unitarian Church

Jacaranda opens its final season Planet Schoenberg on September 23 with Hanging Gardens. Schoenberg’s lush Book of the Hanging Gardens is a Late Romantic setting of bittersweet love poems by Stefan George. Its 1910 premiere received a lukewarm reception, but the tides turned in 1920 Paris when critics heard Schoenberg’s genius. Together pianist Steven Vanhauwaert and mezzo soprano Katarzyna Sadej take this forbidden journey into hanging gardens.  Under the direction of Jacaranda's music director Mark Alan Hilt, soprano Julia Metzler and the Jacaranda Chamber Ensemble will perform the chamber version of Gustav Mahler’s beloved Fourth Symphony—composed in 1900 and arranged by Schoenberg disciple Erwin Stein in 1920. The always pragmatic Arnold Schoenberg believed such arrangements offered clarity and an affordable way to hear unknown symphonic music, especially by his friend Mahler.

Hanging Gardens

Vanhauwaert Piano Quartet

Join distinguished guests Clive Greensmith and Steven Vanhauwaert for an evening of cello/piano duo masterpieces, including works by Debussy, Boulanger, Respighi, Schumann, and Mendelssohn. Presented as part of CMOC’s 10th Anniversary Celebration.

Steven Vanhauwaert

Pianist

Events

Apr 27, 2024

Felici Piano Trio · Ridgecrest Chamber Music Society

Feb 25, 2024

Fierce Beauty Part I · Jacaranda Music

1 - 3 Dec, 2023

Vanhauwaert / Chalifour Duo · South Bay Chamber Music Society

Sep 23, 2023

Hanging Gardens · Jacaranda Music

14 - 16 Apr, 2023

Vanhauwaert Piano Quartet · South Bay Chamber Music Society

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