Chamber Music Palisades concludes its 12th Season with music by Mozart, Villa-Lobos, Hindemith and Franck on Tuesday, April 28 at 8 p.m., at St. Matthew’s Church, 1031 Bienveneda. Series co-founders and co-artistic directors Delores Stevens, piano, and Susan Greenberg, flute, are joined by violinists Roger Wilkie and Nina Evtuhov as well as Carrie Dennis, principal viola with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and John Walz, principal cello with LA Opera. The program features Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s (1756-1791) Quartet in D Major for flute, violin, viola and cello, as well as the more contemporary ‘Jet Whistle,’ an elegant and intriguing piece for flute and cello by Brazilian composer Villa Lobos (1887-1959), which was written in 1950 and boasts three perfectly balanced short movements. The concert continues with Paul Hindemith’s (1895-1963) highly regarded Sonata for Viola and Piano. A renowned violist himself, Hindemith wrote sonatas for every major instrument in the orchestra, but his Sonata for Viola and Piano is the noted Quintet for Piano and Strings by late Romantic composer C’sar Franck (1822-1890), known for his graceful musical modulations and reverential compositions. Carrie Dennis joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic this fall. In addition to her orchestra career, Dennis is an avid chamber musician and has toured with Musicians from Marlboro. Violinist Nina Evtohov left her life as a busy New York City freelance musician to return to her native Pacific Palisades in 2006. While in New York, Nina was a member of the Bordeaux String Quartet and performed regularly with many orchestras. Since moving to Los Angeles, she has performed with various orchestras and film soundtracks. Cellist John Walz was born in Southern California and began his studies with Eleonore Schoenfeld. In 1967, he heard the great French cellist, Pierre Fournier, play the Dvorak Concerto with Zubin Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, an event that he says, ‘changed my life.’ In 1973, he traveled to Switzerland to study with Fournier. Equally at home in chamber music and orchestral playing, he is currently the principal cellist with the Los Angeles Music Center Opera, and teaches at the Idyllwild Arts Academy. Robert Wilkie is the concertmaster of the Long Beach Symphony and has also served in that capacity with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Music Center Opera Orchestra, and the Real Filharmonia de Galicia in Spain. For tickets ($25; students with ID are free), call 310-459-2070 or visit www.cmpalisades.org.
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