Internationally acclaimed guitarist Scott Tennant will join three members of the original Angeles String Quartet, violinist Roger Wilkie, violist Brian Dembow and cellist Steven Erdody in concert on Tuesday, January 20 at 8 p.m. in the sanctuary at St. Matthew’s, 1031 Bienveneda. In addition the world premiere of a work by Los Angeles-based composer Jane Brockman commissioned by Chamber Music Palisades (CMP) will debut. The program includes the Concerto for Guitar and Strings by Vivaldi, the Sonatina op. 205 for Flute and Guitar by Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Dvorak’s Piano Quintet, op. 81 in addition to the new Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano by Brockman. Scott Tennant is one of the world’s most recognized American guitarists. His performances both as a soloist and with the L.A. Guitar Quartet, which he is a founding member, have taken him around the world. He is the author of the best-selling book and video “Pumping Nylon” on guitar technique and is in the process of recording the complete solo guitar works of Joaquin Rodrigo for the Belgian label GHA, including the concertos with Leo Brouwer conducting. Violinist Roger Wilkie’s playing has been described by the Los Angeles Times as having “surpassing virtuosity, a thrilling legato tone and a sense of full emotional engagement.” Concertmaster of the Long Beach Symphony, he has also served in that capacity with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Music Center Opera Orchestra and the Real Philharmonia de Galicia (Spain) under Helmuth Rilling. As a member of the first New York String Quartet, violist Brian Dembow then joined the Sequoia Quartet followed by 12 years with the Angeles String Quartet. At age 11 he was admitted to The Juilliard School and later won the Eduard Dethier Award and was twice awarded the Michael Rabin Award. Stephen Erdody has served as principal cellist for the Pacific Symphony, the Joffrey Ballet, the American Ballet Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem and Opera Pacific and he was cellist with the New York String Quartet. He has formed a new ensemble, Chamber Music Los Angeles, to perform benefit concerts supporting non-profits that enrich children’s lives through the performing arts, particularly disadvantaged children. Composer Jane Brockman has served on the boards of directors of New York’s Composers Concordance, Women in Film, the Society of Composers and Lyricists and also served three years on review panels for the NEA. She was the first woman to earn a doctorate in music composition at the University of Michigan. She studied with Max Deutsch in Paris and worked in Ireland and Vienna. She has won honors and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Fulbright-Hays/Alliance-Francaise, Rackham School, the State of Connecticut, Meet the Composer, The Composers Conference and the Sigvald Thompson Prize for orchestral composition. Completing the player roster for the evening will be violinist Sarah Thornblade and CMP co-artistic directors and co-founders flutist Susan Greenberg and pianist Delores Stevens. Now in its seventh consecutive season, Chamber Music Palisades includes local school concerts in each season’s programming and has commissioned five new works since the inception of the series in 1997. Tickets will be available at the door at 1031 Bienveneda Avenue in Pacific Palisades at $20 for single admission. Students with ID will be admitted free of charge.
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