World Premiere Highlights Final CMP Concert May 10

World-class musicians will star in the season’s finale concert presented by Chamber Music Palisades on Tuesday, May 10 in the sanctuary of St. Matthew’s Parish Church. The program will feature the world premiere of a composition by award-winning composer Byron Adams that was commissioned by CMP. This concert is sponsored in part by the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. The ensemble for this concert includes violin soloist Ida Levin; the principal cellist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Peter Stumpf; and UCLA’s professor of viola and chamber music, Paul Coletti. Joining these guest artists will be CMP co-artistic directors flutist Susan Greenberg and pianist Delores Stevens. The world premiere work, entitled ‘Variationis achemisticae,’ is a composition in seven short movements for flute, viola, cello and piano. Also to be performed on the program will be Mozart’s C Major Quartet for flute and strings and Dvorak’s Piano Trio in F Minor. Composer Byron Adams has had his compositions performed in concert halls in England, France, Poland, New York, and now, California. He is currently chairman of the department of music at UC Riverside. Violinist Ida Levin has established an international reputation as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. She is a senior artist at the Marlboro Festival and is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society and the Philadelphia Chamber Music Players. Peter Stumpf was a frequent soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and has also been a soloist with the Boston Symphony, Boston Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony and at the Aspen Music Festival. He has collaborated with the Emerson Quartet and members of the Guarneri String Quartet. Violist Paul Coletti has made major appearances in concert halls throughout the world. A member of the award-winning Menuhin Festival Piano Quartet for 10 years, Coletti also performed with the Tokyo-based ensemble, Typhoon. He is a winner of the Golden Harp Award in Belgrade and made his conducting debut in Tokyo with the New Japan Philharmonic. At the age of 25 he became head of strings at the University of Washington then moved to the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins as professor of viola and chamber music, a title he currently holds at UCLA. Tickets are $20 for the 8 p.m. concert and will be available at the door at 1031 Bienveneda. Students with ID will be admitted free of charge. Contact: 459-2070 or 454-2177.