Chamber Music Palisades Presents QUINTET FOR OBOE, STRINGS AND PIANO 10/19

Chamber Music Palisades (CMP), the Westside music series celebrated for its stellar artistic line up and juxtaposing works old and new, launches the 2010-11 season, its 14th, with the world premiere of Peter Golub's Quintet for Oboe, String Trio and Piano, dual birthday tributes to Robert Schumann and Samuel Barber, and Argentine composer Alberto GInastera's Impressiones de la Puna for Flute and Strings on Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 8 p.m., at St. Matthews Parish in Pacific Palisades.

The captivating Lyris String Quartet - featuring Alyssa Park, violin, the youngest prizewinner in the history of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, Shalini Vijayan, violin, Luke Maurer, viola, and Timothy Loo, cello - makes its series debut, performing with Anne Marie Gabriele, critically acclaimed oboist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and CMP Co-Founders/Co-Artistic Directors Susan Greenberg, longtime flutist with Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and in-demand solo and recording artist Delores Stevens, piano. KUSC announcer Alan Chapman provides commentary.

Opening with the Ginastera piece, CMP also offers birthday tributes to two classical music legends born one hundred years apart in different corners of the world. Greenberg and Stevens present Barber's Songs for Flute and Piano to honor the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, who was born March 9, 1910. Celebrating the life and work of Schumann, born in Germany a century earlier on June 8, 1810, Stevens and Lyris String Quartet perform Schumann's Piano Quintet, Op. 44.

The world premiere of Golub's Quintet for Oboe, String Trio and Piano, commissioned by CMP, is the latest work in the eminent concert, ballet, film and stage composer's considerable list of credits. The concert works of the versatile composer, who is director of the prestigious Sundance Film Music Program, have been performed by Peter Serkin and Tashi, The Brooklyn Philharmonia and numerous chamber groups and soloists at Carnegie and Merkin RecitAl Halls, BAM, the Frankfurt Opera, Wigmore Hall, and other venues. Golub's ballets include "The Gilded Bat," performed at the Kennedy Center by Ballet West; "The Lost World" for the Miami City Ballet; "Trainon" for the Atlanta Ballet; and "Straight Through the Heart" for the Milwaukee Ballet. Among his film scores are "Stolen," which was awarded a Best Music Award at the 2005 Avignon Film Festival; "American Gun"; "Wordplay"; "The Laramie Project" (HBO); "Sunset Story"; and "Americano."_ _His numerous theatre scores include productions at The New York Shakespeare Festival, The Mark Taper Forum, Playwrights Horizon, ART, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, The Globe, the Huntington, Williamstown Theatre Festival and others. For ten years, he was Composer-in-Residence at Charles Ludlam's legendary Ridiculous Theatrical Company in Greenwich Village. His musical, "Amphigorey," was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Golub received a Doctorate in Composition from the Yale School of Music.

Chamber Music Palisades was founded in 1997 by Pacific Palisades residents Stevens and Greenberg. They draw guest artists from their vast pool of talented colleagues in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and Los Angeles Opera, and from other leading instrumentalists based in the U.S. and Europe. In addition to presenting established chamber works, to date Chamber Music Palisades has commissioned 13 compositions by such renowned composers as Paul Chihara, Jane Brockman, Henri Lazarof, Adrienne Albert, Maria Newman, Gernot Wolfgang and Joel McNeely. The season continues with concerts on February 1, 2011, March 29, 2011, and May 3, 2011.

Chamber Music Palisades series subscriptions are $90; single tickets are $30. St. Matthew's Parish is located at 1031 Bienveneda in Pacific Palisades, CA 90272. For tickets or a free season brochure, please call 310-463-4388 or visit www.cmpalisades.org.

The Los Angeles-based LYRIS QUARTET features Alyssa Park, violin, the youngest prizewinner in the history of the Tchaikovsky International Competition, Shalini Vijayan, violin, Luke Maurer, viola, and Timothy Loo, cello. Although formally founded in 2008, this group of artists has collaborated together for many years. They have performed in LA's most prestigious chamber music venues, including the Bing Theater at Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Broad Stage, Zipper Hall, Rayce Hall, Jacaranga, and Disney Hall. In addition to its appearance at Chamber Music Palisades, this season Lyris Quartet will be featured at the Long Beach Opera as well as the South Bay Chamber Music Series, and Sundays Live at LACMA. They will be heard live on KUSC 91.5 and KPDK 90.7. Last fall, the quintet made its debut in Spain.
ANNE MARIE GABRIELE joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in January 2000 as second oboist, a position she held in the Columbus Symphony Orchestra from 1993 to 1999 and in the Honolulu Symphony from 1990 to 1993. In addition to her duties in Columbus, she was Principal Oboist of the Canton Symphony Orchestra (Ohio) from 1993 to 1999. A native of Rhode Island, Gabriele accredits her musical inspiration to an exceptionally strong public high school music program whose wind ensemble performed and competed internationally. At the Juilliard School in New York City, she earned both bachelor and master's degrees under the tutelage of John Ferrillo and Elaine Douvas of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. While at Juilliard, she performed at the nationally televised Kennedy Center Honors to William Schuman and recorded several 20th-century works for the Juilliard American Music Recording Institute on New World Records. Gabriele has participated in numerous music festivals, including the Aspen, Kent/Blossom, and Waterloo festivals, as well as the National Orchestra Institute and the Breckenridge Music Festival. Recent solo appearances have included performances with the Canton Symphony in 1996 and 1998.
Pianist DELORES STEVENS' recent career engagements have taken her from her Los Angeles base to Argentina, Australia, The Czech Republic, Japan, China, Spain, England and Scandinavia as well as across the U.S. Acclaimed as a soloist and chamber musician, she has performed on the LA Philharmonic/Green Umbrella Series, the Ojai Festival, Monday Evening Concerts, Chamber Music in Historic Sites, The Coleman Chamber Concerts and the Athenaeum Chamber Concerts, among others. She is a six-term former Director/Trustee of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, is the Chamber Music Director for the Young Musicians Foundation and is the Founder/Artistic Director of the Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society. She has recorded for fifteen labels and recently completed both a DVD 5.1 Surround Sound recording of the Shostakovich Piano Quintet for AIX Records and Maria Newman's Piano Concerto.

Flutist Susan GreenBERG enjoys a versatile career as soloist, chamber musician, symphony player, and recording artist. The Los Angeles Times has described her playing as "brilliant," "elegant" and "supple," and has lauded her "panache" and "musical projection." A member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, she has been a frequent soloist on both flute and piccolo with the orchestra. Greenberg has also appeared as guest soloist with the San Francisco, Oakland Symphonies and Santa Monica Symphonies and at the Casals Festival and the Hollywood Bowl. She has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, L.A. Opera, New York City Opera, American Ballet Theater and Joffrey Ballet, and at the Ojai Festival. Greenberg was the principal flutist for the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra's tour of Japan, and has received the "Most Valuable Player" award on the flute from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences. Greenberg has served on the faculties of California Institute of the Arts and Occidental College, and is currently an adjunct professor at Pepperdine University. She has played on more than 500 movie soundtracks and is the flutist for the Simpsons TV show.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 8:00 p.m.

Program:
ALBERTO GINASTERA Impressiones de la Puna for Flute and Strings
Samuel Barber Songs for Flute and Piano
Peter Golub Quintet for Oboe, String Trio and Piano - World Premiere
Robert Schumann Piano Quintet, Op. 44

Venue:
St. Matthew's Parish
1031 Bienveneda
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

Admission:
$30; students with ID are free

Information:
310-463-4388 or www.cmpalisades.org

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