Camerata Pacifica Rings in New Year with Chamber Works for Viola and Piano, Jan. 11-16 at Janet and Ray Scherr Forum

Camerata Pacifica ushers in the New Year with four achingly beautiful chamber works for piano and viola by Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann at four Southern California locations on Sunday, January 11, 3:00 pm, at Thousand Oaks’ Janet and Ray Scherr Forum; Tuesday, January,13, 7:30 pm, at The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall in San Marino; Thursday, January 15, 8:00 pm, Zipper Hall, at Zipper Hall in Downtown Los Angeles; and Friday, January 16, 2026, 7:00 pm, at Santa Barbara’s Music Academy of the West. Principal Piano Gilles Vonstattel and violist Che-Yen Chen are the featured artists.

Among the highlights, Camerata Pacifica’s “Beethoven 32” project continues with Vonstattel performing Beethoven’s poignant Piano Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 90, and the affecting Piano Sonata No. 19 in G Minor, Op. 49, No. 1.  “Beethoven 32” is a momentous three-year Beethoven cycle featuring Vonsattel, “a pianist well worth watching” (The New York Times), on all 32 of Beethoven’s sublime piano sonatas in a hybrid blend of solo recitals and chamber programs.

Additionally, Chen joins Vonstattel on Schubert’s heartfelt Arpeggione Sonata in A Minor, D. 821, and Schumann’s fairy-tale inspired Märchenbilder, Op. 113, which wraps the program with tender reverie. Chen is hailed for playing “with silken finesse” (Dallas Morning News)

For tickets ($75 at The Huntington, Music Academy of the West, and Zipper Hall; $94.40, including fees, at Janet and Ray Scherr Forum) and information, visit www.cameratapacifica.org.