Camerata Pacifica Launches BEETHOVEN 32 Three-Year Cycle

Camerata Pacifica will present landmark works for solo piano by Beethoven and Chopin as well as a Mozart tour de force for woodwinds and horn on a milestone program that launches “Beethoven 32,” a momentous three-year cycle featuring Principal Pianist Gilles Vonsattel on all 32 of Beethoven's piano sonatas in a hybrid blend of solo recitals and chamber programs. Setting the tone for this significant project, Vonsattel begins the cycle with Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, Op. 106, “Hammerklavier,” considered among the most demanding and monumental pieces in the solo piano repertoire.

Presented at four Southern California locations, the performances are Tuesday, October 28, 7:30 pm, at The Huntington's Rothenberg Hall in San Marino; Wednesday, October 29, 7:00 pm, at Santa Barbara's Music Academy of the West; Thursday, October 30, 8:00 pm, at Zipper Hall in Downtown Los Angeles; and Sunday, November 2, 2025, 3:00 pm, at Thousand Oaks' Janet and Ray Scherr Forum.

Offering striking aural and emotional contrast to Beethoven's titanic “Hammerklavier,” the program also features Mozart's joyous Wind Serenade in E-flat Major, K.375, at once ceremonial, seductive, and witty. It features oboists Nicholas Daniel and Claire Brazeau; clarinetists Jose Franch-Ballester and Pascal Archer; bassoonists Eleni Katz and William Wood; and Melia Badalian, horn.