Camerata Pacifica Launches BEETHOVEN 32 Three-Year Cycle
Performances run October 28–November 2, 2025.
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.
To close the program, Vonsattel, “a pianist well worth watching” (The New York Times), returns to the stage to perform Chopin's exquisite Nocturne No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 37, No. 1.
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Jack Johnson Santa Barbara Bowl (10/03-10/03) |
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The Lehman Trilogy Rubicon Theatre Company (3/24-4/11) |
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Miss Magnolia Beaumont Goes to Provincetown The California Theatre of Santa Rosa (7/01-7/01) |
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Ojai Playwrights Conference New Works Festival Ojai Playwrights Conference (7/30-8/02) |
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Karaoke and Airaoke with the cast of AIRNESS The California Theatre of Santa Rosa (6/25-6/25) |
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John & Jen Rubicon Theatre Company (2/10-2/28) |
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Alice in Wonderland by International Ballet Stars in Santa Barbara, CA! The Granada Theatre (4/22-4/22) |
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Ragtime Rubicon Theatre Company (10/21-11/08) |
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Wreckless Strangers and PTI The California Theatre of Santa Rosa (6/26-6/26) |
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Cinderella Ballet Yucaipa Performing Arts Center Indoor Theatre (6/26-6/28) |