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OUR 2010-2011 SEASON!

 

Details of our 34th season will be available soon! Once again, we'll perform 5 programs in our Hyde Park and Gold Coast locations (10 concerts total). We'll be introducing new selections from our Discover America VII competition for new American chamber works, as well as presenting some of the following masterworks and rarely heard gems from the chamber music repertoire:

 

Handel: Sonata for flute and piano Bach: Sonata for cello and piano

Mozart: Trio In E major for violin, cello and piano

Beethoven: Sonata No. 3 in Eb major for violin and piano Beethoven: Sonata No. 4 in C major for cello and piano Schumann: Trio No. 2 in F major for violin, cello and piano Mendelssohn: Konzertstueck for clarinet, bassoon and piano Reinecke: Trio for clarinet, french horn and piano

Brahms: Quartet No. 3 in C minor for violin, viola, cello and piano

Reger: Sonata for clarinet and piano

Gliere: Duo for violin and cello

Strauss: Four Last Songs for soprano and piano

Debussy: Bilitis for flute and piano

Ravel: Histoires Naturelles for mezzo-soprano and piano

Ives: Songs for soprano and piano

Poulenc: Songs for mezzo-soprano and piano

Bloch: Suite for viola and piano

Prokofiev: Sonata No. 1 in F minor for violin and piano

Martinů: Quartet for violin, viola, cello and piano

Dahl: Concerto a Tre for clarinet, violin and cello

Francaix: Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

Kirschner: Trio for violin, cello and piano

 

Performances will take place at Hyde Park's International House of University of Chicago and at Fourth Presbyterian Church on Chicago's Gold Coast.

 

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DCA CityArtsThe Chicago Ensemble is partially supported by grants from The Pauls Foundation; the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation; the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency; and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs/CityArts Program.

 
 
 

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Right-click here for Amy Beach's Quintet in F# Minor, op. 67 (1907),Lento, ma non troppo performed by Stephen Boe, violin; Rika Seko, violin; Paul Vanderwerf, viola; Gerald Brann, cello; and Gerald Rizzer, piano, on our Highlights CD. 

 

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