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They have established standards of chamber music performance equal to any in the world, in the words of the Washington Post. And The New York Times said, they appealed to the heart and the head, offering a warm, seductively luxurious sound and an impressive precision and unity of purpose.
Among today’s most exciting and innovative chamber musicensembles, The American Chamber Players quintet was formed in 1985 by MilesHoffman from a core group of artists of The Library of Congress Summer ChamberFestival. The ensemble performsrepertoire ranging from familiar masterpieces to neglected gems to newlycommissioned American works. Its fascinating and delightful programs, withvaried instrumental combinations, have been enthusiastically praised.
The American Chamber Players have toured throughout NorthAmerica, engaged and re-engaged by prestigious concert series from Florida toBritish Columbia, and they have appeared in Paris for a series of special galaconcerts at the Paris Opera and the Bibliothèque Nationale. They have also beenheard many times on National Public Radio’s Performance Today and on localradio stations throughout the United States. They are the resident ensemble of the June Chamber Festival at theKreeger Museum, in Washington, DC. TheAmerican Chamber Players have recorded music of Mozart, Bruch, Bloch,Stravinsky, Harbison, and Rochberg for a series of compact discs and cassettesdistributed internationally on the Koch International Classics label.
The American Chamber Players are:
Stephen Balderston, cellist
Miles Hoffman, violist
Joanna Maurer, violinist
Sara stern, flutist
Anna Stoytcheva, pianist
Program:
Mozart: Quartet in D may for flute and strings
Max Raimi: Three Jewish Songs
Gaubert: Three Watercolors for flute, cello and piano
Beethoven: Variations on Là ci darem la mano
Guillaume Lekeu: Piano Quartet in B minor
Tickets:
$30 General
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Location:
Occidental Center for the Arts
3850 Doris Murphy Ct.
Occidental, CA 95465
(707) 874-9392
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