Chamber Music Society 2014-15

Tickets go on sale Aug. 4 for the Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia’s 2014-15 season, which will include concerts focusing on classics and contemporary offshoots of Viennese music, Johann Sebastian Bach’s six suites for solo cello and “The Well-Tempered Clavier,” baroque trio sonatas and concertos, and romantic and modern music by Scandinavian, Baltic and Russian composers.

Joining cellist James Wilson, the society’s artistic director, will be a cast of longtime participants, among them harpsichordist-pianist Carsten Schmidt, flutist Mary Boodell, violinists Nurit Pacht and Jesse Mills, pianist Rieko Aizawa and lutenist David Walker.

Beiliang Zhu, winner of the 2012 Bach International Competition in Leipzig, will perform on a five-string baroque cello, sharing with Wilson the program of the Bach suites.

Soprano Jessica Petrus will be featured in a baroque vocal program, “Dido and Other Heroines,” singing Michel Monteclair’s “The Death of Dido.”

Altogether, the Chamber Music Society will stage 11 performances in the coming season – four free lecture-recital “informances” in the Gellman Room of the Richmond Public Library’s main branch at First and Franklin streets, and seven ticketed programs at three locations: Bon Air Presbyterian Church, 9201 W. Huguenot Road; First Unitarian Universalist Church, 1000 Blanton Ave. at the Carillon; and the Church of the Holy Comforter, Episcopal, Monument Avenue at Staples Mill Road.

Season subscriptions are $155 and single tickets $25, with senior and student discounts offered.

For more information, call (804) 519-2098 or visit www.cmscva.org

The Chamber Music Society of Central Virginia’s 2014-15 artists and programs:

Oct. 25 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library
Mary Boodell, flute
Nurit Pacht & Guillaume Pirard, violins
Melissa Reardon, viola
James Wilson, cello
Carsten Schmidt, piano
“NeoVienna”
Onuto Narbutaite: “Winter Serenade”
Arvo Pärt: “Mozart Adagio”
Alfred Schnittke: “Mozart à la Haydn”
Matthew Burtner: “(dis)integrations”
Judith Shatin: “Fledermaus Fantasy”

Oct. 27 (7:30 p.m.)
Bon Air Presbyterian Church
Mary Boodell, flute
Nurit Pacht & Guillaume Pirard, violins
Melissa Reardon, viola
James Wilson, cello
Carsten Schmidt, piano
Stephen Henley, organ
“Austro-Hungarian Waltz”
Johann Strauss II: “Roses from the South”
Haydn: Quartet in C major, Op. 76, No. 3 (“Emperor”)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Waltz for piano
Webern: Piece for string trio
Dohnányi: Piano Quintet in C minor, Op. 1

Dec. 16 (7:30 p.m.)
Church of the Holy Comforter, Episcopal
Beiliang Zhu & James Wilson, baroque cellos
J.S. Bach: suites Nos. 1-6 for solo cello

Jan. 10 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library
Fiona Hughes & Martin Davids, violins
Kyle Miller, viola
James Wilson, cello
David Walker, lute
Mark Shudiner, harpsichord
“3=4 (or More)”
trio sonatas TBA

Jan. 10 (7:30 p.m.)
First Unitarian Universalist Church
Jessica Petrus, soprano
Anne Timberlake, recorder
Fiona Hughes & Martin Davids, violins
Kyle Miller, viola
James Wilson, cello
David Walker, lute
Mark Shudiner, harpsichord
“Winter Baroque: Dido and Other Heroines”
Michel Monteclair: “The Death of Dido”
other works TBA

Jan. 12 (7:30 p.m.)
First Unitarian Universalist Church
Mary Boodell, traverso flute
Fiona Hughes & Martin Davids, violins
Kyle Miller, viola
James Wilson, cello
David Walker, lute
Mark Shudiner, harpsichord
“Concerti Barocchi”
program TBA

Feb. 21 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library
Carsten Schmidt, harpsichord & speaker
“Bach as Teacher”

Feb. 22 (4 p.m.)
Church of the Holy Comforter, Episcopal
Carsten Schmidt, harpsichord
J.S. Bach: “The Well-Tempered Clavier”

May 16 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library
Mary Boodell, flute
Jesse Mills & Daisuke Yamamoto, violins
Melissa Reardon, viola
James Wilson, cello
Rieko Aizawa, piano
“Ice Cubes”
Scandinavian, Baltic, Russian works TBA

May 17 (4 p.m.)
First Unitarian Universalist Church
Mary Boodell, flute
Jesse Mills & Daisuke Yamamoto, violins
Melissa Reardon, viola
James Wilson, cello
Rieko Aizawa, piano
“Romantics and Mystics”
Borodin: Quartet No. 2 in D major
Friedrich Kuhlau: Quintet in E major, Op. 51, No. 2, for flute and strings
Onuto Narbutaite: “Mozartsommer”

May 19 (7:30 p.m.)
First Unitarian Universalist Church
Mary Boodell, flute
Jesse Mills, violin
James Wilson, cello
Rieko Aizawa, piano
“Hot and Cold”
Grieg: Andante in C minor for piano, violin and cello
Peteris Vasks: “Landscapes with Birds”
Sibelius: “The Swan of Tuonela”
Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor