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The 4th Annual September Soirée!
The Providence Art Club
Friday, September 13, 2024 / 5-7 PM
Our 4th Annual September Soirée will be held outdoors in the beautiful courtyard of The Providence Art Club, 11 Thomas Street in Providence. (Indoors should it rain). Pianist Mark Taber will delight with Jazz and American Songbook classics. Let's welcome the new season!
$10 cover includes a glass of wine and refreshments. There will be a cash bar. RSVP by email to tickets@ricmc.org or call (401) 863-2416.
"Masters of their instruments individually and exceptional compatriots collectively." – South Florida Classical Review
Polonsky/Shifrin/Wiley Trio
Thursday, October 24, 2024
7:30 PM
The Polonsky-Shifrin-Wiley Trio features three celebrated musicians: renowned clarinetist David Shifrin, pianist Anna Polonsky, and cellist Peter Wiley, a member of both the Beaux Arts Trio and the Guarneri Quartet. Their program includes a rarely performed trio by Italian composer Nino Rota who is best known for his many film scores (including Fellini’s La Dolce Vita, Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, and Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather), but was also a composer of sophisticated operas, orchestral pieces, and chamber music, such as this richly melodic Clarinet Trio.
Clarinetist David Shifrin is in constant demand as an orchestral soloist, recitalist, and chamber music collaborator. An artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1989, Mr. Shifrin served as its Artistic Director from 1992 to 2004 and was also artistic director of Portland’s Chamber Music Northwest for 40 years. He has toured extensively throughout the United States with CMSLC and hosted and performed in several national television broadcasts on PBS's Live from Lincoln Center. Mr. Shifrin has been instrumental in broadening the repertoire for clarinet by championing the works of 20th- and 21st-century American composers and includes among his many accolades the Avery Fisher Career Grant and Avery Fisher Prizes, and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's Award for Extraordinary Service to Chamber Music. A member of faculty at the Yale School of Music for 37 years, he has also served on the faculties of The Juilliard School and Cleveland Institute of Music.
Cellist Peter Wiley enjoys a prolific career as both a performer and teacher. He was member of the Beaux Arts Trio from 1987 through 1998, and cellist of the Guarneri Quartet from 2001 until the quartet’s retirement in 2009. Mr. Wiley has enjoyed a long-term association with the Marlboro Music Festival and is currently on the faculties of the Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music.
Pianist Anna Polonsky is widely in demand as both a soloist and chamber musician. She has collaborated with the Guarneri, Juilliard, Shanghai, and Daedalus Quartets, as well as Mitsuko Uchida, Yo-Yo Ma, Richard Goode, Emanuel Ax, Arnold Steinhardt, Michael Tree, and Jaime Laredo, among many great artists. She performs at chamber music festivals and series around the world and is a frequent guest at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
David Shifrin, clarinet
Anna Polonsky, piano
Peter Wiley, cello
"It’s easy enough to catch a Beethoven symphony performed live, but the chance to witness an elusive clarinet trio from the composer should not be missed—especially when the musicians onstage happen to be pianist Anna Polonsky, cellist Peter Wiley, and woodwind god David Shifrin on clarinet." – Portland Mercury
PROGRAM
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Piano Trio, Op. 11, "Gassenhauer Trio"
Nino Rota
Clarinet Trio
Johannes Brahms
Clarinet Trio, Op. 114
"The Bennewitz quartet is downright wonderful, with a perfect balance of warmth and objective clarity." – Gramophone
Bennewitz Quartet
Thursday, November 14, 2024
7:30 PM
The Bennewitz Quartet
is one of the top ensembles on the international chamber music scene and celebrated its 25th anniversary last season. Known for their “drama, expression, and utmost sensitivity” (The Strad
), along with their natural musicianship and high intelligence, the ensemble has been champions of Czech music, including works by neglected composers such as Reicha, Haas, Ullmann, and Schulhoff, whose dance suite "Five Pieces or String Quartet" (dedicated to Darius Milhaud) they will perform for this concert.
The Czech ensemble formed at the Arts Academy in Prague and has since received many awards, including the 2019 Classic Prague Award for the Best Chamber Music Performance of the year.
Their concerts have taken them to Wigmore Hall in London, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Konzerthaus Berlin, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris, the Frick Collection in New York, the Seoul Art Center, and the Rudolfinum in Prague, and many festival appearances, including the Salzburger Festspiele, Lucerne Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival, Kammermusikfest Lockenhaus, Dvořák Prague, and Prague Spring festival. The ensemble has worked with such outstanding musicians as Vadim Gluzman, Alexander Melnikov, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Danjulo Ishizaka and Pietro de Maria. www.bennewitzquartet.com
Jakub Fišer – violin
Štěpán Ježek – violin
Jiří Pinkas – viola
Štěpán Doležal – violoncello
"The round, sensual, silky sound of the Bennewitz recalls the great tradition of twentieth-century Czech ensembles. Their interpretations are distinguished by a perfect mastery of style and real experience of this repertoire." – The Diapason Magazine
PROGRAM
Erwin Schulhoff
Five Pieces for String Quartet
Leoš Janáček
String Quartet No. 2, "Intimate Letters"
Antonín Dvořák
String Quartet No. 13, Op. 106
"Musicians like the Reverón Trio are an inspiration for any composer; after listening to them play, one feels an urgent desire to write more music!" – Miguel del Águila, Grammy-nominated and award-winning composer
Reverón Piano Trio
Thursday, March 6, 2025
7:30 PM
The Reverón Piano Trio’s main goal is to introduce audiences to underrepresented music from Latin America alongside contemporary and standard repertoire. These seasoned artists are active promoters of Latin American music through their work as scholars and entrepreneurs, and they have devoted their careers to the discovery, cataloging, performance, editing, and recording of this rich repertoire.
In addition, the trio continues to commission and perform new works, such as La Hamaca (2021) and El Ventilador (2022), written for the trio by renowned Venezuelan-American composer Ricardo Lorenz, and Barroqueada (2020) by Grammy-nominated composer Miguel del Águila, all of which will be performed at this concert.
Recent engagements include concerts at the Festival Casals in Puerto Rico, Music Institute of Chicago, Aruba Symphony Festival, Beethoven Festival Park City, Festival A la Vela de la Alhambra in Granada, and Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. The trio has been in residence at the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Wisconsin, Dickinson College, Lawrence University, Louisiana State University, and various other universities in the U.S. and abroad.
www.reverontrio.org
Simón Gollo, violin
Horacio Contreras, cello
Ana María Otamendi, piano
"It’s more than just a group,” pianist Ana María Otamendi says of Reverón, “beyond music-making; deeply personal. When we get together, it feels like family."
PROGRAM
Ricardo Lorenz
La Hamaca and El Ventilator
Gabriela Lena Frank
Four Folk Songs
Miguel del Aguila
Barroqueada
Sonia Possetti
Suite Buenos Aires
"Captivating transparency, drama, accuracy, and with lightness and depth, as the best under the top ensembles can." – Frankfurter Allgemeine
Minetti Quartett
Thursday April 10, 2025
7:30 PM
The Austrian Minetti Quartett has been based in Vienna since it was founded in 2003 and has given critically acclaimed performances throughout Europe, the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Australia, Japan, and China. They have been invited to perform at many festivals, including the Aldeburgh Festival, Salzburg’s Mozart Week, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, and the Istanbul Music Festival.
The quartet is the winner of numerous international chamber music competitions and has also received the Austrian “Great Gradus ad Parnassum Prize”. Since 2009, Hänssler Classic has released five highly acclaimed CD recordings with string quartets by Berg, Shostakovich, Ligeti, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Schubert. www.minettiquartett.at
Maria Ehmer, violin
Anna Knopp, violin
Milan Milojicic, viola
Leonhard Roczek, cello
"The Minetti Quartett is a musical sensation from Austria" – Tagesspiegel, Berlin
PROGRAM
Joseph Haydn
String Quartet Op. 76, No. 1
Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 7
Johannes Brahms
String Quartet Op. 51, No. 1
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