CAMA recognizes the need to protect the health of our patrons as well as the need to follow the guidance of the California Department of Public Health recommending the postponement or cancellation of gatherings of 250 people or more at least for the remainder of this month.  Therefore CAMA regretfully has cancelled the concert by Benjamin Grosvenor for tomorrow night, March 13.  Mr. Grosvenor has cancelled all concerts on his scheduled tour of North America as of today.

Refunds will be issued by either the Lobero Box Office or by CAMA. Credit will be issued to the credit card used for the ticket purchase. If tickets were purchased with cash or check, a check will be issued and we will contact you regarding delivery. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the box office at (805)963-0761 or boxoffice@lobero.org.

British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor (b.1992) has been described as “the best pianist to come out of England in the last 50 years,” and “one of the world’s most sought-after young pianists.” One needs only to listen to him play to understand the accolades are well-deserved; his playing is reminiscent of legendary pianists that are long gone—Rachmaninoff, Schnabel, Rubinstein, Serkin. His promise was evident from a young age—the winner of the Keyboard Final of the 2004 BBC Young Musician Competition at the age of eleven, and at nineteen invited to perform with the BBC Symphony
Orchestra at the Opening Night of the 2011 BBC Proms at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The upcoming concert will mark his Santa Barbara recital debut.

PROGRAM:

RAMEAU: Gavotte and Six Variations from Suite in A minor
SCHUMANN: Kreisleriana, Op.16
LISZT: Ballade No.2 in B minor, S.171
LISZT: Valses oubliées, Nos.1 and 2, S.215
LISZT: Berceuse in D-flat major, S.174 (second version, 1862)
LISZT: Valse de l’opéra Faust, transcription for piano (after Gounod), S.407

Sérgio & Odair Assad, the guitar-playing brothers from São Paulo, began playing Brazilian folk melodies, and transitioned to classical guitar in their teens, training under the most prominent instructors in Brazil. The Washington Post has referred to the brothers as “the best two-guitar team in existence, maybe even in history,” while the Boston Globe has stated they perform with “telepathic unity.”

Their Valentine’s Day concert in 2020 is not to be missed!
PROGRAM:

Program To Be Announced

Few American pianists are as accomplished as the masterful Emanuel Ax. Between 1986 and 1996, Ax was awarded five Grammy^® Awards for Best Chamber Music Performance for his collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Jaime Laredo, Isaac Stern and Richard Stoltzman. Additionally, Ax has twice been recognized for his solo work, winning the Grammy^® Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) in 1995 and 2004. Ax’s all-Beethoven recital focuses on widely and lesser known masterpieces of the iconic master’s large piano canon in celebration of the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in Bonn, Germany in 1770.

ALL-BEETHOVEN PROGRAM:

Bagatelle No.25 in A minor (WoO 59, Bia 515), “Für Elise”
Piano Sonata in A major, Op.2, No.2
Six Variations on an original theme in F major, Op.34
Piano Sonata in F minor, Op.2, No.1
Five variations on “Rule, Britannia!,” WoO 79
Piano Sonata in C major, Op.2, No.3

PETER SERKIN CANCELLATION: Peter Serkin has had to withdraw from his upcoming performances with Pamela Frank due to health issues.

Violinist Pamela Frank and pianist Stephen Prutsman appear in a rare performance of all six Sonatas for Violin and Keyboard by J.S. Bach. Pamela Frank has established an outstanding international reputation across an unusually varied range of performing activity. As a soloist she has performed with leading orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Berlin Philharmonic and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Pamela performed regularly with the Zürich Tonhalle Orchestra, recording the complete Mozart Violin Concertos with them and David Zinman and has also recorded a Schubert album and the Beethoven sonata cycle, both with her father Claude Frank. Pamela is a sought-after chamber musician and has performed at many international festivals including Aldeburgh, Verbier, Edinburgh, Salzburg, Tanglewood, Marlboro and Ravinia. Stephen Prutsman has been described as one of the most innovative musicians of his time. Moving easily from classical to jazz to world music styles as a pianist, composer and conductor, Prutsman continues to explore and seek common ground and relationships in the music of all cultures and languages.

PROGRAM:

J.S. BACH – THE COMPLETE SONATAS FOR VIOLIN AND KEYBOARD

Sonata No.1 in B minor, BWV 1014
Sonata No.2 in A major, BWV 1015
Sonata No.3 in E major, BWV 1016
Sonata No.4 in C minor, BWV 1017
Sonata No.5 in F minor, BWV 1018
Sonata No.6 in G major, BWV 1019

CAMA’s 101st Concert Season opens appropriately with the return of the highly regarded British pianist Stephen Hough. Named by The Economist as one of 20 Living Polymaths (“a person of great and varied learning”), he is a true renaissance man—a leading concert pianist, writer, composer, teacher and painter who has won global acclaim for his outstanding interpretations of the piano repertoire and has continued to amass awards, accomplishments, and accolades, gracing many of the most important concert stages in the world in recital and appearing as soloist with the most renowned international orchestras. He was the first classical performer to be awarded a MacArthur (Genius) Fellowship. In 2014, Queen Elizabeth appointed him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to music.

PROGRAM:

J.S. BACH (arr. Busoni): Chaconne for Violin Solo, from Partita II for Violin, BWV 1004 (BV B 24)
BUSONI: Berceuse élégiaque, Op.42 (BV 252a)
CHOPIN: Sonata No.2 in B-flat minor, Op.35
HOUGH: Sonata No.4 (Vida Breve)
LISZT: Funérailles, from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses (Poetic and Religious Harmonies), S.173
LISZT: Bagatelle sans tonalité, S.216a (Mephisto Waltz No.4)
LISZT: Mephisto Waltz No.1, S.514