Baroque and Classical specialist Nicholas McGegan will present highlights from Handel’s Italian opera Orlando, featuring singers from the Academy’s Voice Program. Widely regarded as one of the finest Baroque conductors of his generation, Nicholas McGegan is increasingly recognized for his probing and revelatory explorations of music of all periods. He has been music director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra for 29 years, and was artistic director of the International Handel Festival Göttingen for 20 years (1991–2011). He also serves as principal guest conductor of the Pasadena Symphony.

Pianist Jeremy Denk will appear as a pianist and leader in an all-Mozart program he will create exclusively for the Music Academy. One of America’s most thought-provoking, multi-faceted, and compelling artists, pianist Jeremy Denk is the winner of a 2013 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the 2014 Avery Fisher Prize, and Musical America’s 2014 Instrumentalist of the Year award. He has appeared as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the symphony orchestras of Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and London, and regularly gives recitals in New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, and throughout the United States.

Music Academy faculty artists and visiting artists from the New York Philharmonic join forces in the West Coast Premiere of Steve Reich’s Quartet, a duo for clarinets with piano by Ponchielli, contemporary composer Joseph Turrin’s accented Fandango, and a string trio by Ernő von Dohnányi, the grandfather of famed conductor Christoph von Dohnányi.

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Program:

Steve Reich: Quartet (West Coast premiere)
Michael Werner, Daniel Druckman* vibraphones / Conor Hanick, Han Chen** pianos

Ponchielli: Il Convegno, Divertimento for two clarinets
Richie Hawley, Anthony McGill* clarinets / Natasha Kislenko piano

Joseph Turrin: Fandango
Paul Merkelo trumpet / Alan Baer* tuba/ Margaret McDonald piano

von Dohnányi: Serenade
Sheryl Staples* violin / Cynthia Phelps viola / Carter Brey* cello

*New York Philharmonic visiting artists
**Academy fellow

Formerly known as Tuesdays @ 8, the Music Academy Festival Artists Series moves to the Lobero Theatre for seven outstanding chamber ensemble concerts featuring Academy faculty, fellows, and guest artists.

Baroque specialist Nicholas McGegan joins Academy faculty and fellows in four of the iconic Bach Brandenburg Concertos.

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Program:

Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 6
Kathleen Winkler violin / Alexander Treger violin / Stephen Bryant violin / Richard O’Neill viola / David Geber cello / Nico Abondolo double bass / Jim Walker flute / Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida oboe / Benjamin Kamins bassoon / Julie Landsman horn / Paul Merkelo trumpet / Nichoals McGegan harpsichord / Academy fellows

Formerly known as Tuesdays @ 8, the Music Academy Festival Artists Series moves to the Lobero Theatre for seven outstanding chamber ensemble concerts featuring Academy faculty, fellows, and guest artists.

TWO musicians will perform Academy alumnus James Stephenson’s Vignettes. The JACK QUARTET + Thomas Adès in his Piano Quintet = FIVE, and Louis Spohr’s Nonet will conclude the program.

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Program:

James Stephenson (‘01): Vignettes
Paul Merkelo trumpet / Michael Werner percussion

Thomas Adès: Piano Quintet
JACK Quartet / Thomas Adès piano

Spohr: Nonet
Kathleen Winkler violin / Karen Dreyfus viola / David Geber cello / Nico Abondolo double bass / Timothy Day flute / Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida oboe / Richie Hawley clarinet / Benjamin Kamins bassoon / Julie Landsman horn

Formerly known as Tuesdays @ 8, the Music Academy Festival Artists Series moves to the Lobero Theatre for seven outstanding chamber ensemble concerts featuring Academy faculty, fellows, and guest artists.

This evening’s program celebrates French music and style on Bastille Day, including a Ravel Sonata for violin and cello and Fauré’s Piano Quartet in C Minor.

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Program:

Couperin: Concert Royeux No. 1
Timothy Day flute / Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida oboe / Benjamin Kamins bassoon / Nico Abondolo double bass

Ravel: Sonata
Jorja Fleezanis violin / Alan Stepansky cello

Pierre Boulez: Une page d’ephéméride
Conor Hanick piano

Fauré: Piano Quartet in C Minor
Glenn Dicterow violin / Karen Dreyfus viola / David Geber cello / Jonathan Feldman piano

Formerly known as Tuesdays @ 8, the Music Academy Festival Artists Series moves to the Lobero Theatre for seven outstanding chamber ensemble concerts featuring Academy faculty, fellows, and guest artists.

In this evening’s program Academy faculty will perform sonatas by Hungarian (Leo Weiner) and Israeli (Lev Kogan) composers, a world premiere sonata by American contemporary composer Pierre Jalbert, and Brahms’ Sonata in D Minor for violin and piano.

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Program:

Weiner: Sonata No. 2
Kathleen Winkler violin / Jonathan Feldman piano
Pierre Jalbert: Sonata (world premiere)
Richie Hawley clarinet / Conor Hanick piano
Kogan: Hassidic Suite
Julie Landsman horn / Hiromi Fukuda piano
Brahms: Sonata in D Minor
Glenn Dicterow violin / Martin Katz piano

Formerly known as Tuesdays @ 8, the Music Academy Festival Artists Series moves to the Lobero Theatre for seven outstanding chamber ensemble concerts featuring Academy faculty, fellows, and guest artists.

The evening, enjoy Mozart’s delightful Serenade for winds and his Quintet for strings, along with Schumann’s imaginative Fairy Tales for clarinet, viola, and piano.

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Program:

Mozart: Serenade No. 12 in C Minor, K. 388
Eugene Izotov oboe / Richie Hawley clarinet / Dennis Michel bassoon / Julie Landsman horn / Academy fellows

Schumann: Fairy Tales(Märchenerzählungen)
Cynthia Phelps viola / Richie Hawley clarinet / Jeremy Denk piano

Mozart: Quintet No. 3 in C Major, K. 515
Jorja Fleezanis violin / Kathleen Winkler violin / Cynthia Phelps viola / Karen Dreyfus viola / Alan Stepansky cello

Formerly known as Tuesdays @ 8, the Music Academy Festival Artists Series moves to the Lobero Theatre for seven outstanding chamber ensemble concerts featuring Academy faculty, fellows, and guest artists.

The evening’s program includes a contemporary brass piece by former faculty artist and fellow Anthony Plog (’68), a melodic trio by 19^th century composer Carl Reinecke, and a performance of Brahms’ Trio in B Minor.

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Program:

Anthony Plog: Octet
Barbara Butler trumpet / Charles Geyer trumpet / Mark Lawrence trombone / Academy fellows

Reinecke: Trio
Eugene Izotov oboe / Julie Landsman horn / Margaret McDonald piano

Brahms: Trio in B Minor
Glenn Dicterow violin / Alan Stepansky cello / Jonathan Feldman piano