Chamber Music Concerts

Our chamber music recital series features stars of the local music community in an intimate setting.

Tickets:

Tickets for March chamber concerts are $20 in Redding and Chico, $15 in Weaverville. You may order tickets in Redding by contacting the Cascade Theater box office 530-243-8877 or in Chico by calling the Chico University Box Office 530-898-6333.

Or purchase tickets online:

Weaverville 3/2/12
Redding 3/3/12
Chico 3/4/12

Kyle PickettRecital Two ~ Kyle and His Finest

Friday, Mar. 2 - 7:00pm
Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center, Weaverville
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Saturday, Mar. 3 - 7:30pm
Old City Hall, Redding
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Sunday Mar. 4 - 2:00pm
Ruth Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico
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Program:

Debussy/Sachs - Prelude L'apres midi d'un faune
Copland - Appalachian Spring
Richard Strauss - Sextet from Capriccio

Neither too big, nor too small, this ensemble concert features a dozen+ of the North State Symphony’s finest players in music specially adapted for intimate performance.

“This great piece of music, Appalachian Spring, actually exists in two versions”, said Pickett. “Copland originally composed it to accompany dancers from the Martha Graham modern dance company. In the original version there are only 13 players plus the conductor, and that makes it perfect for us.”

Appalachian Spring famously includes the old folk hymn “Simple Gifts” and is often played in a later version for large orchestra. Like other Copland pieces, it brings a recognizably American sound to concert halls that had mostly featured European music before Copland’s time.

Also on the program are Debussy’s famous Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, as arranged for a large chamber ensemble like Copland’s, and a “beautiful and lyrical” excerpt for string sextet from an opera,  Capriccio, by Richard Strauss.

Baune and TutunovRecital 1 - ~ The Concertmaster

Saturday, Oct. 15, 2011- 7:30pm
Ruth Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico

Sunday Oct. 16, 2011- 2:00pm
Old City Hall, Redding

NSS Concertmaster Terrie Baune will be joined by sensational pianist Alexander Tutunov (remember last May’s Rachmaninoff concert?) in a highly varied program. See and hear these exceptional musicians in a chamber music setting.

Dmitri Shostakovich arr. Tsyganov - Preludes, Op. 34, #16, 10, 15
Lev Abeliovich - Aria
Lili Boulanger - Two Pieces for Violin and Piano
Maurice Ravel - Sonate
Antonin Dvorak - Mazurek
Johannes Brahms - Sonata #3 for violin and piano, Op. 108

Chico performance sponsored by Marilyn R. Kruschke in memory of Dr. Earl R. Kruschke

The North State Symphony’s concertmaster, violinist Terrie Baune will appear in a duo concerts in a program of international favorites for violin and piano with pianist Alexander Tutunov, a frequent guest artist with the Symphony.