SUNDAY, JUNE 2, 2024 AT 4 PM MOZART’S DOUBLE CONCERTOS MARIKO ANRAKU, HARP SETH MORRIS, FLUTE OLIVER NEUBAUER, VIOLIN PAUL NEUBAUER, VIOLA SOLOISTS Mariko Anraku , Associate Principal Harp, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra “A manifestation of grace and elegance” — Jerusalem Post Seth Morris , Principal Flute Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Oliver Neubauer , violin “His was a captivating performance” — The Epoch Times Paul Neubauer , viola “A master musician.” — The New York Times 2023-2024 SEASON October 15, 202 3 Lysander Piano Trio November 12, 2023 Angel Blue, soprano Bryan Wagorn, piano December 3, 2023 Brentano String Quartet Antioch Chamber Choir January 14, 2024 Goldmund String Quartet February 18, 2024 Candlelit Music of The Spirit March 10, 2024 Richard Goode, Piano Late Beethoven April 7, 2024 Jordi Savall, Conductor Hespèrion XXI May 12, 2024 Mothers Day Concert June 2, 2024 Mozart’s Double Concertos Artist Roster Parlance Program Notes LOCATION At West Side Presbyterian Church 6 South Monroe Street Ridgewood, NJ 07450 For map and directions, click here . CONCERT AMENITIES Whee lchair Accessible Fr e e Parking for all concerts FEATURING BUY TICKETS MEMBERS OF THE MET ORCHESTRA Michael Parloff, conductor Kari Docter, cello Elaine Douvas, oboe Bruno Eicher violin Garrett Fischbach, viola Katherine Fong, violin Brad Gemeinhardt, horn Ming-Feng Hsin, violin Joseph Jordan, oboe Alberto Parrini, cello Wen Qian, violin Anne Scharer, horn Dov Scheindlin, viola Sarah Vonsattel, violin Nancy Wu, violin ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE BUY TICKETS The festive conclusion of Parlance Chamber Concerts’s 16th season will feature two of Mozart’s most joyous works, the Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299 and Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K. 364 . Composed when Mozart was in his early 20s, these uniquely-scored double concertos reveal the young genius reveling in the unbounded creativity and budding profundity of his early maturity. The Four charismatic soloists will be supported by fifteen members of the MET Orchestra, conducted by PCC’s Artistic Director, Michael Parloff. PROGRAM Mozart: Concerto for Flute and Harp, K. 299 Program Notes Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K. 364 Program Notes Watch violist Paul Neubauer as Strolling Gypsy Violist at Parlance Chamber Concerts: Watch flutist Seth Morris play onstage in the Met’s Magic Flute: Watch harpist Mariko Anraku perform Debussy’s Sacred and Profane Dances Watch violinist Oliver Neubauer perform Grieg’s Violin Sonata No. 3 This program has been made possible in part by a grant administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs from funds granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2021 AT 3 PM GALA OPENER VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS BUY TICKETS ISABELLA BIGNASCA, VIOLA Juilliard graduate; Aspen, Kniesel Hall, Heifetz on Tour chamber music series JEANELLE BRIERLEY, VIOLIN Faculty Member, Cleveland Institute of Music DAVID J. GROSSMAN, BASS Principal Bass, LA Chamber Orchestra and member of the New York Philharmonic NATHAN MELTZER, VIOLIN “The only-19-year-old American Nathan Meltzer is already a violinist of great stature with unobtrusive technical brilliance, a very individual musicianship, and a supple tone. — Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten JAMES THOMPSON, VIOLIN “His phrasing was so supple, his sound so vibrant, and his facility so effortless that the music fairly leaped from the stage.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer OLIVER NEUBAUER, VIOLIN (2021) “His was a captivating performance, fully bringing-out the shifting moods, wit, and lyricism of Mozart’s music.” — The Epoch Times ARNAUD SUSSMANN, VIOLIN “Beauty of sound and elegance.” — Nice Matin KEVIN ZHU, VIOLIN “Awesome technical command and maturity” — The Strad PAOLO BORDIGNON, HARPSICHORD “Bordignon’s stylings were right on the mark as he amply showed us his fluid technique and mastery of the instrument.” — Salt Lake Tribune NICHOLAS CANELLAKIS, CELLO “impassioned … the audience seduced by Mr. Canellakis’s rich, alluring tone.” — The New York Times SIHAO HE, CELLO “Shanghai born cellist Sihao is a big scaled splendid cellist who played a very technically demanding program like a magician.” — Live Report, Tokyo JOEL NOYES, CELLO “Light effortless bow strokes, barely grazing the strings, produced feathery pianissimos…Noyes characterized each movement with color and distinction” – Strad Magazine CLARA NEUBAUER, VIOLIN “It was a committed, refreshing performance displaying absolute technical security.” — The Epoch Times PAUL NEUBAUER, VIOLA (2021) “A master musician.” — The New York Times DANBI UM, VIOLIN “Danbi Um’s playing is utterly dazzling…a marvelous show of superb technique” — The Strad FEATURING ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE BUY TICKETS GALA OPENER VIVALDI’S FOUR SEASONS Fifteen outstanding musicians will join forces for PCC’s seasonal Opening Gala. Framed by Vivaldi violin concertos, the program will showcase four prodigiously talented young violinists in Vivaldi’s Concerto in B minor for Four Violins, as well as four seasoned violin soloists in Vivaldi’s ever-popular Four Seasons. The festive afternoon will also include Boccherini’s eloquent Cello Sonata in A and an all-star performance of Bach’s 6th Brandenburg Concerto. Don’t miss this electrifying opening to Parlance Chamber Concerts’s 14th Season! PROGRAM Antonio Vivaldi Violin Soloists: Spring: Danbi Um Summer: Nathan Meltzer Autumn: Arnold Sussmann Winter: Kevin Zhu The Four Seasons Program Notes J.S. Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 Viola Soloists: Paul Neubauer and Arnaud Sussmann Program Notes Luigi Boccherini Cello Sonata No. 6 in A, G. 4 Cello Soloist: Nicholas Canellakis Program Notes Antonio Vivaldi Violin Soloists: James Thompson, Oliver Neubauer, Clara Neubauer, Jeanelle Brierley Concerto in B minor for 4 violins Program Notes Watch Arnaud Sussmann perform Autumn from The Four Seasons: Watch Paul Neubauer perform Bach’s 6th Brandenburg:

THE DANISH STRING QUARTET FREDERIK ØLAND (VIOLIN); RUNE TONSGAARD SØRENSEN (VIOLIN); ASBJØRN NØRGAARD (VIOLA); FREDRIK SCHØYEN SJÖLIN (CELLO) Among today’s many exceptional chamber music groups, the GRAMMY® nominated Danish String Quartet continuously asserts its preeminence. The Quartet’s playing reflects impeccable musicianship, sophisticated artistry, exquisite clarity of ensemble, and, above all, an expressivity inextricably bound to the music, from Haydn to Shostakovich to contemporary scores. Performances bring a rare musical spontaneity, giving audiences the sense of hearing even treasured canon repertoire as if for the first time, and exuding a palpable joy in music-making that have made them enormously in-demand on concert stages throughout the world. The recipient of many awards and prestigious appointments, including Musical America’s 2020 Ensemble of the Year and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust, the Danish String Quartet was named in 2013 as BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists and appointed to the The Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two). In 2021-2022, the Danish String Quartet introduce DOPPELGÄNGER, an ambitious 4-year international commissioning project. DOPPELGÄNGER pairs world premieres from four renowned composers—Bent Sørensen, Lotta Wennäkoski, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, and Thomas Adès—with four major works from the masterful chamber music repertoire of Schubert. Each season, the Danish String Quartet will perform a world premiere on a program with its doppelgänger—the Schubert quartet or quintet that inspired it—culminating in the premiere of a quintet by Adès, after the great String Quintet in C major. The DOPPELGÄNGER pieces are commissioned by the Danish String Quartet with the support of Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, UC Santa Barbara Arts & Lectures, Vancouver Recital Society, Flagey in Brussels, and Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam. The first commission, composed by Bent Sørensen and inspired by Schubert’s quartet in G Major (D.887), is scheduled to premiere in 2021. In addition to performances of DOPPELGÄNGER, the Danish String Quartet gives over 20 performances throughout North America in the 2021-2022 season. Highlights include debuts at the University of Georgia, Virginia Tech’s Moss Arts Center, Shriver Hall, and Virginia Arts Festival, return trips to Boston’s Celebrity Series, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Ensemble Music Society of Indianapolis, Chamber Music Cincinnati, and University of Washington’s Meany Hall, and a tour of Florida. European highlights include tours of Denmark, France, Germany, and Amsterdam. As part of a multi-year residency, the Danish String Quartet brought a series of five concerts, which mirror the programs in its ongoing recording project with ECM New Series, PRISM, to La Jolla Music Society in November 2019. Each PRISM program is an exploration of the symbiotic musical and contextual relationships between Bach fugues, Beethoven string quartets, and works by Shostakovich, Schnittke, Bartok, Mendelssohn, and Webern, forming an expertly curated musical evolution within each individual program and across the entire PRISM repertory. Prism I, the first disc of this five-album project for the ECM label, was released in September 2018 and garnered a GRAMMY® nomination in the category of Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for the group’s recordings of Beethoven’s Op. 127 in E-flat Major, Bach’s Fugue in E-flat Major (arranged by Mozart), and Shostakovich’s final string quartet, No. 15 in E-flat minor. Prism II was subsequently released in September 2019 to rave reviews including a five-star review from BBC Music Magazine, “Best Classical Music of 2019” from New York Times, and “Classical Music You Must Hear” from Apple Music. Prism III—featuring Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 13, Op. 131, Bartók’s String Quartet No. 1, and Bach’s Fugue in C-sharp minor, BWV 849 from The Well-Tempered Clavier—was released in March 2021. The Danish String Quartet returned to North America in the 2019-2020 season as one of the most prominent musical voices in the monumental celebrations of Beethoven’s 250th year. With two sweeping North American tours, the Danish engaged its expansive audience in programming centered around the towering Beethoven string quartets, as well as many important works which inspired, and were inspired by, these revered giants of the classical canon. The Danish returned to Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center as the featured string quartet performing the entire Beethoven cycle over the course of six concerts in February 2020. The Quartet performs the cycle again for the Schubert Club in St. Paul, MN, in November 2021. The group takes an active role in reaching new audiences through special projects. In 2007, they established the DSQ Festival, which takes place in an intimate and informal setting at Copenhagen’s Bygningskulturens Hus. The 2020 DSQ Festival featured an array of meticulously curated programs including such guests as violinist Malin William-Olsson, cellist Andreas Brantelid, and pianist Marianna Shirinyan. In 2016, they inaugurated a new music festival, Series of Four, in which they both perform and invite colleagues—the Ebène Quartet, mandolin player Chris Thile, among others—to appear at the venerable Danish Radio Concert Hall. Concerts this season featured collaborations with iconic Scandinavian artists including Andreas Brantelid, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, and the Danish National Girls Choir. Since its debut in 2002, the Danish String Quartet has demonstrated a special affinity for Scandinavian composers, from Carl Nielsen to Hans Abrahamsen, alongside music of Mozart and Beethoven. The Quartet’s musical interests also encompass Nordic folk music, the focus of Wood Works, an album of traditional Scandinavian folk music, released by Dacapo in 2014. As a follow-up, the Danish String Quartet released Last Leaf for ECM, an album of traditional Scandinavian folk music. This recording was one of the top classical albums of 2017, as chosen by NPR, Spotify and The New York Times, among others. Named Artist-in-Residence in 2006 by the Danish Radio, the Quartet was offered the opportunity to record the Nielsen string quartets at the Danish Radio Concert Hall. The two CDs, released in 2007 and 2008 on the Dacapo label, garnered enthusiastic praise for their first recordings—“these Danish players have excelled in performances of works by Brahms, Mozart and Bartók in recent years. But they play Nielsen’s quartets as if they owned them,” noted the New York Times. In 2012, the Danish String Quartet released a recording of Haydn and Brahms quartets on the German AVI-music label, for which they also received critical notice. “What makes the performance special is the maturity and calm of the playing, even during virtuosic passages that whisk by. This is music-making of wonderful ease and naturalness,” observed the New York Times. Subsequently, they recorded works by Brahms and Robert Fuchs with clarinetist Sebastian Manz, released by AVI-music in 2014, and in 2017, an album with music of Thomas Adès, Per Nørgård, and Abrahamsen, the Quartet’s debut on ECM. The Danish String Quartet has received numerous citations and prizes, including First Prize in the Vagn Holmboe String Quartet Competition and the Charles Hennen International Chamber Music Competition in the Netherlands, as well as the Audience Prize at the Trondheim International String Quartet Competition in 2005. In 2009, the Danish String Quartet won First Prize in the 11th London International String Quartet Competition, now known as the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet competition, and return to the celebrated London concert hall frequently. The Quartet was the awarded the 2010 NORDMETALL-Ensemble Prize at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival in Germany, and in 2011, they received the Carl Nielsen Prize, the highest cultural honor in Denmark.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2021 AT 3 PM HAYDN SEEKING BUY TICKETS ESCHER STRING QUARTET “The Escher players seemed to make time stand still, effortlessly distilling the essence of this introspective music with expressive warmth and a natural confiding intimacy.” — Chicago Classical Review ROMAN RABINOVICH, PIANO “Mr. Rabinovich performed with uncommon sensitivity and feeling, playing with a wonderful brio and spontaneity, crisp rhythmic bite, and abundant colorings.” — The New York Times FEATURING ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE BUY TICKETS Mozart called Haydn a “great man and my dearest friend,” and Beethoven knelt before Haydn on his 76th birthday to fervently kiss his hands and forehead. Haydn’s celebrated wit, grace, and eloquence will be richly on display in this musical survey of his seminal chamber works for piano, string quartets, and piano trio. As a special treat, the multitalented pianist Roman Rabinovich will accompany his own short animated film entitled “Imaginary Encounters with Haydn.” PROGRAM Claude Debussy Hommage à Haydn Program Notes Joseph Haydn String Quartet in G, Op. 77, No. 1 Program Notes Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata No. 50 in C Hob. XVI: 50 Program Notes Maurice Ravel Menuet sur le nom d’Haydn Program Notes Joseph Haydn String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 76, No. 4 (“Sunrise”) Program Notes Joseph Haydn Piano Trio in G, Hob. XV: 25 (“Gypsy”) Program Notes Watch Roman Rabinovich play Haydn’s Piano Sonata in G, Hob XVI 39:

LOCATION & DIRECTIONS All concerts take place at: West Side Presbyterian Church 6 South Monroe Street Ridgewood, NJ 07450 West Side Presby terian Church is Wheelchair Accessible Free Childcare (ages 3 – 6) is provided at all concerts For directions, click here .

PAUL JACOBS, ORGAN The only organist ever to have won a GRAMMY Award (for Messiaen’s “Livre du Saint-Sacrement”), Paul Jacobs transfixes audiences, colleagues and critics alike with imaginative interpretations and charismatic stage presence. Hailed as “one of the major musicians of our time” by the New Yorker’s Alex Ross, Mr. Jacobs has been an important influence in the revival of symphonic works featuring the organ, drawing from his deep knowledge of western music to enlighten listeners, and is a true innovator in the advocacy of organ repertoire, performing and encouraging the composition of new works that feature the organ. Paul Jacobs made his mark from a young age with landmark performances of the complete works for solo organ by J.S. Bach and Messiaen, making musical history at the age of 23 when he played Bach’s complete organ works in an 18-hour marathon performance on the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death. A fierce advocate of new music, Jacobs has premiered works by Christopher Rouse, Samuel Adler, Mason Bates, Michael Daugherty, Wayne Oquin, Stephen Paulus, and Christopher Theofanidis, among others. He is a vocal proponent of the redeeming nature of traditional and contemporary classical music in his roles as Chair of the Organ Department at The Juilliard School and Director of the Organ Institute at the Oregon Bach Festival. Paul Jacobs begins his 2017/18 season with a concert at the Toledo Museum of Art performing Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Organ and Percussion with Third Coast Percussion in a centennial celebration of Lou Harrison, followed by Shanghai, China where he is President of the Jury of the first Shanghai International Organ Competition, an especially important milestone in the development of organ playing in Asia. He will also be presented in recital at the Oriental Arts Center. He returns twice to the Philadelphia Orchestra, first for Wayne Oquin’s “Resilience” which was written for Paul Jacobs and later for James MacMillan’s organ concerto, “A Scotch Bestiary”. He also appears twice with the Cleveland Orchestra, in the fall with Giancarlo Guerrero conducting Stephen Paulus’s Grand Concerto for Organ and Orchestra and returns in the spring for their week-long festival celebrating Tristan and Isolde. He is organ soloist in Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony with the Chicago Symphony and the Utah Symphony and presents solo recitals in San Francisco at Davies Symphony Hall, in Sacramento, Tampa, Houston, Baylor University and Pittsburgh among others. In the 2016/17 season Paul Jacobs played world premiere performances of Christopher Rouse’s Organ Concerto, dedicated to him in 2014, with three commissioning partners, the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin, the National Symphony conducted by Gustavo Gimeno and the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by David Robertson. He appears frequently in New York, and has been presented twice at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, the first time at the inaugural 2010 Festival performing J.S. Bach’s monumental Clavier-Ubung III and the 2015 edition with world-renowned soprano Christine Brewer in a program of their Naxos release, “Divine Redeemer” He and Ms. Brewer also presented their duo program on tour to Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, the St. Louis Cathedral-Basilica and Spivey Hall in Atlanta. With the Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero conducting, he performed and recorded Michael Daugherty’s Once Upon a Castle, included on the Naxos disc of works by Daugherty, Tales of Hemingway, awarded the 2016 GRAMMY for Best Classical Compendium. In addition to the above, Paul Jacobs is a frequent concerto and recital soloist featuring the concert organs of the San Francisco Symphony, the Montreal Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Phoenix Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Edmonton Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Lexington Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony, the Seattle Symphony and the Toledo Symphony. Prodigiously talented from his earliest years, at 15 young Jacobs was appointed head organist of a parish of 3,500 in his hometown, Washington, Pennsylvania. He has also performed the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen in marathon performances throughout North America, and recently reached the milestone of having performed in each of the fifty United States. In addition to his recordings of Messiaen and Daugherty on Naxos, Mr. Jacobs has recorded organ concerti by Lou Harrison and Aaron Copland with the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas on the orchestra’s own label, SFS Media. Mr. Jacobs studied at the Curtis Institute of Music, double-majoring with John Weaver for organ and Lionel Party for harpsichord, and at Yale University with Thomas Murray. He joined the faculty of The Juilliard School in 2003, and was named chairman of the organ department in 2004, one of the youngest faculty appointees in the school’s history. He received Juilliard’s prestigious William Schuman Scholar’s Chair in 2007 and an honorary Doctor of Music from Washington and Jefferson College in 2017. In addition to his concert and teaching appearances, Mr. Jacobs is a frequent performer at festivals across the world, and has appeared on American Public Media’s Performance Today, Pipedreams, and Saint Paul Sunday, as well as NPR’s Morning Edition, ABC-TV’s World News Tonight, and BBC Radio 3.

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2016 AT 3 PM Mariko Anraku, harp; Emmanuel Ceysson, harp; Leading members of the Met Orchestra BUY TICKETS David Chan, violin CATHERINE RO, VIOLIN JERRY GROSSMAN, CELLO EMMANUEL CEYSSON, HARP “Ceysson is a rising star of the harp world…Both his technique and his musicianship are virtually flawless…It was an impressive and deeply involving evening.” – The Washington Post ÉRIK GRATTON, FLUTE GILAD COHEN, COMPOSER Rafael Figueroa, cello Principal Cello, Met Orchestra DOV SCHEINDLIN, VIOLA MARIKO ANRAKU, HARP “…a manifestation of grace and elegance.” – The Jerusalem Post INN-HYUCK CHO, CLARINET Principal Clarinet Met Orchestra MELINDA WAGNER, COMPOSER “Melinda Wagner’s “Pan Journal” is a work by a top professional who knows how to keep the ears and brains of her listeners engaged.” – Vance R. Koven, Boston Music Intelligencer FEATURING ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE BUY TICKETS On December 18 , The Met Orchestra’s exquisite harpists , Mariko Anraku and Emmanuel Ceysson , will join forces with seven principal players of the Met Orchestra for a celestial afternoon of music making. Their alluring program will include duos and ensemble works featuring the harp by Debussy and Ravel and engaging new music by the award-winning, Ridgewood-based composers Melinda Wagner and Gilad Cohen . PROGRAM Claude Debussy Danses sacree et profane, L. 103 for harp and strings Program Notes Maurice Ravel Ma mere l’oye arranged for two harps Program Notes Gilad Cohen Trio for a Spry Clarinet, Weeping Cello and Ruminating Harp Program Notes Melinda Wagner Pan Journal for harp and string quartet Program Notes Claude Debussy Suite Bergamasque, L. 75 arranged for two harps by Matthieu Martin Program Notes Maurice Ravel Introduction and Allegro for harp, flute, clarinet, and string quartet Program Notes Meet Met Harpists Emmanuel Ceysson and Mariko Anraku: Emmanuel Ceysson performs Ravel’s Introduction and Allegro: Mariko Anraku performs Fauré’s Impromptu, Op. 86:

WILLIAM SHORT, BASSOON William Short was appointed Principal Bassoon of the MET Orchestra in 2012. He previously served in the same capacity with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra and has also performed with the Houston and Detroit Symphonies and the Philadelphia Orchestra. William has performed as soloist with the Vermont and Delaware Symphonies, the New York Classical Players, and the Strings Festival Orchestra. He is a founding member of the Gotham Wind Quintet and has performed many times with the Camerata Pacifica, Dolce Suono, and MET Orchestra Chamber Ensemble chamber music series. A dedicated teacher, William serves on the faculties of The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music, and Temple University, and is a Valade Fellow at Interlochen Arts Camp. In addition, he is a Visiting Faculty member at The Tianjin Juilliard School and has held visiting guest positions at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has presented classes around the world, including at conferences of the International Double Reed Society, for which he served as a board member from 2017-2021. William has performed and taught at the Lake Champlain, Lake Tahoe, Mostly Mozart, National Orchestral Institute, Stellenbosch (South Africa), Strings, Twickenham, and Verbier Festivals. An occasional arranger, editor, and composer, his work has been published by the Theodore Presser Company and TrevCo Music. William received his Bachelor of Music from the Curtis Institute of Music, where he studied with Daniel Matsukawa and Bernard Garfield, and his Master of Music at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, where he studied with Benjamin Kamins. As a student, he attended festivals including the Music Academy of the West, Pacific Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, and the Verbier Festival. Additional major teachers have included Jeanine Attaway, Kristin Wolfe Jensen, and William Lewis.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2017 AT 3 PM Emanuel Ax, piano BUY TICKETS EMANUEL AX, PIANO “His greatness, his overwhelming authority as musician, technician and probing intellect emerges quickly as he plays. Within minutes, we are totally captured by his intensity and pianistic achievement.” – Los Angeles Times FEATURING ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE BUY TICKETS On February 26 , the legendary pianist Emanuel Ax will grace our stage for the first time. Hailed the world over as one of the paramount musical artists of our age, he will offer a ruminative set of Impromptus by Schubert , Chopin , and the young American composer Samuel Adams , followed by his signature interpretation of Chopin’s great Sonata in B minor . This dramatic work ranges across a panoramic musical terrain, at times majestic, at times tragic, culminating in the tour-de-force finale regarded as one of the most technically daring movements in the entire piano repertoire. PROGRAM Franz Schubert Four Impromptus, D. 935 (Op. 142) Program Notes Frédéric Chopin Four Impromptus, Opp. 29, 36, 51, & 66 Program Notes Samuel Adams Impromptu: After Schubert Program Notes Frédéric Chopin Sonata in B minor, Op. 58 Program Notes Emanuel Ax performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 (excerpt): Emanuel Ax discusses Chopin’s piano music:

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