SUNSET CONCERTS at Saint Luke’s

Chamber music concert series at Saint Luke’s Church, in the heart of Los Gatos

The 2007 Sunset Concert Series at Saint Luke's Church has ended.

We appreciate the outstanding performances of these wonderful artists who made this season a success!

Thank you!

THE 2007 SUNSET CONCERT SERIES ARTISTS:

Program

February 10, 2007 8:00 pm Cavani String Quartet		Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Ravel
www.cavani.org	Winners of prestigious Naumberg, Banff, Coleman & Fischoff competitions
March 3, 2007 8:00 pm Quartetto di Venezia		Boccherini, Petrassi, Puccini, and Verdi
www.quartettodivenezia.it Page translated to English	Among Italy’s best, from Venice, performing an all Italian program -- viva Italia!
March 23, 2007 8:00 pm Trio Voronezh		Bach, Vivaldi, Russian folk, Piazzolla, more
www.triovoronezh.com	Virtuosi from Russia – playing classical composers and Russian folk & traditional music and more – on domra [lute], bajan [accordion] and double-bass balalaika
May 19, 2007 8:00 pm Piano Quartet Four of the Bay Area's Finest! – Gwendolyn Mok, piano Elizabeth Prior Runnicles, viola Thalia Moore, cello William Barbini, violin		Robert & Clara Schumann - and Brahms! A 'triangle' of trio & quartets.
	www.gwendolynmok.com

Robert SCHUMANN: Piano Quartet in E Flat Major, Op.47 (1842): Unsurpassed in Romantic fervor and beauty. Premiered by wife Clara on piano.
Clara SCHUMANN: Piano Trio in G Minor, Op.17 (1846): Charming, well-crafted and straight-forward, with interesting rhythmns and fresh modulations.
Johannes BRAHMS: Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op.60, "Werther" (1854-56, 1874): Hear in it the turmoil and despair Brahms felt over fidelity to Robert... and deep affection for Clara.

Pianist Gwendolyn Mok is Coordinator of Keyboard Studies at San Jose State University, leading authority on and interpreter of Ravel, and has performed as soloist with The London Philharmonic, The Philharmonia, the New York Philharmonic and others.
Violinist William Barbini is concertmaster of the Monterey Symphony, Music Director of the Chamber Music Society of Sacramento, and teaches at CSU-Sacramento and SF Conservatory of Music.
Violist Elizabeth Prior Runnicles is Associate Principal of the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and of the Marin Symphony - and regular performer with the SF Symphony and Ballet Orchestras.
Cellist Thalia Moore is Associate Principal with the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and a member of the SF Ballet Orchestra, and has been soloist at Avery Fischer Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall and the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater.

Sunset Concerts is a financially independent, self-sufficient project at Saint Luke’s Church.

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