Featuring the Opal and Jasper String Quartets
Celebrate summer with friends as we take over The Grey Eagle! Grab a drink and bites from the Taqueria while enjoying chamber music. A liberated listening experience!
Quartets from the Americas: African echos
Dan Roman: Montuna Fever
Tania León: Esencia III: Agua de Manantial
Alejandro Cardona: Echú
Blas Emilio Atehortúa: Quartet No. 5
Adolphus Hailstork: Adagio from String Quartet No. 1
Paquito d’Rivera: Wapango
Julián Orbón: Scherzo, from string quartet
Roberto Sierra: Mambo 7/16
Leo Brouwer: Two movements from Cuarteto 3
Love Letters
Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen, Op. 15: No. 13, Der Dichter spricht
György Kurtág: Aus der Ferne V for String Quartet
Antonín Dvořák: Cypresses
Leoš Janáček: String Quartet No.2, “Listy důvěrné” (Intimate Letters)
Johannes Brahms: String Quartet No. 2 in A minor, op. 51
Program
Robert Schumann: Märchenerzählungen for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 132
Johannes Brahms: Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano in Eb major, Op. 40
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
Program
Bohuslav Martinů: Piano Trio No. 3 in C major, H. 332
Franz Schubert: Piano Trio in E-flat major, Op. 148, D. 897
Bedřich Smetana: Piano Trio in G minor, Opus 15
Program
Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach: Sonata in G Major "Hamburger Sonata" Wq.133
Antonio Vivaldi: Sonata No. 8 in A minor, RV 44
Marianna Martines: Sonata in G major, IMM 27
Francesco Geminiani: Sonata in B-flat major, Op. 1, No.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Canon and Trio Sonata from "The Musical Offering"
Asheville Art Museum
Tuesday, May 13, 2025 - 6PM
PROGRAM
Schumann Arabeske in C major, Op. 18
Schumann Humoreske Op. 20
Mozart Fantasy in D minor K. 397
Mozart Sonata No. 18 in D major, K. 576
Chopin Variation on “Là ci darem la mano”, Op. 2
Central United Methodist Church of Asheville
Friday, May 2, 2025, 7:30PM
PROGRAM
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet in C major, K. 465, "Dissonance"
Erwin Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet
Antonín Dvořák: String Quartet No. 13 in G major, Op. 106, B. 192
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville
Friday, April 4, 2025
Program includes:
Richard Strauss: Variations on a Bavarian Folksong “Dirndl is haub auf mi,” TrV 109
Gideon Klein: String Trio (1944)
Ludwig van Beethoven: Trio for Violin, Viola and Cello, No. 3 in G major, Op. 9, No. 1
Mieczysław Weinberg: String Trio, Op. 48
Ernö Dohnányi: Serenade for String Trio in C major, Op. 10
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville
Friday, February 28, 2025
Program includes:
Franz Schubert: Erlkönig, arranged for string quartet by Jakob Enko
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in F major, Op. 77, No. 2, Hob. III:82
Edvard Grieg: String Quartet No. 1 in F minor, Op. 27
First Presbyterian Church of Asheville
Sunday, January 12, 2025
Program includes:
Robert Schumann: Selections from Six Pieces in Canonic Form Op. 56, arranged by Shawn Kirchner
Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, Op. 69
Frank Bridge: Selections from Miniatures for Piano Trio
Felix Mendelssohn: Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 66
First Baptist Church of Weaverville
Friday, November 1, 2024
Program includes:
Gustav Holst: Quintet in A minor, Op. 3, H. 11
N. H. Rice: Quintet for Piano and Winds in B-flat major, Op. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven: Quintet in E-flat major for Piano and Winds, Op. 16
George Gershwin: An American In Paris, arranged by Wolfgang Renz and ensemble 4.1
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville
Sunday, September 1, 2024
Program includes:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581
Kevin Lau: String Quartet No. 3
Astor Piazzolla: Primavera Porteña from Four Seasons, arranged by Max Ball
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Op. 132
The Grey Eagle Music Hall
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Celebrate the laid-back mountain lifestyle this summer with a chamber music takeover at this iconic River Arts District venue. Bring your friends, grab a drink and bites from the on-site taqueria and enjoy a liberated listening experience with works from Dvořák, Smith, Wiancko and Mendelssohn, among others.
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Time: 6pm
Location: Asheville Art Museum
Price: $15 members, $18 non members
Realizing that young musicians establishing concert careers need performance opportunities, the Asheville Chamber Music Series in collaboration with the Asheville Art Museum established a “Rising Stars” Concert Series. These recitals will feature promising North Carolina musicians who show great potential.
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville
Friday, May 10, 2024
Program includes:
Claude Debussy: Beau Soir
Lukas Foss: Capriccio
Camille Saint-Saens: Romance, Op. 36
Michael Stephen Brown: Prelude and Dance (2017)
Nicholas Canellakis: Romance a GF (2022)
Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Time: 6pm
Location: Asheville Art Museum
Price: $15 members, $18 non members
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville
Friday, March 15, 2024
PROGRAM -
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Quartet in E flat major
Leos Janacek: Janacek Quartet No. 2
Franz Schubert: Quartet in A minor No.13 "Rosamunde"
Central United Methodist Church of Asheville
Sunday, February 11, 2024
Program
Francis Poulenc: Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano
Heinrich Molbe: Air Arabe for Oboe, Horn, and Piano, Op. 77
Jean Francaix: Divertissement for Oboe, Clarinet, and Bassoon
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for Winds and Piano in E flat major, K. 452
First Presbyterian Church of Asheville
Program includes:
Antonio Vivaldi: Trio Sonata in G minor Op. 1 No. 1
Jean-Francois Dandrieu: Trio Sonata in G minor Op. 1
Andrea Falconieri: Follas echa para mi Senora Dona Tarolilla de Carallenos
Henry Purcell: Sonata in Four Parts, G minor Z.807
Arcangelo Corelli: Trio Sonata in C major Op. 4 No. 1
J.S. Bach: Andante, BWV 97 4
Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville
PROGRAM -
Ludwig van Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte
Joseph Marx: Lieder No. 2 and No. 3 (From Four Lieder for tenor, violin, cello, and piano)
Salina Fisher: Kintsugi
Robert Schumann: Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor Op. 63
