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.
ANANT MALPANI, VIOLIN
CHRISTOPHER TAVERNIER, PIANO
Founded by trumpet soloist Mary Elizabeth Bowden, this award-winning brass ensemble spotlights standout women brass players and highlights musicians from marginalized groups through personnel and programming. Winners of the American Prize in Chamber Music, they’ve been praised for their “beautiful sounds” (American Record Guide), “fine playing” (Gramophone), and “staggeringly high caliber of performance.” (Textura).
One of the world’s leading piano quartets, this ensemble is known for pushing chamber music past the old rulebook, pairing virtuosic playing with adventurous repertoire and unexpected collaborations. With major international awards and recordings spanning everything from the classical to bold cross-genre projects, they discover new sound fields in chamber music and perform compositions outside the mainstream repertoire.
This American-Canadian-Taiwanese quartet has quickly earned international acclaim, praised for its “tremendous variety of color” (The Strad) and “cohesion and intonation one might expect from an ensemble twice their age” (Third Coast Review). Prizewinners in major international chamber music competitions, they tour widely and bring the same clarity and intensity to beloved repertoire and to collaborations with living composers.
Praised for “sparkling virtuosity” and “outstand-ing talent” (Ponca City News), this trio champions the rich, underperformed repertoire written for clarinet. Prizewinning musicians with interna-tional festival appearances and an active touring schedule across the U.S., they bring high-impact performances to programs ranging from beloved Romantic era favorites to 20th-century works. Expect a performance that is both technically fearless and genuinely engaging.
Praised as an “all-star chamber group” with a “uniformly rich sound from top to bottom” (Cleveland Classical), this quartet brings together leading musicians from the world’s great orchestras — including the Berlin Phil-harmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the New York Philharmonic. By uniting their experiences as internationally touring soloists and orchestra musicians, they create a distinctive sound and unanimity of expression.
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"
Winner of the Asheville Piano Competition, Andrew Ning will perform a selection of works by Chopin, Brahms, and Haydn as part of the Rising Stars concert series.
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.
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
Robert Schumann: Märchenerzählungen for Clarinet, Viola, and Piano, Op. 132
Johannes Brahms: Trio for Piano, Clarinet, and Cello in A minor, Op. 114
Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
UNCSA I.M.J Collective
A jazz small group made up of 5 of the over sixty members of the Improvised Music and Jazz studio at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. This collaboration includes two graduate students, two undergraduate students, and one high school student.
A mix of jazz standards in both traditional and non-traditional approaches, focusing on texture and group improvisational interaction. The IMJ program at UNCSA teaches musical improvisation using a linguistic and multi-genre approach, giving the students freedom to create their own unique musical languages. Every performance is different, and the music can twist and turn in unexpected directions, resulting in differing experiences for the listener at each iteration.
Josef Haydn: String Quartet in D major, Op. 76 No. 5 (20')
Gabriela Lena Frank: Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout (24')
Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10
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
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!
PROGRAM INCLUDES
Shostakovich Quartet no.8
Selections from
Britten Three Divertimenti
Gabriela Lena Frank: Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout for String Quartet
Antonín Dvořák Quartet No. 10 in E-flat Major, Op. 51
Nicole Murphy: Anamnesis for Octet I. Playful, bright
Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Double Quartet for strings I. Allegro moderato
Felix Mendelssohn: Octet in E-flat major Op. 20, III. Scherzo. Allegro leggierissimo
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
