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50th Year

CONCERT SERIES

2008 - 2009
50th Season Celebration featuring Eugenia Zukerman
 September 28, 2008
Eugenia Zukerman opens the FFM 50th Season concert in a special commemorative concert program

Eugenia Zukerman, Flute
(Not Pictured)
Henry Gronnier, Violin
Thomas Diener, Viola
Rina Dokhshitsky, Piano

A flutist of international acclaim, Eugenia Zukerman has enthralled audiences for twenty-five years with her superb playing and charming stage presense. She has curated this 50th seson concert which repeats the very music that launched the well loved and respected series. David Margetts, violinist, and Beulah Strickler, pianist, are scheduled as guest artists to join Ms. Zukerman in the Loeillet Sonata which they played together at the very first Fullerton Friends of Music concert.

Ms. Zukerman is joined by Henry Gronnier, Thomas Diener, members of the Rossetti String Quartet, and by Rina Dokshitsky.

"Her musicianship is consummate, her taste immaculate, and her stage presence a sheer pleasure!"

New York Times
 
LOEILLET

Sonata for Flute, Violin and Piano
SCHUBERT

Arpeggione Sonata for Viola and Piano, D. 821
BEETHOVEN

Serenade In D Major for Flute, Violin and Viola,  Op. 25




THE ENSO QUARTET October 19, 2008

The Enso Quartet performs a diverse program of quartets by Haydn, Ginastera and Beethoven for our 2nd event of the season

Pictured  ...

John Marcus, Violin
Maureen Nelson, Violin
Richard Belcher, Cello
Melissa Reardon, Viola
Audience appreciation and critical acclaim of the Enso String Quartet has earned them their place in the ensemble music world. The Strad applauded them for their "lyricism, style, and expression as well as sophistication". Enso received multiple honors at the Banff International String Quartet Competition. Their name is derived from the Japanese Zen painting of the circle which represent perfection and imperfection, the moment of chaos that is creation, the emptiness of the void, the endless circle of life, and the fullness of the spirit.

"rhythmic élan...an edge-of-the-seat vitality few groups maintain throughout a performance"

Houston Chronicle
HAYDN

String Quartet No. 32 in C Major, Op. 20 No. 2
GINASTERA

String Quartet No. 1
BEETHOVEN

String Quartet No. 12 in E Flat Major, Op. 127




JUDITH ALLER & VALERIA MORGOVSKAYA December 7, 2008
Violin virtuoso Judith Aller is regarded as a unique artist who brings a rare interpretive vison to the rapidly vanishing romantic-expressionist tradition. She grew up in the midst of Hollywood's classical music golden era and was taught by Jascha Heifetz and her father, Victor Aller.  For many years she toured as Beethovena soloist with and recorded for the Finnish Radio Symphony and taught at the Sibelius Academy of Music.

Ms. Aller will be accompanied by Valeria Morgovskaya, who is a graduate of the Kiev State Conservatory and winner of an award for Best Accompanist at the International Tchaikovsky Competition.		 Judith Aller performs works of Richard Strauss, Alberto Ginastera and Ludwig von Beethoven for the third event of this FFM season

NIN-KOCHANSKI

Saeta (Invocation)
RICHARD STRAUSS

Violin Sonata In E Flat Major, Op. 18
BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 9 in A for Violin and Piano (Kreutzer)
GINASTERA Milonga
DE FALLA (Arranged KREISLER); Danse Espagnole (de La Vida Breve)




ALEXANDER STRING QUARTET
with GARY GRAY, Clarinet 		January 11, 2009

Gary Gray joins the Alexander Quartet in a performance of the Mozart Clarinet Quintet
Clarinetist Gary Gray

Alexander String Quartet returns to FFM to perform quartets by Beethoven and Ravel this season

Pictured from Left to Right ...

Sandy Wilson, cello
Frederick Lifsitz, violin
Paul Yarbrough, viola
Zakarias Grafilo, violin

Having celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 2006, the Alexander String Quartet has performed in major music captital on four continents, securing its standing among the world's premier ensembles.

Widely admired for their interpretations of Beethoven, Mozart and Shostakovich, the Quartet is also an important advocate of new music as attested to by their numerous commissions and premiere performances. Their recordings have had tremendous critical acclaim and include a Beethoven cycle, Mozart's quartets dedicated to Haydn and the complete Shostakovich String Quartets.

Gary Gray, principal clarinetist for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, joins the ASQ in a performance of Mozart's "Stadler" Quintet.

" An unusually fine group - musically, technically, in just about any way one wants to view it ."

The New York Times

" Gary Gray handled the clarinet solos with stunning ease and as mellow and gorgeous a sound as may be possible on that instrument."

Daniel Cariaga -- The Los Angeles Times

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 11 In F Minor, Op. 95 (Serioso)
RAVEL

String Quartet
MOZART
 Clarinet Quintet in A Major, K. 581 (Stadler)



  PENDERECKI STRING QUARTET February 15, 2009
The Pendericki String Quartet performs works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Panufnik

 

Pictured  ...

Jeremy Bell, Violin
Jerzy Kaplanek, Violin
Christine Vlajk, Viola
Simon Fryer, Cello

The Penderecki Quartet was formed in 1986 and has become a celebrated chamber ensemble, now in their third decade of an extraordinary career. The musicians are from four differnt countries -- Poland, Canada, America and the United Kingdom. They bring varied collective experiences to create their excellent and emotional performances. The Quartet champions music of our time and programs a wise range of repertoire from Haydn to Zapa. They have performed over 100 new works.

"... an ensemble of formidable powsr and musical sensitivity"

Fanfare Magazine

BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 6 in B Flat Major, Op. 18, No. 6
Play MIDI Electronic Sample of 1st Movement
PANUFNIK String Quartet No. 3 (Wycinanki)
TCHAIKOVSKY String Quartet No. 1 in D Major, Op. 11 


ALL CONCERTS START AT 3:30 P.M.

Last Revised: February 8, 2009