Violinist Tereza Stanslav will perform at the March 19 concert.
Chamber Music Palisades will continue its 28th season at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 19, at the First United Methodist Church of Santa Monica, 1008 11th Street. There is free parking in the garage across from the church.
The program includes Turina String Quartet in D Minor, Op. 4 “L Oracion Del Torero” (The Bullfighter’s Prayer), Mozart’s Quartet in D Major for flute and strings, and Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet No. 1 Op.11.
Alan Chapman, KUSC host and long-time Chamber Music Palisades associate, will provide informative in-person program notes.
Musicians include:
Violinist Tereza Stanislav who is the Assistant Concertmaster of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra as well as a violinist in the Calder and New Hollywood String Quartets. She is an active performer and has performed in many of the world’s leading concert halls, such as Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall, Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center and Wigmore Hall. She was the featured soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in the world premiere of the Violin Concerto by Benjamin Wallfisch about which the Los Angeles Times wrote, “she gave a magisterial rendition” and “held the audience rapt.”
Violinist Rafael Rishik was born in New York City and started the violin at age 4. At age six he was one of the youngest students ever accepted to the Juilliard School of Music. He continued his studies at Indiana University at Bloomington, completing his graduate studies at U.C. Santa Barbara. He spent several years performing with the Camerata Pacifica, and is a founding member of the New Hollywood String Quartet. Rishik has performed with the LA Opera and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.
Violist Robert Brophy is a member of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He can also be seen and heard playing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, LA Opera and many West Coast chamber music series. He has been a member of the New Hollywood String Quartet for 13 years, and the quartet has enjoyed for a number of years being quartet-in-residence at South Pasadena Library’s Restoration Concert Series. Brophy holds degrees from the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England, and Rice University, Houston.
Violist Robert Brophy will play at the Palisades Chamber Music concert.
Cellist Andrew Shulman is a globally celebrated English cellist and conductor. His career ignited at 22 when Riccardo Muti named him principal cellist of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Shulman has since held principal roles with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and Los Angeles Philharmonic, and since 2008, he has been principal cellist of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, where his playing has been called “eloquent and passionate” by the Los Angeles Times. A USC Thornton School professor, he has also recorded countless film scores for the greatest Hollywood composers. His more than 35 recordings include solo works by Vivaldi, Delius, Broughton, Newman and Janáček, 26 CDs with the Britten Quartet, and the iconic cello solo in Elton John’s Candle in the Wind 1997.
Flutist Susan Greenberg has had a versatile career as soloist, chamber musician, symphony player, and recording artist. The Los Angeles Times has described her playing as “brilliant,” “elegant” and “supple.” She was a member of the LA Chamber Orchestra for 36 years, where she was a frequent soloist on both flute and piccolo and even alto flute. She has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, L.A. Opera, New York City Opera, American Ballet Theater, Joffrey Ballet, as well as at the Casals, Ojai and Martha’s Vineyard Music Festivals. She received both her B.A., cum laude, and her M.A. from UCLA, and is presently the flute professor at Pepperdine University. Ms. Greenberg is principal flute with the Santa Monica Symphony and the Vicente Chamber Orchestra and the Artistic Director of Chamber Music Palisades.
Tickets will be available for $35 online at cmpalisades.org or at the door. CMP offers free admission for full-time students with an ID. The concert is sponsored by the Sidney Stern Memorial Trust.
Globally celebrated cellist Andrew Shulman will perform.