Upcoming Concerts & Performances
4 upcoming concerts and performances from Concord Chamber Music Society, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All classical in Greater Boston →
Sun Oct 11 · 3pm
Artistic directors Daniel Chong, violin, and Jessica Bodner, viola, both members of the Parker Quartet, open the season with cellist Karen Ouzounian and pianist Katherine Chi. Two piano quartets frame a string duo: Mozart's Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478, Ravel's Sonata for Violin and Cello, and Brahms's Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60. The four performers give a pre-concert talk.
Sun Dec 6 · 2pm
Pianist Shai Wosner, called “a Schubertian of unfaltering authority and character” by Gramophone, builds his first half from impromptus by Schubert, Chopin, Dvořák and Gershwin, threaded with movements from Ives's Three Improvisations and a short improvised transition of his own. After intermission he plays Schubert's last piano sonata, the B-flat major, D. 960. Professor Suzannah Clark gives the pre-concert talk.
Sun Mar 7 · 3pm
All five of Beethoven's cello sonatas in one programme, marking the bicentenary of the composer's death: the two early Op. 5 sonatas, the two late Op. 102 works, and finally the A major Sonata, Op. 69. Dutch cellist Pieter Wispelwey, praised by The New York Times for his “unusually complete grasp of the music,” plays with pianist Pei-Shan Lee. Professor Anne Shreffler gives a pre-concert talk.
Sun Apr 25 · 3pm
The Grammy-winning Parker Quartet (Daniel Chong and Ken Hamao, violins; Jessica Bodner, viola; Kee-Hyun Kim, cello) plays three Beethoven quartets in a programme drawn from its Monte Carlo Beethoven album: Op. 18 No. 6 in B-flat, the “Harp” Quartet, Op. 74, and the second “Razumovsky” Quartet, Op. 59 No. 2 in E minor. The concert is a Concord Chamber Music fundraiser, with a pre-concert talk by Professor Anne Shreffler.
