Chamber Music

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• East Coast Chamber Orchestra

  Feb 14, 2010 at 7:30 PM | Buy Now
  The youthful, energetic East Coast Chamber Orchestra's program covers a wide variety of classical music with works by Purcell, Elgar, Britten, Villa-Lobos, and Tchaikovsky.

• Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

  Feb 28, 2010 at 7:30 PM | Buy Now
  Enjoy a night of Schubert from the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, hailed by the New York Times as "one of the best-blended, most sensitive, and intelligent piano trios in the world today."

• Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano

  Apr 21, 2010 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 2/10/10,
  Performing as part of Joyful Sounds: Gospel Across America, mezzo-soprano Marietta Simpson "endows everything she sings with uncommon intelligence" (San Francisco Chronicle).

• The Kennedy Center Chamber Players play Ravel, Dutilleux & Dvorák

  Apr 25, 2010 at 2:00 PM | On Sale 2/10/10,
  Dutilleux's Ainsi la nuit for String Quartet is the centerpiece of this Kennedy Center Chamber Players program that also includes Ravel's Introduction and Allegro and Dvo?ák's String Sextet.

• Escher String Quartet

  Apr 26, 2010 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 2/10/10,
  The exuberant Escher String Quartet returns for a night of Bartók, Brahms, and Beethoven, demonstrating what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "ripe tonal balances with the kind of heedless intensity that comes with youth."

• Pro Musica Hebraica presents: The Biava Quartet: An Evening of French Jewish Music

  Apr 29, 2010 at 7:30 PM | Buy Now
  Pro Musica Hebraica is devoted to presenting Jewish classical music, much of it believed lost, forgotten, or rarely performed, in a concert hall setting. The award-winning Biava Quartet returns to play a program of French Jewish music.

• Christine Brewer, soprano, with Craig Rutenberg, piano

  May 7, 2010 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 2/10/10,
  In association with the Vocal Arts Society's America Sings Festival, renowned American soprano Christine Brewer and pianist Craig Rutenberg present a recital featuring songs by Richard Strauss, Joseph Marx, Richard Hundley, and others.

• Jennifer Koh, violin & Thomas Sauer, piano

  May 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 2/10/10,
  Virtuoso violinist Jennifer Koh, who plays with "energy and velvety richness" (The New York Times), returns to the Kennedy Center with pianist Thomas Sauer for a performance that is equal parts experimentation and standard repertory.
  

• The Kennedy Center Chamber Players play Gieseking, Szymanowski & Schubert

  Jun 6, 2010 at 2:00 PM | On Sale 4/7/10,
  Gieseking's Quintet--for piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn--opens The Kennedy Center Chamber Players' program, followed by Szymanowski's Mythes for violin and piano. The concert concludes with Schubert's String Quintet in C major.