Concert Season and Tickets
Season Ticket
$175.00
Half-Season Ticket
$100.00
(5 concerts for price of 4)
Attend any five of the 2018-
2019 season concerts
Willy Sucre & Friends
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September 23, 2018 - String Quartets by Turina and Beethoven
Featured Musicians and Program
Concert Sponsor - Vicki Gottlieb
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November 25, 2018 - Piano Quintets by Dohnányi and Dvořák
Featured Musicians and Program - coming soon
Concert Sponsors - Kristie and Doug Doll
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January 27, 2019 - Horn Quintets
Featured Musicians and Program - coming soon
Concert Sponsor - Martha Ritchie -In Memory of
Adam Burke Ritchie
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March 17, 2019 - La Catrina String Quartet - Villa-Lobos and Beethoven
Featured Musicians and Program- coming soon
Concert Sponsors - Sally and John Curro
BJ and Alan Firestone
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May 19, 2019 - String Quartets by Tchaikovsky and Bartok
Featured Musicians and Program - coming soon
Concert Sponsors - Firestone Family Foundation
Vulcan Materials
Eunice Kim
Solo Violin and Piano
October 21, 2018
Eunice Kim videos links:
Link One
Link Two
Concert Sponsors -
Robert Ericson - In Loving
Memory of Shirley Ericson
Claudia and Robert Moraga and
Bill Cates Team/RBC Wealth
Management
Irina Kulikova
Solo Classical Guitar
December 16, 2018
Irina Kulikova Video Links:
Link One
Link Two
Concert Sponsors -
Dianna & John Shomaker
Wendy Wilkins and Jay Rodman
Antonio Chen Guang
Solo Pianist
February 17, 2019
Antonio Chen Guang video links:
Link One
Link Two
Concert Sponsors -
Harriet and Jim Neal
Deborah and Thomas Hanna
Anderson Trio
Classic Jazz
Reeds & Guitar
April 14, 2019
Anderson Trio Video Links:
Link One
Link Two
Concert Sponsors -
Rondi and Duane Thornton
Jadvyga Biskis
Geri and Larry Verble
32nd Anniversary Season 2018—2019
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Sept 23, 2018
Nov 25, 2018
Jan 27, 2019
Mar 17, 2019
May 19, 2019
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Willy Sucre & Friends
Eunice Kim, violinist
A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, violinist Eunice Kim made her solo
debut at the age of seven with the Korean Broadcasting Symphony
Orchestra. Called “just superb” by the New York Times, and “a born
performer” by the Epoch Times, she recently made her solo debut with The
Philadelphia Orchestra and the Louisville Symphony, and performed George
Tsontakis’ Unforgettable with the Albany Symphony Orchestra. Also
recently, she performed at the Library of Congress on the “Ward” Antonio
Stradivari violin and she toured Taiwan, Hong Kong, Germany, and South
Korea with “Curtis on Tour.”
A winner of Astral Artist’s 2012 National Auditions, Kim is the recipient of
awards and honors from the California International Violin Competition,
the Pacific Music Society Competition, the Korea Times String Competition,
and the Youth Excellence Scholarship for the Arts. She also represented the
Curtis Institute of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in
the Millennium Stage Series Conservatory Project at the Kennedy Center.
She holds degrees from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the
Curtis Institute of Music.
An enthusiastic advocate for community engagement, she has partnered
with The Philadelphia Orchestra to perform an outreach series and
regularly participates in Astral’s community engagement and education
programs. She has taught at numerous international music festivals, most
recently at the Teatro Del Lago Festival in Chile and the Valdres Music
Academy in Norway. An avid chamber musician, she has participated in the
Music from Angel Fire, Music@Menlo, and Marlboro Music festivals. Some
famous musicians with whom she has collaborated are: Miriam Fried,
Nobuko Imai, Peter Wiley, Gary Hoffman, Ralph Kirschbaum, Cynthia
Raim, and Oberlin’s eighth blackbird ensemble.
Irina Kulikova
With the rare beauty of her tone and her enchanting presence on stage,
Irina Kulikova catches the hearts of audiences around the globe. The
daughter of a Russian cello teacher, Kulikova started developing her
musical senses at an exceptionally young age. At five, she got her first guitar
and at eight she played her first public performance. By the time she was 12,
Kulikova was a child star playing all across Russia and at festivals in
Europe, to be discovered by some of the world’s leading guitarists and
critics. At 14 her name appeared in Maurice Summerfield’s book, “The
Classical Guitar, Its Evolution, Players, and Personalities since 1800.”
Kulikova graduated with distinction from the Mozarteum University in
Salzburg, Conservatory of Maastricht (Netherlands), and Gnessins Academy
in Moscow.
Today she tours far afield, with appearances at leading festivals in Europe,
North America, and Asia, and in concert halls such as Amsterdam
Concertgebouw, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Academic Capella in St.
Petersburg, Schloss Mirabell in Salzburg, Palau de la Musica in Valencia,
Musashino Hall in Tokyo, and the Oriental Arts Center in Shanghai. She has
received over 30 awards for her artistry, including first prizes at the highly
prestigious competitions of Michele Pittaluga in Italy, Guitarra Alhambra in
Spain, Forum Gitarre Wien in Austria, and Iserlohn in Germany. She
recorded several solo CDs, some of which are distributed worldwide by the
Naxos label.
Kulikova resides in The Hague,Los Angeles, and Salzburg. She combines her
concert career with a personal dedication to teaching.
Antonio Chen Guang, pianist
In the words of legendary Austrian pianist and scholar Paul Badura Skoda,
Antonio Chen Guang “is a pianist of outstanding talent, with a fine musical
sense and extraordinary technical capacity. In my opinion, he will be able to
continue the tradition of our great music.” Winner of the first Olga Kern
International Piano Competition in November 2016, the Scriabin Prize, and
the Rome Prize, as well as numerous other internationally renowned
competitions, the 24-year-old pianist combines his extraordinary technical
capacity with a profound and mature musical sensibility and an exceptional
on-stage charisma. Numerous concert associations of Europe, America, and
Asia have hosted him both in recitals and with orchestras, performing
programs ranging from William Byrd to György Ligeti and other modern-day
composers. He has performed in China, Italy, Germany, Netherlands,
Canada, and the United States. He has appeared with Orchestra Filarmonica
della Fenice in Venice, Nordwest Deutsche Philharmonie, Wuppertaler
Sinfonieorchester, Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra, and New Mexico
Philharmonic, among others.
Born into a family of musicians, at the age of 11 he moved to Beijing to study
in the Central Conservatory. In 2012, he received his pre-college diploma at
The Juilliard School of New York and in 2015 the diploma at the Accademia
Pianistica Internazionale di Imola, where he studied with Vladimir
Ashkenazy as the youngest graduate in the academy’s history. He currently
lives in Vienna, and continues his studies at the University of Music and
Performing Arts. Among his teachers are: Zhao Pingguo, Matti Raekallio,
Paul Badura-Skoda, Leonid Margarius, and the late Antonio Mormone. As
this program book was going to press, Chen’s first recording for the
Steinway & Sons label was slated to be released this year with works by
Bach, Berg, and Brahms.
The Anderson Trio
”Virtuosos on clarinet and saxophone” (New York Times), brothers Peter
and Will Anderson are making a name for themselves with their unique
renditions of classic jazz songs and innovative original music. They hail
from Washington, D.C. but moved to New York City to attend Juilliard. The
brothers have performed with the Jimmy Heath Big Band, Lincoln Center
Jazz Orchestra, Village Vanguard Orchestra, Cecile McLorin Salvant,
Paquito D’Rivera, Kenny Barron, Bob Wilber, and Albert “Tootie” Heath;
they have appeared on Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion and are
featured on the 2014 Grammy-winning soundtrack from HBO's Boardwalk
Empire with Vince Giordano's Nighthawks. Headlining at the Blue Note,
Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, and New Orleans Jazz Festival
stand out among many performances in the United States and Japan. Their
debut release Correspondence features Kenny Barron and was listed in
Vanity Fair alongside Miles Davis in Four New Releases to Make You Love
Jazz. The Washington Post called their music “imaginatively unfolding in
ways that consistently bring a fresh perspective to classic jazz.”
They are joined by guitarist Alex Wintz, who has performed at major
festivals in Europe, Asia, and South America, including Monterrey,
Montreal, Montreux, Rochester, and the Newport Jazz Festival. Wintz was
born in California, was raised in New Jersey, and graduated Summa Cum
Laude from the Berklee College of Music in May 2010. He has already
appeared on over two dozen recordings. Current regular groups and
collaborators include Etiene Charles and Creole Soul, Ben Williams and
Sound Effect, Roxy Coss Quintet, Lucas Pino Nonet, Nick Finzer Sextet, and
Dave Baron Quintet.
