Fiato Quartet & Camila Lima

Formed in 2008, the Fiato Quartet is a winner of the 2022 Beverly Hills National Auditions. Its members hold degrees in music performance from the University of Southern California, Rice University, Northwestern University, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. They are members of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Pasadena Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, New West Symphony, and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra. As studio musicians in Los Angeles, they also record music for motion pictures, television and records.

Argentinean-American soprano Camila Lima has performed in Europe, Argentina, and the United States, in venues such as the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Carnegie Hall. She has starred in traditional, beloved operas such as Gounod’s Romeo and Juliette and Verdi’s La Traviata, among many others; in contemporary operas such as Spanish composer Juan Colomer’s Dulcinea XL world premiere performed at the Zipper Hall of the Colburn School in Los Angeles. Ms. Lima is a winner of the Beverly Hills National Auditions and alternate First Prize winner of the New York Lyric Opera Competition.

The Program

Florence Price (1887-1953)
African-American Folksongs in Counterpoint
I. Go Down, Moses
II. Somebody’s Knockin’ At Yo’ Do’
III. Little David, Play On Yo’ Harp
IV. Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)
String Quartet No.12 in F Major, Op.96, “American”
I. Allegro ma non troppo
II. Lento
III. Molto vivace
IV. Vivace ma non troppo

Jessie Montgomery (1981– )
“I Want to Go Home”
for soprano and string quartet