Advanced music majors and minors selected by the faculty perform selections from their solo repertoires in this honorary concert.

UP CLOSE AND CLASSICAL Presents Mozart and Grieg String Quartets! ... Limor Toren and Jackson Snead, violins, Nicholaus Yee, viola and Alicja Blanquart, cello will play two string quartets: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's quartet #17 "The Hunt" in B-flat major, and … Read More

UP CLOSE AND CLASSICAL Presents Mozart and Grieg String Quartets! ... Limor Toren and Jackson Snead, violins, Nicholaus Yee, viola and Alicja Blanquart, cello will play two string quartets: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's quartet #17 "The Hunt" in B-flat major, and … Read More

Baroque Sinfonia ... Founded in 1986 by James Tyler, USC Thornton Baroque Sinfonia is an ensemble of period instruments and voices specializing in music from the late 16th through the mid-18th centuries.

🎶✨ For my last performance of 2024, I’m thrilled to announce a very special concert on December 2nd at Mezo Records in Irvine, CA! 🎶✨ It’s going to be an unforgettable night, and I’m especially excited to share the stage … Read More

Grammy-nominated pianist Andrius Žlabys will perform a varied program of works by J.S. Bach and César Franck and his own composition Echoes of Light, an homage to Mozart. Žlabys states, “At the center of the piece, there are two fragments … Read More

Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano in G minor, Opus 63................................Carl Maria von Weber I. Allegro moderato Monika Curlin, flute Kim Ruys de Perez, cello Anna Ching, piano II The Seasons Opus 37a ...Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Troika Christmas Agatha Hou, … Read More

Intimate Schoenberg SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4, for string sextet Intermission SCHOENBERG String Quartet No. 1 From Post-Romanticism to the emancipation from tonality, Schoenberg’s brilliance shines through these smaller works. Experience big performances on a more intimate scale when musicians … Read More

Sakura Tsai - violin and Natalia Hudson - piano ... Edvard Grieg (Norwegian, 1843-1907) Sonata No. 2 for Piano and Violin in G Major, Op. 13 I. Lento doloroso - Allegro vivace II. Allegretto tranquillo III. Allegro animato Germaine Tailleferre … Read More

Barbara Hannigan soprano, Bertrand Chamayou piano ... “The intrepid Canadian soprano has emerged over the last half decade as one of the most vital and original musicians of her generation.” — The New Yorker   MESSIAEN Chants de terre et … Read More

This year marks the return of a beloved Music Guild holiday tradition – the combined forces of the Chamber Orchestra and Choir and Soloists of St. Matthew’s Parish presenting baroque favorites of the season. After Henry Purcell’s buoyant The Gordian … Read More