Bernadene Blaha and Kevin Fitz-Gerald. will play Rachmaninoff Six Pieces for four-hand piano.
Chamber Music Palisades will present an eclectic evening of chamber music at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 30, in the sanctuary of the First United Methodist Church of Santa Monica,1008 11th Street.
It will be an evening of French composers, including music by Ibert, Ravel, Saint-Saens, and Poulenc. Composer, lyricist, pianist, radio producer and host of Classical KUSC, Los Angeles, Alan Chapman will serve as program host.
This spectacular concert will also include a world premiere of “Cross Talk” by American composer Adrienne Albert. The piece is written for flute, clarinet, and piano.
Also on the program is Gustav Holst’s “Jupiter” from The Planets for wind quintet and piano.
Rachmaninoff Six Pieces for four-hand piano, will be performed by Bernadene Blaha and Kevin Fitz-Gerald.
Blaha has performed in North America, Europe Australia, Asia and Mexico and has been a member of the Keyboard Faculty at the Thorton School of Music, University of Southern California since 1993, where she is Professor of Piano Performance.
Fitz-Gerald, a professor of Keyboard Studies at the USC Thorton School of Music, is the winner of several major competitions, grants, scholarships, and awards, he enjoys an international reputation as teacher presenting master classes and lecture-symposiums throughout the world.
Susan Greenberg, formerly LA Chamber Orchestra and now Santa Monica Symphony, is flutist and co-founder/artistic director of Chamber Music Palisades. The Los Angeles Times has described her playing as “brilliant,” “elegant” and “supple,” and has lauded her “panache” and “musical projection.”
Susan Greenberg is the co-founder of Chamber Music Palisades and the flutist.
Dr. Jonathan Davis (oboe) plays regularly with orchestras throughout Southern California, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Pacific Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and the San Diego Symphony.
Bassoonist Judith Farmer, is currently a member of the Pasadena Symphony and recently retired from Los Angeles Opera Orchestra. A GRAMMY® nominee, she is former principal bassoonist of the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Camerata Academica Salzburg.
Clarinetist is Sergio Coelho, who has collaborated with orchestras throughout the world such as, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra. He also collaborated with Mason Home Concerts, Chamber Music Palisades, South Bay Chamber Music Society, Sunset ChamberFest, National Repertory Orchestra Festival, Camerata Pacifica, Ojai Music Festival and Mainly Mozart.
Horn player Amy Jo Rhineon moved to Southern California in 2012. Prior to that she spent nine years in St. Louis, Missouri, where she held adjunct teaching positions at Webster and Mayrville Universities and performed regularly with the St. Louis Symphony. From 1996-2001, Rhine was the Assistant Professor of Horn at Wichita State University and Principal Horn with the Wichita Symphony Orchestra.
Tickets will be available for $35 online at cmpalisades.org or at the door the evening of the concert at First United Methodist Church of Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA 90403. Free parking is available under the building across the street, with access from 11th St. CMP offers free admission for full-time students with an ID.
The concert is sponsored in part by the Mu Phi Epsilon James and Lola Faust Scholarship.