Past Programs
The Alcyon Chamber Ensemble’s past programs include the following:
2006-07 SEASON
Happy 250th Birthday, Wolfgang!
Quintet for Horn and Strings
“Kegelstatt”
Johannes Brahms
Songs, with Marion Dry, contralto
String Quartet in B-flat
2007-08 SEASON
Three for Three: Music for Trios
Haydn: Trio in D Major for piano, violin and cello
Michael Weinstein: Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano
Beethoven: Trio in B-flat for piano, clarinet and cello
As American as George Gershwin
A program consisting of music that influenced Gershwin (Rubenstein and Debussy),
and including Rhapsody in Blue, with Leslie Amper, piano
The Viola in Recital, with Nathaniel Farny
Bach: Suite in E-flat for Viola alone
Hindemith: Sonata for Viola and Piano
Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano
2008-09 SEASON
Beethoven: The Early Years
Sonata for Violin and Piano in G Major
Septet in E-flat for Strings and Winds
Bagatelle in A minor for piano
Stravinsky: From Russsia With Love
The Owl and the Pussycat, with Kendra Colton, soprano
L’Histoire du Soldat Suite for Trio
Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet
Septet
2009-10 SEASON
Franz Schubert
Lieder on water themes, with Frank Kelley, tenor
Quintet in A Major “Trout”
Celebrating African-American History Month
Introducing three new works for string quartet by Julius P. Williams, Jonathan Holland and Serena Creary
Works Progress Administration Composers: Music from the 1930s
with Leslie Amper, pianist and speaker
Franz Schubert
Octet for Winds and Strings
2010-2011 SEASON
Schubert: Octet for Winds and Strings
Music of the Last Quarter Century
John Harbison: Twilight Music
Yehudi Wyner: Trio (2009)
Whitman Brown: Music for Seven Instruments (ACE commission)
Michael Gandolfi: Plain Song and Fantastic Dances
Gustavo Brasil: Three Octets (ACE commission)
Krzytof Penderecki: Sextet
Toru Takemitsu: Between Tides
Wolfgang Rihm: Antlitz
(with guest artist Patrick McGuire, cello)
Leslie Amper Solo Recital
Family Concert, celebrating the Year of the Hare (Chinese New year), with guest artist Zhantao Lin, erhu; Shufang Du, violin & piano; Shannon Snapp, cello. Designed for children age 0-8 years.
