Chamber Music Palisades Enters 28th Season of Concerts

By LILY TINOCO | Assistant Editor 

Chamber Music Palisades has begun its 28th season of concerts, with the next to take place on the evening of Wednesday, October 16, at 8 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Parish.

The concert will feature guitarist Kenton Youngstorm, faculty at Colburn Community School, performing solo works by Heitor Villa-Lobos. He will be joined by Susan Greenberg, principal flute at Santa Monica Symphony and long-time former flutist of Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, in a duet by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

The program will also include a special collection of “enchanting” songs by George Frideric Handel, Maurice Ravel, Hector Berlioz and Aaron Copland, featuring soprano Elissa Johnston and tenor Jon Lee Keenan—both soloists with Los Angeles Master Chorale. The vocal artists are joined by Grant Gershon on the piano—the artistic director and conductor of the group.

KUSC host and longtime Chamber Music Palisades associate Alan Chapman will host the program and provide program notes.

Chamber Music Palisades’ 28th season will consist of three additional Wednesday evening concerts, which will all take place at 8 p.m. at St. Matthew’s, located at 1031 Bienveneda Avenue.

The next concert of the season will be January 15, 2025, with the Pacific Trio—violinist Roger Wilkie, cellist John Walz and pianist Edie Orloff.

“The program includes a world premiere of Los Angeles-based composer Jonah Sirota’s ‘Quartet’ for flute (Greenberg), oboe (Gigi Brady), the composer on viola and piano (Orloff),” according to a statement. “Also on the program is the ever-popular piano quartet by early Johannes Brahms, and chamber music by two trendsetting women composers, Louise Farrenc and Madeleine Dring.”

The concert on March 19, 2025, will feature the New Hollywood String Quartet—Tereza Stanislav and Rafael Rishik on the violins; Rob Brophy on the viola; and Andrew Shulman on the cello. They will present a program with Turina’s string quartet, written in his teen years and one of Beethoven’s famed Razumovsky string quartets.

“Joined by flutist Susan Greenberg, the quartet will play an arrangement of [Joseph] Haydn’s ‘Symphony No. 101,’ ‘The Clock,’ from the set of 12 final symphonies written during the composer’s visits to London,” the statement continued.

The season will end with a final concert on April 30, described as a “tour de force display of great talents.” The program will feature a “brilliant” woodwind quintet, as well as a “powerhouse piano duo.” It will also include the world premiere of an original trio for flute, clarinet and piano by Los Angeles-based composer, Adrienne Albert.

Tickets for each show will be available for $35 online or at the door at St. Matthew’s. Season passes for all four concerts are available for $120.

For more information, visit cmpalisades.org.