By SARAH SHMERLING | Editor-in-Chief
Chamber Music Palisades will conclude its 2022-23 season with a concert on Wednesday, April 19, beginning at 8 p.m. in the sanctuary at St. Matthew’s Parish.
CMP’s 26th season has featured “exciting programming, outstanding musicians, world premieres, outreach programs for Los Angeles local schools and scholarships for talented young musicians,” according to the program’s website.
The concert will feature duo pianists Bernadene Blaha and Kevin Fitz-Gerald, who CMP described in a press release as “highly acclaimed international performers who give masterclasses all over Europe and have been piano professors at USC for many years.”
The two will join a “first class woodwind quartet” with performers from Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Opera and Santa Monica Symphony, including Jennifer Johnson Cullinan (oboe), Michele Zukovsky (clarinet), Duncan Massey (bassoon), Amy Jo Rhine (horn) and Susan Greenberg (flute and CMP artistic director).
“The varied program will include woodwind quintets, piano four hands, and several wind and piano sextets,” CMP shared. “The music will range from works of Rossini, Ibert and Brahms, to piano and wind sextets by lesser-known composers Ferranc (contemporary of Brahms) and Smit.”
KUSC host and longtime CMP associate Alan Chapman will provide program notes for the concert. The concert will be sponsored in part by the Sidney Stern Memorial Trust, according to the CMP website.
Previous concerts in the season included QUADRE on September 21, 2022; a world premiere of a new piece on January 18; and Pacific Trio on March 1.
Tickets for the April 19 concert are available for $35 at cmpalisades.org or at the door. CMP offers free admission for full-time students. The concert will take place at 1031 Bienveneda Avenue.
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