CMP Concert Features Clarinetist, Cellist

For its final concert of the season, Chamber Music Palisades will feature works by Bach, Martinu, Brahms and Saint-Saens to showcase the artistry of guest artists Michele Zukovsky, clarinet, and Antonio Lysy, cello. The concert will be held at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 7 at St. Matthew’s Church, at 1031 Bienveneda. Tickets ($30, free for students) will be available at the door.
A cellist of true international status, Lysy will open the program with J. S. Bach’s Suite in D minor for solo cello. He will then be joined by CMP Artistic Director Susan Greenberg (flutist) and Delores Stevens (pianist) in the Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano by Bohuslav Martinu.
Following intermission, Zukovsky, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s principal clarinetist, will be joined by Stevens in the Sonata in E Major, op. 120 by Johannes Brahms. Zukovsky and Stevens will then join Greenberg for the Tarantella, op. 6 by Camille Saint-Saens.
Zukovsky started playing the clarinet at the age of seven and joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1961 after extensive studies with her father, who was principal clarinet of the Philharmonic at the time. In addition to solo performances with the Philharmonic at the Music Center and Hollywood Bowl, she performs regularly with the orchestra’s Chamber Music Society and the new music group. She has collaborated with the Angeles and St. Petersburg String Quartets, and in New York has appeared with “Concerts at the Y,” Ravinia, Lincoln Center and “Mostly Mozart” ensembles. She is currently on the faculty of USC’s Thornton School of Music.
Literally a “world-class” cellist, Lysy has appeared with many orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of London, Camerata Academica of Salzburg, Israel Sinfonietta and the Montreal Symphonies. In 1989, he founded the annual Incontri in Terra di Siena Chamber Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy, and in 2003 he became a professor at UCLA.
CMP, often described as a unique and extraordinary chamber series, was founded in 1997 by Greenberg and Stevens. In addition to presenting long-established and beloved chamber works, CMP has commissioned and performed 16 new compositions over the years, many coming from local composers.
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