Accordo
Monday, February 6, 2012, 7:30 pm
Monday, March 12, 2012, 7:30 pm
Monday, May 14, 2012, 7:30 pm
Christ Church Lutheran, Minneapolis
Tickets $20
Senior Discount $17
Student Discount $12
Monday, February 6, 2012, 7:30pm
Romantic String Sextets
Strauss: Capriccio, Op. 85
Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night), Op. 4
Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence in d minor, Op. 70
with Rebecca Albers, viola
Monday, March 12, 2012, 7:30pm
Bacchanalia
Beethoven: String Trio in G Major
Jeffery Cotton: Meditation, Rhapsody & Bacchanal for Violin & Percussion (2004)
Dvorak: String Quartet in C Major, Op. 61
with Michael Israelievitch, percussion
Monday, May 14, 2012, 7:30pm
Brahms/Haydn Variations
Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 no. 5
Dahl: Concerto a Tre
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
with Burt Hara, clarinet
Accordo, established in 2009, is a Minnesota-based chamber group made up of some of the very best instrumentalists in the country, eager to share their love of classical and contemporary chamber music in intimate and unique performance spaces. Its 2011/12 season will be presented by Kate Nordstrum Projects, Northrop Concerts & Lectures and The Schubert Club at the National Historic Landmark Christ Church Lutheran, one of the Twin Cities' great architectural treasures designed by the esteemed architect Eliel Saarinen and his son Eero Saarinen.
Accordo includes SPCO principal players Steve Copes, Ruggero Allifranchini, Maiya Papach, and Ron Thomas and Minnesota Orchestra principal cellist Tony Ross. This season also includes guest artists Rebecca Albers, Michael Israelievitch and Burt Hara.