Sundays at Three

Traverse City's Milliken Auditorium at the Dennos Museum Center resonates with masterful performances by noted musicians and chamber ensembles.

Milliken Auditorium

Artists and programs subject to change.

Jeweled Sounds of Fall

Regional artists join forces to perform two of the most beloved works in D Major ever written for string quartet. Felix Mendelssohn composed his Quartet No. 3, Op. 44 for the Crown Prince Gustav of Sweden and Alexander Borodin based his Quartet No. 2, containing the lyrical and popular Nocturne, on those of Mendelssohn in thematic structure and texture.

A rich palette of color and sound comes to life with performers Annie Chalex Boyle, violin, Gabriel Bolkosky violin, David Holland, viola and Debra Fayroian, cello in these beautiful string quartet classics!

Concert at 3:00 PM
November 2, 2008
Prima Trio

Three friends—pianist Anastasia Dedik (Russia), clarinetist Boris Allakhverdyan (Armenia/Russia) and violinist-violist David Bogorad (Denmark)—came together while students at the Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio to create the Prima Trio. They soon triumphed at the 2007 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, winning the coveted Grand Prize as well as the Gold Medal in the Senior Division.

Their repertoire ranges from beloved standards such as Mozart´s Kegelstatt Trio to exotic gems of Aram Khatchaturian´s soulful Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano. The grand finale of their program includes Serenade for Three by American composer Peter Schickele (aka P.D.Q. Bach)—its uproarious, hoedown like finale never fails to draw a “laughing ovation”! Chamber Music North is proud to receive this young and very accomplished ensemble.

Concert at 3:00 PM
January 11, 2009
In Recital ~ Winston Choi, pianist

One of today’s most dynamic young concert artists, Canadian pianist Winston Choi is acclaimed for bringing a fresh approach and masterful understanding to his performances. Choi performs a program of elegance and beauty including Frédéric Chopin’s Polonaise-Fantasy, Claude Debussy’s Images and Maurice Ravel’s Gaspard de la nuit.

Winner of the 2002 Orléans Concours International and Laureate of the 2003 Honens International Piano Competition, Winston Choi has appeared in recital at the National Arts Centre of Canada, the Glenn Gould Studio (Toronto), Carnegie-Weill Recital Hall (New York), Merkin Recital Hall, Kennedy Center (Washington D.C) and the Kravis Center in Florida. Frequently in demand throughout his native Canada, he has been awarded numerous grants from the Canada Council for the Arts.

winstonchoi.com

Concert at 3:00 PM
February 22, 2009
Euclid Quartet

Praised by the Denver Post for their “electric” performances, the Euclid Quartet is a dynamic ensemble known for performances filled with personality and vibrant color. At appearances ranging from Carnegie Hall to school classrooms to radio and television broadcasts, this quartet has received high acclaim across the country. Recipients of prizes at major competitions around the world, Euclid holds the prestigious Quartet Residency at Indiana University South Bend.

Euclid’s program is classic and stalwart featuring Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 10 in E flat Major "Harp, Franz Schubert’s C Major Quintet and String Quartet No.1 Industrial Night Music by Australian composer Matthew Hindson; a hardy program for the winter time lull.

euclidquartet.net 

Concert at 3:00 PM
May 10, 2009
The Chicago String Quartet

The quartet-in-residence of the acclaimed Chicago Chamber Musicians, the Chicago String Quartet is known for passionate performances of daunting masterpieces from the classical, romantic and modern eras. Combining "experience with understated virtuosity" (Chicago Tribune), the CSQ is that rare ensemble that can play as idiomatically and convincingly in one style of music as the next, shifting interpretive gears with an astounding nimbleness and precision.

Hear this remarkable quartet in a diverse program featuring George Crumb’s haunting Black Angels and the profoundly beautiful String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Opus 131 by Ludwig van Beethoven. This work was Beethoven's favorite from his late quartets and goes beyond anything he had previously written. It is said that upon listening to a performance of this quartet, Schubert remarked, “After this, what is left for us to write?”

Concert at 3:00 PM CONCERT CANCELLED
June 28, 2009
Siegfried Idyll

Richard Wagner's symphonic poem the Siegfried Idyll, is one of his few non-operatic works. Wagner composed it as a birthday present to his second wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried in 1869. It was first performed on the morning of Christmas Eve (Cosima's birthday) in 1870 by a small ensemble on the stairs of their villa at Tribschen (today part of Lucerne) Switzerland; Cosima awoke to its opening melody.

Remarkable musicians from Traverse City, Chicago, Grand Rapids and Detroit team up to render one of the most exquisite works written as a gift of love. It is this chamber version these performers bring to Chamber Music North’s audiences. Also on the program is featured soprano soloist Nicole Philibosian, premiering and performing her own arrangement of the extraordinary Liebestod or “Love-Death” from the final scene of Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde. 

Varied chamber works for strings and winds round out a truly rich and rewarding concert that is not to be missed!

Violins
Annie Chalex Boyle, Interlochen Center Arts
Minghuan Xu, Grand Valley State
Viola
Eva Stern, Eastern Michigan University
Violoncello
Debra Fayroian, Chamber Music North Director
Contrabass
Craig Rifel, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Flute
Nancy Stagnitta, Interlochen Center Arts
Oboe
Sarah Bowman, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Clarinets
Susan Warner, Chicago Lyric Opera
Jeanmarie Riccobono, Traverse Symphony Orchestra
Bassoon
Martha Bowman, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra
French Horns
David Griffin, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Gene Berger, Interlochen Center Arts
Trumpet
Michael Bowman, Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra
Soprano
Nicole Philibosian, International Artist