The Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival

Lucinda Carver, Artistic Director
Joseph F. Wheeler Celebration Series

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Nationally-acclaimed for connecting audiences to the music, Centrum Artistic Director for Chamber Music Lucinda Carver has programmed three concerts spanning nearly 350 years of chamber music and featuring some of America’s top chamber musicians, as part of the Port Townsend Chamber Music Festival’s Joseph F. Wheeler Celebration Series.

The acclaimed Arianna String Quartet returns to Centrum after a dozen years.

Arianna String Quartet
2:00pm, April 21, 2013
Joseph F. Wheeler Theater

“Quartet playing doesn’t get much better than this.”  - Chicago Tribune

  • John McGrosso, violin
  • Julia Sakharova, violin
  • Joanna Mendoza, viola
  • Kurt Baldwin, cello

String Quartet No. 1
Osvaldo Lacerda (1927-2011)

  • Preludio e Fuga
  • Aria
  • Dansa

String Quartet in G Major, K 387
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

  • Allegro vivace assai
  • Menuetto: Allegro
  • Andante cantabile
  • Molto allegro

Intermission

Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

  • Allegro
  • Molto Adagio
  • Allegretto
  • Finale: Presto

 

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completed performances

Baroque Offerings
2:00pm, February 24, 2013
Joseph F. Wheeler Theater

The West Coast’s finest Baroque musicians, including Elizabeth Blumenstock, concertmaster of San Francisco’s Philharmonia Baroque, gather at Fort Worden to perform gems of the era.

  • Camille King, soprano; Jennifer Lane, mezzo-soprano
  • Elizabeth Blumenstock, baroque violin
  • William Skeen, baroque cello
  • Susan Feldman, violin
  • Lucinda Carver, harpsichord

Works by Purcell, Blow, Bieber, Schutz, Bonporti, A. Scarlatti and Handel.

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Mozart, Schubert & Brahms
2:00pm, October 28, 2012
Joseph F. Wheeler Theater

Artistic Director Lucinda Carver is joined by the youngest clarinetist ever hired by the Metropolitan Opera, and the violist from the Calder Quartet, who performed to acclaim in 2010, for a delightful opening program.

  • Sean Osborn, clarinet
  • Jonathan Moerschel, viola
  • Lucinda Carver, piano

Schubert: Sonata in A major for Viola and Piano, D. 821 (‘Arpeggione’)

Rebecca Clarke: Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale

Brahms: Sonata No. 1 in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120

Mozart: Trio in E-flat for Clarinet, Viola and Piano, KV 498