Charles Noble, violist

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The Arnica Quartet will be playing at the OHSU auditorium on Wednesday, January 28th at 12 Noon.  The concert will begin at 12:05 and end by about 12:50.

We’ll be doing a short, 50 minute program of two works: Mozart’s Adagio and Fugue, K. 546, and Prokofiev’s String Quartet No. 2 in F major, Op. 92.

Admission is free.

Let’s see, lots of stuff has happened, and some stuff is still to happen, but not many plans are finalized just yet.  Here are some highlights:

• Loud Shirt Quartet – myself and three OSO colleagues played Beethoven 18/6 and Haydn 76/5 at Portland’s Old Church noontime series on November 19th – wearing loud shirts, of course!
• OSO principal violist Joël Belgique and I played George Benjamin’s Viola, viola twice this fall, first on a Free Marz concert in September, and at University of Portland in October.
• The Arnica Quartet plays on the OHSU noon series on January 28th – program TBA
• I, along with violinist Shin-young Kwon, cellist Heather Blackburn, and pianist Cary Lewis will perform on the Camerata Northwest concert in Seattle on March 21st – a program of french music TBA
• The Arnica Quartet plays a concert on the Camerata Musica series in Salem, Oregon on April 26th.

I’ll be giving a joint recital, along with cellist Heather Blackburn, at the Community Music Center (3350 SE Francis Street, Portland) on Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 2:00 p.m.

The program will include works by Shostakovich (Viola Sonata), Schumann (Adagio and Allegro), Piazzolla (Grand Tango), and a world premiere of a new piece – Concilience for viola and piano by Sara Carina Graef.

The esteemed pianist Cary Lewis will lend legitimacy to the whole affair.

Admission is free.

The Arnica Quartet will be playing a Noontime concert at the Oregon Health Sciences University campus on Marquam Hill on Wednesday, March 26th at 12 Noon. The program will be Mozart’s Quartet in G major, K. 156 and the Janacek Quartet No. 2 “Intimate Letters”.

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I’ll also be playing the Mendelssohn Octet with colleagues from the Oregon Symphony (including our new concertmaster Jun Iwasaki) at the Portland Community Music Center on April 4th at 7:30 p.m.

More info here.

I’m also planning a recital for June 1, 2008. The program will include the Shostakovich Sonata and Joan Tower’s Wild Purple for solo viola. The recital will be at 2 p.m. and take place at the Portland Community Music Center. More details to follow.