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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 just played the Brahms Piano Quintet today at noon with fellow Arnicans and pianist Cary Lewis. It was fun, but a bit nerve-wracking since it had been since September or so that I’d played outside the orchestra. Much too long – I have to make more of a habit of it, it makes performing so much more enjoyable if I have my “sea legs”.

What’s next? I’m working on Daniel Ott’s Parting for solo viola, as well as Dorothy Chang’s Streams, and will finally premiere Sara Carina Graef’s viola/piano piece this spring as well (I promise!). Also, Joan Tower’s Wild Purple and the Shostakovich Sonata for the Max Aronoff Viola Institute concert series this June.

My recital (which is more of a “and friends” concert) will take place on Saturday, April 7th at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Music Center (3350 SE Francis St, Portland, 97202).

Admission will be by donation to benefit the Community Music Center.

Without further ado, here are my guest artists and what we’ll be playing:

David Buck, flute
Shin-young Kwon, violin
Karen Wagner, oboe
Cary Lewis, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven Serenade, op. 25 for flute, violin and viola
Henri Vieuxtemps Capriccio, op. posth. for solo viola
Charles Martin Loeffler – Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola and piano
Zoltan Kodaly – Adagio for viola and piano
Henri Vieuxtemps – Elegy, op. 30 for viola and piano

The series at the south waterfront is called MarchMusic – and you can find more details in the coming weeks by visiting this website: http://www.marchmusic.info.  The Arnica Quartet will be playing quartets of Beethoven and Debussy on March 14th.

I’ve redone the sound clips page – now there are convenient pop-up windows for the embedded streaming Quicktime files. It sounds kind of scary, but it’s not – just have Quicktime 7 installed, and you’re on your way!

There is not a lot of content on the page at the moment, but you can find performances  of the Bruch Romance for viola and orchestra from 2000 as well as the U.S. premiere of Dorothy Chang’s Streams for solo viola from June 2006.

You can find the clips page here.