Charles Noble, violist

Quick update: I’m playing the Brahms songs, Op. 91 for mezzo-soprano, viola and piano along with soprano Jennifer Gill and pianist Janet Coleman.  The recital will take place Wednesday, March 7 @ 7:30 p.m. at the Old Church in Portland.  Admission is $10.  Hope you can make it!

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.

Here I am (lower left corner) with Itzhak Perlman conducting Saturday night - what fun!

Hi there - we’re getting going on new stuff for 2007, and here is the first result for our efforts. We’ll be playing a concert (a short 1 hour concert) in the lobby of the new OHSU building (at the bottom of the famous ‘tram’) in the South Waterfront district on Wednesday, March 14th at 7:00 p.m.

We’ll be presenting the Debussy quartet and Beethoven’s Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 18 no. 6.

It is part of a project to present classical music in unconventional settings for people that aren’t normally concertgoers. As soon as I get word of a performance time, I’ll post an update.