Corner of Perkins and Dora streets
Ukiah-based cellist
Joel Cohen has brought together some of the most talented musicians
in northern California to play a unique group of chamber music
classics.
Joel Cohen has
played with orchestras around the world, including the Vienna Chamber
Orchestra and the Boston Symphony. He will be joined by violinist
Roy Malan, who is the concertmaster of the San Francisco Ballet and
founder and director of the Telluride Chamber Music Series; violinist
Philip Santos, who performs with numerous chamber music groups
throughout the Bay area and is the concertmaster for the Fremont
Symphony and violist Elizabeth Prior who is the principal violist for
the Santa Rosa symphony and also plays with the San Francisco Ballet
and the San Francisco Opera orchestra. Rounding out the group will
be Ukiah resident Elena Casanova who has performed with the Ukiah
Symphony and as a solo artist at numerous area concerts.
The program will
include the Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major by Johannes Brahms,
the greatest classicist of the Romantic century. It will be followed
by a Serenade for String Trio by Erno von Dohnanyi. One the Hungary’s
talented 20th century composers, his music follows in the
tradition of the classic German composers. Rounding out the program
will be The Piano Quintet in A Minor by Edward Elgar, England’s
great Romantic composer.
Tickets for the concert are $25 for adults $10 for
students. They can be purchased at Mendocino Book Co, at
brownpapertickets.com and at the door. Tickets can be reserved by
calling 467-1341.
