All concerts will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
at Korn Convocation Hall, The Anderson School, UCLA

This festival is made possible by the Henry J. Bruman Trust, by a gift from Wendell E. Jeffrey and
Bernice M. Wenzel, and the support of the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies

—— Admission is free, and no reservations or tickets are required.——

Korn Convocation Hall is in the Anderson complex of UCLA’s north campus.
Parking is available for $7 in Lot 4 (P4 on map)and,
for seniors and holders of disabled parking placards, in lot 5 (P5).

Enter the campus at Westwood Plaza (off Sunset Boulevard)
and inquire at the kiosk (i).

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Thursday, July 15, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

La Camerata

Philip Vaiman, violin
Marissa Steingold, voice
Kenton Youngstrom, guitar
Eric Gaenslen, cello

La Camerata presents music for violin and guitar duo, introducing listeners to the aural delights and nuances of bowed and plucked strings combined. Philip Vaiman is a Russian-born violinist, a graduate of Moscow's Gnessin Music Lyceum and of USC's Thornton School of Music. He performs locally, nationally, and internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. Vocalist Marissa Steingold, a graduate of the New England Conservatory, tours throughout the world singing jazz (including her own compositions), big band, opera, rhythm and blues, Jewish music, Brazilian bossa, and the works of contemporary composers. Her voice has been featured in many major motion pictures and national commercials. Guitarist Kenton Youngstrom, also a graduate of Thornton School of Music performs, teaches, and composes in the Southland. He also records internationally with the Falla Guitar Trio. San Franciscan Eric Gaenslen performs as a recitalist, guest soloist, and chamber musician. He has performed chamber music at Lincoln Center and at many summer festivals, among them Aspen, Evian,
Tanglewood, and Banff.

 

—  Program —

Arcangelo Corelli, Op.1, No. 3
transcribed for violin, voice and guitar

Maurice Ravel, Sonata for Violin and Cello

Franz Schubert, Sonata in A-Minor, D.821 “Arpeggione”
transcribed for violin and guitar

Heitor Villa-Lobos, Prelude No.1 (from Bachiana Brasiliera No. 5)
transcribed for voice, violin, guitar and cello

Monday, July 19, 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Armadillo String Quartet

Barry Socher & Steve Scharf, violins
Raymond Tischer, viola
Armen Ksajikian, cello

The Armadillo String Quartet, a group of outstanding and versatile Los Angeles-area musicians, has devoted more than twenty years to expanding our conceptions of the boundaries that distinguish chamber music from other concert forms. To this end, the group frequently plays in unconventional settings and presents specially commissioned works by contemporary composers, as well as reconfigured older compositions. The Armadillos perform regularly in Southern California under the auspices of the South Bay Chamber Music Society, Chamber Music in Historic Sites, Monday Evening Concerts, Sundays at Four, the Pacific Composers' Forum, and the Bruman Series.


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Barry Socher, Topanga Taponga

Charles Ives, Fugue from Symphony No. 4
arranged by Barry Socher

Charles Ives, Scherzo (Practice for String Quartet in Holding Your Own)

Tan Dun, Eight Colors

Astor Piazzolla, Four, for Tango

Peter Schickele, Quartet No. 4, “Inter-Era Dance Suite”

Monday, July 26, 1:00 p.m.– 2:00 p.m.

I Palpiti Soloists
— presented by —
Young Artists International

Performances by I PALPITI Soloists of Young Artists International are a regular feature on the Bruman Series. Since 1997, YAI has been awarding scholarships for further training and performance to young musicians of widely varying national origins and education, in an effort to embody the universality of the classical music tradition, and to further the careers of the next generation of classical artists. This year, Bruman audiences will hear violinists Carolina Kurkowski-Perez and Isabelle Lambelet, violists Rumen Cvetkov and Fedor Belugin, and cellists Eldar Saparyev and Abraham Feder in a program of music for various instrumental groupings.

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Georg Friederich Händel-Johan (August) Halvorsen, Passacaglia
Isabelle Lambelet, violin
Rumen Cvetkov, viola

Zoltán Kodály, Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7
Isabelle Lambelet, violin
Eldar Saparyev, cello

Johannes Brahms, String Sextet No. 1 in B-flat Major, Op.18
Carolina Kurkowski-Perez, Isabelle Lambelet, violins
Rumen Cvetkov , Fedor Belugin, violas
Eldar Saparayev, Abraham Feder, cellos

Monday, August 2, 1:00 p.m.– 2:00 p.m.

Mládí

Mládí musicians are united by a commitment to the goal of musical collaboration, in which all members act as artistic directors to produce an eclectic, yet satisfying, innovative and elegant collaboration, in music. The result is a self-governing, conductorless orchestra, dedicated to offering intimate, educational performances, eclectic, satisfying, and elegant all at once, of unusual repertoire, old and new. Mládí musicians come from major orchestras in Southern California, among them the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Pasadena Symphony, the Los Angeles Music Center Opera Orchestra, the Santa Barbara Symphony, the San Diego Symphony and the Calico Winds.

For more information about Mládí, please visit the group’s website, http://www.mladichamberorchestra.org.

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Richard Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel, Einmal Anders!
arr. by Franz Hansenohrl
violin, clarinet, horn, bassoon, bass

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Quartet in D Major, K 285
flute, violin, viola, cello

Bohuslav Martinu, Nonet
flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, bass

Thursday, August 5, 1:00 p.m.– 2:00 p.m.

Tamara Chernyak, first violin
Kristine Hedwall, second violin
Minor L. Wetzel, viola
Gloria Lum, cello

Four string players from the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra have joined forces to present this program. Leningrad native Tamara Chernyak emigrated to the U.S. in November 1974, and joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1976. With the Los Angeles Philharmonic she has been featured in Bartók’s First Violin Concerto and in several concertos by Vivaldi. She is actively involved in chamber music performances as founder of the Daria String Quartet and as a member of the Philharmonic New Music Group and the Philharmonic Chamber Music Society. Violinist Kristine Hedwall joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic late in 1990, as a member of the second violin section. She participates regularly in Philharmonic chamber music programs throughout the Southland and also plays with contemporary music ensembles for the Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella Series. Washington state native Minor L. Wetzel, violist, joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the beginning of the 1994–95 season. He performs regularly with the Philharmonic’s Chamber Music Society and with featured ensembles at Green Umbrella Series concerts. Cellist Gloria Lum, a native of Berkeley, California, joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1985. She made her Philharmonic solo debut in 1994, and, during the 1997–98 Philharmonic season, played the U.S. premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Duo Concertante.

—  Program  —

Beethoven String Quartet No. 5, Op. 18 in A-Major

Brahms String Quartet No.1, Op. 51 in C-Minor

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