Lobero Chamber Music Project Concert Matinee

The new Lobero Theatre Chamber Music Project presents two concerts in one weekend featuring top international performers and ambitious musical selections. This is a new collaboration with Maestro Heiichiro Ohyama who hand-picked the players and curated the programs. Also a celebrated violist, Ohyama performs in the two concerts, which have completely different programs.

The Sunday February 9 concert is at 4 p.m. and features Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor. The Project’s Music Advisor Benjamin Beilman describes it as, “brooding in a wonderful way, and both passionate and thrilling for the audience.” Performing are violinist Ida Kavafian, Beilman’s teacher at the Curtis Institute and former member of the Beaux Arts Trio; Ohyama on viola; celebrated young pianist Louis Schwizgebel; and cellist Clive Greensmith, a 14-year member of the Tokyo String Quartet.

Kavafian and Schwizgebel also play Beethoven’s Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A Major, Op. 12 No. 2. Written early in his career, in 1797 to 1798, this violin sonata shows the young, witty, and musically elegant Beethoven who charmed the aristocracy of Vienna.

 Beilman and Greensmith perform Kodály’s Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7, one of the most demanding works from the string literature. Two instruments are used to sound like everything from Hungarian village string band to a full orchestra.