The Music Series features virtuosos from Southern California performing repertoire favorites and music by living composers. The concert will take place in the Brand Library Recital Hall. Admission is free and seating is limited.
Sponsored by the Brand Associates. Please note: Music Series concerts will be held on Saturday afternoons.
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Date: Saturday, September 14, 2024
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Brand Library Recital Hall
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Andrew Harrison, Frances Cisneros, Isaac Lopez, Robert Alexander - saxophones
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Celebrated for their unique approach and virtuosic performances, TC4 has delighted audiences in the greater Los Angeles area, introducing audiences the exciting music of the saxophone quartet. TC4 uses their unique style to create a fresh environment for classical music; to reflect our lived experience and mixed culture, blending the known with the unknown. To date, TC4 has presented hundreds of concerts throughout the US, and have recently begun performing with symphonic organizations, including the South Valley Symphony, premiering a new Saxophone Quartet Concerto by Robert Alexander, and upcoming performances with the Sonoma State Symphonic Winds, performing Second Nature by Viet Cuong. They have championed the music of living composers, including Andrew Sigler, Joel Love, Nina Shekhar, and Michael Markowski, and were recently featured on Vox Novus' Fifteen Minutes of Fame in New York City.
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Program:
Music by Michael Markowski, Avner Dorman, Gaia Flagello, Chris Evan Hass and miniatures from their Fifteen Minutes of Fame call for scores.
TC4 Saxophone Quartet
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Date: Saturday, October 12, 2024
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Brand Library Recital Hall
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Sheng-Ching Hsu - violin & Xiao Chen - piano
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A native of Taiwan, Sheng-Ching Hsu is a member of Delirium Musicum, California Symphony and New West Symphony, and serves as guest principal 2nd violin of St. Matthew's Chamber Orchestra. She also serves as a faculty at CSULB and Colburn Community School of Performing Arts. A firm believer in the power of music, Hsu created “S-C Sidewalk Performance,” where she brought weekly live music to the street corners of West LA during the pandemic, and was featured on KTTV Fox 11 Los Angeles and EliteGen Magazine in Toronto, Canada. Her story was also made into a documentary by “Aria’s Lens” in China.
Award-winning pianist Dr. Xiao Chen is actively engaged as both a soloist and chamber musician throughout the U.S., China, and Europe. Dr. Chen is currently on faculty at Mount Saint Mary’s University, having served as Lecturer in Piano Performance at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2019. She is the music director of Irvine Conservatory of Music, as well as the artistic director of Irvine Conservatory International Music Competition. Her articles about music and teaching have been published in the U.S. and China. She has also collaborated with Bard Conservatory US-China Music Institute and created a new piano program for young students in China.
​Program: Her Voices: Music by Female Composers
Music by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh, Clara Schumann, Amy Beach, Hung-Ping Chang, Marjorie Merryman, Kala Ramnath, Michiru Oshima and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.
Sheng-Ching Hsu & Xiao Chen
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Date: Saturday, November 23, 2024
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Brand Library Recital Hall
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Susan Greenberg - flute; Jon Lee Keenan - tenor; Kenton Youngstrom - guitar
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Flutist Susan Greenberg enjoys a versatile career as soloist, chamber musician, symphony player, and recording artist. Greenberg is presently the flute professor at Pepperdine University and Santa Monica College. She is the Co-Artistic Director of Chamber Music Palisades and has received the "Most Valuable Player" award on the flute from the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences. Greenberg has recorded for over 500 motion pictures and many TV television shows, including the Simpsons for 25 years.
Jon Lee Keenan grew up exposed to a wide variety of music ranging from rock-n-roll and bluegrass to classical and jazz in his hometown of Las Vegas, NV. Since joining with the Los Angeles Master Chorale in 2007, Keenan has appeared as a featured soloist in each season: recent highlights include Magnus Lindberg's Graffiti with Esa Pekka Solonen the Los Angeles Philharmonic and singing the role of Evangelist in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. When Keenan is not singing he can be found playing jazz bass with “Citizen Kitten.”
Kenton Youngstrom is active as a producer, composer, arranger, recording artist and educator. His eclectic career has taken him around the world, appearing in concerts in Europe, the Far East, Canada, Mexico, and throughout the US. His most recent release, “Voices of the Collection, Vols. 1&2,” was recorded for the Second Edition of Sheldon Urlik’s book, A Collection of Fine Spanish Guitars From Torres to the Present (Sunny Knoll Publishing). Youngstrom joined the faculty of the Colburn School of Performing Arts in 1979.
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Program:
Music by Bach, Mozart, Bellini, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Villa-Lobos, Falla, Copland and Ahlert