Chamber Music Society's Summer Evenings Outdoors - Upcoming Concerts 

Hosted by Elliott Forrest
Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center
June 2 - July 10

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Part of Lincoln Center's Restart Stages

Wednesday, June 2, 2021, 7:30 pm
Beethoven and Saint-Saëns
The piano trio, along with the string quartet, is perhaps the most popular form of chamber music, and the interest in this form spanned centuries and cultures. In this concert we will encounter two staples of the piano trio repertoire, the first by Beethoven (his first published work) and the second, the early, atmospheric work by Camille Saint-Saëns, also his Trio No. 1.  

ANNE-MARIE MCDERMOTT, Piano
CHAD HOOPES, Violin
DMITRI ATAPINE, Cello

Beethoven Trio in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 1, No. 1 (1793)
McDermott, Hoopes, Atapine

Saint-Saëns Trio No 1 in F major for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op 18 (1864)
McDermott, Hoopes, Atapine

Saturday, June 26, 2021, 7:30 pm
Brahms
There is no music served up on the concert stage that is more meat-and-potatoes than Brahms. CMS is delighted to present an all-Brahms evening of chamber music that displays all the master’s craft and indomitable strength, allowing our musicians to revel in its sonic and melodic riches. 

MICHAEL BROWN, Piano
GILLES VONSATTEL, Piano
IDA KAVAFIAN, Violin
MATTHEW LIPMAN, Viola
PAUL WATKINS, Cello

Brahms Sonata No. 2 in F major for Cello and Piano, Op. 99 (1886)
Watkins, Brown 

Brahms Quartet No. 1 in G minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 25 (1860-61)
Vonsattel, Kavafian, Lipman, Watkins

Wednesday, July 7, 2021, 7:30 pm
Beethoven and Dvořák
The art of chamber music is multi-faceted, with composers using their creative forces to constantly re-imagine the myriad possibilities offered by intimate ensembles. From Beethoven’s early piano quartet, a model of classical elegance and efficiency, we will quickly move to Dvořák in a large-scale work which, with the unusual addition of a double bass, is richly orchestral in timbre.  

SHAI WOSNER, Piano
CHAD HOOPES, Violin
KRISTIN LEE, Violin
TIEN-HSIN CINDY WU, Viola
DAVID REQUIRO, Cello
XAVIER FOLEY, Double Bass

Beethoven Quartet in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 16 (1796)
Wosner, Hoopes, Wu, Requiro

Dvořák
Quintet in G major for Two Violins, Viola, Cello, and Bass, Op. 77 (1875)
Lee, Hoopes, Wu, Requiro, Foley

Saturday, July 10, 2021, 7:30 pm
Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Schumann
Works by three masters combine to illustrate the endless and delightful diversity of chamber music. From the “father of the piano trio” Joseph Haydn we hear one of his most sublime examples; from the young genius Mendelssohn a riveting violin sonata; and from history’s most emotional composer, Robert Schumann, the first Romantic era piano quartet that set the stage for Brahms and beyond.  

ORION WEISS, Piano
PAUL HUANG, Violin
MATTHEW LIPMAN, Viola
JAN VOGLER, Cello

Haydn Trio in E minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Hob. XV:12 (1789)
Weiss, Huang, Vogler

Mendelssohn Sonata in F major for Violin and Piano (rev. Menuhin) (1838, rev. 1953)
Huang, Weiss

Schumann Quartet in E-flat major for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 47 (1842)
Weiss, Huang, Lipman, Vogler

About the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS)
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) is one of eleven constituents of the largest performing arts complex in the world, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which includes the New York Philharmonic, New York City Ballet, Lincoln Center Theater, and The Metropolitan Opera. Through its many performance, education, recording, and broadcast activities, it brings the experience of great chamber music to more people than any other organization of its kind. Under the artistic leadership of David Finckel and Wu Han, CMS presents a wide variety of concert series and educational events for listeners of all ages, appealing to both connoisseurs and newcomers. The performing artists constitute a revolving multi-generational and international roster of the world’s finest chamber musicians, enabling CMS to present chamber music of every instrumentation, style, and historical period. CMS’s incomparable digital presence, which regularly enables CMS to reach hundreds of thousands of listeners around the globe annually, includes: A growing number of live-streamed programs; more than 750 hours of performance and education videos free to the public on its website; a 52-week public radio series across the US; radio programming in Taiwan and mainland China; appearances on American Public Media; the new monthly program “In Concert with CMS” on the ALL ARTS broadcast channel; and performances featured on Medici.tv, Tencent, and SiriusXM’s Symphony Hall channel.