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Summer Solstice Music Festival
June 20 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm
$20 – $387 PM Pre-concert performance
7:30 PM MAIN CONCERT with all Festival artists
Trinity Lutheran Church [map]
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This program explores the expressive power of chamber music across time, beginning with Giovanni Sollima’s Lamentatio, a visceral solo cello work that channels ancient lament traditions through a contemporary lens.
The mood shifts with Dvořák’s charming Bagatelles, which blend folk-inspired rhythms and melodic warmth. Chopin’s late Polonaise-Fantasie offers a deeply introspective solo piano work, merging national dance form with rhapsodic freedom.
The program culminates in Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E-flat major, a Romantic masterpiece full of lyrical richness, dynamic interplay, and emotional depth.
PROGRAM
Pre-Concert – 7 PM
Antonio Bazzini (1818–1897)
The Dance of the Goblins, op. 25
Elana Zhang, violin
Jaydon Zhuang, piano
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937)
Jeux d’eau
Cynthia Johannessen, piano
Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840)
Variations on a Theme from “Moses in Egypt”
Anthony Yue, cello
Tiana Yue, piano
Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915)
Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp Minor, op. 19
I. Andante
Jaydon Zhuang, piano
Main Concert – 7:30 PM
Giovanni Sollima (b. 1962)
Lamentatio
Alexander Hersh, cello
Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904)
Bagatelles, Op. 47
Allegretto scherzando
Tempo di minuetto. Grazioso
Allegretto scherzando
Canon. Andante con moto
Poco allegro
Jacques Forestier, violin
Michael Bridge, accordion
Alexander Hersh, cello
Patricia Tao, piano
Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)
Polonaise-Fantasie, Op. 61
Angela Cheng, piano
INTERMISSION
Robert Schumann (1810–1856)
Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47
Sostenuto assai – Allegro ma non troppo
Scherzo: Molto vivace – Trio I – Trio II
Andante cantabile
Finale: Vivace
Gabrielle Després, violin
Ryan Davis, viola
Alexander Hersh, cello
Patricia Tao, piano