The Brand Associates Music Series for fall 2023 will feature three concerts by virtuosos from Southern California performing chamber music repertoire favorites and new music by living composers. The concerts will be on Thursday nights at 7 p.m. in the Brand Library Recital Hall. The series is sponsored by the Brand Associates. The performances are free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
- Oct. 5, 7 p.m.: ACE Trio consists of flutist Shannon Canchola, clarinetist Micah Wright and pianist Leon Thomasian. Continually pushing at the edges of what it means to be a contemporary chamber ensemble, ACE Trio performs their own innovative arrangements and accessible contemporary music by living composers from around the world. The trio has won many awards and performed in concerts throughout Southern California. At Brand, ACE Trio will be performing music of Howard Blake, Herman Beeftink, Valerie Coleman, Kevin Day, Paul Schoenfeld and Helen Stowasser.
- Oct. 19, 7 p.m.: Ensemble Flame is an Early Music ensemble including Eric Tinkerhess playing viola da gamba, Mana Tinkerhess playing triple harp and Robert Wang performing on the theorbo. Ensemble Flame is composed of instruments that were at the heart of the king’s court in France in the 17th and 18th centuries. Dedicated especially to French music, Ensemble Flame transmits the instruments’ warmth by imagining the music as a poem, appeasing our wavering spirits invaded by the passions of the soul.
- Nov. 9, 7 p.m.: Violist Daniel Miles and pianist Cameron Akioka will be performing music of Brahms, York Bowen, Florence Price and William Grant Still. Miles is a graduate of Oberlin Conservatory and a grad student at USC and most recently won the 2023 Beverly Hills Auditions. Akioka is a graduate of Rice University and a grad student at USC and won both the silver medal and audience favorite award at the 2022 Seattle International Piano Competition.
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First published in the September 30 print issue of the Glendale News-Press.
