Season 12, 2016-2017

DILIJAN CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

Season 12, 2016-2017

Concert 1

Oct. 16, 2016, 3:00 PM

“Royal”

Beethoven – Sonata No. 8, Op. 30
Haydn – “Emperor” Quartet, Op. 76, no. 3
D. Crockett – “Cortege” – String Quartet No. 3 – World Premiere
Beethoven – “Archduke” Trio, Op. 97

Martin Beaver, Movses Pogossian, Che-Yen (Brian) Chen, Jonathan Karoly, Gavin Martin 

Concert 2

Dec. 18, 2016, 3:00 PM

“Holy”

Bach – Chaconne for solo violin
Komitas – Selected Songs
Bach – Partita no. 2 for solo violin, BWV 1004, with choir (Helga Thoene version)

Movses Pogossian, Shoushik Barsoumian, Steven Vanhauwaert, Lark Choir 

Concert 3

Jan. 15, 2017, 3:00 PM

“Passion”

Ashot Kartalyan – Cypresses: A Song Cycle on Sonnets by Indra, for soprano and violin – World Premiere
Ashot Kartalyan – Suite for Saxophone and Percussion (World Premiere of the revised version)
Artashes Kartalyan – A Partridge Abroad – World Premiere for soprano, violin, percussion
Mendelssohn – Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op.

Varty Manouelian, Movses Pogossian, Kuniko Kato, Tony Arnold, Steven Vanhauwaert, Edvard Pogossian, Katisse Buckingham

Concert 4

Feb. 19, 2017, 3:00 PM

“Fantasy”

Debussy – Sonata for Violin and Piano (1917)
Avanesov – Selections from “Feux Follets”
Petrossian – A Fiery Flame, a Flaming Fire, for piano trio – World Premiere
Ravel – String Quartet in F Major (1903)

Movses Pogossian, Varty Manouelian, Carla Maria Rodrigues, Charles Tyler, Daniel Sedgwick

Concert 5

March 19, 2017, 3:00 PM

“Darts”

Shostakovich – Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8
John Ter-Tadevosyan – String Quartet No. 2 – US Premiere
Shostakovich – Piano Quintet, Op. 57

Movses Pogossian, Ambroise Aubrun, Varty Manouelian, Antonio Lysy, Inna Faliks, VEM Quartet 

Concert 6

April 23, 2017, 3:00 PM

“Heart and Soul”

Coletti – “Starlight Journey”- World Premiere of the revised version
Babajanyan – Violin Sonata (1959)
Brahms – String Quartet in A minor, Op. 59 No. 2

Varty Manouelian, Movses Pogossian, Paul Coletti, Clive Greensmith, Daniel Sedgwick