CAMERATA PACIFICA ANNOUNCES 2008/2009 SEASON
Following international success,
chamber group offers 19th season of west coast concerts
Highlights include world premiere
by Ian Wilson
with soprano Ailish Tynan
Santa Barbara concerts move to Hahn Hall
Hailed as a “very serious group of fine artists” by the Daily
Telegraph of London, Santa Barbara-based chamber ensemble Camerata
Pacifica announced the 2008/2009 season of concerts. With 45 concerts,
Camerata Pacifica will perform in Santa Barbara, San Marino, Los Angeles
and Ventura.
The concert season, which opens on September 12, 2008 and runs through May 19, 2009, showcases the group’s principal piano quartet: Catherine Leonard, violin; Richard Yongjae O’Neill, viola; Ani Aznavoorian, cello; and Warren Jones, piano. These four internationally acclaimed musicians have been brought together by Camerata Pacifica’s artistic director, Adrian Spence, and appear during the season as a quartet and individually.
The four principals will be joined by musicians including soprano Ailish Tynan; Nurit Pacht and Tereza Stanislav, violin; pianist Kevin Fitz-Gerald; clarinetist Bil Jackson and bassoonist John Steinmetz, among others. Camerata Pacifica is also pleased to welcome pianist Anna Polonsky, making her debut with the ensemble in December 2008.
The season begins in Santa Barbara with works by Bach, Haydn and Dvorák. Later programs include works by Schubert, Beethoven and Brahms, and introduce Camerata Pacifica audiences to young composers Huang Ruo and Lera Auerbach. As always, Camerata Pacifica offers variety in its programming, and the season includes works by Prokofiev, Messiaen, Villa-Lobos and Shostakovich as well.
Hahn Hall
Camerata Pacifica is pleased to be moving in to Hahn Hall, the new 300-seat
facility at Music Academy of the West. “This is a wonderful new concert
hall, and the ideal size for chamber music. We are looking forward to
presenting our home concerts in this new venue”, said Adrian Spence.
Camerata Pacifica’s other venues are the Huntington Library in San Marino, Zipper Hall in Los Angeles, and Temple Beth Torah in Ventura.
New Music
Concluding Ian Wilson’s three-year appointment as Principal Composer,
the ensemble presents the last of three commissions. As yet untitled,
the work is a setting of a Seamus Heaney poem, for soprano, flute,
violin, viola, cello and piano. Featuring the soprano Ailish Tynan,
the piece will be premiered in April 2009.
Also on the season is a reprise of Wilson’s Heft, for flute and piano, performed in November 2008 by Adrian Spence and Kevin Fitz-Gerald, as well as works by young composers Lera Auerbach and Huang Ruo.
