Fortas Chamber Music Concerts: 2009-2010 Season

Upcoming Events

• Australian Chamber Orchestra

  Sep 29, 2009 at 7:30 PM | Buy Now
  The acclaimed Australian Chamber Orchestra, led by Artistic Director Richard Tognetti, performs works by Handel, Bartók, Paganini, Vine, Elgar, and Ravel.

• Australian Chamber Orchestra

  Sep 30, 2009 at 7:30 PM | Buy Now
  Known for energetic performances, the Australian Chamber Orchestra presents an eclectic program with works by Pink Floyd, Shostakovich, and more.

• American Brass Quintet

  Oct 6, 2009 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 8/12/09,
  Celebrating 50 amazing years of performance, the American Brass Quintet continues its crusade as the "high priests of brass" (Newsweek) with a program that includes music written for them by Joan Tower, and more.

• Christopher Taylor, piano

  Oct 14, 2009 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 8/12/09,
  Renowned pianist Christopher Taylor returns to play Bach's Goldberg Variations on a special instrument that combines the harpsichord's ability to double its keyboard with the sonority of a modern Steinway.

• Zukerman ChamberPlayers

  Nov 17, 2009 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 8/12/09,
  Led by the great Pinchas Zukerman, the Zukerman ChamberPlayers return accompanied by Canadian pianist Angela Cheng in a program that includes a beloved Brahms Piano Quartet and the "FAE" violin and piano sonata composed by Schumann, Brahms, and Dietrich.

• Vogler String Quartet

  Nov 19, 2009 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 8/12/09,
  "Delivering everything we can ask of chamber music" (The Washington Post), Berlin's Vogler String Quartet celebrates 25 years with a program centered around a lost generation of Jewish composers living in Russia.

• Trio Solisti

  Dec 3, 2009 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 10/7/09,
  In commemoration of the 200^th anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth, the "consistently brilliant…dangerous and radical" (The New York Times) Trio Solisti presents one of Mendelssohn's most lauded works, Trio No. 2.

• The Waverly Consort

  Dec 16, 2009 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 10/7/09,
  Returning for another performance of The Christmas Story, The Waverly Consort's eight singers and five instrumentalists recount the events of Christmas with the timeless spirit of medieval church dramas.

• Steven Isserlis, cello & Kirill Gerstein, piano

  Jan 6, 2010 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 10/7/09,
  Cellist Stephen Isserlis performs in recital with pianist Kirill Gerstein in a program that includes Isserlis's own transcription of Schumann's Violin Sonata No. 3.

• East Coast Chamber Orchestra

  Feb 14, 2010 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 12/9/09,
  The youthful, energetic East Coast Chamber Orchestra's program covers a wide variety of classical music with works by Purcell, Elgar, Britten, Villa-Lobos, and Tchaikovsky.

• Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

  Feb 28, 2010 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 12/9/09,
  Enjoy a night of Schubert from the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, hailed by the New York Times as "one of the best-blended, most sensitive, and intelligent piano trios in the world today."

• Marietta Simpson, mezzo-soprano

  Apr 21, 2010 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 2/10/10,
  Performing as part of the Kennedy Center's Gospel Across America, mezzo-soprano Marietta Simpson "endows everything she sings with uncommon intelligence" (San Francisco Chronicle).

• Escher String Quartet

  Apr 26, 2010 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 2/10/10,
  The exuberant Escher String Quartet returns for a night of Bartók, Brahms, and Beethoven, demonstrating what the San Francisco Chronicle calls "ripe tonal balances with the kind of heedless intensity that comes with youth."

• Christine Brewer, soprano, with Craig Rutenberg, piano

  May 7, 2010 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 2/10/10,
  In association with the Vocal Arts Society's America Sings festival, soprano Christine Brewer celebrates the originality and diversity of vocal music created in America with songs by Mahler, Alan Smith, Stephen Foster, and many others.

• Jennifer Koh, violin & Reiko Uchida, piano

  May 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM | On Sale 2/10/10,
  Virtuoso violinist Jennifer Koh, who plays with "energy and velvety richness" (The New York Times), returns to the Kennedy Center with pianist Reiko Uchida for a performance that is equal parts experimentation and standard repertory.