Brightmusic’s 13th bright season

Staff Report

The Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble announces its 2015-2016 season, bringing to music lovers in central Oklahoma great classical and modern chamber works performed by some of the finest musicians in the state with appearances by outstanding guest artists from across the nation.

“Artist Directors Chad Burrow and Amy I-Lin Cheng have again crafted a widely diverse program of five regular season concerts starting in September and concluding in April, followed by our Fifth Annual Spring Chamber Music Festival in June,” said Brightmusic organizers.

The concerts will take place at St. Paul’s Cathedral at NW 7th and Robinson in downtown Oklahoma City on Tuesday evenings at 7:30pm. (No Monday night performances this season.) Spring Festival dates, performance venue(s) and programs will be announced later in the season.

Season passes for all five Regular-Season concerts and all concerts of the Spring Festival can be purchased for $75 per pass (membership pass to be shown at the door). Single concert tickets will be available at the door for $20 each. Students and active-duty military are admitted free of charge with ID.

Season 13 Preview

Concert 1 – September 22, 2015, From Beethoven to the Beatles. Pop music has often borrowed from the classics, and now the favor is returned in our Season Premier. The iconic British rock band takes a seat beside Beethoven in Sean Osborn’s clarinet quintet, The Beatles. The Ensemble will also perform many other favorites on violin, viola, cello, bass, clarinet, bassoon and horn.

Concert 2 – November 10, 2015, Dvořák, Schumann & Schoenfield. A pair of piano quartets and a piano quintet are featured in our second concert. There are two major works on the program (piano, violin, viola and cello). Also on the program is Paul Schoenfield’s Carolina Reveille, for piano quartet, based on the 1922 Broadway song, Carolina in the Morning.

Concert 3 – January 19, 2016, Piano & Friends. Guest pianist Tanya Bannister will take the spotlight in a tour-de-force performance, which will include Robert Muczynski’s Fantasy Trio. Bannister is a concert pianist, recording artist and artistic director of the annual AlpenKammerMusik chamber music festival in Austria.

Concert 4 – March 15, 2016, Three Colorful Trios. A trio of trios will be featured, starting with Emil Hartmann’s Serenade for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in A major, Op. 24, Aaron Jay Kernis’ Trio in Red for cello, clarinet and piano, and concluding with Johannes Brahms’ Piano Trio No. 1 in B major, Op. 8 for piano, violin and cello.

Concert 5 – April 5, 2016, Quintets, Sextets & Queen. Wrapping up the regular season is a sextet by Czech-French composer Anton Reicha and an arrangement by Brightmusic’s own bassoonist Carl Rath, of hit pop tunes by the British rock legend, Queen, the Queen Fantasy for wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn).

Spring Chamber Music Festival – June 2016 (program to be announced). Brightmusic will present its Fifth Annual Spring Chamber Music Festival in June 2016, with programs, dates and venue(s) to be announced later in the season. For detailed concert information and concert updates, visit www.brightmusic.org.

The Gayly – September 14, 2015 @ 6am.