Schedule

September 7, 2025 at 4pm

Durham, NC

Nelson Music Room, Duke University

Gut Instinct: Beethoven to Blahetka

Duke Rare Music Series:

Gut Instinct continues with a program of Beethoven and Blahetka featuring Duke's beautifully preserved 1809 Clementi Fortepiano!

Nicholas DiEugenio, violin

Jessica Troy, viola

James Wilson, cello

Mimi Solomon, Clementi fortepiano

September 15, 2025

Richmond, VA

First Unitarian Universalist Church of Richmond

CMSCVA: Circle of Friends

CMSCVA honors the 150-anniversary year of British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor with a concert of his music and that of his friends and teachers. The program includes Coleridge-Taylor’s jubilant Nonet, and the ultimate friendship tribute piece, Elgar’s “Enigma” Variations, in an arrangement by CMSCVA Artistic Director James Wilson.

Program includes:

Coleridge-Taylor │ Nonet for winds, piano and string quartet, mvt. 1 (arr. Wilden Dannenberg)

Traditional/Coleridge Taylor │ “Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child”

Traditional/Coleridge Taylor │ “La Bamboula”

Hurlstone │ Characteristic Pieces for clarinet and piano, “Croon Song”

Stanford │ String Quartet in B-flat, Op. 104, Allegro moderato

Coleridge-Taylor │ 5 Fantasiestück, Op. 5, “Dance”

Elgar/Wilson │ Variations on an Original Theme, Op. 36 (“Enigma”), for winds, piano, and string quartet

Rebecca Anderson, violin

Mary Boodell, flute

Devin Gossett, horn

Grant Houston, violin

David Lemelin, clarinet

Tanner Menees, viola

Tom Schneider, Bassoon

Mimi Solomon, piano

September 20, 2025 at 2pm

Charlottesville, VA

The Dickinson Fine and Performing Arts Center ​at Piedmont Virginia Community College

Charlottesville Chamber Music Festival

A special treat for the young and young at heart, featuring Camille Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals and Alan Ridout’s Ferdinand the Bull.