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Gold Coast concert: VIRTUOSI

Gold Coast Chamber Players perform
in Palo Alto and feature members of Stanford University Music Faculty!

The Gold Coast Chamber Players will be pulling out all the stops for their Season Finale: ‘Virtuosi’ on May 3, 2014 at 7:30pm at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 600 Colorado Ave. This program is designed to highlight the brilliance of the performers and their effervescent approach to music making. Three members of the Stanford University Music Faculty (Christopher Costanza, cello; Debra Fong, violin and Elaine Thornburgh, harpsichord) will be featured in this concert. 

Gold Coast
Chamber Players are dedicated to education and each season include a talented student in a performance. This is an invaluable experience for the student to learn about ensemble playing from the inside out! This year’s winner of our Musical Mentoring Program is Palo Alto High School senior, violinist Megan Rohrer.

‘Virtuosi’ will include J.S. Bach’s jubilant Brandenburg Concerto #5 for violin, flute, harpsichord and strings, Rossini’s playful String Sonata #3 for two violins, cello and bass, Mendelssohn’s virtuostic Konzerstuck for two clarinets and piano and Dohnanyi’s tuneful Serenade for string trio.

In addition to the Stanford musicians, clarinetists Tony Striplen and Jose Gonzalez Granero and flutist Stephanie McNab from the San Francisco Opera Orchestra, pianist Lori Lack, bassist Mark Wallace and Gold Coast Chamber Players violist Pamela Freund-Striplen will perform.

When musicians of like minds come together to play music that inspires them in a creative and comfortable environment, their chemistry radiates, and their audience naturally becomes part of it. Gold Coast is dedicated to creating this sort of experience with every performance.

Tickets are $35 general, $30 senior and $10 students and are available online at www.gcplayers.org or by calling (925) 283-3728.
Program repeats on Sunday, May 4, 2014 at 2pm at the Lafayette Library, 3491 Mt. Diablo Blvd. in Lafayette.




 

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