The Winter Festival always demonstrates why it is among the top international chamber music festivals both in terms of program quality and artist musicianship. The year 2024 marks the 30th Festival under the co-founder and Artistic Directorship of cellist Peter Rejto, and promises a wealth of innovative repertoire, both old and new. Spearheaded by the much loved Dover Quartet and other artists well known to our Tucson audience, the Festival will present the world premiere of Pierre Jalbert’s Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet sponsored by co-founder and past president Jean-Paul Bierny. Other Festival highlights will include the piano quintets of Franck and Shostakovich as well as the clarinet trio by Brahms. The Festival will open with Mozart’s glorious String Quintet in g minor which also launched the very first Festival 31 years ago. World renowned Baritone, Randall Scarlatta, will be making his Festival debut with a variety of repertoire including Samuel Barber’s “Dover Beach” with the Dover Quartet.

And what has now become a new tradition, the Festival Celebration at the Leo Rich Theater gives patrons the rare opportunity to meet, mingle, and dine with all of the Festival artists after a concert in the hall.

Schedule of Events:

March 3, 2024:

3:00 p.m: Festival - Day 1

Claude Debussy
Sonata for Cello and Piano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quintet in G Minor, K. 516

Maurice Ravel
Don Quichotte a Dulcinée

Franz Schubert
String Quartet in D Minor (“Death and the Maiden”), D. 810

March 5, 2024:

7:30 p.m: Festival - Day 2

Florence Price
String Quartet No. 1 in G Major

Franz Schubert
Fantasy in C Major for Violin and Piano, D.934

Samuel Barber
Dover Beach, Op. 3

Gabriel Faure
Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 45

March 6, 2024:

7:30 p.m: Festival - Day 3

Gustav Mahler
Songs for Voice and Piano

Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 9 in E-flat Major, Op. 117

Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata No. 3 for Violin and Keyboard, BWV 1016

Robert Schumann
Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 47

March 8, 2024:

7:30 p.m: Festival - Day 4

Zoltán Kodaly
Serenade for Two Violins and Viola, Op. 12

Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57

Clara Schumann
Three Romances Op.22 Clarinet, Piano

Johannes Brahms
Trio in A Minor for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano, Op. 114

March 9, 2024:

6:00 p.m: Festival Celebration

And what has now become a new tradition, the Festival Celebration at the Leo Rich Theater gives patrons the rare opportunity to meet, mingle, and dine with all of the Festival artists after a concert in the hall.

March 10, 2024:

3:00 p.m: Festival - Day 5

Charles Martin Loeffler
Four Poems for Voice, Viola, and Piano, Op. 5

Pierre Jalbert
Quintet for Clarinet and Strings

César Franck
Piano Quintet in F Minor

Dates: March 3 - 10, 2024

Location:

Leo Rich Theater,
260 South Church Avenue,
Tucson, AZ 85701.

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