Our 2003/2004 Season

Please mark the following dates on your calendar right now and use our handy order form to receive your season tickets:

October 5, 2003
Mariko Anraku and Friends

Narrated by
Elliott Forrest

Harpist at the Metropolitan Opera, Mariko Anraku with the Avalon String Quartet, presents a program of chamber music, highlighted by Andre Caplet's Conte Fantastique based on Edgar Allen Poe's "Masque of the Red Death", and narrated by Elliott Forrest of WQXR radio and A&E's Breakfast with the Arts.

November 16, 2003
Los Angeles Piano Quartet

Exquisite music - superbly performed - the critics are unanimous in their praise of this premier quartet. Professor Howard Tuvelle, writing in the News-Times, called them "breathtaking, scintillating and then some..."

February 22, 2004
Pacifica String Quartet

One of today's most dynamic and exiting ensembles continues to win the hearts and minds of audiences and critics around the world with its impassioned interpretations and unique musical voice. They will work with 5th and 6th graders in our season's first School Outreach Program.

March 21, 2004
Melvin Chen, piano

Having earned a double major in piano and violin from Juilliard and a doctorate in chemistry from Harvard, Melvin Chen is one of the outstanding young pianists of today, who performs with soul and ecstatic precision.

April 25, 2004
Cavani String Quartet

The Washington Post describes these Winners of the prestigious Naumburg Chamber Music Award, as "completely engrossing, powerful and elegant, ... spellbinding." An Outreach Program is planned with High School Students.