After a two-year COVID absence, the Piedmont Chamber Music Festival (PCMF) returns with a full program of concerts with artists from around the world in exclusive musical pairings and configurations. As the only annual summer chamber music series of its kind in the East Bay, the Piedmont Chamber Music Festival brings world-class musicians to Piedmont for a weeklong residency. The Festival presents three feature performances on Wednesday, July 20, Friday, July 22, and Sunday, July 24 at the intimate Piedmont Center for the Arts at 801 Magnolia Avenue in Piedmont, CA.
The 2022 Festival performers include the Spanish-born violinist Francisco Fullana, winner of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2014 Johannes Brahms International Violin Competition; First Prize winner of the Lionel Tertis International Viola Competition and the Sphinx Competition and a member of the Catalyst Quartet, violist Paul Laraia; and Teng Li the principal violist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Other performers are cellists Clancy Newman and Deborah Pae, violinists Jasmine Lin and Wayne Lee, and pianist Juliana Han.
Founded by Juliana Han and Piedmont-native Wayne Lee, the mission of the Festival, with the support of the Piedmont Center for the Arts, is to bring world-class chamber music to the East Bay in an accessible setting and to foster community building through music.
Festival Programming:
Wednesday, July 20, 7:30 PM
The Tailor Cockatoo: Music by Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Mendelssohn
Ludwig van Beethoven: Kakadu Variations for piano trio, Op. 121a
Francisco Fullana, violin
Deborah Pae, cello
Juliana Han, piano
Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins in C major, Op. 56
Jasmine Lin, violin
Wayne Lee, violin
Felix Mendelssohn: String Quintet No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 87
Francisco Fullana, violin
Jasmine Lin, violin
Teng Li, viola
Paul Laraia, viola
Clancy Newman, cello
Friday, July 22, 7:30 PM
A Sanguine Clockwork: Music by Gabriel Fauré, Paul Wiancko, and Arnold Schoenberg
Gabriel Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13
Jasmine Lin, violin
Juliana Han, piano
Paul Wiancko: A Sanguine Clockwork
Wayne Lee, violin
Paul Laraia, viola
Clancy Newman, cello
Arnold Schoenberg: Transfigured Night
Francisco Fullana, violin
Wayne Lee, violin
Paul Laraia, viola
Teng Li, viola
Deborah Pae, cello
Clancy Newman, cello
Sunday, July 24, 4:00 PM
American Mirror: Music by William Bolcom, Derrick Skye, Clara Schumann, and Robert Schumann
William Bolcom: Three Rags for String Quartet
Jasmine Lin, violin
Wayne Lee, violin
Teng Li, viola
Deborah Pae, cello
Derrick Skye: American Mirror, Part II
Jasmine Lin, violin
Wayne Lee, violin
Teng Li, viola
Deborah Pae, cello
Clara Schumann: Three Romances, Op. 22
Francisco Fullana, violin
Juliana Han, piano
Robert Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 47
Francisco Fullana, violin
Paul Laraia, viola
Clancy Newman, cello
Juliana Han, piano