Organization
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
Comment on Facebook Arizona Friends of Chamber Music is a nonprofit organization presenting the world's finest chamber music. The Evening Series of concerts are generally on Wednesdays at 8:00pm. Piano and Friends matinee concerts are on Sundays at 3:00pm. The "Festival" is a series of five concerts and other events the first week of March, including free open rehearsals, a gala dinner with wonderful music by festival musicians, a youth concert and master classes.
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Contact Info
Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
PO Box 40845
Tucson, AZ 85717
Phone: (520) 577-3769 | Official Website
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Upcoming Events
| 02/22/12 |
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and Michael Tree, viola, Harold Robinson, cello
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
February 22, 2012
After nearly thirty-five years of success the world over, including many award-winning recordings and newly commissioned works, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio continues to dazzle audiences and critics alike with their performances. Since making their debut at the White House for President Carter's Inauguration in January 1977, pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson have set the standard for performance of the piano trio literature. As one of the...
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| 03/04/12 |
Chamber Music Festival
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
March 4, 2012
Their first festival program, following the sparkling Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds, the only such work he wrote, echoes other elements of the AFCM season. The compact, concentrated Bartók Third Quartet may be the best introduction to that composer's unique personal sound; it's also the third of his six quartets you can hear from the AFCM this season. Beethoven's Op. 131 Quartet was played in December; its companion, Op. 132, is, up to the joyous last movement, a restrained offering of...
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| 03/06/12 |
Chamber Music Festival: Mediterranean Nights: Sultry Songs and Passionate Dances from 17th century Italy and Spain
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
March 6, 2012
Music is a form of communication, a language that resonates with people in an emotional and spiritual way, touching people in a way that words cannot. The treatises from the 17th and 18th centuries all talk about "Affekt", the emotional character of the music. The performer's role was to evoke a particular Affekt or emotional state in the listeners, whether that be joy or contemplation or rage or despair or triumph.
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| 03/07/12 |
Chamber Music Festival: Schubert's "Trout" Quintet
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
March 7, 2012
You can never get enough of Schubert's "Trout" Quintet. At least, let's hope not; these festival musicians present this loveable work just a few weeks after a probably quite different performance from the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and friends. If you're seeking novelty, look no further than the cello sonata by Lera Auerbach, who is quickly being recognized as one of Russia's leading composers, moving forward from the Shostakovich tradition.
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| 03/09/12 |
Chamber Music Festival: Lera Auerbach
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
March 9, 2012
Lera Auerbach was asked to write something especially for this year's festival, and she has come through with a trio that she, as pianist, will premiere with members of the Tokyo Quartet. The program also holds an old favorite, the buoyant and inventive Schumann Piano Quintet, and a fairly rarely-heard work by one of the greatest of all composers: Beethoven's septet for strings and winds.
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| 03/11/12 |
Chamber Music Festival: Poulenc, Jalbert, Piano Quartet
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
March 11, 2012
Just as Beethoven's septet on the Friday concert is something of a rarity because of its unusual scoring, so is Schubert's hour-long octet for strings and winds, which is a typical blend of the composer's lyricism and nobility. Something more insouciant opens the concert, Poulenc's witty trio for reed instruments and piano, and in the middle will be the premiere of a festival commission, a piano quartet by Pierre Jalbert, whose The Invention of the Saxophone proved popular on past...
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| 03/21/12 |
Mandelring String Quartet and Katarzyna Mycka, marimba
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
March 21, 2012
The Mandelring Quartet's phenomenal homogeneity in sound, intonation and phrasing has become its distinguishing characteristic. The four individualists are as one in their shared determination always to seek out the innermost core of the music and remain open to the musical truth. By grasping the spiritual dimension, exploring the emotional extremes and working on the detail, these musicians probe far beneath the surface of each work, thus revealing the multiplicity of meanings inherent in...
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Current &
Upcoming Events
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Upcoming Events
| 02/22/12 |
Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and Michael Tree, viola, Harold Robinson, cello
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
February 22, 2012
After nearly thirty-five years of success the world over, including many award-winning recordings and newly commissioned works, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio continues to dazzle audiences and critics alike with their performances. Since making their debut at the White House for President Carter's Inauguration in January 1977, pianist Joseph Kalichstein, violinist Jaime Laredo and cellist Sharon Robinson have set the standard for performance of the piano trio literature. As one of the...
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| 03/04/12 |
Chamber Music Festival
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
March 4, 2012
Their first festival program, following the sparkling Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds, the only such work he wrote, echoes other elements of the AFCM season. The compact, concentrated Bartók Third Quartet may be the best introduction to that composer's unique personal sound; it's also the third of his six quartets you can hear from the AFCM this season. Beethoven's Op. 131 Quartet was played in December; its companion, Op. 132, is, up to the joyous last movement, a restrained offering of...
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| 03/06/12 |
Chamber Music Festival: Mediterranean Nights: Sultry Songs and Passionate Dances from 17th century Italy and Spain
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
March 6, 2012
Music is a form of communication, a language that resonates with people in an emotional and spiritual way, touching people in a way that words cannot. The treatises from the 17th and 18th centuries all talk about "Affekt", the emotional character of the music. The performer's role was to evoke a particular Affekt or emotional state in the listeners, whether that be joy or contemplation or rage or despair or triumph.
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| 03/07/12 |
Chamber Music Festival: Schubert's "Trout" Quintet
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
March 7, 2012
You can never get enough of Schubert's "Trout" Quintet. At least, let's hope not; these festival musicians present this loveable work just a few weeks after a probably quite different performance from the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio and friends. If you're seeking novelty, look no further than the cello sonata by Lera Auerbach, who is quickly being recognized as one of Russia's leading composers, moving forward from the Shostakovich tradition.
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| 03/09/12 |
Chamber Music Festival: Lera Auerbach
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
March 9, 2012
Lera Auerbach was asked to write something especially for this year's festival, and she has come through with a trio that she, as pianist, will premiere with members of the Tokyo Quartet. The program also holds an old favorite, the buoyant and inventive Schumann Piano Quintet, and a fairly rarely-heard work by one of the greatest of all composers: Beethoven's septet for strings and winds.
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| 03/11/12 |
Chamber Music Festival: Poulenc, Jalbert, Piano Quartet
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
March 11, 2012
Just as Beethoven's septet on the Friday concert is something of a rarity because of its unusual scoring, so is Schubert's hour-long octet for strings and winds, which is a typical blend of the composer's lyricism and nobility. Something more insouciant opens the concert, Poulenc's witty trio for reed instruments and piano, and in the middle will be the premiere of a festival commission, a piano quartet by Pierre Jalbert, whose The Invention of the Saxophone proved popular on past...
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| 03/21/12 |
Mandelring String Quartet and Katarzyna Mycka, marimba
TCC Leo Rich Theater
Presented by Arizona Friends of Chamber Music
at TCC Leo Rich Theater
March 21, 2012
The Mandelring Quartet's phenomenal homogeneity in sound, intonation and phrasing has become its distinguishing characteristic. The four individualists are as one in their shared determination always to seek out the innermost core of the music and remain open to the musical truth. By grasping the spiritual dimension, exploring the emotional extremes and working on the detail, these musicians probe far beneath the surface of each work, thus revealing the multiplicity of meanings inherent in...
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Past
Events
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Past Events
| 02/05/12 |
Piano and Friends Concert: Elena Urioste, violin and Michael Brown, piano
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 01/25/12 |
Jupiter String Quartet and Denise Djokic, cello
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 01/08/12 |
Piano and Friends Concert: Pianists Yelizaveta and Yelena Beriyeva
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 12/07/11 |
Takács String Quartet
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 11/09/11 |
Morgenstern Piano Trio
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 11/06/11 |
Piano and Friends Concert: Boris Andrianov, cello, with Alexander Kobrin, piano
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 11/06/11 |
Piano and Friends Concert: Yelizaveta and Yelena Beriyeva
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 11/06/11 |
Piano and Friends Concert: Elena Urioste, violin with Michael Brown, piano
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 10/05/11 |
Jerusalem String Quartet
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 04/13/11 |
Enso String Quartet
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
03/06/11-
03/13/11 |
Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 02/16/11 |
Auryn Quartet in Concert
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 02/02/11 |
Ives Quartet in Concert
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 01/30/11 |
Piano and Friends Concert: Christopheren Nomura, baritone, with Kevin Fitz-Gerald, piano
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 11/28/10 |
Helena Baillie and Roman Rabinovich in Concert
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 10/13/10 |
Czech Nonet in Concert
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 03/31/10 |
Los Angeles Piano Quartet
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
03/07/10-
03/14/10 |
Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 02/10/10 |
Eb?ne Quartet
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 12/09/09 |
Tak?cs Quartet
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 11/11/09 |
Fry Street Quartet
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 10/27/09 |
Belcea Quartet
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 10/14/09 |
Atos Trio
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 09/30/09 |
Shanghai Quartet
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 04/22/09 |
Guarneri String Quartet
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 03/15/09 |
Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival - Second Sunday
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 03/13/09 |
Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival - Friday
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 03/11/09 |
Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival - Wednesday
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 03/10/09 |
Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival - Tuesday
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 03/08/09 |
Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival - First Sunday
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
| 02/08/09 |
Martin and Kristina Kasik
TCC Leo Rich Theater |
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