Join us for this unique chamber music series curated and performed by SLSO musicians. Experience new and treasured repertoire masterfully brought to life on The Sheldon stage in a dynamic lineup of instruments and players.
Curated by Xiaoxiao Qiang, Violin, and Tzuying Huang, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet.

Music needs no passport. Composers cross geographic barriers, borrowing ideas from a world of musical cultures. Sergei Prokofiev visits the U.S. and encounters a Russian sextet devoted to Jewish folk music for whom he writes an exuberant new work. Contemporary American composer Paul Schoenfield is drawn to Eastern European music, mixing themes from klezmer, Cossack dances, and military marches. In contrast, Amy Beach’s Theme and Variations is a sublime example of late-Romantic grandeur. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio espagnole contains both Russian and Spanish melodies and rhythms.

Sergei Prokofiev: Overture on Hebrew Themes

Seda Balci: New Work (World premiere)

Paul Schoenfield: Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano

Amy Beach: Theme and Variations for Flute and String Quartet

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (arr. Blackwood): Capriccio Espagnol for chamber ensemble