PREVIEW AND LINK: Camerata Pacifica opens 22nd season in September

By Robert D. Thomas
Music Critic
Pasadena Star-News/San Gabriel Valley Tribune/Whittier Daily News

For more than two decades, Camerata Pacifica has achieved an enviable reputation both for the quality of its performances and the mileage it puts on its cars. The chamber-music group performs five concerts in four locales from Santa Barbara to Pasadena each month from September through May (except for December).

Its 22nd season will begin next month (including recitals on Sept. 20 at The Huntington Library in San Marino and Sept. 22 at The Colburn School’s Zipper Hall) with a program that features Joanne Pearce Martin, principal keyboardist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic who was a Camerata Pacifica member for 10 years.

Martin will join with another acclaimed local pianist, Vicki Ray, CP Artistic Director Adrian Spence on flute, cellist Ani Aznavoorian, and percussionists Ji Hye Jung, Doug Perkins, Michael Zell and Svet Stoyanov for music by Rachmaninoff, Crumb, De Mey and Reich.

The October concerts (including Oct. 18 at The Huntington and Oct. 20 at Zipper Hall) will celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Franz Liszt (on Oct. 22) with pianist Adam Neiman discussing and playing the composer’s Transcendental Etudes.

For information on the season’s other six concerts and details on the opening program, click HERE.
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