A festival - featuring 3 concerts.

HUMAN, ALONE AND TOGETHER

We emerge (we hope) from the pandemic transformed, more sensitive than ever to how our humanity depends on the quality of our physical health and on the depth of our social community. 

This season of PCMF explores these themes in works, from composers old and new, that remind us that life is better together.

More information at www.piedmontcmf.org

Allow QCSO concertmaster Naha Greenholtz, QCSO principal cellist, Hannah Holman, and pianist Juliana Han to transport you away with an intimate evening of Nordic music featuring works by Dietrich Buxtehude, Kaija Saariaho, Arvo Pärt, Jean Sibelius, Esa-Pekka Salonen, & Edvard Grieg.

Tickets for live attendance, livestream, and archive performances available.

As part of FPC’s Performing Arts Series, Juliana will present a solo recital. Program TBA.

Private performance in Oakland for Four Season Arts with Clancy Newman, cellist. Program to feature pieces by Newman, Beethoven, and Schumann.

Cello concert with Clancy Newman on the performance series at St. Paul’s Towers in Oakland. Program to feature pieces by Newman, Beethoven, and Schumann.

Professor Juliana Han presents a solo piano recital at Augustana College's Centennial Hall. 

Program to include selections by Brahms, Clara Schumann, and Handel.

A concert commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Veteran’s day at the Rock Island Arsenal.

PROGRAM

BRIAN BAXTER Ho sentito di una terra distante
MESSIAEN Quartet for the End of Time

FEATURING
Naha Greenholtz, violin, Hannah Holman, cello, Daniel Won, clarinet, Marc Zyla, horn, Michael Cox,trombone, Juliana Han, piano, Jessica Usherwood, soprano, & Michael Hawes, baritone

For PCMF 2019’s closing concert, the one-of-a-kind talents for which our guest artists are known are on full display, while our program cheekily explores the meanings of “pop” music. The concert begins with a string quartet from the “pop” of the genre, Joseph Haydn, who first elevated the instrumentation into the refined art form we now know and love. Hindemith’s emotionally soaring Viola Sonata is among the most popular works for viola and piano, and rightfully so. As a fitting conclusion, cellist Clancy Newman and violinist Charles Yang present the unique ways they have found as individuals to combine their classical training and popular mainstream influences, and the festival ends with a bang as Paul Schoenfield’s Cafe Music throws every popular music tradition, including jazz and klezmer, into the kitchen sink — with rousing results.

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 76 No. 6
Formosa Quartet

Paul Hindemith: Viola Sonata, Op. 11 No. 4
Nicholas Cords, viola
Juliana Han, piano

INTERMISSION

Pop-Unpopped and other selections
Clancy Newman, cello
Charles Yang, violin

Paul Schoenfield: Cafe Music
Charles Yang, violin
Clancy Newman, cello
Juliana Han, piano

What we think of today as “classical music” is a tradition that originated in Western Europe, but later practitioners drew inspiration from outside of that cultural sphere. This concert highlights some of those influences, whether they are the flash of Mongolian horse hooves in Lei Liang’s Gobi Gloria, or the distinctly Andalusian sounds of Joaquín Turina’s lush Piano Quartet. The second half of the program presents gems in the Western tradition from outside the Classical period. Orlando Gibbons’s beautiful madrigals are exemplars of Renaissance polyphony, and 250 years later, we meet Brahms in the Romantic period, where he is labeled a conservative for holding fast to classical principles while his contemporaries sought to break down traditions in form and harmony.

Lei Liang: Gobi Gloria
Formosa Quartet

Joaquin Turina: Piano Quartet in A minor, Op. 67
Charles Yang, violin
Nicholas Cords, viola
Clancy Newman, cello
Juliana Han, piano

INTERMISSION

Orlando Gibbons: Madrigals
Formosa Quartet
Nicholas Cords, viola

Johannes Brahms: String Quintet in G major, Op. 111
Formosa Quartet
Nicholas Cords, viola

We think of Mozart as “Mister Classical,” the composer who embodies the balance, poise, and grace of the Classical period. But we also know about his impish, irreverent side, which provided the magic for his works. On PCMF 2019’s opening concert, we couple Mozart’s radiant Grande Sestetto Concertante with Francis Poulenc’s neo-classical Violin Sonata, as well as Behzad Ranjbaran’s poetic Shiraz, a piece inspired by classical Persian culture, for a classical journey that will expand and challenge what you know about classical music.

Francis Poulenc: Violin Sonata
Charles Yang, violin
Juliana Han, piano

Behzad Ranjbaran: Shiraz
Charles Yang, violin
Clancy Newman, cello
Juliana Han, piano

INTERMISSION

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Grande Sestetto Concertante in E-flat major, K. 364, arranged for string sextet
Formosa Quartet
Nicholas Cords, viola
Clancy Newman, cello

Recital of violin and piano music with Wayne Lee.

Program of violin and piano music with Wayne Lee.

The Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra presents “Gershwin’s Magic Key,” a theatrical symphony concert featuring 20 of Gershwin’s greatest hits, including his best-loved pieces for piano and orchestra.

Tickets available at the QCSO website.

Juliana will be giving a TED talk on the Asian-American experience for Asian/Pacific Heritage month. Open to the public.

6:30pm in the Gavle room 3 in the Gerber Center for Student Life.

Program TBA, including songs by Debussy.

A program of music for piano and violin with Wayne Lee, violin.

Program TBA.

Featuring Lexie Aguilar, saxophone. Program to include works by Debussy and Tomasi. Free and open to the public.

Presentation by the Quad Cities FMTA of one of the world’s few remaining double Pleyel pianos to the public, featuring musicians from around the area. Free and open to the public.

Featuring Evan Sammons, saxophone. Program to include works by Dahl, Boutry, Berio and Bartok. Free and open to the public.

Presentation as featured speaker at the first meeting of the year of the Quad Cities Federated Music Teachers Association (FMTA). Topics to include discussion on the value of collaborative experiences for students.

Professor Juliana Han presents a solo piano recital at Augustana College's Centennial Hall. 

Featuring piano preludes of Couperin, Ravel, Messiaen, Ryan Anthony Francis, and Rachmaninoff.

Dana Wilson: Hungarian Folk Songs
   Formosa Quartet

Wei-Chieh Lin: Pasibutbut
   Formosa Quartet

INTERMISSION

Dvorak: Piano Quartet No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 87
   Jesse Mills, violin
   Ayane Kozasa, viola
   Paul Wiancko, cello
   Juliana Han, piano

 

Both life and art abound in dualities, whether as joys and sorrows or music and words. Dana Wilson’s Hungarian Folk Songs weaves gripping tales through feverish dance and quiet song. Wei-Chieh Lin’s Pasibutbut is the astonishing ritual song of an aboriginal Taiwanese tribe, sung to rally their annual millet harvest. Dvorak's E-Flat major Piano Quartet evokes rustic Czech bands and exotic lands, tranquil scenes and the exuberance that Dvorak felt as he was composing this masterpiece: "Melodies are coming to me in droves. Thanks be to God!"

Korngold: Much Ado About Nothing Suite
   Jesse Mills, violin
   Juliana Han, piano

Paul Wiancko: American Haiku
   Ayane Kozasa, viola
   Paul Wiancko, cello

Dana Wilson: The Night of H's
   Formosa Quartet

INTERMISSION

Beethoven: String Quartet in C major, Op. 59 No. 3
   Formosa Quartet

PCMF celebrates the written word, starting with Korngold’s charming suite of incidental music to Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. American Haiku takes inspiration from the Japanese poetic form, throws in some Appalachian fiddling, and ends up with a musical language that’s all Paul Wiancko. Dana Wilson’s The Night of H’s sets Jasmine Lin’s whimsical poem for four actors doing double duty as a string quartet. Beethoven inscribed his Third Razumovsky Quartet with a statement refusing to cede to his growing deafness – and the music bears out his determination. 

Richard Strauss: String Sextet from Capriccio
   Wayne Lee and Jesse Mills, violins
   Ayane Kozasa and Che-Yen Chen, violas
   Paul Wiancko and Deborah Pae, cellos

Gideon Klein: String Trio
   Jesse Mills, violin
   Ayane Kozasa, viola
   Paul Wiancko, cello

INTERMISSION

Franck: Piano Quintet in F minor
   Formosa Quartet
   Juliana Han, piano

In Richard Strauss’s 1942 opera Capriccio, a countess is torn between a poet and a musician who are both vying for her love, personifying an intriguing question: which is the greater art, poetry or music? The sumptuous string sextet that opens Capriccio makes a convincing case for the latter, as do the other pieces on the program: Gideon Klein’s String Trio, written two weeks before he died in a concentration camp during the Second World War, and César Franck’s supremely passionate Piano Quintet in F minor.

PCMF's children's concert is back! Come enjoy a fun afternoon of chamber music, designed just for PCMF fans ages 12 and under. Learn about our musicians, the instruments they play, and the collaborative process of making music with friends. PCMF musicians will perform and talk about selections from this week's programs.

This program is approximately 50 minutes long.

$10 adults, $5 kids