Season 11

2015-2016

Concert 1

Oct. 11, 2015

Messiaen – Praise to the Eternity of Jesus
Vahram Sargsyan – Epitaph for string quartet – World Premiere
Messiaen – Praise to the Immortality of Jesus
Schubert – Piano Trio B Flat major, Op. 99

Varty Manouelian, Movses Pogossian, Armen Derkevorkian, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Robert de Maine, Vardan Gasparyan, Steven Vanhauwaert 

Concert 2

Dec. 13, 2015

Haydn – Seven Last Words of Christ

Movses Pogossian, Varty Manouelian, Tien-Hsin Cindy Wu, Kim Scholes 

Concert 3

Jan. 17, 2016

Saryan – Aria and Toccata
Shostakovich – String Quartet no. 7
Romances by Chitchyan, Mirzoyan, Hovhaness
Taneyev – Piano Quintet, Op. 30

Searmi Park,Varty Manouelian, Movses Pogossian, Guillaume Sutre, Armen Ksajikian, Armen Guzelimian, Danielle Bayne, VEM Quartet 

Concert 4

Feb. 21, 2016

Debussy – Rhapsody (1910)
Prokofiev Sonata for Two Violins
Zohrabian – String Quartet No. 3 – World Premiere
Bartok – Contrasts (1938)

Michele Zukovsky, Movses Pogossian, Gabriela Diaz, Kate Vincent, Charles Tyler, Walter Ponce 

Concert 5

March 20, 2016

Armen Hyusnuntz – Aria and Dance – World Premiere
Villa Lobos – Aria from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5
Bach – Erbarme Dich from St. Matthew’s Passion
Mansurian – Romance for violin and strings (2011)
Tchaikovsky – Serenade for String Orchestra, Op. 48

Shoushik Barsoumian, Armen Hyusnuntz, Antonio Lysy, Movses Pogossian, Guillaume Sutre, UCLA Camarades 

Concert 6

April 17, 2016

Beethoven – String Trio in C minor, Op. 9, No. 3
Prokofiev – Sarcasms, Op. 17
Babajanyan – Poeme (1966)
Dvorak – Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81

Sergei Babayan, Varty Manouelian, Movses Pogossian, Carrie Dennis, Clive Greensmith