Season 15

2019 – 2020

Concert 1

“space odyssey “

Sunday, September 29, 2019, 3:00 PM

Britten – Phantasy Quartet, Op. 2 (1932)
Haydn – String Quartet Op. 50, No. 5 “Dream”
Sharafyan – nighttime illuminations (2010)
Britten – String Quartet No. 3, Op. 94 (1975)

Anne Marie Gabriele, Varty Manouelian, Movses Pogossian, Che-Yen Chen, Clive Greensmith

Concert 2

“heart that sings”

Sunday, November 3, 2019, 3:00 PM

Mansurian – Four Hayrens (1967) (US Premiere of Voice/Quartet version)
Ashot Kartalyan – Psalm (2018, rev. 2019) – World Premiere
Artashes Kartalyan – Tekeyan Triptych (2018)
Brahms – String Sextet No. 2 in G Major Op. 36

Danielle Segen, Movses Pogossian, Ji Eun Hwang, Aiko Richter, Varty Manouelian, Morgan O’Shaughnessey, Robert DeMaine, Jason Pegis, Steven Vanhauwaert

Concert 3

“love”

Sunday, December 22, 2019, 3:00 PM

Arutiunian – Poem-Sonata for Violin and Piano (1980)
Bruch – Romantic Pieces, Op. 83
Shostakovich – Seven Romances on poems by A. Blok, Op. 127 (1967)
Berio – Sequenza III for voice (1965)
Brahms – String Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 51

Shoushik Barsoumian, Varty Manouelian, Movses Pogossian, Cara Pogossian, Edvard Pogossian, Anoush Pogossian, Vatche Jambazian

Concert 4

“transcendence”

Sunday, January 26, 2020, 3:00 PM

Haladjian – Domine Deus
Komitas – Selections from Divine Liturgy
Bach Motet – Jesu Meine Freude, BWV 227
Beethoven – String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135

UCLA Seraphic Fire Young Singers, James Bass, director

Movses Pogossian, Varty Manouelian, Paul Coletti, Peter Stumpf

Concert 5

“goodnight moon”

Sunday, March 8, 2020, 3:00 PM

Webern – Four Pieces, Op. 7
Schoenberg – The Book of Hanging Gardens, Op. 15
Berg – Adagio for Violin, Clarinet, Piano (1935)
Sedgwick – Walters Songs, for Voice and Violin – World Premiere
Schubert– Notturno for Piano Trio, Op. 148

Tony Arnold, Seth Knopp, Varty Manouelian, Movses Pogossian, Yasmina Spiegelberg, Yoshika Masuda

Concert 6

“listening with eyes: hommage a film”

Sunday, April 19, 2020, 3:00 PM

Ulikhanyan – Fantasy on T. Mansurian’s Film Music – World Premiere
Herrmann – Psycho Suite
Wagner – Prelude, Tristan und Isolde (Alik Barsoumian film) – World Premiere
Korngold – Sextet in D Major, Op. 10

Varty Manouelian, Movses Pogossian, Scott St. John, Sharon Wei, Antonio Lysy, Coleman Itzkoff, Phil O’Connor, VEM String Quartet, UCLA Camarades