2010 Season

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Welcome To our 2009-2010 Season!



	What an exciting Season! We have some truly wonderful music planned for you this season, and we will be pleased to welcome back Afiara for our January Program. The all-Canadian Afiara String Quartet is the Morrison Fellowship Quartet-in-Residence at the International Center for the Arts, San Francisco State University, where they serve as teaching assistants to their mentors, the world-renowned Alexander String Quartet. Awarded 2nd Prize at the Munich ARD International Music Competition, the San Francisco Classical Voice calls the Afiara Quartet "a terrifically unified, versatile, and moving ensemble" with "startling intensity" and a "powerful, keen-edged collective sound".

PROGRAM I	Sunday, October 10, 2010
	Igor Stravinsky 3 Short Pieces for String Quartet
	Johannes Brahms Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
	WA Mozart String Quartet K499 D maj "Hoffmeister"

PROGRAM III	Sunday, February 6, 2011
	Franz Joseph Haydn String Quartet Op 54 No 2 C major
	WA Mozart Quartet for Flute and Strings
	Robert Schumann String Quartet Op 41 No 2 in F

PROGRAM V	Sunday, June 5, 2011 - Featuring: Haussmann String Quartet
	Robert Schumann Piano Quintet Op 44 E flat
	and Works TBA

PROGRAM II	Sunday, December 12, 2010 Special Guests: The New Pacific Trio The Mazmanians
	Charles Ives Trio for Piano and Strings
	Bela Bartok 7 Pieces from Mikrokosmos for Piano 4 Hands
	Maurice Ravel Mother Goose Suite for Piano 4 Hands


	Selection of Armenian and other lively folk arrangements by Greg Mazmanian and family Smetana Trio for Piano and Strings

PROGRAM IV	Sunday, March 27, 2011
	Heitor Villa Lobos String Quartet No 3 Quarteto das pipocas ('Popcorn Quartet'), A.112
	Francis Poulenc Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano
	Antonin Dvorak String Quartet Op 51 No 10 E flat


	*Don’t miss a single moment of this memorable music! We hope you’ll be sure to join us all at the Sierra Chamber Society for another series of outstanding programs.*