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2004-2005 Season - Friday/Saturday Series 8:00 p.m.
- Saturday, September 18 - The Enso Quartet, winner of the 2003 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, performing the Haydn Quartet op. 20 no. 4 in D, a work byStacy Garrop, and the Schumann Quartet op. 41 no. 3. The appearance of the Enso Quartet is partially generously funded by the Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation.
- Friday, October 22 - The Jupiter String Quartet, 2004 Grand Prize Winner of the Fischoff International Competition
- Saturday, November 20 - The Biava Quartet, winner of the 2003 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition, featuring works by Beethoven, Brahms, and a premiere by Stacy Garrop commisioned by Music in the Loft and funded by Dr. Peter Austin..
- Friday, January 21 - The Lincoln Trio (Desiree Ruhstrat, violin, David Cunliffe, cello, Marta Aznavoorian, piano, and guest clarinetist, Wagner Campos). This dynamic trio will play Turina, Piazzolla, and Stacy Garrop.
- Friday, March 11 -Young Award Winners' Concert with Hannah Stuart, violin, and Yoshihiko Nakano, viola with Milana Pavchinskaya, piano.
- September 19 - The Enso Quartet, winner of the 2003 Concert Artists Guild International Competition, performing Stacy Garrop, Haydn, and Beethoven.
- October 24 - Pianist Anthony Padilla, Laureate of the Gina Bachauer, Cleveland, Kapell, and Naumburg International Competitions, performing Scarlatti, Clementi, Liszt, Rachmaninoff, and Garrop.
- November 21 (special time for this concert 2:00 pm) - The Biava Quartet, winner of the 2003 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition, playing Beethoven, Brahms, and a premiere by Stacy Garrop commissioned by Music in the Loft.
- January 23 - The Lincoln Trio, stunning new Ensemble-in-Residence at the Music Institute of Chicago, with Wagner Compos, guest clarinetist, performing Smetana, Piazzolla, and Garrop.
- March 13 -Young Award Winners' Concert featuring violinist Suzie Kim and Kevin Kordi, piano.
2004-2005 Season - Sunday Series 3:00 p.m.
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SPECIAL EVENTS:
- Music in the Loft presents CLASSICS FOR KIDS, 2004 - 2005
Introduce your child to classical music the fun way (ages 4 through 12) at the Cultural Center in Preston Bradley Hall, 78 East Washington Street, Chicago. Sundays, November 28 - The Lincoln Trio, January 2, March 20, and May 8, 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. This series is funded by the Jules M. Laser Foundation.
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Celebrate Valentine's Day on Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 3:00 p.m. The trio of Stefan Milenkovich,violin, Ani Aznavoorian, cello, and Marta Aznavoorian, piano, will present a concert of beautiful and romantic music by Beethoven, Brahms, and Chopin!
Join us for a Valentine reception after the concert. Tickets: $22.00, Students - $10.
Saturday, August 28th, 2004 8:00 p.m. Tickets: $20; Students, $10. 312-243-9233. .
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2003-2004 Season - Friday/Saturday Series 8:00 p.m.
- Saturday, September 27 - The Pacifica Quartet with pianist Jonathan Yates performs works by Haydn, Pierre Jalbert and Mendelssohn. The New York Times calls the Pacifica Quartet "pure lyrical...remarkable."
- Saturday, October 11 - Saxophonist Ashu Kejariwal and pianist Winston Choi in a concert of Chopin, Ibert, D'Indy, and Rachmaninoff. This concert will feature a premiere by Pierre Jalbert, set to a poem by Billy Collins, poet laureate of the United States
- Friday, November 14 - Internationally acclaimed pianist Adam Neiman playing works by Bach, Chopin, Schumann and Pierre Jalbert.
- Friday, January 16 - An evening of French music performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Concertmaster, violinist Robert Chen, and pianist Marta Aznavoorian.
- Friday, March 12 - Young Award Winners' Concert featuring pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton. Program TBA. Christina received first prize in the Steinway Society of Chicago's Most Pormising Young Artists Competition and Michelle won first prize in the Midwest Young Artists' Concerto Competition
- September 28 - The Pacifica Quartet with pianist Jonathan Yates in works by Pierre Jalbert, Robert Lombardo, and Dvorak. The New York Times calls the Pacifica Quartet "pure, lyrical...remarkable."
- October 12 - Saxophonist Ashu Kejariwhal and pianist Winston Choi play works by Prokofiev, Ibert, Rachmaninoff, and a composition by Pierre Jalbert, set to a poem by Billy Collins, poet laureate of the United States.
- November 16 - Internationally acclaimed pianist Adam Neiman performs works by Handel, Scarlatti, Lully and Pierre Jalbert.
- January 18 - Robert Sims, lyric baritone, singing Mozart, Schumann, Ravel, Copland, Lita Grier and Kern. Mr. Sims is the Gold Medal winner of the Enmark American Traditions Competition.
- March 14 - Young Award Winners' Concert featuring oboist Tim Sawyier. Program TBA. The 15th Street Trio performs works by Schoenfield, Shapiro and Mendelssohn.
- RETROSPECTIVE OF COMPOSER, LITA GRIER, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2004, 3:00 PM
Performances by Theodora Satolia, pianist, Nathan Cole, violinist, Claire Chase, flutist, Michelle Areyzaga, soprano, Julia Bentley, mezzo, Richard Hirschl, cellist, Gail Williams, French horn, and Bill Billingham, pianist.
A dessert reception will follow the concert. Tickets will be held at the door, not mailed.
Concert tickets: Adults - $25.00; Students $10.00.
- SOME ENCHANTED EVENING - 5th KLEINER CONCERT - A Benefit for Music In the Loft
Saturday, April 17, 2004, 8:00 PM
Songs from American Musicals performed by singers Michelle Areyzaga, Nicole Cabell, Quinn Kelsey, Scott Ramsey, Wayne Tigges, and Jessye White with Tim Shaindlin, pianist and Jay Skelton, director.
Join Music in the Loft enthusiasts at Kleiner Industrial, 19 East 21st St., Chicago, the dazzling new restaurant, gallery and mini-cultural center of Jerry Kleiner for an evening of music, champagne and dessert. For ticket information call Music in the Loft at 312-243-9233 or e-mail MITLoft@aol.com.
- SOME ENCHANTED EVENING - 5th KLEINER CONCERT - A Benefit for Music In the Loft
2003-2004 Season - Sunday Series 3:00 p.m.
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2002-2003 Season - Friday Series 8:00 p.m.
- September 21 - The Ying Quartet, our very first performers 10 years ago, open our 10th Anniversary Season with "Three Rags for String Quartet" (Poltergeist, The Graceful Ghost, Incineratorag), by William Bolcom; "Love Letters(2001)", by Carter Pann; "Trio no. 1 in Bb Major, op.130" by Ludwig von Beethoven
- October 18 - The Quintet Attaca, winners of the Grand Prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, playing Henk Badings' "Wind Quintet No. 2"; "Abaafa Luli", by Justinian Tamusuza; "Two Episodes for Woodwind Quintet", by Dana McCormick; and the 7-movement "Aires Tropicales", by Pasquito D'Rivera
- November 22 -Pianist Marina Lomazov playing "Prelude and Fugue #2 in A minor, op. 87, by Dmitri Shostakovich; Four movements (October, September, January, and February) from "Les Saisons", by Pyotr I. Tchaikovsky; "Six Strokes", by Carter Pann; "Homage to Albeniz", by R. Shchedrin; "Basso Ostinato"; and "Pictures at an Exhibition", by Modeste Mussorgsky.
- January 31 - The Amelia Trio in a concert of J. N.Hummel's "Piano Trio in F, op.22"; Johannes Brahms' "Trio in B Major, op.8", and a world premiere by Carter Pann, "Nicky's Trio" (2002/3) (Cowboys, American Child, Mobile, The Little Devil), commissioned by Music in the Loft and underwritten by Don Vasco Carlotta.
- March 7 - Young Award Winners Concert featuring Suzie Kim, violinist, playing Giuseppe Tartini's "Sonata in G minor (Devil's Trill)"; Sonaata for Solo Violin", by Sergei Prokofieff; and "Zapateado, op 23", by Pablo de Sarasate, and Elizabeth Chung, cellist, performing "Suite IV, BWV 1010", by J. S. Bach; "Sonata No. 3 for Piano & Cello, op.69, A Major", by Ludwig von Beethoven; and "Dance of the Elves, op.39", by David Popper. Miss Chung is accompanied by Fumiko Tokunaga Jensen and Miss Kim by Milana Pavchinskaya.
- February 2 - The Amelia Trio in a concert of Beethoven, Shostakovich, and a world premiere by Carter Pann commissioned by Music in the Loft and underwritten by Don Vasco Carlotta.
- March 9 - Young Award Winners Concert featuring Ben Hildner, cellist, and Gina Guhl, clarinetist.
2002-2003 Season - Sunday Series 3:00 p.m.
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2001-2002 Season - Friday Series 8:00 p.m.
- January 18 - Nuiko Wadden, recent first prize winner American String Teachers Association National Competition, flutist, Eric Lamb and Wendy Richman, violist. Works by Salzedo, Persichetti, and Debussy will be performed.
- March 8 - Young Award Winners concert. Abe Feder, cello, playing works by Francoeur, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, and Bloch. Lydia Hong, violinist, playing Debussy, Ysaye and Ravel. Both will be accompanied by Milana Pavchinskaya, piano.
- January 20 - David Perry, violinist with the Pro Arte Quartet and Concert Master with the Aspen Chamber Orchestra, will perform with Harpist Nuiko Wadden, first prize winner of the American Harp Society and Prix Renie, and Linda Perry, pianist. They will perform works by Mozart, Foss, Grieg and Lorenz.
- March 10 - Young Award Winners concert. Abe Feder, cello, playing works by Francoeur, Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, and Bloch. Lydia Hong, violin, playing Debussy, Ysaye and Ravel. Both will be accompanied by Milana Pavchinskaya, piano.
2001-2002 Season - Sunday Series 3:00 p.m.
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Special Events
- March 23, 2002 at 8:00 p.m. Back by popular demand! The Corinthian Trio with Stefan Milenkovich, Ani Aznavoorian, and Adam Neiman. Tickets are $22.00, Students $12.00
- Saturday, April 27th at 8:00 p.m. Save the date! Celebrate our 10th Anniversary at a Benefit event as we present eighth blackbird in a candlelight concert at Villa Kleiner. Champagne Dessert Soiree
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