(LEONIA, NJ) -- Leonia Chamber Musicians presents Winter Serenade on Sunday, February 25, 2024 at Presbyterian Church in Leonia. This concert will showcase beautifully sonorous music with Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Piano. Showtime is 3:00pm. Admission is free with a suggested donation of $25.
The program includes Rhapsodie by Arthur Honneger and the Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs, Op. 79 by Camille Saint-Saëns. The program will also feature the Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor, Op. 67 by trailblazing American composer and piano virtuoso Amy Beach, a woman whose compositional excellence paved the way for acceptance in a male dominated field. Performers will be Theresa Norris, flute, Roy Lewis and Janey Choi, violins, Maggie Speier, viola and Daryl Goldberg, cello.
In addition to the members of the Society, guest artists are Norman Carey, piano; Noah Kay, oboe; and Mitch Kriegler, clarinet.
You can reserve tickets online. The Presbyterian Church in Leonia is located at 181 Fort Lee Road in Leonia, New Jersey.
This program is made possible in part by a grant administered by the Bergen County Division of Cultural & Historic Affairs from funds granted by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
In 1973 a small group of professional musicians who lived in Leonia, NJ, and played in the major concert halls of New York City, joined together to give chamber music concerts in their own town. Since then, the Leonia Chamber Musicians have performed hundreds of the great pieces of chamber music, featuring masterworks for small ensemble by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart, as well as compositions by the foremost composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
In 2009, the Leonia Chamber Musicians Society, Inc. was registered as a New Jersey not-for-profit corporation in order to facilitate a financial base, through donations and grants, to provide high-quality chamber music concerts in the same tradition as the original group. Our mission is to enrich the cultural environment of our town and the surrounding community and to educate audiences about different periods and styles of music, to engage them, and stimulate an increased interest and appreciation of chamber music.