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ChamberFest III
October 5 at 4:00 pm to 9:00 pm
$10 – $22
ChamberFest III
SUNDAY October 5rd, 2025 at 4:00 pm Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall, $10 – $22
ChamberMusic@CSUN is sponsored by the Colburn Foundation and the CSUN Foundation.
For the fourth time, the CSUN Department of Music hosts world-renowned chamber musicians for ChamberFest @ CSUN, a festival that culminates in a masterclass, a lecture recital and three large-scale performances in the Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall in Cypress Hall.
Serge Prokofiev: Flute Sonata Op. 94
Andrew Norman: “Gran Turismo” for Eight Violins
Felix Mendelssohn: String Octet Op. 20
Dmitry Shostakovich: Suite on Verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Op. 145
Modest Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
Antonín Dvořák: String Sextet Op. 48
Grażyna Bacewicz: String Quartet No. 4
Miguel del Aguila: “Pacific Serenade” for Clarinet and String Quartet
Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet Op. 34
RECEPTIONS TO FOLLOW
CHAMBER MUSIC MASTERCLASS and LECTURE RECITAL
Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall
Thursday, October 2, 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Chamber music masterclass: Pianists Irina Kataeva & Laurence Oldak
Friday, October 3, 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Lecture recital: Pianists Irina Kataeva & Laurence Oldak on Shostakovich’s Concertino and Symphony No. 15 transcribed for two pianos
PARTICIPATING MUSICIANS
Violin: Niv Ashkenazi, Lorenz Gamma, Tomasz Golka, Nelly Guevara, Alisa Gukasian, Er-Gene Kahng, Enosh Kofler, Anna Kostyuchek, Alisa Luera, Pedram Pourghazi, Ruzanna Sargsyan
Viola: Gina Coletti, Patrick Marsh, Andrew McIntosh
Cello: Benz Marston, Yoshika Masuda, Diane Roscetti, Erica Wise
Piano: Irina Kataeva, Laurence Oldak, Dmitry Rachmanov, Steven Vanhauwaert
Voice: Franck Lunion, baritone
Flute: Larry Kaplan
Clarinet: Julia Heinen
Quartet Aido
Very special thanks go to the Colburn Foundation for its very generous support of ChamberFest @ CSUN. To make a gift in support of our festival, please visit: https://www.csun.edu/mike-curb-arts-media-communication/alumni-giving, click on ‘Make a Gift Online’, then select Department of Music under ‘Support a Department. Under ‘Other special instructions’, please write “ChamberFest @ CSUN”. THANK YOU!
GENERAL TICKETS: $10 to $22
Can’t attend in Person? View LIVESTREAM
Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall (in Cypress Hall)
Suggested Parking via Kiosks, in CSUN Lot B1
