St. Louis classical calendar for the week of January 27, 2020

Music for a variety of different ensembles is available for your listening pleasure this week, from a trombone group to the full orchestra with piano soloist.

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The Chamber Music Society of St. Louis

The Chamber Music Society of St. Louis presents Mozartiana, a concert of chamber music by Mozart, Monday and Tuesday, January 27 and 28 at 7:30 pm. The performances take place at the Sheldon Concert Hall in Grand Center. For more information: chambermusicstl.org.

The Community Music School of Webster University presents the Young People's Concert Orchestra on Sunday, February 2, at 2 pm. The Community Music School is at 535 Garden Avenue on the Webster University campus. For more information: webster.edu/cms.

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra presents a Pulitzer Series concert on Tuesday and Wednesday January 28 and 29, at 7:30 PM. The concert features contemporary chamber works performed by members of the string section of the SLSO. The performance takes place at the Pultzer Center for the Arts, 3716 Washington. Note that the January 28 concert is currently sold out. For more information: stlsymphony.org.

Pianist Saleem Ashkar

Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider conducts The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, along with pianist Saleem Ashkar on Friday at 10:30 am Saturday at 8 pm, January 31 and February 1. The program consists of Schmnann's Manfred Overture, Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 2, and a suite from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty ballet. Performances take place at Powell Symphony Hall in Grand Cente. For more information: stlsymphony.org.

Second Presbyterian Church presents The Trombones of the St. Louis Symphony on Sunday, February 2, at 4 pm. "The Trombones will present works they have commissioned from composers with strong St. Louis roots including Caleb Burhans (Alarm Will Sound) and Adam Maness (The 442s). They also will perform their own arrangements of works by Giovanni Gabrieli, Sergei Prokofiev, and others." The church is at 4501 Westminster Place in the Central West End. For more information: secondchurch.net.

The Sheldon Concert Hall presents St. Louis Symphony Principal Flute Mark Sparks, along with cellist Valentina Takova and pianist Peter Henderson, in a chamber music concert on Wednesday, January 29, at 8 pm. The program includes music by Bach, Phillippe Gaubert, and Verne Reynolds. The performance takes place at the Sheldon Concert Hall in Grand Center. For more information: thesheldon.org.

The University City Symphony Orchestra presents Slavic Soul on Sunday, November 24, at 3 pm, with a pre-concert talk at 2:15 pm. "Please join us in celebrating Slavic cultures with Russian violist Ivan Numerov. Mr. Numerov will excite audiences as he performs Niccolò Paganini's Violin Concerto No. 4, arranged for viola by E. Petrov. Also on the concert will be Ludwig van Beethoven's overture to The Creatures of Prometheus, and Wind Serenade by Antonín Dvorák” The performance takes place at the 560 Music Center, 560 Trinity in University City. For more information: ucso.org.

Pianist Aaron Diehl

The Department of Music at Washington University presents pianist Aaron Diehl in a concert of music by American composers on Friday, January 31, at 7:30 pm.   The program includes works by Copland, Gershwin, James P. Johnson, Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton, and takes place in the E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall at the 560 Music Center, 560 Trinity in University City. For more information: https://music.wustl.edu/events.

The Department of Music at Washington University presents contemporary chamber group Alarm Will Sound on Saturday, February 1, at 7:30 pm.  "The program includes music by A. Pyper and Lucrecia Dalt as well as Hexactinellida by Chelsea Komschlies. A. Pyper joins Alarm Will Sound as singer and violinist for the world premiere of her new work, Descansos. Descansos are roadside memorials that mark where a loved one has died. Pyper’s work reflects on the composer’s own life experience growing up as a gay woman in a Mormon family, and trying to mark and move on from those spots in life where loss and trauma have occurred." The concert takes place in the E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall at the 560 Music Center, 560 Trinity in University City. For more information: https://music.wustl.edu/events.